Is there a June 2010 due date community? I've looked, but I'm not having any luck finding one.

I've seen different things in different places, I was wondering if its better to pee right before an ultrasound or not. I've seen in a few different places that it's better to not pee because it's easier to see the baby with a full bladder? But my doctor always asks me if i have to pee again (even if i just went in a cup) right before I walk into the ultrasound room. I figured I'd ask you guys and see what you say. I'll be 10wks 5 days tomorrow and just wanna make sure I get a good shot. Thanks :) 

A couple years ago i was diagnosed with hpv after a abnormal pap. Since then every pap has came back "normal". Since becoming pregnant, i have had an outbreak of hpv warts. Has anyone else experienced this, and will it affect my baby during vaginal birth? 35w6d

For those of you who have dopplers at home..This may be a stupid question, but how do you know it is your baby's heart beat and not yours? I have never used or seen one before, but am thinking about getting one!

Today I had my first appointment (which went great, btw!  Everything looks good.)  Since I had a first appointment last summer with all the tests and everything, I didn't have to get most of them re-done.  The doctor said she didn't need to use a speculum for the tests that still needed to be completed--instead she could just put two q-tips to get some cultures.  The first q-tip was fine--the second hurt like crazy.  I even said "that hurts" to her--it felt like it actually went inside my cervix or something.  She didn't say anything, though.  She left and I actually started crying a bit because I was still in a lot of pain. 

I came home and was sitting in bed and there was still a dull pain...but then it became sharper (and felt like it did when the q-tip was actually in me).  Then I got up to pee and...oh man...it hurt SO bad to pee.  Worse than when I had a UTI a few months ago.  I had just peed before the exam, and it was totally fine.  Have you experienced anything like this?  I haven't had this test before...so maybe this is not that unusual?  I'm not sure...TIA! 

Edited to add: In case anyone looks at this in the tags, it looks like it is actually a UTI that they think was exacerbated by the swab.  I was just surprised because I've had a UTI before and the symptoms did not come on so suddenly and so painfully!  I think this explains it, though. :)

Does anyone else have that?
It happened to me a few times by now - I'm standing or walking, on a perfectly level surface and then all of the sudden it feels as if my knee or ankle just no longer exists and I fall down or have to sit down... First time it happened when I was standing and I thought it was just a strange thing but oh well. Yesterday I was walking on the paved street, and all of the sudden my knee was no longer there! :( I fell down (on hands and knees, so little one is perfectly fine, just had a bit of wave there). Not a horribly big deal, except for scraped knees and hands, but I really don't like this.
Anyone else experienced this?

UPD: Sorry, forgot to add - 29 weeks today!

Whenever I get very upset or very angry (cry or want to scream ...b/c someone deleted an entire directory off the work servers where I had all my work for this one client b/c the deleter..doesn't realize that he's not the only one using the servers) ... Junior gets the hiccups.

Has anyone else experienced this?

So when I am waking in the morning he always has the hiccups..and when I get upset (angry or sad).

Its just so odd that its THAT predictable.

34 weeks

This community was super helpful to me during my first pregancy... five years ago :). Now I'm pregnant again, but I don't know how long it will last and it's starting to freak me out.

I have a Mirena IUD; it's been in since 2005 after I delivered my first (and only other pregnancy). After some heavy non-menstrual bleeding, I spent six hours at the emergency room (on New Year's Eve, even). The ultrasound technician got some great shots of the gestational sac... right on top of the IUD... and the heartbeat was clear and strong, around 160bpm - she said based on the size I was probably around 7 or 8 weeks. So due in August.

Well, I've since been to the OB/GYN to have them remove the IUD, but the strings were gone - probably up too far - and now I don't know what to do besides wait and hope for the best. I'm scheduled for another ultrasound next week, but I would really love to hear some assurances or stories or links to statistics to keep myself calm (as can be, that is!) in the meantime.

We weren't planning on having any more kids, ever. We got rid of all the baby stuff just last year, all the books and slings and boppy pillows I don't know why I was hanging on to :(. I've read "Parenting an Only Child" and I was ready for that. Now... now I have no idea how to plan the next year.

The worst part is that the OB I saw (I'm new to the area, so this was the first time I met him) said that if the IUD stays in place during the pregnancy, there's a very real chance I'll need to have a C-section. Nothing I've read about even mentions an increased risk of C-section, though admittedly I haven't seen *that* much online about it. I don't want a C-section!! My first one was induced two weeks early thanks to serious high blood pressure issues (and my BP is already elevated this time around, so he told me to take baby aspirin every day) - but I delivered vaginally, and I want to do that again.

Whew, long post. This is the first that I've really told anyone about this besides my husband :). Anyway, hi! And I hope I'm here for a long successful pregnancy instead of a quick end. Thanks all.

