*~ Weekly chat thread Jan 3-9 ~* - Page 2

[anabellee]

Originally Posted by Glittergal

I'm 9+1 and finally feel like I'm starting to come out of my grog. The only thing that is worse now than a few weeks ago is the fatigue. At 4 pm every day, I seriously cannot keep my eyes open. I'm getting excited to tell people - I'm in an awkward situation where all my close friends in the US know, my cousin knows but none of my immediate family or friends here in the UK know! Talk about confusing. I typically wait until it's embarrassingly late to tell people - like 20 wks with my first and 14 wks with my second - I just feel cautious and the good part with popping during the holidays is I can cover up with sweaters and people prob think I've got some holiday chunk going on. I haven't told my parents because my mom is AWFUL when any of us tell her we are pregnant. I have no idea why because she loves our kids and she is fine after the initial outburst but I know she is going to act like my life is officially over. So it's kind of a downer that I dread telling her, ya know?

4pm seems to be when I get super tired too. I think it's because I'm on my feet all day with the boys and that's when I know dh will be home soon so I don't feel quite so bad about letting them watch TV. and no, we still haven't told anyone. just people on my blog and my work. I only told my work because I wanted to make sure it wouldn't affect me coming back (I'm not currently working but will probably start up again soon after we move). I dread what my family is going to say but I think I will be outed this weekend when we go home as I'm so sick and my face is looking really skinny

[aydensmama]

Hey there! I am also SO TIRED. My dh has this great joke..."are you sooooo tired Heather" over and over he asks. Teasing me, but in a good way. I am happy he recognizes how exhausted I am.

I really do not remember this from my other pregnancies. I can't wait until this to shall pass!

[hapi2help]

Originally Posted by aydensmama

Hey there! I am also SO TIRED. My dh has this great joke..."are you sooooo tired Heather" over and over he asks. Teasing me, but in a good way. I am happy he recognizes how exhausted I am.

I really do not remember this from my other pregnancies. I can't wait until this to shall pass!

My husband is saying the exact same thing!

I am feeling pregnant still. No cramping, no spotting, etc. Getting more tired each afternoon and hitting the hay wayyyy early each night. Nauseous at certain times.

Check out my thread here.

Hoping for a Miracle

[texaspeach]

We haven't told yet. DH has said he's sure his dad knows. We spend a lot of time with FIL and SMIL and I know they've taken note of me not drinking a mimosa on Christmas morning, champagne on NYE, and no margarita today at lunch. They have tactfully not asked, but I bet they won't be surprised when we tell them. I'm 6 and 3 today, and we'll probably tell them, and MIL and SIL, at 9 weeks exactly - if the u/s I have scheduled that day reveals a viable pregnancy. I'm going to wait until 12 weeks or after to tell my parents. I don't have a great relationship with my mom and last time she made a crass remark about me being pregnant. She was also pretty unsupportive when I had the m/c. My MIL was great through that (having had 9 m/c herself).

GenomicsGirl - There is a place near me that makes dim sum to order. It's great. I can have it breakfast, lunch or dinner! no chicken feet for me when pg though, I normally love them but right now the thought turns my stomach.

In other news, I'm considering looking for a job. I think I want to wait until after 12 weeks when hopefully : morning sickness has mostly left, but before I am showing, to start working. I don't know how hard of a time I'm going to have finding work in this economy though. We currently live frugally and have been saving a down payment for a house. DH was talking about getting a second job, but I hate to see him work so much when I'm capable. I haven't worked in over a year and have been going to college full time, but I'll be done for a while after next week.

[junipermuse]

Originally Posted by thorn

Barbara's Shredded Spoonfuls, and I think there is a Cascadian Farms one too...

I was totally going to suggest Barbara's shredded Spoonfuls as well. i think they are really yummy and taste a lot like life.

Very few people know that i'm pregnant. I told my mom right away. And I told another friend who is pregnant also, just because I really wanted to share with someone, and then my (step)father guessed and I can't lie if someone asks me straight out, but really it's still a secret for the most part. Which is weird because with dd we told everyone at 5weeks and this time I'll be eight weeks on Monday, and almost no one knows. It's not totally weird because I think we both of us feel so nervous after the miscarriage (6.5 wks) we had in Nov. I felt like it was a miracle that we made it back home and i was still pregnant. I really wanted to tell people because everyone was around because of the holidays, but at the same time I'm enjoying not having everyone know. It was hard though because we were staying with the Inlaws for 3.5 weeks and i felt exhausted and nauseous and I'm sure they just wondered why i was being so lazy and unhelpful all the time. And unfortunately because of the earlier pregnancy (which they didn't know about either) I've been like this for the last three months and this is the fourth time we've been down to visit them. They probably just think I'm acting like a real b***h.

