Wisconsin Place seems to be it. Thanks! We will be checking it out next week. It sounds like my toddler will have a ball.

I just heard about an indoor gym/play area in the Friendship Heights area, but not much more than that, other than there is apparently an $18 annual (or more likely, monthly) fee to use it.

I'm afraid I am getting this information third-hand, so I don't have any other information. And Google is failing me. Help?

Edit: Ah, it seems my Google-fu is better than I thought. Perhaps Wisconsin Place Community Center is it? Still, the MoCo parks and rec site has very little info other than it opened in September and has a play area. Have any of you been there? Can you provide more details?

All of the daycares I toured said they recommended a transition of 2-3 days, but at this age, they say it's more for the parents' benefit than the infant's. Good luck!

Point taken. Sorry!

Like the worst menstrual cramps of your life. Believe me, you'll know.

And good luck!

Hela Spa is charging something like $300, fyi.

The Breastfeeding Center on K St. (http://www.breastfeedingcenter.org/) has classes and charges $85 for the three sessions.

You have all taken a load off my mind. Thank you. Blame first-time jitters!

I love how some of you just went about your day - especially PP's mother. That is too funny.

I do remember back in high school, seeing a bunch of teachers gathered around a very pregnant colleague of theirs. They all seemed in high spirits and had just raised a coffee toast. I asked what was going on. "Oh, we're having a labor party for Mrs. A," one said. She had been in labor all day. Shortly after, she called her husband, he picked her up and drove her to the hospital, and a couple of hours later, they had a baby boy.

I want it to be so easy...

I've heard of a couple of cases. The worst was my husband's cousin, who was so upset he had flowers he'd ordered delivered to another room.

Astonishingly, he and his wife are still married.

It didn't take him long to come around, though. She's definitely Daddy' girl.

- told it's a boy, but happy either way.

I'm due to deliver my first kid in mid-May, and I plan to keep working until my due date. I'm paranoid that I'll go into labor at work. I would love to hear your stories about your first contractions, water breaking, etc., and how your colleagues handled everything, or if they even knew what was going on.

I work in radio, and one of my former colleagues felt her first contraction while she was anchoring a newscast. I'm hoping that doesn't happen!