Weekly chat Nov 27 - Dec 3

[Ursula Rose]

Hi! Welcome August mamas. I thought we sholud have a weekly chat thread for us to talk about what's new, who we are, and how things are going.

I am so amazed to be here. I am due with our first on August 1. We were TTC for 12 cycles.

I am excited today because we are interviewing our first midwifery team tonight at 6.

[Robynee]

That is exciting. I am going to wait til the holidays are over to make my first appointment. My first babe was born by c-section and the hospitals near me will not allow me a vbac so I have to travel a bit to find a midwife and a hospital that I will be happy with.

[Kindermama]

I checked in on the other thread. We just found out today. I can't think beyond the positive test yet! I feel like I was just looking at DD's! We just moved to another state so I have to find another midwife.

[sarahkjack]

Yippee, the August board is finally up! I'm Sarah, mommy to 3, expecting # 4 on August 7th. I'm praying for a sticky baby this time - we lost one in August of this year.

[Ursula Rose]

Does someone want to volunteer to start the due date list thread???

[Robynee]

I'll do it if you all will bear with me. I'm still getting used to all the features on this forum.

[nfbmom]

I will actually be going to my PCP on Wednesday. I have to have a stitch in my cervix everytime I get pg so I go in before the usual first visit so we can get it scheduled. Actually, I'm going in even earlier than usual cause when I called to make the appt yesterday and explained why I needed an earlier appt than the usual 10-12 wk first visit she suggested this week. I was thinking more like 8 weeks but 8 weeks is getting pretty close to Christmas and earlier would probably be earlier. I guess it doesn't really matter when I discuss the details. I just feel silly going in so early. :blush

Later on I will start seeing a Midwife for prenatals and will use the PCP for emergencies. Well, I'm hoping thats what will happen! :lol Thats one of the things I need to discuss with him.

Yeah, I'm rambling! Sorry

[mamabearsoblessed]

Congrats to all of you Mamas!!!I'm so happy to be here! :grouphug :jumpers:

[Glittergal]

hi mammas! looks like i'm joining you here as well although, i'm a little superstitious about talking too much too early. this pregnancy was not unplanned but a happened a bit sooner than we expected. but we're delighted. so different from with my daughter, who was a compete surprise and i didn't have a clue until i was almost 8 wks. lol. anyone else already dreading dealing with the summer heat and end of pregnancy? i HATE the heat. i'm due aug 6 and we'll be having a homebirth, as we did with my daughter. can't wait to get to know you all!

[the_lissa]

I am also neervous about the heat. I hate the heat. I'm due Aug 8th, and our new house doesn't have c/a. I think we will have to get some window units.

[Ursula Rose]

i hadn't even thought about the heat until you all mentioned it. we don't have air conditioning either because the only hot months in portland, oregon are july and august.

[Robynee]

I'm not too worried about it. We have wall units in both bedrooms and the living room. Dh likes it cold in here during the summer. I am always freezing year round so I am thrilled that my body temp has been up lately. Although, we're having some strange weather. (What do I expect? I live in New England. :) )

[an_evans]

I am planning to hibernate in my ac for the last 2-3 months.

[glendora]

At least maternity wear will be cheaper for summer stuff than for winter stuff. So... there's a silver lining of sorts :bouncy

Plus, we can all wear big ole' flip flops when the swollen feet arrive!

Hee.

[Ursula Rose]

how are you all dealing with staying positive in the first trimester?

i'm nervous on and off every day. i wouldn't say i'm worried, just anxious. i've been waiting for so long for the bfp. i want it to stick.

[Robynee]

Hmmm. I was doing really good up til yesterday. I brought home fruit flies from the grocery store last week and now if I don't get all the trash out every night, they are breeding like crazy. Plus ds decided to do everything in his power to get under my skin yesterday. I think I'm just being overly sensitive though. As far as the baby, I am calm and have the utmost confidence that everything will be ok. I don't know why and I know that isn't very helpful but I just feel relaxed where the little one is concerned. Maybe because I'm stressing about everything else?

[nfbmom]

Robynee,

Take a quart jar and put honey in the bottom of it. Then twist a piece of paper together to make a cone, tape it, then stick it in the top of the jar. Put it in the area where the flies are the heaviest. The flies will go in but very few will make it out again. I did it the last time I had them really bad and it worked great. After most of the flies were gone I just took it outside and took the paper out. A little while later the flies were gone and I washed what was stuck in there out.

[Robynee]

Thanks nfbmom. That's exactly what I'm doing, only I've been using cider vinegar instead of honey. It seems to be working well. I might switch to the honey though. The vinegar makes me want to gag every time I walk by it. :irked:
I have the nicest bamboo fruit basket and I keep trying to use it for fruit but I just can't leave it out. Now the basket is full of keys, sunglasses, and mail. Not so pretty.

[the_lissa]

I'm actually really calm and positive this time. I am just dreading hyperemsis setting in again, especially as I wake up for work at 4am.

