Hello! My computer died in the worst kinda way, but I'm back! Back, with an extra babby! And, would you believe, me, the hater of mess, had a home birth! Short story is Kieran David Joseph was born at 04.16 on Dec 10th at 41 weeks gestation, weighing 8lb 15 1/2oz. He's blue eyed and beautiful!!...

If you had a high-needs baby, and went on to have more children, were any of them high-needs also? I had two who weren't high-needs, then my third was high-needs. I think that scares me most about having another baby. I'm not pregnant but I am thinking about it, but I'm just really scared. My...

Well, after that last time I posted that little update, things seemed to have gone alright. It was 3am I was up and out of bed. I was home and sitting around until about 4, and by that time, I had called the health line, called my mom, doula and a friend... It was maybe around 430am that I was...

Ok, it's 3:06am here by my clock... I went to bed tonight maybe 12:30am or so... I was sitting on the computer a little too long talking with a friend before I got around to finishing the dishes up and going to bed, but I was feeling that slight cramping most of the later evening. Nothing...

You people are so full of hate you should get your heads checked. The octuplets mom has the right to have as many children as she wants without you hate mongers getting all up in her womb. It's her body and she has the right to do with it whatever the hell she wants. You don't control her...

All I see down for starting posting is me, but here I go again LOL - then again, this really isn't counting the spam that manages to sneak by ;) I had an appointment again today. All seems fine. I was 1cm a couple weeks ago. Last week she told me 2. This time I noticed my papers said 2-3cms....

So, I'm now at around 38.5 weeks. I picked up a bottle of this evening primrose oil. The bottle says they're "softgels" and are 500mg. After reading the bottle, it says nothing about use, other than for adults to take 4-6 softgels daily. I haven't opened the bottle yet. I just wanted to make...

In case this shows up as "Norm" again, it's not supposed to be lol I think I might have changed it to say "Kat" again, but since my computer is NOT working for some reason with newsgroups, this one seems to work just fine... Odd as they're on a hub together, with the same connection and the...

I've kind of been looking around a little and I've come up with a few hits that this evening primrose oil might be something that can start labor. I can't really find much info on it, though. One site said something about it can help to "naturally ripen the cervix" and also recall reading...

Well, I have it, for the most part, mostly packed and ready to go to the hospital. I bought myself a brand new diaper bag this evening and I really like it. It's a little "set" with a big diaper bag, a small hand one and also has some changing package thing... Whatever, I'm not going to try...

So... I waited until last second to realize that I'm running out of time. Seeing as I'm still a happily single mom, and due in a month, I just wasn't really thinking too much about the future. I have decided that I'm fairly confident that I do NOT want N around at all, especially in the...

Yes, I know this is going to sound weird, but I'm just wondering... Google hasn't been very helpful with this one, but I'm wondering where your stomach normally goes during pregnancy? Up? Down? Behind or to one side? I can't seem to find any pictures or info on this, but I've been having some...

I have about 3.5 weeks left to go, and I'm wondering what kind of work might be too much. There's like 300 feet of snow outside right now. Well, not quite that much, but I'd guess that there's probably about 6"-8" of snow on the sidewalks out front. I can't leave the front walks with tons of...

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/360/2/111?query=TOC Results: Of 24,077 repeat cesarean deliveries at term, 13,258 were performed electively; of these, 35.8% were performed before 39 completed weeks of gestation (6.3% at 37 weeks and 29.5% at 38 weeks) and 49.1% at 39 weeks of...

I do still have tons of time for this, but I'm not sure which way I should go. First off, I do NOT agree with the elective C-sections at all... But, with that said... With my first, I had an emergency section. It was for a footling breech at, really, the last possible second. Everything was...

I chatted with a friend on Sunday and it's brought a lot of worries back to the surface. I think she feels a that I'm a bit too relaxed about just seeing how things go and really fears that I may injure myself during birth. I've basically been working on the principle that I'll get warning and...

You didn't post again after mentioning the bad cramping, so I was worried for a while, then I saw you had posted on misc.kids, so I wasn't concerned, but I do want to know how you feel now! Cheers Anne

Hello all, Was the The Bradley Method class helpful? We do have an option to take it, and I was wondering if any of you have taken it and could share the experience. Thanks in advance. E

Being a foreigner, I don't know which stores sell maternity or nursing stuff, particularly at the cheaper to middle end of the market, we live in a relatively up market place and other than motherhood maternity (and even then it had mimi maternity with triple the prices in the front of the...

I'm going to try and make this as short as possible... Both girls are upstairs (probably destroying the place) and need to be tossed in the bath ASAP, but this is really becoming a pain... For the last maybe 30 mins or so, I've been having some bad cramping feeling in my stomach. I don't know...