Posts by BeagleMommy

We had homebirth #3, waterbirth #2. All went well except my midwife was catching a breech baby 90 miles away at the time. I loved the backup midwife though. Oh, and my dear daughter had her hand on her face and cord wrapped around her...

12 days! That can't be right. Guess I need to get the diapers all freshened and folded!

Congrats, alaska mommy! I can't believe that some of us are having babies already! For those of you with other children who you are planning on having at the birth, have any of you had the toddler or preschooler cut the cord? It...

A mild hemorrhage can often be handled by a post-partum shot of pitocin. That's what did it for me with my first homebirth. Have some blackstrap molasses if you are still concerned about your iron levels. It's yummy especially in some...

The older (Sunshine Kids) Radians didn't convert to boosters and had a 10 year expiration. At least that was the best I could determine when we bought our Radians. 8 years is perfectly reasonable to me. I can imagine moving an 8 year...

A-ha! I may be in the process of answering my own question. From the Graco website: "Does my car seat have an expiration date? Yes. All car seats have a suggested expiration date or “useful life.” On Graco car seats, that that is...

Is the Diono (formerly Sunshine Kids) Radian the only car seat with a ten year expiration? Baby number three is almost here and I don't want to go through the trauma and drama of throwing away a perfectly good seat because of a six year...

PumaBearclan, how did you teach her to wash her hair? I really have no idea. I'm still washing my 6 year old daughter's hair for her.

I like Halley, but would be afraid it might seem too much like Hailey or Holly, both of which are typically girl's names. I also like Edmund and Edwin, but that's another situation altogether.

I don't really have a birth plan. What I do have is a midwife who has caught my other two babies and knows pretty well what I want. No vitamin K delayed cord cutting Basically no anything unless I am bleeding profusely (which I did the...