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Okay.. so this is gonna be a little on the "TMI" side but I'm almost 18 weeks pregnant and my boyfriend and I were having sex today etc.. and when i went the bathroom after words i noticed the two flaps (sorry i don't know the technical terms) were very very swollen. Keep in mind, they were normal sized before. This took place about 5 hours ago, and the swelling has gone down some but its still kind of throbbing and kind of burning down there (the flaps burn and throb, nothing else) HELP PLEASE? What could have caused this ? And what the **** is wrong with me? BTW. I do shave, thank you. and no he wasnt 'tapping it hard'. Thats why I'm worried. They've never done this before.

I'm 18 years old and I just found out that i am 5 weeks pregnant. My boyfriend and I have been together for the last 9 months in a long distance relationship. He is 19 years old, and is in the Army and is stationed in Georgia while I live with my parents in California. My boyfriend and I have been talking and we have decided to keep the baby. He has already told his family, who are a lot more accepting than my family, but I am scared to death to tell my family. My family does not like my boyfriend and my parents know that I have big plans to finish college and become an elementary teacher, but having a baby will slow my goal down and I am most afraid that my parents will be disappointed and may think I am throwing my life away. My parents had my older sister at 19 years old and got married 2 years later, my older sister is a single mother, and my older brother has 4 kids but is not married. I'm also afraid that my parents think that I will not be able to finish college and move back home like my brother and sister both did. I do not want an abortion either. My boyfriend and I are engaged and we would like to get married before the baby is born, and I'm also afraid they might be disappointed that I'm getting married. How can I break all of this sudden news to my parents?

Ok.. so I found out at the beginning of December that I'm having a baby! I'm so excited, but since it is my 1st pregnancy, I have questions about everything and anything. I know I should ask my OB/GYN, but I don't think of these things while I'm at my appointments. Anyhow, here's my question. The doctor told me ideally that he'd like me to gain between 25-35 pounds total. Well, I'm a little over 11 weeks along, and I've already gained 18 pounds!!! Is this going to "even itself out" or am I going to continue to gain and gain? I'm not worried about the stretch marks or anything like that, I just want to assure that the baby is going to be healthy. Thanks!

Please tell me what you think. Im 18 years old and the last two times I have had breif (under two minutes) unprotected sex with my boyfriend. About a week ago, and about two weeks ago. Im worried that if he had precum it could have got me pregnant :( I have never been late in my life before , so its really scaring me im 3 days late. I took a pregnancy test today and it came back negative, but I dont really trust those tests much. I hear it can be from stress but I dont really feel much stress, however my mom just got married, my dad just moved out from another house of his to another, and my moms husband and brother have just moved into my house. And Im on my break from college, so Im only temporarely home. But still, i dont really feel much more stress than normal. please give me your opinions . thanks Also- I am having no signs of period or pregnancy, though they are similar. Usually I get very bad cramps each month a couple days before period, and I am not having them this time.

I am 18 weeks 2 days pregnant. The baby's heart beat has been 150-160. My LMP was Sep. 1 2008. What do you think I am having.. Just for fun.. A boy or a girl. That's another thing, this pregnancy has been totally different! this baby is moving around a lot and I can feel the baby clear as day.

New Years eve 2008 i was rape by someone i thought was my best friend. i was at a house party at my friend cousin party.i was drunk everyone was drunk ( well at less not everyone but most were) i was so drunk that i couldn't walk straight i kept falling out. it was crazy and most of it couldn't remember. i told my friend that i needed to lay down and sleep it off. so he took me to his cousin room to lay down. my other friend which is a boy his name is jay ,came in there to talk on the phone, while my other friend Micheal took my shoes off and then tried to take my pants off . i kept on pulling them back up and he pull them back down then all of the sudden i just blacked out. i kept on telling him to stop but he didn't and my so called friend jay didn't do anything . i remember hearing him saying dont be long and walked out the room. like 10 min i woke up i was still drunk , i woke up with my pants halfway off and i was bleeding and i wasnt suppose to get my period until that following week .the boy micheal and jay was no where to be found, i was crying and i told my sister that i got rape and so took me outside to talk to me while she was going to call my brothers and everyone she knew to find them and jump him untill i stop her and told her not to tell because i was afraid . but she told anyway i didnt say anything. my mom and my big brothers was the madess of all they wanted to kill him. they went to the police ,they didnt do anything. i had to take tests and pills and things like that. they look him up and he was wanted for rape 2 other girls too. for like a whole month i didnt say anything to any one i stop talking to my friends and everything. and the worst thing about it i was a virgin. now when people touch me i dont feel real comfortable. i have a boyfriend and sometimes i get mad about how he touches me , he noes what happen he'll just say hes sorry or whatever. im 18 now then i was 17. i dont noe what happen to the boy micheal last i heard that someone beat him up so bad that he was in the hospital because he was in the wrong neighborhood. my family didnt beat him up they never did find him, it would of been worst if they did. i dont think theres a way to get over it. im just really mad that he was the one to take my virginity away but my mom said im still a virgin untill i let the one i love take it away. now i DO NOT TRUST ANYONE and i DONT DRINK ANYMORE. i just thank God that i didnt get pregnant and didnt have any kind of diseases or anything

