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Originally Posted by Dea
 Okay.
So Adam and Trixie and I went to South California for a wedding then to San Diego to take Trixie to the zoo and Sea World. Oh my, it was hard work! But she had so much fun. When we got to the zoo I was bending over tying my shoe and she turns her head upside down to look at me and says "mama, tigers pees?" So cute! She loved the whales at the sea world, so we bought her a plush one and she runs around making it "SPLASH!" I am so in love with her. I wonder how it will be possible to love 2 kids this much. Although I trust I will, it's gonna be amazing! The babies in my DDC seem to be doing fine, yay! I go in for my 3rd tri ultrasound today to make sure that this babe is growing well and has lots of fluid. I"m a little freaked that they'll bed rest me. ACK! |
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Originally Posted by Mommy2Austin
Howdy ladies...
31 weeks and counting...*knock on wood* this is our last and I'm so ready to be done with the pregnancy part. My grandmother died on Sunday. 4 person/funeral in my family this year. I'm definitely done with death this year. Work is going well although I'm feeling the push to go on FMLA. I need to see how long I can take and make it feasible financially. I'll be 35 weeks on January first. If I take the full 12 weeks (I'm pretty sure thats it) starting then that should be plenty of time for birthing baby and having sometime after baby before going back? Its all so mind boggling... Well I need to go get showered and ready for my midwife appt. and then go to the airport and pick up my cousin. God willing DH will have the house in some semblance of order when I get home. |
You have had so many losses this year. I'm sending some special thoughts your way. May you and your family find peace.
). I'm ok with that being her favorite movie, at least Fiona can sure hold her own.
sorry mama, i hope this is only short-term!!
eta: yay homebirth!!!
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Originally Posted by Dea
Hello!
It's the 3rd and I can't find the Dec thread, and there isn't a link at the end of the Nov thread, so I hope I'm not doubling up. |
I didn't have to convert, though-- *everything* was in metric. So I used Imperial for things like the temperature outside and my own height and weight, but metric for everything else for yeeears. Eventually I stopped as part of an effort to be more "normal". It just got weird that I measured things in centimeters and kilocalories, so out the window it went. I miss you, dear metric system! 
Movers come Monday, we move into the hotel on Sunday, packing for that all weekend. Close on this house on Wed. Hopefully close on the new house before Christmas. Life is stressful, but good here right now., what a difficult year! I hope next year is extra sweet for you! Yay for good measurements and getting to go for your home birth!!
I hope the toddler troubles aren't too bad! Don't hesitate to share your troubles here, we're a loving safe place! 
: to everyone else!)
Drat. This means that once again, my brain is starting to ooze from my ears. 
I just hate having to take a pill to do something that my body should do and seems to want to do anyway. I also hate having horribly bloodshot eyes all the time, day in and day out, and not being able to eat (though I love losing weight ), and needing to look up the answers to finish a sudoku puzzle of moderate difficulty in less than half an hour. 
I feel like I'm getting all the messed up side-effects of smoking pot but without any of the warm, fuzzy, entertaining ones. Meh. I haven't been around in these threads forever but thought I'd pop in and say "hi."
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Originally Posted by Dea
Rynna,
I heart the metric system for distances and such. I do know my weight in pounds and height in inches/ feet, most Canadians do, although I can convert those in my head fast. I'm thankful that we don't use stone as a measurement, it really messes with me, although I can sort it. (I still adore you thought Helen!) |
| Also what is your diet like? Could changing it help with your sleeping? Is it a hormonal issue, or do you think too much? (I have that problem....) I agree it sucks to take meds to make your body do something it should do naturally... like get pregnant! sigh. |
| When a mama is overstimulated is it becasue she has too many ducts? Or is it because the ducts she has produce too much? If it's the latter, can I force mine to produce too much, to essentially make a normal supply? NO ONE can answer this. NO ONE. Makes me so mad that I just get *blink blink* answers. I get that everyone is different, but throw me a bone, eh? |
Can you encourage your glands to produce more milk? As I recall, you're already familiar with every trick in the book. 
With the increased ductwork, you'll have a better chance of maintaining a healthy supply for your Turducken. | So I know that in the first two weeks your supply is established, so I plan to pump and pump and pump some more, when he's not permanently latched to me. But at what point do I break down and give him a bottle or use the SNS? I do not want another baby having a seizure. And what formula do I use? Trixie has cow milk issues, should I assume this baby will too? AHHHHH! (see earlier comment about thinking too much....) |
As to formula, I've got no thoughts there either except to say that cow's milk and soy are two of the top eight allergens (and two of the foods Bear can't have) so I'm tense and paranoid about introducing them to kiddos before they're much older (like two). 
I really didn't have the opportunity to research things; By the time I was well enough to be doing research, Bear was already sick and the Neocate was already in the works. 
There are a 1000 questions I wished I could have asked you as I went through all of this. But I guess I really needed to stand on my own feet. And truly I did fine so maybe you were speaking to me in my dreams. that is a huge amount to be processing in less than one year. for new teeth and no root canals. Just one is doing my head in. I don't know how you mama's with more than one do it, seriously.
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Originally Posted by ema-adama
Today I was serisouly reconsidering plans for another child - I am not sure I am the kind of person who can have more than one child....
Just one is doing my head in. I don't know how you mama's with more than one do it, seriously. |
). Three to four wasn't a big deal at all, in fact it made a lot things easier because we could divide the kids into two equal groups. 
Sometimes it's the boys and the girls; Other times it's the older two and the younger two. Rarely do we end up grouping 1/3 and 2/4, for some reason, even though by many other random things, that's how they end up. It's all good though. Each family is different, there are no wrong answers. 
