February 2005 mamas to be Aug.1 - 8

[ekblad9]

Here's the new thread!

Kater07 February
Chiku due Feb 1 birthing center
Parker'smommy (Heather) due Feb 1
Lisashepp (Lisa) due Feb 1
Sadkitty. Due Feb 1st
Dandylion (Stephanie) due Feb 2
Truvie due Feb 2
PeacefulVegan (who also answers to Tracie) due Feb 3
Lou due Feb 3
Orange due Feb 3 Birth Center with OB
Twin Mom (Deb) Due Feb 4, VBA2C homebirth
Free Thinker (Mandy) due Feb 5
HelloKitty (Kitty) due Feb 6
Letabug (Arleta) due Feb 6
LianneM due Feb 7 homebirth
TexasSuz (Susan) due Feb 7
Happymamajenni (Jenni) due Feb 7 hospital/OBGYN
LesleyLuu (Lesley) due Feb 7 (or 9th?) hospital/OBGYN
DeirdreAlison (Deirdre) due 1st week Feb homebirth, maybe waterbirth
New Life Due Feb 8
Shannon 0218- due Feb 11 hospital birth with great OB
ella-makes-3 (Jasmine) - due ~ Feb. 11 midwife/natural birth at birth center
Tug due Feb 12
Firefly due Feb 13
Christi due Feb 14 hospital birth with fab OB
Periwinkle (Karen) due Feb 14
Fairymomma (Pamela) due Feb 14
Jorie (Margorie) due Feb 14
AmBam (Amber) due Feb 14 homebirth
Wtchyhlr (Joy) due Feb 14
rose angel (Karen) due Feb 16
mama2m&m (Denise) due Feb 16
HydeParkB due Feb 17
Karennnnn (Karen) due Feb 17
Coopsmama (Kristen) Due Feb 17
Shyly (Monica) Due Feb 17
Gretchen Due Feb 18
weesej (Jen) Due Feb 19 homebirth
mehndimama (Stell) due Feb 22 unassisted homebirth
heveasoul due Feb 21, h/b with m/w
woolfairy (Elle) due Feb 27, baby #2 homebirth
Ekblad7+ (Amy) due Feb 20 Homebirth
KateSt. Late Feb. Homebirth
Chloe'sMummy #2
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[Periwinkle]

Ekblad thanks for starting the new thread!!! (the last one was for 8 days). Now we're 1 day closer to meeting our little ones!

I'm 11w+6d today.... yipeeee almost to the 2nd trimester!!! I feel great actually, and am really looking forward to feeling the baby (for certain that is ) soon.

[ekblad9]

I'm 11wks 5 days today. I am so ready to be in the second trimester. I can't stand this pukey feeling anymore. At least it's alot better but I want it to be gone!!!

[Lousli]

I'm 12w5d today. I don't know if I'm in the 2nd trimester now or Tuesday. Fortunately i have very little morning sickness left now. Most days I'm not hungry in the morning, but not actually very nauseated. I'm still a lot more tired than I'd like to be. Feeling kind of broke, which stinks, because now that I've decided on hypnobirthing I'd like to buy the home study course and now that I've decided to give cloth diapers a try, I'd like to order some (even though I won't need them for nearly 7 months!).

I went to a baby store today, a nice one, for a nursing/maternity bra that is light support and I could sleep in. Got a great one by Medela. I managed to not buy any baby clothes, toys, diapers (they had cloth there!), changing pad, a double stroller, carseat, etc. But OMG those clothes were so cute! I just can't wait to find out if it is a boy or girl, because if it is a boy, we will need some clothes. If it is a girl, we don't really need any, but I may buy a cute coming home outfit.

[Christi]

subscribing

[ekblad9]

I think this is the poorest we've ever been while expecting a new baby. Luckily we have everything we need and then some. I did have to buy two new bras for my enormous breasts. I swear I am so fat everywhere! It's depressing. I'm hoping to start excercising again soon.

[Lousli]

I don't know how enormous you mean, but I know how you feel. I think I've outgrown my D cups now. When my milk came in with my DD, I was an F. I never knew there were F cups before. Nursing bras are an absolute neccesity though. I'm so tender right now that I really need goos support and soft straps that don't dig in.

How is everyone today?

[HydeParkB]

I'll be hitting 12 weeks in a couple days. It'll be time to tell my work, and I'm relieved. The pregnancy has affected my work a little, and I'd just like folks to know it's because a health reason, not because I've been going out to the bars during the week. (Boy, I miss that )

Today I tried to discourage my MIL from buying stuff for the baby, but I didn't have much luck. She's focusing on onesies and very basic clothes. She's shopping with my sister in law, who is due any day. Oh well, I think she's keeping it under control, and it makes her happy.

[ekblad9]

OK, it's 9:30 pm here and though I've had waves of nausea I'm still going. Not strong but still going. I even got to read a bedtime story to the kiddos. I can see glimpses of the old me!

[Lousli]

Excellent news Ekblad! Glad you're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. I'm off to eat, have a good evening everyone.

[shannon0218]

Well, we at least talked. He has agreed to go to councelling but prefaced that with his thought that it's unlikely he can make the changes that need to be made. He admitted he is selfish. I guess it comes down to the fact that he'll only make these changes if he really wants to make them and I'm not sure he really wants to change anything. I attempted to explain to him my feelings about him looking like a bum while representing my business. He accused me of being too protective of my business, I don't think it's something he'll ever understand. He's never worked that hard for anything. He works hard at his job, but he has no ambition to better himself or attain a higher position. I on the other hand have enough drive for 10 people.
Anyway, thanks for listening ladies, I'll keep you posted.
I'm feeling sick again today, have a terrible headache that I've had all day long, have puked a bunch of times and haven't eaten today. I think the stress is what is causing it.
I'm glad to hear so many of you are feeling so much better. It is a relief to be beyond that 12 week mark.

