Posts by kathan12904

This may or may not work on your partner, but I've always encouraged non mothers to look at freedom in childbirth as a civil liberty that ought to be protected by our constitution. How can we live in a country where partial birth...

Almost every time labor progresses to 7-8cm and stops, its because baby is OP. You'd most likely need to have suffered from malnutrition, polio, or severe pelvic injury sometime during childhood for your pelvis to be truly inadequate to...

I'd suggest you lobby for a "wait an see" approach to baby B. As the pps said, its very common for baby B to turn once A is out of there and even if B doesn't turn, there'd be a chance you might be able to go through with...

You've got to use a little bit of common sense about water in lakes, ponds, creeks, etc. They really are usually very clean, but if the lake is overcrowded with septic tanks too close to the water, like the Lake of the Ozarks here in...

You can buy a good, proffessional quality doppler from ebay for about $200. Finding the baby's heartrate isn't particularly hard and with some prenatal practice, you or hubby or your mom or your friend could do it periodically for you...

I'm reading the Birth Emergency Skills Training book right now and like it. Although, I warn you, you will need a medical dictionary to get through it. I had to ask my nurse hubby about a million questions that he didn't even know. The...

You are a great vbac candidate. A baby too big for mom to birth is almost always just a case of bad positioning. Your body builds your baby just right for your size of pelvis. Most cases of true CPD have to involve childhood disease or...

This is how I got my belly scar. My op daughter took forever to descend and to speed it along I consented to letting them break my water, closing off the idea of turning her altogether. Babies can be born OP, but a lot depends on mom's...

I'd always recommend interviewing multiple providers before settling on any one. I don't know if that was already part of your process, but if not, I'd do it for sure just to see what your other options are. If you don't have other good...

I really liked Webster Family Physicians. Dr. Wessling does take some getting used to, but he warms up a bit over time and has always taken gobs of time giving us personal attention at each appt. Mary Hart is pretty cold and I don't...