Queer, Pregnant, and Parenting! November, December, and January 2013!!! - Page 21

[maxK]

easttowest- Congratulations on your boy baby ! I understand your feelings. I think I'm probably right there with you. We don't know the sex of our baby yet.

bigfoot-

seraf- your pictures are so artistic!

Pumping is getting easier now on Day 5. It actually doesn't hurt today so that is a relief for me. Hopefully this all gets easier as time goes by.

[esenbee2]

What do you all think about taking Tylenol during the 2WW? I am 2 DPO now. We took DD sledding with our dog, a lab, at the in-laws. I was letting him off of his leash and he got excited and took his paw right across my face. Got my nose real good, got a bad slice on it and it feels like I might have re-broke my nose (from a year and a half ago). I took some Tylenol without even thinking about being in the 2WW. I was super cautious when I was pregnant with DD, and never took ANYTHING. So I'm super worried!

[lisedea]

bigfoot--congrats and welcome! how do you two feel about multiples? i am kidding....but that beta jump is super strong!

max--glad things are going well with pumping!!

so, this bed rest has me on the internet alll the timmmmeee....you are all going to have to post a lot to keep me occupied. i am reading the dr. sears breastfeeding book so at least that has been keeping me busy!

[Cananny]

Lise.. Right there with you.. I am on here ALL the time... OMG so bored.. and DP is home... what will it be like when she goes back to work? I have also been taking lots of naps.. LOL

I think there should be a thread of funny stories to keep you and I entertained.. oh and maybe more of Seraf illustrations :)

max.. soon! i am so excited 4 you!!

welcome bigfoot... i was on QC with you guys and soooo excited for your bfp!!! 

[bigfoot]

lisedea - I think I am actually a little scared of somehow ending up disappointed if it isn't multiples, even though this would be a case of be careful what you wish for. We will be ecstatic about one baby so I don't think I will actually end up disappointed, but since we saw an RE for a year we have been talking about multiples for a long time. We feel pretty strongly about having two more kids so we don't have another only child, and not going through fertility treatments again sounds pretty great. So yes, we are very excited about the possibility of twins! We have a friend on full bed rest right now, and she has watched every single documentary on Netflix Instant, I think. What are your plans to entertain yourself?

max - I am excited to watch your progress as I'm considering inducing lactation if we end up with multiples.

[seraf]

Esenbee, tylenol is considered safe for pregnancy.

Max, no pain is good! Are you more hopeful for a girl or boy?

Bigfoot, welcome and congratulations!

Lise and Cananny, baby-wearing eye-candy. These are only twins but I see potential. Historical and eclectic babywearing.

Everyone went to a museum leaving itchy and me home alone. 

[lisedea]

Seraf--Oh yes--perfect! I think I might go into school tomorrow and steal two of the baby dolls so we can practice...ha.

[seraf]

Lise, I think trying with cats would be better practice.

[lisedea]

Originally Posted by seraf 

Lise, I think trying with cats would be better practice.

Hahahaha! We have two of those!

[seraf]

Lise, I would totally call you and keep you company, but someone managed to throw the phone inside the couch and I can't figure out how to get it out.

[lisedea]

Oh good, sometime to look forward to.

And I just emailed a friend to ask if I could borrow her Pom as we don't think one of our cats would positively participate. Haha....she probably would let us.

[seraf]

Who said I wanted the cat to positively participate? I joke of course.  The first several times trying to get babies up in wraps feels like it takes an hour and the baby poops down one leg and up their back, wants to eat, takes a nap and generally goes on living while you're trying to get everything situated.  If you really do try with cats, will you video it?

[lisedea]

Absolutely.

[seraf]

I totally understand the chicken pox vaccine now. We've been on and off quarantine since Halloween. I feel for you ladies on bed rest.

I totally dread trying to load and unload the dishwasher because my little helper thinks he's god's gift to kitchen cleanup. I feel silly admitting that I just figured out how much faster it is to do it this way.

[pokeyAC]

Welcome bigfoot!  It's so nice to meet you.  I also used injectables and had several follicles and high beta numbers, but we are having 1 baby.  We were a little disappointed because twins would have been great too.  We want 2 kids and having to go through it all again at almost 40 doesn't sound fun.  We are really happy that this baby is growing and healthy!  But, you never know.  We have had lots of multiples on here lately.

max--I'm glad the pumping is going better.  I hope things continue to go well.

[DesertSunsets]

We're glad to have you, Bigfoot!  How does the 16 year old feel about having a tiny baby around?  Also, if ever you are interested, there's a non-bio parent specific group that I'm a part of on Facebook and we'd be glad to have you there as well.  

Lise, all the conversation about using cats and small dogs as baby stand-ins is cracking me up.  

Seraf - sorry you guys got left at home!  I bet after so much quarantine you are READY to get out and be done.  

CaNanny and Lise - I'd be happy to send you guys some secondhand books, if you're cool with that.  Any requests??

Max - I feel you on the pumping.  When the pain starts to go away, it's like heaven.  I hope it just gets better and easier on you, quick. 

Afu, we are having an odd and surreal afternoon/evening at home.  Ev has only been taking catnaps the past few days, and we've been trying all kinds of stuff to help her sleep a little longer,  Well DW took her into the dark and quiet nursery and has had her in there, asleep on her lap and nursing every 20 minutes or so for a long time now.  Poor DW has got to be so bored.  We keep texting back and forth and replying to each other's comments on facebook and it's hilarious because we're 2 rooms apart.  

