Roll Call! - Page 5

[Ironica]

I had a c-section with my last pregnancy, my boy was breech. I am considering a VBAC with this one...any thoughts or experiences on this out there? No homebirth for me...too risky with a VBAC. I may use a mibwife with my future pregnancies, but with this one I'm seeing a family doctor just to err on the safe side.

If you feel safer, that's what counts. I'm going back to the same midwife practice I used for the birth of my son, which ended up as a c-section. They have a 95% VBAC success rate, and do them all the time. It's not like there aren't doctors all over the place if one becomes necessary... it IS a hospital after all ;-).

[ProvidenceEastSide]

Hello!

We just found out I'm pregnant! This is my first, so I will definitely be lurking around here a lot to get some insight from the more experienced mamas. I'm excited, but surprised at how anxious I'm feeling. I got pregnant after trying for only a couple months, and I guess I thought it would take a little longer. So it all feels so sudden. Thankfully the excitement is the prominent emotion. But there's just so much to think about!

Anyway, nice to "meet" you all. I look forward to reading more from you. Oh -- "official" due date is April 5.

[TaraD.]

Hi there!

Newly pregnant girl in the room. We just found out yesterday. I think that puts my due date at April 19. This will be our first, so we're pretty excited (and just a little nervous too ).

It's great to meet you all!

Tara

[eksmom]

Hi! We just got a this morning for baby #2! It's still really early, I'm about 12 DPO, but really hoping I get to stay in this DDC.

DH and I have one DD who will be 4 at the end of September. Looking forward to getting to know all of you better!

[rmzbm]

Congrats & welcome to the newbies!

[sadiejane08]

Welcome, mamas! Glad to have you here!

[mommaduck]

Due April 5, 2008. I have 6 children. This will be my 2nd homebirth.

[heather_c]

Another Newbie...

I have one DS who will be 2 in September. His birth was a "trainwreck" that ended in a c/s. I have become much more knowledgable and involved in birth support. His birth inspired me to become a doula. I am planning on a VBAC this birth and maybe a HBAC depending on finding the right midwife. I am due middle to end of April.

I was involved in a very mainstream ddc with my DS, so I am looking forward to some "crunchier" support this time around.

[eksmom]

Originally Posted by heather_c

I was involved in a very mainstream ddc with my DS, so I am looking forward to some "crunchier" support this time around.

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[BlueIrises]

I am still inshock from the news that I am PG again. This is my second PG. It took us awhile to get PG w/my DS and we had to go through a bunch of fertility treatment due to my blocked left tube. I was very lucky to have success with my first IVF last March. Jack was born in Decembe in a hospital after 58 HOURS OF LABOR! I had a doula who was at home with me for the first two days...when I went to the hospital I thought for sure I was 5 or more cm due to the intense pain I was in...turns out I was 1 cm...I had been 1 cm for 3 weeks...I was exhausted from not sleeping or being able to rest for the two days so I stayed at the hospital...I made it 50 hours w/o meds but was just so darn exhausted from lack of sleep and extreme pain and still I was only 3-4 cm...I caved and asked for an epi so I could sit on something other than a yoga ball and relax my body...as anti-MDC as this is it was the best thing ever at that point: ...after 3 hours of pushing in every possible position, my DS was born as purple as an eggplant due to the cord being around his neck...but all was fine.

I had a great PG and never felt better about myself and my body as I did last year...I am hoping I feel just as great this time.

I am still BF my 8mo son and I am very unknowledgeable about how this will all work with being PG...but so far DS hasn't acted any different.

This PG was a complete surprise. I was actually due to have surgery tomorrow to fix my tube but when I didn't get my period on Sun, my RE told me to take a test and there it was +...I got my Beta back today and my # look good although they are so different from last time due to the lack of drugs this time. I go for another test tomorrow to make sure my #'s are rising and I will have an u/s next week to make sure the baby has implanted in my blocked tube. I am at higher risk for that according to my RE. This is all very surreal to me and I feel like I am waiting for the other shoe to drop...I am so nervous during the first trimester...

