Posts by micromama

Thanks :) I am particularly happy because I really feel like being on abx during labor last time (unfortunately a long labor with several abx doses) gave my daughter the gut and allergy issues she has. I can't prove it of course, but...

I am counting from when I knew I was in labor ( water broke). Contractions went on forever... They let me go 36 hours but I never fell into a regular pattern and needed Pit/ hospital transfer. Got checked and i was only 1 cm. From the...

Ladies, just had to share. I got the most amazing news from my midwives' office just now. I had reswabbed for GBS after undergoing an intensive strep-killing protocol, and it worked! In just one week, I went from heavy...

I'll take whatever the universe gives me, but my first labor was 55 hours and I have absolutely NO desire to repeat that experience. I'll take fast anyday-- but hey, 10 hours seems positively breezy to me :)

Just found this thread! Congrats to all you mamas... And keep those pictures coming! These babies are all beautiful and I am super jealous of the fast labors too. I hope I do not buck the trend, lol.

Cindy, congrats!!!!! How did I miss the news?! I am so happy for you and your family!

Dannic: Ugh sorry to hear you are nauseated. That is the worst. I know what you mean about moods-- for some reason I've been a little more, well, volatile for lack of a better word, than usual. I am snapping at everyone in a three-mile...

PS- is anyone else suddenly starving all the time? I can't stop eating. I feel like I did when I was 6 weeks pregnant!

CONGRATS Aurora! Aspen is beautiful! And what a lovely name!   Count me in with the others who are having prodromal labor. I endured HOURS, literally, of contractions last night. These were not normal BH ones-- they started in...

Thanks. She is eating grains though... Millet, quinoa, amaranth, rice and buckwheat primarily (although buckwheat isn't really a grain I guess.)