Pregnancy & Parenting - 19 September 2007

I am, along with many if not most Americans,
absolutely disgusted at her irresponsible/negligent manner of parenting. Illicit drug use by a mother is absolutely NOT
acceptable. HOWEVER, simple family nudity in front of kids is NOT illegal, nor should this particluar behaviour be made an issue. There are many nudist/naturist families who chuse to go around nude in their homes, mother and father included. Again, this is NOT illegal! What say you?

2007-09-19 04:04:16 · 33 answers · asked by Herbert Windt 2 in Parenting

Was it good or bad? I've heard that many of the babies have attachment disorders when they get older. I am interested in adoption and just started looking into this so any helpful hints and advise would be welcome.

2007-09-19 04:03:13 · 6 answers · asked by seafires1 3 in Adoption

I've heard that the uterus can detach from the uterine wall during pregnancy. How does this happen? How will you know when it happens? Does it kill the baby? What site can I look up info on this?

2007-09-19 04:02:16 · 2 answers · asked by tanner 7 in Pregnancy

i booked a private 2d scan for 9th oct as doc wont get me scan until 14- 16 weeks. how clear is it and can you see then if its twins or not? anyone had one this early or went private for it?how good was it? i cant wait, it doesnt feel real at the moment!!

2007-09-19 03:57:33 · 12 answers · asked by Joanne S 1 in Pregnancy

a.letting them figure out for themselves the benefits of doing so.
b.doing so youself because children learn by imitating adults.
c.telling them to do so on an individual basis which enhances selfesteem
d.telling the entire class to do so which imposes peer pressure

2007-09-19 03:56:55 · 25 answers · asked by Leshell M 1 in Parenting

We have friends that are totally for it and friend that are totally
against it.

What do you think about Adoption?

2007-09-19 03:49:07 · 17 answers · asked by Fuzzybutt 7 in Adoption

is this cruel and selfish, or is it a sensible way to keep mother and child happy?

2007-09-19 03:47:35 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Parenting

2007-09-19 03:43:27 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Trying to Conceive

My neighbor is pregnant (9m). She's due early Oct. We were sitting outside the other night and she pressed on her leg and it left a big indentation on her leg. She said they told her it wasn't toxemia, so what could it be?

2007-09-19 03:42:52 · 9 answers · asked by dvnlady 3 in Pregnancy

l am eight days late today for my AF today. l did pg test at 3days late, and it says negative. l spotted dark brown btw 3 -5days late, only when l wipe, and still spots ocassionally now.
My concern is that my stomach feels tightier than normal. Even if am pg should my stomach be tight as if am doing sit up exercise at this stage???
And l have occassional pinch (pain) on both sides of my belly button.
l tend to see my doctor this evening, but pls give me your opinion.

2007-09-19 03:38:40 · 3 answers · asked by Babylover 2 in Trying to Conceive

How Did We Ever Survive Our Childhood?

My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.

My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes too, but I can't remember getting E-coli.

Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring).

The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.

We all took gym, not PE ... and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now. Flunking gym was not an option ... even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.

Every year, someone taught the whole school a lesson by running in the halls with leather soles on linoleum tile and hitting the wet spot. How much better off would we be today if we only knew we could have sued the school system.

Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention. We must have had horribly damaged psyches. I can't understand it. Schools didn't offer 14 year olds an abortion or condoms (we wouldn't have known what either was anyway) but they did give us a couple of baby aspirin and cough syrup if we started getting the sniffles.

What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.

I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.

I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, PlayStation, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital cable stations.

I must be repressing that memory as I try to rationalize through the denial of the dangers could have befallen us as we trekked off each day about a mile down the road to some guy's vacant 20, built forts out of branches and pieces of plywood, made trails, and fought over who got to be the Lone Ranger. What was that property owner thinking, letting us play on that lot? He should have been locked up for not putting up a fence around the property, complete with a self-closing gate and an infrared intruder alarm.

Oh yeah... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!

We played king of the hill on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48 cent bottle of Mercurochrome and then we got our butt spanked. Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.

We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we got our butt spanked (physical abuse) there too ... and then we got our butt spanked again when we got home.

Mom invited the door to door salesman inside for coffee, kids choked down the dust from the gravel driveway while playing with Tonka trucks (Remember why Tonka trucks were made tough...it wasn't so that they could take the rough Berber in the family room), and Dad drove a car with leaded gas.

Our music had to be left inside when we went out to play and I am sure that I nearly exhausted my imagination a couple of times when we went on two week vacations. I should probably sue the folks now for the danger they put us in when we all slept in campgrounds in the family tent.

Summers were spent behind the push lawn mower and I didn't even know that mowers came with motors until I was 13 and we got one without an automatic blade-stop or an auto-drive.

How sick were my parents? Of course my parents weren't the only psychos. I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.

To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that we needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes?

We were obviously duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac!

2007-09-19 03:35:44 · 19 answers · asked by mw 7 in Parenting

Mine asked a heavy set cashier when she was going to have her baby!

