Health & Safety: The First Years

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Best Friend Pregnancy

Hey there Mommas! My 'best' friend is pregnant, she's 23 years old and had only been with her boyfriend for 6 months before she got pregnant. Since my friend told me she was pregnant, there has been things she has told me that I have problems with and would like to say something but I'm not sure if I should. For example, most recently, she told me that she doesn't want to breast feed because she's worried it's going to hurt, she has also said that she wants to have a c-section because she is totally against having a vaginal delivery. I...

Diet & Exercise

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Losing Weight After Pregnancy

I just had a daughter 7 wks ago and am struggling to lose weight. I'm not breastfeeding because after two weeks of breastfeeding I dried up and was no longer able. I'm only eating about once a day sometimes twice a day. Its usually actually meals that I eat not junk. I've been exercising but it doesn't seem like I can lose the weight. Does anyone have any tips on how to speed up the weight loss? My secound question is this is my first child and I am gonna have to start working again soon and I am not sure how to cope with my daughter going...

Precautions

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Med and Pregnancy

Hi, I know i will have to discuss this with my doctors, but just wondered if any of you have went through/are going through this. I had our first child almost 3 months ago via c-section and ended up with a blood clot and am now on warfarin. I will have to be on it for at least another 3 or 4 months probably. My husband and I would like to have another child and are considering trying again in a few months. I have heard that warfarin causes severe birth defects and or miscarraige. Have any of you taken this med or another similar during...