Posts by mamadiamond

if i deliver around my EDD i'll have my mom and step dad here for a week after the birth, and they are both very good at helping without expectation. they are coming a week before i'm "due" to help get the house ready, freezer and...

i've started having some nausea when i first wake up, i think blood sugar/hunger related. nothing like first trimester though. my appetite is ravenous right now, but i'm expecting it to drop a bit as i have less stomach room. with dd i...

you're not alone there. for most of this pregnancy my clitoris was not off, necessarily, but definitely on low. with dd i had insane sex drive but this time it's been spotty, partly because there's just less sensation and it's a lot...

i like the natural calm magnesium, and i also drink a tea of chamomile, hops, and passionflower which was made for me by an herbalist who works a lot with pregnant women. though if you have ragweed allergies you might want to avoid the...

i have not this pregnancy, but with dd i know for sure that i did. i had weekly ultrasounds in the 3rd tri and sometimes would see her practice breathing at the same time i was feeling it. she was positioned pretty high and with her...

dream birth i will go into labor spontaneously (not induced because of high blood pressure), and it will be unmedicated and uncomplicated. overnight would be nice so that i can nurse dd to sleep, labor at home through the evening, go...

yeah, it just hit me that i'm 10 weeks from my due date. we just moved into a new house/city/state on tuesday so i have a ton of work to do in those 10 weeks. not great for getting rest before baby comes, but great for putting all the...

30 weeks. i can't believe only 10 weeks left!

25.4 weeks.

thank you! i'm looking through the site and finding a ton of stuff to try!