A beautful birth!! A perfect little boy!!! I got to do all the hot compresses, pernieal support...and help catch the baby!! He is breastfeeding like a champ. Ahhhh...all is well in my doula world.

...was exhausted but had a great time. After I wrote my last post, I spent the night dozing on and off, half expecting a call telling me to come to Hope.  I dreamt all night (during my dozes) that the birth went so quickly that she just had the baby at home, and that it was a boy.  I was awfully off on the weight though, since in my dream he only weighed 2 pounds.  In the morning, I called to check...

...Lucile, she liked it and I became Sarah Lucile Drewing. My grandmother Sarah gave me a white tablecloth with hand hem stitching around the hem for being her namesake. I still have it in 2001. My birth date and place of birth was 6 Sept. 1916 on the farm my parents had bought in 1912 or 1913. they moved there when my brother Albert was a baby, he was born 3 Feb. 1913. I am the only one of their...

My doula client is in early labor that has been doing the start and stop thing for the last 24 hours. I really hope she has her baby before Halloween. OH PLEASE powers of birth, let it be today, let it be fast, let it be without complications, let us have great staff....let breastfeeding go well....oh puuhhllleaaaze!!!

I'm on babywatch!  My sister-in-law is due on October 29 and has asked me to doula for her.  She's called tonight to let me know that contractions MIGHT be happening about every 15 minutes apart.  It's...since I am pretty wired right now. Diapers in the dryer, the house asleep (other than one nervous husband).  I've prepped everything that I can think of... including some disposable diapers!  Poor guy

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Somehow, Lillian sprouted two more teeth without me realizing it. I noticed it last night when she grinned at her Daddy. Suddenly my eyes nearly bugged out of my head. I knew she had been teething recently...and it seems like forever all at once. In fact, five months ago to this very day (and hour, almost) we finally brought her home from the hospital. Has it REALLY been that long? Time flies.

She is the most beautiful baby girl ever. About 11 hours of labor, 2 hours of pushing. 8 lbs., 3 oz. and birth, went down to about 7 lbs., 10 oz. 23 in. long. 8/9 on Apgar scores. I tore. Horribly. It's painful to sit, painful to stand, painful to everything. I suck at breastfeeding, and have done horrible, horrible things like suplementing with formula for my colostrum because I'm so sore and she...

E bentrovati con una nuova puntata della LoD!!! Ce l’ho fatta finalmente!! :-DD Proseguono le avventure di Sibilla… come sarà stata la vostra scelta la volta scorsa?? La sottoscritta è lieta...lupo! ;-) Buon weekend!! Ah, se qcuno di voi x caso lunedì sera sarà al Festival del Cinema di Roma me lo dica… ci faccio una toccata-e-fuga x un film che mi interessa, magari ci becchiamo!! ^___^

Finn's first day was a hard day. Robin opted for a home birth and all went well until the end, when Finn wasn't breathing and needed resuscitation. He's staying in the hospital for the time being for observation but should be home soon. One photo here , and more to come.