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Good for you for accomplishing your to-do list so early!! Mine is gettIng steadily shorter but that doesn't stops from doing other things totally off my official list but that help me feel less anxious about the post-baby period (my...

Oooo--how exciting! Weren't you just hoping to go sooner rather than later? Keep us posted! And if things progress, good luck!!

I'm very modest (around anyone but DD and DH) when not in labor and think I'll be relatively modest while in labor too but throw a good bit out the window in the final stages (I was induced and medicated with DD so it seems like an...

Adore, just had to pop in here and say that I love, love, love Julian for a boy's name.  It was my top pick and then I found out Dh's coworker/partner just used it, which wouldn't bother me but it's a really small office and I...

I'll be 37 weeks on Thursday (or Friday, curiously, according to my midwife...but my LMP was a Thursday so...) and I'm really hoping to go right around 40 weeks, perhaps plus of minus a few days. We only have my mom here (the only...

We also just invested in a new mattress (organic) and since it's probably the nicest item we have in our home and took me years to buy, I intended to protect it to the hilt! It came with something like...

justKate, I feel like a first timer too--sounds like a given with what you went through!  With DD I was (unnecessarily) induced and ended up with an epidural and a downward spiral of interventions that thankfully ended with a...

Tulafina--is that Goldenseal powder the root or the leaf powder?  You just dab it on straight to the cord area (like the actual drying bit of the cord or the belly area around or both?)  TIA!

I'm thankful I didn't have any family naming traditions to live up to!  That being said, we used my paternal grandma's middle name for DD's middle name...she was the only grandmother I knew and we also loved the name.  Came...

I don't have much advice, since we didn't start CD with DD until she was about 9 months old and crawling around...but since we are planning to CD this time I was looking at my stuff and realizing I have hardly any baby pants and even...