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I found this entertaining... and I have to say it's too quiet in here. ;) I need entertainment at work to help stay awake through this forever tiredness. lol
Hmm... confession...
I am still semi smug about being pregnant since two of my friends told me there was no way I could be since I didn't ovulate for so long and I got to tell them the proof of my inner feelings. :D
quietserena
05-07-2008, 12:17 PM
I don't like it when people say 'we are pregnant'. Come on, it's only the woman that's pregnant.
I'm a little afraid that with the hormonal roller coaster that I'll say that to someone. :bag:
:hug s Serena
I know sort of what you mean... I will likely kill DP at some point in time during the hormonal upheave because he likes to say things like, "well I know how much it's going to hurt because I saw my ex go through it..."
um... hey did YOU go through it??? NO... then SHUT UP! :p
laurelg
05-07-2008, 02:16 PM
I don't like it when people say 'we are pregnant'. Come on, it's only the woman that's pregnant.
I don't like that either. I don't mind "We're having a baby" - but "We're pregnant?" Uh, no WE'RE not! Fortunately DH thinks it's dumb too. :)
It also bothers me when people refer to the baby as "it." Unfortunately, this is hard to get around - "it's a boy" and "it's a girl" are so ingrained in our vocabulary, and constantly saying "he/she" or "him/her" gets old. I'm trying to come up with a nickname for the baby ASAP so we have something to call him/her - we called my best friend's bean "Baby G" all the way through her pregnancy.
I also learned very quickly that EVERYBODY has an opinion on birth, and they're going to insist you do it their way. And, rather than argue with each of these people, I've taken to smiling and nodding and saying "Oh, I'll definitely find out about that!" No... I probably won't. But if it will get you to shut up about how much I "have" to have an epidural, then I'll tell you whatever you want to hear!
jenniferadurham
05-07-2008, 02:21 PM
My best friend calls mine "corn nugget"...but has shortened it to just "nugget". I told her I'm naming her baby "fish stick", fishy for short. lol!
My DH said once to people, " we are pg"..I quickly said "no....I am pg, WE are expecting". He got the hint...to not say that again. It's not rude to say that....men have no freakin clue what we are going through, and until then...only I am pg, not him.
jenniferadurham
05-07-2008, 02:22 PM
I dont really have any confessions. I did a few weeks ago, but I'm symptom free now. I did have horrible nausea, but I'm on Zolfran now...and feel fabulous! About time!!!!!!!!!
quietserena
05-07-2008, 02:33 PM
With DD, DH and I called her 'parasite' almost to the third trimester. Then we decided it wasn't exactly respectful, so she became 'lil bean'. Which always brings up StrongBad references so it's not perfect...
laurelg
05-07-2008, 03:24 PM
With DD, DH and I called her 'parasite' almost to the third trimester. Then we decided it wasn't exactly respectful, so she became 'lil bean'. Which always brings up StrongBad references so it's not perfect...
HAHAHAHA! I hope I'm not having a three-legged puppy named Lil' Brudder...
Prism
05-07-2008, 06:03 PM
Here's my evil little confession:
I'm not planning to tell the neighbors I'm pregnant, then see who has the cajones to comment on my changing shape over the summer.
Is that mean????
As far as naming goes: my parents called me "flipper" for very un-PC reasons. my dad did a lot of drugs and my mom thought i was probably deformed...made more suspicious when the doctor said "yep, I can't identify that body part either" when she asked about some part that was jutting out of her stomach late in pregnancy (all this was before routine u/s, of course).
My confession: much as I try, I'm afraid that I'll never be able to just relax and enjoy pregnancy. as a hypochondriac, it totally stresses me out. i was doing okay, but now, with strep and scarlet fever and taking antibiotics in early pregnancy, i'm a mess again. meh.
quietserena
05-07-2008, 08:20 PM
My confession: much as I try, I'm afraid that I'll never be able to just relax and enjoy pregnancy. as a hypochondriac, it totally stresses me out. i was doing okay, but now, with strep and scarlet fever and taking antibiotics in early pregnancy, i'm a mess again. meh.