before my baby was born my fiancee was always on the computer or playing the playstation. we are 18 by the way. i was 9 months pregnant and still cleaning and getting him what he needed. i told him that when the baby was born i needed him to help me more and not be on the computer or playstation. he said ok. well he goes to school 8am-11am. im out of school. he still stays up till 2 or 3 am on computer. while im sleeping and baby wakes up, i still have to feed her. then when he gets home he will go to sleep till 4:30pm before he goes to work. so i get stuck feeding, burping and bathing and playing with baby all night and day. i get no sleep...and my mom will only babysit for 2-3 hours. thats not enough sleep for me. and advice?

thought i was showing, but i breathed in and my belly went flat i stated to feel my belly and i could feel something hard, baby or uterus? BUT COULD I STILL FEEL MY UTERUS DONG THIS EVEN IF I WASNT PREGNANT? or is something else like a muscle or something? and do you have more wind when your pregnant? im farting all the time. lol

Okay I know I have asked this question already but... Okay me and my Bf starting baby planning In Mid November. My period Came on Dec 8, which means I start Ov 14 days after. So I started Ov around Dec 19. Well I started freaking out and I decided to get on BC on Dec 18. Well my BF didn't know I was having doubts. He believed it was still a go on the baby (which means no protection no pulling out). So I started the BC and guess what, I started messing up after pill #3. Never took one the day it was meant to be taken and they were never on time, so I called i quits on Friday 1/2 when there were 6 pills left to be taken. So my period came Monday 1/5. The thing is I have been feeling nausea, tired, LOTZ of headaches well according to some research I have done I may begin to feel nausea as early as week 3!!! YES I know I thought it was too soon, BUT here I am with freaking nausea and headaches. My cousin said this bleeding is not my period and that there is a possibility that I might be prego. That this bleeding is the cause of me F*N UP my BC. It is quite heavy, dark, but not smelly, and NOOOO cramps! Do I want a baby not yet but if Im pregnant HELL YEA!! I'll be more than happy to be a mommy. SO CONFUSED!!! I bought HPT I will take one first thing in the morning!! But I need help for now lol! Im so curious! I get dizzy very easily now.

1. Your 17 and you have a baby with your boyfriend. Your baby comes in april, it's a beutiful baby boy. With brown hair, fair skin, and hazel eyes. You wanted his name to have something to do with your boyfriend <James Christopher> but not exactly. 2. You continue to the same college in Boston as your boyfriend. Post graduating you get married and shortly after realize your pregnant. On a buisness trip in paris, your children are born. 2 twin girl and boy, one with honey blonde hair, medium skin and indigo eyes, the other identical. 3. Your husband graduates med school and gets a job as a doctor, you now have a house <your kids are 11, 5, and 5) You decide to have another child, you get fertillity and have quadruplets. You want them all to have the same initials. 3 boys and 1 girl. The first 2 boys have blonde hair and blue eyes, the second has curly brown hair and brown eyes. The girl has black hair and topaz eyes. 4. Your husband gets promoted, so you quit work to stay home with your growing family. then your 14 year-old daughter comes to you with news that she's PREGNANT. Coincidentlly, your pregnant at the same time. After, talking it through with your daughter, the baby daddy, and his parents, you decide, that you will keep the baby because both families are doctors and financially able, under the impression that the two will raise the kids together. <btw, your daughters boyfriend is your neighbor>. Your daughter has a boy with blonde hair and blue eyes. You have a girl with beautiful purple eyes, fair skin, and jet black hair. Names? 5. Your children are now 16, 10, 10 and 2. Your grandson dies, with extreme sadness your daughter says she wants to marry the baby daddy, you agree, if the wedding is when they are both 17 or 18 and they promise to both go to college. Overjoyed with that information, your daughter gets pregnant again but with a girl. The two get married and you and your husband adopt twin girls from Australia. Your daughter wants the name of her son to have the same initials as her first. Your twins mother wanted the babies to be named after your family. 6. Now your children are 21<the 21 year old is happily married and just graduated from and going to lawschool>, 15, 15, 4, 2 and 2. Your son tells you he is going to be a father <15 year old son> upset <like the 1st 2 times> and the girl was kicked out, you feel obligated to let her in to the house. After meeting her more thoroughly she feels more like family. The baby is born when they are 16, you keep it. After they live together for 2 years they get married. They both go to a 4 year college near by and live in the house. 7. now that your children are 30, 24, 24, 13, 11, and 11, your youngest dies of cancer. and your oldest has a child and names it a similar name. The baby is born on the day of your child's funeral, so it was an uneasy day. Your 24 year-olds are both married with children. 8. After stressing to your daughter not to have sex, at the age of 19, while in an ivy-league college she gets pregnant, the baby is born 7 weeks premature and okay. It was a girl on march 3, at 6:17 AM. She wanted a hawaiian name. You and your husband retired very rich, shortly after which he died, so you move near your daughter and her new-arrival. She did not get married to the baby daddy <or possible baby daddies> she finished her degee and got a good paying jobs, and later writes a book called "the house of youth" a fictinal book based on her and her siblings teen parenting experiences, the book was a huge hit, and turned in to a TV show.

