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[IronMam]

Happy New Year!!!

[Munchkin08]

Happy New Year! I can't belive it is 2013 already - when I got the BFP I couldn't imagine being 26 weeks pregnant (as I am today) - let alone that our Little One will be here in just a few months. 

[MaineCoastMama]

Amen to that. Time flies! within 4 mos. our baby will be here. Within 3.5 mos, I am done teaching for the year. 

[TIFF4NY]

So crazy how fast time has gone by! Happy New Year everyone!

[BeanBean06]

Happy New Year, Ladies!!!! With all the complications we have had over the last few months, there were many times I was sure I wouldn't make it to 2013 still pregnant... I'm so overjoyed to be here in 2013 with a healthy bouncing baby girl in my tummy what a wonderful joyous year this will be!!!!

[alaskanmomma]

Happy New Years, ladies! Can you believe in just a few months our little ones will be here?!

Calliope absolutely hated the fireworks, as soon as they started last night she shifted completely to one side and stayed put for the night lol.

[Lisanne]

Happy New year everyone! I'm sorry I haven't been more active. We didn't have a laptop for awhile and then we were on vacation over Christmas. I'm home now and loving my new laptop so hopefully you will see more of me on here. 

[IronMam]

I think I was able to stay in denial about how much time I have left to get ready for this baby...until the calendar changed over! @_@

Now it's hard to pretend I've got lots of time left. lol  Need to kick it into high gear making stuff and getting the last or my organizational systems in place so everything is automatic and streamlined.

[JennJenn84]

Originally Posted by IronMam 

I think I was able to stay in denial about how much time I have left to get ready for this baby...until the calendar changed over! @_@

Now it's hard to pretend I've got lots of time left. lol  Need to kick it into high gear making stuff and getting the last or my organizational systems in place so everything is automatic and streamlined.

Same here! I'm still a little freaked out that by the time I turn 29 in May, I will have 2 kids! I need to get so much for the baby its unreal!

For a while it seemed liked this pregnancy has gone by so slow! Now it seems like so fast. Me and my best friend were talking tonight (she's 37w 4d) and she said it doesn't seem like I should be where I am now (26w 3d) I am scared but excited to welcome my daughter! Whom I have decided to name Harlow MaKenzie Lane :-)

[camprunner]

This pregnancy is flying by. I'm trying so hard to get the house ready but I've hit a wall.  I hope we are ready in time.

[TIFF4NY]

The fireworks were interesting around here. DH and DD were both sound asleep while I sat on the kitchen floor with my 100+lb dane/gsd mixed dog shaking violently in my lap and our labrador was running around excitedly thinking it was hunting season or something. Totally opposite reactions from the dogs but I'm just glad DD didn't wake up at all. 

I couldn't believe how loud it was outside! At one point I walked out back and could see huge (illegal) fireworks from my back patio and there were very loud explosion like booms very close by. My poor dog was just scared out of his mind. Made me happy they are indoor dogs because he for sure probably would've been spooked and run away. 

It's crazy to say that I'm due in less than 3.5 months. It just seems sooo soon. Wild!

[1babysmom]

I wish it was feeling as fast for me as it is for so many of you!!!!!  I can't stand how far away April feels.  And with how BIG I already feel, I keep finding myself thinking pre-labor thoughts and then I have to knock myself back into reality since I still have sooooo long left.  Ugh.

[Kara9080]

Originally Posted by IronMam 

I think I was able to stay in denial about how much time I have left to get ready for this baby...until the calendar changed over! @_@

Ditto! My step-daughter has been wanting to shop and prepare for baby and I've always told her "after the first of the year/after the holidays" and here we are! We went shopping this weekend and got a couple onsies and outfits - so fun! So I will get in gear and start making a plan to put baby gear. I received a breast pump from DH for Christmas and a Pack N Play from my MIL. Since it's been 10 years since I had my last baby I need blankets, bottles and such too! I think I've stocked up good on diapers however I have a feeling I won't use newborn diapers but maybe a week.

