Posts by redpajama

I'm almost 17 weeks pregnant with my 4th, and I don't really look pregnant yet.  I feel fetal movement, but nothing I wouldn't pass off if I didn't *know* I was pregnant, and perhaps if this were my first, I wouldn't know it was...

I'm planning my second home birth, with the midwife I'm apprenticing under.  

Just to clarify, I responded to the OP who (1) stated that she is planning on working with a home birth midwife during her next pregnancy and (2) did not mention longer-than-average cycles or even later-than-average ovulation, only...

I don't advocate lying to your midwife about your LMP, or anything else.  If you are hiring her for her knowledge and her judgement, what purpose does it serve to impair both by giving her misinformation.   Also, it might...

I totally agree with so much of what you all are saying.   My personal experience with it was that when I was seeing an OB during my first pregnancy, I had my membranes stripped--*without consent or even a warning*--beginning...

My first was a cervadil/pitocin induction, so not reliable data at all.   My second was about 10.5 hours, total. My third was about 6.5 hours.   (My second, though, was at a hospital nearly an hour away, and I...

Quote: Originally Posted by FarmerCathy  Where'd you get your fetus scope?   I'm 17 weeks today.  Yay!!  Not much to report though. I'm just feeling blah...

I haven't been on a chat thread in a while--it's exciting to see everyone's pregnancies progressing along.   I'm feeling movement every day now, which is sort of fun.  I was able to hear the baby with the fetoscope for...

My kids are a bit younger, but this is basically what we're doing.  Our house has two large bedrooms upstairs and one smaller "master" bedroom (with a walk-in closet and attached bathroom) downstairs.  Our kids are 6, 4 and...

This is such an interesting topic to me--and one that I sort of feel I've been on both sides of. When I was pregnant with my first, I really wanted a boy.  I don't even recall why, exactly, except that I had a lot of nephews...