Posts by kdorrain

Quote: Originally Posted by JessNP  I have GOT to get a doppler. Being 41years old, I am just terrified of losing this baby. I cannot wait until this first trimester is over. I had my first OB visit on 7/2 where...

Quote: And right now I can't go anywhere near eggs... ugh.    Me either.  Like I said, I try.  Not so much on the success.  However, Chipotle's Bol covers like 57 grams of protein....  

So many good thoughts already provided.  I night weaned my girls around 22 months, and fully weaned them gradually around 2.5 or 3 (H, my second has been done since my m/c because I couldn't deal).   I've co-slept through the...

We probably need a new bouncy seat (my DH is a SAHD and loves this gadget, so my first two sort of wrecked ours).   I need a new pump. I've burned through a Medela Pump In Style and a Freestyle.  I think the Freestyle is...

Have you heard of the Brewer Diet?  It is a very high protein diet for the prevention of pre-eclampsia.  I have a mama friend that had a successful homebirth with her third after her high BP with her first and pre-E (and...

I'm so very sorry.  Holding you in my thoughts.

Hi,    I just found this group.  I'm very nervous because my last pregnancy ended in a MC at 12 weeks. I'm 8w 4d.  I have a 5 yo DD and a 2.5 yo DD.    I had a c-section with my first for a long...

I'm mostly a lurker to not only this DDC, but MDC generally. I just wanted to mention that "gels" are prostaglandin gels that mostly "ripen" the cervix. They "induce" labor in some relatively small percent...

I'm a lurker, but I wanted to say that I had a lot of pain with my first. Afterwards, I continued to have sacrum and hip pain. I started taking magnesium gluconate. It has worked wonders for helping with muscle pain. I still see a...

My OB for my first pregnancy told me that if I didn't remove it before birth, and needed an emergency c-section, it could cause problems (I'm still unclear as to what those problems are).