Family Forum / Pregnancy / Pregnancy / April 2006

Due Date Calendar
May
5 - Jodi/hobbes - Boy
5 - LietoFine - Unknown

5 months.  God help that poor baby and his/her brother.
Kevin needs to be sterilized!

A group where one does not have to argue or debate with
circumfetishists.  Alt.foreskin would ban all pro-circumcision talk and
encourage news stories and discussions about the true value of the
foreskin.

WHO has released new child growth standards, as all the old charts and
tables were based on either just bottle fed babies (who apparently tend to
weigh more than BF babies) or a mix of bottle and BF babies. The new
standards are supposed to more accurately reflect child growth ...

I'm not pregnant yet but we are ttc.  Meanwhile, here in the US Midwest
we are experiencing a mumps outbreak and it's got me on edge.  I've
read that mumps in the first trimester can cause miscarriage.  I've
also read that if you are pregnant or want to get pregnant you cannot

So, I was talking to my girl friend yesterday afternoon... Usual babble,
which always turns into, "So, what's new?" or "Sh*t hit the fan lately?" or
whatever.
This friend had said that her SO left, finally, so they could sort their

For some reason, I'm kind of scared.  I really don't know why, though.  I
have no reason at all to be scared about anything, and this is just my first
appointment with my OB that I've had now for 6 years and 3 pregnancies.  I
like her a lot, but for some reason, I just don't want ...

For the last five days or so, I've been feeling the uncomfortable signs
of a dropped baby -- *greatly* increased urgency/frequency of
urination, pressure on my pelvic region, and some new back pain -- but
I haven't felt the "relief" of a less crowded stomach or lungs.  Is it

       My wife is pregnant and now her pregnancy is 24 weeks old. This
monday when we went for routine Ultrasound  the Biparetal
Diameter/Femur Length ratio has come out to be 2.32 where it should
have been somewhere around 1.5 (BPD is 61mm and FL is 26.3 mm).... Now

I hope i describe this right, as I am having trouble googling it as I don't
really know what I am looking at... I am sure this is a new thing, as in
since I got pg, and that it hasn't been there long...
Ok, just below the actual nipple-bit, but still on the areola, i have what i

For the past 8 years i am suffering from irregular periods. Not only
irregular. The periods will occur once in 3 or 4 months. But when it
started, it won't arrest automatically. I used to be in a position to
take the contraceptive tablets. After completion of one cycle of

Nikki,
Haven't seen you out here for a while, but when I was paging through a
magazine in the OB office the other day, I saw an add for these "Thing
1" and "Thing 2" bodysuits, and I just had to point them out to you in

How you will be screaming for drugs?
How it is the worst pain on earth?
How you will be cursing everyone around you? blah blah blah
And if you don't seem to respond sufficiently terrified, they harass

PLACENTA IS PEEEEEOOOPPPPPPLLLLLLLEEEE
IT'S PEEEEEOOPPPPPPPPPPPPPLLLLLLEEEEEE AAAAAAGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH
http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowbizNews.asp?Code=AY182055S&headline=tom_cruises_placent
a_plans
Tom Cruise's placenta plans

Any comments/thoughts on the usefulness of the jogger style strollers
vs. a more typical traditional one?
I'm not a huge runner, but we do take walks a lot. We don't have many
sidewalks and what's there is broken up - basically, it's kind of rough