May's Magnificently Marvelous DDC Roster - Page 9

[samstress]

Originally Posted by tzs

i think when i first posted i had no clue of my due date. we can go with the dr.'s date of may 28th.
btw....why are we keeping track of due dates? do we get a prize if we come the closest???

i moved you from mid-may to the 28th.

sadly, no prizes. due dates are just the obviously way to organize our members. also, once may rolls around, it will give us a general idea of who's next up to deliver.

[sh0rtchica]

-Name: Lisa
-Age: 27
-EDD: early May
-Location: DC metro/VA
-1st child/2nd/3rd...: 2nd
-Family: DH
-Baby's gender: no clue, and I don't want to know! i love surprises
-Names: ?
-Birth plans/preferences: HBAC w/ midwife
-Absolutely anything else under the sun: nada for the moment

[crazyms]

I hope it's okay that I jump in here! I joined the April DDC because I found out before this DDC ever opened up and I figure I'll go in April anyways but since my due date is actually in May and the doc has bumped it back on me I figured I'd join in. So here's my info:

-Name: Brittney
-Age: 24
-EDD: early May (My calculations are May 1st; doc & us said May 6)
-Location: the south (currently in LA)
-1st child/2nd/3rd...: 3rd
-Family: DH, DD and DS
-Baby's gender: don't know yet but I think boy and the heartrate sounded like a boy to me!
-Names: ? We're tossing a few around but nothing certain yet
-Birth plans/preferences: Looks like I'll be going UP/UC
-Absolutely anything else under the sun: I'm really excited about this baby! It was a surprise but I think the timing is great. I'd originally wanted 2 - 2 yrs apart then wait until they were about 4 & 6 and have 2 more but we decided to stop at 2 and rethink it later. This surprise baby will be born and DD and DS will turn 4 & 6 shortly after. My plan worked! When will dh realize I'm always right?

[jenofur]

-Name: Jenna
-Age: 34
-EDD: May 14th
-Location: New Jersey
-1st child/2nd/3rd...: 2nd 
-Family: Husband, married 3 1/2 years but together about 16 years, Daughter (3 years), 2 cats
-Baby's gender: ? should be finding out 2 days before Christmas
-Names: no way!
-Birth plans/preferences:  no set plans yet. 
 

[reelgeek]

-Name: Erin
-Age: 33
-EDD: May 12th
-Location: San Francisco
-1st child/2nd/3rd...: 1st sticky one
-Family: Husband Dustin, 17 year old cat 'Meow Meow Meow'
-Baby's gender: Don't know yet
-Names: Agent Caton 'Something' Diaz
-Birth plans/preferences: Birthing center at the hospital
-Absolutely anything else under the sun: I'm a product manager in technology, a photographer part-time (going to be full-time after the baby is born), a food nerd & generally crafty person. :)

[samstress]

erin-

 to mdc and to our ddc.  so glad you found us.

-sam

[ryleeee]

can i be moved to may 26? 

the later the better!!!

[anonyma]

-Name: Nonny
-Age: 36
-EDD: June 2nd (I'm straddling two DDCs)
-Location: Pittsburgh, PA
-1st child/2nd/3rd...: 1st AND 2nd - I'm having twins!
-Family: Partner of 16 years, three cats, one dog.
-Baby's gender: We're thinking about waiting for the birth.
-Names: Still under discussion
-Birth plans/preferences:  No set plans as of right now.

-Absolutely anything else under the sun: I'm terrible with introductions.  After years of IF and loss, it's kind of unreal to be edging into the 2nd trimester with 2 babies.

[samstress]

Originally Posted by ryleeee 

can i be moved to may 26? 

the later the better!!!

why, of course.

Originally Posted by anonyma 

-1st child/2nd/3rd...: 1st AND 2nd - I'm having twins!
 

welcome and congrats!  how exciting, i do believe you're our first mama having twins.

[beckyand3littlemonsters]

I'm 28 now

[elonwy]

Ah yes, details. I am 33 now :)

[ryleeee]

thanks!!

