It's 2007, November '05 Mamas!!! - Page 12

[MamaFern]

DID: oh my! you are so close!! i cant even believe it i wonder how soon your little one will come.. sending birthing vibes your way

and yay on the dp job news..thats great! i knew that things would work out for you..

[flapjack]

DiD, are you expecting to go late again? Or is this going to be the baby who arrives bang on her due date? Whatever, I can't believe it's so close I'm glad your dp's gainfully employed. Unemployment stinks.

[spughy]

DiD, I'm glad your DH is working You must be getting so excited about the new little one!

We are having a really nice weekend here. The weather is beautiful and we went to the park and fed the squirrels and the ducks.

And this post is going to be cut short due to the little one trying to clamber into my lap...

[DreamsInDigital]

I don't expect to be "on time" but I really hope that I don't go to 42 weeks again. That was unbearable.
I don't have any signs of impending labor, but I'll keep you guys posted.

[Phoenix_Rising]

Originally Posted by DreamsInDigital

Oh yes I forgot to update about DP's job situation. He was offered a position on a different contract within the same company. The position itself is a demotion but he actually got a 75 cent an hour raise for taking it. He's still applying for a management position but at least for now he's still employed.

9 days until my due date!

Originally Posted by DreamsInDigital

I don't expect to be "on time" but I really hope that I don't go to 42 weeks again. That was unbearable.
I don't have any signs of impending labor, but I'll keep you guys posted.

Thinking of you

[SoulJourney]

Sending comforting labor vibes your way, DiD!

[flapjack]

Sending many punctuality vibes your way, DiD. (OT, WHY doesn't Mothering have a clock smiley for all those overdue babies????) I decided this morning that I don't like my "official" due date, so from now on I'm due 41 weeks after I ovulated, on the 15th September. And I bet even now I'm still late...

[MelW]

Originally Posted by flapjack

Sending many punctuality vibes your way, DiD. (OT, WHY doesn't Mothering have a clock smiley for all those overdue babies????) I decided this morning that I don't like my "official" due date, so from now on I'm due 41 weeks after I ovulated, on the 15th September. And I bet even now I'm still late...

That's terrific! Will you be giving the 15th to your midwives, family, etc. as your due date?

Fingers crossed for a punctual baby, DID.

[DreamsInDigital]

I'm 39 weeks. Sigh. I went to the store the other day and the lady asked when I was due. I told her and she says "And they're still letting you out of the house?!?!?!" Like I was insanely walking around with a baby half hanging out of me. And anyway, who is this "they" she was talking about? Nobody tells me what to do!
I'm so bored! It's not like I want to sit around my house waiting for labor to start. I don't have the patience. I'm trying to be zen about this since I'm not even 40 weeks yet but my zen is rapidly crumbling into "get this baby out of me now!" Ugh.

[flapjack]

Hey, that's a good sign! Total fed-upness is a good thing.
Have you had a cold yet? Pretty much every mother of a winter baby I know had a stonking cold/flu/the sniffles within 21 days of giving birth. It has to be 21 days, because that's the minimum possible amount of time for a cold virus to mutate enough that you need new antibodies and baby wouldn't be protected by your antibodies sent across the placenta.
Mel, it was really embarrassing. I did the maths, figured out what the last day of my LMP should be to get the due date that I "wanted", and gave that to my GP to do my booking for a scan yesterday. He put it into the computer, ran it through the wheel thing to doublecheck and said "no, that would make you due on the 17th." DOH! I did say that my fictitious period in December was very light though...

[*Amy*]

Originally Posted by DreamsInDigital

I'm so bored! It's not like I want to sit around my house waiting for labor to start. I don't have the patience. I'm trying to be zen about this since I'm not even 40 weeks yet but my zen is rapidly crumbling into "get this baby out of me now!" Ugh.

I totally felt that way at 39 weeks, too! I remember it so vividly. I can't believe we're going to get another baby in our DDC.

I feel like I haven't checked in a while. It's just been so busy because DH was out of town for a week interviewing for jobs, and it seems like being a single parent while he's gone just gets harder and harder. His trip last week garnered two follow-up interviews; both companies are in Michigan, though. : One is in Kalamazoo, which I think would be OK, but the other is in Detroit. I actually got onto the Detroit tribe thread, and a lot of people say that living there is fine, so I guess I don't feel as mortified about it as I did initially. And if he doesn't get one of these jobs, it's not a huge deal because he's not officially out of the Navy until May 31st, so I feel like we still have some time.

