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~*~ NB Weekly Check In & Due Date List! ~*~
robyn2201
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Babies born since the last check in:
AndromedaEclipse and Luvmygoofyguy both had their little girls.
Congratulations Mommas!!!
*~!~!~* Question of the week *~!~!~*
What is your favorite NB book, blog or website?
Overdue momma's: How are you doing?
Official Due Date List:
If you would like to be added or if anything changes, please let me know!
06/25/12: EmmyPumpkin, Team Green (not by choice); hospital with GP.
06/26/12: PaulnSabrina, Team Blue, Hospital with an OB
06/28/12: Amber323, Team Blue, Hospital w/ MW
07/03/12: Caralck, Team Pink, Hospital w/ OB
07/07/12: Jazibel, Team Blue, Homebirth w/ MW
07/11/12: MrsPez07, Team Green, birth center w/ MW
07/09/12: jnoone, Team Green, Hospital with OB
07/16/12: KaytieLynne, Team Pink, hospital birth with MW
07/18/12: Seans_grl, Team Blue, Hospital w/ OB
07/23/12: alphahelix, Team Green, hospital with an OB
07/24/12: aylafsu88, Team Pink, Hospital with an OB
07/26/12: apple_green, Team Green, hospital with a MW
07/26/12: margaret_howell, Team Pink, Homebirth with MW
07/27/12: beckyjoy8, Team Green: Hospital with OB
07/28/12: mrs.vtjaime, Team Pink, Hospital with OB
08/01/12: Erin234, Team Blue, Hospital water birth w/ MW
08/05/12: alitria, Team Blue, Birth Center with MW/doula
08/05/12: Lissiealyssa, Team Blue, Birth center w/ MW
08/07/12:Pugznploons, Team Pink, Hospital birth
08/08/12: Ljanette85, Team Blue, Small Womens Hospital
08/19/12: Abbyful, Team Blue, Hospital Birth with OB
08/21/12: judahsmommy, Team Blue, hospital birth with OB
08/22/12: Spruce Grouse, team green, hospital with MW & high risk OB
08/23/12: Robbiesmommy, team green, hospital birth center w/ MW & doula
08/24/12: SHeins, Team Green, Hospital birth with an OB
08/25/12:jhunter89, Team Pink, Birth center with MW?s
09/02/12: allierhiana1, Team Pink, Hospital with OB and Doula
09/03/12: Chris&Kendra1, Team Pink,
09/08/12: Blackrose1918, Team Blue, Hospital with OB or Midwife
09/08/12: mstroud23, Team Green, Home birth with MW?s
09/08/12:cbj09, Team Blue, Hospital with midwives
09/12/13, Tinabean00, Team Blue, Hospital w/ MW
09/13/12: Kegallagh, Team Blue, Home birth with MW
09/17/12: Katiebug58. Team Blue, Hospital water birth w/ MW
09/21/12: Missintentional, Team Pink, Hospital with OB & Doula
09/26/12: MrsW101011, Team Blue, Hospital with OB
09/26/12: Superned, Team Green, Hospital with OB
09/27/12: amyyellowstone, Team Green, VBAC w/MW at birth center
09/27/12: Jennakg, Team Blue, Hospital with OB
09/30/12: Beh3e, Team Blue, Hospital birth with MW
10/11/12: jennyestelle, Team Blue, Home birth with a MW
10/14/12: tevagirl, Team Pink, Hospital w/ CNM
10/16/12: vegasbb, team blue, hospital with an OB
10/19/12: Kerrymeghan, Team Green, Hospital birth with MW
10/30/12: Nineoceans, Team Blue, Hospital w/ MW
11/02/12: Amberthehobbit, Team Blue, Home birth w/ MW
11/08/12:ICarriedAWatermelon, Team Blue, Hospital w/ Family Dr
11/21/12: littlemac1117, Team TBD, hospital waterbirth with MW
11/22/12: SoCoGirl, Team TBD, Hospital with an OB
12/05/12: farmerlynda, Team Green, Homebirth with MW
12/05/12: NoeliasV, Team TBD, Hospital birth OB or CNM
12/08/12: StefandTodd, team TBD, home birth with CNM
12/09/12: Bluvse, Team TBD, Hospital water birth w/ MW
12/11/12: Jmphi, Team TBD, Hospital water birth w/ MW
12/17/12: Sweettalkin417, Team TBD, Hospital with an OB
12/20/12: MissusTexas, Team green, Hospital birth with an OB
12/26/12: sschwege; Team Green; Hospital birth with CNM
12/31/12: AmyRI, team green, hospital birth with an OB
01/06/12: Noethola, Team TBD, Home birth with MW
1/17/13: Laurelbee, Team TBD, home birth with CNM
01/21/12: +Lisamarie+, Team Green, Birth center w/ MW
01/26/12: Jeffsgurl86, Team Green, Home birth with MW
02/15/12: Holly321, Team TBD, Hospital VBAC w/ OB
02/25/12: SecondaryPulse, Team Green, Homebirth w/ MW
Ivy: July 2010 | Stella: Dec 2012 | BFP#3: MMC at 11Wk's, July 2017 | Wyatt: April 2019 | BFP#5: Twin Girls due Sept 2020
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Re: ~*~ NB Weekly Check In & Due Date List! ~*~
Books I have enjoyed reading this pregnancy have been: Henci Goer's "The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth", parts of Pam England's "Birthing From Within", Jennifer Block's "Pushed" and "Ina May's Guide to Childbirth".