I went in yesterday for my first "official" ultrasound (not counting my "OMG I'M BLEEDING AM I MISCARRYING AGAIN??" Ultrasound of two weeks ago) and it was amazing! I got to see a tiny baby looking thing spinning in circles, doing cartwheels, waving & kicking! The doctor showed me the spine, we heard the heartbeat again (after the baby stopped moving for 2.3 seconds so we could finally hear it) and said everything looks like it's going to be perfect this time!

I almost feel like I've left the fear of my miscarriage behind and that come August 2nd (or around there), I'm going to have a baby!

I have two silly questions maybe (I looked in the tags and found some stuff, but not a lot).

1. My second appointment is in 4 weeks.....what happens at second appointments? I don't think I'll get another ultrasound then (even though the doctor told me because of the past miscarriage anytime I wanted to see the baby, just call and they would get me in...I'm trying not to be crazy :-) ). Is there some way they check the baby every time just to make sure it's okay? My next "official" ultrasound is at 20 weeks.

2. I'm starting to have a very visible bump (so much so that co-workers and a few students have commented on it), but I feel like it's so early! I always hear people talk about how they didn't show until 2nd trimester...I'm only at 10 (almost 11 weeks). Anyone else seem to really pop out early?

Thank you! (10 weeks 5 days!)

First of all, I let it slip to my mom that I couldn't afford the Hypnobabies study (she and my dad like to buy us everything we can't, and I hate it) and she ordered it for me. I'm extremely thankful! It should be here around Friday. I must admit though, it still makes me feel bad that she bought it.

Second, I had a bowel movement yesterday and had a LOT of anal bleeding. I got it to calm down after several minutes but was still having to wipe every 30ish minutes to keep it under control. My doctor told me to go to the hospital, so I did.

I haven't taken my tour yet, I probably will next week, but my experience there was SO great! Seriously, the best hospital. I felt like I was a queen to everyone just because I was pregnant. They monitored me for preterm labor, which I knew it wasn't, checked my cervix and did an external rectal exam. Nothing.

I was released and my doctor called today to ask me to come in. I did, and she checked me internally but found nothing. This whole time I have been swearing it was hemmroids (sp?), and I thought it was just my luck because I had commented someone's post the other day about how I'd had them for years with no problems.

Well, turns out it's not. So, I have a referral for a surgeon when I am 2 weeks post-partum to get a colonoscopy and a few other things. NOT looking forward to it. Until then, she's got me stocked up on fiber and stool softeners.

My questions:

I posted the other day asking about a Moby wrap. A lot of you mentioned you preferred woven wraps for different reasons. Well, I did some thinking and decided I would eventually prefer woven as well once the baby was bigger. The only woven I've ever known about until you guys mentioned some (the most popular was the Gerisol or something?) Was the Ring Sling, which is the only wrap I'd considered other than the Moby. I can't find a used Gerisol for a price in my range, but I did find ONE Maya Ring Sling. I want to buy it, I really do feel like I'd love it. Still though, I'd like to hear what all of you thought. I will be breastfeeding so I'd also like to know how manageable it was if you wore it when you were BFing as well.

Another question- I have a huge stock of cloth diapers, but they look huge! Are some of them like a Lone size fits all" kind of deal? I'd rather not buy a million sizes but I don't think these will work on a newborn, if even a younger infant. I was going to look into buying different ones, hopefully with velcro rather than pinning the ones I have, so I'd like to know about sizes.

Yet another- my neighbor is due this month with her second child. According to her, she was told that vaccinations are mandatory in CA and so are the treatments given at birth (vitamin K shot, etc). I told her I was certain she'd been lied to. Does anyone know about this? I wanted to do a delayed schedule but haven't gotten around to planning it yet. I'm not doing day care so I'm not too worried, I know I'll be home all of the time as I already am, and my husband has had every vaccination known to man thanks to the military (they vaccinate for every country he travels to).

She had never heard of the Dr Sears books, and I referred her to them. We're delivering at the same hospital, so I read their policies and it never mentioned the option of the treatments, just that they are given at birth. Can they take the option away from me?

Sorry I ask questions so often, I'm getting so close to "that time" and I'm trying to get this all out as not to stress!

I'll start with the facts: I'm 38 weeks and at my appointment last thursday I was 75% effaced, 1.5cm dilated,baby is "very low" and I've had on and off tiny amounts of spotting. You know all that stuff that doesn't really mean anything except that the end is in the next few weeks.


For the past couple days I've had pretty much non stop period type cramping along with a sharper pain in my incision from my c-section in 2005. Plus the usual braxton hicks contractions that I've been having for weeks.

I'm not sure whether I should ignore this sharp pain in my incision and just assume it's normal end of pregnancy pain.

I don't really want to phone my doctor or head up to L&D because I don't want them to try to give me a c-section tonight.

If the pain is normal I'll continue to ignore it but if it is something I should be seen for I'll suck it up and go in before my 38 week check up on friday.

On Friday I was taken into hospital and strapped up to a monitor to keep an eye on baby's heart beat and monitor some contractions I was having.

