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		<title>VBACs Are Great&#8230;for Other People</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Kain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of reasons that we ought to try for a VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean). Maybe if I was braver, or more determined, this would be an easy choice.
I wrote about some of the great reasons to delivery vaginally after a C-section, including a shorter recovery time and a better chance for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=5627&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Family Balancing&#8221;: Should We Tinker With Nature?</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2009/01/14/family-balancing-should-we-tinker-with-nature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Kain</dc:creator>
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The response to the news that I&#8217;m pregnant with a girl has been joy, as well as laughter: &#8221;Whoa, three girls? Now you have to try for a boy.&#8221;
Do I?
After the misdiagnosed miscarriage, the hyperemesis, the bleeding, the leaking, and the general drama associated with this pregnancy, I hadn&#8217;t given much thought to another pregnancy. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=5323&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leaking Fluid During Pregnancy: Another Scare at 18 Weeks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Kain</dc:creator>
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Last Sunday, at 18 weeks pregnant, I showed up to my hospital&#8217;s Labor and Delivery Department.
The women in the cubicles around me were hugely pregnant, moaning with contractions as they prepared to deliver and hold their new babies. I, on the other hand, was paralyzed by terror. The doctor had told me that he felt pretty sure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=5276&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vaginal Bleeding Scare: Will I Ever Not Be Afraid of Miscarriage?</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/12/03/vaginal-bleeding-scare-will-i-ever-not-be-afraid-of-miscarriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Kain</dc:creator>
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I did not need to see blood yesterday. But there it was on the toilet paper, brown and terrifying: the unmistakable sign of vaginal bleeding during pregnancy.
Earlier in the week, I&#8217;d called my OB&#8217;s office because I&#8217;ve had intermittent cramps—set low in my abdomen—that come and go and scare the living daylights out of me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=4726&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Would Increased Risk of Birth Defects Deter You From IVF?</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/11/19/would-increased-risk-of-birth-defects-deter-you-from-ivf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Kain</dc:creator>
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According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study published yesterday in the journal Human Reproduction, fertility treatments that involve fertilization outside a woman&#8217;s body slightly increase the chances for certain birth defects in singleton pregnancies.
The study, which looked at some 13,500 infants born with birth defects and 5,000 born without, found that 2.4% [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=4216&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Puking for Nine Months Straight: When Morning Sickness Gets Out of Control</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/11/05/puking-for-nine-months-straight-when-morning-sickness-gets-out-of-control/</link>
		<comments>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/11/05/puking-for-nine-months-straight-when-morning-sickness-gets-out-of-control/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Kain</dc:creator>
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Last night was typical of my struggles with hyperemesis gravidarum, aka the morning sickness from hell. At 3 a.m., I dutifully trod into the kitchen to make the baby&#8217;s bottle, but by the time we were settled into the rocking chair and she was happily drinking, I had to hurl.
I eyed the garbage can in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=3839&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Fetus Is Growing, but So Is My Worry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Kain</dc:creator>
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Based on today&#8217;s ultrasound, we could have a winner here. What a journey this has been—from my initial elation at discovering I was pregnant to a misdiagnosed miscarriage to today&#8217;s doctor&#8217;s visit. There on the ultrasound screen was a seemingly healthy 9 1/2-week-old fetus frantically waving its little webbed nubby hands at me.
People keep telling me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=3743&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Still Pregnant: My Miscarriage Was Misdiagnosed</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/10/22/my-miscarriage-was-misdiagnosed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Kain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What exactly is that?&#8221; I asked, propping up on my elbows on the examining table, scrutinizing the ultrasound monitor.
&#8220;That is a seven-week-old embryo with a heartbeat,&#8221; my doctor said.
&#8220;No, wait, is it human?&#8221; I asked, gasping for air, staring at the flickering heartbeat pulsing through the little body.
I couldn&#8217;t believe it. Two weeks before, I&#8217;d [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=3391&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting to Miscarry: It Sucks to Be a Little Bit Pregnant</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/10/14/waiting-to-miscarry-it-sucks-to-be-a-little-bit-pregnant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Kain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To quote one of my favorite infertility (and now pregnancy and parenting—yay!) bloggers, Julie, &#8220;It turns out you can be a little bit pregnant.&#8221;
Despite the bleeding and cramping that signaled my miscarriage two weeks ago, I have not &#8220;passed&#8221; the pregnancy yet. I&#8217;m nauseated, hormonal, and exhausted, and I&#8217;m still gaining weight—all for no good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=3170&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Not to Say to a Woman Who Has Miscarried, and How You Can Help</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/10/06/what-not-to-say-to-a-woman-who-has-miscarried-and-how-you-can-help/</link>
		<comments>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/10/06/what-not-to-say-to-a-woman-who-has-miscarried-and-how-you-can-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Kain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After my three miscarriages, several older people have told me they were sorry about my &#8220;disappointment.&#8221; &#8220;What disappointment?&#8221; I always want to ask. I&#8217;m disappointed when Lost is a rerun; I&#8217;m devastated when I lose the chance to bring a child into the world.
But that euphemistic approach to discussing pregnancy loss is at the heart [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=2941&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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