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Top 50 Facebook Fan Pages for Parents

Posted by on December 10, 2010 Leave a Comment

Just a quick note…

We’ve been nominated in a fun web contest. We’d LOVE to be declared one of the top 50  Facebook fan pages for parents.

If you want to help us win:

  • Just go here.
  • Then, click the sort by alphabetical tab and find “Everything Birth.”
  • Then click the thumbs up like button by our nomination!

Thank you so much in advance, and as always, thank you for being the best web community a site could ever hope for!

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Post-Birth Suprises!

Posted by on August 24, 2010 Leave a Comment

There are a few things that no one ever told me about (or in my pregnant daze, I didn’t pay attention to) about those few days following the birth of a child. I don’t like being surprised, unless it’s with awesome things.

  • Labor is not over with the birth of your child. When your midwife or doctor mentions the part about delivering the placenta like it’s no big deal, listen carefully. I thought that something had gone wrong, because a few moments after I was done giving birth, I started having contractions again. It wasn’t nearly as strong as the ones that gave me my children, but delivering my placenta still involved a bit of pain and work on my part.
  • Furthermore, you continue to have contractions for days after birth. These feel much like the contractions of early labor. Not painful, but uncomfortable. Your uterus is shrinking back down. Oh! That leads me to what was my next big shocker…
  • After you deliver the baby, you still look about eight months pregnant. I had assumed that I would have to tone up. I assumed I would have flabby skin. I didn’t know I would look in the mirror for days and still look like I hadn’t yet delivered my baby. So, unless you want to be asked when you’re due, if you go out in public that first week, bring the baby.
  • If your vagina was beaten up fairly well by your child, it will hurt more about a week later. After calling my cousin, an OB nurse, in a panic when I suddenly started getting sharp pains in my groin and labia about five days after delivery, she told me that this was my nerves in my area finally turning back on. This is why a sitz bath with healing herbs instead of just warm water is preferred. It speed healing and is very soothing.

Do you have any big surprises to warn new moms about? I’d love to hear your stories!

Dawn Papple

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What’s in your Bag?

Posted by on June 28, 2010 Leave a Comment

One of the reasons I have been having the pangs to have another baby lately is due to the fact that I get to unpack the boxes at Everything Birth.  Crystal has been busting her bootie putting together the kits for  the Diaper Parties (more on those later).  So, she has been bringing in some of the newest, cutest, and if you ask me, the most practical cloth diapering supplies out there.

Along with all the cute new diapers are the accessories.  I want to touch on the topic of the wet bag.  I am blown away by the wet bag selection.  I only wish I could’ve had these bags when I was knee deep in the whole nappie world.

First and foremost, I have to bring up the reusable pail liner by Planet Wise. Everyone needs one of these.  I would have given my pinky finger in return to not wash out my diaper pail by hand.  Now with one of these amazing pail liners you can just slip it into the wash with the diapers.  WOW!!  Sign me up.

Planet wise also has a hanging wet bag that comes in the most beautiful prints.  No more ugly five gallon pail in the corner.  No way.  This bag makes your dirty diaper containment unit something pleasing on the eyes.  It even has a large zippered pocket on the outside, so you can carry clean and dirty diapers all in one bag.  Great for bringing on vacation.

Now let’s touch on the  tried and true Bummis wet bag.  Bummis still makes their top notch waterproof tote with the drawstring top.  It is available in sizes small all the way up to xx-large.  Even after your diapering needs are all through, these bags will be going off to college with your child.  That is how durable and useful they are.

Bummis now is now offering the Fabulous Wetbag.  It comes in small and medium, and it is in all of the vibrant prints and colors as their Superbrite diaper covers.

Now my question is, Can I really justify having a baby just so I can get all of the cool diapering gear that is available now a days?  I will answer that question now with a no, but I sure am tempted.

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Risked Out.

Posted by on June 25, 2010 Leave a Comment
    A safe and healthy birth is what is most important to us here at Everything Birth.  We do encourage childbearing women to make informed choices and never compromise the health of herself or the baby she is carrying.
    Less than 2 percent of American women birth at home.  And when you ask most women why they want to birth in a hospital, the most stated reason is safety.  Although, there is no data supporting the fact that you are safer in the hospital as long as you are low risk, your homebirth is planned, you will have a trained birth attendant, and you have a modern hospital within a reasonable distance.
    When you start your process of putting together a birthplan you should remain open and accepting of changes that may occur along the way.  If you do choose to have a homebirth you should only work closely with a trained birth professional.  Someone who is in support of normal birth.  Someone who believes that the majority of women can labor and give birth to their babies with a minimum of intervention.
    Being risked out of a homebirth is something that does and can happen.  High blood pressure, and the baby coming early are two risk factors that would send you down the path to the hospital.  Depending on the advisement of your birth attendant, a previous cesarean may not be a risk factor.   Going to the hospital is not the end of the world.  Medical support is there for a reason when you need it.
    You should rethink your decision to birth at home if you have any risk factors, do not have a trained birth attendant, or you think you will want pain medications.    Here is the dilemma, on the one hand, having a hospital nearby should there be a problem may make a difference.  On the other hand, a low risk woman runs risks in a typical hospital that she wouldn’t at home.  A trained midwife would be able to spot potential complications early, be able to head  most of them off, and she wouldn’t potentially be causing complications by inappropriate use of procedures, drugs, and restrictions.
    Bless,
    Jessica
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Thanks for your Donations!

Posted by on February 4, 2010 Leave a Comment

I was packing birth kits and orders today and almost all of them had donations to our Midwifery Cause of the Month.  Every day I am still overwhelmed by the stories I hear from Haiti.  We all want to help.  When you donate to Midwives for Haiti, you can be sure that you are helping the women and babies in a part of the world that is devistated.

We are still accepting donations for newborn packs.

You can donate old baby items for our newborn packs.  Currently we are collecting baby hats, onesies, receiving blankets, booties, prefold diapers and diaperpins.  Please check your closets, many of us have a few of these things tucked in the back from many years ago, some of got 40 new receiving blankets at a baby shower that we know we won’t use.  Some of us have 48 prefolds we are still using, but can give one up to help a mom who has NO diapers at all.  If you wouldlike to participate in this drive, please send your items to:

Everything Birth Inc.

c/o Haiti Baby Packs

PO Box 66781
Falmouth, Maine 04105

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