Family Forum / Pregnancy / Pregnancy / August 2005

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Finally ready for delivery: midwives through Medicare
By Mark Metherell and Jacqueline Maley
Sydney Morning Herald August 16, 2005

Today I felt it necessary to clean off the dark dust (from
car exhaust, maybe?) that collects on the rails (painted white)
of our front porch.
Still pg,

I'm not pregnant yet but am hoping to be soon.
I have really gotten into lifting weights and running over teh past 6
months and I don't plan on stopping when I get pregnant.  I know there
are some guidelines that I should follow, like maximum heart rate, no

Is there a list somewhere of essential "starter gear" of what we'll need?
I'm afraid I'm going to go hog-wild shopping.  I have been shopping for used
items since I'm finding I can buy nearly new stuff for way way less.
So far I have:

I am breastfeeding DD (now 14 weeks) and my ''periods'' returned at 5 weeks post partum, then 9 weeks and again at 13 weeks.
The last period lasted 9 days (normal for me is 5-7 days) and now 5 days later have returned, redder and heavier than any period since her birth.
Advice ...

Well, I had a bleeding "incident" last night at 25 wks.  Bright red
blood, like my period.  Called the hospital and they told me to come
in.  Hooked up to monitors, and everything looked fine.  By then the
bleeding had stopped (none today either).  I didn't have a lot of blood

Today I had:
Dentist appointment (gums didn't bleed at all -- yay!)
U/S (Baby is head DOWN, growth and fluid both fine, still a boy ;-)
NST (Baby was quite rambunctious, all looks well)

I've always wanted to have my children close together.  2 years max age
gap.  DD1 is now 6 months old.  I had a difficult pregnancy that had me
in bed for 3 months with marginal placental previa, a Cesarian, and
another non-pregnancy injury that put me off of my feet for a month.

I went to my first Lamaze class this week with my large nation-wide HMO
and it was not nearly as bad as I had feared. The instructor didn't
talk down to us and was up front about the pain.
Todd Gastaldo will be very happy to hear that one of the first things

Still pregnant.  At least I got a good night's sleep.
And I feel a bit silly for pinning any hopes on going
at 36w6d ;-)
Emily

Seems like we haven't heard from her for a while...
I hope shes cuddling those two babies now, and finding
some way to get some sleep :-)
Emily

Mary Grace
born 8/10/05 at 6:14 am after three and a half hours of labor (!!) and
15 minutes of pushing
7 lbs. 3 oz.  19.25 in. long

Okay, where I left off yesterday… I just have to make it clear that
this is where my inner evil cranky foul mouthed thoughts took over my
mind when things or people started to annoy me. For the most part I
was in my own little space zoning on the labor when the contractions

Does anyone have any guidelines on expressing breast milk, in terms of when
to start expressing, and how much (to express)
Thanks in advance,
-Mike

(New thread started under new title, in hopes that thereby the OP in the
miscarriage thread, plus anyone else who doesn't want anything further
to do with this particular addition to life's nastiness, will be able to
avoid it.)