anyone ttc or ntnp before there child is a year old?

[Duejan2012]

Melissa how scary. I really will keep your dd in my prayers. Other than that I hope all is well!

Rachel: I forgot are y'all ntnp? And I think I might have missed it or forgot but are y'all originally from the USA?

Heather: how's the house coming along? Aww that's great your parents are coming. Mine will be here this month as well!! I'm soo exited to see them. My dad hasn't seen Eva yet.

Jordyn: please try to calm down. I know how you feel. My dh works7 days a week. I never see him and do everything with my kids alone pretty much. It's soo hard. I know please vent to us about anything but try to remember to remain strong infront of your kiddos.

Afm we also have been busy. Eva has taken a few steps. Like 4 without holding on!! Yay for her. Jonathan and Natalia were in swim lessons and are doing great. Eva's hair is finally long enough to put alittle pony tail haha. I too can't believe she will be one next month. It's soo sad.

 

[Spiffynoodles]

Sorry about the major vent yesterday, ladies. I was just having a really crappy day. I feel a bit better today.

Heather, in the first response I typed out the other day, before Liam deleted it, I said how happy I was for you that things were going well on the house and how we still need to see some pictures! That's great that your parents are coming to visit!

Stacey, that's impressive that Eva is already starting to walk! I thought Liam might walk before he turned 1, based on how rapidly he was learning things, but the problem is, he crawls super fast now, and so in his mind, he's probably thinking there's not much point to walking right now when he can get everywhere he wants so fast already. So we'll see. As long as he's walking by the time this next baby comes, I won't really care.

Also, I'm so impressed that Jonathan is already in swim lessons. I can't imagine Alia doing that right now. But that's mostly because she's so scared of everything! I mean, she is terrified of the garbage truck, baby slides, and the bread machine for goodness sake!

 

[Harley Quinn]

Melissa, I will pray for Alyana for sure! Poor girl. It would be so hard to see one of my kids go through that. I hope it gets better soon.

Heather, good to hear from you! That's fun that your parents are visiting. Do you have big plans for Ben's birthday? And yes, pics of the house if you get a chance!

Stacey, how cool that Eva is walking! I think Jimmy is more like Liam, as he also prefers to crawl everywhere right now. But he does let go of whatever he's holding onto and stand all by himself quit often. He's got good balance, but I do thing the walking is a ways off. Probably not before he's one.

And oh my gosh, I can't imagine a one-year old with that much hair. Ozzy's just about ready for his second hair cut ever! lol

As for NTNP, I think we kind of are? We are kind of in between NTNP and WTT. It depends on whether DH remember to put on a condom or not.

And yes, I am originally from the US (Washington State), but DH is 100% Canadian.

Jordyn, feel free to vent! That all sounds like a lot of hard stuff to be dealing with. Do you have a car to use during the week? I seem to remember you didn't. I know that would be really hard to be stuck at home all day. And I hope you and your DH can find a way to spend more time together.

But ohmygoodness, I want to eat that entire tray of berries from Liam's party! Wonderful pics! Looks like it was a good time.

AFM, AF turned out to be not so bad. Only one day of kinda painful cramps, so nothing like the first PP AF after Ozzy. So glad I managed to avoid that horrendousness somehow. I've started charting, so that's fun. Feel free to stalk, but it might not be all that exciting.

 

[Mrsb3]

We were ntnp after our son was born which took us 2 years to concieve him. Didn't think we would get pregnant so soon but we did! We now gave a 13 month old boy and a 1 month old girl!! It's very challenging- especially breastfeeding on demand but I know it won't always be this tough.... Looking forward to them todlerling around together next year and fun family holidays

 

[blessedmomma]

Heather- so nice your parents are visiting. ant ntnp or ttc soon???

Stacey- awww she is getting so big!

