First I wanted to thank all the people who responded to my post on Monday. So to update, I went to my initial appointment with the midwife on Tuesday, and it went very well!!! She is the first person I've seen during this pregnancy that made me feel comfortable!!! So now I'm going to have a home bir...

It's hard to believe we're already 23 weeks. I am hiring a doula, and she will be coming to meet with us on Sunday. I explained the situation with my intervention friendly ob and my desire to find a new provider and she has recommended someone. I have an appointment in a couple of weeks with the new...

A rant about finding a good OB-GYN: So we have this great hospital just a few blocks from our house. I was born there, along with all of my siblings, and my boyfriend and I know several people who work there. Perfect, right? Not so much. We asked our friend, one of the Head Nurses there, if she coul...

While I love the midwives that I see and their attentiveness and knowledge during appointments and on the phone, they/their offices manage to continuously be, as my husband put it, a disappointment. It started initially in the beginning with a slew of messed up appointment schedules leaving me put o...

so I had a hell of a time trying to find a doctor that would take a high risk pregnancy that isnt 45+ miles away.  I did finally find one & have an appointment march 4th.  I know I know I really should have seen a doc by now however insurance issues made it difficult.  Then findin...

This is what I was told by a midwife in the practice I'm currently in when asked about inducing. She was referring to women who reached the magical 42 weeks. This is what initially got me feeling uncomfortable about this group (especially because it was such a hard fight to change my due date to be ...

ok im 36w6d prego and for the past week I have been feeling like utter crap. i get like two hours of uninterupted sleep and the rest of the time i wake up to pee or because i cant get comfy anymore. im so exhausted that no matter how many naps I take i still feel soooo tired. sometimes i cant e...

I had my first appointments yesterday; both with my back-up OB, and my midwife and her student. The doctor has worked as a back up OB for a lot of my midwife's patients. He seems very supportive of... not home birth specifically, but of the patients themselves - in whatever way that means. He's a li...

Okay so, I'm sorry that I didn't say anything on Wednesday when I went, but I had one of the most amazing moments of my life I saw my baby's "fetal flicker". Though, I felt kinda bad because I thought I was getting a pelvic exam and told my boyfriend and my grandmother to stay in the waiting room. A...

So after all that pain and discomfort and cramping I had early Friday morning, I did end up losing my mucus plug, (How long after you lost your mucus plug did your labor start?) and I found out from the midwife that day that apparently my baby had finally dropped.   So no labor, but at lea...