Posts by nmouse

    Quote: So sometimes size acceptance almost goes against HAES principles to say, "I don't have to be thin to be a worthwhile person, I don't have to be healthy to be a worthwhile person, I don't have to be...

love the pic akind!    I am doing fine physically but extremely nervous about my anatomy ultrasound tomorrow. I am taking my partner & planning on asking for gentler treatment than I had with the 13 week ultrasound...

There is also Renee Hanevold in Roseville. She was trained as a CNM and does homebirths. Her rate goes up to a max cost of $4,500, but I understand it can be a bit less if you have a brief labor.    clothmama there is...

Thanks for the welcome! I am indeed clunking along in my second trimester. As for my family, I'm monogamous with an opposite sex partner that I've been with for 12 years, though we haven't been monogamous for our entire relationship....

Love reading all the answers on this thread. I don't have my baby yet and already I live in filth, which (due to a long slow lowering of standards) really only bothers me when people come over, and NEVER bothers my fella. I have tried...

I am about 5 months along and, although we've talked about last names before we got pregnant and have talked about first names during the pregnancy, my partner and I have never talked about what last name we're going to give this...

Hello I would like to be added! My due date seems to move around depending on whom I am talking to (OB, midwife, or ultrasound tech), but as far as I am concerned I am due November 1, 2011.  

These are plunge bras. I hadn't heard of them before either until my friend took me bra shopping. I tend to be bra-impaired.

I love all the activity on here!    Trinket90 -  I was thinking you might be able to hit your salt craving and feel nutritious if you try out some tamari almonds and tamari sunflower seeds. We're sposed to eat lots...

KayPea thanks for posting about the cysts. I got a positive quad screen for trisomy 18 and am going in for an ultrasound soon, so I am nervous what sorts of things they will find. My first trimester screens were negative, the positive...