What Are Freestanding Birth Centers? If you are considering having your baby at a freestanding birth center, it's important to become educated on the potential risks, know what questions to ask of the center's staff ahead of time, and determine if this birthing option truly best meets your needs.
Tess is classically short for Tessa which is short for Therese, Theresa, Teresa. I'm not that keen on the full originals but I really like Tessa and Tess. I would opt for Tessa on the birth certificate. As PP suggested it could also be Contessa and also Quintessa. Edited by Gudrun, 01 August 2010 - 11:48 PM.
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, could be a successor to todayâs Kepler mission, which is compiling a statistical view of extrasolar systems by surveying 156,000 distant stars between 600 and 3,000 light years from Earth â all of which are roughly in the direction of the constellation, Cygnus.