Family Forum / Pregnancy / Pregnancy / May 2005

Does anyone on here have any experience of successfully getting an elective
caesarian on the NHS? Failing that, any experience of getting one privately?
J

Hi! I don't remember this happening in pregnancy #1. I'm on pregnancy
#2 and will be 6 weeks on Tuesday. This morning at 3 am I woke up
feeling like I was going to toss my cookies, but instead, I have
diarrhea. I still feel nauseous, but has anyone else had diarrhea? Or

I am hoping you can help me.  I have a friend who is 37 years old and has a
condition called polycythemia which means I think she has too many red blood
cells and has clotting problems.  There is a more severe type but she has
the less severe.  She really has no physical symptoms ...

Can anyone send me their experiences of home births versus
hospitalization.  I am interested in anyone who feels that the home
birth option is better.
Thanks

A bit late (they were scheduling 10 days out...) but awesome news...Shiny's
55th percentile in height and weight, and has gained 6 1/2 ounces per week
since she was 7 weeks old. And has met all developmental milestones to date.
Inlaws in town.. how can two slow old folks wear me ...

I lost my mucus plug at 1:30am on the 19th and contractions started almost
immediately. We headed for the hospital at around 4am as I was feeling all
the contractions very low down and was somewhat concerned about my scar.
When we got there, the contractions were roughly every 5 ...

I have a request for all you research-savvy moms out there: my
brother-in-law smokes outside the house, but always reeks of smoke.  He
and my sister have an 11-month-old baby and he does not believe that
the smoke on his clothing will have any effect on her health.  Are

some people may have noticed I've gone quiet (for me!) but not vanished
entirely, anyway, I was 37 weeks yesterday, I'm still suffering with my
joints, which is why I've not been posting, I can usually only manage 1 15
minute session at the computer per day.

When my wife was in 20 weeks of her pregnancy, we had said to take 2nd
level of sonography.
After that test, it was found that our baby had 9mm nuchal fold
thickness.  It's like come out of blue because everything was good in

I'm thinking of refusing the rhogam shot at 28 weeks.  I'm O- and hubby is
O+.   I've had the shot at 28 weeks for my previous pregnancies and
afterwards, but this will be my last baby.  Hubby is getting a vasectomy,
and I'm quite certain he's not changing his mind.  My three ...

I have got a 5 week old baby and am having trouble keeping up with the
amount of food  need to eat.
I seem to get hungry about 3 times a day even though I eat breakfast
lunch and dinner.

Has now turned into a homebirth guru. He's buying books (and reading
them), preaching to me of all the advantages, lamenting the
overmedicalized birth in our society...
There's nothing like the passion of a convert!

 In about a week I should be finding out exactly how far along I am. I
am approximating 9 weeks. The past 4 miscarriages I had I was in my
late third to early 4th month along so I am nervous.(3 miscarriages
with ex , one with father now) Between the different RH factors in the

This might end up sounding like a whine, but I'm feeling a little
overwhelmed!!
I hit 20 weeks on Thursday (yea!!), but I've been dealing with a horrible
toothache and tooth sensitivity.  I've also got a raging yeast infection

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