Is it just me or has the board been super quiet lately! Hope everyone is ok!
Please feel free to post any threads that you think would stir up some exciting conversation.
Do you guys want to talk about birth practices? Erythromycin/vitamin K? What to do with our placentas? What is on your list of must have items for postpartum? Where will baby sleep? What are you hoping your partner will do to support you in this birth? Will you have a doula? What are you doing to mentally and emotionally prepare?
Hmm... I guess I can start... I had declined both baby meds for my last baby, but I want her to get vit K this time around (after that evidence based birth article by rebecca dekker changed my mind about it). I'm not sure what to do with the placenta. We made placenta prints last time and then buried it under a tree we planted. But then rabbits ate my placenta tree.
I love to have after ease herbal tincture on hand for post birth cramping and I love earth mama angel baby bottom balm. I like to have some expressed colostrum in the fridge in case baby has a hard time latching.
We will do a lot of babywearing/ wrapping for baby's naps, and we'll have a cosleeper attached to our bed for night time (although I will probably be attached to her all night long).
I would love my husband to have a more active role in the birth process... he has always been a strong witness / bystander for me but doesn't really know how to be hands on. Depending on what size birth pool I get, I think I want him in the pool with me to help "ground me." The pool was way too big for me in labor last time. (la bassine).
I haven't decided on a doula yet... but my best friend will be there as our birth photographer and she is a trained doula as well. My friend who is a labor and delivery RN will be the midwife assistant and at least one or both of my midwives will be there. I may ask my sister in law to be there as well, as she was at my last birth and I was at hers. I feel like I will have enough support. I love doulas and know many of them, but I feel like I will have enough people in my sacred space.
as far as mental/emotional prep... I haven't done much yet! This birth is totally going to sneak up on me! I have been listening to hypnobabies stuff, but not as regularly as I should. It is really hard for me to keep negatives out because of where I work (in a hospital), but I'm trying to just soak in all the positives of birth-- what I love about feeling a baby move down and crown and be caught in my arms and feeling that soft and wet skin! Hearing that first cry... the first latch... locking our gaze for the first time! The euphoria of birth and the rush of oxytocin.
Anyone else want to share?
Please feel free to post any threads that you think would stir up some exciting conversation.
Do you guys want to talk about birth practices? Erythromycin/vitamin K? What to do with our placentas? What is on your list of must have items for postpartum? Where will baby sleep? What are you hoping your partner will do to support you in this birth? Will you have a doula? What are you doing to mentally and emotionally prepare?
Hmm... I guess I can start... I had declined both baby meds for my last baby, but I want her to get vit K this time around (after that evidence based birth article by rebecca dekker changed my mind about it). I'm not sure what to do with the placenta. We made placenta prints last time and then buried it under a tree we planted. But then rabbits ate my placenta tree.
I love to have after ease herbal tincture on hand for post birth cramping and I love earth mama angel baby bottom balm. I like to have some expressed colostrum in the fridge in case baby has a hard time latching.
We will do a lot of babywearing/ wrapping for baby's naps, and we'll have a cosleeper attached to our bed for night time (although I will probably be attached to her all night long).
I would love my husband to have a more active role in the birth process... he has always been a strong witness / bystander for me but doesn't really know how to be hands on. Depending on what size birth pool I get, I think I want him in the pool with me to help "ground me." The pool was way too big for me in labor last time. (la bassine).
I haven't decided on a doula yet... but my best friend will be there as our birth photographer and she is a trained doula as well. My friend who is a labor and delivery RN will be the midwife assistant and at least one or both of my midwives will be there. I may ask my sister in law to be there as well, as she was at my last birth and I was at hers. I feel like I will have enough support. I love doulas and know many of them, but I feel like I will have enough people in my sacred space.
as far as mental/emotional prep... I haven't done much yet! This birth is totally going to sneak up on me! I have been listening to hypnobabies stuff, but not as regularly as I should. It is really hard for me to keep negatives out because of where I work (in a hospital), but I'm trying to just soak in all the positives of birth-- what I love about feeling a baby move down and crown and be caught in my arms and feeling that soft and wet skin! Hearing that first cry... the first latch... locking our gaze for the first time! The euphoria of birth and the rush of oxytocin.
Anyone else want to share?