im 22 weeks pregnant, and since about 18 weeks my sons movements have been flutters, then 2 days ago i felt a couple of actual kicks or punches and today he is so active, no question about it, kicks and punches all over the place, which is great but is it normal to have such a big overnight change? how was it for you? also i drink alot of tea, do you think this makes him more active? and i was nervous today because i had my first antenatal class.

is it normal to have a lot of wind, when pregnant? when your pregenant do yuo breats hurt when you press on them, or does happen when your nor aswell? ans also im not showing and still just all fat and wobbly why i really want to be showing? and would when i breath or stick my belly out would i still be able to feel my utres even if i wasnt pregnant?

She is about a week and a half before her due date and i have noticed her slowly becoming more aggressive. The cat we have was sitting next to my dog and my dog attacked her and almost killed her.. and she has never ever done anything like that before. Her and the cat sleep together and get along very well. Then i noticed that she was showing her teeth and growling at my 18 month old daughter.. who again she has always been very protective over. Can anyone help me please? She has never done this before and i am wondering if this is pregnancy related or may become part of her moods from here on out. Thank you for any advice you can give me. Thank you to the few people who actually helped me out. I appreciate it. I dont need to be scolded it doesnt help the matter. I have in fact been in touch with my vet i just was on here to see if any of you had experienced this so i do not have to bother my vet.

I had my daughter 10 months ago via c-section, and I am currently 18 weeks pregnant. My docter said that we will be discussing my options at the next appointment ( 3 weeks), but I am curious to see what other people think or have experienced. Thanks! :)

Enter a Walmart store I begin dry heaving!! The only other things that make me dry heave are bad smells or bad sights. Lol..what's my deal with Walmart?? I will literally be walking down the isles dry heaving and people look at me like I have some MAJOR issues!

showing and im getting worried every ones like you should be showing by now? i thought it was normal not till show till 20 - 24 weeks as its my first pregnancy but with every saying things like that im getting worried? and is true that the healthy you eat and the more you sleep you get your baby grows more?

I've been trying to get pregnant. I had my period on Dec. 4 and ovulate on the 18 of Dec. bd about a week before and after my ovulation cycle. Peiod was late so I took a pt and it was neg. It came two days late which was Jan 2 it was a regular period and last 3 days like it suppose to. but know I'm still going to the bathroom and wiping and I'm getting a pink discharge which never happens. Do you think I should take another test or just wait. Can someone help me

im 18 weeks pregnant and when i got to the toilet to pee my kidneys really hurt to the point where i need to stop and start a fair bit, and when i've finished and off the toilet the continue to really hurt for a while, the pain is so bad and i cant to anything to relieve it... I have an app with my Dr later today. what do you think it might be?? a simple UTI??? Ive never had this before. Its started yesterday... thanks..

im nearly 18 weeks pregnant, but when i was 12 - 14 week i went to the doctors for a pregnancy test, witch came back negative twice, but my blood test came back positive, why do you think this? was it something to do with my hormones or ive old that when you get so far along tests do come back negative, because your hormones of changed is that right? are blood test ever wrong?