Brynn's sleeping has been getting better (amazingly so), or I guess I should say, it *was* getting better until DH got home. He's totally disrupted our routine the past two nights, and even got her upset and crying and then took her out of bed after I had laid her down, which REALLY pissed me off. I am going to talk to him tonight and let him know that he cannot be in the room *at all* once I put her down. I feel like he's totally set the process back because he thinks he can "help." Arrrrghh! But anyway, like I said, she was doing so well before he came home. Two nights ago, she actually got into her bed while she was still awake, and played and talked for a few minutes before laying down on her own and falling asleep. Then, I think she woke up within an hour, so I told her it was still time for night-night, and she actually laid back down and went back to sleep (with the help of some back rubbing) that time too. Hallelujah! I'm hoping tonight we'll get back on track.

Oh, but in other good news - DH and I had our first "date" last night since Brynn's birth, and it was really nice. A good friend of ours and her 1-year old son (Brynn's buddy) came over and stayed with her while we went out, and she knows them both so well that I don't think she even really noticed that we were gone! We really enjoyed getting to eat slowly, and getting to have an actual conversation that wasn't interrupted 50 times by "GET DOWN! GET DOWN!" etc. It was fun.

Originally Posted by flapjack

I did the maths, figured out what the last day of my LMP should be to get the due date that I "wanted", and gave that to my GP to do my booking for a scan yesterday. He put it into the computer, ran it through the wheel thing to doublecheck and said "no, that would make you due on the 17th." DOH!

Ha ha!! God is punishing you for being sneaky, Helen!! Just kidding, but that is hilarious.

I've been thinking about zjande the past couple of days. Did she get married this past weekend? She did get pregnant last cycle, right?

Spiritmomma, thank you so much for sharing your art. It was really beautiful, and I loved the symbolism. Awesome. Are you feeling more like yourself again the past few days?

That's all I can think of to say for now.

[DreamsInDigital]

No Helen, I haven't had a cold in months. Everyone in my house has been sick at least twice since the last time I was ill. So I guess I'm looking at being pregnant for at least another 3 weeks according to your theory, right?
No freaking way. Not on my life. Not in a billion years will I ever be more than 42 weeks pregnant. I would rather spend the next month sitting in a tub of cold Jello with fire ants crawling all over me.

[SoulJourney]

Zjande's pregnant? Did I miss something??? :

ETA...Amy...Detroit proper can be icky but Royal Oak, a burb, is awesome.

[Phoenix_Rising]

Originally Posted by DreamsInDigital

I'm 39 weeks. Sigh. I went to the store the other day and the lady asked when I was due. I told her and she says "And they're still letting you out of the house?!?!?!" Like I was insanely walking around with a baby half hanging out of me. And anyway, who is this "they" she was talking about? Nobody tells me what to do!
I'm so bored! It's not like I want to sit around my house waiting for labor to start. I don't have the patience. I'm trying to be zen about this since I'm not even 40 weeks yet but my zen is rapidly crumbling into "get this baby out of me now!" Ugh.

Oh, yeah, "them". I remember "them". There were people who couldn't believe I was planning on working up to my EDD; for some convenient reason many people forget that worldwide women give birth and then go right back to work the same day. (Thankfully that is not needed of me though)

Originally Posted by DreamsInDigital

No Helen, I haven't had a cold in months. Everyone in my house has been sick at least twice since the last time I was ill. So I guess I'm looking at being pregnant for at least another 3 weeks according to your theory, right?
No freaking way. Not on my life. Not in a billion years will I ever be more than 42 weeks pregnant. I would rather spend the next month sitting in a tub of cold Jello with fire ants crawling all over me.

A tub of jellow with fire ants crawling all over you? Wow! I certainly hope that you don't go more than 42 weeks then.

[DreamsInDigital]

LOL me neither.

[flapjack]

Zjande can't be pregnant yet. She'd have told us, and be playing with me in September DDC. This much I know And unfortunately, we're onto October mamas now and no Zjande- there's a limit to how far back I'm going to move my EDD to be pregnant with her, you know? I kind of wanted all three 26/11/05 mamas to birth on the same day again, but it doesn't look like that's going to be happening sprgrl's due a good week or so ahead of my earliest possible date.

