( Sensitive. Not attacking the choices of others. Just my own )

I just sent this ... I really did!!!!

"Hi Alyson, I wanted to tell you that I, too, had a homebirth on 3/24/09 and I named my daughter Allison :-) Thanks for reading this."

No joke. I mean, I am like 99.9 percent sure I won't get a response. She probably won't even read it. But it felt really really good to be brave enough to send it.

Stephen points out that when I want something, deeply want it with all of my heart, there's not much anyone can do to stop it. We talked a bit about the "mostly" comment, and he basically said that he has already forseen it happening, the only thing that he can't figure out is when it became a forgone conclusion. Or something like that. He said he ( Read more... )

Jessi had her baby on Sunday. I want to write a birth story even though it wasn't my baby :-) Is that weird? I definitely will not do so until after she writes hers though ( Read more... )

A big huge gigantic public thank you to raving_liberal who listened to me whine and worry and talked me down for like an hour and a half the other night. She is smart and empowered, and knew just what to say to help me get my confidence back ( Read more... )

Please help. Every single day I tell my kids "no growing" but they won't listen and I am at my wits end. Alli's birthday party is tomorrow and she's going to get chocolate cake and then I'm just done for. Please make it stop. If I don't close my eyes, tomorrow will never come, right? Yes? I can has baby forever ( Read more... )

I have internet access while someone else watches my kids ( Read more... )

Last winter I knit a bamboo baby hat for a friend. I liked it so much, I made another one for Allison. Then a few weeks ago an lj-friend asked if anyone would be interested in knitting a warm hat for her baby. She requested wool, but I told her about my bamboo hats and she said it sounded nice ( Read more... )

I don't know this person, I just found this linked in a community, but seriously, get a hankie and read it. Be sitting down.

http://fiercemamas.blogspot.com/2009/10/saving-my-baby.html

40 oz in the freezer and pumping about 3-4 a day ... don't know if it's enough, but hopefully everyone who was promised milk will get what they need. i can't wait for alli to have milk sisters ( Read more... )