Posts by pageta

Not to rain on your parade or anything, but I did the contractions/mucous thing for two weeks. Drove me crazy waking up every morning with no baby. But, when I did go into labor, it only took three hours, including pushing. Keep the faith!

Oh, honey! I'm so sorry! Hugs!

She arrived Tuesday afternoon (one day before she was due) at 16:01, 8 lb 12 oz, 21 inches. My water broke that morning, but just a slow leak (the outer bag, perhaps). No action, though. I had an acupuncture appt scheduled for 11:15...

Quote: Originally Posted by lrlittle Is Advil ibuprofen? I know the risk with ibuprofen is that it can affect/thin your blood. And since there's a lot of bleeding postpartum it's riskier than Tylenol. I took it...

There's this thing I've heard of called the "loop" schedule. We do something like that. I have our core - phonics, reading, handwriting and math - and then everything else. Especially with our core, if we don't get through it...

Get some rest!

Right now my strategy is to do history and science and others outside our core during the day when I have an opportunity. Since it's mostly read-aloud, I just tell the boys to sit down because we're going to read a story. My 2-year-old...

It depends on how much stuff you are doing. We started with our core subjects - reading, handwriting and math - and have added on from there (history, science, etc.). There are days where we log 2 hours, but it is scattered throughout...

I asked my midwife and she is a total believer. Last full moon weekend, their practice had seven babies. We have a low pressure system moving in (which seems to really affect me) and between that and the full moon, I may be a goner....

I am due any day now and I must confess, we have done a lot of "unschooling" here and there. We officially filed this fall, but I started doing things, adding one thing at a time to our repitoire, in January so I had time to...