This morning I had my 37 week OB appointment. My OB was off delivering a baby.. no problem. One of the nurses did the exam. Then just as I was leaving, my OB shows up and says "hold on, let me take a peak at your chart". She then goes on to say that she's just come back from a conference,...

So, my husband's sister's daughter is pregnant with her first. Her due date was originally the 10th of October, but about midway through the pregnancy, it was moved up to the 25th of September. Yesterday, my SIL told me that she is going to be having a c-section sometime this week without even a...

go about putting Caden into his own room? He has slept in our room, but moved from the bassinet to the porta cot.... obviously i just dont wanna dump him in there one night... his room is also on the other side of the house. So what do i do? Move his proper cot in our room for awhile the move it...

I know there was a thread on this recently, but I can't recall how often everyone clipped. DD is 14 weeks and her nails are growing like crazy. I seem to be clipping (as low as is safe) every few days and she's still scratching herself. Does anyone else have this problem? -- Amy, Mum to Carlos...

FYI- Med Help International has an online support forum for soon-to-be and new moms. Please feel free to drop by our Maternal & Child Health forum. http://www.medhelp.org/forums/maternal/wwwboard.html Regards, Med Help Intl. www.medhelp.org

Today it is nice and cool so rather than go to the trouble of driving John to the office this morning so that I could have the car (don't have to pick up the kids today so I didn't need it otherwise), I walked to the doctor's office (about 6 blocks--maybe 3/4 mile). I walked VERY slowly and two...

This was one miserable consequence of pregnancy that I have always avoided . . .. until now. ACK! What does one do for this? Leslie Emily (2/4/91) Jake (1/27/94) Teddy (2/15/95) William (3/5/01 -- VBA3C, 13 lbs. 5 oz.)

Is it just me, or do doctors drive anyone else nuts with their insane logic? I have had some worsening back pain for about 4 weeks now (more like my 'upper-butt' rather than my back) that shoots down my left leg and will buckle the leg if I happen to be walking on it. During the past 2 weeks...

All is well! Baby Catherine has her head down, ready to come out. Her back is on the right side, but she moves it so much from one day to the other that it's hard to tell how she'll be from one week to another. My midwife has warned me about some yoga exercises (which I can't name in English,...

My wife and I are trying for a baby, but we do not want our families/freinds to know about it until my wife is several weeks pregnant. My wife is not drinking any alchole at the moment since we dont know if she is actually pregnant or not. So far not drinking hasnt caused any problems, but we are...

Y'all may remember that I had an IUD put in back in the spring, and asked a bunch of questions about it here. Well, the good news is that the Mirena did what it's supposed to. I had it put in mostly to control irregular (read, 'constant') bleeding, and, after bleeding for about 2 1/2 months...

Hello everyone. Sorry I have been absent but I have just been extremely tired being on my own 2 weeks out of every 3 and I wasn't in a good frame of mind. A little help from Zoloft is letting me function like a human again. Congratulations to all the new mamas and papas and welcome to all...

Hello everyone and it's been awhile. Been a hectic week. First off, the good news! She has turned!!! I was so excited at the doctor's office I started crying. That was at my 32 week appt. The bad news: Last week Thursday (my 33rd) I was laying down and started feeling some powerful BH's. I...

Hi all, I've been lurking here for awhile, but have been reading with much more interest since I became pregnant this summer. My DH and I have an 11yo son and I'm 17 weeks along with #2 (at the ripe old age of 42 :-). So far, things have been going OK, with the normal symptoms of nausea, fatigue,...

You could try this site http://www.ivfer.com/hcg.htm The table for hcg levels is about a 3rd of the way down the page. Good luck Pip

I have cts so badly this pregnancy! I can't drive for more than a few miles without my hands falling asleep. If this keeps up I soon won't be able to drive at all. It's kind of funny because my hands and arms don't seem so very swollen, but there it is. :-( Leslie Emily (2/4/91) Jake...

Well, based on the exam, everything looks good-blood pressure is normal, no protein, and while I'm still retaining fluid, I'm not increasing fluid rate as fast as I was last week. However, the non-stress test came back as close to non-reactive, and even though we have a definite, very steady...

Reposting this part as it got lost way down below (whoopsee!). My name is Laura and I live just outside civilization city limits in North Georgia (the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains) with my dh (dear husband or d***head, whatever suits my current mood, lol :-) Jim and our daughter Finley. ...

Also, if this was an empty sac wouldn't her hormone levels drop? Not necessarily. A good friend of mine lost a baby just a few weeks back and just a couple of weeks ago was diagnosed with a gestational type of cancer. They identified it very early on because her hcg levels were continuing...

Hey all... A question for you. And sorry -- it is gross. I am now 11 days postpartum, and all my books and all my research say that after about a week after delivery, I should be discharging yellowish or pinkish lochia as opposed to substantial (not excessive, but certainly "substantial")...