JeanMa

@JeanMa (6)

United States • Age 56

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help!!! son longing for his father

chonelo @chonelo (18) • Philippines 8 Jun 07

It is a heart-breaking scene everytime i saw my son pretending that his dad is around or he is playing with him. For two years now my husband is away with us to earn a good living. It so happen that for five years, when we are...

father and son

help my son

missing my husband

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JeanMa Please do not feel like a failure. Your feelings are completely normal. How about you take some time with your son to have some "daddy" time. Write letters to daddy, do drawings to send to him, make his favorite food, talk about what daddy is doing. He maybe...

10 Jun 07

lower abdominal pain in pregnancy

svenderella @svenderella (17) • Canada 8 Jun 07

Okay, I am currently 16 weeks pregnant with my second child. I have been having what I am assuming is just the uterus stretching, but it is kind of painful. I am assuming it is this and not contractions. Has anyone else had...

pregnancy

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JeanMa To be safe is best to go to your doctor and have him check it out. In my opinion you maybe having Braxton Hicks - which is also fake labor pains, it is caused by your uterus contracting, but is not real contractions.. you may need to increase your fluid...

10 Jun 07

I'm on bed rest

rockefow @rockefow (20) • United States 9 Jun 07

My cerivx is begining to open and I'm only 4 months pregnant. Does anyone know why this happens?

mother

pregnancy

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JeanMa You already have two great answers atop of this one. I just wanted to stress out to keep our bed rest to a T. Use diapers to urinate on.. Go to the bathroom for bowel movements only. Relax and try to do some yoga in bed.. so you do not lose a lot of strength...

10 Jun 07

When did it hit?

djbizmonkey34 @djbizmonkey34 (633) • United States 9 Jun 07

When did it hit you that you were a mom. It didn't hit me until the first time I held my daughter Alexi. I couldn't believe this little human grew inside my stomach for nine months. I couldn't stop crying for the first week I had...

motherhood

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JeanMa I had a very hard pregnancy and when I gave birth I was suffering from deep depression, then I had postpartum depression on top of it.. I did things automated for a while.. I was a little disconnect from my daughter. I took care of her and she was fine and...

10 Jun 07

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baby memories

rosehunter51 @rosehunter51 (17) • United States 10 Jun 07

Whats the feeling out there that your child or a child that you know remembers things when they were a baby? My 5 year old has bad feelings toward his birth mother. She left him when he was 8 months old and to this day he will not...

baby memories

nightmares in kids

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JeanMa He may have lingering memories of very traumatic event involving his birth mother.. he may not remember what it was.. but when he sees or smells someone who reminds him of that event he gets "flashbacks" of it. It is very normal that this happens even at...

10 Jun 07

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Do you suffer from Mom envy too?

beautyqueen26 @beautyqueen26 (16030) • United States 10 Jun 07

When I see other moms who seem to have it all figured out, I get a little jealous and wish I were more like them. Some moms seemingly breeze through life, with a clean house, well stocked pantry, home cooked meals and well...

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JeanMa I know exactly what you are talking about.. I think we all have met the "perfect mom" who seems to have everything under control.. I have met a few of the so called "perfect mom" and I would not trade spaces with them for a minute. Behind closed doors there is...

10 Jun 07

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