First I wanted to thank all the people who responded to my post on Monday. So to update, I went to my initial appointment with the midwife on Tuesday, and it went very well!!! She is the first person I've seen during this pregnancy that made me feel comfortable!!! So now I'm going to have a home bir...

In the last couple weeks, I seemed to have popped. Me @ 22 weeks.It is absolutely amazing to me that my belly protrudes farther than my boobs.I hardly believed such a phenomenon could exist. To be perfectly honest (as, let's face it, I usually am) I have been afraid to post pictures of my pregnant s...

Exercise is great . . . but not that great This time of year more people are starting or ramping up exercise programs (yours truly included) than probably at any other time of year, but the New York Times wants us all to remember that exercise isn’t a cure-all. Exercise alone is not enough to prev...

I just went to the hospital on base (my husband is Army) to do my 28 week glucose test,  and my stupid doctor never put the order in for it to be done. I waited 45 minutes and they never did get in touch with her, even though she's right upstairs, and so I just left. I have an appointment ...

I'm 32 weeks, diagnosed with HG and gestational diabetes. My midwives want me to start my weekly appts now along with a weekly NST and u/s to make sure the baby is ok and not growing too big. My question is what does a NST entail? Is it something I can take my son along with (he's 3). He goes to my ...

Hey all, I'm going to be 34 weeks on Thursday and was recently diagnosed with gestational diabetes. I'd really love accounts of others' experience with having it, if you did in the past or are pregnant and have it currently. They're telling me because of my glucose numbers that I should be put on in...

Let me preface this by saying that I want a natural, med-free, intervention-free birth. However, it seems that my body might have other plans and I might have to edit the heck out of my birth plan. I'm 35 weeks. I have pre-exisiting high blood pressure. This has been easily controlled with medicatio...

Tomorrow I will officially be 35 weeks. But I had my 35 week appointment today. Since I'm high risk, I've been doing weekly NSTs followed by a standard OB appointment. Last week my NST was a little troubling because the baby's heart rate didn't increase when she was active, even though it was in a g...

Research Summaries for Normal Birth Interesting study for those being threatened with the OMG GIANT BEEBEE tactics. Prenatal Diagnosis of Suspected Fetal Macrosomia Increases Risks of Cesarean Section and Maternal Morbidity without Improving Newborn Outcomes Summary: In this prospective observationa...

Keeping with my whole pregnancy theme of lately, I will add to your knowledge of gestational diabetes. I can not help but think about pregnancy with all of Hollywood expecting… Jamie Lee Spears, Angelina Jolie, Gwen Stefani and Ashley Simpson Wentz. Gestational diabetes can cause many complica...