You’ve skipped your period or maybe you just have this constant sickness and you have no fever or anything else to go with it. What could it be? That’s when you start wondering….could I be pregnant? Chances are if you are wondering this you can go back to that exact moment when you would’ve gotten that way and now you start counting. Once you realize that it is possible, start looking for other signs.

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Pregnancy Symptoms:

1.   Missed Your Period:  This is normally the first sign, which makes you purchase that pregnancy test. If you’ve missed your period, you should probably wait a few more days and either schedule an appointment with your doctor or take a test.

2.  Positive Pregnancy Test: it doesn’t matter if it is a store bought test or one from the hospital. Of course if you have a positive from a home pregnancy test you need to go to the doctor and do a follow up to make sure everything is okay. Sometimes you can test too early and be pregnant and it’ll show up as negative, other times you may never show up positive for a few months (I know it happened to me three times) but a doctor can do several different type of tests to make sure. 

3.  Throwing Up all the time: This is known as morning sickness and while they do call it “morning sickness” it doesn’t always happen in the morning. Just typically a woman is seen throwing up as soon as she wakes up, some actually experience all day sickness, just morning sickness. This generally last just the first trimester, however there are some (myself) that have it the entire pregnancy.

4.  Frequent urination: Do you find yourself going pee more often then you normally do?

5.  Swollen/tender breasts: If you’ve noticed your more sensitive in your breast area, even just walking around, you might be pregnant.

6. Smells Make you want to Vomit:  Now that your body is preparing for your pregnancy you’ll have a heightened sense of smell and taste. The slightest thing can set your tummy off and you’ll want to be in the bathroom.  This is the same thing for food, you can love something and eat it every day and suddenly it is making you sick to your stomach. Some pregnant women can’t stand greasy foods, while others love it.

7.  Cravings:  You are constantly craving ice cream, peanut butter or pickles. Having the need for a certain food or beverage can be a sign that you are pregnant. It is said that your body demands that certain item because you are missing it from your body. The need for ice cream might actually be a need for dairy.

8.  Fatigue: You are suddnely more tired than you ever have been. This could just be a sign that you need sleep, but if you are pregnant it is your body telling you it needs a break as it creates your child.

9.  Butterflies: This is that weird, fluttery feeling you get in the pit of your stomach. Now this isn’t the feeling of a baby kicking but some women have experienced this feeling right before finding out they are pregnant.

10.  Leaking Colostrum: Colostrum is the milky substance that comes before your breastmilk comes, (sometimes a yellowish) some women claim they leak a little before or during their pregnancy.

These were my signs when I got pregnant with my fourth child: (by the way, I knew within the first week of being pregnant)
-  tummy quessy feeling
-  peeing every hour
-  pms type cramps (mild)
-  colustrum
-  missed period
-  positive pregnancy test

Do you have any symptoms or can share your symptoms from when you were pregnant?  Here’s a few more sites that list pregnancy signs:

About.com
Babycenter.com
Whattoexpect

Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Léon, 19 monthswere both spotted in Venice, Italy with mom and dad (Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt) this past week sporting some very nice blankets.  The blankets that I keep seeing everyone talk about are from Nordstrom and they are the Little Giraffe Satin Trim Luxe Blanky ($42). The blanket is blue on one side with a satin blue trim and on the other it is white with spots. It looks to be extremely soft and just the right size for traveling and walking around town.
In the picture Knox is seen cuddling up to his little blanket as …read more

Imagine going out for a stroll with your toddler, you hand them a snack while pushing them to keep them busy and get them to eat something healthy. You hand your child a banana, carefully peel back half of the banana so your child can stay somewhat clean. Sounds good right?
Now, imagine getting stopped by an officer and fined. What? Oh, you may not have noticed while crossing the street or going in and out of a place but your child dropped the banana on the ground. Well that officer did and that’s exactly what happened to one mother …read more

Chris Scott, a Marine Reservist that is currently learning to be an emergency operator got the call that would soon test his abilities, when his own wife called for help when their baby boy, Jakob, began choking on a piece of food. I know how scary it is to be right there when your child is gasping for air or turning colors, but I can only imagine the fear that went through this dad as he tried to calm his wife and himself and help out.
Mom, dad and baby Jakob are all doing fine.

How many of you have ever wondered if your baby was sick and if you should take him/her to the emergency room? Chances are many, but when it comes to ear pain that gets even trickier and so does a baby that is just crying. Sometimes a mom/dad never knows. Here’s a guest post to help you with that:

How To Know When Your Baby is Sick
By Margaret Lewin, MD, FACP – Medical Director, Cinergy Health www.cinergyhealth.com
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Wow, can you believe the weekend is just about over? This weekend went by so fast but there are a ton of baby clothing sales goind on over at Kohl’s and over at Target you can get your carseats at a low price.
Target:
$19.19 Pampers Big Box Cruisers ($5 Target GC when you buy 2)
$35 Carseats (lowest price yet) Graco high-backs
$20 carseats- Graco no-backs
$45 Cosco Convertible Carseats
$70 Graco ComfortSport Convertible Carseat
$120 Graco My Ride 65 Convertible carseat
Kmart:
$7.99 Little Ones Jumbo diapers (until March
$16.99 Little Ones bix pack (until March 6)
$18.99 Luvs big pack ($2 off Luvs Diapers, any from homemailer)
$19.99 …read more

We are back with “Baby births for the week” and it seems that we have one that gave birth in a car, another on a plane and one in an ambulance.
A Pakistani woman was forced to give birth inside her vehicle when she was not only caught in a traffic jam but a traffic jam to let the President Asif Ali Zardari go by. The President did not know until after the news began to report this, at which point he expressed that from now on they had to provide alternate routes so people did not suffer. For those wondering, the mother …read more

This is yet another one of those week’s, as ya’ll know the computer got a virus last week but we were lucky enough to purchase a new one. Woo hoo right? That is until the husband called yesterday to inform me that the car was broke down on the side of the highway. Yeah, this is a totally in the house weekend for us. What are you doing this weekend?
I’ve been trying the potty training again, I swear he knows what to do but purposely doesn’t do it. I just don’t get it, all the siblings did it by the …read more

For those that haven’t heard, Bugaboo Bee is a stroller that has a reversible seat which allows your baby/toddler to face you or face away from you. This of course can make going for a walk or shopping a lot easier.  I’m sure there are plenty of you that wish sometimes your stroller would have your baby facing you, I mean it would make life so much easier sometimes.
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The winner of the MyClyns Germ Spray is….#8 (picked through random.org)

Theodore Esteghamat
February 23, 2010 at 2:30 am  
I learned that it’s safe to spray on your eyes, mouth, cuts and abrasions.
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