Of course, the contractions were strong to start and totally died down in the middle of the day. In the morning, they were hell. I was visiting my parents and we had to jump from one hospital (because the first one didn't have a maternity facility) onto the next town where they had a maternity unit and some of the nicest, most friendly midwives I've met.

At the first hospital they didn't know what was up, suggested it was either early labour or a urinary infection. Took a pee sample and the doctor said my urine showed some white blood cells - ehhh wtf? midwives at the next hospital said they wouldn't be able to see that in a urine test, so they took another sample and didn't find anything unusual.

Of course, cause the contractions died down, they put it down to BH (Braxton Hicks) contractions and wanted to keep me overnight, which I declined. I didn't feel comfortable staying overnight there for many reasons; for one I didn't feel it was nessecary, so they let me go :).

Anyway, since then the BH contractions have been sporadic, but luckily I've found this little baby online: http://www.contractionmaster.com/.

It's been a God send because if I'm having a paranoid moment with the BH contractions I can time their frequency and time apart and know I'm gonna be okay.

I'll be 36 weeks on Monday and I have an appointment (my 5th one) with my midwife.

I posted this a couple weeks back now about my babies' movement feeling like a seizure. I spoke to my midwife yesterday who said that it was baby hitting a nerve that made my stomach muscles spasm, so it wasn't baby at all. I thought I'd update here letting people know as I wasn't the only one feeling the strange 'movement' to help ease some minds!

Hi guys! I had my first (unofficial) prenatal doctor's visit this morning, and I wanted to share how it went with you.

( This gets a little long, so I'm cutting it. )

I also wanted to give you guys a bit of an update on this. For some reason--maybe mind over matter, or my doctor's stabilizing presence--on my way to work after my appt I suddenly felt like I could eat a bagel with cream cheese. So I detoured to my bagel store, and picked one up, and I ATE A BAGEL.

I think it's the first solid food I've eaten aside from pretzels all week, and it feels AMAZING. I don't think I'm out of the woods quite yet, but it feels really good to have food in me.

Okay, so I'm almost 28 weeks and just flopped onto my bed and it caused a horrible stitch-like pain in the side of my belly. It only lasted 2-3 seconds but was severe enough to take my breath away. It's been an hour and the pain is not near what it was but I can still feel an uncomfortable pull in that spot when I bend or twist. My overactive imagination is telling me that I pulled something loose in there but know it's probably nothing.

Does anyone think I need to worry just yet?

This was x-posted in august_2010, I didn't get much of a response so i wanted to see if anyone had  been going through the same thing...this is a kinda personal, and graphic so I'm sorry.. but i figured why not throw it out there anyways.. we're all going through all sorts of weird things, maybe someone else is going through the same thing... I put it behind a cut because it's also sex-related...( TMI )

So I'm in my 34th week, and went to see my Dr. Today. Reading over the past months on here I decided to write a birth plan. I just used a website where you could pick what you would like to be stated on your plan for each category like labor, birth, episiotomy, breastfeeding, etc. So I gave this to my Dr. and she was like well we really dont need this, and I got pissed because she told me this before and I just said "for my convience I wanted one, and I know that not everything will go as planned", so she went through the list and nit picked certain things. Her picking out certain topics and basically running my choice down really pissed me off. There were alot of things on there geared towards nursing staff and shes like "this is for the nurse to know", I knew that and thats why its on MY BIRTH PLAN because I want the nurse to beable to read this also!! I felt stupid when I left her office for even writting a birth plan because obviuously she dont care.

Has anyone else had this issue with writing a birt plan? I just figured that in case im unable to verbalize what i want for my child or a unplanned c-section that there would be some written information provided.

Anyways everything with baby girl is well, go to dr.'s every week now, start cervix exams next time, and getting free 3-D ultrasound which will be nice.

I feel like I'm nesting, cleaning non stop, and organizing things.

Oh and I went and bought a outfit for my baby shower from motherhood and the sales lady kept trying to sell me bra's....she wouldn stop so i told her "honestly I've heard bad reviews on the bra's here online and nobody seems to happy with them" the lady was shocked and kept tryin to get info outta me, I was thinking back to all the post on here LoL.

Even though my son is 2 and I'm not currently pregnant, I've remained in the community to offer any suggestions/help as I can, and because my husband and I are planning to start trying this year for #2. I read an article on Babycenter about the top 50 most popular names of the decade (2000-2009), and it got me thinking. How do people pick their names?

So, a poll!


Poll #1508051 Picking a name for your child.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 129

What resources do you use to pick a name?

Any other resources not mentioned?

How important is having an unusual name?

Do you and your spouse/significant other have to absolutely agree?

Would you ever discount a name because it was on a top name list?

For the previous question, why or why not?

Anything else to add about picking a name?

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Maya Isabel was born!!!  On 1/4/10 at 2:18 am...7 lbs, 9 oz....

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