Weekly Thread Oct. 29 - Nov. 4

[mirthfulmum]

Hi Everyone!

Thought I'd get a weekly thread going to give us a place for our general chit-chat. You know, stuff you may not want to start a thread for...

July DDC Roll Call
mellybelly (Melissa) Due: late june/early july
gr8tfulmom (Sarah) Due: early July
2much2luv (Beth) Due: June 26 (predicting first week of July)
Amber (AmBam) Due: June 26th (prediciting early July)
springbabes (Cindy) Due: June 28
mirthfulmum (Kazia) Due: June 29th (predicting July 1st)
trmpetplaya (Betsy) Due: July 1st
IamPink (Ash) Due: July 2nd (predicting July 16th)
Lissybug (Alissa) Due: July 1st (predicting July 11th)
mommy-X-2 (Stacy) Due: July 4th
sleet76 (Stacy) Due: July 4th
acordio (Angela) Due: July 4th
amnda527 (Amanda) Due: July 4-7
beana's mommy (Melissa) Due: July 6th
pillowhead (Erica) Due: July 6th
October (October) Due: July 7th
HopesMom (Tricia) Due: July 7-9ish
MandyB (Mandy) Due: July 10th
bgb699 (Harmony) Due: July 11th
punquin (Stephanie) Due: ???

If anyone's info is incorrect or you want to be added to the roll call PM me.

[mirthfulmum]

Oh man, we got Chinese take-out for dinner tonight, I was just craving prawns and broccolli in spicey bean sauce. And once it came to the door, and I got a whiff of it I became just insanely hungry! I ate the enitre container all to myself (well I did share a couple of prawns). I can't believe I ate the whole thing in one sitting! And the really scary thing is that if there'd been another container of it I probably would've eaten that too. Then I took one look at the fried rice and lost my appetite.

Don't forget to "fall back" tonight. Daylight savings begins at 2am Sunday morning.

[trmpetplaya]

Originally Posted by mirthfulmum

Don't forget to "fall back" tonight. Daylight savings begins at 2am Sunday morning.

Gosh... I totally would have forgotten that if you hadn't posted about it : Thank you

I've been so lazy lately... I just want to sleep all the time... and I cannot wait till the owners of the dog we're dog-sitting get back on Wednesday because I am going nuts with two dogs in the house. Especially one that we didn't train so she thinks the furniture is hers Not cool.

love and peace.

[2much2luv]

Thanks for the thread! :

[mirthfulmum]

Originally Posted by 2much2luv

Thanks for the thread! :

You're welcome.

Okay the nausea has officially set in with a vengence. I woke up around 3 am with horrible nausea and stomach cramps. I was in and out of sleep, and trying to be patient as my 2 year old wanted to nurse. Ugh! It was horrible! I got up this morning feeling just awful. I was really hoping the morning sickness wasn't comming this time but it seems to be arriving right on schedule, I'm almost 6 weeks. Oh I hope it passes soon.

[2much2luv]

I'm really starting to not enjoy this pregnancy thing. : I'm feeling queasy most of the time and nothing I eat seems to settle my stomach. Smells are really starting to get to me, and is there any way to stay hydrated during pregnancy!?!?!? I remember from my other pregnancies the dry mouth at night (I'm a mouth breather) and it's already started again. Not to mention I constantly feel exhausted which isn't good when you have three busy kids to chase and clean up after. *sigh*

[mirthfulmum]

Wow, it's quiet around here... Everyone must either be napping or to nauseous to get to the computer.

[Lissybug]

Maybe we need a topic or something to get going. We all seem to be responding to the specific threads.
So far today and yesterday I'm feeling less nauseaus. It winds up making me feel worried instead of better! Like hey wait- where did that simptom go? Then again peeing is my main hobby by now, so I assume all is well.

[beana's mommy]

Hello everyone!

I took another test this morning (haven't taken one in a week) and it was super dark! So, I was very excited. I think I'm about 4 1/2 weeks now.

We're actually going for our first ultrasound on the 15th. I can't wait! It wasn't supposed to be until the 30th, but, I think my doctor wants to make sure everything is going well since I'm on progesterone and that could mask a miscarriage.

Anyone hoping for a certain sex? or have any feelings about it?

We'd be happy with either. Financially a girl could be better since our dd was an August baby so we could hopefully reuse all her clothes! But, we'd be very happy with a boy. I'm one of 3 girls and we have 3 girls in the next generation, too. We're convinced it's going to be all girls for all of us! LOL My younger sister is pregnant with her first and due the month before me, so, we'll be finding out in another 7-8 weeks what she's having!

[amnda527]

Originally Posted by Lissybug

Then again peeing is my main hobby by now, so I assume all is well.

i feel the same way!

I felt slightly nauseus this morning, I was a little excited, I admit it! Anyone else have a very powerful sense of smell lately?? Last night I got in the car with my hubby...

Me: "What smells like mint?!"
Him: "I don't smell anything"
Me: "Something in this car smells like mint!!"

We later figured out it was from my dad who was chewing gum in the car about 3 hours before. I guess the smell stayed in the car.

[sleet76]

I haven't noticed any super-nose powers for anything pleasant (like mint!), but my DS's diapers are overwhelming me! For some reason, it is the urine smell that is more troubling to my stomach than poop. Ew.

I also re-took a pregnancy test yesterday, and was excited to see a much darker line.

[mirthfulmum]

I've been considering taking another pregnancy test. It's always nice to see those really strong dark lines.

Oh and my sense of smell has become hightened as well. Yesterday I had to change H's poopy diaper, I thought I might be sick. I remember I had the smell problem during my last pregnancy. Ugh!

