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Congratulations, EmilyRenae!!! We're excited to hear the great news from you!

My weekly update: Weeks: 14: +14 20: +20 22: +24 24: +24 25: +24 27: +27 28: +27 29: +27 30: +30 31: +32 32: +33 33: +33 34: +34 35: +35 36: +37 37: +37 Checked in a day early, so who knows if I'd hit 38 by tomorrow?! I'm still doing my hour-long swim workout ~3 times a week, walking as much as possible, and prenatal yoga…

Ha ha, I had a little omg! moment about this last week. My primitive solution was to take a pair of nail scissors and cut carefully whatever I could feel without nicking myself. Afterward in the mirror it didn't look tooooo bad.

Congratulations, Artemis! Your baby pic looks adorable! We're all getting so close! How exciting! Can't wait to see who goes next!

Living in Boston and having run the Boston Marathon several times, it gives me so much inspiration to see that today's female winner has accomplished her triumph after having a baby! It's been really hard to give up running during the pregnancy, and it means a lot to know that I can still be a good runner after a baby. The…

Congratulations, Tara!! I'm so happy to hear such a great update from you! I'm sure you must be super busy, so thanks for taking the time to write and cheer us all along after your own positive (but I'm sure scary at the time) experience!

From everything I've read and from our Bradley birth class, I hear that babies can flip any number of times and ways right up even until the birth. My cousin recently delivered a baby that was breech all along and breech going into labor, but she had some specialist midwife actually flip the baby before delivery and she…

My weekly update: Weeks: 14: +14 20: +20 22: +24 24: +24 25: +24 27: +27 28: +27 29: +27 30: +30 31: +32 32: +33 33: +33 34: +34 35: +35 36: +37 Drats! I thought towards the end your weight was supposed to go down because there is less room in your stomach!

Hi All! Just thought I'd check in with you again. It's interesting to see how we are all in various different stages of readiness! As much as I am not a fan of pregnancy, I have SO MUCH to do before I hold my little guy in my arms: finish my book and send it in to publishers, finish my review materials for work (umm..…

Congrats on the weightloss, FunBettyWoo ! Just the fact that you're already on top of it means that you will definitely lose that last bit. As for the unreality of it all --some days I cannot imagine my life with a baby in it, other days I think constantly about what my baby's personality will be and how we will interact.…

Other "natural" labor-inducing ideas I've heard mentioned in my prenatal yoga classes: nipple stimulation with a pump, acupuncture... Good luck!!!

Congratulations! Thanks for posting the story of little Abby's birth so that we can all share in your joy! What a positive story!

My weekly update: Weeks: 14: +14 20: +20 22: +24 24: +24 25: +24 27: +27 28: +27 29: +27 30: +30 31: +32 32: +33 33: +33 34: +34 35: +35 Do I sense a pattern here?

Just chiming in on the supposed macrosomic babies: in my Bradley class we discussed exactly this. They said it's extremely rare that a woman's pelvis is too small to birth her baby and that the error margin for ultrasounds can be as much as TWO POUNDS!!! But it sounds like you've done your homework and will pursue the…

Ooops: I meant all releases on the inhale.

The kegels are homework for my Bradley class, so that "we" means the pregnant class members! My husband did inform me that he has experienced contractions. I was like, ha ha ha. But it turns out that he used to have horrible back spasms that wrapped around to his abs and so he would have contractions that he needed to…

Kegel combinations: (I do all contractions on the exhale and all releases on the exhale, which is what I learned in prenatal yoga) Regular: Contract, relax, repeat "Elevator" kegels: -regular contraction, graded relaxation in five steps (like going down five floors on an elevator and stopping at each one) -graded…

Hi All! Sorry to be MIA; I've been lurking but haven't really had anything much of my own to report. It's good to see you back, rubybeach! I'm envious of all your exotic globetrotting travels! Based on what friends were telling me, I expected the third trimester to be really difficult. Week 27 certainly started out that…

My weekly update: Weeks: 14: +14 20: +20 22: +24 24: +24 25: +24 27: +27 28: +27 29: +27 30: +30 31: +32 32: +33 33: +33 Will this girl stay under 40? Only about seven more weeks to find out!

I've heard a lot of good things about it, including comments from my doctor friend with two young children herself. My question is whether anyone has actually made it from leaves they've picked, instead of buying it. I know where some raspberry bushes are in the neighborhood, and I'd like to know whether it is the same…

Weeks: 14: +14 20: +20 22: +24 24: +24 25: +24 27: +27 28: +27 29: +27 30: +30 31: +32 32: +33 I've been feeling really big and more uncomfortable than usual, and my little guy is twisting and bopping in there, so I think that extra pound is all growing baby. Strangely, the bump doesn't look any bigger. In fact, when I…

I'm expecting my first, so I don't have personal experience to go by, BUT I attended a La Leche League meeting last night where this subject was discussed. I learned that if you are planning on breastfeeding, it can be difficult to learn the baby's cues during those crucial early weeks when you have a lot of distractions…

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Update: Thanks for the suggestions and advice, everyone! (Those were great Q's, Jaimemariel) I met with the first doula (the other one had to cancel) and I liked her a lot. It turns out we had covered many of those technical questions over the phone and email, so this was to see if we "clicked," which we definitely did,…

The REALITY OF IT ALL post: I'm coming up on 31 weeks and he is kicking up a storm. At least once a day in the afternoon he seems to get the hiccups, which I can feel very, very low. At the same time as a hiccup he will sometimes kick me in the right rib area. It is so intriguing what patterns babies tend towards. Although…

This is such a tricky situation because you do want to keep the office atmosphere friendly and comfortable, but you also need it to be a professional atmosphere where employees respect each others' intellect, wishes, and personal space. I would have a sit-down meeting to explain these two point and to show how serious you…

Time for another update: I had another useful midwife appt, and she told me I was slightly anemic! That would help to explain the low energy and sluggishness. Anyone have some really good iron-rich recipes that won't give me heartburn? :) She also said she was not concerned about my weight gain (30 lbs at 30 wks). I'm not…

Checking in a day early: Weeks: 14: +14 20: +20 22: +24 24: +24 25: +24 27: +27 28: +27 29: +27 30: +30 (boo --I wasn't exercising much this week and my eating was a little wild, so there you go -3 lbs!) The midwife today said she was not concerned AT ALL about my weight gain. She's seen healthy women gain 60-80 lbs, have…

Congrats, Rebecca! It's great to not have to worry about GD... one less of the many worries that camp out in the pregnant brain! But FOUR needles? Ugh. Mormonmomma --just when I think I have it bad, someone else has it worse and I realize I should appreciate how things are for me! I was so happy to leave the nausea behind,…

Weeks: 14: +14 20: +20 22: +24 24: +24 25: +24 27: +27 28: +27 29: +27 Plugging along here...