Posts by Brambleberry

I'm so impressed with your midwife.  Your story is a great example of a birth that might have had a much worse outcome in a hospital.  You never know what might have been of course.  Congratulations and good job!

Thanks so much for sharing your story, Holly.  I'm so glad that you are all home already!  I'm curious whether your OB was wanting you to deliver in the OR or not.  This Friday we're going over my birth plan with my...

I didn't even notice them with my first birth, we'll see how this one goes (I know it's supposed to be worse with subsequent pregnancies).  According to LLL's medications book, Advil (Ibuprophen) is in one of the safest categories...

Quote: Originally Posted by Teles    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21280989 Wow! pretty neat.  any guesses why?

Give me a few weeks, and hopefully I'll have something to contribute!

Congratulations! can't wait to hear your story/see pics!

What things are you trying to help them turn?  The spinning babies website has a section on twins, but it's hard to find.  you have to do a search.  I would give you the link but our computer recently crashed and I lost...

A doula will help a lot I think.  Treating you like it's a singleton pregnancy sound like a mostly positive thing IMHO.  If there's nothing to suggest anything is wrong, why proceed as if you should expect the worst?  Do...

My baby A is head down and firmly, solidly, (somewhat uncomfortably) engaged.  It's pretty usual for twins to be firmly engaged in the pelvis since they just don't have room to be anywhere else in there.  I think all the...

Quote: Originally Posted by SortaCrunchy  ... For those who are in the 3rd trimester (or if your babies are here!), have you had any queasiness/morning sickness returning? Though it's NOWHERE near as bad as it was...