Thanks to all who responded to the Gender intuition poll. I was hoping to get to 100 children, but didn't quite manage that even though I tried a couple of people round here. Most people round here said they'd no idea, which wasn't totally helpful :-) I ended up with 25 people and 71 children,...

CLUB OF ROME: Let's open birth canals worldwide. Let's let newborns tranfuse to themselves all the stem cells they want and harvest only the stem cells newborns leave. IDEA...Newborn resuscitation IDEA at the very end of this post. Club of Rome member UCLA Vice Chancellor ROBERTO PECCEI please...

It just occured to me that touching/cleaning a hamster may carry the same risks as kitty littter boxes. Anyone know?? We just bought DD a hamster a couple of days ago and I'd like to be sure! TIA! CY

Yesterday I had my 36 week appointment. My doctor commented that my perineal muscle is especially strong/tough and recommended that we try perineal massage over the next month, which is something she has never recommended to a patient before Apparently she will usually tell people who ask that...

Today is not my day. For a few nights in a row my morningsickness has been clearly less, which freaks me out. During the day I generally feel miserable, but at this point it is hard to tell whether that is due to nerves or pregnancy. The only clue I had with the last m/c was the disappearing of...

DH found a crib today that he liked so we added one more thing to the baby goods. We had a power outage today, so to keep from going nuts inside in the dark we ventured out to see if anything was open and had lights on. The neighborhood resale shop was one of very few stores open so we went in...

I'm a time traveller from the future and I must tell you that pregnancy won't survive the year 2014. It will be outlawed, banned worldwide, and replaced by cloning and members of the underground who secretly get pregnancy will be arrested and shot.

Hello, I need a little advice - this smacks of being an unreasonable request and I'm feeling insulted, but I've been emotional lately so I don't know if it's just the hormones. I'm 36 weeks tomorrow and both my sisters have been telling me for six months that they're going to visit me when the...

I am an MD who uses natural treatments (Nutritional Medicine, herbs, etc.) with my patients. But unless we, the health-oriented public, take action now, in a very short time we will no longer have the legal right to make these choices. CODEX ALIMENTARIUS (CA) is already law in Australia, Canada...

I just bought a different kind of multivitamin yesterday. I know this might sound silly but I'll ask anyway. I don't particularly care for herbals. I don't think this one has any in it but 1 thing. It contains "citrus bioflavonoids (from orange peel extract) 25mg". Now I know it says it's from...

Has anyone else had any experience with an allergic reaction to formula? Alexandra had about 3 oz. of Enfamil Lipil and after the feeding just 'looked' sick, like she didn't feel well. About 20 minutes later her little ears were bright red and under her chin was red and her face had red blotches on...

Attn: George Malcolm Morley, MB ChB FACOG ) Please see the postscript. PREGNANT WOMEN: See the White Elephant Fact at the very end of this post... IF AMY'S BABY IS BORN BLUE... ASPHYXIA DOES NOT INJURE THE BRAIN?

THE CIRCUMCISION DECISION: PARENTS AREN'T GUILTY OF CHILD ABUSE See Postscript #2 below... WAS THE BAETEN ET AL. STUDY FLAWED?

After some recent blood work I was told that I had a bit of a low CBC count and they wanted to retest in a months time. They didn't seem very concerned about it and I didn't get a great explanation of what that means. Why would they have tested for that in the first place, how would that effect...

Lately I got really paranoid when thinking about giving birth. It really puts me off. I have never been able to watch women giving birth on TV and always thought of it as the worst horror pain experience that anyone can go through. However, I realised that millions of women go through it every day...

Girls, this is serious ;-) I looked all over the stores and online to find some nice maternity clothes. I have a couple of pants, but I would like to have some nice shirts and something fancy to dress up. So far *everything* I have found is either soft pink or frilly or both. I ran away...

I wanted you to know that I read all of your replies, and I appreciate your point of view, but I wasn't kidding when I said that I had had it with this conversation. It has gone beyond the point of "sharing information" into what folks 'round here call a "****ing contest," and frankly, I'm just...

asking a q for the future from those who suffer recurrent m/c: after m/c #2, OB told me no lifting, no exercise, no sex for at least the first 12 weeks of a pregnancy. we never talked about swimming. what's the situation with that? by "swimming" i mean floating in the pool with DS who splashes...

What a miserable day! heehee -such a nice way to start a post, eh? Anyway, all day I've had contractions-some were white knucklers, others just plain painful and annoying. Sitting in the car has been a bear-we had two soccer games and a practice to go to, so being pleasant was a challenge...