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Pregnancy.org Bulletin Board Communities Home http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:33:24 GMT vBulletin 1 http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/images/misc/rss.jpg Pregnancy.org Bulletin Board Communities Home http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards What helps with being sick to stomach??? http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573264&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:06:47 GMT I think the morning sickness has finally shown up. I haven't thrown up but for the past few days I have been Very VERY sick to my stomach. It's so flip floppy. I got some Ginger Ale because I heard it helps calm the stomach. What else "Helps"? I have a feeling I'm going to have to just deal with it. But does anything help you ladies? ]]> July 2010 StarShine65712 http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573264 Just checking in! http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573263&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:03:28 GMT Ok so being a FTM, I haven't really quite had a chanceto get on here and post much, so I thought I'd just drop in and say hello from Finneas and I. :) were both doing really good!

Also, lots of congratulations to the mamas who've had new babies since 11/16!

I'll try to get on here in a couple days to our birth story. So until then, here are some photos of my sweet boy! ( for those who have me on facebook, there are PLENTY more!)

]]> November 2009 Vanessa87 http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573263 Steph (stampasaurus) http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573262&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:51:31 GMT How are you liking the 135mm? How are you liking the 135mm? ]]> Photography AmberBella http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573262 At the beach http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573261&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:32:10 GMT So we got to the beach today but it was not great weather, no sunshine or blue skies but I managed to salvage a few shots. Comments welcome ... So we got to the beach today but it was not great weather, no sunshine or blue skies but I managed to salvage a few shots.

Comments welcome

And a couple of flowers in the beach garden

]]> Photography cazzoom http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573261 First family pictures! (pic heavy) http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573260&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:00:11 GMT We got our first family pictures today and I think they turned out pretty well! Image:... We got our first family pictures today and I think they turned out pretty well!

We wanted to get more pictures with the kids and I and just the kids together but Skyla decided she would rather play with the toys than sit still and take pictures so we will have to take more at another time :) ]]> September 2009 skylamommy2 http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573260 Why Do You Believe/Disbelieve? http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573259&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:58:53 GMT I, at this point in my life, am an atheist. I just don’t know what happens when we die or if there is a god somewhere watching over us. I have... I, at this point in my life, am an atheist. I just don’t know what happens when we die or if there is a god somewhere watching over us. I have recently started reading the bible. I’ve started with Genesis and I’m not very far into it, but it made me get the courage to just come over here and post this.

What made you believe/disbelieve? Was it something in particular? Was it a feeling you had? A vision? (for believers)Do you believe out of fear? And if there are Christians that believe just for the sake of not wanting to be wrong and possibly going to hell, would that count and they would be saved? Or would it not count because it wasn’t a genuine belief? Why do you (as believers) think us non-believers have such a hard time believing?

I’m sure I will have more questions as the thread progresses, but yeah, I have doubts about whether I might be wrong and maybe there is something else beside here and now. But my questions (and those questions never getting answered in a way I can understand by anyone I’ve ever asked) always lead me back to not believing at all. As you can read, I am and have always been super confused about religion.

Can anyone be 100% sure if there is really a god (or for that matter, many gods)? Can anyone ever say atheists are right because of ABC or can Christians ever say they’re right because of XYZ? Where is the proof on either end?

I’m not sure where the debate is in this post but I figured with all the strong views on Christianity and Atheism on this board, it could be an enlightening experience for many of us.

I’d love it if we could steer away from this becoming a bashing thread because I am genuinely interested in everyone’s point of views.

If I am out of line for posting this just let me know, I hope I’m not. :D

I will post why I don't believe in a separate post. ]]> General Debate Board missy1723 http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573259 First family pictures! (pic heavy) http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573258&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:58:31 GMT We got our first family pictures today and I think they turned out pretty well! Image:... We got our first family pictures today and I think they turned out pretty well!

We wanted to get more pictures with the kids and I and just the kids together but Skyla decided she would rather play with the toys than sit still and take pictures so we will have to take more at another time :) ]]> February 2008 skylamommy2 http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573257 Keep having these dreams... http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573256&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:46:39 GMT where I've given birth, but I get sent home from the hospital, and the baby doesn't. But not for any reason. And then when I'm home I can't get back to the hospital and I can't get my baby! :(

The weirdest thing is that in the dreams my biggest concern, well, besides actually getting the baby obviously, is my milk drying up. So I keep trying to breastfeed other kids! :eek: ]]> May 2010 Marite13 http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573256 Trouble Sleeping?? http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573255&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:26:29 GMT I was just wondering if anyone else is having sleeping issues. I get so tired during the day. But then at night like right now 2:15 I can' t sleep I wake up with indigestion and I can't fall back asleep... now it is 45 minutes later and I know I will be tired tomorrow.... ]]> July 2010 eg4cg http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573255 Baby Shower in January http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573254&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:16:29 GMT I feel like that is sooo soon! My friends who are throwing it wanted to pick a day today and we picked January 16th. One of them is pregnant as well... I feel like that is sooo soon! My friends who are throwing it wanted to pick a day today and we picked January 16th. One of them is pregnant as well and I am helping with her shower so we are doing her's on Feb 6th so it will still be just a little more than a month before I am due.

