International Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Twins home birth
This is a blog entry on the home birth of twins. I really thought the photos were touching and beautiful, but don't look if you don't want to see it 
http://www.jaclynmicheleblog.com/2012/04/it-takes-village-twin-home-birth.html
Re: Twins home birth
There is so much about this that intrigues me. She was the birth mom but the adoptive parents were there? Was she a surrogate? I am fascinated. She did pregnancy pictures but was putting them up for adoption, which is so interesting. I want the backstory!
Oh, and that placenta was huge. I have a photo of mine with Lila and it was huge, and that one is like twice the size.
I see that it was an adoptive family so perhaps why so many people were in the room. But I would never feel that comfortable with that many people around me while I'm giving birth. Wow. She seems to be in her own element but.... I couldn't do it.
frlcb: I think it must just be an adoption. Otherwise they would of called her the surrogate?
2012 Reading Challenge
Now Nesting from Chicago, IL My nail blog:
Yeah, I think so too. Everything about it is interesting.
I really didn't care who was in the room when I was giving birth, with either child. I actually don't even know who was in the room when I had dd. I didn't care who saw me naked, who heard me yelling, all shyness went out the window!
I mean that's nice and all, but holy crap I don't think I would want naked pictures of me in pain NO the web. CRAP.
Bio
Agreed...it's not exactly her best moment. She's brave.
I was thinking that as well UK. I was surprised they allowed her to do it TBH. A friend of mine wasn't even allowed to have her twins at a birth center attached to the hospital.
Bio
If neither are breech and you have had a healthy pregnancy the whole time then there is actually as little risk as a single birth. I think in general there is fear of homebirth because people don't understand that the situation has to be at the absolute most optimal for a midwife to allow one, and at the very first sign of trouble they get you to a hospital.
Still, I am a wimp and wouldn't do it
I wish I would though!