Just curious...since birth, Rachel has had red veins on her eyelids. The doctors have never mentioned them so they must be normal. I've not been arund many newborns and have never paid attention....is this common? When does it go away? I looked closely today and it's just red veins, all over her...

We have just had our 20 week scan and have been told the babys Biparietal Diameter is below the normal scale at 39mm with head circumference at 158mm and abdominal circumference at137mm (all just in scale) We have to go back for another scan to keep an eye on the growth. Does anyone know if this...

Mom and I had made good time on our drive from Silicon Valley to the Sierra, and had arrived at the secluded campground just on the California side of Lake Tahoe with plenty of daylight left. Our tent was up and our sleeping bags were rolled out, our cooking gear and our food supplies were squared...

Hi, We are on TTC#1 and I was having the usual symptoms after ovulation, e.g, lot of body ache, breast soreness, feeling feverish(but no fever) and cramping(after ovulation and around implantation). This continued till CD24 when I felt a strong cramp for a couple of hours. On CD25-CD26, all the...

I'm planning on starting to take evening primrose oil at the end of this week when I hit 36 weeks. I just noticed that my bottle from last pregnancy expired in August. For those who know about such things -- does that mean they *really* expired, or that they'll expire six months after that, or...

I have had a weird soap-like taste in my mouth all day. At first I thought there was something wrong with the water at work but it hasn't gone away since I left work 5 hours ago. Eating dinner (chicken and veges), drinking orange juice and pigging out on gummy bears have not helped. I'm fine to...

There is all this talk about the foreskin being a harbinger of disease with the studies to back it up. Who are these women who sleep with these uncut guys? Uncut penises are so gross, that if I had not read the studies, I would assume all uncut guys are chaste STD free virgins! Frankly, an...

Hi all, My wife is pregnant and now her pregnancy is 24 weeks old. This monday when we went for routine Ultrasound the Biparetal Diameter/Femur Length ratio has come out to be 2.32 where it should have been somewhere around 1.5 (BPD is 61mm and FL is 26.3 mm).... Now my question is will the...

Last July, my son had Roseola - at least that's what the doctor diagnosed over the phone without ever seeing him. It looks like he has it again. The symptoms have been the same - high fever and irritibility for a day, then a red spotty rash that pops out after the fever breaks. The rash is...

My lamaze teacher/labor nurse advised no calf massage at all during pregnancy...something about the blood being heavier during pregnancy and collecting in the lower body and massage unearthing a clot that could travel to the lungs and.....you know the rest. I ran it by my doctor and he...

I don't have the time to dwell on this pregnancy like I did with #1 and it's really obvious. I had names picked out the first week and all this shopping to do and started working on the nursery. This time around, I figure we'll wait until about 8.5 months and throw something together if we even...

I recently had my ultrasound at 19 weeks and 6 days. The baby's maeasurements indicated that he was bigger than the gestational estimated date that was calculted. My doctor told me the baby was measuring at 20 weeks and 5 days. Everything was normal, i.e. his limbs, spine, brain and heart. My quad...

I'm 20 weeks pregnant and recently have had 2 ultrasounds. During the first US, the radiologist noticed that the baby's stomach was full and asked me to come back to check it in a week. I went back a week later and the stomach was still full of amniotic fluid. She booked me in for another US...

In case you were circumcised and don't agree with your parents' decision to have a go at you with sharp instruments (talk about social blind spots--think of all the milder forms of diddling with a boy's penis that would get someone locked away for a lloooong time), you may be interested to know...

Hi, I am 30 weeks pregnant and have been eating about 5-9 gms of fennel everyday for last 6-8 weeks. I was browsing the web and found that fennel can be harmful during pregnancy. Does any body have any more information about this. I am worried sick and would appreciate any...

I'm a teen-ager and since the moment I found out what happened to me I felt angry about it. Once I found what goes on during the procedure and what is lost, I felt sick. I know I was robbed of something special, and I'll never know what sex is really supposed to feel like. Why the hell do parents...

I asked several nurses in the hospital and also our brand new pediatrician about a soft squishy area on my newbord daughter's head. They all assured me that it is a Cephalohematoma and nothing to worry about. I asked again at the 5 day checkup at the pediatrican's office and again 'it will go...

Does such a thing as a recommendation engine for baby names exist? I'm trawling for baby name websites, and not finding such a thing (although I now know that the technique I'm looking for is called a "recommendation engine" ;-). I'm imagining a website along the lines of many movie and...

Hello, Anyone know if this could be a problem during birth? I went to a chiropractor last summer for pain in my lower back and he told me I had a 6th lumbar vertebrae, (I guess meaning 2 tailbones) and he said it could cause more pain during pregnancy for some and my doctor tells me not to worry....

Hi - is it possible to test sperm, from a sample given, for percentage of x or y chromosomes? Semen analysis check for sperm count and quality etc, but can a check for the number of X as opposed to Y chromosomes be done? We have 3 girls and want to know if we have any likelihood of having a boy...