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Nope, not sharing my name ideas! I haven't even told my son the names I'm considering. :) I liked the idea of the Google image search, so I did it for the girl - gender neutral name, and only women came up in the first 10 pages. Of course, a lot of them were of the same lingerie model, but it was still quite definitive.…

Kristen, I'm excited for you that you're having boys! I love, love, love being the mama to a boy... 12 years in, it's still awesome. Since we've been talking about our thoughts about names, I've got to tell you all I'm getting a bit weirded out. I mentioned that I was considering a gender-neutral name. It's a really…

Helen - magnesium! I use a powdered magnesium supplement called Natural Calm. It's a flavored powder that mixes into water. I find that just a half-sized dose is enough to keep everything soft and moving smoothly. :)

Helenmelon, your weight gain sounds very modest to me... I'm up 20 pounds at 25 weeks (or 18 pounds over the top of my maintenance range.) I've been steadily gaining a pound a week for quite a while. I gave up logging very early in my pregnancy, because I thought I was restricting my calories too much. I started this…

Speaking of names, have you all seen this site, where you can find out the popularity (in the US) for the names you're considering? ssa.gov/oact/babynames/index.html There's also this fun thing, where you put in your own name and the year you were born, and based on the popularity of your name in the year you were born, it…

25 weeks tomorrow... I'm closing in on the third trimester fast! I'm feeling pretty good at the moment, except for the occasional uncomfortable braxton-hicks contraction. The baby is lying sideways across my torso, and when everything tightens up it feels like I have a log jammed in my abdomen. I did some research into…

@Dzouan, welcome to the fall babies group! I'm also 40. My baby is officially due on 1 Sep, but is likely to come late because that's the pattern in my family, so I wouldn't be surprised to deliver on my 41st birthday on 11 Sep. This will be our second child; we also have a 12 year old son. We gave up trying for a second…

My son gets to stay in his own room, but we're doing some swapping around on a grand scale... we bought an extra house! The house across the street from us came up for sale, and we closed on it today. We're going to use it as a rental property, for short-term vacation rentals, but we'll also be able to use it some of the…

I live in Florida, so I've already had a few weeks of the fun of being pregnant in hot summer weather. At least our pool is now warm enough to swim in! Today I get to have my first-ever prenatal massage. A good friend of mine, who is an excellent massage therapist, just completed a training course in prenatal massage and…

Poke, that's ridiculous! Did the office staff even apologize to you? If you didn't need an ultrasound or any special consultation, I'd think that all the normal OB-visit functions could have been handled by a nurse. With the exception of the anatomy scan I had at 18 weeks, my last two appointments have just been weight,…

Rosie, I hope you don't get stuck with that bill, either! But it happened to both me and my good friend, who just had her baby -- neither my doctor nor her midwife bothered to mention that insurance might not pick up the whole cost of the test. All my other blood tests and ultrasounds have been 100% covered.

Am I the only one in this group who is NOT finding out the gender? I mean, I will check when the baby's born....

My baby's gender has been on record since 12 weeks or so, because I did the Maternal T21 blood test, which identifies gender and certain chromosomal abnormalities like Downs Syndrome. I did it because I am 40 and at higher risk for chromosome problems, and I asked not to be told whether it's a boy or girl! The test wound…

I'm grateful that my son and husband don't have a preference, boy or girl, but the rest of the family is quite vocal that they want a girl this time! Eh, they'll get what they get and they'll like it. I am super grumpy today, and I feel like I ought to send out a warning to everyone I work with. I'm uncomfortable with some…

Kristen, glad you're here! Do you know if you're having boys, or is that just your son's guess?

Poke, so glad to hear your SON looks healthy! Sarieth, you may find that losing weight is easier than ever after the baby. Breastfeeding was the best diet ever for me (hoping that will be true again!) Suzanne, I'm on my second round of having to buy a bigger bra, and I'm wondering if the one I have currently will make it…

Sending my best wishes to Sarieth and RosieRaz and Poke and anyone else waiting to get through tests and scans! Poke, we'll lose weight after we have our babies, we know how to do it and we have all the tools and support! I've decided that I'm going to enjoy this time of eating increased calories, since when I'm done with…

I have a very cute pair of ON yoga leggings that are capri length with ruching and ties at the bottom, and they've held up as well as more expensive brands of yoga pants.

I'm one of the women who lost weight easily while breastfeeding. I weighed about 150 when I delivered my son, and was down to 108 within six months -- and I was eating like a horse and not doing any structured exercise. Of course, I was also only 28 then, so we'll see if it's a different story when I deliver this baby…

Suzanne, hope the ultrasound went well! There are lots of good prenatal workouts on YouTube. I was also doing beginner barre workouts from YouTube (not prenatal versions), and I thought they were really good as prenatal workouts because it's all standing work. You can hold on to a counter or the back of a sturdy chair in…

I have a dairy allergy, so the cow stuff is not an option, and I've tried all the alternative milks for my coffee. I drink cappuccinos, and use the steam wand on the espresso machine to froth the milk, and almond milk is by far my favorite for taste and frothiness. Almond and soy are the only ones that froth properly. I…

Suzanne, how old is your first child? Subsequent pregnancies definitely "pop" faster. With this one, even though my last pregnancy was in 2002, I felt like I was expanding by the time I was 6 weeks along! I started taking waist measurements at 11 weeks, and I was up 4.5 inches around my navel at that point. But friends and…

Just took my measurements for week 20... if today's weigh-in is accurate, I gained 4lbs in one week! Eek. I'm hoping that is mostly just sodium bloat from the Chinese food I ate last night. I might do a mid-week weigh-in to see if my weight stays this high, but only after I finish the Chinese leftovers. :) So far so good…

Warning: pregnant lady whining ahead. I was already having a not-so-fit pregnancy, but this week I've been having increasing pain from activity. I'm pretty sure I have symphysis pubis dysfunction - even though I don't have any of the risk factors except previous pregnancies, I have all the symptoms. I started doing some…

For me, the bunny cake was my downfall. No one wanted to take it home from the Easter picnic, so since my household consists of a 150-lb 6'3" man, a 78-lb 12 year old boy, and a pregnant woman, I volunteered to give the bunny a home. I finished it yesterday, thank goodness, but I also found I'd gained more than expected…

Poke, it sounds like you need the adult version of the newborn mittens that are supposed to keep the baby from scratching himself, or maybe some of those cute little sleeves that fold over your hands. Or just stay swaddled for the next three weeks! I'm teasing, but I really am hugely sympathetic about the itches. Itching…

I hit another milestone today. I'm 19 weeks, and I'm back to my MFP start weight of 115 lbs. By next week, I will have discovered if weight loss tickers run in reverse!

This was definitely a surprise. My husband and I wanted another child, but when I didn't conceive again after my son, we gave up hope after a few years. Fast forward to now: I'm 40, our son is 12 and in 7th grade, and we're starting to make our plans for what we'll do after he goes to college in a few years... and I turn…

If you were already at maintenance, then yes, you should plan on gaining weight during your pregnancy! Even obese pregnant women are expected to gain a moderate amount of weight. You can either manually adjust your goals (not just for calories, but also to adjust your protein and calcium) or you can change your weight goal…

Oh, and Helenmelon, Thomas the Tank Engine is definitely British. We have a big book of all the original Thomas stories, which were written by a Reverend Somebody, an Englishman, for his train-loving young son. The Thomas industry has since gone global!