I found out that my mom is pregnant with another kid. My step dad and her got married 10 years ago. I don't trust him at all. he was ok when i was little but now hes abusive. not physically but verbally and mentally although he's threatened to hit me. ive been kicked out once. at first my mom defended me but after a while she gave up. we barley talk now. I asked her to tell me about but she said no. She finds ways to avoid me. Like ill ask her to talk and she'll have to call someone because she "forgot". I found out she was 6 months pregnant 2 weeks before christmas. She wore really baggy cloths and her stomach didn't get big until like last week. Now that i ask her about it she wont tell me anything. she'll say she doesn't know anything but ten minutes later i'll hear her on the phone talking to someone about how the dr told her stuff that she shouldn't be doing. and that's not normal for 6 months. But i find it strange that she wont tell me ANYTHING. She says when the baby comes i have to move down to the basement. It's not redone but apparently my step dad and his dad r going to redo it. I asked her when he's gonna start it and she said probably never. So i'm stuck without a room when the thing pops out. I plan on moving out when i turn 18 but i don't want the baby to grow up like my other 2 half-siblings. (my brother is 9 and my sister is 7) they ALWAYS get what they want when they want. and if their mommy and daddy get them something they call their grandparents. My brother got a dirt bike when he was 6, a tv, and has 2 electric guitars even though he has no clue how to play them. my sister has a tv, a crap load of dolls, too many cloths, and a ping pong table. I have nothing that good. the only thing i have is a tv but that's from my neighbor. my real dad gets me everything i need/want. (phone and ipod) I don't understand why my mom wont tell me anything anymore and i want to know why. She avoids me and ignores me. My step dads abusive and my real dad lives 380 miles away. I don't know why the thought of the baby bugs me either. when ever someone brings it up im almost in tears every time. I am 16 and my mom is 41. i have grown up...too fast. my mom stopped doing almost everything for me when i was 11 except shopping and cooking dinner but thats only because she cooks for the 3 other people living in my house. i clean and watch her kids for her when her husband "can't" or is "working"

I'm 16 years old and 2 weeks Pregnant and engaged ... My B.F soon to be husband is freaking out about it ... cuz I'm not allowed to go out with let alone marry and have sex with someone older then my brother ... My brother is 17 and my soon to be is 18 and My parents don't no that I am even with any one let alone all this ... He's freaking out and I'm Scared ... I feel like the girl off "The Secret life of an American teenager". And I need to know what you think about it and how you feel and what I should do ... Plz I need help really bad...thanx Oh plz w/e I am pregnant I found out too weeks ago I havent been to the Dr. Thats tomorrow to check on it...and so my soon to be is freaking cuz we didnt plan this and we havent told our parents any of this and we are scared that if they find out about the baby they wont let me keep the baby and they will make me not be able to see my soon to be anymore.....!!!! It has nothing to do with the show "Secret life of the american teenager" I just said now I know how she felt!!!!! I found out that I was pregnant 2 weeks ago I dont know how far I am....I find out how long tomorrow We have been to gether for 5 years!!!!!

am nearly 18 and have been with my boyfriend for 3 months. After 2 months we had sex, and the first time the condom split. The next day I took the morning after pill and the hospital put me on the contraceptive pill, but I didn't realize it didn't cover you till a week of taking it. My boyfriend and I had sex 5 times without protection before the pill would actually have began to work. About a week after I went to the hospital to have my blood pressure checked, and whilst I was there, decided to request a pregnancy test which was negative. However I was told that I may not have had enough hormones in me at the time and the test could be negative. Additionally, one night I was ill and was sick, and the pill would have got out of my system and maybe jeapodised my safety/ protection. Now, a month later, my boobs are bigger, slightly veiny, I have put on a little weight, I have a very light brown mark in my underwear every day, I feel distracted and almost tired at times and I'm peeing quite regularly... I haven't had a period for two months, as that is how long I have been taking the pill and I didn't have a break in between (when you are supposed to have your period), as I didn't want to be on over the xmas holidays. I know some of these symptoms can be from taking the pill, i.e. bigger boobs and slight weight gain, but I'm told the others are prodominantly early pregnancy symptoms. If I am pregnant, I won't get rid of the baby, I just want some opinions on whether you think I may be pregnant so I can think things through more seriously, as I have already been to the hospital once and wouldn't at this point like to return unless the chances I am are high. Please help, thanks :) xxx Earlier that day I went to the hospital I took a pregnancy test, and it was negative, so I don't want to keep buying them if it's unlikely I'm not cz I don't want to keep spending money if it's unlikely I am.. thats why I need opinions x .

