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- First PP AF?
- Why do OB/MW do internal exams at end of pregnancy?
- At what point would you worry about baby not turning?
- Poll for midwives: Previous UC a reason to decline client?
- Surprise Hypnobabies Homebirth
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- How bad is this actually?
- Making it to term after a 20 wk pPROM
- please tell me induction is way worse than natural childbirth
- Hospital procedures, what to fight (birth plan)
- When is an Episiotomy Medically Necessary?
- Postpartum questions
- Orgasm and the recovering C-section...
- placentaphagy - need info
- Why do people question politicians, but not doctors?
- Finding out rates at hospitals
- Why did my legs hurt during labor?
- Getting frustrated... baby needs to come. (X Posted in Aug. '09 ddc)
- Critique my birth plan
- Is homebirth safe after a PPH?
- Advice Needed: Best Friend's Wedding planned for one week after my due date.
- Things I wish someone had told me about having a baby
- DS is a NCB advocate and he doesn't even know it!
- Breech at 38.5 weeks
- What does an epidural feel like?
- Has anyone used "Labor Of Love" Hypnosis for childbirth?
- What is more risky, advanced maternal age or obesity?
- Getting past fears of birth
- what are some good Birth videos?
- Group B Strep and "The Eye Gunk"
- Help me understand cord around the neck fears
- a chapter from the book "hypnobirthing - the breakthrough approach to safer, easier, comfortable birthing
- Anyone have and OB for first baby and CNM for second?
- Anybody not want husband/partner at the birth?
- Ordering Herbs
- nicu for dehydration???
- reducing c-sections and health care reform
- postpartum tummy binding
- my baby has meningitis at 2 weeks old.
- Pain Managment for Labor - ideas?
- Extremely long contractions...what does this mean?
- Possibly switching from OB to MW - questions.
- "Postpartum Pain Syndrome" research-- any input appreciated!
- Dirty little secret; a ? for HB'ers and MW's
- Water broke 48 hours ago (experiences?) & castor oil question
- Prolapsed uterus? (possibly tmi)
- Birth survey, anyone willing to help me out?
- Holding my friends baby in NICU for weight loss
- Do OBs generally let you know when they switch practices?
- Cytotec used rectally for PPH
- need a positive way to say "slow" labor
- Subamniotic (Pre-Placental) Hematoma
- Is this prolapse? Cystocele? Or just normal? Embarrassed-help
- Question about laboring in water after ROM
- Fear of c/s
- Natural Induction techniques
- what makes the best lotus bag?
- Reason to refuse PKU test?
- Please tell me about birth, the stress response, and steroids
- Vitamin K shot and circ.
- High Transfer Rate for Birthing Centre?
- what does "being resuscitated" mean?
- Transient tachypnea of the newborn
- routine pit in 3rd stage?
- What to include in birth notes for a water birth...
- PP bleeding at 8 days.
- 2nd degree tear and VERY TMI questions ...
- Did you get an epidural the first time and go natural the second? Advice Needed!
- Articles/good reading on PPH caused (or contributed to) by OB's?
- figuring out an abbreviation
- Pitocin
- If you had to pick one book about birth, which would it be?
- 1st baby dropping...kid not cooperating?
- Websites on the risks of interventions?
- RE: Reason to refuse PKU test?
- Reducing Infant Mortality
- first PP AF?? (or, what is leaking from my hoo-ha. TMI!!!!!!)
- Changing "Birth Language"
- How was your castor oil-induced birth?
- How do you decide where to give birth?
- 18 mo DD's involvement in homebirth?
- bloody show
- Need some advice in negotiating
- Placentophagy after 7 days in the fridge???
- A Website like Spinning Babies?
- questions about CNM and using a doula
- Making red raspberry leaf tea - how would you prefer it to?
- Keeping your Lips Zipped around Mainstream Mamas – SO HARD!
- How can I promote natural childbirth when I've had all CS?
- Birthing babies with BIG heads
- recurrent pProm
- Is this common at hospital births
- Baby acting distressed by contractions
- Does everyone's vagina look like this after birth?
- Anyone have a midwife and/or doula and plan for an epidural?
- ever use poise pads after your birth?
- Thoughts from a mama with a boy with PKU
- pain 3 months after c-section
- HypnoBirthing or Bradley classes? Or both?
- prelabor start and stop - what to do?
- happy endings
- Childbirth 2nd+ time... faster? More/less painful?
- Anybody had a bad tear after 1st, and managed to avoid a repeat?
- Pricing Advice
- repeat tears and healing time?
- How far is too far?
- Lullabies
- Tell ACOG your home birth story!
- nesting...what about you?
- cnm's and ob's not palpating bellies??!!
- Downsides to water birth?
- Question for resident midwives. Help please!
- not sure about this doula?
- Is it normal?
- No sex drive 4 mo pp. Am I normal?
- Question for those that have had c-sections
- Poem about guilt/love while expecting #2 - can't find
- Can anyone ease this strange fear of mine?
- Bradley workbook?
- postpartum phantom baby kicks - normal or another pg?
- Herbal therapy hot/cold packs?
- Sweeping/stripping of membranes?
