hailing from canada!

[Queen of my Castle]

Hello girls, I want to introduce myself b/c I don't always have time to properly engage in all the convo's. I'm 25 and from Ontario, Canada, and I'm pregnant with #2!! We think (by my own calculations) that I'm due April 12, 2007, but I have my first midwife appointment on Thursday to get her opinion. We were trying for 8 months to conceive, when #1 took 1! My cycles really varied in length, and I'm pretty sure I only ovulated a few times (stopped bf in Feb). My son is 20 months old-he's an absolute doll, and my husband works in construction. We have a straw bale house we built ourselves and are off-grid with solar power and generator...we live in the beautiful lake country of Muskoka! I am an artist/painter, and had my first, very successful solo show in the falll of last year- I've been showing since and have another solo in December.
I'm excited to be pregnant- I 'feel' it more with this one than I did with my son Axel, although I'm not really sick. I had an excellent labour and delivery at our local small hospital(3hr 45min total, no tearing, no painkillers, induced) but I'm even more excited to be having a midwife this time! I really am looking forward to labour again, it was so incredible, and breastfeeding! My sister is also pregnant in St. Louis, MS, she's due in November after a stillborn last summer at 5 months. She's the only one who knows we're pregnant right now-even though I want to tell I will wait, for awhile anyway. I feel better doing that, and if I did miscarry I'd rather share that news than have to say 'we're pregnant' and then 'I lost the baby'.
Thanks for allowing me to blabber on-looking forward to the next 8/9ish months with you all! Do I have any due date buddies, or anyone else from Canada?

A

[peacelovingmama]

Congratulations and welcome! I am due around April 17 with our third child.

[grapejuicemama]

Just wanted to say CONGRATULATIONS! :jumpers:

I'm curious........how do you get Internet when you're "off the grid" Does that just mean off the electricity grid? Do you still have telephone or is your 'net wireless?

This is the ultimate fantasy for me...........to live off the grid. I don't want to hijack the thread, though. This is about you and your new baby!

[wanderinggypsy]

Hey I'm Canadian too! Ontarian, even. We're expecting #3 around April 25!
Welcome to the clan, and its good to have someone else who will be stuffing her big belly into a parka through our Ontario winter at the same time as me!

[unimatrix0]

Hi! I'm moving to Ottawa in a couple of weeks! Right now I'm in Sudbury.

[Queen of my Castle]

Just wanted to say CONGRATULATIONS! :jumpers:

I'm curious........how do you get Internet when you're "off the grid" Does that just mean off the electricity grid? Do you still have telephone or is your 'net wireless?

This is the ultimate fantasy for me...........to live off the grid. I don't want to hijack the thread, though. This is about you and your new baby!

Hi! Our solar panels provide our batteries with power- and it's converted into electricity, so we run tv, computer, phone(well, the phone co. supplies the power for that) lights, etc. So, we're have nearly every modern convenience that our system can handle, and we get it for free! We just have to keep our usage low to conserve, and our generator will charge the batteries when it's not sunny.
It's surprisingly easy to be independant- we have a pretty home-made system so it's come with it's share of surprises and challanges. It can be cheap to set up too, if you have a bit of electrical knowledge and are willing to do a little at a time.
Thanks for your interest, happy to answer!
A

[Queen of my Castle]

hello fellow canadians/ ontarians! nice to see there are a few of us who'll 'really' understand each other, lol.
unimatrix0, when are you due?

A

[super kitty]

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[Muggins&Doody]

Heeeeeey, I'm not Canadian, but I am due about the same time as you, and we're the same age too! :D

[unimatrix0]

hello fellow canadians/ ontarians! nice to see there are a few of us who'll 'really' understand each other, lol.
unimatrix0, when are you due?

A

By my calculations I'm due around April 20th!
:)

[peacechief]

Congratulations! :carrot

Queen of my Castle & grapejuicemama - my dh & I have also been interested in living off the grid - we (mainly he) have done some reading about solar but it seems like it'd be too expensive - I'd be interested to hear how it wasn't for you. We've also been looking into alternative building methods - we're thinking about buying some land and building our own small house at some point. It's cool to hear about others doing/interested in this kind of thing :thumb

Glad you're here :D

[CarolynnMarilynn]

I am from Ontario, too. :o

I am due around April 4th, but this is my third, so who knows what will happen. I've had a baby at 39 weeks (my first) and 41 weeks (my second).

[blueyebutterfly]

Congratulations and welcome!!!!!


Hi :) I am from ontario too. Due sometime in the begining of April. This is baby # 7 for me.

[wanderinggypsy]

I'm another who would love to hear from you firsthand about your experience in building a home that is self reliant for energy. Selling our current home and building a house fits somewhere into our 2-4 year plan, and we've thought for ages that alternative energy is the way to go.