I never got around to writing this up; I'm doing it now just because despite the fact that I have a steel-trap memory, I'm sure some of it is getting lost with time.

I'm leaving the first week postpartum, during which we were both still in the hospital, off for now.

( admission until Oscar's birth -- very, very long )

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I know many of the women on my friends-list are very, very involved with the natural birthing community, so I'm appealing to you for help. This is what I tell people about diet and preeclampsia; any recent peer-reviewed studies you can provide which show something *different* from this would be welcomed.

( post from another forum )

Please tell me, someone, that you post on mothering.commune, and could go and gently point out that yes, the uterus does actually have arteries inside it. Like all organs. I mean, that's how the oxygen and food get to the baby, for gawd's sake. Mother's arteries --> placenta --> umbillical cord --> fetal arteries (eta: this is, of course, a vast ( Read more... )

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