You can do it! :hug
mom2annika
05-07-2008, 08:40 PM
Confession: (which is not much of a secret, really, heh): I can't wait move away from here! Seems like everyone thinks I'm nuts for planning a natural childbirth, to say nothing of homebirth...sigh. If one more person says, "Girl, you're crazy!" I might go over the edge.
I did it once, I can do it again. Now leave me alone! (DD is 3.)
C'mon transfer, c'mon transfer!
quietserena
05-08-2008, 09:35 AM
I do have another one actually.
I babysit a little boy, 10 months old. Very high needs. When he cries, he doesnt' really cry, he strains and screams. Past week or so, when he cries, it makes me feel sick to my stomach. I think it's because he strains so hard. :eyesroll And to make it worse, his eczema is flared up and he's been more than crabby.
Bloomingstar
05-08-2008, 10:12 AM
confession: I can't wait til I am showing so all the evil jerks in my dance company who are giving me the side-eye thinking I'm just putting on weight will shut up :irked:
I will likely be looking at maternity clothes very soon due to bloating and clothes were already a little snug. :innocent My MIL has convinced me that they are a new stretchy type of material that will grow with you so they won't be too big now, and not too small then... Plus she has a JC Penny discount for working there. :innocent
mom2annika
05-08-2008, 11:28 AM
I'm already in the mat. clothes cause I don't want anything touching me! :) Plus this is the only time I'm not worried about "looking" pregnant. (I've struggled with my weight for a long time.)
So yah, break out the belly panels! :)
hehe that is reassuring, mom2annika! I'm a little overweight, myself and some shirts I have probably resembel mat. shirts very much, but I never cared... might as well get the pants to match. :innocent
thismommy
05-08-2008, 04:47 PM
I don't like telling people that I am pregnant. Its just an uncomfortable thing for me I guess, probably starting with our first...I was 20, we weren't married, and we were living with my parents and poor. I think I've carried that shame with each pregnancy. Now I'm 25, we have our own place, two kids, and make plenty of money, but for some reason I still feel the shame.
Oh yeah, and I second the moving thing...except for a different reason. The people here are so much our political opposite, its just hard to be here. I thought people here would be more supportive of natural parenting, but they aren't. :eyesroll
doulamomvicki
05-12-2008, 04:56 PM
Hmmm, confessions?
Yesterday when I went to the mall there was no parking to be found - even after driving around for 15 minutes. I spotted the spaces for pregnant moms so I poofed out my gut so I looked more pg (not too much of a stretch anyways:lol) and took one of those spaces.
rachel616
05-12-2008, 05:21 PM
My confession: one of the things I'm most looking forward to in pregnancy is an *upgrade* to my A-cup! (And I'm begging the gods/fate/mother-nature to keep them bigger after weaning!) I've always wanted bigger bbs but would never get implants. Shallow, no? :lol
crunchyma5
05-12-2008, 08:03 PM
I am trying so not to stress about weight. It is really hard but I know that baby bean is a blessing and it is worth it in my heart but in my evil mind keeps saying watch your weight only gain XXX if not you will be miserable..
I need to relax and enjoy this journey:)
annanicole
05-13-2008, 08:47 AM
my confession, we haven't told my family yet and I'm a little over 7 wks, and my sister is a little over 11 wks, LOL. And my mom keeps calling me to tell me how bad my sisters day was b/c she's soooo tired and emotional from being pregnant. LOL!!!
There were tears running down my face yesterday I was laughing so hard!!!!
my confession, we haven't told my family yet and I'm a little over 7 wks, and my sister is a little over 11 wks, LOL. And my mom keeps calling me to tell me how bad my sisters day was b/c she's soooo tired and emotional from being pregnant. LOL!!!
There were tears running down my face yesterday I was laughing so hard!!!!
LOL That is hillarious! Does your sister know, or not even her yet?
annanicole
05-13-2008, 09:25 AM
LOL That is hillarious! Does your sister know, or not even her yet?
no one knows except my husband my midwife and I. LOL
hippiemum21580
05-13-2008, 12:02 PM
To go along with a pp.....after nursing 4 kiddos for a grand total of 7 years...I am no longer even filling out an a cup! So.....one of my first thoughts after getting preggers was "Yay! I'll have ta tas again!"
