Posts by laehmichal

Our Ava Regina arrived 7/29 at 2:34pm. She came like a whirlwind, and was 6 lbs 19". Only 2 days before her due date, and we had a real 'homebirth in the hospital' experience. Honestly, I was only there for 1/2 an hour before she...

We actually used a version of both for ds. We read the Bradley book at home without taking the course, got the info we needed for dh to coach me, and I used hypbirth, which is a home-study cd series. It was the perfect combination for...

My ds is just over 2, and he really isn't talking yet. I am getting conflicting info from everywhere, it seems. He signs pretty well, even puts signs together to form 'sentences', but won't speak past mama, dada, and a few other words....

I've never used the charts, so I can't help you read your's, but I know that I can usually trust my gut. Do you think you are pg? I knew without knowing b/4 I took a test with either of mine. Try not to stress too much - I know that's...

fun stuff! i'm 32 and a 1/2 weeks

Just wanted to see if anyone has experience I can learn from. With ds, I had a difficult pregnancy and was quite restricted through my 2nd and 3rd tris. I still delivered him 5 weeks early - he was fine, but very tiny, and gave us quite...

Your labor sounds almost exactly like mine! ds was born 5 weeks early, my water broke at 6:30am and I still had no noticable contractions until 11am. When they finally started, they were 3 min apart and 1 min long!!! I used Earth Mama...

Just to put in my 2 cents, I was only given the shot during pg because I started bleeding - turns out I had a small hematoma behind the placenta. Everything turned out fine, but even this time my mw said I would only need the shot...

I have an interesting problem. I am 10 weeks along with #2, and I can't seem to get into telling my own mother! I love my mom, don't misunderstand me. But she is very domineering, and really made it difficult when I was pg with ds. ...

Hi. We had our first prenatal appointment today, and they are sending us ASAP for a sono, becxause I am too big for my dates and they think I may be carrying more than one!! I had something of an inkling that I was, but dh is totally...