Third Trimester
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Third Pregnancy Concerns
Asked by M.D. from Raleigh
on October 18, 2008
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I'm a mother of 2 who has always felt that the Lord would bring us a third child to complete our family. The last 7 days I have been clinging to this possibility as I...
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- M., Congratulations! I will be praying for you and the baby. The tests measure a certain amount of hormone and some ladies don't make as much as others. They certain...
- My first pregnancy was a lot like that, I had 5 test only one positive. I spotted the whole pregnancy and had high blood pressure toxemia. Spent almost my whole preg...
- M., I went through a similar situation. I have two daughters and we wanted a third to complete our familiy. We got pregnant, but the pregancy test was only faint ea...
Irresponsible to Have a Third Baby?
Asked by M.S. from San Francisco
on September 2, 2010
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Hello. My husband and I have decided we want to have another baby - this will be #3! We are very excited but we are expecting negative reactions from our family. We ha...
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- Not to sound harsh, but forget what your families think. This is your decision as a husband & wife. As long as you are financially secure, which you are, & you both ...
- I wouldn't tell ayone until I was several months just to not have to hear the negativity for those extra months...congrats on the decision to go for baby #3. I htink ...
- No it's not irresponsible to have a 3rd child, you want, love and can provide. I'm happy for you and I think it's great, you may even want to have a 4th. Sometimes w...
2Nd Trimester Weight Gain
Asked by N.K. from Chicago
on July 10, 2010
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Hello! I am about 17 wks pregnant with my second child, and I have gained almost five pounds this week. I was very ill up until recently, and I did not gain a pound ...
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- Keep eating but make sure that your snacks are filling but not high in calories. If a glass of water or milk and some fruit or vegetables leaves you still really hung...
- I would try to eat things that fill you up for long periods of time. For example, I would eat oatmeal and that was pretty filling. Things high in protein should also h...
- Hi N., Your body and the baby's body is craving nutrition. You may want to up your prenatal or even look into a different one. Prenatals are not all created equally...
Are These 1St Trimester Symptoms Normal?
Asked by M.T. from New York
on December 23, 2009
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I am pregnant with my second child and I am 10 weeks along. I have spoken to my doctor frequently, changed my prenatal vitamins four times and yet I am still having d...
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- I'am 26 weeks pergnant and I just got over being sick everyday. I mean I use to bring everything back up even water. This is also my 2nd child. It will pass, the best ...
- Hello, I had trouble with the prenatal vitamins. It turned out not to be the vitamin but the coating on the vitamins. I ended up with liquid prenatal vitamins whi...
- Totally normal. With my son I only felt nausous for about a week. With my daughter I threw up every time I ate red meat. Each pregnancy is different. So what you h...
First Trimester Nausea
Asked by C.S. from New York
on July 8, 2009
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I am 6 weeks pregnant with baby #3. (HOORAY) And I am extremely nauseous. I remember being sick with the first two. But not this bad, and not this early in my pregnanc...
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- Definitely take the zofran. I was horribly sick with my first one and it took me months of trying "natural" remedies or less "mediciney" things but once I did, I becam...
- I took Zofran for weeks, and just stopped. It's very safe in pregnancy, so please don't worry! If it works, use it. You have two other kids to take care of!! I f...
- I took Zofran with my fourth pregnancy. Let me tell you I was okay with the dizziness and slight headaches. They lessened after the second week of taking them. If I...
Multiple Ultrasounds in First Trimester--Normal?
Asked by A.N. from Philadelphia
on December 8, 2006
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Hello,
My future sister-in-law is about to have her third ultrasound, and she is ten weeks' pregnant. With my pregnancies, I had a confirmation ultrasound between e...
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- Hello Laury, I have 4 children (3 are still in preschool) and that many ultrasounds early on sounds suspect to me. Is she in the high risk category for some reason?...
- I had many ultrasounds during my pregnancy, and many of them were during the first trimester. This was because my blood tests came back positive for spina bifida, and ...
- every dr. is different. but i personally never heard of that many so early on. could there be something they are not telling you? hopefully it is the dr.s being p...
Seeking Advice on What Not to Eat During Last Trimester
Asked by F.S. from San Antonio
on December 12, 2006
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Is there anything I'm not supposed to eat during the last trimester? I'm 34 weeks and noticed when I eat grapefruit I get "Braxton Hicks" contractions real bad.I'm I n...
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- Congrats on your pregnancy. I do not believe there are any restrictions in the third trimester. You should definitely NOT try to induce with Castor Oil, though. That c...
- hi i am J. i know that u can pritty much eat about anything u want, i have 2 kids and my youngest is 9 months. i know that i could not drink more than one glass o...
- I'm generally not one to believe superstitions but for both my kids, as soon as I ate pepperoni pizza I went into labor! Granted I was over my due date with both...app...
First Trimester Screening-UPDATED
Asked by L.P. from Pittsburgh
on July 7, 2011
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Following up on my last question, due to my advanced maternal age, my doctor is strongly recommending the First Trimester Screening (blood test and ultrasound) to dete...
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- I was young during both pregnancies (21 & 23) so no screenings were advised for me, but I had an aunt pregnant at the same time as my first & she had all of the screen...
- Well answer this, would you love your baby no matter how he/she were to born??, then elect to decline the testing. I would never test for it, why make your self worry,...
- My younger two I was 31 and 33. I was offered the tests and declined. At least to me whatever they showed would have done nothing but cause me stress. It could be a...
Bleeding Durning First Tri-mester
Asked by J.W. from Allentown
on December 25, 2006
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When i was pregnant with my daughter Yazzie, in the first trimester i started to bleed and for that i was place on bed rest. Now on this second preganacy, two days ago...
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- It's been a while since I was pregnant -- some 16 years! But I did bleed, and quite heavily at 12 weeks with my first pregnancy. I didn't pass any clots that I can re...
- I am on my third pregnancy. I did not have the tiniest bit of spotting/bleeding with my first two - except the mucus plug at the very end. Even after exams when they w...
- Hi J. , when I was pregnant with my daughter who is now 12 I spotted for the first 5 months my doctors told me that it was my body's way of adjusting to carrying somet...
Questions About 1St Tri-mester Screenings for Down's
Asked by L.W. from Cleveland
on January 20, 2007
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I am having the 1st tri-mester screenings done this week, which include the U/S and bloodtest which detect Down's Syndrome and other chromosome and genetic problems. ...
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- I have just had my babys test done. I am anxiently awaiting the results. I am a first time mom too. I have heard that u can sometimes get "false postives"and then s...
- This test is done on all pregnant women. When they did it on my daughter(now 2 years) my dr. said that the Nuchal fold was bigger than it should be. This is fluid arou...
- L., I had the test done - it took about a week if I remember correctly and my doctor told me that if I got questionable results to be prepared for how far I want to...