Ok well me and my husband are ttc and and I have a 30 day cycle and I had sex on day 14 16 18 and 19 I started bleeding on day 19 It was bright pink spot when I went to the bathroom when I wiped then when I went later it was nothing then later It was not a lot but enough for a pad it was like that for 3 days then stopped I dont think it was my period cause it normally stays on for 5 days but now at day 43 if thats even a day but I will be 5 weeks and 5 days if pregnant and I sleep more and urinate a lot more my breast are sore and bumps around my nipples they are soft bumps not like pimples my next period is due in 16 days I haven't took a hpt yet Im waiting until I miss this period first

okay i made a mistake i had sex with 2 boys and i am 28 weeks pregnant and dont know who the daddy...... i had sex with the first boy on june 11 12 13 and i had sex wit the second boy on june28 29 and july 4.. i had a regular period on june 21 it stop on june 27.. .i am due on march 28 till april 10...i took an pregnancy test on junes 18 and it was negative can anyone tell me which boy is my baby daddy the first or second boy..... PLEASE HELP ME OUT

I don't know what to do.. my dad and his girlfriend are living with me and my husband. We have an 18 month old and i am 34 weeks pregnant with another baby. My dads girlfriend is nothing but disrespectful to me and i don't know what to do. She doesn't listen to any of the rules of my home. when we tell her not to eat something because its for my husbands lunch or my 18 month old. She doesn't care and now my dad is getting married to her. She is manic depressant and bi-polar and drinks ALOT. My husband has decided to stop smoking so he said that there is NO smoking in the house allowed at all (we had made this rule when we first go the place but when winter hit it was just to cold for them to smoke out side so they decided it would be ok to smoke in the house as long as the baby or i were in the room and the window was open). well i told them this morning that they needed to start going outside to smoke and she threw a huge fit and turned around and lit a cig right in my kitchen. after that she had 3 more. i cant kick them out because i don't have the heart to make my own father homeless in a strange town (he came down here from 600 miles away to visit and fell for her so he stayed) I guess my question would be how would you handle this? How would you go about saying something without causing problems? What would you say/do to get her to stop? thank you guys so much and you are right i know i need to kick them out. That have already found a place of there own but they wont be moving in to it until Feb. 6th (that's only 6 days from my scheduled c-section) i just need to know what to do until then and please no rude answers i do love my children and my husband

i became pregnant at 15 and he was 18. we dated for two years so i could charge him with sexual assault. when i became pregnant he told me he wants nothing to do with the baby and hopes we both die. he wrote me emails saying its best we stay far far away and even got another girlfriend a week later. now i just had my baby girl, and he wrote to me saying he still doesn't want to see her and his life is wonderful without us in it. i am SO angry at him and i feel so used but i do not want to press charges of him sexually assaulting me because it was consensual.. and at the time.. we both were very much in love, or at least i was. he is now 19 and im 16 and his family want nothing to do with the baby also. i got a call and the D/A wants to question me about what happened. what will he ask? should i press charges even though it was 100% consentual ? even though he turned out to be a complete jackass i don't want to cry sexual assault.. but im soo angry!!!!! what will i be asked and what do i say the d/a called and said it wouldnt be s.rape it would only be "sexual assault" bc we dated for two years and i need to come in for questioning... a detective came to my house and i wrote a statement saying even though legally i couldnt consent i do not want charges pressed against my ex. now they want to question me?! why and what will they say.. is this a set up.. should i even go

ok my last period was november 16, 2008. my expected period was december 14, 2008.... its now january 6 and im now 3 weeks late. i usually get it every 30 days give or take 2 days late or early. coul i be pregnant?? i took a few hpts and they were negative, i took one at a week and 4 days late and the other and a doctors urine test at 2 weeks late. the doctor told me to go back when my next period was sopposed to come (2 weeks after i saw her) if i still didnt have a period. i dont have stds and all that stuff lol. me and my boyfriend arent planning or preventing lol symptoms ive had and still have: -3 week late period.. i usually get sore boobs before it comes, they never got sore lol -lower back pain in the middle closer to the right side -a pinching kind of dull cramping behind my pubic bone in the middle but more on the right side -i had random headaches for the first week late -more sleepy since a few days after period was late -i get car sick alot easier now -tiny tiny bit naseous occasionally -boobs look a little fuller -boobs a little sore on the top if i push on them -im bloated -below my bellybutton is round lol -greenish-blue veins in my boobs? -darker nipples -last night there was alot of white looking bumps on my areolas -pretty emotional more -if my belt is to tight its a bit umcomfy now, had to move up a hole lol im NOT stressed im always happy lol no exercise im very lasy lol i eat alot, always have no diets i weight like 134, im 5'3" im 18 boyfriends 20 what do you guys think??anybody had all these symptoms, tested negative on urine tests and ended up pregnant?????! please be NICE lol thanks!! =]] ~if i am i have the cutest way to tell my boyfriend.. get baby booties a pair of blue and a pair of pink and put a blue and a pink bootie in a little box and wrap it and give it to him, he will be happy lol~ good idea??? sorry so long!! lol

im 7 mo pregnant and my job is "under the table" i only make 400$ a mo, for working 50 hr weeks being a nanny. i cant handle the stress anymore and i need to quit, its bad on my health. the thing is i don't own a car, and i have no credit because i JUST turned 18. my boyfriend and i are still together and living with my parents. he has a full time job and works 6 days a week so he is saving for a car. what kind of help can i get from the state right now? can i get assistance with rent or buying a car? i am planning on quitting my job and TRYING to find another one but not many people will hire a pregnant woman right now.

