Family Forum / Pregnancy / Pregnancy / February 2005

Does anyone watch Miss Personality???
Who do you think is gonna win???

I know I should be posting this on misc.kids but anyway my DD has a
viral infection.  She no longer has a fever hasn't had one in about 2
days, but she is still vomitting up juice, she can hold it down if I
mix it with the clear pedialyte but don't want to do that.  Only did it

We are pregnant!!! Well she is! Poor Nika is having a bad time with nausea.
All day long in bits and pieces...ie 2 to 4 then good 4 to 5 then bad 5 to 7
etc.
Any suggestions? Also she is getting pains like period pains, just a dull

Okay, these are getting uncomfortable. I'm still not calling it labor and
won't until I see fluid. But, ow. Cervix is flatter. Baby is lower. Still
say it means that baby will be here within a month. I'd be happier, though,
if that month did NOT mean spending the whole damn time ...

I'm stumped on the progression of symptoms... I haven't gained any
weight for the last two weeks, and my last checkup my belly measurement
was .5 cm less than the one before - he said that was fine, it was
likely from her "dropping" a bit.  Do lots of others experience no

Baby Andrew arrived at 11:39 at home this morning, Feb. 13.  I was way off
on when he was going to arrive, but I was right about him being big.  He is
9 lbs., 10 oz. (and that's after passing a *ton* of meconium, so they figure
I could add at least 2 oz. to it), 21", 14 1/2" head ...

I was having a conversation with myself the other day (hey, I'm a good
listener) and I was pondering all those principles I have sent down the
drain since my pregnancy... I just thought I'd make a list. Feel free to add
yours!

I am starting my first round for IVF and had some questions.  I had the
retrival on Wednesday and they got 18 eggs.  As of thursday 14 were
fertilized and as of today, 9 are 4 cell, 4 are 2 cell and 1 is 3 cell.
They will not have the grades until tomorrow, but they are doing the

It's a Boy!  Baby Miles was born, Saturday, Feb 12th at 7:17p.m.  A
little over 3 weeks early.  5lbs, 3ozs.  We thought he was going to
arrive on my birthday, the 13th!  We had an intense two hour labour.
Miles is healthy and breastfeeding splendidly.  Mark is being the

last night I had a strange dream, I had mental health issues, but the
setting was back at school when I didn't have mental health issues (other
than postnatally, I think I may have had mild depressions about 6 years ago,
whilst I was at university, I had flu badly and it left me ...

I am a type II diabetic who has been induced at 39 weeks with my first
pg, and would have been induced at 39 weeks 3 days with my second
except we got me going at 39 weeks with a sweep and some castor oil to
avoid the scheduled hospital induction.  Both times induction was

I went to the doctor yesterday.  He told me that my first test (Dec 28)
came back with a blood platelet count of 132.  The second test (Feb
4)came back at 94.  He was a bit concerned that it had dropped that
much in a month and so sent me for more bloodwork yesterday (Feb 17)

Wanting to talk with women suffering with pregnancy related pelvic
joint pain, symphysis pubis dysfunction (SPD), pelvic instability,
sacroilitis or osteitis pubis.

I had an ultrasound and checkup this week.  One baby, with a heartbeat!
That was such a relief.  I was incredibly nervous about it.  Baby measured 6
weeks 6 days with a 130bpm heartbeat.  I'll be considered high risk once
again due to previous unexplained stillbirth, hypertension, ...

Most circumcisions are still done without any pain relief! Why would
women allow their children to be circumcised?  How would you feel as a
woman if some person cut off parts of your genitalia when you were a
baby?  Then why do this to your sons?