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Posted: 15-08-2009 16:17 Post subject:

Everyone is a storyteller. And if you are pregnant or have given birth, you surely have a story or two up your sleeve. From the time you first saw that line on your home pregnancy test to the day you felt your first real contractions, a lot has happened. And PregnancyStories.net is the place to share those meaningful moments.

So go ahead and share your story. Be it funny stories, first time stories, inspirational stories, embarrassing stories or Birth Stories, we would love to hear from you.

Tell us about how you broke the news to your partner or family; describe your strange cravings; explain how you deal with morning sickness or describe a really funny prenatal class. Did you exhibit strange behavior while 'nesting'? And where did your water break? How did you feel the first time you held your newborn? Simply choose your ategory and start writing!

Cellulite

Posted: 15-08-2009 16:41 Post subject:

More fucking spam.

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Posted: 15-08-2009 20:14 Post subject:

A Baby Story takes viewers on an intimate and emotional journey by profiling couples' experiences from the final weeks of pregnancy through the first weeks of a new life.

Go inside the delivery room for a voyeuristic peek at the drama of labor and the sheer joy and relief of the unforgettable birth moment. Share in the experience and all the emotions parents feel when they first greet their newborn.

Teeth-whitening

Posted: 15-08-2009 23:28 Post subject:

I've just started some reverse spamming, using email addresses from some would be scammers on a dating site, I've been pasting their text back into the comment boxes on the sites......several times Twisted Evil

Deals with two sets of nuisances for the price of one!

Posted: 26-09-2009 12:31 Post subject:

Scan reveals rare double pregnancy for American woman
Tood and Julia Grovenburg: expecting two babies, but not twins
Tim Reid in Washington

A woman who is expecting a baby has stunned doctors after a routine ultrasound visit revealed that she had become pregnant for a second time — a condition so rare that there only ten other recorded cases.

Julia Grovenburg, 31, had an appointment for an ultrasound check on an 11-week-old foetus, a baby girl she and her husband, Todd, have named Jillian — only to be told that she was carrying a separate baby, two weeks younger.

“We feel very blessed, but the truth is that I gagged, I started getting sick, that’s not a joke,” said Mrs Grovenburg, an American, of the moment that she found out she had become pregnant a second time. “My ultrasound [technician] Susan was in total, utter shock. My husband was laughing.”

Unlike twins, which are conceived at the same time, Mrs Grovenburg has two foetuses because of a process known as “superfetation”, where embryos are conceived at different times.

The second foetus is male, and the couple have called him Hudson. Jillian’s due date is December 24 and her brother’s is January 10. Doctors have warned, however, that both babies will probably be delivered at the same time, in early December.

“We tried for three years to have kids, and nothing ever happened,” said Mrs Grovenburg, from Arkansas. “We even refused to do in vitro or fertility drugs because we didn’t want multiples. I guess God was having the last laugh.” Wink

Dr Karen Boyle, of the Greater Baltimore Medical Centre, told ABC News that superfetation was extremely rare. “There is no prevalence or incidence in the literature. I could only find about ten reported cases,” she said.

etc...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6849180.ece

Posted: 09-10-2009 11:05 Post subject:

IIRC, this is not the first time this sort of thing has been reported:

Newborn baby falls through train toilet onto tracks
A baby delivered in a train lavatory has survived tumbling down through the bottom of the carriage and onto the tracks.
By Dean Nelson in New Delhi
Published: 6:01PM BST 08 Oct 2009

Passengers on the West Bengal Tata-Chapra Express raised the alarm when they saw Rinku Debi Ray, 28, jump from the speeding carriage in what they believed was a suicide attempt.

The train came to a halt more than a mile down the track, but when passengers ran back to help her, they discovered the new mother cradling her new baby in her arms.

Mrs Ray later explained she had been travelling to her parents home in Bihar, where she was planning to deliver her second child, with her husband Bhola and their four-year-old daughter, when she felt sharp pains in her abdomen.

She went into the lavatory hoping to relieve the pain, but instead suddenly gave birth. The baby fell into the lavatory bowl and through the flap onto the tracks under the speeding train, and her mother quickly ran out of the lavatory and jumped from the carriage to find the child.

Her husband, who pulled the emergency chord, and other passengers who saw her jump, said she injured herself in her leap, but managed to get up and start running back to where the child tumbled onto the track.

When the train came to a halt just over a mile down the line, Mr Roy and other passengers began searching for them. "We got off the train and started looking for my wife. After an hour we found Rinku sitting beside the track with the baby in her lap," said Bhola Roy, a 33 year old businessman from Rourkela, West Bengal.

His wife and new baby were transferred to Purelia district hospital where both are now recovering from their ordeal, while the railway station manager said the baby's survival was a "miracle".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/6274383/Newborn-baby-falls-through-train-toilet-onto-tracks.html

Posted: 09-10-2009 12:02 Post subject:

Just one question.......umbilical cord?

They don't just snap that easily, either mother or baby would have a nasty haemorrage after that. It's very unusual for a baby to just "pop out" like that also.

A good authority has told me this: I have no personal experience of birth, except for my own, but I can't remember much about that as I was quite young at the time.

Posted: 18-10-2009 17:46 Post subject:

Premature baby airlifted off ship

A mother and her baby were airlifted from a ferry off the Dorset coast after the woman gave birth prematurely.

The Solent coastguard helicopter was alerted by coastguards at Brixham, Devon, when the Pride of Bilbao was about 30 miles from land.

The alarm was raised by the ship's doctor at about 0400 BST.

The 38-year-old, from Bognor Regis, West Sussex, was taken to Exeter airport before being transferred to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.

The ferry was making its way from Portsmouth, Hampshire, to Bilbao, northern Spain.

The coastguard helicopter from Lee-on-Solent winched the woman and child from the vessel. The baby girl, who had breathing difficulties at birth, is now in intensive care.

The woman, who was on holiday with her family, gave birth 12 weeks early. Her husband, who was also on the ship, will have to remain onboard until it reaches Spain at 0700 BST Monday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8313010.stm

Posted: 05-11-2009 01:29 Post subject:

Boy born in helicopter meets crew

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An eight-year-old boy who was born on a search and rescue helicopter from RNAS Culdrose has met the crew that helped to deliver him.

Jacob Burns was born while his mother, Nikki, was being flown from Scilly to hospital in Cornwall.

She had to be taken off St Mary's because Jacob's heart rate had dropped.

Lt Cdr Martin Lanni, the helicopter's pilot on the day Jacob was born, showed him the spot in the Sea King where he was born.

Paramedic Dave Pascoe said: "The midwife was there as well and did a fantastic job. We delivered a nine pound bouncing baby boy."

Nikki Burns said: "I remember not being able to hear anything because it was so noisy inside the helicopter.

"The crew were all amazing, I was looking at them for reassurance that Jacob was OK because I couldn't hear him crying."

Aircrewman Darren Hall was also at Culdrose to meet Jacob and show him around the helicopter.

Jacob's passport and birth certificate both state that he was born in a Royal Navy helicopter en route from the Isles of Scilly to the Royal Cornwall Hospital. Cool

Jacob said going inside the helicopter again was "awesome".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/8343009.stm

Only child known to have been born on a military helicopter?

And the pilot had to call his base to amend the 'number of persons on board'...! Cool