I wanted to duck under the floor and leave.

2007-09-19 03:30:34 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Toddler & Preschooler

My son turns 7 soon and am wondering if you have any ideas and where to purchase it from?

He likes to play outside
He likes hands on stuff

2007-09-19 03:27:52 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Parenting

yesterday she was very active and last night nd early this morning but nothing this afternoon shes normally awake at this time i only really started feeling movements last week as have a low lying placenta any ideas and thoughts ??

2007-09-19 03:26:43 · 13 answers · asked by munchie 6 in Pregnancy

i just found out I'm 2 months pregnant n the ultrasound said the approximate date of conceiving which is the same day i slept with a guy..but i slept with 2 guys in one month...do i consume the father is what the ultra sound says or should i get a dna test once the baby is born?

2007-09-19 03:26:25 · 10 answers · asked by loopy_elmo69 2 in Pregnancy

I just found out I'm pregnant, and I'm scared to death. I miscarried my first pregnancy in March at 3 months. (The baby's heart had just stopped beating)I had to have a D&C (and then I was bleeding internally after that, and had to have a second, emergency surgery....but that's a whole other story) At any rate, we waited about 5 months to start trying again. And Monday I found out I was pregnant again. I am so scared of going through a miscarriage again. My husband and I desparately want this child. I know stress is bad for me, so I try not to worry, but because I never had a "normal" pregnancy, I worry that every ache and pain is a sign something wrong. So, I guess my question is- any advice on how to ease my mind? And also, has anyone been in my position, where they miscarriage and went on to have a normal, healthy pregnancy? Thank you

2007-09-19 03:25:05 · 9 answers · asked by Tara 2 in Pregnancy

after having 1 of my 5 preg tests faintly positve, i have handed in a urine sample (3 days later) and it has come back neg, my last period was off colour and ive just come on again and its off colour also, and i cant get a blood test to c if i am preg until after i hand in another urine sample next week.....i dont know if i can wait that long!.....has anyone ever had a very faint postive and then a neg water sample???

i was on the pill.....and was due to start my next pack this fri(which im not).....experienced episodes of tender breasts n tiredness

2007-09-19 03:24:42 · 3 answers · asked by jojo 4 in Pregnancy

Can My BF get in truble if we have conusal sex and i become pregnant. Since i was not forced to they still charge him as a crime or since im closer to 18 they would dissmis the trial hes 22.

2007-09-19 03:19:23 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Pregnancy & Parenting

My partner and I have been ttc for about a year and I have just been diagnosed with PCOS. My doctor has given me Metformin and I have been taking it for about 4 weeks, I have just been reading about a herbal supplement called Vitex and was wondering if anyone has tried this and seen inprovements? Can i take them both together?

2007-09-19 03:17:51 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Trying to Conceive

2007-09-19 03:15:22 · 7 answers · asked by yi2 1 in Toddler & Preschooler

Dear friends What is depo provera birth control ? i am just married and i want family planning.
what is the best way for family planning, any tablets will work effectly pls let me know.

2007-09-19 03:13:22 · 9 answers · asked by Your friend 1 in Pregnancy

how many should I take? I am shock here. It's like I can't believe it.

2007-09-19 03:04:12 · 20 answers · asked by nps 3 in Trying to Conceive

kayleigh
paige
madelyn
hannah
grace
emma

2007-09-19 02:58:54 · 71 answers · asked by *T*I*N*K*E*R*B*E*L*L* 3 in Baby Names

2007-09-19 02:45:18 · 7 answers · asked by nicki 1 in Baby Names

2007-09-19 02:44:00 · 16 answers · asked by nicki 1 in Baby Names

2007-09-19 02:34:53 · 4 answers · asked by cool b 1 in Trying to Conceive

I have a couple questions, sometimes my belly feels like its got a balloon in it that is filling up with air, and it feels hard all over my belly. What could that be? Its completly painless, just a little uncomfortable. Also, every now and then I get very minor cramping feelings, what could that be? And lately the middle of my chest has been hurting alot, like its breaking...what could that be? I have a Doc app today, I just wandered if anyone could maybe give me some opinions.

2007-09-19 02:30:47 · 6 answers · asked by LiLmamma 2 in Pregnancy

2007-09-19 02:25:00 · 12 answers · asked by cool b 1 in Trying to Conceive

EAT.
not surgery or anything else,
just food.

2007-09-19 01:58:03 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Newborn & Baby

A kid we watch started limping on Monday. My mom told her mom yesterday that she noticed that she was limping. Her mom said that she didn't notice (as if she didn't really care) She doesn't pay that much attention to her. Shes been off of work for 2-3 months and has brought her to our house to watch her all the time when she could be spending some time with her. And she also said that she would stay home with her but she just can't handle her.( as in shes gets annoyed and wants her own time not wanting to get bothered by her kid) But anyways we don't really know if its really hurt or if it will go away. She doesn't seem bothered by it though. Should we still be concerned?

2007-09-19 01:55:46 · 6 answers · asked by Sarah 6 in Toddler & Preschooler