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Hey moms-to-be and new moms! Check out this new, FREE service that sends helpful text messages just for your pregnancy or new mommy stage directly to your cell phone. Almost all cell phone carriers are partners so there are no charges to receive your texts. Get more information here

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Emotion Commotion Print E-mail
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Pregnancy is all about hormones. And hormones have crazy side effects, like making you cry over sappy commercials and empty mayonnaise jars when you need a tuna sandwich (been there, done that!), not to mention crankiness, intense disgust over the man who helped you into this pregnancy, and the general feeling that you are just losing it.Take heart, ladies, this is perfectly normal in the first trimester and sometimes beyond, to tell you the truth. So buckle up. Here's how to cope... 
 

      
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Your Body Print E-mail
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Bye, Bye Body...
 
Even though there aren’t any visible signs of pregnancy yet (unless this is your second pregnancy, when most women report showing sooner than before ) – your body has undergone a lot of changes already. A thicker uterus, surging hormones, appetite changes, shortness of breath. Check out what’s happening in your body during the first trimester…
 

      
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