Posts by tropicana74

Quote: Originally Posted by smerkin  What are everyone's plans for thanksgiving? I guess those of us who celebrate. The way that things have worked out this year, it looks like my little family will be alone this...

Thanks for starting the thread darkblue!  Your Christmas gifts sound lovely! You can add me to the list of mamas feeling under the weather.  I am trying so hard to kick this sinus infection w/o seeing a doctor. I...

Quote: Originally Posted by Mamabeakley  Tropicana, were we in the same DDC last time?  Cause I was due in August 2009 (but DD was born in July!)  I can't believe no babies yet, either, but . ....

So glad your mother blessing went SOOOO well and was a better experience than your shower!  I love how your outfit is color coordinated with your decorations!

On a side note I just want to say that I can not believe that we have no babies on this board yet! We are 3 weeks away from December and no one has delivered. Statistically that has got to be rare.  Or there are just a whole lot...

Quote: Originally Posted by nhklh  Another interesting thing my MW said is that none of it is really very accurate anyway, and 10cm = fully dilated/no cervix left.  So one woman's "10" might be 9.5cm, and...

Glad you are feeling so birthy mama! Very exciting! I, on the other hand am SO not!  I was just telling DH today that with my other pregnancies I was feeling so many more symptoms at this point (36 weeks). Especially with...

My first labor was weeks and weeks of BH often times at 5 minute intervals. At my appointment at 39w2d I was at 3 cm. and 100% effaced. At 40w1d at 11:30 p.m. I had my first REAL contraction and they just progressed to stronger and...

I did have a changing table. I used it A LOT in the first couple of months mostly during those many middle of the night diaper changes. It was a great changing table because after you were done using it as a table you could flip it...

Quote: Originally Posted by phatchristy  As a side note over here the midwives say the cord is typically around the neck in 30-40% of the births and rarely causes any issues.  Like Stegen says, over here I...