Paula -- that detox bath thing sounds interesting, and kinda gross! You guys have all these different therapies that you're doing that I've never heard of. I've been to the chiropractor today, that's about as far out as I've gotten! Sorry to here you and your mom had a dust; some moms can be good at ruining a person's day (or week or month in my case...).

I know what you mean about being over work, Rozzie. I have my "personal development" talk with my boss on Friday, and I have no idea what I'm going to say. You're supposed to talk about what you want to do in the coming year, what you want to work with, what you want to do better or learn etc. I'm feeling just kind of like "I barely belonged here to begin with, and I so don't give a crap." :P I think he might actually understand if I say that my vocational development hasn't exactly been on my mind, though. What do I plan on doing next year? Being on maternity leave! :P

DD - wow, good job about that party. It can't have been easy to be sitting near a girl would was 32 weeks. I wouldn't have faulted you if you hadn't been able to stay! When we had a good friend's wedding in June, we made sure I had a "way out" in case I felt the need to leave. The fact that it was a social party was bad enough -- I'm normally crowd-shy and after the miscarriage it escalated to actual severe panic-fear of other people -- but one of my best friends, 37 weeks pregnant at the time, was there as well. I eventually ended up using the way out (our non-drinking Buddhist friend who rode down with us said "Screw the overnight, it's time for Lori to go home," heh) because I just kept going away from the party to hide and cry. So anyway, what I'm saying is, I think it's nothing to sneeze at that you were able to enjoy yourself at the party!

Lan -- it's definitely right that there will never be a "perfect" time to TTC or be pregnant. I think your homeopath is right, that it's important that you give it all you've got now -- you've been working so hard to get here! I know it's going to be rough, but coming out on the other side of that roughness feels awesome -- I feel like I already have!

Helen -- I'll be happy to say "Don't be silly!" if you'll actually allow that. Of course, I don't actually think you ARE silly, as I know how the thinking process works and that it's easy to worry about anything. But that's why it's good that we all have each other -- we're super good at worrying ourselves about things we know are nothing to worry about. I agree with everyone else -- NOTHING wrong with going in to get it checked out to ease your mind, but I bet everything is just fine and that it's still too early for you to feel anything strong yet.

Sue -- yeah, I have also heard about that study that said 1-2 glasses of wine a week or something like that was shown to have a good effect on the pregnancy (was it a British study?). I don't drink much, and to be perfectly honest, when I do, it's intentionally to get a buzz, since I HATE the taste, so I'm not suffering from the total abstinence thing. But what I'm missing right now is Gl?gg -- it's a spiced, warm wine they drink here in Sweden during Christmas season. You put raisins and blanched almonds in it and drink it with ginger snap cookies. The most popular gl?gg brand puts out a special flavor every year, and this year it's blueberry! I thought, damn, it can't be THAT bad, as it's only 10% alcohol and you have a very small glass and it's even cooked up and boiled, for crying out loud, but darned if the midwife didn't say no no no! And it would be no fun hiding in a corner drinking a cup of gl?gg all by myself, as that's what I'd have to do in order to not have people go "OMG, you can't have that!"

Wonderful pictures, Katie! Anna is so beautiful (and so are you)!