I dunno, Esther seems pretty thrilled with her new baby brother these days.  I was told to beware of the jealousy, but my 2-year old was SO excited to have a new baby in the house. When we first brought him home, she could barely contain herself and kept pointing at him and shrieking in delight, “Baby! [...]

With an 11-day old baby in my arms, it’s hard to think about leaving him with a babysitter one day to go out and work. It’s hard to imagine anyone can love your baby as much as you do, dote on him, and replace the tender loving care of a mother. Luckily for me, I can work from [...]

For anyone who likes to hear about other people’s labor and delivery… this is for you I’ll try not to draw it out too much, but you know how we love going on and on about these things…
 So I started feeling contractions on Friday morning, but I didn’t even mention them to my husband, David, or sister [...]

So… I actually ”went into labor”on Friday morning. I totally thought I’d be waiting around another week and have to be induced. But I surprised myself and actually did it like a normal person :-)  I’ll post all the details soon, but I delivered a little boy on Friday night at 12:30 (technically Saturday morning, I guess).
Anyway, [...]

ABC News invited people to ask questions relating to cancer and pregnancy, and Jennifer Litton, a breast oncologist at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, was on hand to answer them.
Some issues raised here are chemo drugs and how they affect the fetus, radiation therapy, chemotherapy and breastfeeding, and more.  You can read more here.

The last time I gave birth, my thoughtful mother bought me 2 nursing tops. The beauty of them was that they made it easy to nurse discreetly. But that is where the beauty ended. I hope she doesn’t read this, but really, they were hideous.
Maternal Love claims to have “fashionalbe nursing wear for fashionista mums,” [...]

If you suffer from back pain during pregnancy, which many women report, due to the “rapid growth of the baby and an interference to your body’s normal structural adaptations to that growth,” then you might consider seeing a chiropractor. But there are other reasons too!
Chiropractic Care and Pregnancy is a collection of links to other [...]

They’re sending me back for another ultrasound because my doctor says the baby is still “small.” By small, they mean a week behind, I believe. I’d like to know what they mean to accomplish by all these ultrasounds. I mean, I have 3 weeks to go. What are they hoping to discover? Is anything really [...]

I was reading reader’s comments on Baby-Gaga about funny pregnancy stories, and this one provided a great visual. It’s actually a post-partum story, but still good for a chuckle.
“I went in for my 6 weeks check up… well I was breastfeeding… I pumped before I went but the wait was so long that when I finally got into the room, [...]

Researchers recently found that educational videos, like the Baby Einstein and Brainy Baby series, may actually hinder kids’ development. The babies who watched an hour or more of TV a day knew fewer words than babies who never watched the videos. So, is TV really bad for little ones? Key in on the debate and [...]