I have a request for the mena mommies who are willing.............can you guys all post your baby pics here so those of us who need a smile can come in here and play peek-a-boo with the lil ones? If you don't want to that's fine and I understand but we have soooo many babies around it'd be cool to have them all have a playdate!!!

IMG]http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k135/kwoolr/zahra.jpg[/IMG] Zahra

here is our baby prince AMIR

oh prince AMIR where are you? i dont see u?

sorry i dont have a baby which means no pics.

sorry i thought i attached the pics LOL
here is the pics

here's my baby

He is ADORABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wanna cover those chubby widdle cheeks with kisses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

keep the babies comin!!

charles...it looks so much like you... adowable

hmmmmm......what was the value for pi again?

those pics are adorable

i can't wait to post our pics of our mena baby girl

YAY for all the MENA babies and the many who are still in the ovens

Ohhhh.ty for sharing everyone...so adorable....what beautiful MENA babies we have here!!!!

What an adorable bunch of mena babies!!!!!
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this is my mena baby!!!

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510... I just pooped my diaper thinking so hard about this.

If anyone has any extra MENA babies laying around, or say, maybe you had two and only wanted one........ I would love to have him or her! :

Has anyone here thought about adopting? I have wondered if there is an Islamic adoption service. I have googled it but did not find much information. Or maybe even be a foster parent for a Muslim child. If anyone knows anything about it, please send a PM.
Thanks,
Meriem

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only a few weeks to go, and baby Zanes pic will be up here!

here are my brand new 2 week old babies!!!

Babies are just sooooo cute!!

Those baby bunnies are precious, Amal!

I want a baby nowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, they are soooooooooooooooooooo cute.

Great pictures of MENA babies.

Amal if I didnt already have about a thousand cats I would probably be trying to figure out how to get one of those bunnies for myself. they are SO cute. are they doing well? what are you feeding them, some kind of bunny formula?

It's 7aram to adopt from muslim countries some won't let the orphans out of the country!!! I want to adopt too if you get any info let me know!

They are doing great. It took them a bit to get used to the idea of drinking from a dropper but now they start licking right away. They eat milk (i bought them vitamin d milk so they would get th emost nourishment from it) They ate their first piece of straw last night .. it was so cute. I just love them.

I would adopt now if husband would allow it but it is against his beliefs to adopt a child and give it ur last name.
He said if he can't have kids of his own, he doesn't need any. I see his point but maaaaan do I want children........................................................................
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in the meantime, I'll compensate with my new furry long eared babies!!! hip and hop (formerly named ron and john by my son but i just couldn't call a wabbit john)

They're not MENA babies, but I was going down memory lane today (cleaning out some drawers) and came across this picture of my mom and my kids when they were younger. This is one of my favorite pictures .


Hugs,

Ayesha

awwwwwwwwwww

Oh I the MENA babies! More pix pls!

Here's some pics of my little MENA baby Malek

*sniff* he's adorable can I have him

Amal,

He is only for rent at night!! I promise you I will give you a good deal!!

lol

ohhh they are all so sweet I love babies I want one to......

Everyone's babies are cute!

wow !! those babies are so sweet like angels

Masha Allahhhhhhhhh those babies are just adorable!!! i cant waittttt to have one!!! COME ON USCIS!!!!!!!!!!!! lol anyways may Allah bless each one of them and keep them healthy and safe AMEEEEN.



Its ok if u adopt but not give last name but its so recommended in Islam.... me n my husband r ready for it anytime... actually a few months ago in the masjid in his local area from the state he is from they had six muslim babies needing muslim families and al hamdulillah they were adopted:D everyone was sooo glad to see them having families:D

Sara...I wanted to ask you since you have cats, did your ob/gyn tell you to do anything differently in terms of the kitty litter while you were pregnant? I didn't have any cats when I was pregnant with my first two so now I'm starting to wonder if I should be wearing a mask when I scoop up the litter once I do get pregnant inshallah.

Do not scoop litter when pregnant....Dont even get close to dirty litter....It can cause severe deformation...my nurse discussed it with me at my 1st doc appt...Kitty litter...Not good!!


ps.....Baby Zane has now been changed to Zaid...Didnt any of u arab know Zane is a girls name? My hubby and I had no idea til the family laughed when they asked what we wanted to name him....lol.....Sooo Zaid it is....only a few weeks left...

congrats on baby zaid! love the name!!


speaking of names... do all of you plan to always have arabic names for the baby? or did any of you do western names also? just curious! seems like everyone goes with the arabic for the most part!

Dirty kitty litter cannot cause deformation.

