January 8, 2009 at 10:52 pm | Pregnancy
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Just over a week into the new year and I have no idea how to achieve my resolution of bringing balance to my life. Perhaps if I had a full night’s rest I could think clearly enough to plot my course of action. Alas, we have been dealing with multiple night wakings and truncated sleep patterns for about a year now.
So, I’ve decided I must first take action to get more sleep. After that, we’ll talk about balance. Sleep first, a sane way of living next! This is only made slightly more difficult since Gianna is cutting two new teeth at the moment, and has been communicating her pain very clearly for the past week. (I’m trying to sound detached about how much sleep I’ve lost in the past 7 nights. Is it working?)
Anyway, we began the sleep shuffle last night and will stay the course until Gianna is either Ferberized or has her days and nights mixed up again, having stayed awake all night and refusing to sleep until morning, whichever comes first. Last night she cried for two hours and after one hour we were both so exhausted we just let her hang out in her crib, listening to the sound of her humidifier accompanying her cries. She was asleep an hour later.
Today, the naps have been a battle to the death and I’m the one showing my battle scars, not her. She cries for about five minutes after I put her down for a nap and then babbles and whines for the next hour. I never once even peek my head in to see what she’s up to in there and still she cannot find sleep. I think Ferber has met his match. I know I have. We’re giving it a week to try out the strategy and I’m nothing if not stubborn enough to see this through. But, as of today the future for sleep in our house looks bleak.
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Balance Shmalance
January 8, 2009 at 10:00 pm | Pregnancy
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In the last post, women are not getting the best maternity care, we looked at some negative findings from the 2008 Milbank Report: Evidence-Based Maternity Care report. The gist is that women and babies are still experiencing too many unnecessary labor and birth interventions.
While interventions continue to rise, research says that the following practices will [...]
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How to have fewer labor and birth interventions
January 8, 2009 at 7:13 pm | Pregnancy
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The 2008 Milbank Report: Evidence-Based Maternity Care is currently available for downloading or you can browse topics from this report online. It’s a long, scientific read, but if you’re a expecting a baby this year, it’s at least worth a good browse.
Key findings:
In spite of evidence that says women should be allowed to labor [...]
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Women are not getting the best maternity care
January 8, 2009 at 2:00 pm | Pregnancy
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I once helped my Dad research our family tree. Life certainly happened before contraception! We found one great-great-grandmother of ours who had children over a 28 year span - from age 18 to age 46!
And she was far from the only one having children over 40 back then.
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G-G-grandmother had 28 children by 46
January 8, 2009 at 2:00 pm | Pregnancy
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I once helped my Dad research our family tree. Life certainly happened before contraception! We found one great-great-grandmother of ours who had children over a 28 year span - from age 18 to age 46!
And she was far from the only one having children over 40 back then.
Recent Keyword Searches: pregnancy or perimenopause, age 46 pregnancy, pregnancy at 46, pregnancy after age 48, pregnant at 51
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G-G-grandmother had 28 children by 46
