Posts by Sunflower223

I am still here but I am not due til the end of the month anyway.  It does make me anxious seeing everyone having their babies all at once though.  This month really took off!

I have to agree with everyone else, that picture is so beautiful.  I love your story, it is very encouraging and motivational =) Congrats on the the new addition!

I got one of those when my youngest child was born.  We lived in Alabama at the time.  They are a crazy waste of money.  I also got a letter from the ADPH that had several visual depictions of severely ill children, also...

This is our fourth baby but first HB and I feel exactly the same way.  Everything you mentioned rings true for me.  The closer I get to the big day the less I know what to think.  I wish I had taken birth classes honestly.

I am trying to find a carrier that my husband can wear comfortably.  He is a very large person, 6'8" and about 450-475 lbs.  He measures about 52-55" from shoulder to waist and then about 58" across going all...

I don't really know a good way of prolonging labor necessarily.  I do think that three hours is probably OK if you leave as soon as you start to feel that you are in labor.  It wouldn't be any different than your last...

Sometime in the next month or so I am having an HB in Hattiesburg, MS.  I have a great backup OB but I am really having a hard time locating a pediatrician.  In the eight months we've lived here, my kids haven't really seen...

i live in Hattiesburg, MS right now but we are moving back to Grand Bay, Alabama in the next month or two.  It is a 30 minute drive from Pascagoula at the most.   =)   Angela

I would go with the homebirth.  However, as someone else mentioned student doulas often do their work for free or low cost.  You have to be a doula a certain amount of times to get certification with most organizations, this...

I hate to admit this but at this point my little cosleeper fell off a few times and we started to put him in the middle.  We actually cosleep on two mattresses on the floor, no actual bed, so it wasn't much of a fall.  My...