Posts by littleteapot

Thanks! I just posted it to the birth stories forum, so if you want to read it there you can. :) I included tonnnnnssss of pictures too. ;)   click here

Key: Curtis = My husband Mary Jo/MJ = Doula Jill = main midwife Julia = backup midwife Shealyn = photographer/friend Tempest = my eldest child, daughter, 7 years old at the time of birth Xan = My youngest child, second...

Forgive me if this is in the wrong spot, but I'm thinking about submitting my birth video/story to some places in case it might help some others (I'm a physically disabled mama who had a home VBAC, and I know a lot of people assume...

Quote: Originally Posted by erigeron  AHHHH! I'm going bonkers. It really hurts every time Amelia latches on. After a few sucks it doesn't really bother me but each latch takes my breath away. I'm a first-timer, I...

CONGRATS!!

Audrey? It's a classic name that goes with Lucy. :)

She's beautiful!

Labour beginning has to do with hormones, not cervical pressure. :) You only need a head (or butt, or a bag, or feet...) applied to your cervix to dilate from about 6+... the first six centimeters you can easily dilate without that...

Normal. Your baby dropped and engaged. :)

I don't understand... did someone tell you that you can't birth an OP baby?! That's ridiculous! It's just a position, and a normal one at that. All of my babies were OP. Many start labour that way, but most turn by the time they make...