My partner finds my size/weight unappealing – what to do?!?

Hi, about 8 years ago i was anorexic, then got over it. for an anorexic – or for me – it meant my body ballooned. a year and a half later i got pregnant, gave birth, and started losing weight. i was told that this is normal for some women – that pregnancy is healing. my metabolism after the anorexia was all over the place and pregnancy had healed that, and was helping me to return to my natural ‘womanly’ shape.
i am 5″6, of a very slight bone structure. this is what has happened to mine (it obviously helps that i run around after two kids). i weigh about 8 stone/50 kilos. i can eat anything i like whenever i like – my weight has been steady for 4 yrs. obviously this is the way i’m meant to be. even dh sees i eat healthily.
however, he finds my slimness off putting. i don’t know what to do, but it’s beginning to really upset me. he married me like this – why can’t he just deal with it? his attitude it beginning to affect my own opinion of my bod, and for once i have been really happy.

Braxton Hicks… How do you?

Hi Im 36 +2 days pregnant with my 3rd baby a boy. Yesterday I got my induction date for the 24th August as I have gestational diabetes and the baby weighs 6lb 14oz already! However with my other 2 pregnancies, both girls one induced one natural a week late I never experienced Braxton Hicks at all. With this pregnancy Im getting back tightening and tightening in my tummy. How do you cope with the pain and how long after having these did you go into labour? Its 8 years since I had a baby (both of my labours where fast..30 mins and 50 mins) and never experiencing these pains Im unsure of what to expect.

Thanks for your answer.x

I need advice on c-section versus vaginal delivery.?

Hi. I need some advice on c- section versus vaginal delivery. I’m already the proud mother of an 18 month old son who entered the world via c-section because he was breech. With my son I had a wonderful pregnancy and the c- section was done great. I also healed very well and had no problems afterwards. My problem was during the procedure. My water broke 3 weeks early so I had an emergency c-section. When I got to the hospital I was already dilated 5 centimeters so they had to give me a spinal tap instead of the epidural I had decided on because of time issues. The spinal Is almost instant and the epidural would have taken 20 mins or so to numb. Right after my lower body went numb and the procedure started I started freaking out because I couldn’t feel my legs. It’s just a crazy weird feeling. I would calm down for a minute then I would start freaking out again. My hubby and the anesthesiologist had to hold down my arms. Then after my son was out when they started to staple me up I was freaking out really bad and was swearing I felt it. So they got my hubbies permission to put me to sleep. I dont even remember this part. Next thing I remember was being in my regular room hours later. At that point the numbness was just wearing off. Boy what a wonderful feeling that was. In ever been in the hospital before so I don’t have much to compare my visit to but I just remember the lower body being numb was almost unbearable for me. Of course in the end it was well worth it. I just don’t know if I can go through it again.
I am 8 weeks pregnant right now. The fears I had about the c-section almost kept me from getting pregnant again. This time I would like to have a vaginal birth if possible. the dr said it is possible after a c-section. I’m just afraid of something else being wrong again and having to have another c-section. Before my first child was born when I asked women advice on which is better c-section or vaginal the answers were about 50/50. Would also like to know what everyone thinks of vaginal delivery. And if the epidural will make me feel just like the spinal did if I do have the vaginal. What about natural delivery? Breathing techniques or hypnosis that works? What about walking epidurals?
So I would like to know what everyone on here thinks and if anyone has any advice if I do have to have another c section? Thank you for taking your precious time to read my essay. Lol !!!

Amazing Births .?

I googled amazing births and this is some stuff that came up…what do you think?

Twins birn from different mothers
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23399945-details/World%27s+first+twins+born+to+two+different+women/article.do

AHH, id go crazy!
The highest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69, to the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev (1707-1782) of Shuya, Russia. Between 1725 and 1765, in a total of 27 confinements, she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets. 67 of them survived infancy.

YOUNGEST MOTHER:
The youngest mother whose history is authenticated is Lina Medina, who delivered a 6½-pound boy by cesarean section in Lima, Peru in 1939, at an age of 5 years and 7 months. The child was raised as her brother and only discovered that Lina was his mother when he was 10.

OLDEST MOTHER:
On April 9, 2003, Satyabhama Mahapatra, a 65-year-old retired schoolteacher in India, became the world’s oldest mother when she gave birth to a baby boy. Satyabhama and her husband had been married 50 years, but this is their first child. The baby was conceived through artificial insemination using eggs from the woman’s 26-year-old niece, Veenarani Mahapatra, and the sperm of Veenarani’s husband.

**Shortest Interval Between Two Children
Jayne Bleackley is the mother who holds the record for the shortest interval between two children born in separate confinements. She gave birth to Joseph Robert on September 3, 1999, and Annie Jessica Joyce on March 30, 2000. The babies were born 208 days apart.

**Longest Interval Between Two Children
Elizabeth Ann Buttle is the mother who holds the record for the longest interval between the birth of two children. She gave birth to Belinda on May 19,1956 and Joseph on November 20, 1997. The babies were born 41 years 185 days apart. The mother was 60 years old when her son Joseph was born.

Quindecaplets
The pregnancy term ‘quindecaplets’ implies a multiple birth of 15 babies. One case of quindecaplets was registered in Italy, on July 22, 1971. A woman was pregnant with 15 children, including 10 girls and 5 boys, as a result of taking fertility drugs. Doctors had to extract all the fetuses from the woman’s womb to keep her healthy. An Argentinean woman was pregnant with the highest number of babies conceived in the natural way, without taking any fertility drugs. She had 12 fetuses, but the woman lost the pregnancy.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) reported the case of an Italian woman, Dorothea, who allegedly gave birth to undecaplets after having given birth to nonuplets.
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Undecaplets

1996 – Efsthatiou (Cyprus, 1996) Mother was 23 at the time she conceived using fertility drugs. She elected to undergo selective reduction and reduce to 4
http://www3.telus.net/tyee/multiples/octuplets.html