Family Forum / Pregnancy / Pregnancy / December 2005

Well went to hospital again today as planned and everything went really
well!!!!!!! Urine results came back clear again and BP was normal and the
protine test came back clear today so I am over the moon and very happy. I
am hoping now that all will go well for the next 5 weeks or ...

How invasive (or non-invasive) is this?
Is it basically the same as the standard one but with a higher powered
machine? How useful is it, really?
My OB is strongly encouraging a triple screen. I told her my

Okay, so I am a far way off from the point where this is going to be an
issue, but I was just thinking...
Does every woman really get "the urge to push" when she is laboring?
Before I had DD, my mom and sister-in-law both told me labor "war

I am having rather consistent lower back pain, kinda period pain style
pretty much constantly now, could this be a sign of labour starting. I am
not getting strong painful contractions other than this uncomfortable lower
back ache!!!!

I understand babies get sick more easily in homes where the air is very
dry, and am thinking of getting a humidifier.  I could use it myself,
actually, as it does get unbearably dry by the morning.
We live in an open loft with central air and can't afford to install a

I've been having some musings, both of my births were booked as homebirths
and both happened in hospital, as Ada grows older my mind turns to next
time, if there is one, which does require some analysis of past events.
Intellectually I am all for homebirths and strongly believe ...

If it's non-invasive (or no more so than the regular u/s), and gives a
clearer answer to potential problems than the triple screen, why is the
triple screen done in the first place?
I can see doing it before amnio - not only is it invasive but more

I mentioned a while back that of all the women I know who've had
babies, the only one who didn't receive some kind of medical
intervention at birth was the woman who had the baby at home.  Everyone
else was either induced, augmented, c-sectioned, or forcepsed.  I

Well,
Friday I started spotting.  Brown and light.  I had a blood test at
doctors but bc it was friday I could not get results.  On and off very
light spotting the rest of the weekend till now.  No pain really but my

Thought I would post the update on results ect, well went to hospital today
as I was asked to when I phoned up Friday for the results. They confussed me
bundles because on Friday they told me the urine results were clear but then
today they told me that there was a little infection ...

I need a reccommendation on some good low impact exercises I can do for my
abs, back, etc.  Just for feeling more flexible and getting some ab strength
back.  I can't do formal exercise obviously for several weeks, and even
walking right now is out because of some healing ...

We had the typical 18-20 week ultrasound with both of our first children,
partly because we never thought to do otherwise, partly because of the fun
involved (and we wanted to know the sex), mostly for reassurance. This time,
I'm not so sure I want to do it. I've never had any ...

I will be getting confirmation from my OB of what week I'm actually in when
I make my first appt, but I am curious to know now.  I am due 9/1.  My first
day of my last MC was 11/24.  I ovulated somewhere between 12/2-12/6.

doctors have been stressing over my friends baby, too small, not growing
etc, she arrived last night weighing 7lb2oz, so I suppose her growth could
have been slowing, but I doubt it, the mum's bump seems to have grown each
time I saw it, whereas another friend they did twig that ...

I realise this varies drastically from place to place, I'm just trying
to get a general idea of salaries, hours worked, how the situation
works out, etc.
Here's our situation, which is still a hypothetical: