Family Forum / Pregnancy / Pregnancy / September 2003

I had a troublesome pregnancy due to my 'advanced maternal age' of 41
& spent the last several months of my pregnancy on full bedrest.  In
the end, I delivered a perfectly healthy baby boy 3 1/2 months ago.
Here is the weird part...

If I'm due April 4th, why do some sites say 12 weeks and others say 13
weeks?  Which am I?
Geez, I'm so confused.  I SWEAR I had my last cycle between June 16 and 19.
If that's the case I'm due March 23ish.

As you said your due date is today...
Wishing you all the best,
Elly
38 weeks + 4 days

At what point in a pregnancy do you start to worry about weight
loss? I know that the generic answer is eat to hunger and drink
to thirst and don't worry about it, just like it's feed a breast-
fed baby on demand. But at some point babies have failure to

My wife had a glucose intolernace test a few weeks ago and the result
came back negative.
However, because the baby is looking large for dates, the doctor has
sent her for another one (the same 2 hr test).

I'd like to canvas opinions, especially from people who have very unusual
names or have given their children very unusual names, as a way of helping
DH and me to clarify whether we want to give our child such a name...
Background: IRL, I have a very unusual name myself. That is, ...

WILL IT NEVER END??
Actually, I am NOT ready. I still have SO much work to do around here that I
can wait another 5 weeks for the baby. On the one hand, I have all sorts of
things scheduled, but then I wake up at 7 am and by 10 am I am ready to take

I cant see what all the fuss is about, women spend 40 weeks fussing about a
couple of hours. It cant be that bad otherwise nature would have made the
stronger sex able to give birth.

...I already have a baby!
Lann Carlyle was born at 6:15 a.m. on September 21st weighing 8lbs4oz (so
much for the doctor's estimate of 6.5-7, eh?!) and 21 inches long.
I don't have much time to write (this boy is quite a little nursing

I just got home from my midwife appointment, and I'm two centimeters dilated!
Yippee!  My cervix has also become much softer and shorter, though it's still
quite thick - apparently I didn't lose all of the plug last Saturday.  Anyway,
BP was 117/60 and urine was fine.  My feet and ...

Hi I'm Christine, I'm 37 and pregnant..i'm very early, i'm not due until
the end of may...it will be my first...i'm glad I found this group..it
looks very much alive..;-)))
are there any other OLDER moms to be in here?????,,,my age concerns me a

Here are the results of my girls name poll I posted here September 19th):
Lillian = 20 votes
Iris = 14 votes
Erin = 11 votes

Well, I guess no news is good news, lol ;-)
Blood pressure = 120/60
Urine = leucocytes were positive on the urinanalysis stick, so I had the
full urine analysis done - everything fine; ob/gyn said it is common for

Welcome and congratulations, if you're just found out!  Do you feel
pregnant yet, or is it still new and stunning?  Have you started telling
people?  Started to look around at the hospitals and birth centers near
you, taking prenatals?  Any food cravings, any morning queasiness?

Does anyone know what the numbers for normal should be for the one hour
glucose test?
I am having my test tomorrow morning and want to knwo since they never
would tell me with my last pregnancy...I failed both tests 1 and 3 hour