Posts by Caterina

I live in Canada too. Hi Aliy, we're neighbours! We have a tv that lives under a cloth, no pets. I live in an apartment without a balcony or patio, but have an amazing park 2 blocks away that is the best backyard. We were going to...

I don't have older kids, but I would tell her. Kids pick up on so much, energetically if nothing else. I think even young children can understand and talk about the cycles of life and death, and if, god forbid, you do m/c, she might be...

I ate 3 bowls of brown rice with lots of butter and nutritional yeast for lunch. It just tasted so good. I'm not nauseous but feeling like my mouth is too full of saliva a lot. Mostly I'm craving carby junk (chips, bread etc.) but the...

We used cloth from the beginning with DD too. I was a little worried about the washing because we just have one coin-op washer and dryer in our 11-unit apartment building. But it was totally fine! At the beginning we washed diapers every...

mix it in your morning oatmeal?

Thank you so much, mom2threenurslings. This is just the kind of advice I was looking for. I think there are several ideas in there that will work for us and I'm going to start them today!

So in the last 2 days, with my nipple sensitivity going into overdrive and a serious twiddler, I'm feeling like I need to start the process to cut down on nursing a bit. It's so painful, especially at the latch-on, and she's constantly...

We saw a Hypnobirth (Mongan method) trained counsellor for a course done privately (5 or 6 sessions, can't remember now) starting around the 1/2 mark. It was pretty expensive, but really amazing. Each session would be talking about part...

I had that with DD. My midwives said it was round ligament pain, as others have said. They said the ligaments that hold the uterus in place are like hands holding a ball with coiled ligaments (like an old telephone cord) that stretch it...

Quote: Originally Posted by LittleBattleAxe I'm thinking I want my older kids present for the birth -- I don't know if it would make my son acutely uncomfortable (he will be 11) but I think it would be cool for my dd to...