Posts by dreammama

My husband was dying of cancer, and a wonderful hospice social worker was really there for me.  I told her I just didn't think I could go back to the hospital and have my baby after everything that had happened.  She told me...

Sooooo?  I'd love to hear how you're doing!

My babe has something called Milk Soy Protein Intolerance.  He had bloody stools because of it. Very sad.  Some of these posts were very encouraging!  I will agree that complete elimination is best.  If I let myself...

It's hard to believe how many still births I hear about now that I had one.  I'd never really heard about anyone having one before.  I chose to vaginally birth my still born, and a lot of people thought I was crazy for it....

Hey BaileyB!  I just wanted to update that we had our beautiful baby boy UC!!!  It was fast, easy and pretty much painless.  There were a few painful contractions, but that's it!  We couldn't have imagined a more...

Just wanted to follow up.  Our first UC was a wonderful success!!!  I was thinking I might go into labor on a Friday night so around 11pm we took some fun belly pictures.  As soon as I went to bed contractions hit hard...

Just a side note to this I guess.  I am rh- and hubby is rh+.  I did have the shot with our first baby, but it didn't work.  Turns out that can happen on very rare occasions.  Now with this baby I'm isoimmunized....

We also had a still birth at 38 weeks with our last baby after a perfect, "normal" pregnancy.  The only thing they could come up with was possible cord accident.  Because of this caregivers are a little afraid of us and want...

This sounds like us!  Our midwife was no longer able to care for us so we are seeing an ob.  We hate it, but really wanted to make sure everything was great with baby along the way.  Now we are secretly preparing for our...

We recently purchased a Contec pocket fetal doppler Sonoline B off ebay for $65.  It's brand new, came in about a week, and we have been really happy with it so far! Good luck finding a good one!