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Haha! I am exactly the same. If I try to limit anything in pregnancy I will start craving that one thing like a monster! In my first pregnancy I tried to avoid peanut butter because I read if you have a family history of allergies and eat a lot of P.B then there is more chance your baby will have a PB allergy. It was brutal! All I wanted to eat was peanut butter on toast. It lasted about 1 week and then went out the window!!
yeah, you might want to ask on babyfit or baby center.  BUT one of my best friends didn't breastfeed either of her kids. She is Indonesian (we live in Canada) and for her it was for cultural reasons. She said she didn't want "everyone looking at her" , she is Christian which is a minority in a muslim country, they don't cover up like the muslim women and I think she felt "looked at" just as a christian growing up so the idea of feeding her baby from her breast seemed...
I am on a facebook group now that is for women who are having a vbac (possibly after multiple c-sections) and its really amazing and supportive. Even though many of the women might be quite "mainstream" they realized that by just going to the hospital and getting x-y-z done it all led to their usually unnecessary c-sections so they are really educating themselves and choosing a way less invasive and natural birth for baby #2 +. Its really interesting.  Anyway! welcome to...
Yes, I wonder that too. With my midwife, the weighing part is completely optional. The scale is outside the office in the hall actually. I always get weighed because I don't have a scale at home and I find it interesting but I wouldn't worry about it. I went through my first pregnancy in Japan where my OB and the midwives there were like nazi's when it came to weight gain. They would put a big red stamp in your monthly prenatal book if you gained more than 1kg in a month...
Witch hazel spray is awesome for those first days after delivery especially if you have any stitches. My midwives had me take a sits bath 2x a day in some kind of herbal tea. They just gave me a big bag of dry herbs. I really need to contact them to ask what they were.
At my last midwife appt at 23 weeks I was up 21 lbs but I started out at 120 , 5'8". I gained 40lbs in my last pregnancy and lost it quickly so I am not worrying about it, I just feel like I am not active enough. I can't wait till it gets a bit warmer!
There is no problem with the french speakers. I am from Cape Breton, an island in the north of Nova Scotia. And any "a" turns into a hard drawn out nasal Ayyyy. So Eitan would be "Ay-tayn"kind of gross. 
My home birth midwives for my last birth told me the most important thing to prevent hemmorage was to keep your iron levels really high. My iron is on the low side of normal usually so I took floridix throughout my pregnancy. All seaweeds are also amazing sources of iron. 
Eitan is a common Hebrew name pronounced (ay-tan)It means " strong" It is one of our options, but I am afraid that everyone from where I am from will pronounce it like crap.Eitan
I feel like dealing with a baby is going to be a breeze compared to the B.S my 3.5 year old is putting me through these days. He is SO particular and the smallest thing sets him off on a huge tantrum. Today for example...typical morning. I take out the bowls for their cereal, he says "NO! I want the pink bowl" "I explain the pink bowl is dirty in the dishwasher, he can choose another one" ( I refuse to wash the pink bowl and think that he can make more work for me when I...
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