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  • Creative Ways to Document Your Pregnancy

    You're expecting! We've come up with ideas to document your pregnancy journey. Here are a few ideas to start! Get creative!

  • Five Ways to Bond With Your Baby Before Birth

    During the first trimester the only thing you may be bonded with is the toilet bowl. Once you begin to feel your baby move or kick it may be easier to develop a connection. Here are a few fun and easy ways to begin a relationship with your growing baby:

  • Sandy's Surprise -- Morning Sickness Hits Hard!

    So our plan of not telling any friends and acquaintances until after the ultrasound is not going so great! My friend called me about 6 times last night trying to get a hold of me because she heard through the grapevine that I'm pregnant!

  • Sandy's Surprise -- The 13-Weeks Dance!

    Before I head off to work, I wanted to update on our BUN (First Screen/NT Scan) results. The nurse said the baby only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of having either Down's or any chromosomal abnormalities! She said that is extremely low, to the point of almost being negligible. I am so relieved!

  • Sandy's Surprise -- Mentioning Mouthwash

    I just recently read an article where a woman in her second trimester takes a trip on a plane. She said she was so confident she was past her "throwing up stage," but being on the plane reversed all that! She ended up having to brush her teeth several times between the beginning and end of her journey.

  • Sandy's Surprise -- I Would Love a Home Waterbirth

    Last night, he asked me what my ideal birth would be. I told him without trepidation, I would LOVE a home waterbirth. Even before we got pregnant, I had read about it here on Pregnancy.org, researched them and decided that would be my ideal birthing situation.

  • Sandy's Surprise -- I Felt the Baby Move

    I felt the baby move today! I had read and heard so much about gas movements being mistaken for baby movements that I didn't want to get too excited. I couldn't help but think though, that they felt VERY different from gas movements I usually have!

  • Sandy's Surprise -- Round Ligament Pain

    Sometimes I think all this must be happening to someone else. This feeling of unadulterated joy is so different from anything I've ever felt! I've been happy before, but this is so much more. It's like there's this huge miracle going on and I get to be part of it. How amazing is life?

  • Sandy's Surprise -- More Comfortable Clothes

    Well, it turns out I am now a 36 D! And the lady said once my milk comes in, I'll likely go up to a 36 E! I had no idea they made E's! So now my breasts are a LOT more comfortable. Tim would enjoy my new "assets" if he could! The policy at our house right now is, "Look but don't touch!"

  • Sandy's Surprise -- I Want to Say "He" or "She!"

    I really, really want to know what I'm having! I want to be able to say he/she instead of "it" all the time! I want to go shopping and be able to call the baby by name! I probably sound like a big whiner, but I really feel like all of the above will help me bond to the baby more.

  • Creative Ways to Document Your Pregnancy

    You're expecting! We've come up with ideas to document your pregnancy journey. Here are a few ideas to start! Get creative!

  • PUSH: Harvest Moon

    We were in need of a good adventure, something to get us out of the house and break up these 40 weeks. So on Sunday, we drove 223 miles for a hamburger.

  • Sandy's Surprise -- A Fall and a Scare!

    The day started out when I fell in our bathroom at around 5 am and hit my stomach on the side of the toilet bowl. I decided to go back to bed and just see how everything panned out. I started to cramp, and then when I woke up for the day around 8:30, I actually had some bright red spotting!

  • Sandy's Surprise -- Morning Sickness Hits Hard!

    So our plan of not telling any friends and acquaintances until after the ultrasound is not going so great! My friend called me about 6 times last night trying to get a hold of me because she heard through the grapevine that I'm pregnant!

  • Sandy's Surprise -- The Plan is to Eat a Cookie!

    If the baby does not cooperate, I'm going to be very annoyed. It does have a tendency to be modest -- at both ultrasounds we've had so far, it's been reluctant to show the goods! So Tim and I have come up with a plan for me to eat a cookie 20 minutes before our appointment.

  • Sandy's Surprise -- The 13-Weeks Dance!

    Before I head off to work, I wanted to update on our BUN (First Screen/NT Scan) results. The nurse said the baby only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of having either Down's or any chromosomal abnormalities! She said that is extremely low, to the point of almost being negligible. I am so relieved!

  • Sandy's Surprise -- Over the Moon Either Way

    We were talking about how we had thought we would've preferred a girl, but now that we know it's a boy, we are really happy! I guess somewhere deep down we wanted our first to be a son... is that old-fashioned? Anyway, I think we would've been over the moon either way!

  • Sandy's Surprise -- Mentioning Mouthwash

    I just recently read an article where a woman in her second trimester takes a trip on a plane. She said she was so confident she was past her "throwing up stage," but being on the plane reversed all that! She ended up having to brush her teeth several times between the beginning and end of her journey.

  • Sandy's Surprise -- Half Way There!

    It was so much better than sitting in a sterile waiting room. I had my fur babies around, my husband right there, and I got to listen to baby's heartbeat on my couch!

  • Sandy's Surprise -- I Would Love a Home Waterbirth

    Last night, he asked me what my ideal birth would be. I told him without trepidation, I would LOVE a home waterbirth. Even before we got pregnant, I had read about it here on Pregnancy.org, researched them and decided that would be my ideal birthing situation.