Family Forum / Pregnancy / Pregnancy / June 2004

Caden has got into a habbit of not wanting to be put down and since he
doesnt sleep during the day he gets cranky if you do... its almost like he
is bored.
Could this be the case? if so would a swing help? he has a play gym but it

Kat's thread on Will's birth story really got me thinking about the past
couple weeks. You see, with my daughter's hospital birth, I did everything
"right" that I knew about at the time in order to have a positive birth
experience, and to put it bluntly, it sucked. Well, 11 years ...

Hi. My wife is pregnant with her first child. I'm 22, she's 20, she's now in
her 30th week and the 21st wk ultrasound found that she has a single
umbilical artery (SUA) and so we were told to get a foetal echocardiography.
This was performed yesterday and the foetus was discovered ...

I love my OB, really I do, but I wish he would lay off me about my weight gain.
I have never gained less than 50 lbs. in any pregnancy, and have gained as
much as 70, so it's not likely that's going to change now.  Honestly, I don't
eat junk, I just get very, very hungry as soon as ...

The midwives office called me and asked me if I would want to come in for a
4 week appointment instead of waiting 6 weeks to see the OB. They knew after
labor, I made the appointment with the OB. I decided it would be healthy for
me to go back to the midwives, and let go of the ...

I can't even begin to explain all the craziness that's been going on
lately...so I won't try. But I did have to pass along some news I'm
absolutely ecstatic about. My glucose test came back normal. YAY!!!
(and my Rh antibody test...but I wasn't really worried about that

My friend has just given birth to her second son, was hoping to vbac but he
was 9lb and she spent hours and hours without pain relief with contrax 3
mins apart, and failed to progress, so she got a repeat C. She's bounced
back from it, has recovered a lot better than with her first, ...

I read in another post that a midwife's reaction to a 160 heartbeat was
"It's a girl!"
My baby's heartbeat was also 160 at week 12. Is this heartbeat thing just an
old wife's tale, or are there some hints indicating that it could be rooted

Happy Belated 40th Birthday, Barbara (Circe)!
I hope you had a wonderful day!  :-)

I'm getting a little nervous now, not about the c/s...just about everything
in general, last minute jitters I guess, anyway this time tomorrow I will
have met my new little man, gotta be at the hospital about 6- 630 am, yikes
and I live an hour away....

I have two questions regarding conception:
1) My wife and I are trying to have a baby and I am on some
prescription medication. The medication is for bi-polar, chronic manic
depression, and insomnia. I am on a couple of mood stabilizers,

Okay, roll call time.  All you gorgeously pregnant nine-monthers, are
you ready to strangle someone yet, or are you still enjoying the last
few moments of your in-utero baby?  You're almost there!!  How's the
last month treating you all?  Everything ready for the birth, bags

I'm trying to find out if smoked foods are ok during pregnancy. I know
deli-style "smoked" stuff is dangerous because of listeria, nitrites,
etc., but what about meat that's smoked at home?
Unless there something inherently bad in the smoking process, I can't

I am expecting my 3rd baby in October with my oldest being 4.5 years old.  I
have been told a few times that I should be buying a new infant carseat for
this new baby.  The infant carseat (carrier) that I have is 5 years old (I
received it from my baby shower in 1999) and has been ...

Is two weeks too soon?  Everything looks okay it's just that I thought
that I had heard & read that the normal period for this to happen was
at 4-5 weeks.
Anyway, we have already started giving him baths, I just wanted to be