Posts by mrforbes

If she's willing to come to Brooklyn I'd recommend Stacey Rees @ Clementine Midwifery. We're using her for our 2nd birth right now and I plan on using her for some well woman care after the baby.   There's also Village...

Hi, We're planning a move from Brooklyn to Minneapolis (to be closer to our families - I'm from MN and he's from WI) and I have a few questions.   Any neighborhoods that are particularily good with schools, decent houses and...

So I'm trying to learn to knit and have a few questions:   is no 7 needle too small to learn on? I have a baby blanket kit that is apparently 'super easy' and baby #2 due at the beginning of feb and would like to make the...

So I know there are threads on pregnancy and allergies but couldn't find one about this: I'm 30 weeks pregnant w/#2 and have had really crazy problems this time around and in short I'm wondering if the baby's allergies are making me...

It's so hard to come up w/ideas! DS can't eat all the above for your DS plus some others so I sympathize.   You can stuff squash and/or tomatoes w/quinoa, broth, mushrooms etc Also have you tried Daiya cheese? It's dairy, soy...

Well, this is just #2 for us so I have no advice just a similar question, but DS comes into our bed every night (he goes down in his own bed and in his own room) DS has a full size bed actually and I've been joining him there because...

Glad to hear you are getting some rest! Hope the baby stays in there as long as possible and you get relief from the pain.

No, we're not this time. It's #2 and we had a home birth the first time so we've done the whole no intervention thing (all 32 posterior hours of it....hears to an anterior baby!!) We took a homebirth child birth class the first time...

I'll be 28 wks on Friday as well! Can't wait/believe it's going by so fast.

It really depends where you are. I live in Park Slope and our sitter is part time (usually 2 afternoons a week) and when she started w/us she was a college student (she's worked for us for 2 years and has since graduated but still just...