Pregnancy Complications: The First Years

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Good Books on Pregnancy - Suggestions?

Hi Ladies, I am on the lookout for some good reading material on pregnancy. This is my first pregnancy, and I am not convinced that What To Expect... is the end-all-be-all of maternity reading. Any suggestions?

Bed rest

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To Share a Bed, or Not

I have a lot of concerns about the sleeping situation when our baby is born in March. I needs some advice from experienced moms. I would love to have my baby sleep with us in bed but I am so confused about the risks. I was planning to get one of those things that the baby lies in to put between my husband and I. My husband is a sound sleeper and moves around a lot at night. We really like our blankets but some people say you can't use blankets with baby in the bed. Also the type of mattress we have. We have a memory foam mattress, is that...

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Advice for Bedrest?

Does anyone have any good tips for dealing with a (hopefully) long stretch...

Depression

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Postpartum Depression Months After Birth?

My question is, has anyone experienced postpartum depression months after giving birth? My daughter is almost 11 months old and for the past 6-8 weeks my energy level has decreased drastically. I look forward to going to sleep and sleep as often as I can. I also prefer to stay home and not go out and about. I love seeing and spending time with my daughter, but my relentless tiredness seems to kick me in the butt. A little background is that my daughter was born with congenital heart disease, we found out after her birth. So for the...

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Depression in Teens

HEre is my problem ,, my children whom are 13 and 10 have watched four...

Molar pregnancy

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Sleep Disorder? Melatonin?

Our 15-month-old son will not sleep. He refuses to go to bed, he wakes up in the night wanting to play or crying and unable to get back to sleep, even if we bring him in bed with us. He slept fine during the night (he was never a good napper) until he was 7 months old and suddenly all hell broke loose (at that point he was sleeping 10-11 hours a night without waking up). Now we are up at least once a night with him and he doesn't sleep longer than five hours in a row. We don't give him a bottle when he wakes up and I don't even give him...

Health & Safety

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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...