Posts by thomatuttle

Chapluqa--my favorites on your list are Ember, Eden, Luna, Sylvie, and Laurel

honeyb--i would say lay another blanket on top of it, or make a duvet type cover for it out of some old sheets so that you don't have to change the whole bed if it gets wet in the middle of the night. 

i don't really remember my mucus plug last time.  i think i had little bits of "snot" come out in the weeks ahead of DD being born, but nothing substantial and from what i remember it was all kind of clearish and not tinged with...

Woke up this morning to 5 inches of snow!!  We live on the Oregon coast and our house is probably only about 80 feet above sea level, so we don't usually get as much snow as we did last night!  DH and I were watching tv and...

i accidentally locked DD in a hotel room a month ago!  DH was outside and knocked on the window that he couldn't get.  i thought he had just left his key in the room, so i grabbed the other key and closed her in the room and...

Courtney--sorry your little one wasn't moving much.  my little one hasn't moved much the past few days, but i think it's more because he's running out of room.  i didn't feel him for quite a while today, so i sat down for a...

so, thankfully DD doesn't have conjunctivitis which is good, but she does have a sinus infection and an ear infection.  her pedi wouldn't normally prescribe her anything for the ear infection, but because she has the sinus...

i feel like i don't have much time to kill, since i still have so much to do!  i need to super clean the bathroom and reseal the tub.  i need to finish priming DD's room before i can move on to actually painting it.  i...

this is our second and will be our last as well.  we have both always said that we would have 2 and if for some reason we had the urge for more, that we would adopt.  this pregnancy has been harder on me than my first. ...

flavorful--have you talked to your midwife about what she does in situations like this?  there is only one homebirth midwife for basically the entire southern oregon coast and i mentioned wanting a homebirth but not having the...