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[thentherewere4]

....just got back from a weekend at my MIL's....we did not tell her about this pg, and likely won't be until wk 12ish...she will NOT be happy about it, although it will not affect her in the slightest.  She does not help AT ALL even though she is our closest (geographically) relative.

Tomorrow the 3 kids and I are heading to my hometown for 3 weeks.  I'm looking forward to being there, but not to getting there....I'll be flying with a 2, 4 and year old for 4.5 hours.  We just got back from the grocery store where I packed up on snack foods we never get.  I'm going to go to the library tonight to get some new reading material...

my pants are definitely tight...wearing stretchy stuff, and 'regular' pants are tight...think I'll do a wee bit of maternity shopping while visiting family

....feeling low-grade queasiness.

at least the stress of the past couple of weeks is starting to dissipate....I actually slept last night.

I actually SAW the heart beat, and have a NT scan scheduled for soon after my return.

Signing off for a couple of weeks.  Hopefully I'll return with a positive attitude about this pg.

TTW4

[spughy]

Hope your trip helps, thentherewere4.

We just got back from a weekend at our cowshare farm - DH and DD made a good dent in the rabbit population, to the delight of all the farm folk, and DH tackled the skinning & cleaning.  I feel vaguely ashamed of that because I totally CAN skin a rabbit but I just feel so icked out by everything these days.  I even make the cows wait outside the milking parlour when I'm milking until I'm 100% sure they've pooped and peed so there's NO chance they'll do it while I'm milking.  I don't remember being this squeamish when I was pg with DD but then again, I was working a cushy desk job so I'm sure skinning rabbits and milking poopy cows just never came up. 

Don't even get me started on the dog barf. 

I am SO tired today... I need to go pick up a truckload of sand and freeze some blueberries and make jelly but I feel like I need to hire someone to haul my butt off the couch.  DD is at a science camp otherwise I would pay her to poke me until I did something.  (Is that bad parenting? LOL)

[ClumsySugarPlum]

how is everyone doing? 

Eh. Takin it one day at a time.

still in the midst of queasiness?

Yes. I've puked the last three mornings. I feel a lot better after having puked, but then guilty for puking. Not that I was trying to make myself puke or anything. Anyway, I didn't have nausea much with ds at all, now I have it almost all day long. The worst is that I wish I could eat more healthy food, but cooking and healthy food sound so gross. Whenever I've thrown up, it's been something non-junkie. It seems the only think I can stomach is high fat, high sugar, high carb stuff.

is anyone showing yet?

I am petite, so I think I am showing, at least to people who know me. From the back I look normal, but from the front it's all, "Oh,  hello, curves."

has anyone told yet?

We've told everyone but our bosses. I'm starting to teach at a new school and I don't want one of the earliest conversations to be about how I'll have to leave 3/4 through the year, find a sub, etc.

how are partners adjusting?

Dh says he will get more excited after the baby is here. I think he will be more excited after we find out if it's a boy or a girl, but we may not find out because our insurance might not cover a 20 week ultrasound, and we really don't have the money to drop $300-600 on an ultrasound we might not need. Money is stressing us both out. We decided to try to get pregnant now because even though our money situation is tough, a lot of other factors were in our favor. My job (though it pays terribly) doesn't require a lot of extra time at home and is close to home. I'm also not yet 35, so we're not higher risk yet. Our parents regularly care for our son when I am at work, and pushing back the addition of a sibling would sort of be pushing it, I think, in terms of how much time we're asking them to spend with our very young children.

summer plans? 

We just had to cancel plans for attending our friends' wedding.  I had been looking forward to it all summer, but it would mean traveling a couple thousand miles in our car round trip, and we just can't afford the gas, hotel, eating out etc. right now. There is a music festival we will go to this weekend with ds, so that will probably be our summer hurrah.

heard the heartbeat yet?

We saw it at an ultrasound when I was 7w2d. The ultrasound was to make sure some pain I was experiencing was due to a normal cyst, and not anything else. We tried to listen for the heartbeat at my 8 week appointment last week, but the midwife couldn't find it. There was one point though where I think she almost got it. I could sort of hear what sounded like a dog panting for just a second, which is what I remember ds's first heartbeat sounding like. That glimmer, plus the good ultrasound and morning sickness make me feel confident, but I'm really ready to stop feeling so sick.

[beautifulnm]

Originally Posted by spughy 

Hope your trip helps, thentherewere4.

We just got back from a weekend at our cowshare farm - DH and DD made a good dent in the rabbit population, to the delight of all the farm folk, and DH tackled the skinning & cleaning.  I feel vaguely ashamed of that because I totally CAN skin a rabbit but I just feel so icked out by everything these days.  I even make the cows wait outside the milking parlour when I'm milking until I'm 100% sure they've pooped and peed so there's NO chance they'll do it while I'm milking.  I don't remember being this squeamish when I was pg with DD but then again, I was working a cushy desk job so I'm sure skinning rabbits and milking poopy cows just never came up. 

Don't even get me started on the dog barf. 

I am SO tired today... I need to go pick up a truckload of sand and freeze some blueberries and make jelly but I feel like I need to hire someone to haul my butt off the couch.  DD is at a science camp otherwise I would pay her to poke me until I did something.  (Is that bad parenting? LOL)

you're a super hero. i can barely clean the toilet or change a doo diaper let alone milk a pooping cow.

