An ectopic still has rising HCG. See my post above, you may have had an implantation that wasn't viable, or if you are pregnant you may have implanted late and your HCG isn't high enough for the HPT - if you look online, and search for HPT HCG level sensitivity, maybe buy a brand with a higher sensitivity (lower HCG required), or wait it out another week if you're not ready to go get a blood test done.

It could be a false negative, or that you did have an implantation but the pregnancy wasn't viable and your HCG levels have fallen below the HPT detection threshold for the brand you used. If it's the latter, your period will start in a day or two; the former, your symptoms will continue and a test at a later date will confirm a positive pregnancy test.

Well a single person could get a studio, or a small 1-bedroom. The above scenario is based on a 2-bedroom apartment, which is probably much more than a single person needs.

They're on Audible - I have them downloaded on my phone and we listen in the car while we're out and about. I have through volume 10 (I just looked). Each volume is a separate download.

40 hours x 7.25 = $290 x 52 = $15,080 / 12 months = $1,256.66 FICA = 5.45% = 68.49 Federal income tax wouldn't need to be paid. State tax (here) wouldn't need to be paid. In both, total income is too low to pay the taxes. So, they're left with $1188.77 A 2-bedroom, 1-bath apartment here goes for $695 with utilities. Could it be done? Yes. But it wouldn't be easy at all with only $493.77 left after paying rent and utilities. But, they would qualify for housing vouchers, food stamps, free school lunches, etc. too, so maybe it is possible here?

I think it comes down to is he ready for 4th grade work as he's nearing the end of 3rd grade work? Cut-off dates vary widely across the US, some as late as turning 5 before December, others turning 5 before end of June for a K start that year. My DS is a young second grader. In our school district, with cut-off dates what they are, he'd be first grade. I don't homeschool by what our district policy is, I homeschool where my child is...and he's all over the place, mostly second, but some first, and some third grade things. I think that's fine. He'll be 17 when he graduates high school, but will turn 18 before he heads off to college (unless he graduates early, which is a possibility too). Basically, what is working for your child? Would he know you're holding him back? Are you holding him back for you or for him in the now, not the future, but the now?

Anaphylaxis can include an increased heart rate, drop in blood pressure, weakness, plus a bunch of other symptoms like hives, breathing difficulty, etc.

With DS we had a bunch of warning signs before connecting the dots to realize it was an allergic reaction to fish. The first we remember was on a fishing trip, he got hives around his face that swelled his eyes almost shut - DH thought he'd touched the fish cleaning station and came in contact with a bacteria known to cause skin problems and hives. It was that, or perhaps some environmental allergen since DH has allergies to trees, pollen and grasses. We didn't think it was the fish he touched while his photo was being taken with DH. Other warning signs we didn't connect were a couple of episodes where he puked - we thought tummy bug since his episodes were not immediately after eating fish or us eating fish near him. He'd also sporadically get hives/rashes that itched, but there were always a bunch of other things it might be, usually environmental (like grass or pollen) that we didn't pinpoint it for a couple of years. What prompted our trip to the allergist was his reaction in a restaurant....an almost immediate projectile vomiting upon eating a very small sample of my fish, swelling of his eyes and mouth and body hives all over. Apparently, in time, allergies get worse, so minor reactions in time become worse with each exposure. We had a full panel done with the allergist and it showed that he's highly allergic to fish, all fish, even airborne particles. He has an epipen since the allergist said his reaction is multi-systemic, so he could become anaphylatic and have his breathing impaired with another exposure. Thankfully since we found out what it is that he is allergic to, we've been able to avoid exposure and he's not had another reaction since. We avoid eating in open air kitchen restaurants, avoid fish & asian restaurants, make sure that when we do eat in places where cross-contamination is possible that we're clear about the allergy, and no longer consume fish in our home. Family members know of the allergy and if we're visiting they're great about not serving fish too. We've also provided family with a list of ingredients that contain fish that one doesn't usually think "fish" when using, like Worcestershire sauce, and when eating at friends, I usually ask about ingredients in foods that often contain ingredients that might have fish in them for DS to avoid if they're used.

I'd love to go, but will have both kids with me and no one to watch them, so I need to say I can't go!

Since I see you have a little, you might want to consider a good combo stroller that can hold a second seat too. I didn't need a second seat since the age difference was big between my two, but the Britax B-ready stroller is AWESOME.....love the baby car seat (Chaparone) since it's longer than others, so DS1 still fits nicely in it facing the rear (he's at 92nd for height for age, so he's tall)....and it snaps into the frame so I don't have to move him to the stroller, I just move the seat to the frame. I didn't know it when I bought it, but the stroller frame also accommodates a second seat on the back if needed. I love, love, love this stroller....lightweight, easy to fold and go, and the seat is great, or you can just snap the car seat in instead. Other must haves, for me, a good supply of onsies (I like the ones that snap in the front), cotton swaddle blankets, baby bags (gowns), a boppy for nursing, and a bouncy seat.

For what it's worth, I'm the one who will not subject my children to the potential pat-down with TSA, nor will I consent to their being sent through the back-scatter scanners, so we drive wherever we're going, and often it's thousands of miles clocked to and from wherever we're going. Not flying does not equal not traveling. DH doesn't agree with my position, but he respects it and does not try to convince me to fly. We've actually found a nice compromise too - since he doesn't have the time off to drive with us on long-distance vacations, he'll fly in the day we're arriving and fly home after I drop him at the airport and we start heading home. My older DS loves road trips and really enjoys them. Before the TSA changes, he flew a lot, and doesn't know why we're not flying now - he just knows he loves the road trips we make. Our 1 year old is great in the car too. I don't drive more than 2-3 hours in any given clip, making sure we stop to have fun, explore and see things. I plan extensively so that our road trips are filled with tons of fun and lots of learning opportunities - much more than we'd ever be able to do if we flew. In May we have our longest road trip to date planned, going in a huge loop from where we live through the southwest, up through CA & OR, then back home across the northwestern states. All total, I'll drive more than 5,000 miles over a month (35 days) - but to me it's totally worth it. The OP's husband has offered a compromise, travel by train, I don't see anything wrong with that if she's willing to travel by train.

