June mamas, share your favourite pregnancy sites

[kawa kamuri]

I'm very into what's going on and when with this little one so I'm loving...

Chicago MOSI - make room for baby

http://www.msichicago.org/whats-here...y/interactive/

UNSW Embryology

http://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/Me...tureEmbryo.htm

pregnancy timeline incl week-by-week ultrasounds

http://www.baby2see.com/timeline.html

The Bump comparison of embryo and fetus to fruits and vegetables

http://pregnant.thebump.com/pregnanc...spx?MsdVisit=1

EHD, of course

http://www.ehd.org/

Some months from now - cord burning

http://missionarymidwifemama.blogspo...d-burning.html

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What are your well loved sites involving gestation and birth?

Edited by kawa kamuri - 11/10/10 at 6:39am

[lil_stinkyfeet]

Thanks! I bookmarked some of them! I am mostly hanging out in the May DDC but I am due June 2nd. I remember you from the October 09 DDC

[aloha girl]

Wow! Thank you for those awesome links Kawa Kamuri! btw, can I ask what your user name means? Is it something in Japanese? I know one of the meanings for Kawa is River, but I dont know Kamuri... anyway, thanks again for the wonderful pregnancy websites!

[mama_daba]

really enjoying those links! if i find anything good i will post it. my first pregnancy i spent so much time browsing web pages this time i have not done that yet. i think this time it just doesn't seem real to me yet.

[JustVanessa]

best site for me is
http://www.i-am-pregnant.com/

They show pics everyweek for what babe looks like and you just punch your due date in. Their forum is VERY mainstream though.

[wake_up]

Wow, that cord burning idea is really interesting. I don't know if I'd have the guts to do it though. So neat that babies tend to calm down during the process!

[kawa kamuri]

Tonight I'm so so loving having discovered that Topshop sells maternity clothes. I'm just wish shopping

http://us.topshop.com/webapp/wcs/sto...=1&pageSize=20

La Bassine vs Sevylor Electra. I've always loved the look of La Bassine, it totally fits into my crazy birth space aesthetic. Of course, last time I used the fishy pool.

http://rixarixa.blogspot.com/2008/01...a-bassine.html

name nerds

http://www.namenerds.com/

spinningbabies!

http://www.spinningbabies.com/techni...at-to-do-first
http://www.spinningbabies.com/techni...ily-activities

[kawa kamuri]

beautiful

https://www.familytreeglass.com/prod...roducts_id=102

[kawa kamuri]

I sobbed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejvJV...&feature=share

[astar326]

Originally Posted by kawa kamuri

I sobbed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejvJV...&feature=share

amazing! loved it.

[wake_up]

Originally Posted by kawa kamuri

I sobbed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejvJV...&feature=share

Me too, jeez. gorgeous.

[kawa kamuri]

http://paxye.com/blog/placental-encapulation/

encapsulating the placenta  i love pictures of placentas and have a whole, beautiful album on fb 

[la mamita]

Originally Posted by kawa kamuri 

I sobbed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejvJV...&feature=share

I burst out laughing in the beginning when I realized she was laboring in an all white room...then she went to the hospital and I was like, ah okay, you aren't going to be bleaching the heck out of your room. It was a very beautiful video though.

[BarefootScientist]

Wow, lots of links! I will check them out.

I like this one. http://www.visembryo.com/baby/index.html Though the most interesting pictures are from the first tri, which is over or nearly over for many of us.

[kawa kamuri]

http://bringbirthhome.com/

http://midwifethinking.com/

http://www.themidwifenextdoor.com/

http://www.homebirth.org.uk/

[BallardBaby]

Originally Posted by kawa kamuri 

I sobbed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejvJV...&feature=share

Thanks for sharing this! A great birth! Though I've got to say I am glad I have another six months to go before I have to experience labor again! I say that as someone who had a natural, out-of-hospital birth with my first and wouldn't have it any other way (if I can help it!!)!! The feelings can be really intense and this mama's face in transition sure brought me back!

[kawa kamuri]

Originally Posted by BallardBaby 
Thanks for sharing this! A great birth! Though I've got to say I am glad I have another six months to go before I have to experience labor again! I say that as someone who had a natural, out-of-hospital birth with my first and wouldn't have it any other way (if I can help it!!)!! The feelings can be really intense and this mama's face in transition sure brought me back!

I know what you mean! I got pregnant when my littlest LO was 11mo and, while her birth was AMAZING, it happened such a short time ago that I def need the next half a year to get my head in that place again. If someone had told me the night she was born that I'd be pregnant less than a year later I would have run for the hills. I'm happy it all worked out this way, though :)

[kawa kamuri]

squatting for birth prep

http://www.katysays.com/2010/03/30/the-hunting-and-gathering-mama/

mama sweat blog, fit pregnancy tag

http://mamasweat.blogspot.com/search/label/fit%20pregnancy

[kawa kamuri]

http://www.cafemom.com/journals/read/1577334/Placenta_Encapsulation_Instructions_w_Pictures

[junebug2011]

I would love to check out the cord burning website. In Guatemala where I lived and worked with indigenous midwives it is common practice to burn the cord after its tied and cut, in a third world country it does tremendous things to prevent infection. A western midwife came there and taught the midwives to clamp and the clamped cords had more infections than the burned cords! My partner and I are planning to do it as well :) The midwife I worked with performed the burning along with a ritual and prayer, so beautiful.