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[start anorak mode] GMT is Greenwich mean time, which is the zero time around the world. For instance east coast australian time is +10, which means 10 hours ahead of GMT, and east coast USA is -5, 5 hours behind. But for 1/2 the year, Greenwich and the rest of the UK are not on GMT, but on...

Despite you claiming that it's not a UTI, it sound like honeymoon cystitis. http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/998784819.html btw, what are you using as lubrication? Apparently most of the standard lubricants like KY are as deadly to sperm as a spermicide...

Mercury is a heavy metal. It's in sea water because of industrial pollution, so fish absorb it. It is never flushed from the body, so sea creatures that live a long time, like tuna, shark, whales etc get a higher concentration of it in their flesh as the get bigger. Shark - very popular in...

Most of the women come here to share experiences, question, fears, expectations, research - maybe even to make friends. You seem to come here to ask strange questions that can't benefit you in any way.

London and on BST (London is at least an hour ahead of the counties it seems :-) )

Google is your friend. From http://www.ovulation-calculator.com/pre-seed.htm As to why they die at all, think about it. Sperm swim, that uses energy. As they don't eat (bizarre idea!) eventually the energy they have will run out, and they will die. Also all cells have a biological clock...

Sami, I just googled this for you. It could be nothing to worry about, but it could be preeclampsia. Contact your midwife, GP or NHS direct ASAP. http://www.baby-parenting.com/pregnancy ... l#headache (I should be BD, but waiting for OH)

Don't sue him, take him to the employment tribunal. A friend who did this (unfair dismissal - not pregnancy related) got £30,000

The tests detect levels of hormone in your blood. i don't think blood would effect it. Afterall, they look for the same hormone in blood tests.

Could be an implantation bleed. Grab some cheap pregnancy tests online (eg http://babymad.co.uk or http://simplyfertility.com/ ) and find out.

I had the opposite dream last month. I had been trying to interpret every little thing as a sign (mild constipation, mild mood swings etc etc), but then one night I had a very brief dream that AF arrived. The next day, the thought popped into my head from my subconscious: "If I was pregnant...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/thisweek ... 89,00.html

I saw on another forum a women who had named her recent baby "Maladie". Doesn't she own a dictionary?

I'm afraid Kieren has left us http://pregnancyforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1622 Faye, you might try sending him a private message, as career advice is not the same as medical advice.

C - Chow Yun-Fat