Washingtonians

[Peppermint]

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There's a whole lot of normal changes that a baby goes through during labor and birth and right after birth- one of them is changing from placental to pulmonary circulation; normal "holes" in the heart close up when that happens.

Being born is a big change in life-style; for you and your baby both!

To put it simply, while she is inside you, she cannot use her lungs so the blood circulates straight through the heart. When she starts breathing air, the pressure in the heart changes and a little flap closes the hole.

Deep breath. . . in. . . out Welcome to yet another weird baby thing.

Exactly. When we have the ability to look deeper and deeper in to all things natural...the more we see. And often they are things that are VERY common, but resolve naturally or on their own, in their own time. It's probably a patent ductus arteriosis and will close right when it should, within a few hours after birth.

Also, I HIGHLY recommend the Medela Pump In Style Pump

The cheaper ones seriously won't do the trick, especially if you are pumping regularly at work.

 

[Rainwolf]

i go away for a week and my tomatoes have taken over my garden...
I HAD aisles when i left.......

My grapes

My Fig tree

a small overview of my psycho garden

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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To put it simply, while she is inside you, she cannot use her lungs so the blood circulates straight through the heart. When she starts breathing air, the pressure in the heart changes and a little flap closes the hole.

Deep breath. . . in. . . out Welcome to yet another weird baby thing.

Exactly. When we have the ability to look deeper and deeper in to all things natural...the more we see. And often they are things that are VERY common, but resolve naturally or on their own, in their own time. It's probably a patent ductus arteriosis and will close right when it should, within a few hours after birth.

Also, I HIGHLY recommend the Medela Pump In Style Pump

The cheaper ones seriously won't do the trick, especially if you are pumping regularly at work.

Thank you!!!

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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Hopefully it will closes up & resolves on it own or the doc was seeing things that weren't there. Not like a first time mom and dad need anything else to worry about.

 

[I-Have-Happy-Hens]

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[lovecat713]

Seattle chicken lady who just discovered one of my three hens is not a hen at all... sigh. Need to find a new home for a beautiful black cochin roo. Any takers?

 

[Kaneke]

just heard a definite egg song ---

and another one

it was Phoebe sitting in the nest box when I went out to check -- so in a little while I'll go look again

too grey and chilly out there to sit and watch

this is JULY ?????

I think all our summer headed for the midwest ... either that or it's really June

everyone always forgets that May is nice, June is cloudy and rainy, and July is nice ONLY after the Fourth
(in the Pacific North Wet)

since everything seems to be a month later than usual, maybe we will have July weather in August,
August weather in September (instead of the usual rainy month as soon as college starts)

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I hope we get some warmer weather in August and September so that some of the fruit trees ripen, and the ground warms up a little before the Equinox, or we're going to be in for a nightmarish winter. Again.

I've never been happier to have a friend's visit delayed; Haller still has one egg peeping, so she can't loan me her incubator until later this week. I was going to be running around a bit faster than I wanted this morning to get ready for her visit, and now I can slow down and do one thing at a time. I'm trying to figure out where to put the incubator that can take a bit more heat- my bathroom faces west and gets all the afternoon heat. The hall bathroom is out of commission anyway until we can get the toilet replaced but it is currently the hangout of our new kittens, who are tiny and also terrified of the dogs- which is sheer libel and guilt by association, both of our old dogs are kitten lovers, and would bathe them, cuddle them, and protect them from monsters, but the only dog they know well is my sister's Ziva who is 14 months, sixty pounds and twenty inches at the shoulder of bouncy trouncy flouncy pouncy fun fun fun fun fun, and not meant to instill dog love in tiny fragile babies.

 

[Chickielady]

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I have had to prune tiny trails through my garden...daily!

Anyone seen Broody on this AM ?
I may be able to stop by & get her W & D today, to take to T-Hi....I guess I will ***shudder!*** call her on the phone!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I'm so jealous of your figs; I've tried all of them but my winter temps are too low and my last freeze always catches them in leaf. I talked my late favorite cousin into planting some out in South Bay- that tree (Kitchen) is always loaded, but this year the figs are the size of my little fingernail.