- External version question
- Using a birth tub in hot weather?
- my midwife is against waterbirth, pls help
- 36 weeks, might be in labor, hypnobabies question
- Safety of Home vs Hospital
- gifts for midwives
- hot compresses and water birth
- Child birth classes
- Too late to try hypnobirthing?
- Meconium in fluids
- Biophysical Profile U/S - what do expect?
- close friend doula fee???
- long prodromal = fast labor?
- ultrasound after cesarean breechbirth
- Red-haired moms/natural birth
- Birthing in water vs on land
- Hospy birth: $0. Birth Center:$4000 WWYD?
- Why csection for breech
- Hemorrhoids following birth
- Preventative steps for avoiding postpartum hemorrhage?
- not sure if this is the right place but i want to donate BM
- Being birth support for my sister...ideas what I should bring/do?
- Are You Excited About Labor??
- PP sex, ugh
- Is there anything I can do to PREVENT hemmorhoids following my next birth?
- Alone?
- Nitrous oxide instead of drugs?
- Diastasis resources needed
- Snack ideas during Labor?
- I made some lotus birth sacks.
- Help me figure this one: Two miscarriages plus a previous c/s = high risk pregnancy?
- Semen-prostiglandins ... inserted orally?
- Two birth classes?
- another oral vitamin K question
- birth/baby stuff and $$ I just don't have
- My OB Said WHAT?!?!
- Bare Bottoms after Birth
- How far along were you for each of your births?
- Insurance industry and health policy
- Second birth, same as the first?
- Not my homebirth...anyone else have this?
- PP fitness & healing diastasis- Tupler or "Bounce Back Fast"?
- Postpartum bleeding getting worse after 7 weeks?
- need answer quick labor/ mucusdischarge?
- So how long were each (if you've already had 2 or more) labors?
- 6weeks pp and tears and "skid marks" still sore
- Belly Bandit poll
- just in case care?
- Getting a little nervous about birth!
- Help, 33 weeks pPROM, dr wanting to induce
- Suggestions for music during labor?
- Hashimoto's and Adrenal Fatigue - is there hope?
- Midwife apprenticing outside the US?
- Baby Monitors - Any good recs?
- Midwife or doctor? home or hospital
- postpartum insomnia?
- Vitamin K????
- Swollen feet and hands (postpartum)
- increasing chances of keeping water intact?
- Help for my cousin-preventing birth trauma...
- Accurate Blood Pressure measurement!
- article by Dr. Odent
- Home induction?
- Prenatal Glucose Test
- Compare your first and second children for me
- active moms and your labor time?
- PP Pain During Bowel Movements
- What does "military presentation" mean?
- If you nursed through a pregnancy...
- Good induction stories?
- I need a book
- No fair! Period at 2 mos post partum-grrr
- Lotus birth at the hospital?
- Do you think your mind can control when you go into labor?
- remedies to heal/soothe perineum/labial tears?
- Oxytocin after birth?
- Can regular contractions be very mild?
- Friend at risk for c-section -- how can I help her?
- another pp sex thread (physical therapy?)
- Feeling Frustrated for my Sister
- Talk to me about Blue Cohosh and Castor Oil
- cervical cauterization - effect on dilation?
- amber for postpartum
- Hampton Roads OB/midwife? Tricare if possible!!xposted
- Thoughts on progesterone and placenta consumption
- If you went into PTL...
- Master's Thesis on child birth?
- Natural childbirth: "Why choose this?" says my pro-medical model aunt
- prolapsed uterus? please help!
- The Farm...
- Urinary Tract Infection : WWYD
- Belly binding prior to labor?
- emotional after birth
- How much mucus is normal?!
- Postpartum and resuming 'relations'
- Can labor start suddenly, no warning?
- high free beta HCG & homebirth?
- Request for C-section stories: planned (unavoidable), conscious, positive
- Preterm Labor at 31 Weeks -- Vaginal Birth or C-section?
- Earlier return of AF with second baby?
- labour causing labour?
- postpartum belly issues
- How to manage pain naturally if confined to bed in labor?
- Has anyone been turned down by family or friends to attend your birth?
- Anyone willing to complete survey about your postpartum doula experience?
- Letter to OBs about why I switched out of their medically-managed care??
- Why delay cor clamping?
- How much Hibiclens to use?
- TMI Alert: breastfeeding, nipple stimulation and dtd
- Proof my birth plan
- Research on rooming in?
- VBAC w/ a vertical incision! I met someone who did this!
- Dreams of fast labor/birth?
- I'm due today ... need info on acupuncture, nipple stim
- Tearing/Sewing/Etc...
- BP of Normal PG women; how much does BP increase?
- Birth ball ?
- Double Standard
- talk to me about natural pain control
- If you will be giving oral vitamin K
- advise me: who will I want at the birth?
- Questions on Positions and Belly Mapping
- Birth Day on TLC 'right now' with Home Birth...
- Another Diastasis Thread
- Did anyone else see this?
- Hypnobirthing - this is how I interpret it. How has it benefited you?
- CAN YOU PLEASE POST your birth plan or what your birth plan looked like?!
- Post Date Babies
- Is this Common?
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