Posts by PinkPeony

We have been bombarded with mail from ViaCord and CBR. We are leaning towards cord blood banking, but I was hoping some other mamas out there might have some experience (good and/or bad) to share about these companies. We'd be grateful...

  1) Do you know what gender you're having? No   2) If no, what gender to you THINK you're having? (Be sure to come back and update!) I think I'm having a boy. But would really like a girl at some...

By the time I get to the end of the day with 20 first graders, I am toast. However, I do enjoy walking. I find "bouncy" exercises to be uncomfortable so I haven't been able to do some of the Wii and DVDs that I was using before...

I've had the palpitations, fluttering and racing heart since before I got pregnant. They think I have Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia. I have been on a low dose of a beta blocker medication for years and it has controlled the symptoms...

I've had so many issues, that we have told very few people. I'm waiting for the results of my CVS. It's just been hard to get excited until things calm down a bit. 

I get up at least twice a night and the annoying thing is that even though I feel like I have a bladder full enough to fill a gallon sized milk jug, it really isn't that much. My DH is grateful I am able to pee in the dark so I don't...

I, too, gained 10 pounds, but I think it's because the only thing I could keep down for the first 3 months were white carbs. Prior to BFP, I had lost 30 pounds on a low-carb plan which was working really well for me because for me,...

Thank you all so much for your responses and reassurance! I went to Maternal Fetal Medicine today and had a consultation with a genetic counselor. We learned that the nuchal fold was within the normal limits as was my bloodwork, but...

Friends...I had the nuchal measurement done today and it didn't go as well as I had hoped. It took 2 days to get the baby in the right position for the measurement and s/he was really just not cooperating. After the 14th u/s over 2...

Kim 11/1/11 -could be October though! This is our first.    Thanks!