Hi everyone!
I'm Meg, 32, married to my awesome hubby, and we have a son who is 2. New baby will be arriving about a month before my son's 3rd birthday.
We weren't actively trying, but not preventing. We did that the first time around, too. And it took about two years to get pregnant both times. It's hilarious that my husband is so casual that he just forgets about it, and assumes that if we don't get pregnant immediately, we must not be fertile anymore. So he was like *shocked* when we found out last night (and shocked the first time, too, lol). I was not shocked, as I'd had some odd symptoms that made me really think I was pregnant, even before the test confirmed it. (Like my son's breath making me gag when I kissed his face, how sad is that??)
I am into AP style parenting stuff, but I pretty much drag my husband down this AP road some days. He never wanted to cosleep. It just started around 9 months because our son, Homer, was having a hard time, waking up a lot at night (teething), and I fell asleep nursing him in bed, then said, oh hey, this is easier, I get more sleep this way!! So we've been cosleeping since then, and hubby is so ready for Homer to go sleep in his own bed. We are going to start working on it soon, once we get our furniture..
That's a whole other story! Long story short, we have been Californians for many years, but recently moved to Washington to be closer to my family. My friend joked when I told her I was pregnant, "Wow, when you guys decide to make a life change, you make a COMPLETE life change!" I guess so! New state, new job for hubby (he started on Monday!), new apartment, and now, new baby! And hopefully, our old furniture! In a few weeks!! Most everything is in storage in Los Angeles, we are sleeping on little IKEA mattresses on the floor, hehe.
Homer is still nursing, but seems to be tapering off a little bit lately. I know a lot of people choose to tandem nurse and I think that's cool, but I'm leaning a little toward weaning him, but that's hard for me to even write (and anyone who knows me would be completely floored to hear me say that), because it makes me sad to move on from our nursing.. At the same time, Homer gets very jealous if the cat even sits on my lap, so I'm not sure how he'd feel sharing nursing with a new sibling? Has anyone had any experience with this situation?
As for me personally, I'm kind of a natural-focused hippie chick in many ways, married to a big ol' video gamer geeky guy, and together we have an interesting life! My husband's degree is in film and tv, he works in video games, his hobbies are all electronic. It's great sometimes, and it gets a little like "how are you STILL looking at a screen?!" some days too! I used to be a zookeeper. I LOVE animals! I miss working with them, but not sure if I'll go back to it or not. Maybe just as a volunteer, for fun, and not career. Career-wise, I may explore being a natural childbirth instructor and/or birth doula. I love reading and writing (creative nonfiction and fiction), photography, and just exploring, being outside, etc.
My big creative goal at the moment is to finally get my act together and make the handmade baby book I said I would make for Homer, and make one for the new baby too. At least the new baby's book will have blanks that I can just fill in! lol (I can't believe I've slacked so much and still haven't made it. I had such lofty goals!)
Oh yeah, one last thing - has anyone ever dealt with not having health insurance while pregnant? My husband is wigging out a little, because our new health insurance with his job doesn't kick in until July 1. But I think that's fine if I'm not seen until then? Last time around, I went in right away (at hubby's insistence), and they were like... yes, you are pregnant, goodbye! And then the next thing I did was get bloodwork and an ultrasound at 13 weeks, if I'm remembering right. So, I think I'll just wait until I have coverage, because that'll be around 13 weeks, and search for some midwives in the mean time maybe.
Okay, that's about it for me I guess. I'm excited to get to know you all!!