Michelle answers:

The female body normally rids itself naturally of HPV after 2 years. The only way that you would know if you had it still or not would be to have a pap smear done. That being said, while the female body has the ability to get rid of HPV, the male body does not. You shouldnt have had sex with him without telling him that you had an STI. As someone who has HPV, I really cant believe that you did that. If you are comfortable enough to have unprotected sex with him then you should be comfortable enough to tell him that you have HPV.
Go to the doctor and tell your boyfriend. He deserves to know.

Michelle answers:

I’ve done both, and I work in L&D so I see both all the time.

Epidurals are not perfect. Sometimes they do not work. Many women feel they don’t work during pushing because epidurals do not take away that intense pressure feeling, and yes, sometimes the block just doesn’t cover all the nerves that need to be covered.

As for chronic issues with back pain, etc., the vast majority of women do not have long lasting issues. Sometimes back injury during labor is a result of the epidural not due to the epidual itself, but because you are so numb that when you move around, and especially when you’re actively delivering the baby, you are positioned irregularly and using muscles rarely used like this, causing muscle pain which can persist for several days or weeks after delivery.

Epidurals are also not without risks in terms of causing drops in blood pressure which can affect the baby, increasing odds of fetal distress which may lead to a c-section. It also can impair your ability to push effectively, possibly leading to a vacuum or forceps or a c-section. Infection is rare, but can also happen. Spinal headaches are the most common side effect, happens in about 1:200 women.

Personally, I think that epidurals are great things under certain circumstances. But all in all I am a proponent for natural births whenever it is possible. And in my vocabulary, a natural birth is one without any medications, not even a “basic shot of pain meds”, because those “basic shots” are narcotics which pass through the placenta to the baby and can cause issues with the baby’s breathing and transition immediately after birth.

My first child was born before I was a nurse and knew all these things, and it was before epidurals were common. I had Nubain during my delivery, and I was really doped. I slept through transition. My daughter was born with respiratory depression and had low O2 sats and needed to be in the Level II nursery. When she was 13 she started having seizures, which I now know could most definitely be linked to oxygen deprivation at birth.

Labor pain doesn’t kill us. Yes, it sucks. But the gamble you take with your child’s welfare is often not worth it to gain a little temporary comfort. My temporary comfort probably contributed to a lifetime of seizures for my daughter (or so I believe).

Good luck with your decision.

Michelle answers:

Provoke a period, this works if you are unsure if it’s coming or even if you are late. You can do this by using Vitamin C.
Take 6-12 grams of ascorbic acid – vitamin C a day for 5-10 days. Specifically ascorbic acid. Do not use vitamin C with bioflaviniods or anything that has Rose-hips in it. Look for the cheap generic brands, they are usually the ones that have pure ascorbic acid. Doses consisting of one 500 mg tablet per hour are most common.
The vitamin C -ascorbic acid- works to produce an unfavorable climate within the uterus so that the egg does not implant, or cannot maintain its grip on the uterine wall. By stimulating estrogen, and possibly interfering with progesterone. Thus making it useful as an emergency contraceptive, when taking it before implantation occurs.
Progesterone is needed to prepare the uterus to receive the egg, the uterine lining builds up each month, and if the egg is not fertilized then this is what becomes the menstrual blood, when the lining is shed to prepare for the next cycle.
Http://www.sisterzeus.com/Hsp1shlp.htm
How It Works
http://www.sisterzeus.com/vit_c_ab.html

If you have any questions about it, email me. I have used these methods successfully before. I take 1,000mg every two hours.

If You need It
http://www.sisterzeus.com/PregT.htm
http://www.sisterzeus.com/List.htm

Natural Liberty: Rediscovering Self-Induced Abortion Methods ISBN: 0964592002 is now available on Scribd to read for free! Http://www.scribd.com/doc/22321349/Natural-Liberty-Rediscovering-Self-Induced-Abortion-Methods

Herbal Abortion – A Women’s DIY Guide
Herbal Abortion gathers some of the long-known knowledge of herbal abortion and puts it into a straightforward and practical pamphlet.
Http://www.scribd.com/doc/88918/Herbal-Abortion

NATURAL INDUCED MISCARRIAGE
Last Resort Methods
http://www.naturalmiscarriage.org/world/last-resort.htm

I have used these method successfully myself, if you have questions about any of this, email me.

~Pro-Choice Momma; Have had an abortion and I have a 12 month old daughter . I believe in protecting my daughter’s choice.

Abortion: There is a Consensus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsSQiazUv

Ps – As for others who would judge you, this is your business and their opinion don’t have to mean anything to you. They are strangers after all, who don’t know you or your situation.

Michelle answers:

I’m so sorry for your loss. I know what it feels like to miscarry. I’ve had two, with still no luck of a successfull pregnancy. I’ll share my story with you.
My first pregnancy was fine until my 10 week appt. I went to my doctor and had my ultra sound, and he told me that I was losing my baby. I didn’t want to believe this, so I had a second opinion. Sure enough, it was true. I was told to just wait for it to happen. So for about another two weeks, I sat around and waited. That was the hardest part of everything. Waiting to lose your first child. After that two weeks, I woke up one day with horrible, horrible cramping. It went on throughout the day with no blood or discharge. I went to bed that night, and woke up in the wee morning hours in a pool of blood. I woke my husband up, and I went into the bathroom. Sick as this may sound, the blood was literally running out of me like a faucet. I was rushed to the hospital, and the next afternoon, I fully miscarried. I was told to wait three cycles before getting pregnant again. My husband and I started having sex again about a month after, using protection. But I got pregnant again within a week. I was so excited that I had another chance. This time, things were perfect until week 12, when I was told I was going to miscarry again. This time, the doctor did a D&C. I was told the reason I miscarried a second time was because my body wasn’t fully ready to carry a baby yet, after the first miscarriage, being that it was only 6 weeks after.
I was advised to do everything I could not to get pregnant until at least three cycles after my D&C. It’s been almost a year since my second miscarriage and I haven’t been able to get pregnant yet.
I’m not sure what you’re doctor told you, but going on my own experience, I would wait to get pregnant if I were you. Just to be sure your body is healed, and ready to try it again.
I know how painful emotionally and physically it is to miscarry, and I feel so bad for you. It’s a loss that I’ll never get over. But I was once told something that helps.
“Our babies just went to heaven a little sooner than us. They were so special that God wasn’t ready to give them up”
That always makes me feel better.
Good luck, and baby dust to you!