Tag: newborns
member name: Selena K
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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 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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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 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 01:46 PM EDT --
There are very few things I regret in life. I figure everything is pretty much a learning experience, and things happen for a reason and all of that, right? I spent most of last night arguing . . .
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May 30, 2007 01:52 PM EDT --
I can't believe I'm 36 weeks pregnant! If I remember correctly, the next four weeks are going to feel longer than the last thirty-six, but it seems impossible that I've been pregnant . . .
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May 30, 2007 01:54 PM EDT --
Well, it finally came, and mercifully, went. Moving Day was Friday, May 11. I missed writing a journal entry that week because I couldn't find my computer in the midst of the piles of boxes . . .
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May 30, 2007 01:58 PM EDT --
I still can't believe that my due date is only a week or so away. This past month has absolutely flown by, although with the amount of things that we've done, not the least of which was . . .
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May 30, 2007 01:59 PM EDT --
I had a prenatal appointment scheduled for June 1 at our new house, where all the midwives would practice getting here, and we would go over our last minute plans of how we wanted the birth to . . .
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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 12:43 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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