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@Gracey92 - I love Elaina Grace, but have a soft spot for 'older' sounding names. Everything you have chosen sound great!

Welcome and congrats on your little one! Glad you found our little group and feel free to add me as friend if you would like! Have a great day! Steph

Sounds like you are getting round ligament pains and it is common, so don't worry. The time to start being concerned is if the pains get more severe, happen on a regular basis, and do not go away with a change in positions. This could be a sign that you are having contractions. Here is some info from WebMD about Round…

Interested about the babywearing workout. Is this a DVD, or something online that you found?

Yes the milk spray!!! It gets everywhere. If you have not already purchased a waterproof cover for your bed just in case your water breaks while you are sleeping, just go ahead and get one for nursing. I would wake up drenched sometimes as my other boob would leak something fierce those first few weeks until my body…

Big note for the hospital anything is opened or brought into your room, etc is yours. You have paid for it and they will just toss it when you leave if you don't take it. Our hospital has a wash basin that they would do the baby's sponge bath with as I requested that baths happen in my room and not the nursery. I took that…

For those moms who are not going to breastfeed or when you decide to stop and wean baby, this is going to sound crazy but put cabbage leaves in your bra cups. There is something in cabbage that will help to dry you up faster and the coolness of the leaves helps to easy pain from engorgement as you dry up. If you are going…

If your hospital is awesome they will give you mesh underwear which look horrible but are so comfortable to wear. Don't waste your own panties because those first couple of days there will be a lot of blood-think really heavy period. That threw me for such a loop post partum. Pack a couple to take home with you because…

@spunkychelsea - We did the same thing with music! I played a lullaby CD when me and the hubby would go to sleep and that definately helped calm the baby down after they were born. My husband despises the CD with a passion and also that our kids prefer that type of music over listening to the radio at bedtime. But oh well.…

@spunkychelsea- My doctor used local to stitch up both my tears. Feel the sting of the shot, but after that I would just feel the pressure of her hands as she stitched. Another thing that will help with tearing is if you can get your nurse to stretch out the vaginal opening periodically. If your husband is willing to even…

I should have said in the part that it hurts a little more clearer that it is such a different pain. It is very difficult to explain and even now after given birth twice I still don't know how to describe it. It's like you are in a fog. You can remember it hurting, but you can't describe how that pain felt and even where…

This week is Cutie oranges.

The best advice I can give is go in with a 'loose' plan of your birthing experience. From working in the hospital we would watch mothers come in with 10 pages of a birthing plan and freak out when things did not happen as they had planned on it being. As tcrofford said you can have your plan, but things can change last…

Agree with SpunkyChelsea about the baby's room. They truly do not need much and all the looks are just for us. Babies stayed the first three months in our bedroom as I could not be bothered to get out of bed and walk down the hall to get the baby to nurse. I enjoy my sleep way too much! We have always lived in a two story…

I enjoy it all! Crochet - Baby blanket for my daughter that is due in May. Squares are completed and I am about half way done with attaching the squares together. Using the flat-braid method which is my favorite. I then just need to weave in ends and add the border. Knit - Put on hold for baby blanket, but once that is…

Doctor appointment yesterday and everything went well. I passed the 1 hour gestational diabetes testing so glad that is now officially behind me. They did recheck my iron and it was lower then before, so now I have to start an iron supplment routine. Little bummed about that as with my past two pregnancies the iron makes…

Doctor appointment tomorrow and have the gestational diabetes testing. So not looking forward to it! I did talk my midwife into doing the one hour instead of the two hour. I tested negative with my other pregnancies the first time, so hoping this happens again. Otherwise I get the punishment of the three hour testing for…

I am currently 23 weeks pregnant and what I was recommended by midwife (I live in US) to change my goal settings to Maintenance. For the second and third trimester I was to change to gain half a pound per week. I started off with my BMI at the low end of overweight, so we are aiming for a 15-20 pound weight gain. So far I…

First son is David Terry, our second son is Iver Roy, and we have chosen Lena Lucille for our daughter.

I wasn't nesting until someone said the 17 weeks left and it seemed so eminent. We live in my grandparent's farm house. I know there are probably beautiful hardwood floors under the carpet (which I hate the carpet) and really want to peek and see. There is wood floors in the closet of the boys' room. And I think the same…

So glad to hear everyone is doing well and that things ended up alright for you, Hotmomma. I am enjoying the joys of the second trimester as the first was such a doozey (sp?) with morning sickness. We found out we are having a little girl and have named her Lena Lucille. She looked well and measured just as she should. My…

@Tartsul & Mindochka - I agree with you both spending the first half calling it just 'the baby' and even now knowing that I can personalize the name I still default to 'baby. We have two boys and our little one is a girl. I am trying to get better about calling her by her name, because I don't want my sons to call her Baby…

You realize that animals eat their placentas to 'hide' the fact that they had young from a predator. And the second reason that they eat it is that it naturally produces oxytocin which helps them in the after labor (shrinking up their uterus) and producing milk for their young. Not something I am interested in as I am not…

Congrats to everyone that has found out what they are having, and also to those brave souls who can stand the whole 9 months to be surprised. Hope everyone's 20 week ultrasounds have gone well!

A glass of milk if you can stomach it. I hate drinking milk, so I'd rather have the heartburn. But if you want to try it. If it gets bad at night try propping your head up a little bit and sleep semi-reclining.

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With my first son and his 20 week ultrasound, they noted Renal Pelvis Dilatation and one other thing which now for the life of me I can not remember. The two of those combined put him at risk for Down's Syndrome. I remember the absolute stark fear. We had a follow-up ultrasound a few weeks later which ruled out the second…

We had our 20 week ultrasound yesterday, and found out it is a girl!!! We are all over the moon excited. After the appointment, we took our sons shopping and let them each pick out one outfit for their sister to bring to the hospital after she was born. They had so much fun and it was the best seeing what they picked out…

Have you or your husband tried to gently ask her to purchase gender neutral clothes, so that way you can keep them for all your babies and they can each enjoy the outfits that grandma had picked out? I don't know if that would help or not. I know how hard it is for the grandmas to not get things for the baby, but maybe if…

Beginning of the pregnancy I could not stomach the thought of pop or anything sweet. I am now 19 weeks and that switched last week. I crave Hank's Birch Beer (which is kinda of like a root beer) and chocolate and peanubutter. I give in on the Birch Beer and allow myself on the days I work which is 4 days a week. To bypass…