Time flies! I can't believe Ada is 4 weeks old today. We had her weighed on Wednesday and she was 10lb6oz, almost 2lb up from her birth weight of 8lb8oz. She rarely nurses to sleep and prefers to be able to see me when she is going to sleep, which means having her in a moses basket isn't working...

I'll be in Seattle next week and I'm considering getting fitted and purchasing new bras, my current bras seem to fit ok, but are seriously worn out. If I want to do this job in the US it has to be next week, I don't think it will wait 'til October. So, which stores have good fitters and a good...

now, I'm well aware, that pregnancy in general has an effect on the pelvic floor, but I'd be interested to see if what I'm about to describe would be just caused by pregnancy, or as I suspect by birth itself. Yesterday, for the first time someone actually examined my pelvic floor, not exactly...

How you doing? did you get any further on whether or not you felt comfortable with homebirth? how are you doing with your sugar control? Cheers Anne

So I'm lieing on the physicians table, prepped for an injection into my symphysis pubis, they have to numb the skin and other tissue above the joint with local anaesthetic, they tell me it will hurt, like a bee sting, I don't think I've ever been stung by a bee though, first injection, that's...

oh Stephanie, that is sad, doubly so after last time, have you had miscarriages before? I know there are some tests doctors like to run after 2 in a row and there are things that can crop up even after multiple sucessful pregnancies, though rare, I know that doesn't help right now, but it might...

so, in some pregnancy books I've seen advice about exercise suggesting to not have the heart rate go above a certain point, I assumed the reason for this was that with no cooling mechanism, this avoids the baby getting it's core temperature too high. I was just wondering if that was really the...

I'm now past 12 weeks, though that doesn't feel particularly magical, for some reason I'm acutely aware of the possibility of missed miscarriage. In my other pregnancies I'd had a scan this point, both were due to severe abdominal pain, though I'd have had one anyway in the first pregnancy, I'd...

I'd been looking forward to this one, though anxious too as at 13+2, we hoped to hear the heartbeat - I'd been a bit paranoid in the last couple of weeks, but more relaxed in the last couple of days as I did seem to pop a little bit - not the type of popping that anyone else would notice, but...

This morning we met with the obsetrician and midwifery manager to discuss our complaint. It was emotional for me, but I was able to remain in control and though it was painful, the expression of those emotions did not adversely affect how the meeting progressed. In the initial response to our...

it's only OT because I'm not actually pregnant, but I'm asking here because I guess the strategies are the same. I've had pretty bad nausea since Monday, to the extent of not being able to drink, had checks and whatnot, including going to the ER today as I was so bad and had started other...

yikes, time flies! She is a fabulous baby, she has gorgeous smiles and giggles and shares plenty of them. Though I've felt a little low over the past month, I'm not really depressed as such, I'm taking meds and seeing people regularly and crossing my fingers! The bit that really sucks is my SPD...

I'd never heard of delivering early as a potential prevention of GBS transmission. I was chatting to a women today who had GBS during her first pregnancy, but wasn't detected, it's not routinely screened for in the UK, her baby was one of the unlucky few that actually got sick and was in intensive...

my son was born when it was quite hot, someone gave me peppermint foot spray, absolutely fabulous, soothing and takes no time at all to give yourself a quick treat Anne

I hope I am remembering the right person, anyone a while back we were discussion rheumatology and you said you had psoriatic arthritis and I thought it was unlikly to have any relevance to me as I don't have any skin psoriasis, anyway today I discovered I have the tissue type that is...

stats from February at our local hospital, 62% spontaneous vaginal delivery for first time mums, unfortunately I don't have the split of c-sections, forceps, ventouse etc for the remaining 38%. I thought this was a pretty good rate, possibly even very good, I know a little about what national...

I mentioned this a while back and you all sent me to see the doctor and told me not to be embarrassed! Anyway, I asked the lady doctor who fitted my Mirena, who said I definitely had a prolapse, but she didn't really examine, just observed me bearing down. She said I needed to work on good bowel...

I found the article, but it's not new, it was just linked from something I read recently, here it is http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2121935.stm I also looked up stuff about how abortion is carried out, everything I saw indicated that after 20-21 weeks an injection would be given to stop...

well I know today is the day, you've still a few hours to go naturally, so I'm really crossing my fingers for you and that if you do get to the induction that just the prostin gel will do it good luck Anne

I chatted with a friend on Sunday and it's brought a lot of worries back to the surface. I think she feels a that I'm a bit too relaxed about just seeing how things go and really fears that I may injure myself during birth. I've basically been working on the principle that I'll get warning and...