Family Forum / Pregnancy / Pregnancy / June 2005

Has anyone ever come across this??  I've normally got pretty sensitive
hearing to begin with, but I'm currently 12 1/2 weeks pregnant and I just
can't handle things being too loud.  If normally I would have the TV on
about 25 or so (for the volume setting) I now prefer it on ...

We're doing pretty good!  Just a week away from the third trimester.  I've
had some contractions and cramping, but it's not regular.  I had a cervical
length last week and while it's shortening, we're still safe.
To my surprise, since I was there, they offered me a 4D ultrasound.  ...

I am the eldest of 5. As a kid I was beaten and abused. We had parents that
never showed us love, I was kept out of school to care for 4 kids.
I have lived away from my parents since I was 15.... my sister came to live
with me when she was 15 and I was 18... I took my parents to ...

My ob casually asked me as I was preparing to leave my last appt if I wanted
to have this test done.  I had never heard of it before, and I asked her to
explain.  She mentioned it was to find out if the baby was at risk of spinal
cord problems, but didn't really elaborate.  She ...

http://time.blogs.com/daily_rx/
Planned Home Births See Less Medical Intervention
Women didn't always give birth in state-of-the-art hospitals, strapped
to fetal monitors and steps away from an operating room equipped to

I am 17 weeks pregnant and I am waiting for my triple screen results.
The doctor told me that the results are going to tell me the
possibility for my baby to have Down's syndrome, like 1 in X. I am
wondering if anyone knows what the threshold X is. What is an

So there I am at work, walking around [I am always on my feet] when it
occurred to me that walking was actually harder to do today than it was say,
yesterday. However, I was not puffed out as badly after climbing stairs. I
then noticed my bump had dropped and my baby's movements ...

I was
Searching for something else (obviously) and this old thread came up in
the search.  This was very interesting to me because I was under the
impression that only us guys made a mess in the public

I am pregnant with my 3rd child (around 19weeks). I don't tend to have any
pregnancy symptoms when pregnant, and indeed only tend to feel pregnant when
the baby moves.  In my last 2 pregnancies, I got the "sore nipples" thing
when I got cold (ie so when I got cold, my nipples ...

Yesterday was our peri appointment.  It went different than we expected.  We
went through the ultrasound, which was really difficult, and then we spoke
to the perinatologist.  It took us a little bit to digest what he was saying
because it is definitely different than what we were ...

here is the most recent picture of my little 5 week old Megan..taken
by me last night.  =)
http://www.birthdiaries.com/megan.jpg
Stephanie Soderblom CLD CCCE CD(DONA) ICD

This is actually a re-introduction...I've been here before...
My name is Kathy...DH and I just found out I am about 7 weeks pregnant!
Due around mid February 2006.
I've lurked and posted here before, in late 2002 and throughout 2003

Thanks so much for the thorough reply.  It's frustrating that I don'
have much control over it, but I suppose I should consider myself luck
that this risk has been identified and we can monitor it all closely an
react accordingly.

Just wanted to get some views out there from those that have tried both
infant and convertible car seats for small babies (10 lbs and up).
For my 1st son, I used a convertible (Graco Comfortsport - awesome car
seat, BTW) mostly because he was already 23 inches long and almost 12

So, we all know to stuff our kids with vitamin C during the cold season
to ward off the sniffles, but new research shows that vitamin C does
not prevent or cure the common cold, unless the person taking it is
under extreme stress. Isn't that interesting? I read all about it in an