Monday
Jun202011
Monday Open Thread
Monday, June 20, 2011 at 1:56PM
By popular request (actually, it was just one person on Facebook), I give you Monday Open Thread.
Today’s host: Summertime.
What’s happening?
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I just attended a kick ass home birth of a 10lb 2oz baby girl. YAY!
I am in the process of getting an Ican chapter in Ne ks
Hey Rachel! We have our first Wichita ICAN meeting tomorrow. Good Luck to you guys!
Yay!!!
Off the birth/CS topic, but I recently created a blog about my experiences with (open)adoption. And I am looking for ideas about what to write about and to even see if there is an interest. Mostly it will just be me venting and babbling about my adoption experiences, and hopefully allowing others to participate in the discussion as well.
If anyone is interested please check it out:
http://onemoreday-adoption.blogspot.com/
Thanks!
I just need a quick secret off facebook and twitter moment to say...
Sometimes people with one tiny infant, no other children, and far too many opinions about parenting make me want to punch my computer.
That is all.
LilRedMommy: I'm an adoptive mother from an open adoption (a kinship adoption). I've also been a foster parent. I never take for granted the importance of birth parents. They are forever an undeniably important part of that child's life and history. Thank you for making a choice that transcends your own well-being. I hope your position is respected and appreciated by your son's adoptive parents. ((((hugs))))
No socks with sandals? How else are we to deal with the 60-degree swing between temperatures in fall here in Texas? Also, I'd rather see socks than man-feet.
Meanwhile, the evil sun is killing my veggie garden. That's it, I'm moving to Canada. Thanks to global warming, it'll probably have mild winters by the time I'm 60.
Dana, thanks so much! Its been hard in the past (and probably will be again) but being able to see my son once a year really helps me. I hate to be shamelessly self promoting, but I just figured I would try to garner interest anywhere I can. I love this community, so this was my first thought. I am hoping to help myself with some self-discovery and hopefully help others along the way (but it will be worth it to me even if it just helps my process).
LilRedMommy... your wish for promotion is my command.
emjaybee wrote: "I'd rather see socks than man-feet"
Excellent point. See you in Canada.
Emjaybee: The continually bouncing between 80+ and approximately 40 degree temps are freaking the mess out of our plants. Our carrots...do not exist, and our strawberries grow about one a week. Bah. We're going to have a hell of a radish crop, though.
Personally, I am theoretically planning a visit home, while actually avoiding planning entirely through the canning of strawberry jam and pesto. YUM!
I am just started a birth community in my area! We have been lacking this for so long and I am super excited to get it started. Come check it out!
http://arklahomabirth.blogspot.com/
Hooray for open threads!
I just had the u/s anatomy scan this morning, 21w. It is flying by.
I'm also interested in solid resources on pelvic floor health. I have a (hopefully unfounded) fear that my lower vital organs are going to come flying out after the placenta this time around. TIA.
I also just entered my husband in the iPod2 raffle-- fun idea for a great cause. He'll crap himself with excitement to get it.
Rachel, that is so exciting! Seems like you were just newly pregnant last week.
I sincerely hope you hang on to your innards. :)
Thanks, on both counts. :)
@emjaybee: the last couple winters in Montreal have actually been colder and stormier than they had the few years before... don't think they're really getting milder. They're getting crazier + we're getting extreme heat in the summer. That is, unless you go way up north! ; )
I'm gearing up to leave beautiful Montreal and Canada at the end of July. Baltimore awaits!
So I have a question. Once my water broke and I started pushing (occurred at almost the same time), my daughter's heart rate dropped. It was 60s/70s/ during contractions and 100 in between. Oxygen did not help her heart rate. Once she was born, she was incredibly pink, Apgars of 9 and 10. My first thought upon seeing her was that she was so pink! Pinker than when my son was born without any decels. We are assuming that the cord was being pinched between her shoulder and my pelvic bone. I'm just wondering how it was possible for her to be so pink and transition so well with such low heart tones for an extended period of time (we were awaiting transfer...the heart tones were like this for probably 30 minutes.)