I am a teacher an was planning to stay on maternity leave until Jan so I could be home with DS until he was one, but now I am going back to work in Sept and I'm really sad about that. I am very happy to be PG but I am grieving the loss of time with my son Jack...he has some big milestones coming up and I'm sad I will not be there to witness them...however in order for me to take off next school year I have to go back this one...

I will have another hospital birth but would like to make it through w/o any drugs. I think I am going to do the Bradley training this time. For me the key to birthing is relaxing and I know that is what held me up last time, I just couldn't relax so the baby wouldn't drop down and progress...

I'm excited that they will be close in age but I am wondering how I will do b/c DS is a handful.

I am happy with either gender but I will admit a girl would be nice...twins would be neat too...my mother was a twin but I don't know if she was fraternal or identical and only fraternal twins are hereditary so who knows...

Best wishes to everyone. Have a safe and healthy PG!

Oh I'm due April 12th

[cubasianchica]

here i go again with the worries...please give me feedback. today I had a pretty stressed out day at work. I try to not let it get to me but it does. I think i had a mini anxiety attack and my chest has been hurting ever since. its been hurting off and on for about the last 8 hours. Its in my left breast...I get this shooting pain and its worse than I have ever felt and it lasts for a few seconds and then goes away only to return a few minutes later. I notice it mostly hurts when I move a certain way but it doesnt hurt when I touch it...is this stress related or SUPER sore nips from the pregnancy??? and should I worry? at what point should I worry? again Ive never quite had anything like this....
Also (BEWARE TMI COMING UP) im a little concerned cuz since I found out I was pregnant (i will be 6 weeks on friday) I have had diarrhea...well sort of. Its been off and on, mostly on, and its not full on diarrhea its more like really really soft stool...I know TMI im sorry but Im freaking out...also it been a little on the light side...color wise..really light brown almost a hint of yellow in there (im so sorry again for tmi... im so imbarassed to even say it but Im concerned) I always thought you were supposted to be constipated in pg...not the opposite. Is this ok? anyone go through this? please help and again im sorry I hope I didnt gross anyone out. im just looking for help

[BlueIrises]

prior to my 1st pregnancy I was lucky if i pooped 1x/wk...pregnancy made me regular...my DH would tease me all the time shouting, you're pooping again? I was never constipated

[aloneinid]

My due date is April 18. My husband and I are about to celebrate our 6th wedding anniversary, we have a DS who is nearly 3. His birth was wonderful, unmedicated at a freestanding birth center, but we are avoiding the drive this time (45 minutes- not fun in labor) and having a home birth with the same midwives. Although I felt like I had a home birth the first time, it will be nice to "officially" join the club this time around! Additionally, we may end up a UC (fine with me), as my first labor was 4 1/2 hours start to finish and our midwives will have an hour-long drive to our home.

[eksmom]

cubasianchica, I was never constipated in my life until after DD was born... during the pregnancy, I also never threw up, but had lots of trouble with diarrhea. During the first tri, anything I would eat would go right through me and I think I lost 6 or 8 pounds total before I started to gain. I actually changed to a prenatal that didn't have stool softener in it since I obviously didn't need it! I'd not heard of this for pregnancy either, but I guess it does happen to some women. For this pregnancy, it looks like I might actually be on the constipated end of things - no diarrhea yet and things seem to be slowing down.

[apmama2myboo]

hello :)

I am due April 7. my dh and i will be married 10 years on 9/27. our dd is 3.5 yrs old and she's the best I am a SAHM who is also an artist (all fine arts and fibers but really concentrating on painting) and I have a BA in English as well Looking forward to getting to know you all between trips to the bathroom to explode. LOL

jen
caitlyn 2/9/04

[rubyeta]

