Not Mamas... Yet Tribe, Part XVII (Winter 08/09) - Page 2

[zejh]

I'm also 31, as of my birthday!

Had an excellent Thanksgiving--cooked everything with my mom in my kitchen here, so it was me, dh, and my parents in our new apartment. (Our first year in it, I mean--the apartment is rather old, and the oven in our kitchen is around 60 years old, works great, though!)

Oh, and I finished nanowrimo! I'm a winner. Now just to write another 50,000 words so there's something of a plot...

[oiseau]

About the ultrasound pic...I'm betting my mom would put it on her fridge. Either that or just carry it around to show to people. She has pictures of her random neighbor's kids on her fridge, so I would hope my fetus would go up there too.
As for my partner's mom....tough call. She puts lots of stuff on the fridge, so it might go up there. I'm not really sure. It definitely would not go up on my dad's fridge because 1. he has nothing on his fridge, and 2. My stepmom would throw a fit. They have tons of pictures in their house of family and I think there's only 1 pic of me and 1 of my brother....and they're on a bottom shelf of a bookshelf or coffee table or something. There might be another set on my dad's desk in his office. Step-mom doesn't like us. My dad would probably keep it by his desk at work.
....this is all hypothetical though, since I'm not really sure I'd even want an ultrasound to begin with...

Emily...Where are you in the boston-ish area? I'm in Malden.

[Kyamo]

I'm not sure. My parents would be glad to get it and see it, but I'm not sure they'd put it on the fridge. I think they might feel it was kinda medical/private and not really to be displayed?
My parents-in-law have a blank fridge, but they might display it somewhere else. Again, not sure.
I wouldn't really care either way, provided of course that the pregnancy was no longer a secret.

[Jenne]

[GuavaGirl]

So, a little bit of exciting news for me......

I've really been feeling the baby fever lately. Like, to the point of crying about it, etc.
My poor DH is so confused and shocked at the power of the female maternal instinct. We had planned to wait for another year (until he's done w/school), but really if we got pregnant now, it would be fine. (we have health insurance, a spare bedroom, good health, sort of enough money) So, we had a heart to heart and by the end of the convo he said that he thought we should just start now. I was so excited! I'm gonna give him a few days to think it over, but for right now, the ball is basically in my court. As soon as I'm ready we're going to start TTC!!!!!!!

I feel excited, intimidated, joyful, and like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders!

FYI, I turned 25 in oct. & been married for 3.5 years.

( Oh! and if you want to see us in our awesome Halloween costumes, click on my name below, then scroll down to the second post. )

[knittinanny]

Guava, those are bee-utiful! : No really, you did a good job. I wish my cat would let me make her costumes. Congrats on being about ready to start TTC!

The 3 month mark is approaching for me and I'm starting to get a little nervous. I mean, besides not being sure how we're going to pay for the treatments (things will work out), I feel way more prepared to have a baby than anyone I know IRL, but I still feel like there's so much more I could do to get ready. But then again, I like to obsess about things.

[Andee]

Originally Posted by justbecca

She goes through phases where she wants to be attached to me at all times, and it can get a little difficult, so, what's a crunchy mama-wannabe to do?

THIS! http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=291p9hu&s=4

becca

That's too fantastic! I wonder if my cat would go for that. He's been really clingy since we moved.

Originally Posted by Jenne

THANKS for the new THREAD! I was getting a little tired of summer myself. Especially cause it snowed where I was this morning. Yay! Winter!

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New topic: If you were pregnant and had an ultrasound and gave a copy to your mom or your partner's mom would it get hung on the fridge? Just curious. My m-in-l didn't hang up hers up from my s-in-l and I think that is odd so I'm just polling people I know.

It started snowing here in Michigan last night too. I think we got something like 6 or 7 inches overnight and we're supposed to get more. I love how beautiful it is, but WOW it's cold!

