Family Forum / Pregnancy / Pregnancy / July 2003

I am a new mom of a 6-week-old baby. I just start using cloth diapers from
disposables. I need some advice about that:
1. can I wash the cloth diapers with other baby clothes?
2. for dirty diaper, after wash away the poop, should I soak diapers with

Hi again.
I hope everyone's doing well out there!
A question:  My sister had a caesarian 2 weeks ago and is dying to get into
the bathtub for a soak...  Has enough time passed for it to be ok?

I posted a few weeks ago that my 4yo daughter had been scheduled for heart
surgery on 6/25 and that it had been postponed.  Well, they did the surgery
yesterday and she was moved out of the PICU this morning, a little more than
24 hours after the surgery (probably would have been ...

I'm a nervous wreck.  I'm 33 weeks and a month ago I had a routine CBC
test.  After the test, the doctor's office called to say I had a high
white blood cell count and they were going to re-do the test at my
next visit.  Well, my next visit was yesterday and I just found out

Well, I'm back after a great week and a half on and by the ocean. We
sailed to the rental cottage and did not stop for the night - a mistake!
Sailing by full moon *was* romantic, but not sleeping at all wasn't. DD
slept but woke up cranky and seasick, and soon the crew was in ...

Everything's fine although I did narrowly miss a trip to L&D. His heart
rate was steady in the 180's when my midwife checked. Too high.
She had me drink a bunch of water and sit in the waiting room for a bit
then check his heart rate again and then take a quicky look with the

I'm sorry it took me so long to write it (it's been almost 2 months).
Short version:
Stefan, May 19 2003 at 3:02 pm (PST)
7 lb 4 oz, 20 in

Hello! We've been away again and mean to go off tomorrow until the 21st,
so this is just a quick update. I'm feeling really guilty about not
having time to reply to any of the threads, but it can't be helped. But
I just have to say congratulations to Ericka for the birth of ...

I'm five months pregnant now and as every mother-to-be I've read all the
books about what's gonna happend to me during those nine months. Everybody
knows that increasing breasts are one of the earlier pregnancy syndroms. But
in my case it was quite different. I hadn't significant ...

Hi...another post on behalf of my low-tech wife:
My husband & I have been trying to get pregnant
for the last 6 months. I got off the birth control
pill in Jan'03 and we started trying since then. Since then,

I haven't been around for the past few days, because I had company in town
for our baby showers this past Saturday (which were very nice by the way--I
felt so special & honored!). Anyway, I'm still not posting much because two
of my sibs are still here. However, I did get to finish ...

My wife is 50.  I'm 52.  We've been happily married for 31 years and
have six "kids" aged 30, 28, 27, and 22 year old twins. (Finally we're
on our own again! More travel! More eating out!  More time for romance
and relaxing by the pool!!)

Been lurking since finding out my wife is pregnant with our first.
EDD is 3-14(pi day).  So far this has been an informative and
interesting group(aside from the inordinate amount of trolls on this
group).

I am curious.  I was just looking at the belly pix from Em, and I noticed
she is/was a lot bigger than me at 19 weeks.  I am just that now and I can
still hide my belly.  The sono doc didnt think I was pregnant and was
shocked to see the baby was the correct size, he said the size ...

I have a couple of fairly unrelated questions & I thought I'd finally just
lump them together in one post :-)
First, I have heard from a few people that it is a nice idea to "tip" one's
doula after the birth. I have heard of people doing that by just adding