I completely agree. The problem is that anti-vaxxers don’t think their children could ever catch a vaccine-preventable disease. I know people who think they are bestowing “natural immunity” on their children by feeding them an all-organic diet and letting them play in dirt. Of course, that leads to the conclusion that…

It’s a harmful myth that you should stop breastfeeding when your baby gets teeth. My baby got her first teeth at 5 months, and now has a mouth full at 10 months. I can’t feel any difference between teeth and no teeth - you do realize the lips and tongue cover the teeth while they nurse, right? They don’t bite while…

What do you call the person who graduated last in his med school class?

My copper IUD is good for 12 years!

Hmm, I would have thought that “number of adults” indicated that there was another category of included people, i.e. children. To me, that wording indicates that you weren’t counting children in your official tally, but they are welcome to attend. Kind of like how you can bring a “lap child” on a plane, and children…

Did you ask her if she believes in God?

Yay! I knew nothing about The Fault in Our Stars, but when I saw the trailer, I was so excited to see a cute, young actress in a pixie cut. Then I found out that her character had cancer. (Sad, yes, but I was thinking, "Is this the only way it's acceptable for a young movie star to sport a pixie?"). I'm so glad it's…

That's a great idea to keep ultrasound photos in the office. The earliest ultrasound I had was from 12 weeks. They got a fantastic 3D picture that looks like a tiny fetus/baby. But you're absolutely right — other 2D pictures from that scan do look rather blurry or hard to interpret. My 23 week scan, though —…

Abdominal ectopic does seem possible. I don't see what you're referring to in your ultrasound photos, but I am not an expert, and I don't know what to look for. I just want to emphasize that I do believe that you are having pregnancy-like symptoms. I don't think you're making this up. I just wanted to share my…

I'm not being nasty and I'm certainly not trying to discount your experiences. Like I said in my post, I'm just sharing my personal experiences re being pregnant with a retroflexed uterus. In the article, it said that all of your theories were dependent upon having a retroflexed uterus, but from my understanding, a…

Just wanted to add... in the third picture, I originally thought the "leg bones" were exiting the uterus on the right. Now I see that you could also interpret it as leg bones curled up in the fetal position inside the uterus. If you look at it that way, it does look like legs. But the fact that I couldn't even tell…

Just FYI, amnio is still done. I had a down syndrome scare with my pregnancy last spring, and testing fetal cells, through either CVS or amnio, is the only way to detect trisomies with 100% accuracy. The nuchal translucency and blood tests can only tell you the chance of your child having a trisomy. (For example, a 1…

That mom is hilarious. I'm happy she took it in stride and didn't get upset.

Honestly, looking at your ultrasounds, I don't see a fetus. Please hear me out. I think that the way you were treated sounds horrible. You're absolutely right that many doctors don't keep up with current medical research, so I am disturbed that several doctors brushed off your concerns about the Hook Effect. That…

Honestly, looking at your ultrasounds, I don't see a fetus. Please hear me out. I think that the way you were treated sounds horrible. You're absolutely right that many doctors don't keep up with current medical research, so I am disturbed that several doctors brushed off your concerns about the Hook Effect. That…

Honestly, looking at your ultrasounds, I don't see a fetus. Please hear me out. I think that the way you were treated sounds horrible. You're absolutely right that many doctors don't keep up with current medical research, so I am disturbed that several doctors brushed off your concerns about the Hook Effect. That…

I have a retroverted and retroflexed uterus, too. My midwife couldn't hear a heatbeat with the doppler at my 12 week appointment, so she sent me to get an ultrasound. The technician could easily see a flutter from the belly ultrasound, and then we got to see the whole fetus with a transvaginal ultrasound. It was…

I was wondering about this, too. Also, living fetuses move around — a LOT! I couldn't believe how much my daughter was squirming around at her 12 week ultrasound. Although fetuses can sleep sometimes, over the course of this many ultrasounds, if the fetus was living, it would have moved.

I'm not sure this judge would have tolerated a crying baby in the gallery. My two-week-old baby cries when she's hungry ( at unpredictable times) and I wouldn't be able to pause the hearing to breastfeed her, although it would be pretty bad ass to argue a motion while nursing. I'm not that bad ass, though. :( (Which…

Breastfeeding moms generally aren't supposed to introduce bottles (even of pumped breast milk) until several weeks of life. I am an attorney. I had a baby last week. I thought I would be able to handle a hearing at the end of the month, but now I've handed it off to a colleague. Despite having a natural birth, I tore…