I'm pregnant!! I know I posted here before to announce but today I had an ultrasound as I have been cramping (thanks for the advice, Ilse) and I got to see the little peanut and they got a heartbeat (140) and now I feel like I can finally relax and be excited about this baby!! Yay! Thanks for...

Hello again (wow, I am an active poster these days - must be hormonal ;-) ) Since the very beginning DH and I had agreed on Catherine to name our coming baby girl. However, in the past week, one name keeps popping up, and doesn't seem to let me rest: Frédérique. I know in English it's mostly a...

Hi, TTC for past nine months! Have read TCOYF from cover to cover. Charting temps and fluid and I've started to notice a pattern of EW as early as CD8 but no temp rise until maybe CD14 or later, and fluid only creamy around this time. Any ideas?! Thanks in advance Ellie

Her Dad says she is still in a lot of pain..;( no baby yet, he =91=91thinks=92=92 she had an epidural...but he's not 100% sure..... I think she is having a really hard time....

I emailed her Dad, and she is in the hospital right now. they expect the baby to be born this afternoon..;-) I'll keep checking with him..

Katy Jolie is four weeks old today! It doesn't seem possible. I haven't weighed her since her 2 week appointment (at which she weighed an ounce over her birthweight of 8lbs 2oz...), but she's acquiring cute little fat rolls around her arms and legs and under her chin... a happy breastfed baby. ...

I had another ultrasound Thursday (at 29 weeks 3 days) and everything is progressing as it should. My cervix is about five and a half centimeters and still tightly closed. The twins were head down this time. One weighs three pounds and the other is two pounds fourteen ounces. I haven't felt...

LITTLE XAVIER'S IMMUNIZATIONS (DAILY, FREE, MOTHER-ADMINISTERED) Woohoo!!! Little Xavier is going to be getting his free daily immunizations (breastmilk) because his mom, Tori, is going to the trouble of pumping her breastmilk for him. Further comments below.

I know this has been asked before, but at what age can you stop worrying about your baby's head shape and sleep them on their backs? DD is four months old and since birth I've slept her on her side in a 'wedge' consisting of a long triangle (which goes behind her back) and a short triangle (which...

Sophie (or anyone else) How do you do your website with the pictures? I saw that at our photo place where we take our digital chip in had an option to "print to webpage." What do you do to update/add pictures to your site? I am very computer unsavvy and not in the know........ Kelly #4 2/23/05

With my first pregnancy, the day before my due date I went to see the movie "Jackass" in the theaters. I laughed so hard that I started losing my mucus plug during the movie. Almost 24 hours later the contractions started strong and regularly, and then my daughter was safely born another 13 hours...

WET NURSE (parents request it; fathers were responsible in Islam) "...In early Islam it was a father's obligation to ensure that his child received human milk, if the biological mother was indisposed to provide it. Securing human milk was of vital importance for the survival of the child. The...

ATTENTION MOONDRAGON (Homebirth Midwife Leather Dupris): HOW **NOT** TO DO A BREECH BIRTH... (How not to do ANY vaginal birth.) Semi-reclining/semisitting closes the birth canal up to 30%...

Hi, I'm a 18-year-old girl from Poland who wants to become an au pair during Summer 2005 somewhere in UK or Ireland. I'm knowledgeable about children (I have three younger brothers aged 3,5 and 7) and I'm also a volunteer in children's house. I'm in high school now (2nd year of 3)and after it I'd...

"Leslie" wrote in message ... That's what my BP was tonight at the Kroger where I went to check it upon the advice of the experts here. :-) Then I waited a couple of minutes and took it again, three more times: 147/83, ...

I strained a ligament, or my uterus, or a muscle, or all of them, during my sleep last night. It happened while I was turning around on my other side (from right to left), without supporting my huge belly... Right now, I can only turn on my back from my right side if I support my belly with both...

Hi Leslie, Do you feel any better this morning? Here's hoping! Hugs, Rebecca

Ericka, Elfanie, anyone else with sources/thoughts on this? When is the most optimal time to have the PKU test done on a newborn? I know it needs to be done after a certain amount of time so that the newborn has had something in his/her system, but how about *optimal?* Our midwives' letter says...

When was the last time we've seen her post? I'm hoping Xander decided to make his appearance. Was she being induced today if nothing had happened? JennP. (4 days past date herself)

All right, it could *really* be anytime soon! And since I have been having "evening contractions" in the past few days, it means that labour has in fact already started, albeit very slowly. To my midwife, there is no *false* labour: every part of it is real, including the early...