Posts by ks3885

Anyone out there have experience co sleeping with a newborn and a toddler in a QUEEN bed?? we just bought a new frame and our bedroom isn't very big so there is NO way our bed size or frame status is changing anytime soon. bedframe has...

wohooooooo you go girl! home birth rocks!! wishing you an amazing experience. you deserve it!

Can I also add that CP is VERY rarely due to actions during L&D? Of course I can't speak to this case bc I don't know the details, but just as an FYI: CP in an infant must meet 4 very stringent criteria in order to be diagnosed as...

I was never asked, but I'm sure if I had SAID "I only want you and one other person there" it probably would have been fine. She would have probably just brought her most senior student and her partner midwife, or maybe just...

Also, it's really important for student midwives to get experience so future generations of women can go on to have awesome homebirths too! :-)

I had a homebirth with 2 midwives (my midwife and her partner) and THREE student midwives, plus our birth photographer. And it was AMAZING. Each of them helped out in their own ways and they all have different personalities but in the...

anyone else feel like when they pump they dont get as much as when the baby breastfeeds?? i only get about 1-1.5 oz per breast (i pump one boob while feeding him on the othger), and so it takes forever to pump enough for the baby to have...

Haven't posted in a long time, but wanted to update: We had a beautiful and amazing home birth at 40 weeks and 2 days and 13 hours from start to finish of intense OP back labor. he mustve turned at some point while pushing (35 minutes...

Paying over $5k here in the Boston area to have a C-section risk of about 10% compared to 30-40% in the local hospitals, to not be pressured to induce, to eat real food snacks with my midwife at our hour-long prenatals, to experience...

For those of you who are first-timers (and those not too!), what feelings do you get when you think about the labor and birth that's coming up? I'm super EXCITED but also quite nervous, almost like before going on a rollercoaster, or...