Posts by saimeiyu

Amelia May decided she didn't want to be a Junebug, so she was born on May 30th at 551 am after just shy of 24 hours of labor at the hospital. All did not go as planned, obviously, since she was supposed to be born at...

Those do look good! OK, here's another question for you: How do you feed the freezer when you don't have enough extra dishes to leave them in the freezer? What do you put stuff in? Foil? Do you buy disposable foil pans or something?

Do you just make a smoothie kind of deal and use the herbal tea instead of ice or something, and then freeze it? Walk me through this, I have no idea because I've never done anything like that before.   Also... it never even...

Quote: Originally Posted by Veritaserum  37 weeks for home birth, although my midwife would attend *me* a couple days shy of that due to my history of having babies at 37 weeks. 34 weeks is way too early for home birth....

Hey y'all! I know for some of us it's pretty late in the game, but I'm a procrastinator-- what can I say? So, I have a list of supplies from my MW, but I'm just wondering, what all do you ladies like to have on hand for a home birth?...

34 or 35 weeks is when they won't give you terbutaline or something else to stop labor. They won't help it along unless your water's broken, but they won't stop it at the hospital. 37 weeks is considered full term, and is about when my...

You know, there's a full-scope anatomy scan that most practitioners recommend that happens between 16 and 20 weeks. Usually, they schedule it for 18 to 20 weeks IME.   It's to scan for heart, cord, brain, spine, and intestinal...

I've read that you can delay cord clamping for 3-5 minutes, and then get the benefits of delayed clamping such as lowered chances/rates of anemia, and still have enough cord blood to bank.   If we were planning on a hospital...

I really do agree with you gals about choice-- it is mind-boggling to me that people can get SO heated up about preventing and aborting pregnancy, but SO dense and anti-everything about birth choice.  Like it somehow isn't part of...

Quote: Originally Posted by lia_joy  I've been writing a book about unassisted birth -- it's taking WAY longer than I expected, but has also developed into something bigger than I thought.  I settled on the...