Family Forum / Pregnancy / Pregnancy / April 2005

at 39 weeks and 1 day i went into labour.  All that day, i could smell the
smell of breastmilk, and i had not smelled it previously during hte pg, nor
had any colostrum.
just wondering, anecdotally(spel?) if anyone else has had this same

I haven't really been doing updates here, preferring to keep them in
livejournal but since I'm nearly at the end, I thought I'd share today's
findings :-).
BP - 120/80

Jamie, I can't remember if you guys had looked into surrogacy before you
adopted.  I'm looking into becoming a surrogate for a couple we know and was
wondering if you had any words of wisdom, useful info, etc?  If you do,
could you e-mail me? andersons6atverizondotcom.

If you answered my recent messages (sent sometime in March I don't remember
precisely when I sent them) I didn't get your replies. My downloads from
Misc.kids. pregnancy went from 2/13 to 3/22 with nothing in between. In my
opinion, this sucks.

Sue,
I didn't know this was a BF newsgroup :)   We're planning on BFing Matthew
until he's about year.  However,  his doctor recommended that we start him
on cereal (mixed in with BF) before his 6 month appointment.  He just had

"Jennifer Howe" <stimpyandariana@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:...

would

I just watched Baby Story on TLC and watched an OB deliver twins vaginally!
The first one was head down the second breach and both delivered vaginally.
I was quite pleasantly surprised especially this being a US show and given
the high rate of c-sections in the US. The father was ...

Well, this week I was in the hospital for one day due to having high
blood pressure.  I have had swelling in the feet and hands too, but no
other pre-e symptoms.  I hated it as the beds are too hard for me to
get much rest, and I can't stand laying there alone watching TV.

Until the first week of May I will be away on holidays. Yay!! Whatever the
weather, I *will* enjoy it, our last break before the big move home and
before the babies arrive. Goes to say I won't be posting much...
Pregnancy is going really well. My belly seems to grow almost half an ...

Just wondering if it is safe/recommended to take red raspeberry leaf tea.
I'm 39 weeks along and someone told me that this tea will do two things...
a) strenghten/tone my uterus to help ease contractions and make it more
efficient when it's time to push... b) help promote the ...

I have to look into this more to verify, but my insurance says it
covers 100% of maternal care for the above. I'm kind of surprised -
pleasantly, but wondered if it's too good to be true?
Obviously, y'all can't answer that, but has this been a common

Juliet was very glad to be heading back to the regular doctor's office
today; she really didn't like the u/s appointment where she wasn't welcome.
We went back so I could pee in the cup. ACK! I really had to go too, and yet
I almost completely missed the cup instead soaking my ...

hi andrea
i read your post re arrival of baby Oscar.  Congrats, great news.  6 of
each, how very clever!
bit scary re the placenta accretia - BIG scary as i understand it.  Glad it

Hi there all, I've been lurking and reading :o)  Well, I'm 19+2 with my 3rd
child, first two being girls of 17 and 10 y.o.  I had a hospital scan at 12
weeks and all was fine, but as far as I can see, that's all I get, and all
my appts now are midwife/gp ones, and one more with ...

We had decided to try an induction with Cervidil, because it seemed as
though, with my hip anomaly, we shouldn't let the baby get too big.
Also, I had been in prelabor for two solid weeks and was beginning to
worry that I'd be completely worn out by the time that *real* labor