Cycle 1 day 1. Who's with me? *update* It's a girl! Congrats baby_bray!!!

[moter98]

that is true. i'm eating food brought from my family members and lots of smart ones, lol! no fast food for me for awhile. i'm not eating a ton calorie wise, but then i don't need much with being so inactive. i have added a daily protein shake in hopes of getting baby as big as possible in case he comes early. i really shouldn't worry about it so much, i guess with just laying around i don't have much else to do! i am getting some crochet supplies in the mail tomorrow though so that should keep me occupied. gonna make baby blankets for my SIL's triplets.

 

[mailcmm]

Quiet day today. How is everyone? I have had a very busy 2 days. Sitting down for the first time.

Moter... How goes the land of smart ones and crocheting? Did your supplies arrive?

Twinkie.... Liam still hanging around?

Afm... I am just exhausted. Yesterday had a shopping day with dd. it was a nightmare. Buy me, buy me, buy me. Then when I needed to look at my stuff a thousand I'm boreds where are we going next. Did manage to get a few things done and lunch was nice. Also got her a dress for my 1st shower which is in less then 2 weeks. Still getting a hundred pressuring phone calls as to what can we get the baby that isn't on the registry. I am now just answering with I dont know I registered for everything we need. It baffles my mind. Maybe I am just a Spock living in a shatner world. Then sil calls and says the family really wants to know what they can buy. I tell her the same thing and she says.... Well we were talking about that and we were all looking at the registry and I didn't find those things to be useful so we really wanted to get something that would be useful. I swear to god I almost drove the 2 hours to her house and brained her. I told her that I really think that for our family these things will be very useful. That we are at football games at least twice weekly and horse shows twice monthly so a stroller is a nessecity. She said she hated hers and everyone agrees I can just hold the baby. The last horse show I was at took 7 hours. Can you imagine holding a child for 7 hours. I am dumbfounded. Then i said well there are tones of bottles nipples and accessories. She said well i didnt pump that often and found it easier to just nurse. I said well i have told you i dont have milk. She said well you can work that out with dr. Maybe they can fix it. It went on forever. Finially i told her to just tell everyone to buy what they want. I am done told dh that I am not taking their calls anymore and that we are just going to return everything we don't need. My worry is it will all come from specialty stores in their area and I will be stuck with tons of things I don't need and have to resort to lots on eBay. I am so irritated. I feel like she's sabotaging my shower lol. I know too conspiracy theory.

 

[MightyMom]

Ok I have to sneak in to admit I have been stalking y'all. I just couldn't resist replying to this!

Mail: It is baffling how people look at a registry and decide that THEY know better for YOUR family! I had the same problem with both my wedding and baby registries! People assume that everyone fits their own way of parenting or living and the world just doesn't work that way. My suggestion is when people call and ask what they can buy that isn't on the registry tell them GIFT CARDS. And anything unreturnable that you get at your shower just put up for sale on ebay straight away so that you can get money for what you WANT and NEED. (I was very honest with my family. When they asked where the Moses basket was that they bought me I told them I sold it so I could buy the carseat I needed!)

 

[moter98]

Quiet day today. How is everyone? I have had a very busy 2 days. Sitting down for the first time.

Moter... How goes the land of smart ones and crocheting? Did your supplies arrive?

Twinkie.... Liam still hanging around?

Afm... I am just exhausted. Yesterday had a shopping day with dd. it was a nightmare. Buy me, buy me, buy me. Then when I needed to look at my stuff a thousand I'm boreds where are we going next. Did manage to get a few things done and lunch was nice. Also got her a dress for my 1st shower which is in less then 2 weeks. Still getting a hundred pressuring phone calls as to what can we get the baby that isn't on the registry. I am now just answering with I dont know I registered for everything we need. It baffles my mind. Maybe I am just a Spock living in a shatner world. Then sil calls and says the family really wants to know what they can buy. I tell her the same thing and she says.... Well we were talking about that and we were all looking at the registry and I didn't find those things to be useful so we really wanted to get something that would be useful. I swear to god I almost drove the 2 hours to her house and brained her. I told her that I really think that for our family these things will be very useful. That we are at football games at least twice weekly and horse shows twice monthly so a stroller is a nessecity. She said she hated hers and everyone agrees I can just hold the baby. The last horse show I was at took 7 hours. Can you imagine holding a child for 7 hours. I am dumbfounded. Then i said well there are tones of bottles nipples and accessories. She said well i didnt pump that often and found it easier to just nurse. I said well i have told you i dont have milk. She said well you can work that out with dr. Maybe they can fix it. It went on forever. Finially i told her to just tell everyone to buy what they want. I am done told dh that I am not taking their calls anymore and that we are just going to return everything we don't need. My worry is it will all come from specialty stores in their area and I will be stuck with tons of things I don't need and have to resort to lots on eBay. I am so irritated. I feel like she's sabotaging my shower lol. I know too conspiracy theory.

