Luvmyava- I had the day off today. Thank goodness if not I would have take a bus ....hahahha

luvmyava - 2.2 hours ago
AWW Angie that sucks did you have to miss work or have the day off?

luvmyava - 2.4 hours ago
Oops its afternoon I guess

luvmyava - 2.4 hours ago
Good morning ladies I cant believe it but I was sooo exhausted that I slept thru the night without even waking up once & I forgot how good it feels.

Liz3 - 2.4 hours ago
Well hello Angie!! is there not anyone around who can jump your car off?

Angie- - 2.5 hours ago
Im stuck at home till 5!!!! I left my dome light on for two days and now my car wont start =(

prettyeyecc - 2.6 hours ago
thanks i will try ice... i feel like the heat makes it worse too.. its like i get up from the heating pad and cant even walk.. massage.. that sounds nice.. (wish i had someone to give me one)

jluv - 2.7 hours ago
thanks Kelli. It's very interesting. I'm sorry you have to go through it but it seems as though you have a great handle on the situation as difficult as it may be. I give you so much credit as I'm sure it's difficult enough with one child but to have four, wow.

kellimg (spunky) - 2.8 hours ago
jluv, I believe it's because she as many (not myself) believe that it was the immunizations that 'caused' her son's Autism, so she stopped the continuing rounds of doses, so therefore it makes him susceptable to disease and illness.

I saw the same interview....again, lots of controversial views from lots of different parents and people. I feel in many cases, such as my own, that genetics is a MUCH bigger factor than immunizations. I also believe that some environmental factors are most likely interacting with the genetics, much more than before, and Autism is becoming less 'rare' than it was.

I also believe that it's NO epidemic, but instead there is much more awareness and knowledge about what Autism is, and so it is being diagnosed more often at an alarming rate, as more and more people and parents are aware that the behavior they are seeing isn't just 'eccentric' or 'weird' or 'a bad kid', but is in fact Autism Spectrum Disorder. Therefore more and more kids, youths, and even adults are now being diagnosed, that even as of 10-15 years ago, would have been seen as ADD/ADHD or with something else, or just plain weird.

jluv - 2.9 hours ago
I also saw a brief intereview with Jenny McCarthy over the weekend I think, yeah it was on Access Hollywood which I don't usually watch but the channel was on. Anyway, I guess her 6 year old is/was Autistic but she believes he no longer is. He is home schooled because he can't be in a regular school with so many 'germs'??? I don't know much about this but his 'school' setting in the house is very sterile.

kellimg (spunky) - 3 hours ago
Girlygirl....with COMPLETE CRAP on the TV like that, if I didn't know better and hadn't already experienced this life with 4 Autistic kids, I would have run for the freakin hills after watching it!!!!

These children were protrayed as completely retarded incapable of learning or behaving!!! IT IS SO FAR FROM THE TRUTH!!! As long as you have parents willing to give their all to fight with and for their child, it just DOESN'T have to be that way.

I kid you not girls, I have been in such an emotional state all weekend from this, and was back and forth from tears to anger, that it's been crazy and I only WISH I could blame it on hormones or mood swings, it's just plain old Pissed Off Mommy Syndrome!!!!

I did write to some and told them, I DARE anyone to bring cameras in MY house and tape MY kids acting like that without ME crawling down their throats or warming their asses for it!!!! MY kids are not animals...not like these kids were portrayed as being. I just want to scream...it's got me SOOO riled up, I'm surprised I have started having contractions yet!!!

I did however learn from another interview I saw online that the mother did have a 'breakdown' from the 'stress' of it all and the kids were taken away from her for 2 whole weeks, while she underwent an evalutaion.......NOT LONG ENOUGH IN MY OPINION!!!!

katiemac - 3.2 hours ago
Liz, i always pop a couple of tums and that seems to help too with the acid. Believe it or not, I was reading that mustard helps too (you would think it would make it worse)!!!

mommy2816 - 3.5 hours ago
lol nope Dominic! Aiden was defintely one of my choies though for my first son as well! Love that name!!

Liz3 - 3.5 hours ago
sorry shannon. yeah I see i messed it up.. Maalox really has helped so far!! YAY! LOL

mommy2816 - 3.5 hours ago
yeah, the placenta still hasn't moved so they scheduled the c-section for me. They will still be checking every 2 weeks to see if it moves but I wanted a date just in case it doesn't! I'm sooo Excited!!!!!

gbaby3 - 3.5 hours ago
Mommy2816- Im having my csection on 12/2 also..... Youre sons name isn't Aiden is it????

sionainne - 3.5 hours ago
@ Mommy -- That's so exciting to know exactly when you're going to meet your little one. The suspense is killing me!!!

sionainne - 3.5 hours ago
@ Liz -- ohhhh. Well hopefully this new remedy works!! PS: if it's easier for everyone, you can all just call me 'SHANNON'. That's how my name is pronounced anyway.. it's a bit of a headache to type out if you're not used to it. LOL

mommy2816 - 3.6 hours ago
Hi Ladies!! Just got back from the dr! I'm having my lil boy Dec 2nd!!! :)

Liz3 - 3.6 hours ago
sioainne- milk upsets my stomach. Thank you. Someone else said maalox. so I just ran to the pharmacy and got some.. I took the lowest dose bcuz I have never had it before..

gbaby3 - 3.8 hours ago
Were naming OUR SON Aiden... Sorry.

gbaby3 - 3.9 hours ago
Babybutlet- Were naming Aiden too!!!

