Posts by mamacarla

For me the absolute minimum I would have would be a New Native pouch sling and an Ergo back carrier. The next I recommend is some kind of wrap - see Ellaroo or similar. Of course I have an obscene number of carriers (20+ - yikes!)...

In an ergo - on my husband's back!!!! LOL

Hi -- I have been using my Wonderoos exclusively for about a year and a half or so. About 6 months ago a handful of them stopped snapping. I know they are guaranteed against this happening. I have tried to reach Jessica in the last...

Chiropractic is great throughout pregnancy. And by the way, if a massage therapist could press someplace on your body and send you into early labor do you really think there would be such a business in pitocin. If you find someone...

My ds will be 2 and 3 months and my mother will be picking him up when I go into labor. I want all the attention in the house to be focused on me! There are precious few moments focused on me now with a toddler in the house and as soon...

Yep - I agree - that breakfast would have killed me. I have GD but it would have thrown me even when I wasn't pregnant. Bananas, pancakes. syrup and OJ is nothing but sugar and carbs. You must get protein at every meal and snack -...

I am also seeing Valerie and Ali at PSMBC - we are all looking forward to a lovely homebirth this time since my water broke 6 weeks early last time and I had to go to the hospital. Anyway - I think they are just wonderful. Best of...

Out of curiosity I have also discussed this with my peircer and tatoo artist. I was in having my belly ring removed during my last pregnancy because it was stretching too much. Neither would do it during pregnancy. The main...

I have just one anecdotal reason in favor of a 20 week ultrasound. A good friend - very healthy, easy pregnancy... - had the 20 week check. Everything looked great except they could see there was an extra ureter off the kidney. ...

I am sorry that they led you to believe you had no choice but to be induced with PROM. I had PROM at 34 weeks and they were hoping that I would lay in bed at least another 3 weeks. As it turned out I went into labor about 26 hours...