I had my 2nd appointment with our midwives this morning, so we were able to ask our questions about transfer for various reasons and the all important filling the tub. We found out that they have a relationship with a group of 5 obsetricians at Valley Medical Center in Renton, so for anything...

I found out about 3 weeks ago that I am about 60 days pregnant. This will be my first child. Both my husband and I are thrilled! However I haven't been able to sleep at ALL since finding out as there is so much to think about - doctors, vitamins, decorating, childproofing, buying things the baby...

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Some how, I've managed not to have ever heard of this. It's a method by a British Obstetrician, originally within the NHS (it's how water birth got started in the UK) and later at a small private hospital in North London. It's also the method followed by celebrities such as Kate Moss, Elle...

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 have exactly 2 calendar months left to go now! EDD with this one is Feb. 7, 2009, and being December 7, 2008, that means I have 2 months left to go!

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...

There probably is no answer for this one, but I'm going to ask it anyway, but I'm confused with the symptoms I'm havin right now. Riht at 12 weeks I started feeling sick, but in a different way, it was more of a sick feeling in my mouth than anywhere else, it's funny, but when people say they...

I have 7.5 weeks left to go now. Ugh. EDD is Feb 7. I've felt horrible the whole way through, but looks like the end is somewhat near. It's a girl (again) and I have been throwing a few names out for myself to see how they sound and how much I really like them ;) I've obtained a bouncy chair -...

I'm going to try and make this as short as possible... Both girls are upstairs (probably destroying the place) and need to be tossed in the bath ASAP, but this is really becoming a pain... For the last maybe 30 mins or so, I've been having some bad cramping feeling in my stomach. I don't know...

Being a foreigner, I don't know which stores sell maternity or nursing stuff, particularly at the cheaper to middle end of the market, we live in a relatively up market place and other than motherhood maternity (and even then it had mimi maternity with triple the prices in the front of the...

Hello all, Was the The Bradley Method class helpful? We do have an option to take it, and I was wondering if any of you have taken it and could share the experience. Thanks in advance. E

You didn't post again after mentioning the bad cramping, so I was worried for a while, then I saw you had posted on misc.kids, so I wasn't concerned, but I do want to know how you feel now! Cheers 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...

I do still have tons of time for this, but I'm not sure which way I should go. First off, I do NOT agree with the elective C-sections at all... But, with that said... With my first, I had an emergency section. It was for a footling breech at, really, the last possible second. Everything was...

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/360/2/111?query=TOC Results: Of 24,077 repeat cesarean deliveries at term, 13,258 were performed electively; of these, 35.8% were performed before 39 completed weeks of gestation (6.3% at 37 weeks and 29.5% at 38 weeks) and 49.1% at 39 weeks of...

I have about 3.5 weeks left to go, and I'm wondering what kind of work might be too much. There's like 300 feet of snow outside right now. Well, not quite that much, but I'd guess that there's probably about 6"-8" of snow on the sidewalks out front. I can't leave the front walks with tons of...

Yes, I know this is going to sound weird, but I'm just wondering... Google hasn't been very helpful with this one, but I'm wondering where your stomach normally goes during pregnancy? Up? Down? Behind or to one side? I can't seem to find any pictures or info on this, but I've been having some...

So... I waited until last second to realize that I'm running out of time. Seeing as I'm still a happily single mom, and due in a month, I just wasn't really thinking too much about the future. I have decided that I'm fairly confident that I do NOT want N around at all, especially in the...