Rachael- I really think I would like to live in Canada. yay for charting

Jordyn- so sorry you're having a hard time. boo. why does it always seem like so much at once??? praying for you

thanks for the prayers everyone. wish I knew more about seizures. thought the first one was just a off time. but didn't like the 2nd one

 

[blessedmomma]

mrsb- I understand. we have some with close ages. my oldest 2 are 19 mos apart. and then I have 3 boys in the middle that are very close. jaxon and nathon are 14 mos apart. nathon and mason are 12 mos apart. it is harder when they are little, but they are very close too.

forgot to say, Sophia had her 4 mo apt yesterday and is 90th percentile height and 80th for weight. she's gonna be a big girl

 

[Spiffynoodles]

Melissa, thanks for your prayers. We're trying to make it so that DH and I have more time together, but it's so hard when there always seems to be so much going on.

Wow, Sophia sounds nice and healthy! I would love to have a child hit the 90th percentile! With Alia, I'd just like to see her hit the 30th percentile, because she's always been under.

 

[Harley Quinn]

Hi, mrsb! Wow, I love your perspective on having kids so close in age. Thinking forward to holidays... So nice. I look forward to our kids being able to run and play with their cousins this summer on our annual family vacation. So fun!

Not much new to report over here. Jimmy will be 1 in 1 week! The day after that he has him immunizations, so we'll get him weighed and measured and see what percentile he is. See how he stacks up to 90th percentile Sophia! lol

 

[Duejan2012]

How's everyone doing?

Wow Rachel I can't believe jimmy is going to be one. Eva turned 11 months today and i just can't believe how fast the time as gone. How big was jimmy the last time you got him checked?

Melissa: any news about your dds seizures? Have they said why or anything? Do they have her on any medication to prevent them? Wow 90th percentile is great!! What a healthy baby!! What was her height and weight?

Jordyn: that's great you and your dh are going to try to spend more time together! That is going to help a lot!!! How are those contractions? Have they eased up abit?

Well I have just found out that Jonathan has to get tubes in his ears and his tonsils and adenoids out he has been having soo many ear infections and snores super bad and stops breathing sometimes while sleeping. Other thank that he finally grew a couple inches. He was like 31 inches at 2 now he is 33 lol. The ent said that a lot of times because of how big his tonsils are it's hard for him to eat things with a harder texture so that can be why he hasn't been eating well.

In the mean time Eva has two bad ear infections. One ear he can see in from to much fluid. He said maybe some how she got a whole in the ear drum. At the rate she's going she will need tubes in her ears too. I had tubes twice that didn't turn out well with me. And my tonsils and everything are out. I feel sooo bad for them. I had tons of ear infection that hurt me sooo bad. Idk I guess I feel guilty as the ent said it is genetic. Like it's my fault.

Natalia is great lol I never have prob with her lol.

 

[Spiffynoodles]

Stacey, I'm so sorry to hear that Eva and Jonathon are suffering with such bad ear infections and tonsil problems. I hope tubes work well for them, even though they didn't work very well for you.

Rachel, what are you guys doing for Jimmy's birthday?

As for me, the contractions aren't better or worse. I still get about 5-6 a day but they aren't that bad. Other than that, I'm just chugging along. About a week left until V-Day!

 

[Harley Quinn]

Aw, Stacey, that's too bad that Jonathan and Eva are both having problems with their ears. I too had some pretty bad infections and had to have tubes several times when I was younger. I never knew it was genetic, but that makes sense. I guess I'll have to watch out for it in my kids. I'm glad Natalia has never had any problems though!

I can't remember what Jimmy's height and weight was at his last appointment, but he was somewhere around the 40th percentile I think. I'll try to find his chart before his appointment next week.

Jordyn, we don't really have much planned for Jimmy's birthday. We are going to celebrate on the Sunday after (so a week and a half away). He's getting dedicated that morning in church and then we'll do a picnic/bbq in a park after. Nothing fancy. I think it will be mostly family, but probably just the grandparents actually. My brothers can't come and I haven't checked with Daniel's sister, but my guess is that she'll be working. We'll see. And his brother lives on the island now (a 4 hour trip, including a ferry ride), so I'm not even inviting them because I know they can't come.

