Family Forum / Pregnancy / Pregnancy / April 2005

Everything looks great.  Baby is HEAD DOWN!  Yay!  His heartbeat was 141, I
am measuring at 32 weeks (hit a big growth spurt apparently!), and weight
gain is only 1.5lbs since last visit three weeks ago, making my total weight
gain 18.5lbs (I gained 35 with my DD but was on bedrest ...

Sorry if this is TMI, but I've had more than normal vaginal discharge
throughout this pregnancy (normal) but the last couple of days it feels
like I'm even more "wet".  At first I thought it might be the start of
my plug but it's definately not thick and it is clear.

Okay, it's finally happened.  I'm at 28 weeks now, and I've hit that
point where people, instead of saying "My you look great," now touch
my stomach and say "Wow, that's huge."  I don't feel so big yet, but
people obviously think I look like a whale.  Oh well...wait till they

*WHY* do so many women want them?  Is it so they can get more pity and "Oh you poor thing, are you
ok? type comments?  Just for special attention?
C-sections should *only* be carried out in the way they were meant to be.... in EMERGENIES only.

So I saw the OB today as a follow up to Monday's
hospital visit.  BP fine (100/60, as opposed to
112/50 at the hospital, which seemed very odd for me),
baby's heartbeat fine.  From talking to the OB, it

well I've heard of many people doing this in later pregnancy, I managed to
trip over absolutely nothing, couldn't save myself and came down to earth
with a bump. Unfortunately I've bruised my knee quite badly, but at least
there was no harm to bump or Nathanael who was on my back ...

Recent Births (date format mm/dd/yy)
03/11/05 Min E- Wesley
03/16/05 Jenrose- Suzannah Frances
04/02/05 Shelley- Owen Jeffrey

I am so dry.  My skin is turning into "old lady" skin - with fine
wrinkles like tissue paper that's been wadded up and then flattened
back out.  I'm thirsty all the time - right now, even though I just
finished a 20 oz bottle of water in half an hour!  I know I've read

Alexandra Calvert was born on Monday, April 11 at 6:21pm, in a 7-hour
unmedicated VAGINAL DELIVERY.
She's 8 pounds 4 ounces, and 20 inches long. I am tired, sore, and very
very happy. She's already nursing like a champ.

It is wonderful to be writing a birth story this year.  Exactly one year ago
(which ironically became my due date this year)I was lying on a table with a
CT scan of my head and neck to rule out lymphoma-it was a nerve wracking few
months of neck ultrasounds, labs, brain MRI's, ...

I really hope this question hasn't been asked a million times already.  
I searched google groups and didn't see the answer yet.  Anyway, next
week I have 3 interviews lined up with doulas in my area.  I have
looked at the DONA website and have seen the list of questions that

Apart from preeclampysia what other reasons are there for protein showing up in urine?
Another hiccup in my PG, the said yesterday I have protein +1 & high BP. They wanted to admit me for obs but I said no, so they send me home with a large container and told me to fill it with ...

I'm a teenager and I had unprotected sex with my boyfriend a week ago
and my period has just been over for 3 days. I've heard that it's
harder to get pregnant the first 5 days after your period, Is this
true? What are my chances of being pregnant?

Well, there's good news and bad news.  First, good news.  BP is fine, no GD,
baby's heartbeat is strong and at 140, still head down.  Minute amount of
ankle swelling that I haven't even noticed so it can't be bad!
Bad news.  I am measuring at 5 weeks bigger than my dates.  I will be ...