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skintchick

jillie1974 wrote: »

sorry skintchick...
EWWWWW :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

That's OK. It's natural to be weirded out by things when you don;t understand them. You salt it and put it in a bag, it's not dragging on the floor behind you leaving a trail!! Seems much more natural to me than cutting immediately, but I may compromise and just cut after a few hours. I want an entirely natural third stage anyway.

Krystaltips

Well I know where my cat is... He spent the night at the RSPCA emergency hospital in Birmingham... They think he was hit by a car

Can't do anything at the minute either... Tried to get a lift there from my Mum today but apparently going to buy bits for her husbands Harley Davidson is more important today... Hubby's going to get the bus over tomorrow and take his cushion for him to sleep on but they won't release him until Tuesday when we can take him to a private vet... And they also won't treat him more than fluids/painkillers... They think he might have injured his pelvis because he's sitting funny... We're hoping it's just bruised and some quiet days might be enough... It's even worse because A) we were just discussing getting him insured but hadn't actually done anything about it and I'm pretty sure we're elligible for a tiny amount of council tax benefit but was waiting for the tax credit award to apply... If we were already on it we could go to the PDSA hospital for free treatment... <Sigh> at least we have the pushchair money to tide us over for now...

skintchick

Oh no! I hope he's OK Krystal. Poor cat.

(((hugs)))

SugarSpun

We'll be babywearing too. We weren't sure what sort to go for so we bought some second hand ones to test out to see what we'd like. We ended up each really liking the same one, it's kind of bag shaped rather than a long length of cloth so we each have one in a different size. It's good up till they're about 2, it says.

We're cutting the cord though, and I'm going to give birth at the clinic. My mother and grandmother had two emergency births, and I'd prefer to be around medical intervention in case something goes wrong. If everything goes well, I'd like a home birth in future, but I'm a little bit worried about the first time.

The clinic does offer homeopathy and acupuncture as pain relief. I'm interested in the acupuncture, but I also like that they have an anaesthetist on call just in case

Edit: Krystal, that's awful! I hope he's just bruised and shaken, how scary for you.

jillie1974

aw hope he's ok Krystal.
one of mine cane home a few weeks ago limping really bad. as it was late at night we decided to leave him over night, as comfy as we could make him and take him straight away the next morning. he wasnt miaowing with pain but more if you went near his leg. the next morning he was a lot better, wanted to go out and promptly jumped over the fence. we think he may have badly landed and bruised it.

tarajayne

skintchick wrote: »

but you have to potty train at some point - why not do it earlier rather than later? THat's my thinking on it.

The idea wasn't created, it is what people have done naturally for centuries, and still do in many cultures. It's nappies that are weird, in that sense, and a created idea. (Backed up by the lucrative nappy industry who encourage us to use them and present them as the only option, similar to the formula food industry.)

Of course, every mum chooses for herself what she wants to do, but EC isn;t a new idea by any means, it's an ancient one.

I potty trained once they understood the concept of what they needed to do, it ranged from 20mths right up to almost 3 years old. DS2 just couldn't be bothered. Just don't make life to complicated, in our modern world there seem to be too many things that we have to do so if it's not an essential I try to leave it out. I totally get the concept of baby sign language, that fascinates me.

jillie1974

skintchick wrote: »

That's OK. It's natural to be weirded out by things when you don;t understand them. You salt it and put it in a bag, it's not dragging on the floor behind you leaving a trail!! Seems much more natural to me than cutting immediately, but I may compromise and just cut after a few hours. I want an entirely natural third stage anyway.

i guessed it would be in a bag. just trying to picture it??
off to google it now.

jha

hello ladies and bumps - its good news from me - spotting and cramping had stopped :jand my hgc levels must be rising as i am starting to feel a bit iffy (sick) :jso a bit more hopeful that this bean might stick.

skintchick

SugarSpun wrote: »

We'll be babywearing too. We weren't sure what sort to go for so we bought some second hand ones to test out to see what we'd like. We ended up each really liking the same one, it's kind of bag shaped rather than a long length of cloth so we each have one in a different size. It's good up till they're about 2, it says.

We're cutting the cord though, and I'm going to give birth at the clinic. My mother and grandmother had two emergency births, and I'd prefer to be around medical intervention in case something goes wrong. If everything goes well, I'd like a home birth in future, but I'm a little bit worried about the first time.

The clinic does offer homeopathy and acupuncture as pain relief. I'm interested in the acupuncture, but I also like that they have an anaesthetist on call just in case

Edit: Krystal, that's awful! I hope he's just bruised and shaken, how scary for you.

I haven;t decided on a sling yet - there's so much choice! I have a frfiend who knows loads about them so am going to ask her.

Tara - I forgot to say about baby signing, I'll be doing that as well!


Jillie - if I can find some good links I'll edit and post them here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Birth
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLR_enGB312&q=lotus+birth

jillie1974

ok have read some storeis and seen some pictures.

http://birthlove.cyclzone.com/pages/stories/jenny_benjamin.html


still seems a bit weird. but i can understand that this is probably the natural way and would have been so for 1000's of years.
not for me but i have learnt something new today. thanks skintchick.

(i may just use this to scare the bejesus out of oh tonight)