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When you're pregnant you are probably spending some time thinking about your upcoming labor. What are your options? What are your plans? You might be thinking through all the different scenarios, and trying to decide what you might do in any given situation.You may have already spoken with your partner, and the people you have invited to your birth, trying to work out what might happen. Of course you won't know until you're in the middle of it, but that doesn't stop us from wondering.

So, last night my daughters (1,4) and I watched Orgasmic Birth during PinkPeas movie night.  It was a great movie depicting normal birth.  Isabela, my four year old will surely be a midwife by the time she is twelve.  She helped to catch her baby sister and has stated that she does not need our midwives help in catching this baby.  She enjoys listening to "baby sounds" and palpating moms bellies during prenatal times.  She loves watching birth videos and asks for them at home like other children ask for their favorite cartoon.  She is a birth advocate

As you may have deduced, the Pinkpeas providers are opposed to circumcision, though we do not wish to come across as *strongly* opposed.   We urge parents to make informed and careful parenting choices.  In other words, as long as you are making an knowledgeable and well considered choice to torture, mutilate and scar your baby, we will still be friends.  Even though we would be right and you would be wrong.  [Note for the humor impaired

Tomorrow, October 15th, is the National Day of Remembrance for Pregnancy and Infant Loss.  You are invited to light a candle on October 15th at 7 pm in all time zones all over the world. If everyone lights a candle and keeps it burning for at least one hour, there will be a continuous wave of light over the entire world on October 15th. The candle burns in loving memory of our babies.

www.october15th.com

Our daughter Isabela was born September 14, 2004. Isabela was born in the hospital. We had the best hospital birth experience one could pray to have and we will never do it again God willing! I like to say that we really just paid to rent the room at the hospital, they left us alone for the most part which is exactly what we wanted. For that money we could have had her at the Four Seasons!

So, here is Liliana's birth story as written by my amazing wonderful midwife Corrine, I love hearing it from your perspective! I will preface it by saying this was our first homebirth, our amazing daughter Isabela was born naturally in the hospital. My husband will say that the most powerful aspect of our homebirth as compared with our hospital birth was how empowered we were as parents.

Here is my yeast treatment plan.  See the end of this plan for links to the "experts" pages on Thrush / Yeast. 

I consider the first three items (***) to be mandatory, the others are optional.  All remedies listed are compatible. 

***Gentian violet - ½% solution topically - 2x/day for 7 days***

Today is the 12th birthday of my first baby. My husband, Frank and I were 20 years old when she was born. He was in the Air Force and we lived at Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas. All of our family was back home in San Diego, Ca. So, we were on our own to experience this new adventure of becoming parents.