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Pregnancy

Premature Rupture of Membranes

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

I have a baby boy, who is 2 years 4 months old now. Below is what happened during my delivery time:
I had a water leakage 2 weeks before the due date given, admitted in the hospital, was put on trips for 2 or 3 hrs (I had been told that it has glucose and pain [...]

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Hypothyroidism and pregnancy

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

I am 27 years old and 6.5 weeks pregnant. During my first routine prenatal screening my doctor diagnosed me with underactive thyroid. My TSH level was 11.8, and my free T4 was 13.
She prescribed me 0.05 mg levothyroxine yesterday, which I’ve started taking.
I am concerned about how this untreated condition may have affected my pregnancy [...]

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Pregnancy and Lumbar Spine Fracture

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

my wife (28) and i (37) were involved in a motor vehicle accident last thanksgiving. we hydroplaned and stuck a concrete highway divider at high speed, ~50 mph. we both suffered compression fractures of L1, my wife also had ligament damage to T12 along with a dislocated and fractured right foot. neither of us had [...]

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Trying to Get Pregnant - Causes of Infertility?

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

I have been trying to get pregnant for about a year and half and still I have not accomplish that. I talked to my doctor about this problem and my doctor said it was normal because I had a regulated menstrual cycle. Is there anything I can take for my problem I really want a [...]

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Paternity and Blood Type

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

I have been wondering this question for the last fourteen years and have finally decided to ask it and just live with the consequences. So here goes my question: what is the likelihood of an ab neg. Blood type male and b positive blood type female producing an ab negative male child? [...]

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Bleeding during pregnancy, after intercourse

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

I am 3 months pregnant and I have been to the doctor many times. After I have sex I bleed. I asked my doctor about this and he said it was normal but I want another answer from someone else. I just have a little blood when I pee, it isn’t a lot and I [...]

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Very Early Pregnancy Symptoms While Nursing

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

I am a 31 year old woman and have a 8 month old daughter whom I am still nursing up to 3 times a day, but my milk has nearly vanished completely and I have been having abdominal pain quite frequently, like I did early on in both of my pregnancies, and I have [...]

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PCOS, Endometriosis and Pregnancy

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

Dr. Joshua,
I’m 29, and I have a ten-year history of endometriosis, a recent diagnosis of mild PCOS, and a slightly heart-shaped uterus. A laparoscopy in December 2005 demonstrated scattered areas of endometriosis; these were subsequently removed. Although I’m not quite ready to conceive (approaching that point, though), I’m concerned about my chances of [...]

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Pregnancy, Childbirth, Hip Dislocation, DDH

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

I was born with the condition referred to as congenital dislocation of the hip. I was in a spreading device for three months after the diagnose. Now I am 27, both my hips sometimes hurt and it sometimes feels like they are not in their socket correctly. It’s only one hip at the time, happens [...]

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Vasectomy Reversal, In Vitro Fertilization, Advanced Reproductive Techniques

Saturday, April 1st, 2006

Me & My husband are REALLY wanting to have a baby…But when he was married to his EXwife-he had the surgery done to where he wouldn’t be able to have anymore children(not sure of the pacific name)…He had it done then because of marital problems that were due to his EXwife >NOT because of any [...]

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