I'd like to be added!
EDD: Nov. 21, 2012, water birth, Natural Birth Center and Women?s Wellness
What is your favorite NB book, blog or website?
My fav book is Ina Mays guide to childbirth. I loved the stories at the beginning of the book. They were all very positive and encouraging, which as a FTM are the things I need to hear. I also liked that the second half of the book focused on the practical aspects of birth. It was very informative and helped me get over my fears about birth.
You can add me too!
Due 7/25/12 Team Blue
Water birth planned with midwife at an in-hospital birthing center
I'd love to be added.
EDD is 10/11/12. Planning a home water birth attended by MW. I'm team pink.
As for favorite book or blog, I'm not sure I have one yet. I love the following facebook pages and/or blogs: Mama Birth, Birth Without Fear, Banned from Baby Showers and Bring Birth Home. I haven't really read any books yet. I have a couple of parenting books I'm trying to get through before I switch gears.
Currently going through our second deployment. Can't wait for Zoe to meet her daddy!
I loved Ina May's Guide to Childbirth...but I'm looking even more forward to reading it again now that I've experienced childbirth once.
Curious if anyone has read her latest (I believe?) book Birth Matters?...I have it, ordered it while pg with my son, and never got around to reading it. Would love some motivation and encouragement to get to reading
I loved Ina May's book as well. Several others mentioned here. I'm about to check out some of the blogs PP mentioned. - Thanks for sharing. :-)
I bought it and read it almost immediately. It's more in depth on the medical interventions and issues they can cause> I saw an interview done with Ina May about it, and she stated it was more for the friends & family of the pregnant woman, but good for anyone to read. I thought it was great. As always, she has tons of information, and it's all backed up.
Ina May, hands down. And reading Birth Matters now!
May I be added?
Due 9/24/12, team blue, delivering at a hospital with an OBGYN.
I don't yet have a favorite blog or book resource for NB but my current favorite resource is my mom, who had five children. She had me and my first sister natural, my first brother started out natural but was an emergency C-section, my next brother was a natural VBAC and my youngest sister was going to be a natural breech delivery until my sister kicked her feet down during labor and was born via C-Section.
So my mom is just a wonderful resource because she's had so many different experiences and it's really comforting to be able to talk about each scenario that may happen, what her recovery was like for each and what her labor was like.
Sometimes, I'm hilarious.
I'm just getting started on our reading, but so far I really like Natural Hospital Birth.
I don't think I have a specific book, website, or blog, but I LOVE to look at newborn photography sites! I just love little babies so much - so adorable!
I'm not overdue, I just feel it
About 3 weeks left!! Good luck all you mommas!
I'm a lurker/newbie!
EDD: 9/23/12, Team Pink, Hospital birth with Midwife (we are delivering in the hospital her practice is affiliated with).
I've read Natural Birth the Bradley Way, and am working through Ina May's Guide to Child Birth and The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth. Ina May's stories are very motivational, and I like how the Bradley Method explains the purposes behind each feeling. It just goes well with my mindset and I am hoping to focus on thinking about my body doing what it was made to do versus the pain itself.
Planning to read The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding soon.
Just wanted to say I love this wall and how supportive everyone is of one another. I haven't spoken to many people about my plans to go natural. I'm a young mom (23) and any friends around my age with children just like to pass around their horror stories from labor, so I've pretty much kept my plans to myself in real life (except for DH and my midwife). You ladies are awesome!
Loved the Bradley book for NB prep.
More of a memoir, but Baby Catcher is an awesome book! It's the personal experiences of a midwife on the west coast. I couldn't put it down. Just a disclaimer...probably not for NB first-timers. She does have some pretty graphic stories in there.
Overdue and sooo sad! Baby come out!
Favorite book would be Jenny McCarthy's Belly Laugh's. It's really funny.
I loved this book too, lol!
Add me please! EDD 8/16/2012, team green, birth center with midwife and doula.
Update for us! (jmphi): We're team PINK! Yay!
And as for favorite NB books.... I think Ina May and "The Birth Partner:Everything You Need to Know to Help a Woman Through Childbirth" by Penny Simkin. The second book really helped my DH through the labor/delivery process of our first baby and he's reading it again so as to get in the mindset for this second pregnancy. It breaks down the process of labor while also highlighting the needs of the mother during labor. He says it helped him to feel more part of the process and allowed him to understand that the pains weren't bad, but rather a tool to get the baby here. We highly recommend!