Panty hose!  They should be banned!  Maybe you can find some support knee highs.  I wore those when I was pregnant because my feet and ankles were so swollen.

Don't even think about the labor pains.  Just keep thinking about that precious little life you will be bringing into the world and how wonderful it will feel to hold, cuddle and nuture it.  THAT's why we have babies.

You can make it. It's almost done. We are cheering and thinking of you.

Meg

Turtles!! I love turtles!    They shouldn't be too much trouble. Tell the kiddies to be easy on their shells - they have feeling there.

I think I know the henna placenta treatment that you're referring to. It comes in a brown and white packet, right? I used it once in high school, though it was many years old. I found it in an old case of my grandmother's cosmetics...about 11 years after she'd passed away.    Believe it or not, they haven't changed the design on the package in all that time. I saw it at Wal*Mart just the other day and did a double take.

Hang in there, Curlygirl. Sorry about your vericose veins. Oy, that must be so awful! It will all be over with soon, though and you'll have a brand new member of the family to enjoy.

Angelspun and BB you ladies are truely two wonderful ppl!

Angelspun, did you ever own any turtles? They are soooooooo easy to care for! What a blessing.

Yes, thats the same henna placenta i got from Walmart. I wonder if it works. I havent had time to use it yet.  Sorry again about your Grandmothers passing. May God ease your pain.

Its a struggle to live with Varicose Veins. Hopefully they get better. Dr. says they are dangerous. But no one is perfect or has perfect legs. hehe.

BB, my due date is June 18th. Thanks for your well wishes.

Hair- I have been putting castor oil on my hair and in a elegant bun and rosemary hair oil.  Thats all for now.

  Angelspun, Thanks for your well wishes about my last weeks of pregnancy. We are very excited and ready to get the show on the road!  We dont know what we are having. Everyone says because im carrying  wide it must be a girl.  Hopefully healthy, sex of baby doesnt matter to us.  Uncle, from out of town,  says he has never seen me this big. He has never seen me pregnant, because he lives in Louisiana.    A Girl would be nice, something different, and lots of pink. Im already worried that i wont be able to do her hair wonderfully and it might have a lot of knots when shes older. WOW. do i think ahead.   Im not wonderful at style or fashion and afraid i might let her wear ill fitting clothes. sometimes i do wear those on accident. im no fashion expert.   A Boy would be using his brothers all his gently used things and saving my husband a fortune. ??? Plus im not even that great at doing my hair, so brushing my sons hair back with aloe gel and spraying with herbal spray works well now. Thankfully i dont have to worry about knots now, and only the ones i have.  I just hope God makes things easier.

Ma still asks on a daily basis if i BRUSHED my hair today.  I told her i can only comb curly hair. She doesnt get it and wished i had straight ruly hair. ??? She also says its never shiny and wants to know what shampoo i use. My hair will never be perfect and i will never be. Its makes my hair confidence low.

I'm thinking of you each day, and remembering my last couple of weeks of pregnancy.  Being in that "I just want to NOT be pregnant anymore" phase, always uncomfortable, "running" (Ha!) to the potty constantly, the baby doing gymnastics tumbling runs inside me.  It was about 2 weeks before delivery that I ended up with 2 broken ribs from the kicking and rolling!    And ankles as bad as mine are now!  Always swollen.

But on the up side - all the movement told me my baby was ALIVE and growing which increased the chances of it being healthy.  Healthy is the most important thing, isn't it?

As for your mom - do what I do, just let the comments slide and not dwell on them.  She probably means well, but the words just come out wrong.

Keep us up to date - we're all excited about becoming cyber-aunts!

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Same here. My sister once planned to have many children. Now, like me, she doesn't want any...ever.

I wouldn't trust in the traditional "symptoms." They're closer to wives' tales than fact. Everyone (including the doctor) thought that my sister would be a boy up until the minute she was delivered. We're still not sure about that girl...
    I always used to tell my mother, "You had a girl, and a monkey." 

Whatever you have (hopefully no monkeys  ), I'm sure it will be healthy and will have lovely hair like yours.