All in all though things are going well. My nausea seems manageable. I'm eating way healthier this time than I did with dd. I haven't had any spotting (knocks on wood) yet which I had with both dd and with my last pregnancy (I'm 50/50 on it ending badly I guess). I have a doctor's appt on Monday which I'm feeling very excited about. I'm getting ready to start sewing the new babe's diaper stash. I can't wait. I just got a new serger and I have a snap press on the way! Things feel good and I'm feeling positive:

[thorn]

I am super tired today, I feel like I might be getting a cold. and DH has been off work since Christmas Eve but leaves tomorrow for 4 days in Pennsylvania! Boo I hate it when he is gone, especially for that long, and pregnant, with 2 kids, all alone.

*whines*

[maddymama]

Hi Mamas,
I'm glad everyone seems to be doing ok, even though we are all exhausted. I'm doing ok- m/s wasn't quite as bad the past few days as it had been. Anyway, we aren't telling anyone that we are pg yet, but my in-laws guessed over Xmas (no drinking). We told them we aren't telling anyone yet and asked if they could hold the news until the end of January. Guess what?!?!? I was in the food store yesterday shopping and across several of the aisles (ala Kate from Jon and Kate + 8's TRU episode), I hear "[my name]!!! Oh my Gosh! I am so excited that you are pregnant and expecting #2! A baby! How exciting!!!!" Yup, from one of my MILs best friends! And yes, we live in a small town, so, while I was too embarrased to look around, I'm sure several people I know now know. Thanks, MIL.
Hope you week goes well,
~maddymama

[Jilian]

Add me to the tired club. I am so tired, I just can't get enough sleep. I've also been having awful nightmares about the baby. The other night I had a nightmare that I delivered in the hospital and a nurse gave me a shot that gave me a 160 degree fever and they kept telling me it was ok. Then when the baby came out she was so tiny, like the size of my hand. I kept asking if she was ok and they said "She's fine, she 3 lbs 2 ozs" and I was begging them to intubate her so she could breathe but they said she did not need it.

Last night I dreamed that I gave birth at my MWs house during a cookout and the cord prolapsed right after my water broke so I tried to stuff it back in No one would help and I kept crying "my baby is going to be born still!" Then the baby turned breech and poked it body out through my abdomen so I could see the entire outline of the baby and I hugged it. Then I decided I was going to try to rip my skin open to get it out. I changed my mind and helped the baby turn back into position and did a cervical check on myself and accidentally poked my finger through the baby's soft spot. My contractions stopped and I was trying to find a way to start them again to get the baby born. The whole time I was so scared it was going to die and I could not find my MW because she was cooking food. Such a freaky dream!

[BlueMonday]

I'm tired and my brain has ceased to function. This happened last time...I lose my words (aka my vocabulary). The other night I was trying to conjure up "voyeur" during a conversation with DBF and all I could think of was "osteopath". ????

And I just posted in July DDC by mistake (I think my EDD is 7-29, so I just waltzed right in without thinking).

Good news is little to no sickness, just some dizzy spells. Pretty much the same as last time with even less food/smell sensitivity. Oddly, I've been wantonly stuffing my face for days to keep my energy up and yet the scale says I'm down a few pounds. It must be defective, I'm not a super tiny, metabolically-gifted mama.

No appointment yet, so I'm a bit freaked as I've had odd little roving pains. I know it's my uterus stretching and is probably due to the close proximity of my pregnancies, but I can't wait to hear little Rosie's heartbeat for the first time.

Oh, and we're still on a need-to-know basis with telling people. My father in particular wouldn't want to know until after the first trimester. We tried to tell DBF's family on Christmas...I had a calendar made with a picture of me pregnancy on a day at the tail end of my EDD range of normal with the caption "Rosie's birthday?????". So his mom looks through the whole thing, up until August, I swear looks at that day, looks at me and shuts the calendar. So she's either evil or stupid, but DBF is forbidden to mention it to them until they wise up. His grandmother is getting the same calendar and she's a pretty smart cookie, so maybe she'll figure it out and clue in the mom.

