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Possible Pregnancy 4 Weeks After MC

savvyrose — Thu, 17 May 2012 05:41:09 GMT

Hi all
Needing some opinions as I am not sure what is going on.
Ok so had a complete MC about 4 weeks ago. So waiting to get my period back but haven't yet. Can't say I am feeling pregnant but I just had a feeling so yesterday I did a test and there was a faint line. Is this even possible so soon after a MC. My HCG from MC would def have been gone as they were super low the Monday after MC and MC was on the Sat.
What do you guys think??

Baby carrots you buy in the supermarkets

laoniu — Thu, 17 May 2012 04:50:53 GMT

:blush:Baby Carrots and Chlorine

BABY CARROTS YOU BUY IN THE SUPERMARKETS

The following is information from a farmer who grows and packages carrots for IGA, METRO, LOBLAWS, etc.

The small cocktail (baby) carrots you buy in small plastic bags are made using the larger crooked or deformed carrots which are

put through a machine which cuts and shapes them into cocktail carrots . most people probably know this already.

What you may not know and should know is the following: once the carrots are cut and shaped into cocktail carrots they are dipped

in a solution of water and chlorine in order to preserve them (this is the same chlorine used your pool) since they do not have

their skin or natural protective covering, they give the m a higher dose of chlorine. You will notice that once you keep these

carrots in your refrigerator for a few days, a white covering will form on the carrots, this is the chlorine which resurfaces. At

what cost do we put our health at risk to have esthetically pleasing vegetables which are practically plastic?

We do hope that this information can be passed on to as many people as possible in the hopes of informing them where these

carrots come from and how they are processed. Chlorine is a very well known carcinogen.

Please let us make this information available to as many people as possible.

If you care about your family and friends, pass it on.

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how do i delete ?

kya & kaines mum — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:50:39 GMT

how do i deleted threads that i have put up ? i asked for advice on something and 200 + people read it and NOT one person offered advice i dont want it on this forum.. thanks

Newbie and new to to Brissy :)

Stylus00 — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:41:37 GMT

HI everyone I am new to this site and new to Brissy .Planning to fall pregnant this October hopefully crossed fingers with my first child .very exciting but very nervous and I am a mother craft nurse lol .looking forward to sharing stories with you all. :)

Hi Everyone

mummtobetam — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:37:26 GMT

Hi Everyone, mummtobetam here

Would just like to introduce myself, I'm a first time mum to be in 6 1/2 weeks time am excited about being a mum just wondering how i will handle the midnight feeds and nappy changes,I guess i wanted to become more socialable and find out if there are any other mums out there due around the same time i am.

Thanks everyone

Birth User Survey - Tell us what you want to see and you can win $100!

Martina — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:01:02 GMT

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My 5 yo has to take deep breath to get air in

rowena — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:10:44 GMT

I used to have this symptom occassionally, like I can't get enough air without having to take really deep breath. It usually took a few days for it to go away. I have been noticing DD1 doing that too. Every night when I read her books before bed, I see her trying very hard to take big big breaths. Last night she told me she found it hard to breathe and she had to try it very hard. It's been like this for 1-2 weeks and I start worrying.

Has anyone or anyone's child had this problem? What can it mean? I'm thinking of taking her to the doctor's this weekend but I doubt there would be anything because I myself brought my symptom up with my doctor and she couldn't say what was wrong.

Thanks in advance.

Rowena

wanted: pelvic stability belt??

Loula — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:17:56 GMT

Just wondering if anyone has one of those support belt things that you use to support your lower back they are interested in off-loading??

Name Dilemma!

Samcro — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:26:54 GMT

I am pregnant with my second child and am having a bit of a name dilemma...If #2 is a girl there is no problem, i have an EXTENSIVE list of girls names!
BUT when it comes to boys names we already used our 2 favorite names on our son!
Would it be too weird to use our son's middle name as a first name for the new baby??
Any advice would be greatly appreciated ;)

Scared to have another....

Ki-Co — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:19:12 GMT

I had my first child (a girl) 2 and a half years ago.

It was a dream pregnancy, no morning sickness, no back problems, no issues at all....Until i was about 33-34 weeks. That was when my ankles, face and hands started to swell and i got dizzy from standing and my chest and stomach started to hurt all the time. I thought it was all part and parcel of the latter stages of pregnancy.

I went for my 35 week check up and found that my blood pressure was 150/90 and that i had high protein in my urine. It was then that i was told i would have to have a c-section birth due to the fact i had pre-eclampsia.

I cried for 3 days. Nothing in my plan of delivery involved a c-section. (not that i'm opposed to it, it just wasn't for me, not something i had ever thought i would have to consider.)At 36w5d I was put in hospital on strict bed rest but all that reduced was my blood pressure. On the 3rd day they took a 24 hour urine sample and about an hour after they collected it i had an OB/GYN in my room telling me that they had to get my baby girl out of me because my kidneys were shutting down. But due to the fact i had a head cold they couldn't do the c-section that day and scheduled it for 2 days later.

The next day the same OB/GYN came in and once, he examined me, decided he would do the c-section that evening.

My husband made it back to the hospital from his work with about 20 minutes to spare (I had begged the doctors to wait for him to get there and they gave him until 6pm).

Next thing i know we were upstairs in the OR and at 7.06pm our beautiful little girl was born. I was 37w1d when my daughter was born. I had 15 minutes with her then they took her away so they could finish the operation and it was 8.30pm before i saw her again.

