CONGRATULATIONS! You got your positive pregnancy test and now you’re looking forward to the next nine months wondering and dreaming about the future. Will your little one be a boy or a girl and what will you name them? Them? What if its twins… or triplets? Will they be healthy? Where will you deliver? How will you deliver? So many questions, so many choices; how will you decide? Perhaps only one other event in your life had as much planning as your pregnancy will have… your wedding. Just like your wedding, you’re preparing to add another being to your life; unlike your wedding… this being is going to be depending on you for the foreseeable future.

Month 2: Eyes, ears and facial features are forming. Cartilage, skin and muscles are starting to shape your little one’s body. The umbilical cord has formed. Fingers, toes and fingernails are forming. Stomach, liver, and kidneys are developing. Your baby is now just about 1 inch in length and weighs less than an ounce.

Week 5

Your baby is changing from a hollow cluster of cells to a long narrow form, similar to a tadpole.

Week 6

By this week your baby is about half as large as a grape. Internal organs are continueing to form.

Week 7

Your placenta is starting to form, this will nourish and support your little one with all the nutrients and oxygen they will need to grow big and strong until they are in your arms.

Week 8

Your baby has eyes, but cannot open them just yet. His arms and legs are forming and can bend at the elbow and knee. Fingers and toes are forming.

Choice

Where do babies come from? Don't bother asking adults. They lie like pigs. However, diligent independent research and hours of playground consultation have yielded fruitful, if tentative, results. There are several theories. Near as we can figure out, it has something to do with acting ridiculous in the dark. We believe it is similar to dogs when they act peculiar and ride each other. This is called "making love". Careful study of popular song lyrics, advertising catch-lines, TV sitcoms, movies, and T-Shirt inscriptions offers us significant clues as to its nature. Apparently it makes grown-ups insipid and insane. Some graffiti was once observed that said 'sex is good'. All available evidence, however, points to the contrary.
~Matt Groening (Creator of 'The Simpsons')

Melissa

Melissa is a 35 year old Army wife to her deployed husband, and the mother of three girls. Two are toddlers and the third is a teen, lending to her bouts of insanty. Melissa and her husband Tom are still deciding whether or not they will have "one more" while Melissa tries to figure out how to convince Tom that homebirth is a good thing.