[wombatclay]

We told a few close friends and the members of my ICAN group (since I needed care provider ideas). I'm also exhausted and generally quesy... although I'd like to get back to our normal schedule, part of that schedule means dh will be gone from about 7am until around 7pm Mon-Fri and honestly that thought scares me. I've been falling apart almost every day this past week even with his constnt prescence and support so I'm scared about how this is going to work with him back to his regular hours. Not to mention he loves to cook so when he is on vacation he does all the cooking... but starting tomorrow I'll be taking over food again and that wont be pretty. He's making a giant lasagna tonight so that should help.

Ugh.

I've called the homebirth midwife who takes VBAC and haven't heard back yet... I'll call again tomorrow and hopefully get a meet/greet visit soon. I'm 8 weeks or so, and I'd like to have my care in place! If I need to arrange care at a distance then I want to know that sooner rather than later. I'm a very "plan ahead" sort of person, even though I'm also a big procrastinator.

Hmmmm... so far food has been evil, but I've been having some luck with the store brand of frosted miniwheats (eaten dry). And reduced fat triscuits with mozarella cheese. Other than that, it's pretty hit or miss. Egg drop soup is usually yummy, homemade pizza has worked about half the time, pasta cooked in chicken broth, oatmeal with coconut butter, and (to be completely honest) lime sorbet.

I've been drinking a lot of ginger tea, preggo tea, and hot water with honey and lemon. And hoping this whole early pregnancy ick ends soon... I remember being really sick with dd1 but not really anything with dd2.

[RoseRed]

Jilian your dream is creepy. When I was pregnant with dd I dreamed I made a breast milk pie and was very upset that no one would eat it.

Don't you love pregnancy dreams...?

[GenomicsGirl]

Jilian - that is a very weird dream!!

I'm going to call my OB tomorrow, I'll be 8 weeks exactly, and see if I can get in for an appointment. I have 3 children, but this is my 5th pregnancy - one was a molar pregnancy and I spotted for a month before they realized what was going on. I'm hoping that this pregnancy is viable - I'm hoping that tomorrow I'll get peace of mind.

[wombatclay]

I've been having wacky dreams, but mostly because DH got the first season of the Xfiles for Solstice and we've been watching 2-3 episodes every evening along with some Battlestar Galactica. So I think in my case the pregnancy hormones aren't to blame. Or at least, not entirely!

I did have a really vivid birth dream a few nights ago that freaked me out a bit when I woke up... it was so vivid I thought I'd misplaced the baby when I woke up without a babe in arms.

[GenomicsGirl]

Hey Wombat! Nice to see you - do you remember me from the June '07 DDC? What is in your avatar picture, I wonder???

[wombatclay]

Of course I remember you! I was thrilled to see you here. The June 07 mamas are making a real show in Aug 09.

And that is my happy jedi wombat baby of course! I've used that image as an avatar for, oh, ten years or so (on a variety of boards) so that individual wombat must be enjoying senior wombat-hood by now I suppose. But wasn't she a cutie?

I'm still convinced this babe is a boy, but DH and I had a total brainstorm on a girl's name this afternnon. I guess we'll see which name we'll use in a few months.

[GenomicsGirl]

Yes, a cutie, indeed

It's funny how the 'natural' family spacing is similar for some of us!

[wombatclay]

DH was saying that whenever our youngest is 18mo we need to be extra "careful". I think three will just about do it for us, but I'll admit that it'll be fun to have a 4/05 6/07 8/09 run (well, fun numerically and in terms of patterns. not sure how fun in terms of maternal sleep!)

[GenomicsGirl]

Yeah - I have an '03, '05, '07, and '09 : I love it!!!

[annettemarie]

Reopening

[texaspeach]

the weird dreams have started!

saturday night I had a dream that sarah palin (!) was 4 wheeling on my FIL's property and wouldn't leave.

Last night I was having nightmares about my upcoming u/s. In one the tech said it's twin boys! and then in the next dream there was no baby

on another sad note, I found out that another of my friends is having a miscarriage. that's 5 in a row this year with no healthy babies in between. Not including me, there are two that are pregnant right now and one of those is seriously high risk for preterm labor and on bedrest and prog shots. This is just getting absurd.