With the ultrasound question, if I got one I think my mom would just take the picture to work and show it off. She isn't much of a "picture on the fridge" kind of woman. I don't know what my future MIL would do. After 5 years of being with my DP, I've still never met her because she lives in Florida. We keep wanting to vacation there (now would be a good time!, but it never works out with work and money.

GuavaGirl, Congratulations!! I hope for you two a short wait. Are you temping at all?

[jimblejamble]

Here I am!

Can I be switched to "TTC currently" pleeeease? :-)

[zejh]

Originally Posted by JessicaRenee

Here I am!

Can I be switched to "TTC currently" pleeeease? :-)

Oh, yeah, come to think of it I should be on "currently" too, though at this point in the year "2008" pretty much means the same thing...

[kimiij]

Originally Posted by JessicaRenee

Here I am!

Can I be switched to "TTC currently" pleeeease? :-)

Congrats! So everything has worked itself out?

[JlyGrnMigt]

regarding the info post...

iirc, GathererGirl had her baby, so can be moved to the graduates list.

I'm 29 , and I guess we're aiming for 2010. Well, after the wedding at least, and ideally timed to avoid both birth in China or an expensive flight home to avoid birth in China.

He held a baby on Thanksgiving though, which was awkward and awesome. He said he liked it! I think it's time to change my sig...

[ladyinred]

Yay new thread!::

RE: UTI Jenne - If you can get ahold of this herb called Uva Ursi (Bear berry) it's really effective. The last UTI I had got pretty bad but with uva ursi, tons of garlic (DF thought that part was hilarious and stinky) plus some cranberry juice without sugar I managed to get rid of it without anti-biotics. I was having a real string of them and the thing is the anti-biotics get rid of the good bacteria that help combat the UTI's in the first place so make sure you take tons of pro-biotics to help rebuild your natural immunity.

RE: cat sling justbecca - DF and I need to get one of these. One of our cats is so clingy with DF and just wants to be carried around all the time when he gets home from work

RE: TTC - Congrats JessicaRenee and GuavaGirl and zejh :: Wishing you lots of happy sticky baby vibes

Can I get my age changed to 27 on the intro? We're still not sure when we're going to start TTC, it seems like it's not going to be for a long time though. But the last time I got really weepy about babies DF decided that we are no longer simply DTD we are practicing to TTC with protection!

[jimblejamble]

Originally Posted by kimiij

Congrats! So everything has worked itself out?

Not completely, but we're getting there. A month ago, Chris would barely touch me and I'd kick him away. Now he gets about halfway in. YAAAAY!

[GuavaGirl]

Andee: Yeah, I actually just started temping. I re-skimmed TCOYF a couple days ago. I've been charting just AF and CM for about a year. I think taking my temp. at the same time every morning is going to be hard, because at this time in my life I don't have a very regular sleep schedule. I wonder how much it will affect the accuracy.

[oiseau]

Originally Posted by JessicaRenee

Not completely, but we're getting there. A month ago, Chris would barely touch me and I'd kick him away. Now he gets about halfway in. YAAAAY!

That's totally awesome!! I'm happy to hear that things are going so much better!!:

[Kyamo]

Wow! So many people TTC now!

I'm not TTC, but I'm having one of those times where I have myself half-convinced I might be pregnant. I'm still on the pill, so most likely not, but I have better reasons this time than some other times.

[CAndMe]

Hi all, I am crazy busy right now with finals and everything. So sorry about the delay. I'll be back at the end of the week to update everything.

[kimiij]

Originally Posted by JessicaRenee

Not completely, but we're getting there. A month ago, Chris would barely touch me and I'd kick him away. Now he gets about halfway in. YAAAAY!

That's great! : Sending you some baby dust

[jimblejamble]

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[ladyinred]

I'm trying to think of a Christmas present for a couple who have just found out they're pregnant with their first baby. I'm thinking a book since they're both book type people. Any suggestions? I'm not too sure where they're going to fit on the baby raising AP continum but they're pretty green and have some friends who are are AP but I don't want to be pushy and be like "This is what I want to do when I have a baby so you should try it too " or something like that. I'm really happy for them. They've been trying for a long while.::