pregnancy
Growing your family, one baby bump at a time. All about the ups and downs of nature's 9 month miracle.
18 and Pregnant
One thing is for sure, this was not how I expected my life to turn out. I thought my future held college, medical school, residencies, with marriage somewhere in between and babies in the distant future, once things have settled. How was I supposed to know that I would drop out of college after the first semester, be stuck paying back thousands of dollars with a barely above minimum wage job, and, to top it off, pregnant?
By I Am A Pizza7 years ago in Families
Things Are Going to Change
Life is never straightforward and there is always the fear of the unknown and also the fear of the truth. I was scared of both for a long time or what felt like a long time but sometimes you have no choice but to face it and deal with it and however you do can change things forever!
By Robyn Adams7 years ago in Families
Ovaryaction
Isn’t it funny, you spend the first 5+ years of your sexually active life taking pills, getting injections, wearing patches and inserting rods and coils in all sorts of places trying to prevent unwanted pregnancy. When dreaming of your future as a child/teenager, you expect to meet someone, get married, have a baby and live happily ever after. Then the next minute, you're 25, married to your Prince Charming and hopelessly wishing you could complete your family with your own little bundle of joy. But for some, it isn’t always that easy. After a year and a half, I was trying to conceive the baby that I had been preventing for so many years. It took a year and a half of tears, blood tests, scans, samples and monthly heartaches to be told I have PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome). Due to this, I was not ovulating, therefore had no chance at all of conceiving. Now on Metformin, for the first time I got a positive on my ovulation sticks! With the future looking that little bit brighter, we smile, we hope and we plod along.
By Aisha Heath7 years ago in Families
Young Motherhood
There's so much others have to say about people who have a baby early. Some support those mothers while others shun them. There's so many aspects to this that it's hard to draw a clear conclusion. A big part is how it started. Was it on purpose? Do they have jobs or a house? Are they mature? Have they finished school? All of these questions come into play as for how one should react.
By Aleesa Rudder7 years ago in Families
Foods That Can Increase Your Chances of Getting Pregnant, and The Ones You Should Avoid
Everyone knows that substances such as alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine can seriously negatively affect a woman both prior to and during pregnancy, but nobody ever thinks about the food a woman is constantly putting into her body. Fast food dominates every part of the country, and a woman’s pregnancy cravings can be absolutely bizarre. However, with the rise of increased, overarching nutritional awareness across the nation, it is no surprise that researchers have begun to study the effects of different types of foods on a woman’s fertility. Studies have indicated that there is a direct correlation between a woman’s fertility and the food she consumes, particularly in regions of the country in which hormonal infertility runs rampant, such as the Midwest where diets are particularly dairy heavy. As a result, many women have begun to look into diet options that will allow them to have the quickest and healthiest baby possible.
By Lorna Vause7 years ago in Families
Cesarean Birth After Cesarean
In the “birthy world,” CBAC or “Cesarean Birth After Cesarean” refers to a belly birth that was initially planned to be a VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean). In cases like this, sometimes simply saying “repeat cesarean” negates the significance of the decision to birth again via cesarean. As someone who has personally traveled this road, I share the story of my second child’s birth, a family-centered, gentle cesarean, in the hopes that it can bring healing and comfort to others whose birth stories may not have gone *quite* as planned.
By Bethany Banning7 years ago in Families
The Things They Don’t Tell You at School: Babies
When I left school, I was left thinking I knew how to handle the outside world on my own. I mean I’d learnt the ins and outs of all the cells in a plant, I’d learnt how to dissect a pigs heart. Heck I even learnt how to speak like Shakespeare!
By Jordan Cooper7 years ago in Families
10 Things I Learned Through Losing a Pregnancy
The first time I found out I was pregnant, the most apparent feeling for me was surprise. I’m not sure why I was so surprised to see a positive result on my at home pregnancy test since my husband and I had been trying, or as I always said “not preventing,” for about a year. Nonetheless, I felt surprised, scared of the inevitable labor and delivery, and also excited about this new phase in my life.
By Haley Peterson7 years ago in Families
