Posts by newveggie

Daniels girlfriend is Rebecca! I know cause I added them all on my facebook since I'm a BL junkie :).

Anyways I am rooting for Amanda and I want Liz to go. I can't stand Liz. You should watch where she took the blenders from everyone. Its a behind the scene on week 7 i think. I will get the link and post it.

I guess I will share my experience too... if you have a choice of Aetna I would chose them. I have never been covered under anyone else except a college program (ugh) and I LOVE Aetna. (Well beside the fact that they are still an insurance company).

They are great about taking claims, they send you (promptly) a statement that says who they paid and how much, and also how much that provider is allowed to bill you. And if there are mistakes (which I have only had one, and it was the hospitals fault) they are super quick to correct. Not once have had a fight with them.

Every other insurance company I have heard mixed reviews about, and most people I know have BCBS and they don't like it because they don't cover much unless you have a super expensive plan, and even then you must jump through hoops. (I am just quoting what I have heard from others, I dont have specific examples off the top of my head right now).

Calorie count wrote a blog or email or something about this saying that they changed the equation they were using... I'll have to find it unless someone had it on hand. I can't do it right now but I can later.  So your new burn meters are based on the different equation.

I don't work, but that doesn't make my sleep any less important (in my eyes!) Its just that my husband works 12 or 13 hour days sometimes and he really does need sleep. Not to mention that I did try letting him feed her --- it kept both of us up! She usually falls asleep in my arms after she is done eating, so he could not figure out how to get her back to sleep.

We did swaddle up until about 8 weeks. She doesnt like it now and I can not keep her in the tightest of swaddles. She can break out of them. She just turned 18 weeks, and is doing all sorts of new things. She has mastered like 3 things in the last 2 weeks (rolling back to front and front to back, reaching/grabbing objects, sucking on her feet). Oh and the squealing of laughter, the cutest thing. EVER.

Does anybody do schedules/routines and does it work?

DoE - it seems like eternity has passed since my ultrasound. my little bean measured 5 days bigger at her ultrasound, but I have been spot on every week. I have had the "text-book" pregnancy so far, except the morning sickness which I got pretty severely until 30 weeks.

I have had contractions since Thursday, and cramps... but nothing timeable. I am just going to ignore them until I can't. Are you going to take a childbirth class? I haven't even looked - is this your first? It's my first.  We took Bradley classes and I loved them.

Thank you for the labor dust, I need plenty of it. Maybe a moutain of dust!

If you can not get your hubby to agree to vasectomy, look up the "Essure" procedure as an alternative to tubal litigation. I read a lot about this procedure and it sounds pretty good as far as female sterilization goes.

I don't want to sound rude, but please read. Read before posting things insinuating that I am not going to vaccinate my child. I said I WILL VACCINATE MY BABY, I just don't like the way it's currently done, and would like SOME of the vaccinations a little later then they currently do them.

The vitamin K shot and they eye ointment are not vaccinations. The vitamin K shot is given to all newborns in the rare occurrence that the baby has a hemorrhage, but there are also studies showing this shot can cause cancer. The occurrence of the hemorrhage is 1.8 in a 100,000 births, and the baby's levels of vit k will rise to adult levels just 8 days after birth.

The eye ointment is given to protect against eye infections in newborns born to mothers with gonnerhea or chlamydia, but is given to ALL newborns whether the mother has these diseases or not. It does cause eye irritation and blurs the baby's vision for a few days. As for the hep b vaccination, I will refuse this for my newborn because this disease is a blood disease that either I would have to give to my newborn, or he or she would get through sexual transmition or needle transmition. My child can get this vaccination when he/she is older, there is no need to do it when the baby is only a few hours old.

Your baby is beautiful and so is your birth story. You are obviously an amazing woman. I love reading birth stories, especially natural ones because it gives me hope that I can do it too!