[spughy]

LOL.  My toilet is in DIRE need of a cleaning and I bailed out halfway through making dinner last night because the smell of the cooking cauliflower was too much.  I spent 2 hours holed up in the bedroom, trying to nap through a thunderstorm. 
 

[beautifulnm]

The only reason my toilet is clean is because it is in my own best interest to clean it. The proximity of my face to the disgustingness definitely is motivational.

[withlittlelungs]

how is everyone doing?

I'm doing ok. Still trying to come to terms with this pregnancy.  

still in the midst of queasiness?

Not as constant as it was a few weeks ago (THANK GOODNESS!)

is anyone showing yet?

Some days I think yes, but that just seems to be bloat. I feel huge, though!

has anyone told yet?

Nope. We aren't going to tell until after our 12 week appointment. I'm extremely nervous to tell my parents. I think DH's family will be fine.

how are partners adjusting?

Dealing with it much better than me.

summer plans?

Trying to deal with the ridiculous heat. Lots of swimming!

heard the heartbeat yet?

Our appointment is on the 23rd

[babytoes]

I am heading out to my sisters. She lives about 2.5 hrs away, and it's her and her DH's anniversary. I have volunteered to take care of her LO while they go away for four days, the pain of it is she has no Internet, and I will only be able to check on the board via Tapatalk on my phone. Wish me luck in the boonies on a farm! Literally a farm... she's got chicken, cows, sheep, horses... Oh my!! And I get to feed them, should be a learning experience!

[thumbel545]

how is everyone doing?

Good.  I've been feeling a little better- still have icky days, but overall pretty good.

still in the midst of queasiness?

Yes, but its better than it was.  Still last all day, though.  Hoping this is over soon.

is anyone showing yet?

Yes, I'm starting to pooch out a little.  Fortunately most things still fit.

has anyone told yet?

Family and close friends.  We still need to tell my siblings (we'll see some of them this weekend).  Then I'll make a bigger announcement in a week or two.

how are partners adjusting?

Great!  He may be more excited than I am!  He's already started talking about names and was thrilled to get to hear Peanut's heartbeat last week.

summer plans?

A week at the beach earlier this month.  It was wonderful- I had four days with no nausea!!  The amount I ate may have contributed to my expanding belly, but it was nice to be able to eat again.

heard the heartbeat yet?

Yes, last week.  :) 

[scruffy too]

how is everyone doing?

ok.  Just really tired.  And can't sleep. 

still in the midst of queasiness?

Didn't feel sick really.  I'm not really hungry and have to remind myself to eat (this has never been a problem in the past.)  But I cleaned my toilet just in case. 

is anyone showing yet?

Just bloated tummy.  I've already gone up a cup size or two (now a "H" if anyone was wondering )

has anyone told yet?

My BFF knows.  And my DP (I'm always knitting him socks, so I knitted him two pairs of socks, size 13 and baby size and gave them to him.) 

I'm flying down South next week to tell my parents - it's their first and I want to tell them face to face.  If I hadn't waited so long to take the home pregnancy test, I could have told them while they were visiting me...    My MIL knows, because she was visiting us last week and DP really wanted to tell her face to face and I couldn't really say "no" but I swore her to secrecy.

We haven't told DSS because we don't want his mom to know yet.  I haven't told anyone at work because DSS mom's BFF is an Admin Assistant where I work.  But I think I'll tell work when I return from my trip to tell my folks since I work at a jail and want to make sure I'm extra safe.

how are partners adjusting?

DP is VERY excited and a little pissed off that I don't seem more excited.  But I'm a natural worrier and introvert so I keep a lot of thoughts in my head.  He'd rather I was skipping around the house.  He can't wait until we start telling people.

summer plans?

In the middle of an extention on our house.  So busy.

heard the heartbeat yet?

My first Dr's appointment is on Thursday.  I don't know what to expect.  I don't expect to hear a heartbeat (my DP wouldn't be impressed since I told him I don't need him to accompany me to the doctor's office.)

[spughy]

Hey ScruffyToo!  I grew up in Whitehorse and I still have family there - my mom and one sister and her two kids. 

I took my DD down to Seattle last weekend to see an opera that a friend of ours was in.  It was great, DD really enjoyed it (whew!) and it was a nice relaxing weekend.  Then I had to go out to the farm and one of the cows DID get poopy on me but they're on mostly hay now because it hasn't rained in a long time so it wasn't as bad as when they're eating mostly grass.  Actually, I'm finding my nausea isn't affected much by your standard barf-triggers - the boat ride on the way back from Seattle was super rough and nearly all the kids on board were throwing up (including mine, poor little bug) but I didn't feel any worse at all.  Never been susceptible to motion sickness, I guess being overall nauseous doesn't matter!  And one of the best(?) parts about being a mom is that seeing other people throw up no longer makes ME want to do it. 

Now to spend the rest of the week cleaning the house - it's my birthday on the weekend so we're having a party.  Yay!  But that means lots of cleaning. Boo.
 

[scruffy too]

Hi Spughy - nice to meet someone who's been where I am.  (I actually live in a community 45 mins from Whse, but since any and all amenities are in Whse, I'm there all the time.)  I'm actually headed to Victoria next week (very excited to tell my parents!!!!!!!!!!)  Please hold on to the nice weather for me!

[spughy]

I'm making daily sacrifices to the weather gods for you!