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...

Any ladies in here who had a natural birth w/ back labor? Did you know you were in labor even though the pain was in your back? Right now I have a horrible low back ache that is not going away, I can't sleep, and my stomach is rock hard. How the hell do you time it either? Also, semi-survey...how fa...

So I'm only just barely still in my 1st trimester (12 weeks 2 days), but I've been trying to figure out ways to mentally get myself through a medication free delivery. I am committed to leaving myself the option of drugs if I feel like I'm going to pass out, which a lot of people disagree with, but ...

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...

hello all :-) it seems that i'm blowing up, apparently! i have NSTs every tuesday and friday and at this past appointment, the receptionist told me that i've gotten a lot bigger since friday. somehow, neither my boyfriend nor i have noticed it. when i told my mom, she noticed it, haha. it's getting ...

i'm 35w3d and have been lurking here since i became preggo. i'm loving being preggo and only gaining 6 pounds...the weight has transferred so i'll be skinnier once i have my lil girl. crazy...my mom made me buy large shirts cuz she said i'd grow so much. i actually prefer wearing my regular clothes ...

I don't belong here. A delivery room is no place for a man. Here was my wife, in obvious pain, the epidural drip little to no comfort. Nurses tended to her compassionately, the doctor was on her way. And just like Bill Cosby said about natural childbirth, all I could do was coach my wife with lamaze...

Joseph William Born May 31, 2008 7lbs, 7oz. 19.5in. This is pretty late, but I’m going to blame it on a baby who has decided sleeping is for wimps.  I went in for my 38-ish week check-up and an ultrasound to size the baby on Friday, May 30. The ultrasound showed that the baby was right on tra...

Penelope Abra Nicholas was FINALLY born ::naturally:: on June 18th, 2008 at 3:21am, 12 days past her due date, after 73 hours of labor (starting with the approximate time when contractions were too hard to focus on other things to the time when the baby came out). Natural labor was the hardest thing...

Let me preface this by saying that I want a natural, med-free, intervention-free birth. However, it seems that my body might have other plans and I might have to edit the heck out of my birth plan. I'm 35 weeks. I have pre-exisiting high blood pressure. This has been easily controlled with medicatio...