What day is it? Seriously. I don’t know right now. Yeah, yeah… I’m slacking. No “Medical-Monday,” no “Celebri-Tuesday”… but I had a baby! A girl! And I will use her as an excuse for all things as long as I can… On this blog, we will call her LadyP! LIFE IS GOOD. 🙂 Since my…
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MEDICAL-MONDAY: Induction and my losing battle.
I’m getting my ass kicked by a 7lb(ish) bully. As of 5pm today, I now have an appointment to be induced this week. (If you read my last post, you know that I’m dead-set against inducing labor.) My doctor called me around 8:30am this morning to playfully ask where our baby was… and to revisit options…
MEDICAL-MONDAY: Umbilical cord banks.
Should you bank your baby’s umbilical cord blood when he/she is born? Many expecting parents seek to preserve precious stem cells should the child need them later in life. It’s a hot topic with my friends these days, so my doctor-husband looked up some recent studies in medical journals to get some undiluted details about this…
Operation Smile… I dare ya.
Did you know, the difference between this: and this: is about 1 hour and $240? Or, if you break it down, $20/month for 1 year. It’s true…. that’s IT. I realize that my hormones make me extra-emotional these days, but this subject matter broke my heart before the whole pregnant thing happened. More than 200,000…
Give me the needle.
For some women, “to epi or not” is the question. For me, there’s no question: HELL YES. When the time comes, I’d like an epidural please (or, a vodka/soda, mojito or a nice chilled shot of Petrone). But, I am no birthing expert. I’m just a naive, petrified pregnant chick who’d like to get her baby…
Michael Jackson’s bro to the rescue.
Randy Jackson (brother of the late Michael) did some good this week, with the help of my very own husband (Dr. Andre Panossian, below) at Children’s Hospital LA. People might notice this story for the “celebrity factor,” but as a future mom it affected me in a much deeper way. What kind of birth defect…
