Does this sound familiar? Your child is crying hysterically, seemingly for no reason, and everyone around you (especially your mother-in-law) claims to know the purpose – “He’s cold, put on his socks”, “She’s hungry. Do you want a cookie sweetheart?”, “He needs a nap – he’s tired”. But the answer is obvious to you, even [...]
by admin on September 13, 2009
OK, I thought my immune system was suppose to be optimal while pregnant? Why did I wake up with such a terrible sore throat and I’m 24 weeks pregnant? I guess every pregnancy is different because this one seems to be giving me so many issues I can’t even count them all on my [...]
Ok, there are so many online articles and blogs about gender prediction that I actually told myself I wouldn’t blog about this subject a few years ago. I don’t listen to myself obviously because here I am blogging about it. But I have good reason ok?! If you have read my previous blog entry about [...]
I am awake at 4:18AM blogging about insomnia because well, I am 23 weeks pregnant and just got hit recently with an unwanted bout of “pregnancy insomnia”. Man, this really does suck, but it happens, and it happens to almost 80% of us sometime during our pregnancy (as statistics say anyhow!). Well at least I [...]
Who said pregnancy was a piece of cake? Not only am I growing bigger every day, now my skin has to itch too?? I have heard of so many mother’s complain about itchy skin from stretching, heat, etc., during pregnancy but I had no idea it would be this bad. I guess during my first [...]
I went to the doctor this week because during my routine 19 week ultrasound, they found a “bright spot” in one of the baby’s heart chambers, or aka echogenic focus.
Because of this finding I was told that my risk of having a baby with down syndrome goes up to about to 1 in 750 (which [...]
So I had my routine 19th week ultrasound last week for my 2nd child. Because we had a girl the first time, we decided to find out the gender of this baby so that we can get prepared, pick some names etc. First things first, of course the most important thing to us is that [...]