Also, this is the happiest I have ever been to be pregnant. Not that I loved my other babes any less...but with my first I was clueless and niave, with my second I was terrified because of my risk for a repeat partial molar pregnancy (I lost a baby in 2001 due to a partial molar) with my third pregnancy I was living with my mom and my husband had taken off so I was just stressed and with my last one my then EX husband had left me to go live with his new pregnant girlfriend so I was on my own and very depressed and overwhelmed. This time around I have a wonderful support system (including a fiance who is just over the moon about having a new lil one and rubs my belly all day) This is the 1st time I get to just revel in the being pregnant part 100%. I feel a little guilty for cheating both myself and my previous children of that experience.
laurelg
05-13-2008, 02:42 PM
Hmmm, confessions?
Yesterday when I went to the mall there was no parking to be found - even after driving around for 15 minutes. I spotted the spaces for pregnant moms so I poofed out my gut so I looked more pg (not too much of a stretch anyways:lol) and took one of those spaces.
LOL! I love it.
Whenever I browse the maternity sections at clothing stores, I've totally been poofing out my gut so I don't look like a non-pregnant weirdo. Same thing when I look at any kind of pregnancy supplements, teas, etc.
Moonprysm
05-14-2008, 04:22 PM
You guys all have good ones. lol
Mine? It seems like I've managed to tell everyone in the world since Sunday...except my family. I haven't spoken to my father in a year (and don't plan to) and when I told my mom we were pregnant with DS, she didn't even talk to me for the rest of the day. (My mom has issues accepting the fact that I've been happily married since I was 18 and that I actually PLANNED my first child almost 2 years later). I have no idea how I'm going to tell her. We never got around to telling her about the last pregnancy, and then I lost it right at Thanksgiving, and had to spend the entire day at her house in extreme pain and couldn't come up with a way to say "btw, I was pregnant, and I'm having a miscarriage. That's why I'm being lazy and making my husband chase my son around."
Bloomingstar
05-14-2008, 04:51 PM
I guess my confession is that my sister is pregnant too!! :D She's not telling our parents yet, even though I told them on Mother's Day (about myself). It's her 3rd--she has a 7 year old DD and a 19 month old DS. I know once she gets over the shock she'll be totally fine about it. I am just cracking up about it and I think it's really sweet that I have my sister to be pregnant with and due at about the same time, I'm guessing :love
mamajody
05-14-2008, 05:19 PM
I guess my confession is that my sister is pregnant too!! :D She's not telling our parents yet, even though I told them on Mother's Day (about myself). It's her 3rd--she has a 7 year old DD and a 19 month old DS. I know once she gets over the shock she'll be totally fine about it. I am just cracking up about it and I think it's really sweet that I have my sister to be pregnant with and due at about the same time, I'm guessing :love
I have a similar story. My cousin and I have alternated years being pregnant for nearly 6 years. I called her to confess, and tell her I wasn't going to tell the family for awhile. That's when she confessed she is also pg. EDD 12/30. :love I am psyched to be pregnant at the same time as her. She isn't telling either, so I thought I would feel a little better about it, but I don't really. I talk to my parents almost everyday, and I feel like I am lying by omission every time I don't tell them. We also think our 5 yo. has caught on, so now we need to think of a way to tell them before she lets the cat out of the bag.
rachel616
05-14-2008, 11:16 PM
Bloomingstar and mamajody, I wish I was in your boat! My cousin is also pregnant right now - about 12 weeks I think, so she's 6 weeks ahead of me. It sucks.
The problem is, she's 19, accidentally knocked up by a 17 year old high school student (!), and living at home with her parents. She constantly posts on facebook about either how much she loves this guy or how he's never there for her, depending on the day and probably what she ate for breakfast. My sister and I have a bet about how long before they break up for good (schadenfreude, I know, we're horrible). When she "announced" the pregnancy on facebook, I told my mom and my other cousins told their parents and then the whole family knew and her dad was really pissed that everyone found out. Everyone is really disappointed in her and it's just kind of sad all around, since she's not going to be able to provide for this kid on her own (and her parents can barely help) and we all know the dad is going to vanish.
Sooo... the point is, I feel like I can't tell the family for awhile, since they're still processing her pregnancy. I also feel really bad for her, since everyone will be thrilled with me being pregnant. It's such a bummer all around. :(
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