Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Perfectly Pregnant: I'm back...
Perfectly Pregnant: I'm back...: WOW, that's all I can say! WOW to the pregnancy and WOW to the birth. I am going to update you all on how it all turned out and provide lo...
I'm back...
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Movie Madness
So yesterday I went to a casting call for pregnant women needed for a movie shooting in town next month. It was the biggest cluster fuck I've ever been apart of! They tell all the pregnant women to be there @11am but advertise all over town for an open casting call to start at 10am for everyone else. So I get there and thousands of people are waiting in line in the hot humid Atlanta heat, the line is out the Hotel door and wraps around the parking deck floors several times. There is no circulating air in the parking deck and now you have pregnant women and toddlers & babies in a very uncomfortable situation. WTF were they thinking? I stood in line for about half hour and moved about 12 feet so I decided to go in the lobby to find a bathroom cause pregnant women need to drink a lot then in return pee often (note to self casting company). The lobby is a mad house, if the fire dept showed up they would had shut the Hotel down. There is one bathroom in the lobby with 2 stalls, arn't you supposed to supply adequate bathrooms when staging events, where were the port-a-potty's? SO after I waited in line another 20 min to pee there was no way I was going to get back in the line outside. I pushed my way to the front of one line which led me to eventually get into 3 more separate holding area lines. So at the finish line of this mess was a small room with 2 women taking a general form from you and ONE photographer snapping your pic. Seriously, that is your professional master plan for casting. So after 2 hrs I was on my way and really thought about calling the police on the whole gig for human endangerment! It was so hard to get in and out of that lobby if there was an emergency no medics could get in, people would had been crushed by a stampede. And to remind you again 95% of the people there were pregnant or under the age of 3. So there is my rant, pregnant women need cool spaces with seating, food and bathrooms when asked to be somewhere for a long duration. Shame on you film industry if you think that was acceptable!!!!
Friday, June 17, 2011
Perfectly Pregnant: Made In Water
Perfectly Pregnant: Made In Water: "Surprise, I just walked down into the basement and my husband has blown up my birthing tub:) Its exciting and kind of weird to see. I hone..."
Made In Water
Surprise, I just walked down into the basement and my husband has blown up my birthing tub:) Its exciting and kind of weird to see. I honestly have not looked at in in over 3 yrs sense my daughter was born in it. I asked him to pull it out to make sure it was still usable, clean it out, etc. If my daughter sees it now she may want to swim in it:)
My water birth experience was great! Granted I was in the tub way too long but ladies if you are looking for a way to ease your labor w/o drugs this is the answer. It literally is a water epidural. I had to get out several times to use the bathroom and had a contraction each time and the only thing I could think of was running back to that tub. The difference of having a contraction in & out of it is a complete 180. I don't know why all home birthers don't use a tub, I don't know how they do it! If you have ever had PMS cramps or achy muscles, etc and gotten in a nice hot tub to relieve it, that's what I'm talking about. Not only does the weightlessness take all the stress of your body but the warm water sooths it as well. Plus I was just able to get in positions not really looked at as an option if not done in water for any lengths of time. And, your baby comes out all nice and clean w/o having to bath it taking all the good natural moisturizer off if it.
I had to birth my placenta outside of the tub which was not as pleasant of a situation, so I understand the difference between pushing with & w/o it. I feel like a water birth spokes person but that's how highly I recommend a water birth. Here is the one I used and can't wait to birth baby #2 in it!
http://www.madeinwater.co.uk/
My water birth experience was great! Granted I was in the tub way too long but ladies if you are looking for a way to ease your labor w/o drugs this is the answer. It literally is a water epidural. I had to get out several times to use the bathroom and had a contraction each time and the only thing I could think of was running back to that tub. The difference of having a contraction in & out of it is a complete 180. I don't know why all home birthers don't use a tub, I don't know how they do it! If you have ever had PMS cramps or achy muscles, etc and gotten in a nice hot tub to relieve it, that's what I'm talking about. Not only does the weightlessness take all the stress of your body but the warm water sooths it as well. Plus I was just able to get in positions not really looked at as an option if not done in water for any lengths of time. And, your baby comes out all nice and clean w/o having to bath it taking all the good natural moisturizer off if it.
I had to birth my placenta outside of the tub which was not as pleasant of a situation, so I understand the difference between pushing with & w/o it. I feel like a water birth spokes person but that's how highly I recommend a water birth. Here is the one I used and can't wait to birth baby #2 in it!
http://www.madeinwater.co.uk/
Perfectly Pregnant: Common Sense~
Perfectly Pregnant: Common Sense~: "If you or your family is sick sometimes you need to lean on your instincts and common sense to solve the problem. If the symptom is repetit..."
Common Sense~
If you or your family is sick sometimes you need to lean on your instincts and common sense to solve the problem. If the symptom is repetitive rashes, ear aches, nausea, etc.... something is not right. Once its a fluke, 2x a coincidence, 3x its a pattern. I experienced this myself over the past few weeks. I had a series of dizzy spells 3 days in a row, after the 3rd I seeked help. Now I realize most conventional pregnant women may call their OB after the first one but sense I don't have an OB and instinctively knew it wasn't serious enough to go sit in a DR. office, pay a co-pay, get a series of tests done and wait for results leading to further stress I waited.
After seeking help from an acupuncturist I know I made the right decision. I understand why many may not go that route, Money, Time & Fear of the unknown being the most common reasons I presume. But I feel more comfortable with a couple dozen tiny needles sticking out of me then an ultrasound. Money, yes it costs more due to lack of insurance options with Eastern medicine. Time, same amount of time as a Dr's office, you wait less and are cared to more so the time of the visit evens out. Fear, well that is a personal situation, my fear is the unknown of medical interferences repercussions on my unborn baby, some peoples fear is of needles, to each his own!
I have yet to do this, but keeping a medical diary of you and your family is probably going to save you a lot of Money, Time & Fear! If your child has an ear infection, had one last month and maybe a few months prior, to me that is a pattern. And just for the record, I hate the overly diagnosed ear tube fix, its a fix to the symptom not the problem!
After seeking help from an acupuncturist I know I made the right decision. I understand why many may not go that route, Money, Time & Fear of the unknown being the most common reasons I presume. But I feel more comfortable with a couple dozen tiny needles sticking out of me then an ultrasound. Money, yes it costs more due to lack of insurance options with Eastern medicine. Time, same amount of time as a Dr's office, you wait less and are cared to more so the time of the visit evens out. Fear, well that is a personal situation, my fear is the unknown of medical interferences repercussions on my unborn baby, some peoples fear is of needles, to each his own!
I have yet to do this, but keeping a medical diary of you and your family is probably going to save you a lot of Money, Time & Fear! If your child has an ear infection, had one last month and maybe a few months prior, to me that is a pattern. And just for the record, I hate the overly diagnosed ear tube fix, its a fix to the symptom not the problem!
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