Family Forum / Pregnancy / Pregnancy / December 2003

How are you feeling, seven-monthers?  Enjoying your beautiful belly?
Any braxton hicks?  Aches and pains, or are you carrying on with life as
usual?  Everything lined up for the birth, maternity leave, found a
doula, taken a breastfeeding class, toured the birth center/hospital,

AUSTRALIAN actor Rachel Griffiths has given birth to her first child.
Banjo Patrick Taylor was born at 8.45pm on Saturday in Melbourne to
Griffiths and husband Andrew Taylor, weighing in at 3.4kg.
The birth came just a day after Griffiths appeared at the AFI Awards to

Hello from Montreal,
My wife has had five episodes of acute pancreatitis in the last five
years, each of which required her to be hospitalized for about three
weeks.  She has a 3-cm (1.25 inch) pseudocyst on the tail of her

I posted not long ago about my arms and hands falling asleep and gathered
from some responses that it is symptomatic of carpal tunnel syndrome.  Well,
despite wearing braces and changing pillows it's not getting better, it's
getting worse.  So much so that I can't do my job right ...

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How long after you have a baby do you normally stop bleeding? I had
an elective c-section 9 almost 10 days ago and my bleeding pretty much
abruptly stopped today,,just wondering if this was normal.
TIA

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?

I came off the Pill in August and we have been trying to start a family
since.  My periods were fairly regular - as in every 14 days, lasted about 4
days and were fairly heavy.  I suffered from PMS, had cramps and my nipples
were very very sensitive.  These symptoms were normal to ...

Ladies :
I am an expecting mom due in Jan . We are only me and my husband in
our house. My question is that do I need to ask some of my relatives
to come over ( my mom may not be able to come over )for help or will

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Carla Danaher

So with my duedate come and gone I'm getting antsy and everyone is calling
"to see how I am".
My MIL remarked that between the snowstorm and full moon coming up
something should happen. I was thinking of the snow too on the theory that

Can abdominal pains and cystitis be very early signs of pregnancy?
If I am pregnant, I should have conceived 4 or 6 days ago. Could I
already "feel" pregnant? I am wondering, because today I have felt a
very unusual pain in my lower abdomen. It's not really painful, just

OMG. I just got back from spending 4 nights/4 days at my husband's mother's
house. Am I glad to be back!! They were never *this* bad but are almost
unbearable now that I am pregnant. (They already have 2 grandkids)...my
sister-in-law is avoiding them like the plague so I think MIL ...

I am on Clomid hoping to conceive and was wondering about my cervical mucus
and what affect the drug will have on it?  What is the deal with Robitussing
-when to take it and is 4 tbs. much?  Thanks a lot.
judy

#1 does anyone else suffer from the NON existing sex drive?
I have NO intrest in sex at all since i became pregnant...i'm actually
kinda scared to have sex i fear that it could hurt the baby,
#2 Can sex hurt the baby in anyway?