So what do you think?
I decided to take the plunge and change my Rant also…
I think it looks pretty cool and a lot cleaner…
What do you think?
Comments? Suggestions?
My new blog…
OK… So I decided to make a new blog for my pregnancy journal. Not only to make a place just for that but to have fun making a fixing up and new theme. I used a theme that I found online and tweaked and tweaked until I understood it and make it look the way I wanted to….
What is really cool is that it has collapsable sections in the sidebar, something I have been wanting to do here for a while. However, I haven’t figured out how to incorporate such a thing into this theme here..
So, a few questions for you…
Do you like the theme for the pregnancy journal?
Do you think I should change this one to look like the one there? If yes, should I Have “Paxye’s Rant” with the pics again or should I go to straight Text?
Ughh…. I need to vent….
At the end of last summer a family moved into the house in front of ours. I have never talked to them, not even exchanging a nod or anything. They have two little girls, I would have to say that one is about 7-8 and the about 6… A little more then an hour ago they came home from school and the dad decided to take them on a bike ride. The little one clearly didn’t know how to ride a bike and fell quite a few times. No one helped her or encouraged her and she quickly became frustrated and threw her bike down on the ground and stormed to the front of the house. The older sister waited a few seconds but the dad just got off his bike and put her bike back in the back of the house and then left with the older girl. A few minutes later the little girl asked her mom to have the bike again, the mom refused and said that she had to go anyways and told her to get in the car. She got even more upset and wanted to go back in the house but the door was already locked… she then went in the car and then promptly got out and slammed the door. The mom just stayed in the car and didn’t say a word. When the Dad came back he asked what happened and the mom told him… the little girl he got all red in the face and crying was hudled near the front door…
The Dad told the mom to go and told the girl to go to her room… she said that the door was locked and he just kept on screaming at her while he unlocked the door. When the door was open he told her to get up and she did, very quicky, not noticing that the window above her head was open, (she knocked her head so hard that I heard it from inside my living room) she then fell to the ground… the dad told her to get up, grabbed her arm and then shoved her into the house without even checking her head and told her to go to her room… he then went in briefly, got a beer and a chair and sat outside the door… He is still sitting there and it has been about 40 mins… the little girl has come to the door twice and each time he told her to get back in and then closed the door loudly behind her….
How can people treat their kids so poorly?
I have a feeling that the whole situation could have been avoided if one of the parents would have encouraged and helped her in the first place.
Water…
I just now realized that in going unassisted I may get the chance for the Water birth that I dreamed about with the boys. With Both boys I laboured in the Water for periods of time. In both cases it was after my labour had stalled…
With Xavier I was transfered to the hospital and all hope of anything natural went out the window. All except for the C-S which I refused and fought. With Colin, I got out of the tub and tried other things to get him to descend. The tub was also not ideal. It was a “spa” tub but the water wasn’t deep enough to cover my tummy, the bottom was slippery, hard and uncomfortable. I layed down on the bed. got into a position that was to help Colin turn and was at the same time very comfortable. After 20 hours of labour, I was also tired…. I fell asleep while I went through transition, waking with each contraction, sleeping between…
When I woke up and was asked to move by one of the midwives, I felt him shift inside and was Immobilized. My body took over completely and I just tried to catch my breath. My water birth was again not possible.
This time I want a Water birth. I was thinking that it wouldn’t be possible since my tub in our home is tiny. Non-Pregnant I find it too small to comfortably take a bath.
I was reading about UC water brth today and found a great tub that would make the water birth possible.
- CONSTRUCTION: made with extra thick PVC, La Bassine is strong and durable. Using upright chambers construction instead of multi rings means easy access for cleaning with no hidden place where bacteria can fester and very strong supportive walls that can stand up the weight of a birthing woman. Inflatable pool are easier to set up and thanks to the air provide much better insulation than rigid birthing tub, keeping the water warm for longer without the need of heating system. The inflatable floor and walls provide great comfort when adopting any position, especially leaning on the wall or kneeling on the floor.
- SIZE:our La Bassine birthing pool is a little nest where cradled in warm water you will feel in your own world. The outer measurements are 165cm(65″)/135cm(53″), which allow you to set up La Bassine even in a small hospital room or a tiny flat. The inner measurements are 115cm(45″)/95cm(37″), large enough for you to float and relax between each contraction and for your midwives to reach you and your baby very easily.
It requires much less water (around 100 gallons) than most other pools and therefore weights far less (important if you live in a flat or you are not birthing on the ground floor). The pool will fill using your normal hot water system in about 30 minutes. - DEPTH:our La Bassine is considerably deeper than other standard inflatable paddling pools used for waterbirths. It’s 25″(65cm) depth will ensure that you belly stays under water when adopting an upright position. Supported upright positions in labour such as kneeling, sitting or squatting have been recognised by leading specialist to be the most effective, least painful and safest way to give birth naturally. Water, Thanks to its buoyancy effect, allows you to adopt any of these positions effortlessly, leaving you all the energy you need to push your baby out.
- SHAPE:the oval shape of La Bassine cuts down the volume of water required compared to a round pool of the same diameter.
- COLOR: La Bassine is a dark blue color – there are no motifs or distracting colors, just a deep relaxing blue.
- INTERNAL HANDLES: two sturdy but un-obstructive plastic handles are on hand if you feel the need to hold on firmly while pushing.
The price isn’t too bad… 115$ +S/H but still a lot more then we have…
Of course there is always the other recomended but cheaper option 🙂
Finally… :)
Ughh… I have been having a bit of problems web wise the last few days…. I almost deleted my blog completely while trying to do something with a my new pregnancy blog that will soon be up… Then the message board went weird with a database error and a file that went haywire (for no reason that I can see) and then I decided to get my new site up and it didn’t work out at all and I finally found the error earlier today….
Anyways… While I should have been concentrating on getting the french version of my site up I was preoccupied with just making it look better. So now I like the look a lot more… and it doesn’t make me cringe as much when I send people to the site 😉
Someone gave me some really good feedback a while ago (you know who you are) and I thank you so much. I haven’t gotten it all in but I am working at it…
So.. now the message board has it own domain (thegreenerpastures.com), my website is finally working under the domain name that it had and that I never could figure out how to work (paxyebelle.com) and the blog has been saved…
Oh… and backups have been made!