Tag: midwife
member name: Dawn M
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May 30, 2007 02:03 PM EDT --
Dmitrios Aleksandr
July 31, 2002
1:19 p.m.
9 lbs 6 oz
20 inches long
14 inch head & 15 inch chest
Our birth story:
All last night I dreamed I was having contractions. I . . .
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May 29, 2007 06:33 PM EDT --
Entering into that liminal space between worlds, when a baby hangs in the balance, not yet born, but being born, when a woman is still a maiden, being transformed into mother, is like going through that . . .
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May 30, 2007 10:24 AM EDT --
Stages of Labor:
What Will It Feel Like?
What Should I Do?
Stage 1The Latent Phase
This is the longest phase of the first stage of labor. The contractions are farther apart, . . .
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May 30, 2007 10:17 AM EDT --
RECOMMENDED READING LIST FROM A DOULA
The Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth by Henci Goer
Birthing From Within by Pam England
Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Year by Elizabeth . . .
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May 30, 2007 01:09 PM EDT --
My son asked me this week, "Mom, is sex a bad word?" Apparently, he was trying to tell someone at school how the baby got into mommy's tummy, and the teacher didn't appreciate . . .
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May 28, 2007 01:07 PM EDT --
What to Say To a Laboring Woman…
I am so very proud of your courage.
You are so brave and strong. (If she says she doesn't feel brave and strong tell her she doesn't have to feel it . . .
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June 06, 2007 08:59 PM EDT --
This is a story I give to my doula clients and expectant mothers in childbirth classes:
A biology student was watching a butterfly emerge from it's cocoon. It was a long, dramatic and difficult process, . . .
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May 30, 2007 12:36 PM EDT --
These mood swings are driving me crazy! One minute I'm weepy and depressed for absolutely no reason whatsoever, the next minute I'm dreamy and lost and feel like my feet aren't touching . . .
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May 30, 2007 12:38 PM EDT --
I've heard it before, of course. Both of my previous pregnancies had plenty of fetal monitoring and dopplers involved! I've sampled baby heartbeats while watching A Baby Story on . . .
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May 30, 2007 12:41 PM EDT --
My ten-year-old daughter, Autumn, has begun watching "A Baby Story" on The Learning Channel with me, a show we both enjoy immensely, and we've recently started watching "Birth . . .
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May 30, 2007 12:43 PM EDT --
As I passed a milestone this week, and let out my tightly held breath (at least a little bit), we received some news from friends that has been absolutely devastating and has brought the reality . . .
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May 30, 2007 01:11 PM EDT --
So my midwives say that I'm measuring large for dates, and they are suggesting that when I go in for my initial blood work with the back-up doctor, that he order an ultrasound "just in . . .
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May 30, 2007 01:14 PM EDT --
Well, I went to see a "real doctor" for the first time during this pregnancy. (My mother-in-law was overjoyed that I was finally coming to my senses. Sheesh!) He's a family practitioner, . . .
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May 30, 2007 01:16 PM EDT --
We continued to ponder this week whether or not to get the ultrasound, but I have to admit that, like Pandora, our curiosity got the better of us. My midwives have a good relationship with another . . .
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May 30, 2007 01:21 PM EDT --
January seems like a letdown kind of month for most people. The excitement of Christmas and New Year's is over, and winter is nowhere nearing spring. For me, though, January has always been . . .
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May 30, 2007 01:24 PM EDT --
First, in case you were tuning in to find out the results of the much-debated ultrasound, I'm writing this on Sunday and won't be having the ultrasound until tomorrow morning, so you'll . . .
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May 30, 2007 01:25 PM EDT --
As predicted, I hardly slept at all the night before the ultrasound. Michael and I read the instructions for our appointment and found things that kept us up talking and worrying half the night. . . .
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May 30, 2007 01:28 PM EDT --
What a week I've had! It's not that it's been tragic (although it kind of has) or overly exciting (although it's kind of been that, too) but it seems like a lot of things are happening . . .
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May 30, 2007 01:29 PM EDT --
Another week of upheaval in our lives, it seems, but it's more of the same, really. The funeral was this past weekend, and was very sad, although I knew Michael's uncle only peripherally. . . .
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May 30, 2007 01:32 PM EDT --
We are still diligently house hunting. We finally found one we immediately fell in love with (it really was the perfect house for us -- enough bedrooms, hardwood floors, a natural fireplace, nearly . . .
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