Pregnancy & Parenting - 14 December 2006

For a girl I've chosen: Kayleigh Jo
For a boy I've chosen: Zeak Benjamin

2006-12-14 12:16:57 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous in Baby Names

2006-12-14 12:16:47 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy

Alijah pronounced is like the actor Elijah Woods just in case you were unsure of how to pronounce it. A lot of people tell me it sounds Middle Eastern and I don't like that at all. They say it's an Iraqui name but I never thought so before. His middle name will be James after my husband's father. How does Alijah James sound to you?

2006-12-14 12:15:41 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Baby Names

40 wks and 4 days; I have been having contractions since last week, but those weren't as strong and each one lasted for 2-3 minutes with pain also.

2006-12-14 12:14:18 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy

why from what i hear and see are parents worried about telling their children that santa ,or the tooth fairy or over fantasy characters exist should childrens dreams be taken away is this why so many children grow up too quick? and want to be in pubs at 13 or 14 and why we have so much trouble with youngests today and drugs because no dreams are given to them i believed and i wasnt angry when i found the truth i thought they were beautiful tales my sons face lights up when i tell him santa is coming and hes 3 is this wrong for me to tell him abut santa and not about all the problems in the world should he know about all these tragic stories the truth as people say or should he be a child with imagination and happiness

2006-12-14 12:11:56 · 46 answers · asked by amanda7005 2 in Parenting

I am due January 30th and I have not smoked at all during pregnancy. My friend is having her party at the hookah lounge next week and she told me to ask if I can smoke at least a little hookah while im there. I don't know if this is okay or what it can do to my baby. Please help...

2006-12-14 12:11:36 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy

2006-12-14 12:05:47 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy

my daughter never really opens her hands up, she always has them in fists, i try to play peek a boo or patty cakes with her but she pulls away and doesnt open her hands, she also holds her bottle with her hands in fists, is this normal ever happen with anyone elses kid? this is my first so i dont know if its ok or not

2006-12-14 12:02:50 · 8 answers · asked by tanya 1 in Newborn & Baby

what is the best in effectiveness? and earliest results?

2006-12-14 12:02:17 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy

She wants everyone to call her Jaidyn, an incredibly common name (no offense to you Jaidyns out there). Her name is Cymphoni. I haven't come across anyone with that name or spelling.

I tell her to write her legal name on job applications and when her friends call the house asking for Jaidyn, I say who? It just irks me that I made sure she had an original name and now she wants to be "common".

2006-12-14 12:01:58 · 14 answers · asked by Inquiring Mind 19 3 in Adolescent

My husband and I are more than ready to have a baby. I really need some advice on the quickest methods of getting pregnant from woman who have been through this. I have female problems and may have a more difficult time getting pregnant.
Any tips would be great. Thank you

2006-12-14 11:58:39 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Trying to Conceive

I have been in a relationship with the father for almost 3 years now. We didn't plan the pregnancy it was a surprise for both of us. Now all of a sudden I want nothing to do with him. Is this because of my hormones? Has this happened to anyone else?

2006-12-14 11:57:58 · 19 answers · asked by Glee4today 1 in Pregnancy

my son is 3 months pld and bottle fed with Allimentum (very expensive). he was breastfed for the 1st 6 weeks but we found he is lactose and soy intolerant, hence the expensive formula. he has never taken a paci without us holding it in his mouth and now he screams when you hold it in there. just about every night, he goes into this uncontrolable cry session usually lasting about 3-4 hours. i think he has colic but the pediatrician says it's reflux. i don't agree because both my girls had reflux and never did this. my question is this..... The only thing that seems to calm him down is to let him latch on to my breast. I only produce a couple drops of milk now and he eats before hand so he is only using me for a paci. Do you think that this is okay? Will it make me start to produce milk again? We have tried everything else we can think of. nothing has worked so far except this. what would you do?

2006-12-14 11:57:54 · 17 answers · asked by rhainnedroppe 3 in Newborn & Baby

2006-12-14 11:54:40 · 6 answers · asked by SHERYL 1 in Pregnancy

my son will not sleep because my daughter like's the light on when she sleeps, of corse my son likes it of!

2006-12-14 11:53:33 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Parenting

So I have this friend. She has 7 kids.. ages 19, 16, 11, 8, 5, 3, and 7 months. Their house is a complete disaster. So much junk, clutter, dirt... barely a walk way through rooms. The kitchen has dirty dishes piled up that look months old. The rugs looks like it has never been vacuumed and parts of the house have no rugs, just plywood floor. The house is just a complete wreck and is sooo horrible. She is my friend, but now I want to report her to social services!

What makes a house unsafe for kids? They have a crib for the 7 month old, but it is filled to the brim with junk so I don't even know where he sleeps. They have running water and heat, so is their house a concern? Is excessive dirt and clutter enough for Social Services to be involved.

I have been telling her for months and months to clean her house, and she has been telling me she has been working on it... but I just saw it today and it is HORRIBLE!

Should I report her?

2006-12-14 11:53:10 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Parenting

I am due to start my period on the 20th or 21st and was wondering I took a First Response today which says you can take it 5 days before missed period and the last time I had sex was 15 days ago. It can out negative and really fast bold single line and wondered if this should ease my anxiety a little. I had protected sex the day after my period but it was a mistake and I just am paranoid. What do you think about this? Thank you so much

2006-12-14 11:52:33 · 3 answers · asked by Annabelle 2 in Pregnancy

2006-12-14 11:51:46 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy

I was at the doctor today for my 16 week appointment and he said that because I have A negative blood i will have to have a shot at 28 weeks. I was going to ask why but we got distracted. Anyone know what this is all about?

