Posts by PapayaVagina

I'm 13 months out from my c-section and I have some pain every now and then but it has dramatically gotten better since dd was about 8 months old. Mostly now it is just pain with my periods where I can feel the incision. Right after dd...

I mostly took care of myself (badly I might add) but saw a midwife a few times when I was pregnant for lab work and to get a better angle on palpation. I tried not to be anxious about stupid stuff but I wasn't totally successful. We'd...

I'm going through a similar struggle right now. I am totally, totally spoiled by homebirths. After having dd I have started teaching some childbirth prep classes at a local hospital. Though I was told that I have no limits, I still feel...

Quote: Originally Posted by Apricot Thanks for the hugs Papaya! Can I ask if your "burn out" (from your sig) was contributed to by being shy? I think that it definitely contributed...there were a...

just wanted to write and say that i can relate to many of the things that you are describing. i was painfully, painfully shy when i first started birth work and would shake when i would go to do bp checks. i've struggled with a lot...

my dd just turned a year old and wakes up usually every 45-60 minutes all night every night. we do a bedtime routine, tried NCSS for months with absolutely no improvement whatsoever. i've lately been considering night weaning her but...

I'm looking into this as well, but I'm not sure that I can do it. Part of me equates it with CIO but the other part is soooooo tired. If anyone wants to flame me about it I welcome it - seriously, I don't want to do it but am starting to...

the pediatrician that we went to didn't feel that silent reflux was her issue. his suggestion: CIO . the only things that i guess could be correlated with the silent reflux is waking up every 45-60 minutes all night every night and...

we are revisiting this again (we originally thought dd had reflux but then chalked it up to food sensitivies) but she has been waking up on average every 45-60 minutes all night long every night for the last 10 months (yeah, i'm really...

just wanted to sub. we make lentil soup but i also love it leftover, smashed up and spread on bread