Posts by mountainborn

I'd love this for my daughter!

I am planning a trip I've been waiting a long time to take - to spend part of the summer with some dear friends in Kristiansand, Norway! I'll be flying from the states by myself with my 6 year old DS and 1 yr old DD. DD will be one at...

Thanks! I probably will do just that. I guess I would only be saving about $2-4 with most other prefolds around that size too, and I think it's worth that much to stick with what I know. This is my first CD baby and I'm loving it! It...

Ok, so before DD was born I went ahead and got 2dz newborn (orange edge) prefolds as well as 2 dz small (yellow edge). I was on the fence about it and really thought about going straight to yellow (DS, my first, was a big baby at birth)....

Quote: Originally Posted by DoulaVallere We'll also anoint her with oil, and it's very detailed. Each person gets a slip of paper that tells them a specific body part to anoint...for example "I anoint your head for...

I was determined to have a "blessing time" but unsure about how to go about it - very few of the women I planned to invite were familiar with the idea. As a Jesus follower I also wanted to have a ritual that really connected...

Other? Mine broke on its own while I was pushing - so almost born intact but not quite.

where are you located? there are some no vax/selective vax friendly physicians in chicago, and there are a few threads here about them. re: the community alternatives caseworker, i had a caseworker check up on me for my ds' first year...

I had an unmedicated hospital birth with my first, in 2005. It was what some other mamas have referred to as "very good, compared to the standard hospital birth". I really did have a birth high afterwards, and somehow as a...

glad to hear baby is ok!