Anyway, I'm glad your contractions aren't too bad. And wow, almost V-day already! That's amazing!

 

[HAKing]

Stacey, I'm sorry you're having so much trouble with ear infections. Hopefully the tubes help. How is Eva? Is she walking yet? Ben still isn't, I think because he is a super good crawler he doesn't have any desire to walk yet.

Rachel, I hope that Jimmy has a good first birthday. I can't believe that our babies are (or almost 1!)

Melissa, that's great that Sophia is a good size and is so healthy! How is your daughter? I hope she hasn't had any more seizures.

As for TTC, we plan to NTNP in February. We are mostly preventing right now since for financial reasons we want a bit of a bigger age gap this next time but sometimes DH has an oops so I guess it could be before then too!

Jordyn, I hope you've been able to spend more time with DH lately. I understand how you feel. Some days/nights its just me and the boys since DH has lots of work to do and doesn't get home till late or is working on extra projects. On Sunday we went to the spa and had a couples massage and just hung out in the pool and had lunch so that was nice to spend some time together without the boys for a change.

And wow, almost V-day! I can't wait to find out what you are having. Any more bump pics???

Well, my parents went back home on Tuesday morning. It was good to visit with them although it was kinda a short trip. We mainly stayed around the house and went swimming. They are planning to come back out in October for my 30th birthday so it will hopefully be a shorter wait to see them again.

We mailed out Ben's birthday invites and I have a feeling its going to turn into a bigger party than anticipated since we kinda combined it as a house warming party as well. I'm excited though! We are doing a fishy theme for our little fishy

Here are some recent pictures:

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[Spiffynoodles]

Heather, I love the pictures! I especially like the one in the pool with the sunglasses.

I'm glad you had a good time with your parents, and that's awesome that you and DH were able to get away to spa together! Its my DH's 30th birthday in a week in a half and so my MIL offered to watch the kids for half the day so we can go out, which I'm really looking forward to!

As for bump pics, I guess I never uploaded my 22 week pic. I know its a week old, but I'll be taking another at 24 weeks. (Okay, I'm on my phone right now and its refusing to upload for some reason. I'll get my techie husband to help me out...)

Okay, the phone issue was unresolvable, but I'm back on my computer, so here's the pic.

 

[Duejan2012]

Rachel: sounds like it will be fun!! Maybe I missed it but is jimmy walking?

Heather: nice to hear from you!!! Thank you I hope this surgery helps him. Eva isn't like walking walking yet. She will take a few steps the. Just start crawling again. Most the time when I let her stand herself she will just sit down and crawl. Lazy girl she is lol. Lazy and chubby. She was 21 lbs the other day lol I'll have to take some pics.

Today I'm going to make a hot wing pizza haha. Wish me luck.

 

[Harley Quinn]

Love the pics, Heather! And great bump pic, Jordyn.

Stacey, Jimmy is not walking yet. Hasn't even taken steps on his own, but he does stand on his own quite often. He has very good balance, but like Eva he's lazy and just prefers to crawl. Silly guy.

The other day Daniel held his hands and walked him down the hallway. We actually noticed that he turns his left foot out and kind of drags it a bit when he walks. We'll bring it up at his 1 yr. immunization visit next week, but have any of you had experience with that sort of thing? From what I've read, it should correct itself after he starts actually walking, but I'm just curious to know what others have experienced.

 

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[Harley Quinn]

Oooh! Great pics, Stacey! Loooove how chubby Eva is.

 

[Duejan2012]

Jordyn I must have missed your post. I love your bump pic. You look great!!!! I'm sure you will hope you and your dh have a great few hours alone together!!! You are making me very broody lol

 

[Duejan2012]

Thank you Rachel! Mmm about the foot I'm not sure. I don't think it's something to worry about now as they are still learning. But let me know what his doc says

 

[Duejan2012]

Oh I love the pics heather!! It looks like bens hair has lightened up a bit