Posts by FreeRangeMama

I am 36 and still will be when the babe is born (I conceived on my birthday weekend ).  This will be baby #5 and will be a homebirth with a midwife.  This will be new for me.  #1 was a hospital birth and #2-4 were...

The first thing we did after getting over the shock of a positive test was to start planning to finish the basement.  It is a new home and we have been meaning to get around to the basement since we moved in 2 years ago. ...

I have 4 kids and work part-time.  It has been challenging.  I am 10 weeks and still exhausted and nauseous all the time.  Work doesn't know and that has been hard.  My work requires a great deal of energy.  I...

Yay!!!  Congratulations.  :)  

I am so exhausted!  I have found that even 15 minutes of rest between sending big kids to the bus and driving the youngest to kindergarten helps me get through the morning at work.  When my 5 yo gets home I put her in front...

I am now 8w5d.  I started feeling terrible at 4w4d.  Sad to say that absolutely nothing is helping me.  I have tried every single thing mentioned here and more.  Still feel extremely nauseous/queasy nearly all the...

Thanks for the welcomes  :)   I figure I have another 32 weeks to get to excited.  It is nice to know I am not the only one who was more surprised than delighted to get that positive.  Babies are great, I was...

EDD: June 2/13 Your Age: 36 Your General Location: Alberta, Canada This babe will be child #?: 5 How long have you been TTC:  We were preventing.  Not successfully apparently! Tell us a bit about your family (partner,...

We weren't going to tell anyone at all.  We thought they would just figure it out eventually.  My bf figured it out right away though, as soon as she saw me she just knew.  It was weird and typical of our...

I'd like to join in.  I was running 8k once or twice a week and doing 15 min of HIIT every other day.  I have managed nothing but a handful of 10k walks since being pregnant though as I have had m/s since 4 weeks (now 7.5...