Posts by Carlin

Yay WCM! Congratulations and welcome Nova! Good for you for listening to you instincts! Last night was a good night for babies!   Age,  I'm another '79-er. I don't feel old either, but I'll admit that age is probably...

Love the birth date nerdery. 9-18 would be awesome. 9-21-12 would be great too, with the year and month adding up to the date. I also like the repetition of 9-19, although to be honest as long as this baby is born in September not...

MissE, another thing I know a lot of mamas have had really good luck with recently is using a Lemon Verbena cocktail. Apparently, the Lemon Verbena really reduces the digestive effects of the CO. Here's a blog post that has a recipe...

Congratulations on your VBAC! It sounds like you'll have quite the birth story! Welcome baby James!

Judybean, and Mymaya, hoping you are both holding your babies by now! If not, sending lots of easy, productive, labour vibes your ways!   MamanF, good to hear from you! Dexter sounds adorable! As for the extra weight loss, I...

 Sending you lots of hugs Alli. Can you try to focus on all the really wonderful things that went right about this pregnancy and birth? I think you are right, in that it's mostly the hormones talking right now, so try to just be...

Mole, sending good thoughts your way. I'm sorry you're being pushed into induction, but glad baby seems to be handling everything well!   Judy, hope your back is feeling better!   WCM, OMG I want to smack your husband...

We did exactly what alli describled. Dipped a damp pinky in the little scoop (so as to not introduce moisture into the bottle) and put it into baby's mouth right before latching on. She never seemed to mind.   Another thought...

Hugs and good thoughts coming your way! What a terrible time for this type of stress!   Can you call your electricity company and arrange some kind of payment plan, so you don't have to pay the whole chunk at once? From what I...

I'm another one feeling out of sorts today. I've been pretty even keel so far (still 4 days until EDD, so obviously no reason to be in a rush yet) but today I'm a bit grumpy and definitely feeling antisocial. Part of it is definitely...