I reached over and introduced myself to the new guy at the table. “Hi, I’m Elly…Thom’s sister,” I said as I stood to extend my hand across the table. My eyes traveled upwards for what seemed like an eternity. Saying nothing, he loomed over me like a giant Asian Frankenstein. He shook my hand and [.. ...
After any type of significant medical procedure, there may exist specific things that patients should not engage in. Patients are normally recommended to rest after major or even minor surgery and are sometimes given strict guidelines by which they should abide. Following a treatment such as in vitr ...
And while I decide whether or not this period is going to finish me off, I have a few things I'd like to get off my chest. To the friend who I saw at Target earlier today, eating lunch with his kids, I'm sorry about being less than cordial. It just seemed ... inappropriate to disclose to you that I ...
Seldom does the universe line up so perfectly. Jonah Goldberg: Slate magazine is just one of the countless media outlets convulsing with St. Vitus’ Dance over that demonic succubus Sarah Palin. In its reader forum, The Fray, one supposed Palinophobe took dead aim at the former Alaska governor’s writ ...
If you ever heard someone talking about heartburn, it seems as though everybody has experienced it before. Some more than others, at least in my case anyway. I’ve never been pregnant but my wife is pregnant right now with our second child. During her first pregnancy, she had heartburn all the time a ...
Breast feeding does not come with an instruction manual, and although it is natural for a mother to want to nurse her own child sometimes it is not possible. There are many different conflicting opinions on the merits of breastfeeding; some thirty years ago women were told that bottle feeds were bes ...
Im gonna try to make this short, simple and to the point… bare with me please Im pregnant, I went to the ER last night because I was having really sharp pain in my right side. I haven’t gotten an ultrasound yet. They did a pelvic exam and blood work. They came to the [...]
Lucky women. They’ve always known that sometime in their mid-40s they will begin to experience changes in hormone levels that will lead to uncomfortable symptoms and culminate in the change of life: menopause. It may seem odd to consider the certainty of menopause a lucky thing, but being able to op ...
What is a breech birth? Right before birth, most babies are in a head-down position in the mother’s uterus, which is why most babies are born head-first. Sometimes the baby is in a bottom-first (or feet-first) position. When a baby is in that position before birth, it’s called a breech birth or bree ...
Pregnancy 2nd week: The Fertilization The thing with the pregnancy weeks is partial for laymen misleading. For the computation of the duration of the pregnancy, which covers 40 weeks on basis of this calculation, as starting point the first day of the last Menstruation is consulted. The actual pregn ...
