Family Forum / Pregnancy / Pregnancy / December 2003

My husband and I are having a friendly disagreement. I've had a
fairly miserable pregnancy, and at 24 weeks sciatica has set in.
Yesterday I couldn't walk, and while I'm better today - I suspect
it will get bad again. As a result - he's been stuck taking up

I have fibroids in my uterus which was picked up during my scan during my
last pregnacy. I am now 18 weeks preggers and was wandering if anyone else
had them during pregnancy and wheather they posed any problems for them I
have read they can grow very large during pregnacny and a ...

I'm at about 25 weeks along.  I noticed tonite that I have slight reddish
leakage.  I had a mild discharge (lukorrea?) today and then noticed this.
It's not heavy, it's very light, but still, it's bleeding.
What should I do.

You seem to know heaps about what herbs to take whilst ttc so I'm wondering
if you can give me a quick run-down on  what I should be taking.
Last time we were ttc my naturopath mixed me up some disgusting liquid that
had false unicorn root, vitex and a few other things in it, but I ...

I'm trying to post through my isp, hopefully this works!
Last week on Wednesday I had an afternoon spike in kicks and squirms,
then a pretty quiet evening in terms of the baby moving. Thursday
night when I looked back on the day, I didn't recall much in the way

its about heating pads, eletric blankets,
and bath water.....
I usually use the EB at night to help me fall asleep along with my usual
warm to hot bath. the more I read it looks like I shouldnt be doing

here are the names we have come up with so far
Boys
DH likes Clark, Elvis, Hugh    all because they mean wise or something
similar, and Jackson all of which I dislike

A plane is on its way to Montreal when a blonde
in Economy Class gets up and moves to the First
Class section and sits down.
The flight attendant watches her do this and

I had my 18 week appointment on Wednesday.  I've gained a whopping 2
pounds, bp and urinalysis were both fine.  DH and I got to listen to the
heartbeat again.  The doc had problems calculating the baby's heartrate
because he/she kept kicking and it made some really loud ...

how many tampons do girls use in 1 year.
me  36

Well, I've been lurking only lately as I've been a bit short of time and
haven't really had much to contribute.  William is nearly 2 (in 10 days) and
very active.  He actually eats solids on a daily basis now (finally) which
is really just as well as we're happy to announce that he ...

Here is my very late (DS had his 6 week check this morning, passing with
flying colours) and very long birth story. In brief, I planned a home birth
with independent midwives (I'm in the UK: this is the way of having private
midwifery care, which gets you more continuity of care ...

To Margaret Anne,
born Dec 5 10:39pm.  22 inches, 9 pounds 6 ounces.
Short version is the vbac attempt didn't work out and she was born by
c-section in the end, but I'm recovering much better than the first time

Get this, I have no food cravings BUT, i am craving anything that smells
like grapes.....I went charging into bath and body works and asked if
they had ANYTHING in the scent of grape...she said in the kids stuff we
do...lol...

Well, I had my appointment this morning with the genetic counselor and she
went over the results of my AFP screening test with me.  The numbers showed
that according to the levels in my blood, I have double the chance of
someone my age (39) having a Down's syndrome child.