This is another one of those posts containing information gleaned only from conversations with other mothers. You have been warned. Read on at your own risk.

We’re waiting for my sister to give birth. She’s beyond the beached-whale stage of pregnancy and called me for the mineral-oil induction recipe that worked for me. The only problem is, I forgot to tell her that you have to follow the recipe exactly, or it doesn’t work. She didn’t and it didn’t. Writing a blog like this, I’ve found a lot of information she can take, ignore or accept at will. Such is the relationship between sisters and the nature of advice.

Both my sister and a friend of mine are due to pop out their second children any day now. I suspect, at this point in their pregnancies, they are so full of baby and stomach acid that they can’t lie down properly. I remember too well the discomfort that caps itself off with the pain of childbirth followed immediately by adjusting to life with two children and having absolutely no time for myself. There was just work and more work. For about a week when the baby was 5 weeks-old, I had no idea who I was.
My saving grace came …read more

OK. Enough whining. Time to think body positive.
Three things I love about my body after having children:

My hair, while often pulled back into a ponytail, is still long and curly and full despite all the strands that have fallen out due to hormonal changes.
My smile. The kids give me more reason to do it and, I think, it makes me more attractive.
My breasts. It’s like having milk-filled implants.

What have you got going on with your maternal body?

New mothers are made every day (Hi Kris! Hi new baby Bodhi!). So, once a month or so I like to give the women who are just discovering Babylune an overview of what’s here.
If you’re in the middle of one of the many fantastic post partum mysteries of the human body, click on The Long List of Discomforts. Within the posts are links to posts that deal with common problems in the first days after giving birth.
You can also go to The First Six Weeks Category Archive to get an overview of what to expect in the first phase of …read more