Pregnancy: Da Vinci

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Seeking Answers Surgery or No Surgery?

My ob/gyn informed me on my last visit that i have fibroids i also have extremely heavy periods every other month or three months later it is never when it should be i am diabeticalso she says she recommend a histerectomy or a iud i thought that an iud was for prevention of pregnancy i have had a tubal so i dont need that but im afraid of the surgery by me being diabetic and the healing time will be long plus they would have to put me out i need some feed back i dont know what to d

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Pregnant or Not?

We are trying for number 2. I am 5 days late and I took a pregnancy test...

Bringing Baby Home

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Catholics and Miracles?? I Don't Understand?

Hello all, I hope you can share some personal explanations with me about my friends with hopefully more than "It is written in the bible" or "that's what the church teaches me". I seem to need more than that at this difficult time. The past two weeks have proven to be quite tough for me. The first situation involved a great friend that suddenly passed away from liver cancer leaving a wife, ten year old son and three month old daughter. With the exception of my friend that passed away, the rest of the family is very Catholic. ...

In the Womb

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Boyfriend Wanted Me to Get Abortion

My boyfriend of the past 3 yrs wanted me to get an abortion. We lived together and when he wouldn’t change his mind about it I kicked him out. He became the monster I never knew was in him. He became mean, hurtful, angry…I could go on. I was beyond hurt. He left without hesitation saying that he never wanted to have anything to do with our baby. His family: Mom, Dad Sister brother, grandparents have told him that he needed to take responsibility and how awful that he wanted me to “kill” our baby. Before I became pregnant...

Labor & Delivery

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First Ob/gyn Appt...

Well, I had my first ob appt. :) Everything went pretty well. They did an internal ultrasound, so we got to see the baby (aka our little blob with a heartbeat - lol) and got to hear his/her heart beating furiously... So cute. Of course, I had to endure hearing the laundry list of devastating things that could go wrong, what with me being of advanced maternal age and all (I'm 38). Plus I had pre-eclampsia late in my last pregnancy. So I'm high risk all over the place. But I feel good, so we'll just keep thinking happy thoughts. ...