Family Forum / Pregnancy / Pregnancy / January 2005

I think I might have fallen pregnant gonna do a test today

ISRAEL'S PRONE/TUMMY SLEEPING BABIES
Tauman et al. [Sep 2004] write:
"[Infant] prone sleeping position is relatively high in Israel." (PubMed
abstract below.)

I work in public health and may have to travel to India and Pakistan in
my second trimester. In both places, I plan to go about 4-6 hours away
from a large city, but not to rural areas. Does anyone have any advice
on this?

Well, sometimes I never thought we would make it this far, but here we are,
20 weeks, seems like some kind of milestone! The good thing is that I do
seem to be blooming, I wasn't at this stage last time, so I am enjoying it

So, I had my 40 wk 6 day checkup today. Everything is fine. The monitor
didn't show any contractions, the fetal heart rate was reactive with no
decels, the biophysical profile was 8/10 (we were unable to get a real
nonstress test strip, which accounts for the two points off as ...

if anyone has a good book for Sina to learn that some families are not
made of mommy daddy & child(ren). I know that Sina is too young to get
the concept, but I want to find the books early on & read them myself
and decide what I want to use.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1252370.html?menu=news.quirkies.eccentrics
(Thanks to Hillary for pointing this one out...lol!)
I don't think I can "jump" out of bed right now, let alone an airplane.
Oy vey!

Seems like you guys have lots of good advice so I was wondering would anyone
know why there is loss of appetite in some women during pregnancy?
I am 8 weeks now and I have been lucky not to have any sickness; until this
morning.....

Well, DD is 15 months old now, and lactational amenorrhea has ended with
a vengeance.  :-(  I'm now on day 2 of soaking through a tampon every
hour or less, and I'm wondering if I should be concerned about this
level of bleeding.  I have a copper-T IUD, as I did after my first

    Today's Washington Post also has a report of a new study on
secondhand smoke and how it affects kids' test scores.  Here's a
link to another report on the study:
http://tinyurl.com/57tnp

Now that I have begun to wrap my head around the idea that this baby is
going to have to come out at some point I would love to hear your
favourite tip/best advice to a novice for getting through labour.
So what's your personal experience been?

I just don't know what to do about Lorelei's diaper rash, which has persisted
for nearly 7 weeks now!
At her three week checkup, the ped said  she had a little yeast rash and to use
Lotrimin on it.  I bought that, as well as Micatin and Tinactin and Desenex and

Can anyone make some recommendations for travel systems?
1) My main requirement is that we want the car seat bit to easily clip
in and out of the car, either by fixing to a base or by using ISO-Fix.
2) Also, the style of travel system where by the wheeled bit is just a

He is tired so I do all the stuff to put him to sleep and then put him down
(he is a heavy boy) the second he is down he pops back awake.  I let him
fuss for a minute to see if he will calm down (he doesnt) I pick him back up
it takes 1/2 the effort to get him back to sleep, Wait ...

Hello Freinds,
I have question about having sex with opposite blood group. ie i
am O-ve. Does my life partner have problems if she is A+ve or B+ve. I
mean while giving birth to baby or any other effects. Please kindly