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    Anna C. got a reaction from ^_^ in Baby Corner   
    Thanks guys for all the nice things you wrote! She is eating well now, every 2-3 hours and my milk came in too, so I am somewhat at ease. The ped declared her perfectly healthy, no more fluid in the lungs and her initial weight loss isn't bad either. Now that she eats a lot, we can tell by her output that she's getting enough, huh. That's always such a concern!
    I'm doing pretty good, the afterpains are mere cramps now, just hte first night was hell painwise, despite 800mg of Motrin. But my uterus shrank back to super small size according to the midwives, so that's why I had those strong cramps, but it pays off with minimal bleeding and feeling great now! I just did not anticipate those afterpains to be so intense. Really, a warning to the second time moms, it can be intense, but won't last long. Take that Motrin asap after birth...
    @ kelly: Maybe try my protocol to get Salma out, lol. I took two evening primrose oil pills on Saturday of 1000mg each (noon and at night), ate some tomato-basil-mozzarella panini and watched "In Bruges", which was quite hilarious, so something funny maybe. Throw in some marital relations and boom labor is going.... Maybe Denny's for breakfast? But honestly, the membrane sweep at the birthing center before we went out to eat must have done it. She put evening primrose oil on her gloves to spread it out in the cervix... And she was very gentle, it wasn't painful, but she did it for 2 minutes. They said a quick sweep doesn't do much, but a slow, prolonged sweeping can help and I swear it did it. Good luck!
    @ Steffi: I hope he turns by himself, but otherwise an inversion is a good thing to try. Fingers crossed for a GBS negative... I was so glad I was negative, no IV and no antibiotics for me then in labor. I found it amazing how easy I can move around in the room and birth tub with no monitors or IV (they checked periodically with a handheld doppler).
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    Anna C. got a reaction from ^_^ in Baby Corner   
    The hospital I had Jonathan at didn't have a NICU, but the other hospital in town had one. That's why only women past 37 weeks and had no signs of trouble were allowed to deliver at the hospital. But it is certified baby-friendly, had LDRP rooms and no 24/7 anesthesiologist, which was important to me so if I ask for an epidural it would take time and so I could accomplish my hopes for no epidural more easily... This time, we're at a birthing center and the CNMs are completely trained to do newborn checkups and the bili checks and newborn screening and so on. They transfer mom and/or baby if necessary to the hospital next door which has a level three NICU. Cheyenne only has a level II NICU anyways, the next one is in Denver, so whenever there is a baby born in big trouble they take you to Denver in a helicopter... Same with moms who have complications of any kind beyond normal pre-E - if you have any more serious condition or it looks like baby is born before 32 weeks, off to Denver. So I might as well be in the beautiful birthing center right next to the really good hospital with a great NICU that won awards. Faster than a helicopter that has to fly 112 miles South under God knows what weather conditions that we get here (extremely high winds! sometimes they can't fly you, and have to drive you, and now that's bad!)...
    Funny that so many places allow prenatal pediatrician visits. Santa Maria did not do that, but it's rural and they were even offended that parents shopped around... I don't know about Cheyenne, I know there is just one pediatric practice with like 12 peds. We met our FPs in the hospital when Jona had croup, clicked right away and wrote a nasty letter to Tricare how terrible the base doctors are and got reassigned to the FPs we love (the base refused a 9 months well baby visit despite my begging for an anemia check, he then was severely anemic at 12 months, when he had the croup they refused to see us and refused an urgent care referral which is why we went to the ER where we got admitted - obviously those base people are endangering my child's health!). The new baby will be assigned to our FPs as well, luckily. I was very lucky with Jona, he rarely ever gets sick, so we don't see our docs a whole lot.
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    Anna C. got a reaction from besaangel in Swine Flu: What the Hell Happened?   
    Yup, was way less bad than normal flu. My son (he was 11 month at that time) and I had it. He felt a little off for less than a day, I was sick for a week, was just like a cold... We wouldn't have gotten the shot if you paid us millions. No thanks to hysteria. DH had to get it thanks to the military and was pretty POed about it.
    And even the normal flu (cmon people, it's the flu, not ebola!) isn't that bad. The claimed 36,000 deaths per year are old, susceptible people. It's sad, but true. Oh and don't get me started about all the studies that show any flu shot is ineffective in children under 2 and the rest of the studies that show low efficacy rates... (please visist pubmed and start reading) And how nearly every year they get the mixture wrong (they always put 3 strains into it, trying to predict which one will hit, mostly it's a miss!).. It's a huge waste of money. I wish I had bought stock in Novartis and Merck and CO to make some money off of the hysteria. Will do when the next FLU hits.
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    Anna C. got a reaction from Jenn! in Education: No School. No Books. No Tests. The Kids Decide Their Fate   
    While I find unschooling weird, I'm glad parents can decide freely what they want for their families. I know many homeschoolers and their kids are way ahead of public school kids. I can't imagine that I ever have the patience to homeschool though, so private school it is for us.
    I bet that those unschooled kids learn WAY MORE than kids in public schools in California. My SIL and BIL (14 and 16) moved from CA to NC and suddenly, oh boy, they actually had to do something in school! Boy that was an adjustment! Then they moved back to San Diego and everything was easy peasy for them, they actually laughed how easy public school is in CA. And as far as socialization goes... No thanks to public schools. Bullying into drugs, sex and bullying in general... Great experience. My little SIL is being pressured by the rest to have sex too, it is crazy these days. I totally would never allow my kids to attend public school. Private school or if funds were low homeschooling.
    To the PP: AP is always completely misrepresented on TV and in other the media. That is why I thought 3 years ago as well it is all weird. It has nothing to do with being around the kids 24/7. Many working parents practice AP, and obviously, they are not around their kids all the time. It is about gentle discipline (aka no spanking or shaming, but actually working with your child on behaviour - doing the right things for the right reasons, and no these are not kids who get what they want, quite contrary actually), a big goal is breastfeeding (for health and social reasons, great bonding with mom), it is about preparing for pregnancy birth and parenthood, respond to your children appropriately and timely (aka not leaving a 4 week old baby to cry) and so on. It is nothing weird, in fact my parents were just like that minus breastfeeding and had never heard of AP. It just got labeled as such recently. Read more here: http://www.attachmentparenting.org/
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