Family Forum / Pregnancy / Pregnancy / September 2003

Well, I finally feel ready to offer my first real post!  I have been a lurker
and sometimes responder for several months.  My name is Honey and I am 39 years
old.  My partner and I have been trying for a pregnancy for about a year.  I
have had three miscarriages and a bunch of ttc ...

It will become a moron anyway, so feed it to the dogs now you brainless bitches !

I have been an avid watcher of this news group and thought it time to post
my first message.
My wife is 13.5 weeks pregnant with our first. We have just come back from
our 12 week scan and everything is going really well! The midwife even

I felt really awkward when my friends approached me about wanting to
have a shower for me.  This is our third boy, so there's not much that
we need.  Also, we're better off financially than most of our friends,
so having a diapers and wipes type of shower seemed really weird.

Brief update: Had a very nice first ultrasound today. Saw the baby right
away, little heartbeat going away like gangbusters (162, and we actually got
to hear it, which was cool), and was at 7w6d according to the crown-rump
length. So now we get to tell people and look forward to the ...

Hi all...I'm a very infrequent poster/mostly lurker with a question.  I'm 35
weeks pregnant with b/b twins.  Each weighs about five pounds and they've both
been doing great.  On Saturday my mucous plug came out, and I've been having
increasingly painful but irregular contractions ...

Unless I missed a post, still nothing from her??
I say
6 lbs 12 oz
19 inches

Announcing: Margaret Ann, (Maggie) Born 9/21/03 @ 2:01 p.m. weighing in
at 4lbs 9 ozs. and 18 inches. AND Madison Grace, (Maddie) Born 9/21/03 @
2:05 p.m. weighing in at 4lbs 7ozs. and 19 1/2 inches. Gestational age:
34 3/7 weeks!

Today is my day for asking questions, hope you don't mind :-)
We're planning on using what is called in the UK a bedside cot, or in US
speak a co-sleeper - i.e. a cot(UK)/crib(US) with one side missing,
fastened to the adult bed along the missing side, the idea being that

Hello again its me!  This last weekend my wife developed a deep Cough that
she said is coming from her chest.  She has called the Dr. and he said that
he will see her this next week at her reg appt and they can look into the
problem and for the moment just drink lots of water and ...

I have been reading the postings although have been too nauseous and
tired to post much. I have been havin gthe usual symptoms, tiredness,
extreme sleepiness, nausea, vomited once. Tomorrow morning I have my
first appointment with the doctor. At 8 weeks, do you think there will

My son has been sniffling and coughing a little bit the last few days like he
was getting a cold.  Last night he threw up but was otherwise normal.  This
morning he got to coughing constantly and a few hours later the cough got
better but he threw up again.  After that, he ...

I have a question about conceiving.  I am ovulating this week.  My husband
and I have been doing the baby dance etc....
I swim about 3 days a week.  When I do my swim exercises I notice that the
pool water get sucked up in side me slightly.  If we are in the middle of

Hope it's a lovely day for them both :)

What a bunch of BS!!!! I am so angry and stressed. I was suppose to be
induced Friday. I am now 10 days over due and in constant pain. The hospital
keeps putting me off. Friday they ended up being booked, ok so I understand
everyone went into labor but me. Ok my doctor is gone away ...