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What you make of it.
It’s almost always the same. I say that I’m planning on having an unassisted (no doctors) birth at home, and the eyebrows shoot up, the jaw drops, and the exclamation, “you’re WHAT?” inevitably escapes the lips. It made me smile the other day to receive the following from a long-time friend: “It’s wonderful to hear […]
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The landing of an angel!
I found an angel!! Well – actually, she found me. I had blog comment from a lady in Canfield who found me when searching for other Youngstown-area homebirthers. (You can read her comment under my post ‘Rock-a-bye Baby’ Maria is on her 5th non-hospital birth (due in 2 weeks or so), is a certified doula […]
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Rock-a-bye Baby
Eliza has started moving more and more. Well – maybe she was always moving, but I couldn’t feel her until now. Unless she’s asleep, she moves a noticable amount more when I play music to her via headphones directed towards her head. They say that the mother should try to keep talking to the baby […]
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Photoshoot – Week 19
These are my two favourite photos from last week 🙂
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Ultrasound Results
IT’S A GIRL!! I’m SO excited. I was a teeny bit disappointed that a message hadn’t been passed on for me to bring a blank DVD … they only had CDs, so I wasn’t able to get a 4D moving image … but the experience as it was was just amazing. The Doctor was Oscar […]
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Dear Baby
Just seven days until I get to see you. The thought sends shivers down my spine. I originally scheduled this Ultrasound back on June 11th – just two short weeks after I knew I was going to have you… and now that date has come. The three months have flown by. I’ve tried to mentally […]
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Elimination Communication
I consider myself to be both a good researcher and well-read. This topic, however, I had never heard of! A colleague at work mentioned it to me, and when I mentioned it to my neighbour, Amy, I found that she had also not heard of it before. Details can be found at www.diaperfreebaby.org, but the […]
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Interesting facts
courtesy of http://www.welcomebabyhome.com/ During labor the maternal temperature is about 99.0°F. The temperature rises to about 99.3°F with an epidural or spinal anesthetic. Baby’s condition at birth mirrors the mother’s. If she has a hard time with labor so will he. If she is wide awake the baby will be too. The first breaths of […]
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Blood pressure
My blood pressure was 112/60 when I first check it in the very early stages of pregnancy. We bought a monitor last week, and it was 118/64 when I took the reading. On Sunday, I suddenly felt really really tired, and lay down for what felt like an unconscious 4-hour nap … at 9am!! I […]
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Dreaming
I had a dream last night that baby started moving. It was VERY strange to feel, and almost reminded me of when my childhood pet ginuea pig was pregnant! I used to put my hands around her stomach and feel the babies move. Most memorable, perhaps, was that I could clearly feel the spine and […]
