Welcome to the April 2013 Due Date Club! (Roster & Intros!) - Page 9 « Back to Group Discussions

[TIFF4NY]

Welcome to our newest members!! I hope you make yourselves at home here and I look forward to getting to know you! =)

[firespiritmelody]

My goodness I've been neglecting this thread!! I promise I'll get everyone added to the roster soon!

[Lisanne]

• EDD April 28th

• Age: 30
• State or Country: New Mexico
• How long it took to you to get your BFP: We've been trying since late 2010 and have had 2 miscarriages
• What number child is this for you: 3rd
• Family: DH is in the US Air Force, DD1 is in Kindergarten, DD2 is 3 and she stays home with me
• Baby's Gender: Guessing and hoping for boy
• Birth Plans/Preferences: Preference is a home birth, but not likely with our insurance and current location so maybe try a water birth this time.

[magpiemind]

Hi! I'm very happy to be here! :)

• EDD: 4-4-12
• Your Name: Joyce
• Age: 36
• State or Country: Maryland
• How long it took to you to get your BFP: about three months or so? (We conceived this one 10 months after the birth of our first, and my cycles had returned around 7 months postpartum.)
• What number child is this for you: 2 living, 1 miscarriage
• Family (partner, other children, and/or furbabies): husband, son, German Shepherd, Maine Coon mix
• Baby's Gender (hopes or guesses): Hopefully finding out this Wednesday! Either will be awesome.

• Birth Plans/Preferences: I delivered our son at our local hospital, and plan to do the same with this one. Son's birth was a really great experience. I was induced after 42 weeks, but my Bishop score was good, and labor proceeded well; other than the pitocin, we had a med-free natural birth. Our midwife and the nurses were all very supportive of natural birth, and did not even blink when I told them I wanted my placenta for encapsulation. They delayed cord clamping, gave us immediate skin-to-skin, and didn't take him away for anything else (including bathing) until I allowed it.  It was really the best hospital experience I could have hoped for.

• Anything else you'd like to share: Our first pregnancy ended in miscarriage at 18 weeks. When I got pregnant a few months later with my son, I was pretty anxious the whole time. I'm usually not a nervous person. I'm determined to get back to my normal self, and I'm trying to relax and not worry - I am pregnant right now, and that's what I focus on. 

[TIFF4NY]

Welcome magpiemind!

[jess152]

Hi!

 I'm due mid-April

 I'm Jessica, 39 yrs

This is baby #3 for us (we have 2 boys, 5 and 2) no preference it can be boy or girl

I live in the Canadian Rockies

 I have always charted my temps and got pregnant within 2-3 cycles every time, although I've miscarried twice

First baby was unnecessarean, second HBAC and this one at home in the water with same midwife as baby 2

This will be our last baby, so I'm trying to enjoy it. It feels like it's going by fast! Excited to snuggle & wear one more baby!

[Martha83]

A correction on mine...on the roster it says beginning of April...I'm due the very end of april/beginning of may (The actual date is the 27th of April but I dont go by that...but if you want to put that I'm ok with that)

[Martha83]

Welcome to our new members :) make yourself comfy

[sageowl]

• EDD: 4-1-12
• Your Name: Amy
• Age: 34
• State or Country: Oregon, Portland Metro area
• How long it took to you to get your BFP: Don't know what a BFP is
• What number child is this for you: #2
• Family (partner, other children, and/or furbabies): husband, DS 1 (age 2), dog
• Baby's Gender (hopes or guesses): I was totally feeling girl with this one, but the ultrasound says boy.  Oh well.  So much for intuition.

• Birth Plans/Preferences: I delivered DS 1at our local hospital, and barring unusual circumstances, will be doing the same thing.  DS 1 was born on his EDD.  We'll see about this one.  Other than the pitocin at the end (when labor stalled out a bit), we had a med-free natural birth. Having a doula was very helpful though.  The hospital experience was fine. 

• Anything else you'd like to share: I'm surrounded by boys!

[melaniazulm]

Hi all! I'm Melanie, Happy to be here!

