Posts by ComplexOphelia

I've been going through this pregnancy thinking that I would have a VBAC, but after a conversation with my MFM yesterday, I'm joining you!   Logistically, a VBAC would mean uprooting from our small PA town and living in...

I'm not afraid of pushing while using the bathroom so much as the hard coughing I've been doing since getting this (ten day long, so far) cold from hell. Every time I get to coughing I swear I'm going to hear a POP! and my...

Magnesium, magnesium, magnesium.  I'm so sensitive to it that I have to buy chelated mag, otherwise, well, my guts let me know it (and I am definitely NOT constipated when they do!).  Most people can use an oxide form....

Like many of us, I'm at my wits' end with my spirited toddler (who just turned 2).  Probably this has a lot to do with being 33 weeks pregnant, bigger than I've ever been, exhausted, and trying to get things together for the new...

Hi everyone - first time caller, long time listener .   We're expecting DS #2 sometime in February (maybe January, which is suddenly only days away, oh my gosh) and we are buying a chest freezer to celebrate this...

Heading down to Pittsburgh seems like more and more of a plan.  We wouldn't necessarily need to be there for a whole month - I just mean going at 38 weeks and staying until babe is here!  We'll be going down to interview the...

  Quote: Originally Posted by Kreeblim  Quote: Originally Posted by ComplexOphelia    Kreeblim - Congratulations on VBAC 2 this morning!!  That was...

I should have said that, unfortunately, homebirth is not an option for us - which is hard, because I'm a homebirther at heart (and have a GREAT HB midwife, who was supposed to help with my son)!  After my bout with pre-e, I...

As I'm sure everyone is sick of me saying, DS was born at 28 weeks due to pre-e.  He was still breech, his heart tones let us know that he wasn't doing well, my BP was just barely down to 140/95 with every single medication they...

I've also had occasional clumps of clear jelly-like mucous for the past couple of weeks.  I'm reminding myself that it's my body keeping itself healthy and renewing CM - and wearing pantiliners every day.  Thank god for cloth...