Girlygirlinnc - 4 hours ago
Kelli...I saw an advertisement for that show too. I'm going to be honest with you, and I hope it doesn't offend you, but it scared the crap out of me! I would love my child no matter what, but autism is something that really does frighten me because there's just so much to it.

sionainne - 4 hours ago
Liz -- I heard that milk can be good for acid reflux. Have you tried that?

jluv - 4 hours ago
Kelli - I saw the advertisement for that show and I thought of you but I missed it.

jluv - 4.1 hours ago
Liz - I noticed that about the toilet paper AND hand soap in my bathroom as well...very funny.

Liz3 - 4.1 hours ago
What can I take for Acid reflux??? I feel like I am dying. I am hungry but water even gives it to me... help!! LOL

jluv - 4.2 hours ago
marietta - I do that in bed sometimes when I wake up or I can't sleep because of the pain. I just get on all fours and arch and de-arch(?) my back. I do find that it helps.

last night I took two tylenol before I went to bed with the hopes it would help alleviate the hip pain. What started happening to me on Friday (after my drs appt. of course) was that my right hip area started hurting really badly when I laid in bed on my side. The pain actually triggers cramps in my stomach sometimes. So last night I also tried putting a pillow under my stomach so that I could lean a little further on my stomach and to try not to put so much pressure on my hip. I did help a little bit.

Crystal907 - 4.3 hours ago
Morning ladies, heading over to 30!!!! OMG time is moving fast.

Girlygirlinnc - 4.3 hours ago
Okay ladies...went to doc today and am measuring at 34 weeks. I have to have yet another u/s next Monday (my 7th) to check my amniotic fluid levels. I may have polyhydramnios, but not sure. They didn't find anything wrong with my baby at my last u/s (3 weeks ago) when they saw my fluid levels were a bit high so I'm hoping things are still well. Happy Monday to all!

sionainne - 4.4 hours ago
Good morning ladies! I've been trying to upload my 3D pics and nursery pics but for some reason after I click 'continue' it brings me back to my profile page and nothing has been added. I'll keep trying! I'm with you all on the back problems. It doesn't matter how much I rest or how much my husband massages my back, I still wake up stiff and sore. Ohhhh the joys of pregnancy!

toni122108 - 4.5 hours ago
thanks liz

katiemac - 4.6 hours ago
good morning everyone!! Another Monday...i have the back to work blues after such a great weekend! I just posted some 3D ultrasound pics of Alex. We had them taken this past weekend.

Liz3 - 4.6 hours ago
toni- my doc office also said that they wld only call if it was bad news.. You can call and verify the results with them!

nikkil8202 - 4.7 hours ago
toni - i know my doctors only call if something is wrong. they said no news is good news.

toni122108 - 4.8 hours ago
does the doctor call you with glucose test results or do you call them. I did the test on Friday, and Im sitting here wondering if they will call me or if I should call

Liz3 - 4.8 hours ago
Kelli I missed it.. damnit.. I will try to find it.. I wld like to watch it.. YOU need to have a camera come into YOUR house for a week to see what its like. I mentioned it to Ray and he agreed.... Becuz when people who DONT live with it see it then it totally kills anything that they thought that they knew about Autism. I hate that.. sorry! I am going to try and find it so I can watch it

babybutler - 4.8 hours ago
So, my MIL is driving me crazy because she wont stop about how my son 'already looks just like daddy' and the worst part is she keeps saying how you can already tell that Aiden has her 'good chin' and her nose. Ok, am I being silly by getting very annoyed by this?? I posted the pics, what do you guys think? You know what else she did...after the sonogram on saturday she asked to take some of the photos with her. I replied 'no, I would like to put them on the computer before I give any out' because up HELLO, I just paid the $$ for these so why am I going to let you walk away with one that I dont have a copy of?? After I said no, her persistant ass asked 3 more time. Am I just being emotional???

meadow - 4.8 hours ago
Hello! I am sure it's just me, but what is the picture above? I can't figure it out? Also, I now have tendinitis in my wrist from the pregnancy. What strange things happen to us!

kellimg (spunky) - 4.9 hours ago
Liz....it wasn't due to hormones, believe me, it was due to watching a piece of crap called Autism x6!!!!! Complete GARBAGE!!!! It should be labeled as fiction....or at least with a warning stating 'if you don't parent and discipline your children with or without Autism, these are the brats and the type of life you will live as well'

I can tell you and anyone else here, I LIVE this life everyday with 4 kids on the spectrum (with just as big a range as this family has)....and MY life is nothing like this. My kids are nothing like this either. I DO NOT feel sorry for these people, nor pity their life....they are getting EXACTLY what they are putting into it. The kids I only feel sorry for as they are capable of SO MUCH MORE, but will never be able to display their abilities, due to their parents inabilites to give them the chance to succeed.

The whole thing is a pathetic piece of trash, that is so biased and discriminatory at best, at showing what Autistic children are like and capable of, and what life is really like living with them, and parenting them. NO.....THIS IS NOT HORMONES...this is one pissed of parent, who fights for her children to be seen as human beings not poor, out of control animals, and in ONE HOUR, this show totally blew apart what it has taken many of us years to help other's to understand and see in our kids and in our lives.