Pratt's
Resources for Parenting & Beyond
Funny Things I
Have
Said and Done In My Second Pregnancy
Pregnancy & Other
Webrings I
Belong To
Pratt's
Online Store
Find products for: yourself, you
children/grandchildren, etc.
Breastfeeding
& Breastfeeding While Pregnant
AlternaMoms.com
Nursing and Breastfeeding The Ten Commandments of
Breastfeeding
& Links
ChildFun.com:
Breastfeeding While Pregnant
ParentsPlace
| Childbearing Year: Go down to "Nursing"
ParentsPlace
| Pregnant While Still Nursing: Past Message Board
Pregnant
and Nursing: Changing Nutritional Needs
Food
& Nutrition Links While Pregnant and Nursing
Beef.org: A Good Start:
Nutrition
During Pregnancy click on "A Good Start..."
iVillage:
Food
- Healthy Eating Nutritional Guidelines for Pregnant/Nursing
Moms
iVillage:
Food
- Healthy Eating Mini-Meals for Pregnant/Nursing Moms
Formula
Links and More
I have never used
formula but you can find resources at the below sites even if you
breastfeed or bottle feed or are just needing resources.
Very
Best
Baby.com: Carnation It is for mom (including pregnancy &
breastfeeding),
baby, and the family.
The
Enfamil
Family of Formulas There are differnt things at this site. I
like
the "Nutrition for You". Click on that at the top of the page and
then
click on "Nutrition Basics" to find out more about nutrition. The
rest
of the site is their products.
Welcome
Addition You can find information about breast feeding, bottle
feeding,
introducing solids, learning to use a cup, and more at this site if you
click
on "Feeding and Nutrition."
Fun
Sites
It's
Just
Another Baby If you want to laugh, go to this site.
Is it a Boy
or
a Girl? - Childbirth.org Take a poll to find out if it is a
boy
or girl. The baby probably won't be what the poll results states
but
it is fun do do.
NOVA
Online/Odyssey of Life - Clips of Growing Embryos
General
Pregnancy Links & More
ABC's of
Parenting
Comprehensive Source for Great Parenting, Pregnancy and Childcare
Articles,
Segments and Sites
Am-I-Pregnant.com
- Advice on Pregnancy and Test for Potential and Pregnant Mothers
As
Your
Baby Grows: Month by Month
BabyCenter:
Pre-Conception,
Pregnancy, Baby, Toddler, and More
BabyData - Ovulation, conception and
pregnancy
calendar and information
Baby's Play
Parenting, Pregnancy, Boards, Links, Articles and more
Childfun.com:
Pregnancy and Birth Stories
Information
From Your Family Doctor: Topics While Pregnant
Katherine's
Pregnancy Pages
Natural
Mothering
Childbirth, Breastfeeding, Attachment Parenting,
Vaccinations,
Circumcision, Family Sleeping, Books, Links and More
Parents
Place:
Pregnancy
Parents
Place:
The 1st Trimester & Other Topics During Pregnancy
Parents
Place:
Pregnancy Calendar
Parentsplace
Experts: Midwife
Parents
Place: The First 9 Months
Parent Soup:
Everything
from Children, Pregnancy and More
Pregnancy and
Women's
Health Information
PregnancyInc.com
Pregnancy Encylopedia, Name Finder, Sweepwtakes, and Bulletin Board
YourBaby.Com:
Information on Pregnancy and Your Baby
Labor
and Delivery
Bayfront.org:
Positions for Pushing
PregnancyInc.com
You need to join to view this. Once you have joined for free,
click
on Encyclopedia and then go down to "Comfort Measures for Labor."
Gestational
Diabetes Links
GentleBirth.Org:
Gestational Diabetes
HealthAnswers.com:
and
do a search for gestational diabetes
MedStudents:
Gestational Diabetes
Pregnancy
Today: Gestational Diabetes: It's not the end of the world
Magazines
AmericanBaby.com
This site has a magazine subscription, resources on-line, boards and
chat
rooms, and much more.