[Greenlea]

Happy New Year!

I know we don't have too much time before baby comes but I don't feel like I have so much to do this time around. I plan on only buying 2 things (some Aden&Anais swaddling blankets and a belly binder). Everything else I have already. It is helping that I have 2 baby showers in Jan and have already begun shopping for them. Target is having some great clearance on baby items. However we are moving end of Jan so I'm starting to get overwhelmed with that.

[SplashingPuddle]

Sometimes my due date feels so far away and other times it is very fast.  I start a difficult semester soon which ends in April. So I can't believe how much school work needs to get down before the baby. 

[camprunner]

My thing with the timing is that the the third trimester always flies by for me and the first two drag. The first two really flew by this time and I hardly felt/feel pregnant compared to what I usually feel.

[miss_nikki]

Originally Posted by 1babysmom 

I wish it was feeling as fast for me as it is for so many of you!!!!!  I can't stand how far away April feels.  And with how BIG I already feel, I keep finding myself thinking pre-labor thoughts and then I have to knock myself back into reality since I still have sooooo long left.  Ugh.

I am with you. April does seem so far away. I don't really feel big, just uncomfortable, but I have also be thinking pre-labor thoughts only to have to remind myself I'm not there yet.

Went to the midwife today. I'm 26 weeks, today, and things are looking good! Baby had been sideways, but now seems to be head down. Or at least head towards my leg. Heart beat sounded wonderful and I'm measuring great too. Despite my horrible eating the last week or so my weight gain was only up about 2 or 3 lbs from last time. My blood pressure is up a little, which is fantastic. It was hanging around 80/58 for 3 visits, but today it was 90 something over 62. I'm trying to be more active and eat better and it seems to be helping.

[BeanBean06]

On the one hand I feel like I have SO far to go! And on the other because with our complications everything is so up in the air, it feels like it could be soon! Our first goal is 32 weeks (which is just 4.5 weeks from now! OMG!) and the second would be 36/37 weeks when they will remove the stitch (and ill get off bed rest woohoo) if I make it there and that is only like 8.5 weeks away! Ofcourse I wanna get as close to 40 as possible, but even that is only 12.5. Wow. I feel like once I get to 36 maybe ill be able to relax a bit and enjoy my pregnancy for a a little while lol

[cagnew]

Happy New Year! I haven't commented much, but I've lurked plenty :) Hoping to comment more now.

Things are moving along here, though I still feel like April is ages away. I'm officially at the uncomfortable point. I think it's because I am small-framed (5'3", 125 lbs) that pregnancy just wreaks havoc on me! I love being pregnant, but I could do without all the pain. I carry so low and I always get HUGE. Y'all were talking in the Dec. thread about people making comments on your size, and I totally understand. By the time I am 30 weeks, I look like I am going to explode any day and people are always shocked that I still have a couple months to go. This is pregnancy #4 (well... technically #6, but you know what I mean) so I am used to the comments and they don't bother me anymore. While I do wish I didn't gain so much weight, I'm kind of resigned to it at this point. The big belly doesn't bother me (besides the aches and pains it causes). It's kind of grotesque, but I know that it's my babies home so that makes it beautiful to me in a spiritual kind of way. Embrace the big bellies!!!! Weight can always be lost, but our babies only get a short time to be safe in our wombs. It's worth all the sacrifices :)

Enough happy talk. I'm going to start a complaining thread. Hah! I'm totally serious... misery loves company....

[alaskanmomma]

I feel April will be here before I know it because DS birthday is on the 25th, baby is due the 21st, and I'm of course going to have it all spring on me if I don't prep NOW lol. So far besides a few more pairs of pants, Callie's wardrobe and diaper stash is complete for the newborn days, bassinet is ordered, I have our car seat arrangements done with(but have to buy the oldest their new seats, Callie will be in either the Myride 65 that my daughter uses now or the Scenera.. now time to save up for birth supplies!