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[tabitha]

Its a Girl!

we found out this morning. So little cassiopeia it is.

i need maternity at this point but know by the time im 7 months ill hate the styles. so i am trying to be maternity free this pregnancy. Large hippy skirts, things like this ! i look forward to the warmer months.

time to start sewing things for my baby girl...

[Greaseball]

That's one reason I wanted to do the last trimester in the warmer months. It's hard to find winter clothes that cover the belly and you keep growing out of them. I'm due in late May/early June, so maybe I will get to do the bikini top/loose skirt look I had always imagined!

[liz-hippymom]

tabitha - yeah!!! : banana
its so much fun to make girl clothes!!!!

greaseball- i have always imagined being pregnant in the summer too. we have this big festival in late april every year called Eyeore's birthday party ..its this HUGE hippy fest, with drum circles galore and costume parades. well ive been going for 7 years and every year i take about 3 rolls of film of all the crazy-cool people..every year there is at least one hugely pregnant chick with a broomstick skirt and bikini top with her beautiful belly hanging out. every year there are also at least a few ladies who wear no tops but paint thier bodys (never pregnant though). i always wanted to be one of those pregnant girls! this year i am going and i am going to have my belly painted...im so excited about it!! i will definatly have pictures taken so i can show everyone on here.

[homebirthing]

Tabitha- A LITTLE BABY GIRL!!!! YAY!!! That is so cool and I am so excited for you!


Liz- Have you thought about getting Mendi done on your hands and feet and belly? That would look great! I am having a freind that does Henna, do my belly for the raising of the red tent and for the May Day Fesitival. I know she said it doesn't stick as well on the belly as it does on hands and feet, but it would be great to have for the day!


My daughters and I are feeling ill today. Bleck.

[mamaroni]

congrats on the girl Tabitha! Nice name, too. I thought we had decided on a name for our girl, but all of a sudden last night dh is interested in looking through the name book! So we'll see.

Liz, the hippy fest sounds like so much fun! We go to a similar festival every summer (Blissfest). I can't wait to see your pictures.

Sarah, my kids aren't feeling that great either. and it's one of those weird warm winter days. it's really ugly outside! bleck and double bleck.

to all of you in the "in-between" stage, hang in there (or OUT of there, as the case may be :LOL). I boycotted maternity clothes a lot this pg, too. But believe me, I'm wearing them now! We took a 34-week photo the other day, hopefully I can share it with you guys once we get the film developed (no digital cam here).

Started the 5W and EPO yesterday! The countdown in really on! (are you with me, Claire?)

[pottermamma]

Hi ladies!!!! It is so good to get caught up with this thread!!!

We were in the process of selling our home when I lat posted here and everything was finalized this past week!!!!! And, we found a really great rental that the 3 of us are very happy in.....Plus it has a jacuzzi tub that I can birth in (midwife just gave the OK at our appt yesterday!!!). I'm not sure if I want to birth in water again, but it was so awesome and gentle for Ds and very supportive for me, so maybe...we'll see. I'm just trying to get in the mode of the reality that birth is unplannable and uncontrollable...it just unfolds as it will (I have a huge tendencey to want to plan everything out) and all I really want is to have happen whatever needs to happen to help the baby and I do this in the most positive way possible. Ds's birth at the birth center was great and so empowering and I was able to really release any expectations I had...but this time I actually have something amazing to compare birthing to, so I am trying to not just assume things will go as wonderfully as with Ds and just be open to however things need to go.
I am up to visiting twice a month with our midwife and that makes me feel like things are really moving along...and it is great now cause we are only about 5 miles away from her so all our visits are at the house where as previously we were 30 miles away so to save money (she chages mnileage after a certain pt) we were visiting at her home, which is nice, but it isn't where the baby will be born so it is neat to be here.
Oh, the placenta...We saved Ds's until his 1st birthday and planted it in the mountains behind our old house on a hill overlooking this beautiful valley. These mountains nourished me greatly during my son's pregnancy and we wanted to give back to this area in this small way. Funny story though...I was at my SIL's house in PA just before Dh and I got married (Ds was 10 mo old) and everyone was wanting to hear our birth story and was amazed it was drug free in the water etc. I mentioned about how I had to get out of the water to birth the placenta (other Sil's boyfriend is pre med and very interested in all the details) and for some reason I shared with these folks that we kept the placenta and actually still had it in the freezer....well there were about 10-12 people around the table ( and by this point Dh and mysteriously escaped with all of the kids...lucky guy) and they roared...Oh My God it is in your freezer...what if you served it to someone blah, blah, blah...all joking of course but very serious in their surprise that it wasn't thrown in some biohazard bag somewhere and disposed of properly. I took the opportunity to educate as best as possible, but I really wanted to slink away and not deal with all these eyes looking at me like I was the biggest freak they'd ever seen :LOL
We will probably do something similar with this baby's placenta but we will definately save it again...and there is another wedding in the family in July so I will be sure to share that this one is still in my freezer as well!!!!!!!!!