2006-12-14 11:50:27 · 10 answers · asked by lindsey4706 3 in Pregnancy

Can not having a completely full bladder affect the result of a sonogram? i.e. failure to locate baby and heartbeat?

2006-12-14 11:50:07 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy

I went to the doctor today about 1 hour ago and they told me my cervix was thining out how long did it take you, or how long do you think it will take for me to go into labor?" My due date is Friday the 22 and im only 18"

2006-12-14 11:47:48 · 11 answers · asked by Tiffany Nichole 1 in Pregnancy

2006-12-14 11:47:35 · 8 answers · asked by boriana b 1 in Other - Pregnancy & Parenting

My girlfriend's daughter is a brat--plain and simple. I have tried to get the message across to her that for eveyone's sake she had to do something.

I was out doing Christmas shopping and in this gift shop saw this little paddle with the words "Heat for the Seat" written on it and a cartoon pic of a kid bending over with a red rear.

I had a moment of ephiphany. I recalled the legend that Santa has been known to deliver a bag a coal and a bundle of switches to naughty kids (in fact I have mentioned this to my own a couple of times).

So I bought the paddle and plan on wrapping it up as a gift from Santa. In Hallmark they had these tiny bags of coal to give as a joke --so I am going to include that.

I also bought a nice gift.

I am very close with my gf. She knows how I feel. She feels spanking would be a good idea--but is a waffler. Whether she does or not I want to send a serious message there needs to me discipline in a funny way.

What do you think?

2006-12-14 11:45:32 · 18 answers · asked by beckychr007 6 in Parenting

I have been going to the bathroom (to pee) at least once every 45 minutes to an hour, I have not increased my beverage intake, it seems even if I don't drink anything I still have to go every 45 minutes. What could this be? I do not have a bladder infection, I always know when I have one of those, and it isn't a small amount of urination it is a large amount as if you held it in for a while. Has anyone else gone through this before, if so what was it.

2006-12-14 11:42:04 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Pregnancy & Parenting

I'm supposed to be eleven weeks 4 days along...my doc couldn't hear a heart beat tuesday with the doppler so she scheduled a sonogram today...the technician said she couldn't find a heart beat...we could all see the gestational sac but no baby...she did see a "spot" she thought might be the baby but it only measured 6 weeks...what is going on? If that was my baby that means it quit growing at six weeks and has been dead for five!!! Wouldn't i be sick now if i had a dead child in my uterus that long? It's still attatched to my uterine wall and my uterus is tilted backwards could that make my baby hide? Could she just not see it there? I have had no miscarriage symptoms or anything? Feel great... i took another preg test today to see if there were still traces of hcg and sure enough it turned up +. The darkest purple line you could ever imagine? I know it's not good to give my self "false hope" but could everything really be fine? Experiences please...any comments are appreciated....

2006-12-14 11:41:30 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy

i have a one month old baby girl.........i would like to ask if i m breast feeding my baby how often should i feed her in a day & for how long...............& if someoneis bottle feeding wat should she do how many ounces & after how many hours????????????

2006-12-14 11:40:36 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Newborn & Baby

On november 11th, my husband and i had sex. He didn't ejaculate, and he pulled out way before. Plus, i was on the last day or day after of my period. We weren't planning on having a baby, but if thats what god has in store for us then we're happy.


Last night, i took a home pregnancy test. (Best Choice, from the Dollar Store.) Right away there was only a line in the C section, not the T section, meaning it was negative. Sometime after 10 minutes i looked at the test again and there was a barely noticable relatively colorless line, i had to look really closely to see it. I figured it was an evaporation line, but i wasn't positive. Today in the morning i went into a free pregnancy testing clinic near my house and got it done by a professional. (urine test.) She informed me that the test was negative, and that she didn't see ANY evidence of any other positive lines, meaning pregnancy. Also, we looked up my conception time, and according to their chart and the start of my last period, my conecption time would have been on the 20th of november, and i had sex on the 11th, so they said i'm probably not pregnant. I'm going back on the 23rd to get retested just to be sure. I was wondering though, considering all of that, is this a true negative?

The only symptom i've had is that for the last few days, my breasts have been sore, my nipples have been sensitive, and if i press on my nipples it hurts like hell. Cause stress and PMS cause that?
How likely is it that my HCG levels are just low?

2006-12-14 11:40:02 · 10 answers · asked by Lovely 1 in Pregnancy

Shes fine all day long but when I breastfeed her in the evening after every feeding as soon as she stops eating she starts screaming. She doesn't scream indefinatly like its colic but its driving me nuts. I thought it might be gas so I've given her Milicon and bicycled her legs...but this is happening every night right around the same time. Any ideas?

2006-12-14 11:39:37 · 8 answers · asked by addisonsmom17 2 in Newborn & Baby

2006-12-14 11:38:33 · 4 answers · asked by peg leg 1 in Pregnancy

Long story short, I've liked him for a couple of years, he's in one of my classes now...yada yada. [we're 15]. k, he was my first major crush and all I can say was, I didn't know what to do so I'd always stare at him [at lunch, in between classes etc.] I always thought it was cute/funny, how he always [even w/his back turned] seemed to know I was looking at him, and how he'd turn around and look at me. That was the stupid me...like I said, now he's in 1 of my classes and he always looks at me now. I'm not gonna lie, I still like him, but now I'm kinda thinking he likes me 2. I can't really describe it, it's like the little things we do around each other, but in class i was reading and my teacher told me to put it away, and he was staring at me, and my friend was like why do you always stare at her do you like her? He has a very jokey personality, but when he said, yea I like her, it came out not as sarcastic as it should've been.

2006-12-14 11:38:05 · 11 answers · asked by K 3 in Adolescent