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Birth Experience

Pregnancy Labor and Delivery: Pictures, the hospital stories, the nurse, and everything you wanted to know!

by Jane on August 3, 2009 · 52 comments

in Baby, Breastfeeding, Labor, Mother to be, Nausea

Finally, I found time to blog about my full labor and delivery story! It all started after a night trying to induce labor that was full of sex, sitting on the birthing ball, and eating pizza with pepperoni and pineapple.

Later that night, Tarzan and I fell asleep on the couch and love seat in the living room.

At 2 am I woke up to go to the bathroom and there was nothing unusual about that. I woke up again at 4 am to find my panties soaked and a circle of wetness that leaked onto the shorts I was wearing.

Hmm… Could this have meant that my water broke? I wasn’t sure.

I first noticed that it was a clear liquid, so no green there. (Yay!) I took a whiff to see if it smelled like urine and it didn’t. There was actually no smell to it. At this point, I was thinking that all signs were leading to the fact that my water [click to continue…]

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37 weeks pregnant: Finally saw “The Business of Being Born”

by Jane on July 5, 2009 · 12 comments

in Baby Cost, Cost of Baby, Doctor, Mother to be, Pregnancy Info, Pregnancy Week-By-Week

I watched The Business of Being Born at 37 weeks pregnant. I’ve heard about the Ricki Lake movie “The Business of Being Born” for some time now, but haven’t actually looked into watching it. The other night as I was scrolling down to see what was on tv I saw that the movie was coming on one of the movie channels so I was happy to get to watch it since I obviously wasn’t being proactive on finding the movie out on my own.

It sort of made me wish that I watched it earlier in my pregnant instead of waiting until I was 37 weeks pregnant. Oh well, what do you do?

I would recommend [click to continue…]

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Update to in-laws being in town for 2 weeks after baby Tarzan is born

by Jane on June 9, 2009 · 12 comments

in Baby, Father to be, Mother to be, Pregnancy Hormones

In-laws won't be here for the birth of the baby, but will come later. In January I posted about my in-laws wanting to be in town for 2 weeks after the baby was born. As you know I was not looking forward to this. At all.

Nothing against my in-laws at all, but I had a feeling that it wasn’t a good idea and then many of you confirmed that same thing with your comments.

As much as I thought it wouldn’t be the best experience for any of us, I did decide not to say anything to Tarzan about it. After all we are talking about his parents here and I would never want to be [click to continue…]

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Birth experience prediction for pregnant women

by Jane on January 4, 2009 · 6 comments

in Mother to be

There are so many different baby birth experience predictions for pregnant women online, and naturally I love seeing what they predict I will have. I know that it’s total b.s. and that there is a 50/50 chance of being correct, but it’s still fun.

Here’s what my birth experience prediction from Madame Zaritska said:

The day you deliver, outside will be sunny. Your baby will arrive in the afternoon.

After a labor lasting approximately 22 hours, your child, a girl, will be born. Your baby will weigh about 6 pounds, 14 ounces, and will be 17 inches long. This child will have blue eyes and some very fine hair.

If you want to find out what Madame Z predicts for you, take the test here.

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