Practice (not pressure) is what helped DS here. He's 7 (and 9 months) now and his reading really has improved only in the last few months. When we started this year he was sounding out every.word.slowly and now reads much more fluently. Lots and lots of practice. Then some more practice.

We're listening to the audio books for this in the car when we're out and about these days as the introduction to US History. DS likes it, just as he likes listening to SOTW. I have the books too, but will use those when he's older - right now we're just listening to them.

We do year-round, July 1 to June 30, and take breaks as they're needed or DH's schedule works out. In the last year we've taken breaks for DS's summer camps, a conference we attended with DH, Thanksgiving, Christmas, when MIL was dying, and now and then a few days here and there when we just needed a break from things. We have a one month road trip coming up in May also, which before we leave, I'd like to have everything planned wrapped up. When we take breaks, we still do reading everyday; that's something that is never set aside, at least not yet. This coming school year, we have breaks in the summer for camps (3 weeks), a break in September for vacation, another in December for vacation, then in February 2013 and May 2013. Those are the only breaks have built into our schedule, but we'll take more days off, sometimes a week, around holidays too. I've found that taking more than a week off really makes it harder to get back on track, so we try not to stop everything for more than a week.

We school year-round, but I do have a goal to finish some things before June 30th (when our school year technically ends since we track hours July 1 to June 30). Right now we're going to finish really early, like mid-May. We won't take a break through July 2 (our start date for the next school year), but will take a couple of weeks and then just pick up where we left off with the next thing since we will have completed what I planned out last year.

You can't get online without wireless (WiFi) internet access; if it's not password protected WiFi access, your dc will be able to get online without your knowing. Be careful with iPod passwords. DS added one to mine, that he used, and then he forgot it.....too many attempts and the iPod was rendered useless until I reset it completely and then had to reinstall everything again! So far as getting online with it - DS doesn't know how to, we don't have WiFi in our house, so he can't get online here.....when we're out and about, he doesn't have it with him, so doesn't get on there. When he wants to add a game to it, he needs to ask me to do it since he doesn't know my Apple password.

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I chose two - all at once, then weekly. What I do is lay out the year, by subject. Within each subject I lay out what needs to be done, reading to include, etc. from start to finish. I look for and note various documentaries, audio books and other media to include where appropriate also. Where a field trip is appropriate, I'll note that too. I do this by subject, rather than month or week, since it leaves the plans open and flexible, so that if we're moving faster in one subject and slower in another, I haven't set up things where just moving along becomes a problem. On a weekly basis, I will lay out our coming week with a bit more than I think we can finish. That's usually on a single sheet, day-by-day, with all lessons to do in the various subjects for the week. That I print and keep with my record book so I can record what we got done as we go along in the week. At the end of the week anything we didn't finish is added onto the next week, then more from the main year-long document rounds out the week. I do this week by week and coming up on the end of our year, we're usually done earlier than I planned. This year I had our end-date target to be June 15, to give DS a couple of weeks off before we start up again on July 2. Right now it looks like we'll be done with everything planned around May 11. Rather than stop and wait, we're going to be going away on a big roadtrip vacation, so we'll continue with basics like reading and math, and then when we're back I'll give DS a couple of weeks off as planned and continue along where we left off and do our light schedule for the summer months. Since we're going to be ending earlier than I planned, I'm now working on next year's schedule since I will need something ready in mid-June.

One of the boys in DS's scout den is a SAHD...the *carp* others say to him is amazing and crazy at the same time. His wife and he are both well educated and she being a surgeon makes more than he does as a chemical engineer....they wanted a parent home, so he said he'd do it since he liked his work but didn't love it and she loves what she does. I just don't get why it's okay for a woman, but not a man?

Occasionally I'll add in some protein powder if we're doing shakes - I use whey protein or egg protein as the powder base. If you want to use something other than powder, there's always plain or vanilla yogurt too that has quality protein, fat and some carbs.

This year I wound up hiring someone to come in 2-to-3 hours a day, M-F (10-15 hours a week), to keep my 1-year old doing something while I do lessons and seat work with DS7; we also do reading time together when DS1 takes his afternoon nap. DS7 also does well with later in the evening time if we need to finish something up after DH gets home and can watch the baby.

Around here it's $8-10, depending on number of kids someone is watching. I have two, so we pay $10 an hour.

OPGTR didn't work so well here either. I switched DS to A Beka's A Handbook for Reading and used the workbook and readers that go with it. Worked wonders for DS, who went from (at just turned 7) struggling with sounding out words, to reading strongly and is now above grade level (at 7y8m).

Vegetables are rich with vitamins and calcium - there's comparable levels of calcium in many vegetables. For example, spinach (cooked) has 245mg of calcium per cup....a cup of whole milk has 276mg of calcium. Some vegetables are much lower, but they all do add up throughout the day. Even meats and fish have some calcium in them too! Ask yourself this...how do populations that don't consume dairy get calcium? Most do it with their meats and vegetables, not supplements. I'm not suggesting that you don't consider a supplement - doing that would really depend on what your child eats - just saying that a good diet does provide a full spectrum of vitamins and minerals.

I spend about $600 a month on groceries, HBA, toiletries (including diapers and wipes) and cleaning supplies. Seattle would require $770 for the same due to its COL due to its COL being 17% higher for groceries.