Anyone have any cravings yet?

[IamPink]

Let's talk emotions.
I had to go to my great-grandmother's estate auction Saturday morning (gotta love greedy cousins when they are the executor). I cried for the first 3 hours of it... non freakin stop!! It was just awful. Everything that they held up, I wanted to buy!
I am proud of myself that I didn't go into debt buying stuff, but my house is entirely too small for the stuff that I did buy (um, like a dining room set that includes a hutch that is sitting in my living room cause with the bar and table and buffet- there's no more room!). But I couldn't let strangers take her stuff! So, I kept buying things. The more that I bought, the more I cried when they would bring it to me.
It was just awful.

I've got a lot of catching up to do! And we got some more mamas while I was gone.. yippeee!!

[mirthfulmum]

Your cousins made you buy your own grandmother's belongings? Yuck!

[Woodland]

Hi everyone

I hope you guys all had a good weekend. I am so excited, I am 6 weeks today! I really wish I could speed to 17 weeks. That just seems like a good time.

Although this nauseau is getting stronger today and I have peed like 6 times in the last 20 minutes, it wasnt so bad yesterday which worked out well because we went to San Francisco. I went shopping at a new mall there with my sil while my dh and her husband went to the opera. They are lawyers so they do fancy stuff. It was fun though and I ended buying my first baby items!! I was already annoyed with how gender biased everything is. But I did find this cute organic cotton onsie set, check out their web site.

http://www.kee-ka.com/Merchant2/merc...ory_Code=dfhui

I got the "you are my sunshine" top with these cute mustard colored leggings. I also bought some blue knit booties that cost way too much (I am determined to make some myself for way cheaper). Then on the way home we went to my parents house and told them the good news. Luckily my sisters were both there so it was really fun! I had been dying to tell my mom about this pregnancy but wanted it to be special. So, I handed my parents the bag with the booties in it and said, "Look what Donny got me!" My dh and I thought it was really funny because he literally "gave" me a baby. Anways...my mom opened it up and was like, OH!!!!! You're pregnant! She was really thrilled and so was my dad. It was really sweet.

So that was my weekend. Now if I can get some energy to work on my paper for my child development class, erg.:

[mommy-X-2]

Havent had any really bad nauseau yet. The only timeI seem to get it is when Im hungry. We were in Walmart last night and I got hungry within 5 minutes I had that Im so hungry I could puck feeling. As soon as I ate it went away.
Definetly have the pg nose. I smelled smores the other day. DH couldnt smell anything. I smelled rosted marshmellows. So I went outside to feed the dog and sure enough there is the neighbor making smores. LOL!!! Now I want one.
We went out of town yesterday and had Burger King for lunch. They only thing that sounded good was their Herseys chocolate pie. It was so good. About 830 last night I wanted one again but we dont have a BK so I sent hubby to the store to find anything close. Hes so good....found the exact pie! Yummy!
Other than that the weekend was good. Woke up this morning to bleeding so Im very concerned. My nurse thinks its implantation spotting by what I described but we are still keeping a close eye on things. So please pray that things are ok.

[2much2luv]

Anyone hoping for a certain sex? or have any feelings about it?

I have three girls and, honestly, I would be so so so happy to have a boy. Of course, the standard disclaimer goes here that I'll be happy with a healthy baby plain and simple, and I really truly will be, but I ache for a son. I don't have a feeling either way yet.

I've been considering taking another pregnancy test. It's always nice to see those really strong dark lines.

I had ordered some tests from somewhere online (babyhopes?) and they didn't arrive until two days after I'd tested positive. There were actually for my next cycle since I was so sure I wasn't pregnant. Anyway, I figured I'd sell them on the TP or something. I'm such a dork, I took all three over the next three days. It is fun seeing those dark lines.

Let's talk emotions.

That has been my number one issue with this pregnancy, though morning sickness is catching up to it. I'm either completely depressed or super *itchy.

I'm sorry, IamPink. That must have been hard.

mommyX2. I hope it's nothing.

I am sick and sick and sick of being sick. I never feel good and I am so down and depressed. :

[mirthfulmum]

Hmmm... the gender question. Well I'm in a similar situation as 2much2luv. I have 2 boys now. I love and adore my boys, they are my heart. But it would be nice to have a little girl. Ever since I was little I'd always pictured my "perfect" family as having 2 boys and a girl, so I've got my 2 boys, I kinda just expect this babe to be a girl. That being said I would be thrilled for another little boy to join our family. 3 boys just sounds like a big chaotic mass of fun. When Dh and I agreed to go for our third and last babe, we had to agree that if we get pregnant we have to be expecting a boy. Statistically speaking we're more likely to have a boy based on that we already have 2 boys. So I didn't want to go in trying for a girl. It seemed wrong to TTC just to get one gender. There's no guarantees, and I've heard too many stories of women trying one last time for that boy/girl, not getting it and being terribly dissapointed and depressed. So sad for the momma and the little babe.

mellybelly - What a sweet way to tell you parents.

mommy-X-2 - :

2much2luv & the other queasy mommas out there - Have you tried drinking pepermint tea? Chewing ginger candy? Munching fennel seed? All things that worked for me in the past.

[2much2luv]

I haven't had the chance (or a settled enough stomach) to get to the store to buy anything to try yet. I've tried peppermint mints because they were already here. It's hard to decide what might work because nothing sounds appatizing at all. I'll try to pick up something gingery today.
I was never this sick with my others.

[shelley4]

you can add me to the role call! i just POAS and got a BFP!!!!!!!!

i'm so happy and excited and shocked!

i would be due July 13-15th ish i think. i'll need to consult the midwives, as my cycles have been wacky lately.