Preggo in December
 

Yup...still here... hopefully not much longer. How're you ladies doing?

Same as you!

Unless nature steps in, I'll be having a planned-c on December 28th. They gave me the choice of before Christmas or after and I chose after so I'd have Christmas with Jake.

Well it's my EDD and nothing. Leaving for the Midwife in about 30 min though so we'll see what she has to say. Xander was 6 days late so I don't know why I thought this one would be early or on time lol

I do know if my neighbors don't turn their mexican polka music down I'm going to loose my mind and go up there though... it's really grating on that one fine nerve today for some reason :?:

FDLOL for the Mexican polka. That seems to be the state music here in NM, I completely understand what you mean! That was one of the best things about not sharing walls when we bought our house, not having to listen to that anymore!

UGH i swear I wish I had a good sound system...I'd let my child listen to the wiggles for that.

I had my 40 week check yesterday. I was dilated to 2cm but Liam was IN FRONT of my cervix pushing it towards my spine. So my MW moved my cervix back to where it should be. OUCH super ouch i cried and she couldn't stop apologizing. As soon as it moved I dilated to 3 cm but no contractions on the NST afterwards. I'm ready to just get this show on the road but I don't want to 'force' it either I figure the more dilating I do without contractions the less I'll have to do while in labor right??

good morning

The last few months i have been reading and finally thought it time to say hi. I am due May 9th. I had my monthly appt yesterday and i only gained 2 lbs so i am happy about that. and we also found out that it is a girl.

still...here...

And welcome! congrats on the girl!

He's here! Liam Thomas was born at 12:53 am this morning all natural. Weighing 8lbs 6oz and 20 in long. We were home a couple of hours later and doing well! :carrot:

First cloth diaper
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Ready to go home
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Couple more pics!

Brothers meeting:
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Congratulations MeganBeth, he's just gorgeous!!

I agree!! What a beautiful family you have!!

(love the "boob pic" :lol: )

congrats. he is beautiful.

Yeah Megan, I am so glad that he came on his own and you were able to follow through with your birth plan. He is just so perfect and adorable - congrats!!

mrs.augie - welcome and congrats on the baby girl. We are on team surprise again this time. It does drive our family and friends crazy not knowing, but we love the thrill of it.

4myself - glad to see that you are hanging in there. I am sure now that they have set a date it is starting to get even more exciting. Dec 28th was my original due date with my daughter (back in 2000), but she decided she was coming out 7 days early on the 21st.

I still have 8 weeks left and am tired and ready to be done. I am still seeing the doctor twice a week and perinatologist once a month. I know it will be here before we know it and then I will be wondering why I wanted baby out so bad, lol.

Ugh. "Hanging" is exactly what I feel like I'm doing at this point.

I've been having problems lately controling my frustration with being pregnant, the size of a BARN and dealing with a toddler. I got so upset with Jake Saturday that I had to call my mom to come get him. I know it's a combination of all that I have going on and Stewart being NO help w/Jake. As soon as I "pushed" him out the door I went an laid on the bed and SOBBED for about 10-15 minutes.

I never experienced PPD with him, but I can imagine that is how it must be. I didn't take Lexapro with him while he was BF'ing, even though the dr assured me it was OK. I'm thinking this time around I will take it. I really don't think I'd hurt my babies, but I sure did holler at him on Saturday!

So adorable!!!

As for me ill be here for a while! haha

Congrats MeganBeth, he is beautiful!

We are not finding out what we are having this time. We found out for our first two, but I just want this one to be a bit of a surprise. Although we pretty much already figure on having another boy. I joke around with everyone that we are just incapable of having girls. *I would absolutely love to have a little girl though.* As long as it is a healthy happy baby, that is all I care about! :)

thanks ladies!

4Myself, we all have days like that. Kids are nothing if not infuriating at times! :mad: You did the right thing calling your mom; cut yourself a break and start again. Hang in there, you can make it! :)

Oh honey, I am sorry you are having such a rough time. I have never taken any meds, but I can tell you that I did experience much greater "baby blues" with my daughter than I did with either of my sons. Maybe it is the girl on girl hormones - I don't know. I can remember just sobbing in the shower and my husband coming in and asking what was wrong. I couldn't even talk...all I could do was cry. He finally called my mom because I was so upset and I didn't even know what was wrong, but I sure could not stop crying. It did get better slowly, but it took time.