[Robynee]

:lol I had to look that up!
hyperemesis-pernicious vomiting in pregnancy. :scratchUmm, ok.
pernicious-Highly injurious; deadly; destructive; exceedingly harmful.
Aah. :idea Oh :bigeyes :scared
:lol

[Ary99]

I got a chuckle reading everyone's concerns about birthing in the hottest part of summer. I'm due August 9th. . .AGAIN! That's right, DS will turn 4 on my due date, and it was indeed very hot (our energy bill was ridiculous).

Ursula Rose, a word about keeping positive:

I worried the entire time I was pg with DS. I felt like I had a bomb strapped to my belly. I ordered a Babybeat so I could hear his heartbeat whenever I wanted (something to think about. .. it was helpful to me). One day he was so sick of it he kicked it right off my tummy (I didn't realize how loud it must have sounded until a friend who's an audio engineer looked at it). I worried and nothing happened. Not a darn thing. It was an uneventful pregnancy, uneventful birth and a big waste of time and energy.

With my second pregnancy, I decided worrying didn't change anything, so I embraced it from the get go. I pulled out maternity stuff. I told people casually after we'd seen the heartbeat. Then, the baby died.

But worrying wouldn't have changed that either. I don't regret submitting myself to the process then, and I feel myself falling in love even now. I'm a realist. I know the unthinkable can and does happen. Lightening strikes twice (or more) more often than we think, but each day I am pregnant with this baby is an honor and a privilege. It's understandable to be guarded, but try to enjoy what you can.

Blessings~
Hilary

[Ursula Rose]

Thanks Hilary. I really appreciate your experiences. This is the first time I've been pregnant and I don't know many people who have been. Even though we are in our 30s, most of my friends have never been pregnant.

I guess I also am dealing the extreme want and desire. I want this to work out. It feels similar to the ttc time in that there is a lot of waiting and moving forward with life no matter what's happening with my body.

[sarahkjack]

<<how are you all dealing with staying positive in the first trimester?

i'm nervous on and off every day. i wouldn't say i'm worried, just anxious. i've been waiting for so long for the bfp. i want it to stick.>>

I'm guarded as I had a m/c in August. But I am also excited and embracing ALLLLL pg signs, lol!

Sarah, mama to Nathaniel, Ethan & Emily
Expecting a new bundle of joy 8/7/06!

[KarmaChameleon]

this pregnancy was not unplanned but a happened a bit sooner than we expected.
:yeah:
OH. MY. GOD.

My hubby is away tonight and I was cleaning our bathroom and found an hpt from forever ago and thought, hey I'll just pee on it for fun....

:yikes: :+

I can't believe it. 8 p.m. and the lines came up instantly, I didn't even realize I was a couple days late for AF til after I saw the lines.

#3 for me, this was quite surprise. I think I will be due around Aug. 11, I am not too happy about the summer pregnany, which is the whole reason we were waiting!!!!! ACK!

I need to sleep on this one.

[Glittergal]

congrats KarmaChameleon! I think we were in the equinox mamas together, although I didn't post much. We were also going to start trying in late Jan-Feb to try to avoid the heat as well! I always swore I would never again be in my third trimester in the summer :lol At least this time around I have AC!

[KarmaChameleon]

Hi GlitterGal! i do remember you from the Equinox days. Sage was born Sept 5 that year and I was absolutely homicidal. I was totally waiting til Feb to start trying so I didn't have to go thru that kind of mental anguish this time around. PLus my "baby" will start kindergarten next Sept and I wanted to focus on that before introducing a new baby into the house.

I guess babies come into the family on their time, not ours. :love

[jenmk]

Hi, mamas and mamas-to-be!

I'm due August 11 with baby #3. I'm 35, soon to be 36, and this will be our last baby.

I hadn't thought too much about the heat until reading this thread. My other two babies were born in the summer--one June and one in August. Didn't affect me much because I stayed in the a/c. Of course, it didn't occur to me until just now that I DON'T HAVE A/C ANYMORE!!! OMG. Well, I'll just have to hope for a mild summer.

When we first talked pregnancy with baby #1, I kept telling DH that I did not want to be hugely pg during the summer. Well, here I am again for the 3rd time. The best laid plans . . .

I'm staying positive by assuming all will go well. And relishing every sign of pregnancy . . . even the nausea. Each sign gives a feeling of comfort that everything is okay. Can't wait for the movement to start (such a long way off, it seems at this point). That's the best part of being pg--feeling baby move. And so comforting to know baby is fine.

This is our last baby, so I'm going to be saying goodbye to baby-making during this pg. Maybe that'll help me enjoy the pg more--hah! I love being pg, I love the fact that I'm pg, and am so looking forward to the end result, but have never enjoyed the physical reality of it. Feels as if some alien being has taken over my body . . . my body just doesn't feel like my body when I'm pg. It's disconcerting. I know people who say they've never felt better than when they're pg . . . I'm not one of them. The exact opposite, in fact.

But I'm so happy to be here! And looking forward to getting to know you all.

Be well.