In this day and age, announcing the birth of your child is just an email away. If you are so inclined, you can send an email within minutes of the birth of your baby to hundreds of folks all over......
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© lovecatz Now that the baby is there, everyone's excited to welcome the new addition to your family and see how the new mommy is coping. That's great and understandable. After all, like you,...
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© Joe Shlabotnik For some women, it's love at first sight. The moment they see their baby, they are overwhelmed with love and wonder and all things warm and fuzzy. Not me. As I felt the baby gush...
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© Marc van der Chijs If, sometime during your last trimester visit, you find out that your baby is in the occiput posterior position, facing your abdomen instead of your back, does that mean you are...
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Filed in archive Childbirth
by ruth on April 22, 2008
© chippenziedeutch My first baby was born in what is called the occiput posterior (OP) position, also called the "face-up", "stargazer" or "sunny-side up" position...
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Taking Omega 3 supplements during your last trimester of pregnancy may benefit your unborn child's sensory, cognitive, and motor development, according to a newly publsihed research....
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© Marc van der Chijs When you're in labor and the contractions are coming every 5 minutes or so, the last thing you would like to do is enter a discussion with the nurses of even the doctor what...
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Filed in archive Baby Gear
by ruth on April 17, 2008
In the past few weeks, we've used countless online databases of baby names to come up with possible names for our baby. I never imagined how tough it could be to wade through so many names!...
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by ruth on April 16, 2008
© drcorneilus In a lot of pregnant women's birth plans are instructions regarding the timing of the clamping/cutting of the umbilical cord. While it used to be that the umbilical cord is clamped...
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Just because you're pregnant, it doesn't mean that you'll have to stop exercise. In fact, studies show that exercise is good not only for you, the pregnant mother, but it also has a...
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by ruth on April 10, 2008
As your delivery date nears, take the time to prepare your hospital bag. You don't want to be packing your stuff just when the contractions begin. Who knows how fast your labor would progress and...
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I gave birth 5 years ago. Those that had their babies in about the same time as I had my son, are already having the second (some third!) children. Am I envious? Absolutely. I'm jealous as hell....
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Your diet during pregnancy has a big impact on the health of your baby, not only during your child's gestation and infancy, but all throughout its lifetime. That is why proper nutrition is...
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