Hi, this will be my 4th baby, if everything goes well. i have had 2 m/c's in the past year. the first one went undiagnosed for 6 weeks,so i thought i was 12 wks pg. i only had light spotting. I had an u/s to see what was going on and there was a 6wk 2day size embryo w no heartbeat (i had severe food poisioning at 6wks). so i ended up getting a d&c. that sucked.
I have 2 ds's 8 & 11. and 1 dd 20 months(i traded up in the husband dpt)
My dd was bron at home in the tub after 2 hours of active labor. I cant wait to do it again.
I had hyperemesis w #2. not much m/s yet this time. who would have thought that i would ever hope for nausea?
I love the support that this DDC offers! looking forward to getting to know you all.
Oh yeah, this baby was 'made in italy'

[cubasianchica]

rubyeta- welcome!!! I hope this baby sticks for you!!! this is my #2...first one unfortunatly didnt survive due to anencephaly diagnosed at 5 12/ months. I know what you mean about hoping for m/s....I have been feeling fine up until today. i think today is the first day of m/s not 1/2 as bad as last time though but I feel better knowing that I have symptoms youre supposed to (for the most part) have. Im 6 weeks tomorrow. Good luck!

[newmom80]

I'm here to introduce myself and was reading everyone's post when I stumbled across this one that I swear I could have wrote!

Originally Posted by ralphie76

Hi everyone!

This is pregnancy #1 for me- we started TTC in March, although I've been ready since 2004! I am very excited, but also strangely calm about it. For something that is so long-awaited, I'd think I'd be more giddy! DH was not ready for a baby until our planned TTC date of March, and while he doesn't have any baby experience, I think he will get more and more excited as we go. Right now I think he is still waiting to see if it's "real". He asked me if the 4 positive pregnancy tests couldn't just be telling me that my period is about to start

I am planning a home waterbirth. I would love for it to end up UC, but I will be seeing a midwife for prenatal care. I am planning as few interventions as possible- no testing, ultrasounds, etc.

My "due date" is April 3, but I will just be telling everyone mid-April- I don't want to deal with everyone bugging me!

As a college professor, my big concern right now is planning for my leaves!

I can't wait to get to know you all! I've been so excited to join a DDC!

Except I'm not a college professor! Same story - I've been ready since 04. Hubby wasn't so we tried foster parenting. He was finally ready TTC in March and we tried that month, failed, then I got sick for a couple of months. We sorta tried in July (I didn't track temps this time, so not too serious trying), and boom, we're pregnant now! I have had 3 positive tests and am AF is 9 days late, and he's still a little unsure if we are pregnant...

Ditto on planning a homebirth, hoping it will be a UC. I even sort of told my midwife that on the phone. She's a couple of hours away and wanted to make sure I wasn't concerned, and I told her: nope, if I have the baby before she gets here that just means things went really naturally and quickly. Also, planning for no ultrasound, not finding out the gender, not planning any testing, etc. I will get a urinalysis in a couple of months when she listens to the baby's heartbeat.

This is our first pregnancy. We are due April 10th. (I'm also planning to tell people late April so that they don't start calling me everyday and asking if I'm in labor yet starting April 8th!) I would love to go late and have a girl born on April 18th. My late grandmother was born on April 18th and if I have a girl I'm naming her after her. I will also be 100% happy with a baby boy who I plan to name after my husband.

We don't plan to tell anyone we know until beginning of October when we've cleared the first trimester. We don't plan to tell my inlaws about our homebirth until after it happens - I already have chosen a hospital and OBGYN to pretend I'm using when they ask!

Well, I'm EXCITED! Nice to meet you all! - Sarah

[crissei]

Hi, joining up!

I'm due on April 14th, planning a UBAC. Nice to see that I'm not the only one.

I am working hard to try to avoid the issues I had with Bobby, but still a little nervous.:

[cubasianchica]

Im getting more nervous....my next appointment is friday and hope to see my baby for the first time. my morning sickness still hasnt really kicked in...there are a few moments that I feel blah and maybe a little queezy but not full on morning sickness like last time....that makes me think one of 2 things...1 there might be something wrong or 2 maybe its a boy because last time I was so sick it was a girl. Im a little scared its a nboy because muscular dystrophy runs in my family...im getting tested to see if im a carrier..if I am he has 50% chance of having it....or I guess it could be a 3rd options...maybe this pg is just different. Just have to wait and see I guess.