Okay im 18 and my boyfriend and I have unprotected sex but i take birth control, however about a month ago i forgot a few pills and still had unprotected sex. Well for about a week now i haven't felt very good but it will just come a go. I also have been having some white discharge. Could I be pregnant. oh and sorry but i dont know when we had sex last..... i remembered that the last time we had sex was 2 weeks ago. And don't give me stupid answers that aren't helpful it's just rude! And when we had sex it was during the time that i missed pills. About 5 to be exact.

I'm sorry, I know this must be a frequent-flyer question on this board but I'm getting close to the time when the first movement might happen and I'm curious what everyone else has experienced. I'm 14 weeks pregnant today with my first, so everything is brand new to me! I've thankfully left behind the nastiness of the first trimester (knock on wood) and, aside from just feeling pudgy, I really don't have much evidence that I really am pregnant. I believe the first stirrings of movement occur around 15-18 weeks but what have you experienced? I'm not showing yet, and I think it'll be awhile before that happens. Thanks for your answers!

I am 16 weeks and my appetite is really starting to kick into overdrive. I lost 6 pounds in 1st trimester due to morning sickness but i have just about gained that back now. I havent gained anything on top of that yet though but before I got pregnant I had a miscarriage and put on 18 pounds due to stress. that makes me overweight and i dont want to get too big. this is 2nd pregnancy (3rd if you include miscarriage). I just need some ideas on how to avoid eating everything in the house.

im 7 mo pregnant, and i work as a nanny. im not 18 yet, i will be next month. i have been a nanny for about 4 mo. my stomach muscles have separated and it hurts to lift things over 15-20 lbs i baby sit 3 kids, a 4 year old a 6 year old and a 5 month old. i only get paid 400$ a month.. that's 2 $ an hour, 50 hours a week, mon-fri 200 hrs a mo. the let me drive their extra car but i don't get to keep it if i quit. the thing is that my boyfriend and i live about 25 miles away from where we both work, he works down the street from where i work and we drive together every morning. he doesn't have his own car either. the only reason i have stayed working here so long is for the car. i know they are taking advantage of me but i would feel guilty for quitting because my boyfriend would have to quit his job too. we live at my parents house and he could find a job down there but not one as good as the one he has now. do you think i should quit my job and make my boyfriend find a new one by where we live? i want to try and find like a barista job, or a job at babys-r-us near my parents house. ALSO: my parents bought me a car last year but took it back because my step dad needed it, and then my mom promised me 1000$ for a car and then backedout because she needed the money for bills, so thats why i havent saved for a car or got a better paying job so far, because i was counting on what they promised me. please help any good advice helps!

im 7 mo pregnant, and i work as a nanny. im not 18 yet, i will be next month. i have been a nanny for about 4 mo. my stomach muscles have separated and it hurts to lift things over 15-20 lbs i baby sit 3 kids, a 4 year old a 6 year old and a 5 month old. i only get paid 400$ a month.. that's 2 $ an hour, 50 hours a week, mon-fri 200 hrs a mo. the let me drive their extra car but i don't get to keep it if i quit. the thing is that my boyfriend and i live about 25 miles away from where we both work, he works down the street from where i work and we drive together every morning. he doesn't have his own car either. the only reason i have stayed working here so long is for the car. i know they are taking advantage of me but i would feel guilty for quitting because my boyfriend would have to quit his job too. we live at my parents house and he could find a job down there but not one as good as the one he has now. do you think i should quit my job and make my boyfriend find a new one by where we live? i want to try and find like a barista job, or a job at babys-r-us near my parents house. ALSO: my parents bought me a car last year but took it back because my step dad needed it, and then my mom promised me 1000$ for a car and then backedout because she needed the money for bills, so thats why i havent saved for a car or got a better paying job so far, because i was counting on what they promised me. please help any good advice helps! if i wasit for my boyfriend to get another job he wont take me seriously and will just screw off till i quit mine. Paste in your text...okay well obviously i haven't graduated yet i had to quit my senior year because im pregnant and i needed to have a job.