[yosemiteroses]

-yosemiteroses

-27

-end of may

-michigan

-#2

-husband, daughter, a dog, and two cats

-i'm not sure about the gender

-still thinking

-i would love to have a home water birth, but currently live in an apartment, so it makes me kind of anxious even thinking about it, i mean what if the cops show up to issue a noise violation? and sadly there are no midwives or doulas in a 45 min radius from where i live. has anyone ever convinced a hospital to let them bring their own birthing pool??? would also love birthing outdoors

-have had much less morning sickness with this pregnancy. am very excited and nervous considering my daughter is 9 months right now!!! seems so soon!!! but we feel very blessed:)

[Sarah715]

-Name: Sarah
-Age: 28
-EDD: May 22
-Location: Wiesbaden, Germany
-1st child/2nd/3rd...: 1st
-Family: husband, 1 cat
-Baby's gender: will know in a month!
-Names: Esther, Asher, Espen
-Birth plans/preferences: hoping for natural birth in hospital with a midwife.
-Absolutely anything else under the sun: working on knitting baby blankets, but it's slow-going!

[ryleeee]

Originally Posted by yosemiteroses 

-yosemiteroses

-27

-end of may

-michigan

-#2

-husband, daughter, a dog, and two cats

-i'm not sure about the gender

-still thinking

-i would love to have a home water birth, but currently live in an apartment, so it makes me kind of anxious even thinking about it, i mean what if the cops show up to issue a noise violation? and sadly there are no midwives or doulas in a 45 min radius from where i live. has anyone ever convinced a hospital to let them bring their own birthing pool??? would also love birthing outdoors

-have had much less morning sickness with this pregnancy. am very excited and nervous considering my daughter is 9 months right now!!! seems so soon!!! but we feel very blessed:)

Actually, my friend convinced her doctor to let her bring hers! She merely stated she wanted a home water birth and he told her he couldn't go to her house because of his obligations to being at the hospital, but offered to let her bring it in! I'm so stoked for her! 

[MamaMina]

-Name: Mina
-Age: 28
-EDD: May 19
-Location: Portland, OR
-1st child/2nd/3rd...: 1st
-Family: Husband and two kitties
-Baby's gender: Happy either way
-Names: still working on it
-Birth plans/preferences: Started out planning for a hospital birth with a CNM, now we are beginning to consider homebirth.
 

[DaisyMay]

Name - Fern

Age - 30

EDD - May 21-25 ish

Location - Aberdeen, Scotland

!st/2nd/3rd - this will be my 3rd

family - Husband, 4yr old son and nearly 2 yr old daughter

gender - we were shooting for a girl so it will be interesting to see if there's any truth in the methods we were (somewhat halfheartedly) experimenting with - we don't really mind either way.  We won't find out this time until the birth, although we did with the last two. 

names - we don't decide till after birth but some we're kicking around are Summer, Heidi, Zena, Isis, Anya, Isla for a girl and Xander, Theo, Leo, Rafa for a boy.

Birth plans/preferences - have homebirthed with the last two so will probably go the same way though have not decided for sure yet - had more complications early on with this one (subchorionic [sp?] hematoma) but hopefully that will have cleared up by then?

[gummibears]

-Name: Jennifer
-Age: 33
-EDD: May 11, but given baby's size they said May 5 last apt, but it's not been officially changed.
-Location: Somewhere in Wisconsin
-1st child/2nd/3rd...: Second
-Family: DH Clint, DS Gideon, fishies, frog, hamster - shadow, mourning dove - Serenity (he was a wild orphan that we raised)
-Baby's gender: We think a girl. Heartbeats: 11 weeks: 150, 12 weeks: 150, 15 weeks: 160. DH dreamed it was a girl, early and big - before we knew it's big, heartbeat sped up a lot, and it's measuring a week ahead. DS dreams it's a girl and is sure he's got his sister he wanted.
-Names: Girl sticks from 8 years ago. Boy... hoping not to have to come up with one as we have really hard times with boy names.
-Birth plans/preferences: None other than as little intervention as possible. No rushing with medicines unless my or baby's life in danger. Aiming for a midwife attended hospital birth. Will see if I can get into her in January when I'm done with my current HCP
-Absolutely anything else under the sun: Excited to be at/near the movement period of the pregnancy. Been really feeling pretty good. I keep saying I don't really feel pregnant, just tired, lol.Can't wait to know gender for sure so we can buy clothes! I've noticed there's very little gender neutral choices out there, lol.

Edited by gummibears - 12/12/10 at 11:11pm

[banana75]

-Name: Anna

-Age: 35

-EDD: May 22nd

-Location: MO

-1st child/2nd/3rd...: 5th
-Family: DH, 3 boys, 1 girl

-Baby's gender: waiting until the birth to find out

-Names: it takes us forever to agree on names

-Birth plans/preferences: home waterbirth
 

[yosemiteroses]

Ryleeee, that is such inspiring news! What state does your friend live in? I am so going to suggest this to my Dr. at the next check-up:) Thank you!