Posts by sky_and_lavender

My birth story is posted in the birth story section. It wasn't really traumatic in itself. What was traumatic was that I was terrified of motherhood and depressed before I ever started giving birth. Once my daughter was born, I had no...

Like you, I like to be proactive. In my last pregnancy and in this one so far, breech position hasn't been an issue for me (she's head down). But I have seen a chiropractor trained in the Webster technique and also tried to do a lot of...

Quote: Originally Posted by JNajla  This is a very interesting article about our brains while pregnant....  (hormones are very...

I'm 29 weeks. I don't think she minds how the milk tastes or how much there is. She insists there is plenty, but I'm sure there's not much.  

I'm pregnant with my second baby. My first is now 3.5yo and still breastfeeding.   My approach until I got pregnant was to give her milk whenever she asked, day or night. She was a baby and toddler who would stay latched on...

Oh, what an exciting time! Nobody but you is living in this time of possibility and mystery. Enjoy it! Talk to your baby about how happy you are that soon you will meet him/her, and how happy you are, too, that s/he is safely nestled...

I'm sorry you're suffering from mysterious pain and digestive symptoms!   If I ate a bunch of grease, it could throw my system off for quite a while.   IBS is kind of a trash can diagnosis, what doctors diagnose when...

Quote: Originally Posted by womenswisdom  I think for many kids it's really counter-productive to try to potty train them. I don't consider it "potty learning" if it's clearly only the parent interested in getting this...

I'm not the OP, but we're in a similar situation with our 3.5 yo regarding pee. (She's been potty trained for #2 since before she was 1, and I was sure we'd be done with #1 by the time she was 2--we've been doing this for that long!) I...

How frustrating when people comment on your size and compare you to others! At this phase of my last pregnancy (or maybe around 30 weeks) I had strangers literally calling to me from their cars, "how much longer?!" It was kind of...