[anothermama]

HI ladies...
thought I'd peek in over here...
I obviously recognize some of you from the Preg board.....

I'm due mid May with #2. We had an U/S and it's a boy.....and I'm just plain ol' excited at the notion of giving birth at home and then just crawling into my OWN bed when it's done.

Anyways...I'm gonna try my darndest to get caught up on this thread......wish me luck!!!!!

[tabitha]

thanks for the congrats. we are blessed to have another healthy babe!!

still debating middle names and now even considering spelling cassiopeia with a k. kassiopeia. it is soo much fun, talking names.

congrats on the new place, pottermama! yay!

im having a trying day with ds and not feeling well at all.

tabitha

[dnr3301]

Tabitha- I have an Athena, gotta love those kinds of names, huh? I like it with a K, it's interesting. We still don't hvae a girl's name picked out and it's soooo soon. And did I read that you will have the middle be O'Melay? My middle name is O'Malley, very close. Is it a family name? My grandmother likes to answer that question with, well, yes, but no one in our family! It's a very long story involving a childhood friend of my father's and his lively imagination.

(Ummm, Mamaroni and Claire, don't forget about me! I'm due at the same time as you two!)

My zipper broke yesterday when I bent down to pick dd up from the snow. Why oh why? They should make zippers expandable so that I don't have to find a new coat every time I get pregnant. Maybe next time I should try for a summer baby? hmmmm.

[mamaroni]

Originally posted by dnr3301
(Ummm, Mamaroni and Claire, don't forget about me! I'm due at the same time as you two!)

hey, didn't mean to forget, it's just that claire and I are due on exactly the same day. you are a few days ahead of us I think. anyway, we'd been counting the days to start the 5W and EPO. that's all. . .

[Sustainer]

Announcing the birth of

Alexander Philip

at 12:41 AM on Monday, February 2

weighing 8 lbs. 1 oz. and measuring 20".




(posted by SBFmommy's partner - )

[liz-hippymom]

congragulations SBFMOMMY!


sarah- i wanted to have at least my hand and feet done before my birth, it last a while right? i thought about my belly-but i will be sure to be covered with huge red streachmarks, and i dont think that would complement the henna! :

now i just need to find someone who can do that!

[homebirthing]

SBF- CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

[mamaroni]

Oh, congratulations! I've been thinking of you and wondering.

Enjoy your baby moon. Can't wait to hear the whole story!

[dnr3301]

Wow! An actual baby! Congratulations SBFmommy! Can't wait to hear the story.

(Mamaroni- I wasn't really offended, just teasing )

[amyrobynne]

Congratulations SBF!!

Does this mean I'm next?

[Spark]

SBFmommy -- Congrats! YEAH! Welcome Alexander! (Always liked that name!)

Enjoy your babymoon and when you get a chance, I'd love to hear your birth story!

DNR -- You are always in our hearts and minds! We wouldn't forget about you!

This is my BH pattern from last night while I was teaching class (during lecture! Not so good timing!), driving and then at home. 5 min apart for about 45 mins, 3 mins apart when I paid attention to them again, then all the way to 2 mins apart lasting for a minute. The 2 minutes apart lasted for about 3 hours. It's not that they hurt or anything, it's just they're rather uncomfortable. I'd better get used to them as I have 6 weeks until my due date! Any ideas on getting through these patterns? Or ways to curb them?

[tanjarine]

I had my 38 week checkup today which is getting really challenging to get to with my big belly, the snow, 2 little boys(and one who wants to be carried) and catching the bus. Well everything is fine, but they want to start 'stretch and sweep' on friday at 10 am and hope i have the baby this weekend. Last time I had the baby within a few hours of them doing it. They are worried about the baby growing too big and having to decline me for a homebirth, and they feel that because im measuring a week ahead in fundal height they want to see it happen sooner than later.
They wanted to do it today but I was like ya right.. with ice rain tonight and I know for everyone who will be involved it will be much easier to do it closer to the weekend. Plus my husband will only be able to have off the day im actually in labour, so im hoping it will happen on the weekend when he can be home with me.
Soooo if it all goes well that gives me three more days to go!

Tanja mama to Raven 11, Jakob 4, Benjamin 2 and due soon!
~kids games~

[homebirthing]

It is so interesting to me that some of the midwifes that you all see seem more medically managing. I know that we have midwifes here that do membrane stripping, but the thought that mine would ever do it....I guess my midwife doesn't even do a vaginal exam! Ever!! The only time I was checked was by my husband. She doesn't want me on anything that would send me into labor, like 5W (although I am not sure what that is) she isn't even comfortable with evening primrose oil under normal circumstances. What are some things that your midwifes do at the end. Any of you have non-interventive midwifes? For those that do, what are some of the things that they do? This is very interesting to me as a future lay midwife.

[Greaseball]

My midwife says she does induce with castor oil, but only at the request of the mother. She will let a mother go as overdue as she wants, as long as an ultrasound at 42 or 43 weeks is normal. She had a mother go 48 weeks once!