Message
Board Links
ParentsPlace:
Parenting Message Board
Morning
Sickness Links
ParentsPlace:
Severe Morning Sickness: Ways to Cope
Relieving
Morning Sickness / AAFP Patient Information Handout
Most doctors, say you can't breast feed while pregnant; but you usually can. All I can say is if you are in good health, don't have a history of miscarriages, a history of pre-term labor or other medical conditions that don't prevent you from breastfeeding while pregnant, do it. (This is only my advice, there may be other situations that my prevent you from breastfeeding while pregnant.)
Tandem Nursing
You can continue to enjoy breastfeeding before and
after the
baby is born. When you nurse more than one baby at a time it is called
tandem
nursing.
My Advice For Those Who Are Pregnant & Pregnant While Breastfeeding
Make sure you are eating enough of food, taking your vitamins and drinking enough water when you are pregnant. Never diet when pregnant. Eat even more food and drink more water if you are breastfeeding and pregnant. Follow your body instincts of what you need. Your body knows best.
What I Have Found Out About Liquid
I have found out if I do not drink enough liquid (water) everyday, I have headaches. It is not fun to have headaches because you are dehydrated. So make sure you drink your water; 8 glasses or more a day! I will drink more and more as it gets hotter were we live; 110 degrees or more. I always make sure I take a water container with me everywhere I go. I also suggest you do the same thing. Happy pregnancy!
There are some funny things I have said and done while pregnant with my second child. I can not remember everything that I have said and done but I willstart off with what just has happened recently. I hope you enjoy what has happened to me! Thanks for visiting and come back often! Maybe I will say or do some more funny things; you never know what pregnant women will do or say.
September 21, 1999
Last night, I said two funny things. I could not stop laughing for awhile. First of all, "Look, the elk have antelopes on their heads." If you do not understand this, I was trying to say, antlers instead of antelopes. As you can see, they both have a-n-t in the beginning of the word. These statements can be understood better if you are reading this in English than in another language. The second one is, "These pancakes have flour buckets." (If you don't understand the second one, it means, big chunks of flour in them.)
Sometimes I will just start laughing for no reason. There are other times that I will laugh because I think something is funny.
October 2, 1999
Last night my husband, my daughter and I went to Home Base to buy some door knobs for our house. My husband started to take the sunscreen out to put it up. I started to laugh. He was going to get our daughter out of her car seat but that did not happen at first. He finally realized what he was doing and took her out of her car seat. I can not even stop laughing right now while I write this. That proves that women can laugh at anything.
October 8, 1999
Last night we went out to eat and my husband turned on a radio station. A commercial was playing, the Toys 'R' Us commerial. There were children laughing and that made me laugh so hard I had tears pouring down my face. I was just rolling with laughter. I laughed some on the way home from my daughter's doctor's appointment on Tuesday, but last night, I was really laughing.
October 27, 1999
Last night we went shopping at Safeway. My husband had placed my daughter in the back part of the grocery cart while we were in the store. After we picked up our prescriptions, we went to the dairy area of the store. My husband said, "We will go get the cheese and then go down the ice cream aisle." (The ice cream was on sale and he knows how much I have been wanting to eat ice cream; even though we still have ice cream at home.) I started to laugh at what he said. When we went down the ice cream aisle, I saw a great big container of Hershey's Chocolate Syrup, I started to laugh so hard and I could not stop for awhile. When we were done, I got in the car and then my husband put the cart away. I did not see ..., so I asked him where she was. He said, "I put her in the trunk." I started to laugh like crazy and I started to cry because I was laughing so hard. The lady that was parked in her car in front of us probably thought, "Why is she laughing so hard?" I did not stop laughing until after we were out of the parking lot for a couple of minutes. Sometimes I wonder why I laugh at the dumbest things, but it is because I am pregnant and have not been sleeping that well at night.