I'll be 31 weeks at my shower and 2 months from my delivery day, is that a normal time to do it? It feels a little early but with doing my friends as well we wanted to space them and still do her's before I am close to my due date.

I feel like the holidays are going to fly by and then March will be here... Its starting to sink in more and more that 16 weeks till we have our little girl! ]]> March 2010 bcalkins http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573254 New H1B Hiring Bill Takes Aim at Tech Firms http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573253&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:13:29 GMT http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141198/New_H_1B_hiring_bill_takes_aim_at_tech_firms Long overdue IMO. ---Quote--- The two lawmakers... http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic..._at_tech_firms

Long overdue IMO.

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The two lawmakers who successfully added H-1B hiring restrictions to the financial bailout bill earlier this year have introduced legislation that would bar any firm that lays off 50 or more workers from hiring guest workers.

This legislation, introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), could potentially affect a broad swath of tech firms that have laid off large numbers of workers but continue hiring.

The high-tech industry overall has laid off more than 345,000 workers since August 2008, according to the two senators in the unveiing of what they called the Employ America Act.

"With the unemployment rate over 10%, companies that undertake mass layoffs shouldn't need to hire foreign guest workers when there are plenty of qualified Americans looking for jobs," said Grassley, in a statement yesterday

]]> Liberal/Democrat Parents Katra http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573253 SC Lawmakers to Take Up Sanford Impeachment Next Week http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573252&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:05:09 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/20/us/AP-US-SC-Governor.html ---Quote--- Filed at 4:23 p.m. ET Published: November 20, 2009 Filed... http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009...-Governor.html

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Filed at 4:23 p.m. ET
Published: November 20, 2009

Filed at 4:23 p.m. ET
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina lawmakers plan to formally consider impeaching Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time next week, the chairman of the committee beginning that work said Friday.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Harrison told The Associated Press he is appointing an ad-hoc committee of four Republicans and three Democrats who will begin meeting Tuesday. He said he expects to have a resolution to impeach ready before Christmas for the full Judiciary Committee to consider.

I think this has dragged on for so long, that it's doubtful anything significant is going to happen. ]]> Liberal/Democrat Parents Katra http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573252 JK Rowlings Harvard Commencement Speech http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573251&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:49:44 GMT A friend shared a snippit from Rowling's Commencement Speech with me tonight, so I went back to read the entire text. It's quite good actually - she speaks of her time at Amnesty - in addition to struggles of her early adult years. But the section that really struck a cord, and could equate to perfectly to what I see in much of today's discourse and fear mongering, whether in regards to religions we're not accustomed to, healthcare, caring for others, etc... For me, much of it ties back to this section from her speech:

The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination

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Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people’s places.

Of course, this is a power, like my brand of fictional magic, that is morally neutral. One might use such an ability to manipulate, or control, just as much as to understand or sympathise.

And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know.

I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors. I think the wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

What is more, those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.

One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing.

But how much more are you, Harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other people’s lives? Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, give you unique status, and unique responsibilities. Even your nationality sets you apart. The great majority of you belong to the world’s only remaining superpower. The way you vote, the way you live, the way you protest, the pressure you bring to bear on your government, has an impact way beyond your borders. That is your privilege, and your burden.

If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped change. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

The entire speech is very good, if you have the time. There's also video at the link:
http://harvardmagazine.com/commencem...ce-imagination ]]> Liberal/Democrat Parents Katra http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573251 For those of you who are either on Clomid, or have been on Clomid http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573250&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:41:51 GMT Why are you on it? I know that it helps women who don't ovulate. But if you do ovulate and take Clomid, how come? Does it help with egg development?

Once I get in to see an RE, I want to start Femara (Clomid interferes with a drug I'm on). But I've never had a chance to talk to any OBs about why I should take a fertility drug. I just always had the sense that I should. (I have mild PCOS and had crazy long irregular cycles before I went on Metformin. But now things have evened out. But that doesn't mean that egg quality still isn't an issue.)

If you feel comfortable talking about it, could you tell me why you're on it? ]]> August 2010 clio http://www.pregnancy.org/bulletinboards/showthread.php?t=573250