Family Forum / Pregnancy / Pregnancy / October 2004

My wife and I are trying for a baby, but we do not want our
families/freinds to know about it until my wife is several weeks
pregnant. My wife is not drinking any alchole at the moment since we
dont know if she is actually pregnant or not.

Y'all may remember that I had an IUD put in back in the spring, and asked a
bunch of questions about it here.
Well, the good news is that the Mirena did what it's supposed to.  I had it put
in mostly to control irregular (read, 'constant') bleeding, and, after bleeding

Hello everyone.  Sorry I have been absent but I have just been extremely
tired being on my own 2 weeks out of every 3 and I wasn't in a good
frame of mind.  A little help from Zoloft is letting me function like a
human again.

Hello everyone and it's been awhile.  Been a hectic week.  First off,
the good news!  She has turned!!!  I was so excited at the doctor's
office I started crying.  That was at my 32 week appt.  The bad news:
Last week Thursday (my 33rd) I was laying down and started feeling

I've had a few contractions which I think are braxton-hicks, and they don't
seem to follow the pattern of premature labor, but the resources say BH
contractions are painless, and these aren't. It's not like the pains I got
in induced labor-more like a menstrual cramp, which is bad ...

I've been lurking here for awhile, but have been reading with much more
interest since I became pregnant this summer. My DH and I have an 11yo
son and I'm 17 weeks along with #2 (at the ripe old age of 42 :-).
So far, things have been going OK, with the normal symptoms of nausea,

I recently found out that I’m pregnant. I had been having irregular
periods so I’m not sure when I conceived. The Beta HCG level came back as
110, when it was taken on Sept. 28. 2004 Can anyone tell me if you can
determine about when conception occurred by these numbers? Is it ...

I have cts so badly this pregnancy!  I can't drive for more than a few miles
without my hands falling asleep.  If this keeps up I soon won't be able to
drive at all.  It's kind of funny because my hands and arms don't seem so very
swollen, but there it is. :-(

Well, based on the exam, everything looks good-blood pressure is normal, no
protein, and while I'm still retaining fluid, I'm not increasing fluid rate
as fast as I was last week. However, the non-stress test came back as close
to non-reactive, and even though we have a definite, ...

Reposting this part as it got lost way down below (whoopsee!).
My name is Laura and I live just outside civilization city limits in North
Georgia (the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains) with my dh (dear husband
or d***head, whatever suits my current mood, lol :-) Jim and our ...

Hey all...  A question for you.  And sorry --  it is gross.
I am now 11 days postpartum, and all my books and all my research say
that after about a week after delivery, I should be discharging
yellowish or pinkish lochia as opposed to substantial (not excessive,

I just to vent quickly.  I am so tired!  I'm around 8 or 9 weeks,  (I'll
know for sure after an ultrasound next week) and I don't remember being this
tired.  My whole body just feels tired and like it is moving in slow motion.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised seeing as I work full ...

Ok, this sounds so good...
Great job, for the SAHM....
secret shoppers, K-mart, wal-mart..kings,,denny's....ETC.
Get pain 50.00 for every job????

Just need a little reassurance here.  Since things during my new pg are not
at all the way they were with my first, I just need to know that not
"feeling" pregnant at 4.5 weeks is totally normal.  I was already nauseous
at this point during my pg with DD, and just felt different.

I would like to buy a bassinet and/or moses basket. Questions:
- The moses basket seems to offer the most flexibility, but they all say not
to carry the baby around in one- I thought this was the whole idea? Is it
really that dangerous?