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Hi i'm 18 and 38 weeks pregnant :) welcome to the site! I'm glad your mom took it okay, and I think olivia is a beautiful name! I too am having a girl and considured that name :)

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Hey! Congrats on the pregnancy, hope everything is going well. I love the name. I'm ka. 15, got a 13month old babygirl named kaila. How are you?

Hey my name is carrie, I am 16 and have a son (dylan) who is now 4 days old, he was a preemie but is now doing very well...

Good to meet you, (olivia was one of my fave names for a girl, then I had dil) :)

It was great to hear from all of you. My mom was like, "olivia charlotte? Where did you get that?" she was surprised it was so tame and elegant. I think she thought I was going to name her something that she couldn't ever be taken seriously as, like karmen elektra or something. I've always loved traditional names, although all my choices were from tv shows, which my friends found funny. Olivia is from "law & order: svu" and charlotte is from "sex and the city". The other names I tossed around were "abigail susan" or "susan abigail", both names coming from "er", and "alexandra catherine", alexandra being from "law & order: svu" and catherine being from "csi: crime scene investigation". My bff was born when her mother was my age, and the poor girl's name is tulip delilah. She hates it, and her mother realizes the mistake she made, and now she's in the process of legally changing it to amanda christine, which her mother suggested.
How have your schools reacted to your pregnancies? Mine is actually being great about it, and they're going to let me bring olivia to classes and stuff with me, and our school has a child development class which runs a fully-operational day care center, so for $75 a month I will also be able to drop her off there at the beginning of the day if I have, like a test or something.

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Good lord, woman, you're gonna be busy this year! Lol. Your kids are cutie pies, and congrats on having two healthy little beauties!

Hey welcome, im 22 with a daughter and son elisas 19 months and camerons almost 3 weeks old I love having both but it incredibly hard. ~rachel~ summer is going to be a looker when she gets older lol u have trouble in ur hands lol!!

Btw I love the name olivia

Olivia charlotte is a beautiful name! And livvy is an adorable nickname.

I also love law and order:svu and have elliot on my list of boy names (i have a wicked big crush on stabler).

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I've got them, but the computer is about as technological as I get. I don't have any way to upload them onto the computer, which sucks. I'm always afraid something will happen to them and I won't have any record of them. I don't have a digital camera, either, or else i'd just take pictures of them and upload. I was going to buy one, but then I found out I was pregnant and I blew $300 on frilly little pink outfits. So, i'm camera-less, too.
I'm a little worried, though, because i'm 27 weeks today, and liv's not moving that much. I know I really don't start kick counting til 28 weeks, but should I be worried? I called my .O.B, but she wasn't there, and the person who answered the phone was singularly unhelpful. Am I just paranoid, or are my concerns valid?

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Good news, everyone! My .O.B called back, and said she checked the list of medications i’m currently on. One of them is a muscle relaxant for a shoulder injury that I got when I was 14. I push a 70-lb marimba (like a xylophone) every day after school for marching band, and in my freshman year I tore one of the muscles in my shoulder. It didn’t heal right, so the muscle has been incredibly tight ever since. Well, aforementioned muscle relaxant has been causing olivia to be extremely relaxed, which explains why she really hasn’t moved much. I’m not going to take the med again til the end of my pregnancy, which may mean unhappiness for my shoulder, but I won’t have any more “why isn’t she moving?” moments. I also tried the s’more thing, and I had eaten three of them before I got a really nice kick in the ribs. Jeeze, who ever thought i’d be glad to have the wind knocked out of me? I also took your advice, rachel, and so now i'm sitting here with my ipod playing the soundtrack from rent with the headphones around my stomach. I've always been obsessed with showtunes and broadway, and I am guaranteeing that liv will be, too.

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She doesn't kick all that hard, but evidently there's a nerve there (my mom's a nurse practitioner, so I ask her about stuff), and olivia knows exactly where to hit. It's ummm...Fun...Yeah.
Cravings are fun, too. I have hated pistachios for my entire life, but the hardest hitting craving i've had is for pistachio ice cream. It's green and disgusting looking but I can't get enough of it. The worst food-related thing is that i've had to give up nuts because of the whole "baby might end up allergic to nuts" if I eat them while i'm pregnant. Pre-pregnancy, I lived on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. So much for that!
Music wise, olivia is like me, probably because I control what she listens to. That, and I sing at the top of my lungs, so she can hear me. Not that I didn't always sing at the top of my lungs. Now I just have a purpose. L.O.L. She started to move a lot when I had .R.E.N.T playing, and then I switched to the phantom of the opera, and she wasn't moving as much.
I'm going to go now. Today and all of my paranoia has taken a lot out of me.
~nat and liv

Hi my name is ashlee and i'm 13 and due june 29th with a baby girl :) what is your due date? We are thinking of the name teagen sofia.

May 31st. At least that's what my .O.B tells me, but I don't always trust her. She's really nice and I love her, but she's kind of scatterbrained. I mean, not taking me of my muscle relaxant until my baby wasn't moving? That's a little suspicious, if you ask me.
~nat (olivia's asleep, I think)

My doctor is a little scatterbrained sometimes, but I love her. She is hilarious. She is from poland and she just cracks me up. She calls me pumpkin and when we are listening to the heartbeat and all that she always calls my son little pumpkin. It's great. Lol.

Lol thats to cute! My doctor had a nurse practitioner that checked the heartbeat and she was creole good luck tryign to understand a word she said! After my c-section she was showing me the incision and I was like I cant see it and she like cuz the doc did such a good job and it took me like 10 min to explain no I really cantsee it your holding the mirror to high!