PREFATORY NOTES: 1. Vaccination is NOT immunization. Breastfeeding *is* immunization. Breastfeedings are free daily immunizations that reportedly make MD-needle vaccinations work better (see PS2 below). 2. I am NOT opposed to vaccination. I am ADAMANTLY IN FAVOR of vaccination - ***as long as...

Does anyone know of any studies that have been done on the safety of valium use during the second trimester of pregnancy? We will be going on vacation, flying, which I am a little nervous about and the doctor has told me he can prescribe for me some valium. All I can find about it is that it is a...

OK, give me the truth. How much different is two kids than one. I know many people do it and seem to survive but I'd love to hear the lowdown from you experienced moms of what to really expect. Some of my concerns/questions may seem a bit trivial but I wonder anyway. - Does the new baby crying...

"Zucca4" wrote in message ... How many people percentage wise would you say fail the one hour screening test but go on to pass the 3 hour fasting test? Just found out my blood sugar was 179, cutoff was 140, and that I...

My baby is presently 3 weeks old and since I'm spending a lot of time in the recliner nursing lately, I have had time to ponder lots of things :-) I was reflecting on the surprises that this whole pregnancy/birth/motherhood thing has presented to me and it made me curious about the experiences of...

OK, this really bothered me so I will share it in hopes that I am just too used to the "modern" way. A woman at work is having hr first child, she's ~5months and has had no visits to an OB or Doctor. She is completely relying on a midwife. She will have a natural birth at home with the midwife...

I'm dreaming quite nostagically of a glass of good red wine and some brie cheese. Carol #1 EDD 8/30/04

No advice really but Im in the same boat. I have a teeny belly for being nearly 7 mos pregnant, I look maybe 5 mos at best but the baby measured 3 weeks larger than average on ultrasound and fundal measurement has been about 2 weeks larger as well. My midwife says it's because Im tall (Im...

I mentioned this in an earlier post but got no answers (maybe b/c no one has any to give) :) but thought I'd give it another try with it's own subject line. I have an anterior placenta with a posterior accessory lobe. My midwife looked concerned at the report and asked what I had been told at the...

God bless this lovely woman: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=541&ncid=751&e=9&u=/ap/20040525/ap_on_he_me/fifteen_kids In this day and age of rampant self-indulgence, here is a role model of loving self sacrifice and family joy.

Hi, we are expecting in less that 4 weeks and we choose not to know the sex of our future baby, But If it is a boy - should we have him Circumcised? I have not been told of any real advantages of having it done and right now we are swayed towards not doing it, any...

Has anyone ever felt that? This is the second morning I can feel the umbilical cord of my baby, right by my rib, on the left side. The first time, I thought I'd imagined it in a semi-comatose sleep I didn't want to get out of... This morning, as I rolled on my back from right to left (holding my...

Hi all. We have been TTC and I have been charting a while. I got a very light "period" (red in color, but 1/4 as heavy as usual, and over in a day and a half, nothing on pad, just see it on toilet tissue) five days before AF was due. That was two days ago, and I still have cramps (not bad, just...

Just wondering: How old were you all when your babies were born? me #1: 19 (two days after my birthday, 1 day after my brother's) #2: 21 (same day as my aunt's birthday) #3: 24 (the day after my sister's birthday) #4: 27 (two days after my mom's, and 8 before mine)

OK, I hate to say this, but practically everything I read on this ng about breastfeeding is actually turning me away from it. (perhaps it's good that I read all of this *before* diving into the situation, so I thank everyone, even though this is probably not the reaction that some of you would...

....for telling you guys before my husband? :O -- Sophie - #4 due July 18, 2004

HAWAI'I ATTORNEY GENERAL MARK J. BENNETT ): To save time, scroll to the very end of this post... Edwin C. Cadman, MD says: "CAM...is not conventional medicine..." Rosanne Harrigan, EdD, APRN-Rx) says: "......unproven..."

RULE 302 IS FINALLY BEING CHALLENGED IN COURT See below. First things first... "It is established obstetric teaching that a narrow pelvic outlet predisposes to a difficult vaginal delivery..." --Frudinger et al. Br J Obstet Gynaecol 2002;109(11):1207-12 PREGNANT WOMEN: MDs are senselessly...

its just hard to sit back and see other people my age going shopping with their moms, getting their hair done with them and everything that mothers should do with their daughters. Some people who lost their mom (at a young) age would envy you! My mother loves me very much as I do her....

There's been a bit of a debate between myself and somebody in the family over boiling and microwaving nipples. From what I was told, by boiling latex nipples, it dries them out and they flake in the babies mouth. And I guess microwaves do the same thing to them. I use the microwave to warm...