DiD, you're about to totally disprove my theory by going into swift, painless and speedy labour this afternoon (wait, no,this evening. 11pm?) and producing a healthy, bouncing baby girl. She will be born in the caul (imo, the single most comfortable way imaginable to have a baby), have just enough hair that none of it falls out but enough that you can put bows and bells and barrettes in as soon as you want, and look great in pink, and purple, and blue. How's that for a prediction? Oh, and you will have no tearing, grazing, or any other residual owies. You will be able to fasten your skinny jeans in 8 weeks time Her brothers will love her, dote on her, and you won't be able to get near her to cuddle her because the fan club will be in the way. Even Winter
Who will be asleep throughout the whole thing, but will hug you as soon as he sees you tomorrow morning
How's that? Perfect birth story?

[*Amy*]

LOL! And don't forget, she'll latch on perfectly within 10 minutes of birth, which will mark the beginning of a perfect and pain free nursing relationship!

OK, I did not mean to start rumors about zjande. I just couldn't remember! :

I forgot to say yesterday, my other news is that I finally have my cycle back again, almost 2 years exactly from the last one. I have mixed feelings about it. I was super grouchy and impatient yesterday, and I figured out last night that that is probably why. Also, now that I have an IUD, my cramps are about 100x worse than before (but I never really had cramps before, so these are probably well within the normal range for most people). But it kind of feels nice to be getting closer to "normal," even slowly. And it is definitely good to have an increase in my almost non-existent libido!

[Queen of Cups]

My cycle came back at 8.5 months (I'm tandem nursing - how unfair is that!?), but just this month it really seemed to normalize. I finally had a luteal phase that was over 9 days - it jumped to 12! I feel like my body is back to normal now, and its good to know that I'll be able to get pregnant again when I want to (in about a year). I had been worrying since my luteal phase was so short for every cycle since Ellie was born.

Amy - I've had terrible cramps since my cycle started back. I have endometriosis, though, so even though they're awful they're not quite as bad as they were before having kids. Cramps feel like early labor for me, seriously. I used to have to start taking prescription strength advil a couple days before my period and during the entire thing in addition to being on the pill. I remember some days walking hunched over it was so bad. Now, its just painful but not debilitating. I was really hoping, though, that two pregnancies and extended nursing (the lack of cycles during those) would be a true "cure" for my endo.

Ellie is just so darn cute these days! We call her Saint Ellie because she always shares everything with her older brother, even though he never shares with her. He loves her so much, though, its cute: he wants to hold her hand when we're walking places, and sometimes if she's in the grocery cart seat he'll walk along beside to hold her hand. AWWWW!

[spughy]

No period here yet, although I'm wondering if it's about to start because that would be a good explanation of why my milk supply took a sudden nosedive yesterday. Sigh. I am SO sick of dealing with supply issues. I have added massive doses of fenugreek to the domperidone and blessed thistle I am already taking, but I am running out of energy - mental and physical - to deal with this and at a point not too distant I think I am just going to say "screw it" and let nature take its course. The other possibility is that I worked out too hard on Monday and my body is stealing resources from the milk factory to repair my muscles. But I LIKE working out hard, dammit! I like feeling good and stiff the next day.

I'm going to work out again today. I have NOT lost any weight for over week (and I've only lost 3 lbs total on my no-refined-carbs regime) so I'm not running a calorie deficit that would affect my supply, but I really, really want to exercise.

Rowan has been wonderful with it so far though. My letdown was a looooong time coming when she nursed this morning but when she stopped nursing after about 5 minutes of no letdown I said to her "if you keep sucking, the booby juice will come, just be patient" and she went back and tried again and after another minute or so she got a letdown. A VAST improvement over the last time my supply tanked to this degree, when she just bit me if she got tired of working on the letdown.

Oh and Rowan and DH both have colds. Rowan's isn't bad - yet - but DH couldn't talk this morning because his throat was so sore.

[DreamsInDigital]

Oh Helen that sounds like a fabulous dreamy birth story! I'm thinking I'll probably still be pregnant for at least another week or more, though.