In other news, Evie will be starting daycare next week (the week after?  Can't remember.) and in preparation, we're ordering these amazingly sticky name labels for all her crap.  We're using namebubbles.com and really having a lot of fun designing the personalized labels.  Perhaps too much fun.  This daycare does cloth diapers, so we're trying to figure out how to label them without permanently putting her name on them, since we'd like to use the diapers for #2 someday.  The daycare is part of the Jewish temple, so the rooms all have Hebrew names and themes.  We're realizing how very much we don't know about Judaism and it's pretty embarrassing.  It's really the best daycare we've found, and it must be kismet because just before we registered her, one of the full-time babies (and his family) moved to Texas, so now E can go whenever we need her to go instead of having a crazy hybrid schedule where we have to call in favors every week.  So, Jewish friends out there, what kinds of appreciation gifts do we make (or buy) for Hanukkah for the teachers?  We typically make a Christmas ornament every year, but duh, that won't work.  Thoughts? 

[esenbee2]

seraf I had been meaning to ask about what it was like having a chicken pox household! At Christmas with the in-laws, DSp's aunt said she got shingles from a child who had just gotten the vaccine... I was totally shocked and had never heard of anything like that. I started looking up about the vaccine and decided that I would MUCH rather go through chicken pox than have the next baby get the vaccine. (DD has already had it.) From what I read, out of all of the chicken pox outbreaks in daycare centers and schools, 75% had the vaccine, and one outbreak I read about, it started with a kid who got the vaccine. Some more stuff I read about was how shingles have made a come back since the vaccine has been mandated in most of the country. Being around youngsters with the chickenpox boosts adults' immunity to shingles. Since we have less and less kiddos to boost immunity, more ppl are getting shingles. And of course, the vaccine manufacturer doesn't mind this, they make a vaccine for shingles and make more money off of the epidemic they caused by making money off of the chickenpox vaccine.
Anyways, I'm sure you already knows all the details about the vaccines, but I was just really shocked. I got DSp convinced on not doing the chickenpox vaccine for our next babe, and I looked up on how to push back all of the others, most are not even needed to enroll in school by 5 yrs. old, but I'm startingto think I should just not do any of them since I am already definitely saying no way jose to the Hepititis B vaccine since there is no risk factor for a BABY since I don't have it to pass. Just getting DSp to be on board... He was when I was pregnant with DD, but when she was born and I still couldn't find a pediatrician who would go along with no vaccines, DSp started to rethink it and we just went ahead with it. I am thinking it is going to be harder to get DSp on board this time around since nothing horrible happened with DD.

Wow that turned into a long post! Sorry bout that!

[seraf]

Desert, Hanukkah passed weeks ago. You can google jewish holiday calendar for dates on all them. It looks like the next holiday is a tree planting one. Around 4 months Shay needed to go to bed at, like, 6:30 or he was a mess. We took to playing a lot of cards in bed while he wound down and slept. It made for some slow but nice evenings together.

Warning, really long boring post ahead! I would even put it in a spoiler if my phone would let me.

Esenbee, I had always heard that chickenpox could be spread from shingles but not the other way around. I have known of a few kids who got chickenpox from the vaccine, too. I wanted my kids to get the lifelong immunity from real chickenpox and I worried they would come due for a booster and neglect to get it in their twenties and have greater risk of complications. That said, it's not much fun having a housefull of sick kids. It was much harder to catch than I had been led to believe. You are contageous a day or two before the pox break out and they can start 7-21 days after dxposure. We didnt want to be responsible for infecting the newborns at storytime, so we went on baby quarantine every time we were in one of these windows of possible contagion. In our community it started with a grandpa with shingles. Kid A broke out the day after a sleepover with my kids. Since they had been unknowingly exposed, they were allowed to play with her all week. She had a mild case. Her sister broke out bad 3 weeks later, the day after my kids played with her. Already exposed, they played with her again, too. My DD even took baths with her. 18 days post exposure, O had a mild case. He was up all night one night, fever, felt crummy, itchy. He compared it with a flea infestation. 2 weeks later A broke out with several times more pox. All the other stuff. Up hourly for one night. Very itchy. Soren broke out a couple days later with a mild case, fever of 103.5, clearly expressed that he felt like crap, up all night, diarrhea and generally very fussy. Soren didn't cry until he was a few months old. He's a super chill kid, so he was not himself. Now here we are with Shay. He has tons of spots. Low fever for one night. The runs. Crawled all over me last night and I'm not holding out for a good night tonight. He is the only one with the coordination and lack of self control to go nuts trying to scratch his skin off. He has been majorly unhappy. Not his usual self at all. We have been on real quarantine while anyone actively had pox (not just babies) so they feel very cooped up. Shay has brought my shoes to me several times trying to clue me in to his desire to go outside. It's not a major illness. I would compare it with a bad cold, but because we have so many kids and so many friends with babies it really got old. The kids who caught it from more casual exposure got milder cases. The kids who lived with it longer got much worse cases. Besides Soren and kid A, they all remained un-poxy for at least the first exposure.

[bigfoot]

Thanks for the warm welcome!

Pokey- I have a lot of positives of a singleton to focus on once we know for sure. Like not feeling the urge to buy a mini van and possibly getting to enjoy the babyhood all over again later even if it is a struggle to make it happen again. :)

Desert - the sixteen year-old actually doesn't know about the pregnancy yet! We are still contemplating when to tell him, although we think it will be really soon. Maybe after the ultrasound next week. If something were to go wrong, we would want him to know why we were upset. We are generally really open with him, and we actually kept TTC from him for a long time because we expected it to take a long time. I am really glad we did that, but he wasn't exactly happy about the idea when we told him. He said he likes things the way they are, and I think that makes a lot of sense. Knowing him and how good he is with little ones, I think he will really enjoy it when it becomes a reality, though. 

[DesertSunsets]

Seraf- haha! Yes, of course. We were just discussing what we wanted to make next year and it came up that we couldn't do for them what's typical for us.