I ended up being diagnosed with PND. I blamed myself for getting PE. It wasn't because she was in distress, it wasn't because she had to be born for her health, it was me. I was the one who was sick, i was the reason my baby was born early and by c-section.

Now, fast forward to now. My husband and i are wanting to concieve in July and i am terrified of it all happening again. I have a 25% chance of getting PE again. I desperatly want a natural birth (VBAC) and i'm so scared of it all happening the way it did last time. I don't think i can go through that again. It still upsets me. :dft004:

I don't really know what i want out of posting, but i just needed to express, somewhere, how scared i am.

I haven't told any of my family or friends that i was diagnosed with PND because after i had my daughter i tried talking to people about how i felt and they all kept telling me that i should be happy that my daughter was healthy, happy and here along with myself. No one understood and they didn't understand why i was so upset for not getting my natural birth.

I guess posting here i know that most people would understand having been through similar experiances and wanting a VBAC also. (or having had a successful VBAC)

If i have posted in the wrong area, i am sorry i just couldn't find anywhere else that seemed correct.

Thanks for lending me an ear and any supporting words or stories would be greatly appreciated :biggrin:

Free to a good home - assorted DIY cloth nappies

Panini — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:18:24 GMT

Doing a clean up of my stash. The following mostly homemade nappies are free to a good home as I have since made bamboo fitteds and pockets to replace. Used on 1 child only. Pickup from Orange NSW or I will post at your expense.

1 x Tots Bots Size 1 cotton terry fitted (snappiable)

8 x Newborn cotton terry fitted nappies (snappiable)

6 x Small hemp nappies (snappiable)
- made from hemp terry with fold out boosters
- may need extra boosting

1 x small cotton terry fitted pocket nappy (snappiable)
- cotton fleece stuffer
- I didn't make this nappy was given to me, looks homemade

Hope these find a good home,
Shara

Overly affectionate?

kristy81 — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:43:22 GMT

I dont know whether i should be worried about this or not. DD goes to 3 year old kindy 2 days a week. They have parent helpers most days. Ive only been able to do it once as I dont have anyone to look after DS. Ive had 2 parents say to me or DP in the last few weeks how lovely and affectionate DD is, always wanting to hold their hands and give cuddles etc when they are doing parent help. Its great to hear they think she is lovely etc but it does kind of worry me that she wants to hold relative stranger's hands and cuddle them etc. as a lot of the time she wont even go near her own grandmother... The teachers have said sometimes shes "all over" the other kids in the class nudging them or jumping on them etc. Is this normal behaviour? the teachers havent said i need to worry but i guess its playing on my mind. Should i be worried?

3rd Time Mum, but new to this

flickd — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:14:31 GMT

Hi Everyone,

Would just like to introduce myself, I'm a full time stay at home mum, I have a 2 year old and an 8 month old sons, and Im due to have my 3rd Child in January. My husband and I run/own a dairy farm, so always very busy.

I decide to join to give me others to talk to, especially when they are due at the same time, and an outlet I guess!!

Thanks everyone

What would you do? Q for landlords/from landlords perspective

MeNThem — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:19:14 GMT

Hi all...

We moved at the start of this year and have rented out our house. We renovated the house extensively from June-Nov 2009 and it ended up being a 4 bed, 2 bath pretty nice and modern house.

We painted some of it ourselves under the guidance of a professional painter and he did the balance. As in, we've known this painter for many years and he's painted another rental house for us, the kids bedrooms during the renovations and ended up finishing the outside of our house before we moved as we ran out of time... he worked with DH on a number of these occasions and tried to coerce him to become a painter with him because of how thorough and what a good job he does... (just to paint a picture on the quality that the house is finished to...!)

The tenants have been there for <4 months and have already asked US to repaint some of the house because they don't like the colours. Our response was... err no... the paint is nearly new and it is in perfect condition... not any time soon, and definitely not at our expense.

They have now asked for us to grant them permission to paint the master bedroom an "antique white" colour because the blue that it currently (to quote the tenant directly) "....really does not go with my colour scheme, and would be a lot more attractive in a neutral colour to rent in future."

I'll be the first to say, it is a reasonably strong blue, but its not too feral... everyone who we have shown it to has commented on it positively and we never heard comments from prospective tenants saying anything about the colours??...

The whole house has a variety of colours throughout, but none are too ... well... how do you put it... 'modern'... no baby-poo-browns, mustards, lime greens etc... there are blues, one very pink bedroom (plain walls, very bright feature lol) and one blue (too bad they have two boys hehehe)... so its not everyone's cup of tea, but we had a huge amount of demand for the house so it can't have been that bad.

What would you do?

They have just signed another 6 month lease... I'm really concerned that all our hard work of professionally painting the entire house to cope with all that a family can throw at it will be undone by one tenant saying they will do a professional job and not actually doing it... and that in 6 months they will move out and leave us with a crappy job. They have offered to even paint it back to blue when they leave (which is unnecessary, we can cope with the white)... so they are sincere I think, but I just don't know how to handle it so we don't get burnt!

Thoughts would be appreciated :)

K.

PS I just talked with the agent and she is going to just let them know we are thinking about it for now and that one of the options could be to get a professional in to do it if they want to expedite things.

1st time mum, 1st time user, due in 5 days!!

Rah84 — Wed, 16 May 2012 05:13:53 GMT

Hi everyone. Im in Brisbane, 1st time mum. Only discovered this site today. My little boy is due in 5 days, although he'd make his mummy happy if he'd like to make an appearance before then. :)