Media Births

July 7, 2007

While reading another blog the other day, some things were brought to my attention that I hadn’t really thought about before. The blog was vbacadventure and the post was about media births. A commenter, Kara, pointed out some media births (on the show “Friends”) that weren’t the typical horrifying portrayal ofchildbirth we usually see on [...]

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Breastfeeding Benefits Babies

July 5, 2007

Besides growing up on a dairy farm and learning all the great benefits to milk andmother’s milk, I have also seen the benefits in my own children and I have found studies supporting my own findings. Mother’s milk is a natural meal forbaby, whatever kind of mammal mother and baby are. One study conducted on [...]

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Sandwich Generation

July 4, 2007

No, not real sandwiches, but I do like them, whether I’m pregnant or not. Here’s what I mean: I am part of what my dad likes to call “the sandwich generation.” What that means is that I am smack dab in the middle of the young (my babies) and the old (grandparents) and because of [...]

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Busy, busy…

June 22, 2007

Nope, I haven’t dropped of the face of the earth, and for youHome birth nay-sayers, I’m happy to disappoint you by still being around. Actually, I have something brewing, but you’ll have to wait to find out what. That’s not why I’ve been away anyway. Actually, I haven’t been away at all, just busy, busy. [...]

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Book Review :: Emergency Childbirth: A Manual

June 9, 2007

Since this month is dairy month, and a couple of fire departments/emergency squads are hosting the Meredith Dairy Fest, I thought it’d be kind of appropriate to do this book review in honor of the volunteers that help us out in a an emergency (and their making an attempt to encourage healthy habits, in the [...]

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Dangers of Mice to Your Pregnancy

June 7, 2007

You’ve probably heard of the dangers of cats to your pregnancy and baby’s health, specifically the litter box is the dangerous part (where the feces is). Have you ever heard of the dangers of mice to yourpregnancy? If you have a mouse problem, I should tell you, going to the country and releasing them into [...]

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Take Your Vitamins

June 5, 2007

I must stop the self testing! Okay, so I’m not really testing, but I ran out of my main vitamins a few days ago, and let me tell you, I am really starting to feel the difference. So I had Russell find me a substitute. Now, I eat pretty well, healthy and all, but I [...]

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History Speaks :: Birth Options

June 4, 2007

Have you ever seen Matrix Revolutions? In that movie, the character Morpheus makes a speech that I think is fitting. In Morpheus’ speech to Zion, he says We are not here because of the path before us. We are here because of the path behind us. True so true. We are not here because women’s [...]

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Natural Birth of Large Babies

May 29, 2007

I guess you could say I’ve had some experience birthing large babies. Our girls were our smallest tying at 8 pounds 6 ounces. The first of our boys was 8 pounds 13.8 ounces, the second 9 pounds even and the third was a whopping 10 pounds 2 ounces. Okay, so not like the woman in [...]

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Pregnancy | Childbirth | Post Partum :: Laughter, the Best Medicine

May 27, 2007

Okay, so perhaps this is another post that can be applied to pretty much everyone. Have you heard that “laughter is the best medicine?” Sure, it doesn’t matter whether it’s duringpregnancy,childbirth, orpost partum. Well, any pregnant or post partum woman appreciates a good laugh, even if it makes her pee her pants (although, changing those [...]

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