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...

So I posted last week about the OB thinking I was still breech, and possibly wanting to do an external version on me. I also mentioned that spinningbabies.com confused the crap out of me because I couldn't tell the difference between a big movement and a small movement, or a head and a butt. Well, t...

An update to my post here: http://community.livejournal.com/pregnant/13001448.html First of all, thank you so much to everyone for their encouraging comments and support. That really helped a lot as I struggled to hang in there for weeks on end, not knowing if my first child was even going to make i...

I am still pregnant. I just haven't posted in weeks, because this child is sucking the life force out of me. I have recently realized that when I am pregnant I constantly make a mean grumpy face. I went to my son's Christmas party at the school, Ryan was taking pictures. out of about 50 pictures the...

So I went in for my 20-week ultrasound yesterday (I'm 21 weeks today). We were hoping to get hints of if the baby was a girl or a boy, but we were mainly happy to be seeing the baby again. What we didn't know was that the baby had plans of its own, giving us one heck of a show. This baby was on it's...

I've been having contractions since yesterday morning and decided a little while ago that a warm bath sounded amazing.  I've been getting bits of my mucous plug on the toilet paper when I wipe and when I stood up after my bath, PLOP, a larger piece fell out!  Not the whole thing, but a def...

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...

Doctors appointment: It went great. My blood pressure and the baby's heartbeat are both healthy. All my blood tests/paps came back fine. I've gained 3 lbs since losing 16lbs due to morning sickness so yay! I'm getting an diagnostic ultrasound in three weeks to make sure the baby is measuring right. ...

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...

In update to my post last week about my awful OB (I don't know how to link posts or I would), I called my docs office today, after much debate within myself. I knew what she did was wrong, but since several days had passed I wasn't nearly as upset over it anymore, and I almost just let it go. I...