[wtchyhlr]

I was bored this afternoon, so registered online at amazon / BrU for the things i *think* we'll need. Mostly blankies and clothes and such. All gender neutral. And a car seat. and a pack-n-play w/changing table. We'll see what WAHM's have registries for diapers and slings, and i'll get those registered for eventually too. i've probably over registered, but i'd rather be able to make "strong" suggestions to people as to what to buy us. I want one of those baby hammock things from Amby, but can't figure out how to put it on a registry. we'll probably just end up buying it ourselves.

Here's to a new week, and second trimester. WOOHOO

[shannon0218]

Morning all,
Things are looking a bit up today. Steve joined me in bed for about an hour when he got home from work, then I decided to get up as my back was really sore. Anyway, in a toothbrushing incident, I ended up puking pretty bad (nothing in my stomach but acid--don't ya hate that??) Anyway, after I was done, he got up out of bed to ask me if he could do anything or if I wanted a cold cloth. I haven't talked to my friend who was going to talk to him, so maybe she lectured him convincingly. I think I need to find a completely new way to deal with him. When I think about his mother and the stories I've heard about his growing up, I think he's spent all his adult years doing things because he knows they will bug his mother--even if they are things he doesn't want to do or that inconvenience him. (this of course doesn't make sense to me, but I can see it) So I think when the stress hits, he reverts to doing this with me--especially if I I'm "telling" him what to do. We will go to councelling and maybe there I can find some new ways of dealing with the boy.
Joy, it sounds like fun to start registering for the baby, maybe I'll look into starting that to cheer myself up.
On the boob issue, I'm in trouble! I used to be a C cup, but with every pregnancy they've gotten bigger and not shrunk. So now I'm in a snug DD--I suppose it's good that I had that breast reduction or I'd be needing specially made bras.

[Boobs]

Man, I just thought I had big boobs!! You mommies make me look like a pancake. :LOL I'm still squeezing into my b cup bras, but I'm definitely a full c now.

Today I'm getting ready for our drive to New York tomorrow. We're following the inlaws in our own car, thank goodness. The original plan was to all ride together in a rented minivan. That would have been pure torture. Today is busy though because dh doesn't have time to help out at all. He's working all day and today is his last day at this restaurant before he transfers to another one next week. He's a busy guy. I don't know how I'm going to get it all done today cause I get wiped out so easily. With my last pregnancy, I slept the entire first trimester. I think this time I'm going to sleep through the second. I can't seem to get enough sleep.

Shannon, I'm so glad you and dh are going to talk to somebody. I really hope it helps.


Are you supposed to register if you're not having a shower?? I have no idea.

[TwinMom]

I'm 13w 3d right now. I think, for those of you talking about 2nd trimester, that it doesn't start until 14 weeks. Sucks, I know.

I still feel pretty sick. It's getting old! I am so looking forward to cooking again, something I thought I'd never say. I have to park my van on the street because my garage makes me vomit, which means that every time we get into the van it's about 200 degrees inside it, which also makes me feel sick, but not as much as the garage. Oh, I could whine all day about this stuff!

I had my first appointment with my midwife on Friday. She tried twice to hear the baby's heartbeat but it just wasn't cooperating, so she's coming back in 3 weeks to try again. If it were my first pregnancy I'd probably be freaking out about it, but since it isn't I'm not. I'm still throwing up, so I guess I'm still pregnant, right?

I forget who else is nursing, but is anyone else having some discomfort? It's getting really uncomfortable when Alec latches on; sometimes I have to breathe through it. Also, will my breasts get bigger like they usually do in pregnancy or will the nursing keep them the same size? I'm already in an F so I'm hoping they don't get any bigger!

I hope everyone has a great--and healthy--week!

[KateSt.]

Subscribing -- thanks Ekblad for starting this thread.

Shannon I'm glad dh seems to be coming around a bit. I'm really pulling for you guys.

Gotta work....

[*Amy*]

Well I think this is goodbye for me, my MDC friends. I had some brown spotting yesterday so I went to the ER upon the recommendation of the on-call OB. They checked my betas and found that I was around 40,000 which is low, but permissible for 11 weeks. They listened for the heartbeat and still didn't find anything, so they did a transvaginal ultrasound, and found a gestational sac, but no yolk sac, and of course...no baby. Apparently development stopped weeks ago, but my body is still under the impression that I am pregnant.

Today I'll go in for a better ultrasound, and then will probably have to stay for a D&C.

I guess I'm still in shock. It's really difficult to go from being pregnant physically and emotionally to NOT in the span of two hours. The only upside is that no embryo developed, so at least I don't have to grieve for an actual lost life; there never was one. It's still hard though, because in my mind, I had a 2" fetus in my womb.

I'll probably check back to update tomorrow.

[Boobs]

Oh, Amy. I'm so sorry. I really thought we were all out of the woods. Take care of yourself, okay?

[shannon0218]

Oh Amy, I'm so sorry. Please check out the birth loss forum here at MDC. I know I would not have been able to cope with my losses without them. Sometimes just reading about other peoples experiences helps. If I can do anything or if you want to talk, please feel free to PM me.

[AmBam]

Amy, I am so sorry!!