Right now I am on implanon and it sucks. I have gained 45 ponds in one year and bleed for 6 weeks, every six weeks. I talked to a obgyn about this and she said it was normal that this was my rythm. But when I went on the implanon website they said it wasnt normal. Also i fall into that .01% of people that most birth controls do not work for. I have five children. the crazy part is that after an accident when I was a child they had to surgically remove half of my uterus and I was told that It there was only a 20% chance that I would ever concieve and only 2% that I would ever carry a child to term. Imagine my shock when I did become pregnant and carried a healthy baby girl for 36 weeks. After that I went on depo one year later exactly I was pregnant again. After that I went on the pill and just to be safe my husband and I used condoms and spermicide. I became pregnant again exactly one year later. With my fourth we decided to use the family planning method. It worked for 3 years until we got a little intoxicated and we blew off the timing. With my fifth I had the Minerna IUD. Despite what they tell you apparently the real statistics are that 1 in 10 get pregnant with this. I went another 3 years before I did get pregnant. Before you say I should get my tubes tied, or do something permanent, this is absolutley out of the question, one because it is a miracle that I became pregnant in the first place and 2 becasue I plan on being a surrogate for my sister in law who cannot have children. Also my mom is like me she had 7 children and my little brother was the result of my mom having her tubes tied and my dad had a vesectomy. 12 years after her 6 my bro was born and I am 22 years older than him. In the meantime I need something with out all the side effects. all the other birth controls I was on, I never got a period at all and didnt gain any wait. I was a size 6 after my 4th child and now I am pushing size 18. Any suggettions would be great or even websites where I can compare different methods.

I got with my partner whan I was 18 and am now 27, throughout them 9 years lots happended like they do in relationships until I started training to become a counsellor and came to the realisation that my relationship was built upon control, mental abuse and constant upset. Lots happend throughout, we have two beautiful children together and I have an older daughter that he took on as his own, she is my world, more so because I felt so guilty her Father was not around her and choose not to have contact with her. Time passing, he had a number of affairs, treated me badly, made sure I had no friends and after losing our baby when I was pregnant he never let it go, he held that against me although I believed it was his way of grieving for or baby. Last year through my counselling studies, it changed me so much, I was confident atthis stage and started to not allow him to remain I contol that obviously knocked his confidence of loss of control, his behaviour became worse but only towards me, whilst this was happening I put hings in place (getting ready for the ending of the realtionship) because I had lost any love I once had for him and had already left him in my own mind but remained in the relationship with a sense that the could be a possibility we could work together and get through all the hurt but it was more clear during this that he seen no problem and choose to get more angry. It came to near christmas and he totally lost the plot to my oldest daughter, screaming he hated her (she had recently had contact with the man who was her bialogical father, although she was very excited she was also deeply upset because the truth was he was not intereted, yet I had to let her make her own mind up over him because she was often arguing with me over him).....I remained calm and asked him to think before he carried on screaming because my daughter was becoming very distressed by the way he was carrying on, very agressive!, I asked him to get his stuff and leave the house. The mental abuse throughout the years I was able to cope with but the past few weeks he had started on the children and I would not accept that at all. He went mental and smashed thehouse up, turned the gas cooker on and screamed the children where not eduacated to respect him (he's muslim and has firm beliefs)....I was able to get him out of the house and I packed and went to stay with my Mother with the children over Christmas. No way am I taking him back, my children come first thank you and plus the past few weeks have been so much better for me and the children, am working with the children now doing play therapy to help them talk about things becausethey witnessed his outburst and I fear that will have left an impact with them yt its very important they are able to express their emotions. Today I recieved a call from him, he demanded he see's his son but I had came to the conclusion that it would be best if he did see the children it should be done under supervision because I am fully aware of what he can do and will do (half the part why I never left him) but he has again gone mad and has threatend me. Am I right to do this?, I believe I am because he will not admit he needs help with his anger. Any opinions or help...feel free x

i became pregnant at 15 and he was 18. we dated for two years so i could charge him with sexual assault. when i became pregnant he told me he wants nothing to do with the baby and hopes we both die. he wrote me emails saying its best we stay far far away and even got another girlfriend a week later. now i just had my baby girl, ashlin and he wrote to me saying he still doesn't want to see her and his life is wonderful without us in it. i am SO angry at him and i feel so used but i do not want to press charges of him sexually assaulting me because it was consensual.. and at the time.. we both were very much in love, or at least i was. he is now 19 and im 16 and his family want nothing to do with the baby also. i got a call and the D/A wants to question me about what happened. what will he ask? should i press charges even though it was 100% consentual ?

at 18 weeks, would she look obviously pregnant? We have a big family re-union in 15 weeks and she is 3 week now. She would not want everyone to know and start asking her silly questions..