Don't ever feel bad about taking some time for yourself. You know your limits and did the absolute right thing calling your mom. Sometimes a small break is all we need to get back on track and feel better. Just do what you can and make that man of yours get on the ball and help you out darn it. ;)

We had our ultrasound yesterday and it was pretty obvious we are having another boy. Our third boy... I don't know if I can handle that. I broke down quite a few times in the last two days and I know it is ridiculous. I just have always wanted a daughter. I always thought that I would have at least one and now another boy. I feel terrible because I should just be so grateful to be having another healthy baby when some people can't have kids. Why does this affect me like that? I hate to say I'm disappointed, but I am. Very much so. I hate it. I told DH that I hated him because he just can't give me the one thing I have always wanted. (Lately I just can't stand him, so it may be more than just this) I just need to get it together here.
Sorry about the rant, but seriously I don't know who else to go to. I don't have my mom to go to and I don't talk to my MIL about personal things like this. She had 4 boys, no girls and thinks it helps to tell me that "someday I will have DIL's". This just makes me more depressed.
Why am I so sad during this pregnancy? This is pretty pathetic. I just want to lay in bed and cry.

:hug::hug: TBCH i was a bit disappointed when we found out we were having another boy. I've pretty much resigned myself to knowing I probably won't be having a girl of my own, there are only like 3 girls in DH's family on his dads side period. Hormones suck I hope you start feeling better soon!

Thanks MeganBeth. I do feel a little better today. It seems that everyone in our families has had a girl except for a few. I am one of them and it kills me. I don't understand how all of that gets determined and I don't know if it has much to do with positions or time of month, I didn't know it would be this hard. I especially didn't know it would be this hard to not be able to have girls and have this awful feeling. It doesn't seem fair.
I am blessed with my boys and I need to focus on that. They are alive and healthy. At least my boys have someone to play with and stay close to. They will have that brotherly bond that my brothers had. Anyway, I'll leave it at that before I start bawling again.
I hate hormones. UGH.

It's all determined by dad. If he's only shooting boy sperm you won't get a girl... according to taking charge of your fertility you have a higher chance of getting a girl if you dtd a few days before you ovulate because girl sperm live longer than boy sperm, but in some cases it just doesn't matter. In our case we have a pretty small chance at having a girl given how genetics has played out on dh's side of the family at least on his dads side for generations.

Congrats MeganBeth, he's a cutie! Are those some little longies I see in the 2nd picture? :)

We're not finding out the gender either, I'm declining all ultrasounds again this time around.

I'm so sorry you're going through this, too! I had to fight feelings of guilt after my B/G ultrasound because I wanted another little boy so badly. As time has passed, however, I HAVE come to view it from the "as long as she's healthy I don't CARE" angle.

It took time, but now I'm, um, almost excited about meeting my beautiful baby girl. Still a little scared, though!!

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Yup! My grandma made them, I'm so sad I didn't buy enough preemie pf's though and the infant pfs are huge on him still. I should've remembered I make skinny babies :p

Hi everyone. I hope that the holidays where good for you. All I have been doing is munching the last week. DANG those cookies. The ones that I made are gone it is what everyone brought over for Christmas now. I know I'm up at least 2lbs from the 24th I was not brave enough to weigh this morning on my normal WI day. Maybe I will do it tomorrow.

Well, I have definitely been avoiding the weigh-in thread...I weighed in at 192 today. So discouraging! BUT I feel our little guy more and more so I would say he's doing pretty well! I didn't watch what I ate the majority of this week and I know I really overate last Sunday, Christmas, and the day after Christmas. I will definitely do better this week, I did great yesterday and so far today. Thank God this month is almost over so the temptations will be gone! November and December are the worst for me, as I'm sure is true with most. :)

It's technically still December and I'm preggo! Well, we're waiting on bloodwork results to be sure (will get those in a few hours), but 3 home tests say I am. I'll admit I'm in a little shock... I'm sure it'll wear off soon enough. :) I remember having this feeling right after I found out I was pg with Caleb, too. That "Oh my goodness, what the heck have I done?! I'm not mature enough for this!" feeling. I'm still there, like I said, I'm sure it'll pass.

Congrats!!!

I already miss being pg, I don't want to not go to my MW's house every month how sad is that?? lol I'm sure we'll be having lots of lunch dates so she can get her "fix" of my red heads

Congrats!! :)