Posts by jennyfah

Not having one. If I'd wanted one, my midwife does offer it as an option, but we talked about it and she thinks the science behind them is rather iffy. I've always thought so too. I think I read somewhere on MDC where someone said,...

Hi there, I'll tell you what I know (though it's not too much!) We are planning a homebirth for April too, and our midwife says she has had pretty good luck getting BC/BS to pay for at least SOME of the fee. She said that BC/BS is a...

We wash our own, and it's so, so, easy. (Dry pail method, every 2-3 days.) When people from my parents' generation hear about us using cloth they always make faces because they remember the "bad old days" of using cloth when...

Every mama I have ever met who's had both Pit induction and natural labor says that Pit labor is MUCH worse---double-peaking contractions, unnaturally hard and long, etc. I was induced with Pit for my first and am hoping that it's true...

Clean? By whose standard? By mine, sure. By my mother's. . . no. BTW, I was ROTFL at the "shoveling snow in a blizzard comment." SO TRUE! Cleaning a house with a toddler awake is pretty much totally pointless. ...

Hi everyone! I am a long-time lurker (DH is always saying "what are you DOING online, anyway?") and am very thankful for MDC. I'm a SAHM to a sweet, funny, amazing two-year-old boy who keeps me really busy. We are a cloth...

I had the same thing happen to me at 13 weeks also with DS! (Must be something about that 13 week "growth spurt"?) After the initial gush of blood and an ultrasound that showed everything to be OK, I had brown spotting for...