Posts by caedmyn

I think it is yeast, just not sure how to treat it.  Midwife recommended caprylic acid.  

I wonder if it isn't a yeast infection, even though it's not itchy and I don't have any weird discharge.  It's not really much the tear itself that's the problem.  Any suggestions on how to treat a yeast infection...

Cross-posting in health & healing...DS3 was born 3.5 weeks ago.  I had a first degree tear that we left unstitched.  It seemed like it was healing fine but about a a week ago everything down there started feeling really...

Cross-posting in homebirth...DS3 was born 3.5 weeks ago.  I had a first degree tear that we left unstitched.  It seemed like it was healing fine but about a a week ago everything down there started feeling really irritated...

I am not sure exactly where DH came in.  He gives a rather vague description.  The one thing I did think was a little funny at the time was that it felt like when baby was crowning, I felt more stretch across the width of the...

Not sure where to post this...DS3 was born 2 weeks ago, home waterbirth.  DH caught him coming into the room last minute.  He thinks he was breech.  I'm not so sure...definitely felt like a head being pushed out! ...

I've had four homebirths, three of them waterbirths.  Two of them were fairly typical labors, two were somewhat disfunctional IMO with sporadic contractions that were more intense than the contractions in my typical labors. ...

Or something else?  I'm getting angelica for PPH before the placenta comes but I'm not sure whether to get shepherd's purse or blue cohosh for PPH after the placenta.

Has anyone put together a plan (or any good links?) for stockpiling/long-term food storage for traditional foods?  I can find lots of information on long-term food storage using SAD foods, but not much on what to store with whole...

I don't know why I never think of looking for birth pools until fall when no one actually carries inflatable kids' pools anymore.  Are there any birth supplies places that sell kids' pools as birth pools?  Or anyone know of a...