I don’t know if there’s anything scientific about this, but I have heard of babies born as early as 34 weeks needing no NICU time. So in my head it was a BIG goal. I still am not ready for them to be born and would like them to bake for AT LEAST another two [...]
Archive for January, 2011
34 weeks! Hooray!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2011 | 3 Comments »
We have a vertex baby!!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 27, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Unfortunately, it’s baby B! (The baby who will come out second. The one who can stay breech.) Way to mess with my heads, babies! [Baby A is always the baby closest to my cervix--ie the baby who will come out first. In my case, it's the baby on the left side of my body. Baby [...]
Dear contractions,
Posted in Uncategorized on January 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Go away. If you’re not going to do anything (and I hope you don’t), just leave me alone! You’re annoying, uncomfortable, and increasingly painful. Enough!
Uhhhhh, ok….
Posted in Uncategorized on January 19, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Me: “Ok, here’s what I want to do. First, snuggie my belly (we use a snuggie as a rebozo to sift my belly, so we have verbed “snuggie” and B does it to me when he jiggles my belly while I’m on all 4s.) Then, I will do an inversion off the couch. This is [...]
This is totally what we did!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks Cheri, for the laugh!
Never underestimate a good midwife
Posted in Uncategorized on January 17, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I was thinking that everything I was asking for in my last post was going to be a bit of a battle and that I’d be lucky to walk away with half of it. For that reason, I figured I should look at it like buying a car, aim high and negotiate down. So I [...]
Oh, they’re going to LOVE me.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 16, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I always assume that doctors (or midwives) see me coming and think, “ugh! MORE questions?!?!” For instance, the OB who did the external version when I was pregnant with O and I got into a bit of an argument when she wanted to induce me (because of my PUPPS) with cytotec. I refused because of [...]
2 breech babies are more upside down than 1.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 12, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I’m one of those people who has spent a lot of time thinking about childbirth. I suppose I’ve pictured it in a very specific way. My son’s birth was complicated and did not go as planned (as I suppose they never do). As a result, I’ve been running what I could have done differently to [...]
We are not designed to eat laying down
Posted in Uncategorized on January 6, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Maybe if our mouths were located elsewhere, it would work out better. Maybe if gravity didn’t aid digestion, the heartburn wouldn’t be so bad. Maybe if water didn’t drip down and food didn’t crumble, I’d be game. As none of those are true, I’m going to stand by my original statement. I spent part of [...]
