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[birthmommom]

I see this is your first, are there any Muslim traditions for a new baby?

How does dh feel about having a little girl?

what type of work do you do? what are your work plans after the baby, if any?

[isra1986]

The tradition for this baby is just for my husband to say the call to prayer in her ear after she is born. And one week after she comes, i invite all of my friends and family to meet the new baby.

My husband was so excited to have a daughter! We both wanted a girl. He wanted to buy her a pink bicycle right away after we found out the gender. We were both releived it was a girl because my mom had bought nothing but pink from the moment we told her I was having a baby! And we couldn't think of boy names, but only could think of girl names. We have names picked out even if we have 2 more daughters, lol.

My husband and some of his childhood friends own 5 Subway resturants and a Cold Stone ice cream store. I have stopped working full time now, I only go in for maybe 10 hours a week. This summer I was working 14 hours a day! I will probably stop working after the baby comes for atleast one year. I will still go to the store everyday because it is only 2 miles from my house, so I plan to walk there everyday to lose all my weight!

Originally Posted by birthmommom

I see this is your first, are there any Muslim traditions for a new baby?

How does dh feel about having a little girl?

what type of work do you do? what are your work plans after the baby, if any?

[eilonwy]

Cold Stone.. .

Are you planning to have more kids?

[isra1986]

We both have big families, so yeah. I am 1 of 5 and DH is 1 of 9! I want to have atleast 4 kids.

[Writerbird]

I know you had a little... drama... with your husband earlier in the year. It sounds like he really came around. What do you think did the trick? Do you think the experience will help the two of you work together with your daughter?

[isra1986]

To be completly honest, we are a work in progress still, lol. We are 2 of the most stubborn people in this world! But thankfully in the past month things have settled down. He has realized he needs to make some changes. I think what solved it all was me just giving him the choice in what he wanted instead of trying to control the situation and force it to be fixed. I told him his 2 choices were to continue the life he was living (Flirting with girls, chatting online, all that stuff) or to have a clean life with his wife and daughter. He chose us.

Originally Posted by Writerbird

I know you had a little... drama... with your husband earlier in the year. It sounds like he really came around. What do you think did the trick? Do you think the experience will help the two of you work together with your daughter?

[StrawberryFields]

Originally Posted by isra1986

The tradition for this baby is just for my husband to say the call to prayer in her ear after she is born. And one week after she comes, i invite all of my friends and family to meet the new baby.

Does that mean you don't have any visitors the first week including close family? Or will you still be inviting the new grandparents and such for a sneak peek before the week is up?

[isra1986]

My mom and my family are going to be there in the hospital with me, but just close family will be there. I will wait one week to get everything settled until I invite friends to my house. DH's family is all still in Palestine, so they will have to wait until she is about 6 months and I go over there.