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Nothing like I expected - a birth story
For those who don't follow me on other social media, Benjamin Ansel was born on Saturday, October 10 at 3:24pm.
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A health insurance musing
Due to the options (and costs) given to us by my company for health insurance this year, lordaerith and I went with a High Deductible Health Plan (with a HSA), otherwise known as the "either we can't get sick or we need to get really really sick and hope the money is there" plan. I'm not a huge fan of it. We've always been on either PPOs or HMOs before. I'm ( Read more... ) -
On Nipple Damage and Tongue-Ties
Or how Triple Nipple Cream saved my nursing relationship.
Or how I should have listened to my instincts and to others.
About a month and a half ago I noticed that my left nipple was starting to hurt a bit. It felt sort of like thrush, but wasn’t quite the same, and the right side was getting sore too. So I made an appointment with the Birthing Center ( Read more... ) -
Busy weekend
My little prince has quite the busy weekend.
On Saturday we went to a potluck for our Centering class. Our babies are all getting so big. It’s interesting to see who is hitting which milestones first. The girl born the day after LP has 2 teeth already as do a few of the others. Most are rolling at least one way, if not both, but of the babies born ( Read more... ) -
6-7 weeks
Our Little Prince had his 6 weeks check-up on Monday. He weighed in at 10lbs 0.5 oz and almost 20″ long. He’s getting so big. The midwife who delivered him was the one who did our check-up. She commended on just how strong he is and how cute he is. She said that the noise he makes overnight are perfectly normal and healthy noises.
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Weeks Two and Three
Week two was really hard for me. My postpartum anemia was worse than we were all prepared to deal with or aware of. I think that if we’d known just how bad it was, my mother probably would have stayed an extra week. But we made it through the week. There were really rough times, like Tuesday afternoon and Thursday night, when I almost called my ( Read more... ) -
A Stree is born
On Friday when I went in to the Birthing Center for my nonstress test, I got my membranes swept. This was probably around 2pm or so. Came home. Got some work done. Around 4:30pm I was resting on the bed when I started to feel cramping and my hips started to hurt. I didn’t think I could possibly be in labor yet, and the cramping wasn’t totally ( Read more... ) -
Nonstress test is stressfull
Just got back from my nonstress test. Of course when they hooked me up to the monitors, Stree decided that it was nap time and didn’t move at all. I did have a few contractions during the test and the monitor picked them up, so that’s good. Then when the midwife went to check me, the little jerk decided to wake up and move around a bunch; we both ( Read more... )
