your heart pumps up to 30 to 50 percent more blood when you’re pregnant compared to when you’re not pregnant. This is so that your baby receives the appropriate amount of oxygen and nutrients through the placenta. However, if you feel that your heart rate is staying elevated and/or you...
You know those authors you see in what feels like every single anthology? There are two reasons for that: 1)They’regood, and not just at writing but at being reliable.Having to chase one author is a lot; having to chase twelve? Is hell. So you want to have people who are going ...
and most moms were ashamed of pregnant teenaged daughters. Babies given up for adoption were in orphanages or in church-sponsored group homes. Birth mothers signed papers, sometimes found out the baby’s sex or touched a cheek while whispering goodbye. ...
Pregnant people cannot become immune to anything. It's like claiming immunity to poisons such as drain cleaner poison "oh the kids got their poison shots so they are immune to the damaging effects of drain cleaner" the prior pregnant person said. They also got their shots of immune poison...
The Oregon Zoo Foundation is one of several charities to which MH and I regularly donate. This week we received the foundation’s end-of-year update for donors, including the announcement thatRose-Tu, a member of the zoo’s family of Asian elephants, is pregnant. This will be the first ...
is all the birth control you need, but whatever). It’s funny because it’s such a ridiculously laughable decision, but it’s alsonotfunny because half of the members of the highest court in America basically told women to go fuck themselves. (Cuz you can’t get pregnant that way. Duh...
At first, when I was pregnant, I thought that having a baby would mean an end to my wandering days, that I wouldn’t be able to book flights to a random destination just because they were cheap and have the kinds of mini adventures I’d enjoyed previously. Like many expecting parents ...
But we went to bed, folding had done us in, I was seven months pregnant and I was tired. Nevermind that my brother Jeff and his girlfriend (now his wife) were flying in the next day and staying with us for my birthday weekend. We climbed the stairs anyway and told ourselves we ...
What if… I never lose the baby weight? What if I never again love my body the way I did before I had children? What if…I have a miscarriage?What if I can’t get pregnant again? What if… my children are bullied at school? What iftheyare the bully? What if they choke on a ...
At 100 Watts per channel, this is a small amp that we like. It has both Bluetooth, Optical and RCA inputs. We have used the Bluetooth output from our LG smart TV to send this a signal but have encountered issues with latency or lag between the TV speakers and the Driver output. ...