Hi lovely ladies :-) Yes, it's that time again - the dreaded 2 week wait (although my LP is 18 days, so it feels like an eternity!) I'm at 14dpo today (I think) so AF isn't due a pop-round for another 4 days but I've already cracked open the HPTs and began testing...BFNs so far but I just feel so different this cycle. Ladies, have any of you had blue veins becomming more clear across your nipples and breasts in your 2ww or before a BFP? I know it means relitively little by itself as a 'sign' but It's one of many that I haven't had before. I've tried researching this but would love to hear from some 'real' women :-) If it isn't indicative of pregnancy, does anyone know what it means? Other symptoms this cycle: * Sudden desire to consume the whole fridge and then feelings as though I can't face my favourite foods. * Twinge-like throbbing cramp a few days ago...then went away ?! * Light AF-type cramps in little patches over the past couple days. Hardly any today though. * Really sensitive npps & the appearance of Montgomery's Tubercles (but have had these before and not been pregnant) * Crazy dreams and poor sleep pattern * High temps for 14 days past ovulation so far...hoping they stay up! Best wishes and babydust to you all and thanks in advance for reading my question :-) **** Yep! I have had a 17-day one before but since I've been charting it's been 18 days straight from ovulation to my period. I thought I was a complete weirdo haha, until I talked it over with my doctor. He says that I can be sure this is right for me as I chart my BBT. He added it was on the longer side of LPs and they don't come much longer!

Hey guys! Just wanted to get answers and experiences on two things. 1. Baby Movement When I was 16 weeks pregnant until 18 weeks I was getting really strong flutters maybe 2-3 times a week.. For the past 2 weeks I have been feeling little pinchs /twinges in my stomach.... Also sometimes i feel a really hard thud like something is kicking me... from 18 weeks i was getting them mainly at night once or twice but for the last 3 days i have been getting them day and night...Is that the baby? Please share your first baby movements with me plz as i am a first time mum! 2. In the mornings my stomach is really soft , well the part below my belly button and in the afternoon/evenings it is hard..any reasons to why this is? Thanks in advance

I was on the Yasmin pill for 3 months and just before I ended for a break before starting a new pack - I was on antibiotics and had unprotected sex between 18 and 21st November. When I went on a break, I didn't go to the doctors to get a repeat prescription and on the 12th December (midnight) had unprotected sex but didn't get the morning after pill till the 14th which would have made the use of it less effective. I then had unprotected sex on the 19th and went and got the morning after pill on the 20th but also got a repeat prescription for my pill. I had a period the first week in December between 3rd and 6th. I have period pains now (6/01/2009) and have felt sick mostly in the mornings but the feeling of nausea throughout most of the day, especially after I've eaten. I took a pregnancy test but it came back negative however I'm unsure if I took it too early? I've had cramps for the past 2 days, I never knew you could have a period and still be pregnant. I calculated the dates from the dates I am positive my period was last, and both times I have unprotected sex (from this calculator thing) I was in the ovulation period. I haven't told my boyfriend and am worried he'll freak out as much as I have. I don't mind waiting, to do a test, it's just the thinking about it!

Ok so im on the pill(for 2 yrs) called estelle(or known to some as dianne) ive jus started my sugers on friday but about a week before that i noticed little dark dots on my undies not alot but bout 4 and i fort is that bloood n then thought nothing bout it and a few days late i noticed it again but ive never wiped and there been blood. ive been having a few weird pains in my lower stomach crampy jab sorta things headachs n light headedness maybe a bit queezy. it usualy takes bout 5 days never anymore then 6 to get my period after starting the sugers tomorrow is day 5 but usually i get this feeling that im gettin my period and i dont have it ?? my last period was the 11/ 12/ 2008 and i had unprotected sex on the 16/12/2008,21/12/08, 30/12/08 so what do u think?? i've never had anything like this ?? i'm only 18 and if i am pregnant i will keep the baby i have a full time job so money isnt really an issue

I'm 35weeks pregnant and I maybe getting induce the 1st week of feb but my Ex boyfriend thinks that my son will be going to stay at his mom's house and i am not cool with that i don't know his mother really i only met her 3times and the 1st time i met her i was 18weeks pregnant....I have trust issue and i don't trust ppl i don't know..Its too many things that could happen and i want my son with me at all times..My mom gets mad when i tell her my son is not going over there! I'm 18 and this is my child i can do whatever i want with him right? My Ex does nothing for my son, i tell him to help me buy simple things like baby powder,lotions etc! and he says he has them but at his moms house i need it for my house! Am i being selfish because i don't want my son at his grandma's house,