EDD - April 22, 2013
Your Name: Melanie
Age: 28
State or Country: New Jersey
How long it took to you to get your BFP: 2 weeks!
What number child is this for you: First
Family (partner, other children, and/or furbabies): Husband, one fur baby, Peaches, a chihuahua.
Baby's Gender (hopes or guesses):It's a surprise, but my gut is telling me boy.
Birth Plans/Preferences: As of now, birth plan is natural birth in hospital, med free with a doula.
Blog, website or the like:
Anything else you'd like to share:

[TIFF4NY]

Welcome to our new members!! Please make yourselves at home here. 

[nettster]

• EED: April 16
• Your Name: Jannette
• Age: 23
• State or Country: IA

• What number child is this for you:1
• Family (partner, other children, and/or furbabies): 1 hubby 2 horses 1 dog
• Baby's Gender (hopes or guesses): the polls (yea i polled my facebook) 80% girl 15% boy 5% no gender just healthy - i'm a no preferance person. :) 
• Birth Plans/Preferences: Natural childbirth w/ doula & MW @ a hospital
• Anything else you'd like to share: 1 Previous M/C @ 14 weeks. super stoked about this one :) 

you can add me when you get time to :) 

Edited by nettster - 11/19/12 at 7:05pm

[mercedesdelgado]

• EDD.. April 30th 2013 :)
• Name: Mercedes Delgado & Husband Adam Delgado
• Age: 20
• State & City: San Antonio, TX
• What number child is this for you: 1st
• Baby's Gender (hopes or guesses): We're hoping for a girl, we find out on the 28th of this month! Super excited to find out.
• Blog, website or the like: Facebook, Adam-Mercedes Delgado

[TIFF4NY]

Glad to still have people joining us here!

[Juliedmc]

• EDD (feel free to use beginning/middle/end of month, if you prefer): April 14
• Your Name: (if you would like to share) Julie
• Age: 32
• State or Country: Southwestern Ohio
• How long it took to you to get your BFP: 7 long long long long long years. Did I say long?
• What number child is this for you: #1
• Family (partner, other children, and/or furbabies): Husband is Sean, furbabies are Winston & Mr. Puddin the kitties and Zoe and Sadie the puppies.
• Baby's Gender (hopes or guesses): We just found out today that it's a boy!
• Birth Plans/Preferences: I'm planning a natural hospital birth with a doula.
• Blog, website or the like:
• Anything else you'd like to share: I'm a plus sized mom, and am always interested in the experiences of other plus sized moms as well.

[astrogeoCole]

Hi!  Finally joining after lurking for way,way too long (on both MDC and this DDC)

• EDD: April 4

• Your Name: Nicole
• Age: 34
• State or Country: SW Ohio (hi Julie who posted right before me!)
• How long it took to you to get your BFP: 2 months
• What number child is this for you: #3
• Family (partner, other children, and/or furbabies): Husband, DS 8.5 years, DD 6.5 years, and Lizzie the cat
• Baby's Gender (hopes or guesses): Either! I am going with boy, husband thinks girl... We did not find out at the 20wk ultrasound.
• Birth Plans/Preferences: Trying for our 3rd homebirth!

[TIFF4NY]

Hello Julie and Nicole!

[IronMam]

If the roster is being updated with the sex of our babies, you can put me down for BOY!

[TIFF4NY]

Originally Posted by IronMam 

If the roster is being updated with the sex of our babies, you can put me down for BOY!

I added you on the first post of the "It's an announcement thread" =)

[KateHNM]

Hello everyone!

• EDD - April 22nd
• Your Name: Kate
• Age: 23
• State or Country: New York
• How long it took to you to get your BFP: Well to be honest we weren't trying but we weren't preventing it either.  Just leaving it up to fate.
• What number child is this for you: First pregnancy to come this far.  Had a miscarriage in 2008.
• Family (partner, other children, and/or furbabies): My husband Nathan and our cat Tucker.
• Baby's Gender (hopes or guesses): Just had my anatomy scan and it looks like its going to be a boy!  I would have been happy either way.
• Birth Plans/Preferences: Planning on a natural home water birth with two of the best midwives in the area.  It's been a tough decision as I haven't had much support from my family but I'm going to do what I think is best.

• Anything else you'd like to share: I've been looking at forums a lot over the past few months and reading what other expectant moms have had to say about anything that pops into my head and I finally decided it was time to join one and ask some of the questions I haven't already found.  I thought the interaction with other pregnant mothers in my situation would be fun.