{CLOSED GROUP} Journey to BFP and Beyond!

[NDH]

Congratulations! What's her name? How big was she?

I'm glad your baby blues are settling. Adjusting to a new baby and a new role is tough! DO you have lots of help around?

 

[Vonne15]

I'd like to join this thread 😊

 

[jlw617]

Congratulations Zay!!!! Breastfeeding certainly is challenging but so worth it! Charlie is my only baby I've been able to successfully breastfeed. I also never had the baby blues with any of my other babies except this one. Hope you're starting to feel better. Post a pic if you can!

 

[kdmalk]

Congrats, Zay! Sorry you had the baby blues! Being a mom is tough. I remember asking what I had gotten myself into the day we came home from the hospital. It is quite an adjustment! We were really struggling with breastfeeding because E was a sleepy baby and wasn't eating as frequently/as well as he should have and it took my milk a week to come in. We had to supplement as well. But not for long! Eventually my body caught up! I hope yours does too because it sure isn't fun to both breastfeed and pump! My life was a flurry of dishes and it was so overwhelming.

I go back to work a week from Monday so I have been pumping to get a stash going for the freezer. The greatest day of my life was when I learned that if you are pumping multiple times per day, you can just stick your flanges and stuff in the fridge between sessions and then just wash it at the end of the day. Life. Changed. Lol.

How is everyone else?

 

[kdmalk]

Nat, how was your scan?

 

[NDH]

All good placenta is about 10cm from my cervix, so well and truly out of the way, Peep is head down and there were non detectable abnormalities in the brief morphology scan she was able to do at that late gestation. Measuring exactly to my dates on the 50th percentile.

Almost everything is organized for the birth and we're getting to the final days/weeks. Exciting times.

 

[tcinks]

Hey ladies!

Congrats Zay!!

I haven't been on much lately, I actually gave up pregnancy websites and pinterest for Lent. I don't usually observe it, I'm not Catholic, but I think sometimes it's good to give up things (especially things I obsess over )

Anyway, glad to see this thread is lively again! I'm still wondering what happened to Fleur...

Also...I'm pregnant! Finally! I still almost can't believe it! So many months seeing those negative tests. I thought it was negative when I first took it Friday morning, but I just can't staring until "something" appeared. Like the faintest hint of a line. Then I woke up DH and asked him to look. And he saw it, too! And after a couple more minutes it was definitely visible.

I tested again this morning (first with a cheap dollar tree test...which really used to work well for me) and it was stark white. :/ I thought I'd had a chemical. So I ran out and bought more FRERs...definitely a nice, dark positive

EEEEK! So excited! I'd forgotten what it was like to feel so excited and hopeful about something!

I don't know when we'll start telling people...but for now, you ladies now!

 

[jlw617]

Wow Nat,that is so awesome you are really ready now! oh Terissa, I am so very happy for you, I have been looking at some your other posts every now and then just to see how you were doing and have just felt awful for you. Well Charlie is a little over four months old now and he's been doing great we've definitely had some bigger bumps in the road with him then I have or had with my girls... He has something called floppy epiglottis that causes him to have problems breathing sometimes and I just found out that he's going to have to wear a helmet type thing to me for about 3 to 4 months or longer he has plagiocephaly and brachycephaly... I'm sad he's going to have to wear one for so long but I'm happy it will correct it and there are so many other worse things out there that can happen.

 

[NDH]

Congratulations Terrissa! I am so excited for you! I will be prating you through this pregnancy with your rainbow baby

 

[kdmalk]

Yay, T!!!!!! That is SO exciting. I will be eagerly following along with your pregnancy.

Jamie, I'm so sorry to hear about Charlie's breathing troubles and that he has to wear a helmet for a while, but glad everything will be alright.

Counting down with you, Nat! Not long now before you meet sweet little peep!!!! Can't wait to find out if peep is a boy or a girl!

Nothing new over here. I thought maybe I got my period earlier today, but then nothing happened except a very small amount of spotting. Really hoping it stays away!!! I will be so annoyed if I only get 2 period free months out of breastfeeding. Lol!

 

[jlw617]

You might be OK Kylie that happened to me once and then there was another time where I was getting cramps like I was going to start, But it never came either time and I've now been breast-feeding for about 19 weeks so almost 5 months and no af!!!!

 

[kdmalk]

I haven't had anything else, so I think it was a false alarm. Yay!!!!!

 

[kdmalk]

T, how is pregnancy treating you?

 

[tcinks]

Hey! I miss you ladies, let's bring this thread back to life

Hi Kylee. I'm doing fine. I've got my first sonogram this Thursday at 6+2. Very excited. And we'll talk about the plan for the rest of the pregnancy. I should be getting my stitch at 12 weeks.

I thought abot waiting a while to announce...but we went ahead and did it over the weekend. I'm glad everyone knows.

My job is officially over! It was good while it lasted but definitely not for me long term.

How is everyone else?? Natalie, you should be having baby soon, right??

 

[NDH]

Maybe today even! Lost a lot of plug this morning and I think waters are leaking. mild contractions yet so we'll see how things progress but the day is only half over. My 4 year old did make me buy a birthday cake for the baby's birthday tomorrow when we were out yesterday so she may be right.

 

[jlw617]

Awww T I'm so happy for you! I'm praying for this baby!!! Oooh Nat that does sound promising I know Everywoman is different and it can sometimes be days after you lose your plug however I always had my babies within hours of losing my plug so I'm hoping today's the day for you!!!
I hope the rest of you are doing well we are doing good this little guy has been a time eater! My poor husband has been saying I want my wife back for a while now I feel really bad but I've never had the ability to nurse any of my babies this long and he wants to nurse all the time! I think he does it for comfort most of the time but I can't get him to take a pacifier anymore he used to kind of like to sue the pacifiers which I gave my girls but he eventually just stopped taking it... This baby has been so different in every aspect including the way I feel towards him I loved him and of course still love my girls so much but there's something different about having a little boy, maybe it's because I'm older this time or because there's quite in age gap between my girls and him but I'm really relishing in the moments I have with him as I know he will likely be my last...it's very bittersweet

 

[tcinks]

Any update Natalie?!

Awww Jamie I'm sure that's tough with your husband, but I hope he understands! Has he been able to bond much with baby?

Am I the only one who is still wondering what happened to Fleur? Did I miss something?! She just like disappeared! I hope she and baby are well.

 

[NDH]

Had a baby boy about 12 hours ago! My birth story is in my pregnancy journal if interested

 

[jlw617]

Congrats Nat!!!!!!!!

 

[kdmalk]

Congrats, Natalie!!!

How was your scan, Terrissa?!