What your nurse SHOULD have told you, and many are totally either uninformed or just plain stupidly spreading rumors, is that IF your cat carries TOXOPLASMA, and IF you were to contract it, then this is the disease in question in the warning of coming into contact with fecal matter (and thus the warning about kitty litter). Cats are not the sole carriers of toxoplasmosa, and most people who carry it (up to 20% of the population in Hawaii) catch it from consuming undercooked meat. Not all cats carry toxoplasmosa, and you have to ingest it to catch it. So basically, you have to touch the fecal matter then somehow injest said fecal matter if you are going with the scenario for kitty boxes. This is also assuming your cat carries toxo.

Then, once you catch it, you have a low percentage of passing it on to the fetus. You must be newly infected when pregnant. This, hopefully you are all catching on, involves a lot of low percentages and Ifs. You have (in my opinion, as long as you have a normal dislike of touching fecal matter and then touching your mouth) a better chance of catching it by touching affected fruits and vegetables that have contamination on them or eating undercooked meat. Cats catch it from eating raw infected animals and then also from the fecal matter of infected cats (you know how they are always cleaning themselves and others). if you cats are indoors, the chances of them having toxo is really low. They'd likely have to catch it from some insect or your food you fed them.

Here is the CDC fact sheet. Toxoplasmosis here is the CDC fact sheet protion for pregnancy: pregnancy and toxoplasmosis

When I was growing up, we had 3 cats with toxo. I may or may not show elevated antibodies, which is their only test for the disease-- but it doesn't prove if you have it or not, only exposure. I know several women who were flat out told by their doctor to drop their cats off at the shelter and dump them when they became pregnant. I cannot believe the incredible ignorance perpeturated in the medical community about this disease. It's amazing. It's as if they are peddling Santa and magic as real things. For as much as they claim to be based in science (which they are only partially using science in our western medicine and it, in itself, is NOT a science), they really use a lot of fear and suspicion against women-- especially pregnant women. The ammount of times they mislead women about osteoporosis, menopause, fertility, pregnancy, and especially giving birth-- it's a wonder we don't wise up and revolt. Toxo reminds me of the AIDS scare of the 80s and early 90s and all the rumors the medical community perpetuated at that point as well.

Bridget-- if your cats are indoor cats, and if you are worried, you can always test them for the toxo antibodies. If you have had these cats from before you were pregnant (and you have) then you will have likely either caught it or not by now. Believe me, unless you are immuno-compromised, it's difficult to catch it from their fecal matter as we tend to not touch it then touch our mouths-- we usually wash our hands instead.



We're doing names that work for both-- Noah, Adam, Leyna (it's Hebrew so really neither), Dalia (I want to toss an H into the english), Sarah... That kind of thing.

we'll probably do the same. leyna is very pretty!!

I have an Ortodox friend named Leyna, and I suggested it one day to him-- he liked it. he said it sounds like their word for "ours" and doesn't sound weird. I liked the Norse name Mahala, but he said it sounds too much like "store" and sounds bad. I figure if I am armed with a cariety of names, I'll look at the newborn baby and be able to see what i think fits him or her.

My husband is dead set on Adham and I hate it!!!! I told him Adam is "ok" though I really dont' like the name because of a kid I grew up with that had that name, but Adham with the H is going to confuse the heck out of everyone AND I practiced yelling it a few times like if he's outside and needs to come in and I can't say it right. When I told his sisters that I hate the name they sat me down and told me how ALL his life he's dreamt of a son named Adham because it means some white arabian strong horse or something. blech.

Yeah, it looks too much like "add ham" which wouldn't be very halal You could always tell him that-- that everyone will think that Ammar suggested Nira the other day, as a form of the word "fire" for a girl. At first I didn't like it, now I'm not sure.

Way to cool Zaid, we had that one picked out...good choice there!!!

Bridg...no kitty litter dear! Let the kids change the pan if you have one.

even if the kitty litter thing is a myth... don't tell the husbands! its an excuse not to touch the stuff for nine months!!! i love it!

For some reason Ayman was dead set against an English name for our son. We had to compromise though...I said ok, Arabic name for a son and possibly an Enlgish name for a daughter. If Malek was to be a girl his name was going to be Olivia or Rana...so we had both picked out just waiting to see what she looked like. I'm glad we chose Malek because of naming the other 4 names after his father then a commonly used English name would have just not sounded right with Ayman's name.

everytime i look at your new pic of malek it looks like he's praying

the only logic for us having an arabic boys name is when my husband and i see fellow arabic people, they will now call us Abu Zaid and Om Zaid....i think it would be kinda funny if someone was calling my hubby Abu John or something u know?

He sure is praying that daddy will come home soon and that all of these good people here will get their visas here very soon!! I love that pic, he was sleeping so sweetly which lately hasn't been the situation