CONCORD, N.H. — Two women were arrested this week after police said one of the women injected drugs into the other while she was in labor in September. Police said Felicia Farruggia, 29, was in labor at a Concord, N.H., home when she asked Rhianna Frenette, 37, to give her heroin and...

Your very first moments of life can influence your risk of obesity for years, a new study shows. Babies delivered via cesarean section were 15% more likely to be obese as kids, teens and young adults than were babies who made the trip through the birth canal, according to the report Wednesday...

Pregnant mums who pile on excessive weight or have high blood sugars ‘imprint’ obesity on their children, a new study warns. The risk applies even to normal weight babies weighing between 5.5 to 8.8 pounds at birth and suggests obesity gets passed on in the womb. Previous studies found excess...

When travel = 15-18 hours travel time, minimum 3 flights and 7 hour time diffference? Assuming of course the trip would not be planned until after the baby is born, but this wouldn't be a holiday/pleasure trip but a familial obligation.

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...

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...

Ok, first I would like to state that I am very much not trying to come off as a whiny adult child, but if I am let me know :) So I am currently pregnant and due in October with my first child at 29. I have had medial support emotionally but I'm ok with it. I am not with the father of the child...

We didn't know the gender, but right from the beginning had thought we were having a boy, so it was a big surprise when out came a little girl! Grace Elizabeth, 7lb4oz, 18.5in long, 13.75in head circumference The c-section seemed to go really well and healing seems to be going well too. I...

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Hi, I'm due July 25th, and I have a son Lucas who will be 2 later this month. We know that the baby is a boy and were having ALOT of trouble finding a name that sounds good/like Lucas. I dont want a name that really sounds LIKE Lucas but sounds good WITH Lucas. I think Lucas is a name thats not...

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....

Add this to another reason to try to limit unnecessary primary c-sections--apparently, a previous c-section increases the risk of stillbirth in subsequent pregnancies. Fortunately, while the increase is statistically significant, it is not huge (this study found an increase from 0.5 per 1000...

ATTY KATHLEEN ZELLNER'S BIRTH TRAUMA JACKPOTS! Example: "$3,000,000...for a brachial plexus injury that occurred at birth resulting in partial paralysis of her right hand and arm." http://www.kathleentzellner.com/verdicts.html OPEN LETTER (archived for global access...

PREGNANT WOMEN: BIRTH CRIME: MDs are closing birth canals up to 30% by using dorsal and semisitting delivery. It's EASY to offer your baby the "extra" up to 30% of pelvic outlet area - just roll onto your side as you push your baby out. Or use other "alternative" delivery positions like...

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...

By Feifei Sun "This is the happiest day of my life!" So says Maci Bookout, according to a recent cover of OK! magazine, where the 19-year-old Teen Mom star and rumored bride-to-be flashes a beauty-queen smile. Sharing cover space with Bookout — and sporting a bikini, plus a baby on each hip —...

MODERATOR VACANCY INVESTIGATION (MVI) moderated group soc.support.pregnancy.loss This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI), begun because moderated newsgroup soc.support.pregnancy.loss is not functioning, and may have been abandoned by its moderator(s). This...

Don't know if there is anyone out there, but this is just a quick note to say we're scheduled for a c-section at 9am tomorrow morning. Eventually we consulted with an ob, who talked to many other people, pretty much all recommended c-section, our own thoughts were also drifting in that...

Well, after 6 months of me hounding the doctors, knowing that Jessica had asthma, she had two full on asthma attacks today, and we were finally (after the 2nd attack) given a diagnosis and an inhaler. Does my head in when they ignore mother's instincts. I hate the fact that my little girl had to...