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Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O’Connell welcomed fraternal twin daughters Dolly Rebecca Rose O’Connell and Charlie Tamara Tulip O’Connell arrived on Sunday, December 28th in California. Lewis Kay says that everyone is fine! Dolly is named after Dolly Parton, while Charlie is assumed to be for Jerry’s brother.

The tulip/rose thing is interesting. Your thoughts?

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But telling your boss doesn't have to be scary or a horror story. Be prepared and know what to say and when. With the confidence you express, your boss will feel better and you can have peace of mind!

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Okay, it's the day we all get to sit around and make New Year's resolutions, intentions or consider changing our ways in some manner. In some years, I've been tempted to say that pregnant women are immune from the discussions of diets and exericse that tend to swirl around the first day of the new year, but I'm changing my tune. There are plenty of things that pregnant women have to look forward to in the new year and plenty that they have control over. So here are some sample New Year's Intentions for pregnancy:

• Record your pregnancy. At the beginning of your pregnancy, nine months feels like it will last forever. You believe that you have all the time in the world to take pictures of your changing body and growing belly or record your thoughts and feelings in a diary. Seize the day and start now before your pregnancy gets away from you...
• Plan ahead for how you will take care of yourself as well as baby. It's so easy to think ahead about how you will be preparing to take care of the baby. After all you are either making plans to keep the baby at home, go to daycare, bring someone to you, etc. And these decisions are important. What are you doing for you? Have you thought ahead to something you can do to take care of yourself? What exercise are you looking forward to? How will you get a few minutes each day to do something for yourself? These take more thought and effort when you're parenting a newborn.
• Remember to take your vitamins and other medications. Taking a prenatal vitamin or any medication is not something I easily remember, no matter how important it is to my health. I'm trying desperately to get this one under control - I'd love your advice.
• Eat better. Try to be specific about this one. I, for example, am pledging to add more fruits and vegetables to my diet. A pregnant friend of mine is pledging to eat ate home more often, a.k.a. less fast food. What small change can you sustain that would make your diet a healthier one?
• Exercise more. Did you really think you could get a list like this without exercise? Seriously exercise, particularly in recent years, has been shown to be so important to your health and the health of your baby, these particularly includes your weight. So make this one you start for baby and continue for life.

What makes your list? Share it with us. Want more information on resolutions and parenting? Check out the All About Parenting Blog Carnival.

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  This is a bit of a departure from my normal choice of links, as it's a discussion and some photos. But I learned something about taking pictures of pregnant women. I found it very handy and interesting - loved the photos too.

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  With tax season starting tomorrow, it's probably a good idea to get ready for it by ensuring that you have your baby's birth certificate and social security number. This includes a listing of every state's office for birth certificates.

If you have a site you'd like to submit for possible inclusion in Link Love, send it to me at: pregnancy dot guide at about.com.

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Once you've made up your mind to try and get pregnant, you're ready NOW! Unfortunately it really doesn't work that way. The menstrual cycle is complex and sensitive. Everything has to be lined up just right for the egg to meet the sperm and for that fertilized egg to land in the right spot and produce the right amount of hormones to sustain itself... you get the picture. So the first month you throw away your birth control isn't likely to be the month you get pregnant, even when everything appears to be well timed. Not to say it won't, but if it does, be pleasantly surprised.

I think part of the problem is that we live in a very birth control centered society. We're told from a very early age that if we have sex without birth control we're going to get pregnant. So when we're ready to throw away the birth control we're surprised to not be pregnant! Another part of the issue that when you're ready, you're ready. We've got fast food, urgent care, one hour dry cleaning and drive through pharmacies - why wait for anything?

The good news is that there are some things that you can do to help the process along. You can know about ovulation and how your body gets pregnant. You can actively try to determine when you ovulate and have sex appropriately. You can prepare your body for pregnancy by being healthy as well as your partner's body. These things can help you get pregnant more quickly.

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