Hi all... Thanks to all who answered my earlier post about feeling rushed into interventions because I'm a post-dates VBAC candidate. I saw the OB yesterday, who checked my cervix and proclaimed it slightly posterior, about 25% effaced and not dilated. Baby is still not engaged, although is head...

I seem to have a problem with smells... Has anyone had anything similar happen or have I fallen off my rocker? Lately I've taken a real liking to the smells of the strangest, and normally grossest, smells, and can't stand things that normally smell 'good'... For example... I no longer gag at the...

I know a lot of folks here co-sleep, which I can believe would result in a more soundly sleeping child; but is there anybody who doesn't co-sleep who's had success with non-cry-it-out methods? Shiny's in the cosleeper next to me, but is more "distant" a sleeper than either of the other...

Hi all Just want to know if this is pretty normal or not. Its been bugging me now and bringing me down in the dumps. I have a real love for my unborn baby already although I am SOOOOOO scared that im going to be a crappy mother. Sometimes I can be really patient ect ect but recently I have been...

Elizabeth Lyn was born on Wednesday July 6th at 6.46 am. She weighed 8lbs 2oz and was 20 1/2 inches long. We're all doing well. Lucy

I'm chuffed to say baby William was born at 8.50am Friday 8th July weighing 7lb10oz and is healthy. Feed well from start. Pain relief was tens machine, but due to stressed baby in final stages an epiostomy and kiwi were needed to deliver him safely. Totally happy with all decisions I made and...

I'm looking to put "Lentil" into daycare two days per week when my maternity leave is up. (DH works part-time.) She'll be 3 months old at the time. I've put my name on the waiting lists of the reputable day care centers in the area, but I'm starting to get the impression that day care for infants...

Here's my update, with various questions interspersed... I'm 1.5 cm dilated and 80% effaced! I know that this means nothing in terms of when I'm going to have the baby, but I can't help but be hopeful that it will be SOON (especially since it's about 98 and humid outside!!). I would just love to...

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Had another "meet another partner" OB visit today. Things are going well: BP was 104/66, no glucose, trace protein, weight up about 39lbs (according to my own scale), heart rate was 143, fundal height 34cm. This doc says "Have we met? You look familiar." I said I thought we'd seen him in the...

I am going to NH sooner then I thought. My grandmother has had her colon removed and part of something else.. My mom could not remember the details. Anyway she made it through surgery ok but now she is in serious condition and My family is worried about her making through this ok. I dont know if...

I have a rather small fibriod (size of a plum). I'm 16wks now and I'll have another u/s in a few weeks....I hope that it has not grown. But I just want to ask you all about delivery with a fibriod. I've heard many different things like a C-section must be done or natural delivery is possible but...

I have been getting sharp stabbing type pains on and off for a few weeks now on the bottom right hand side of my weist. Its not there all the time and its not there daily, sometimes I can go a week without it and then bam I will have this stabbing pain for a few secounds then it will ease. I...

Joy where are you doing the NST? Tori "Joybelle" wrote in message ... Today we drove two hours to our perinatologist appointment. I'm going positively insane at the though of having to drive through St. Paul/Minneapolis after...

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Hi again, thanks to all who replied to my last couple of questions - have some more. I'm almost 16 weeks, and have been putting on a LOT of weight recently and it's starting to worry me a bit. I put on 2 kilos almost straight away - which I gather was probably fluid, and then nothing for about 8...

Does anyone know how long Thalassaemia carrier screening takes? How many does it take to get the results? Thanks.

Addie had her 9.5 month checkup today, and was a real trouper. 19lbs 15oz and 28 3/4 inches long. She's in the 75-90th percentile for length and the 50-75th percentile for weight. It's funny, Taylor was always in the 80-90th percentile for both length and weight, so Addie seems much more like...

MICHIGAN BABY STRANGLER GEORGE MALCOLM MORLEY, MB ChB FACOG GEORGE IS A "NICE" BABY STRANGLER - HE MEANS WELL... George Malcolm Morley, MB ChB FACOG admitted strangling babies (see below) - but said it was OK because he only TEMPORARILY strangled babies... Michigan Baby Strangler George...

Hi folks, Since I posted a couple of weeks ago about my mom's concerns that DS has had more than his fair share of coughs/runnny noses, I've been tracking his symptoms. It seemed like a good idea to do that before doing any elimination diets, etc, since I need a baseline to compare against. I'm...