Alexander was born on 25/09/2010 at 0216 weighing 8lbs 1oz. He was born naturally at home.
I have posted my birth story to my journal, it is very long! If you want to skip to the interesting part scroll down to The Birth! It is my personal account so I have described the whole 23hours as I wanted a record of it.
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27 weeks pregnant, fever is 102.1, progressively going up. Aches, pains, vomiting. Dr said viral infection but because I'm allergic to Tylenol, he didn 't do anything but phenergen supp. which didn't help.

What can I do/take about this fever? I'm freezing, burning, freezing. HELP!

PS) Waiting for a callback from the local er.

Last night, around 1:00am I noticed my contractions were coming pretty close together (I've been in prelabor for over a week, so I'm used to having them), so we decide to time them. For nearly 2 hours, they were under 5 minutes apart, most of them being 2-3 minutes apart, and lasting for a minute ( Read more... )

I think I'm in prelabor, but its stalling out on me ( Read more... )

What are some good things to bring to the hospital? I know I should have done this a long ass time ago considering my due date is next Thursday but I've just been too busy to even think about it ( Read more... )

So, even though my due date is tomorrow, I've suddenly decided that I'd really like to have a baby sling. I avoided looking into them because I read all the suffocation warnings, and I ended up getting a regular carrier, which is fine! But now I've realized there's something really organic and natural about slings, and I'd like to get one ( Read more... )

I'm twenty years old, and just discovered that I am pregnant. Mostly I'm happy, but I'm also terrified. I always joked around that I would never have a baby because I have a very low tolerence when it comes to pain. My boyfriend is really, really thrilled about it...I can't be more than a month pregnant and he's already taken to kissing my belly ( Read more... )

Is it possible for Braxton Hicks to feel like a quick sharp pain? I'm almost 35 weeks now and I'm sitting on here and like randomly I start getting these sharp pains in my stomach. They kind of took my breath away and I haven't felt anything like this throughout my whole pregnancy. Its like in the lower part of my belly. They just stopped, but I ( Read more... )

I finished my birth plan, and my doula said she really liked it, and wanted to use it as an example on her website. I was extremely flattered, and thought maybe some other people might like it as a reference for when they start theirs :) It's pretty straight-forward and simple.

( Birth Plan )

Sorry, me again ( Read more... )