got so sick of smart ones i ordered stuffed chicken and a caesar salad for tomorrow from a local place. SO nice to eat some healthy fresh for a change. sounds like it doesn't get easier to go shopping with kids when they get older. when i try to take DS he whines and makes a scene the whole time, unless we are moving, then he's fine. last time i tried to bring him with me to get his winter clothes it was a nightmare. ended up just throwing clothes in the stroller and hoping they matched, lol! sure hope he grows out of that.
you SIL sounds like a nightmare. i have never heard of someone arguing with what another put on their registry. who cares if she doesn't see a need for it! it's not for her, hello! if she ever has another baby, buy her a bunch of stuff you know she doesn't want, lol. a stroller is a must IMO. we have always had one for ds and it has been so nice. especially with the basket on the bottom to store things while out. no one wants to hold the baby for hours, geez! you can't tell me she did. no way.

 

[moter98]

Ok I have to sneak in to admit I have been stalking y'all. I just couldn't resist replying to this!

Mail: It is baffling how people look at a registry and decide that THEY know better for YOUR family! I had the same problem with both my wedding and baby registries! People assume that everyone fits their own way of parenting or living and the world just doesn't work that way. My suggestion is when people call and ask what they can buy that isn't on the registry tell them GIFT CARDS. And anything unreturnable that you get at your shower just put up for sale on ebay straight away so that you can get money for what you WANT and NEED. (I was very honest with my family. When they asked where the Moses basket was that they bought me I told them I sold it so I could buy the carseat I needed!)

this has never happened to me. sure, i got a few small items not on my registry, but that's to be expected. but i did get the majority of what was on my registry. what are people thinking? that's what registries are for!!!

 

[mailcmm]

Thanks mighty and congrats on your pregnancy. How are you feeling?

I have been ranting about this for awhile and always feel ungrateful afterward by I am so tired of his family deciding how my baby should be raised. His sister is a stay at home mom with one child. I have 2 other children to take care of as well. And those kids are older but so set up in their lives that it wouldn't be fair to them to say hey I know how hard you have worked at horseback riding etc but ya know what mommy has a new baby and you will just have to sacrifice. They act like I don't know how to care for a child yet I have 2 that were born 14 months apart. So 2 in diapers. And now they excell in school are praised for how well behaved they are considering the nasty nasty divorce that they went thru and excell in every activity that they do. My daughter is 10 and breaking Arabian horses. My son was 9 and received 36 medals ranging from 1st-10th place during his first season in competitive gymnastics. That's a medal in every event. Neither were breast fed, rocked to sleep, or have ever once slept in my bed. And they are just fine. But none of that counts. Drives me batty.

 

[mailcmm]

Quiet day today. How is everyone? I have had a very busy 2 days. Sitting down for the first time.

Moter... How goes the land of smart ones and crocheting? Did your supplies arrive?

Twinkie.... Liam still hanging around?

Afm... I am just exhausted. Yesterday had a shopping day with dd. it was a nightmare. Buy me, buy me, buy me. Then when I needed to look at my stuff a thousand I'm boreds where are we going next. Did manage to get a few things done and lunch was nice. Also got her a dress for my 1st shower which is in less then 2 weeks. Still getting a hundred pressuring phone calls as to what can we get the baby that isn't on the registry. I am now just answering with I dont know I registered for everything we need. It baffles my mind. Maybe I am just a Spock living in a shatner world. Then sil calls and says the family really wants to know what they can buy. I tell her the same thing and she says.... Well we were talking about that and we were all looking at the registry and I didn't find those things to be useful so we really wanted to get something that would be useful. I swear to god I almost drove the 2 hours to her house and brained her. I told her that I really think that for our family these things will be very useful. That we are at football games at least twice weekly and horse shows twice monthly so a stroller is a nessecity. She said she hated hers and everyone agrees I can just hold the baby. The last horse show I was at took 7 hours. Can you imagine holding a child for 7 hours. I am dumbfounded. Then i said well there are tones of bottles nipples and accessories. She said well i didnt pump that often and found it easier to just nurse. I said well i have told you i dont have milk. She said well you can work that out with dr. Maybe they can fix it. It went on forever. Finially i told her to just tell everyone to buy what they want. I am done told dh that I am not taking their calls anymore and that we are just going to return everything we don't need. My worry is it will all come from specialty stores in their area and I will be stuck with tons of things I don't need and have to resort to lots on eBay. I am so irritated. I feel like she's sabotaging my shower lol. I know too conspiracy theory.

got so sick of smart ones i ordered stuffed chicken and a caesar salad for tomorrow from a local place. SO nice to eat some healthy fresh for a change. sounds like it doesn't get easier to go shopping with kids when they get older. when i try to take DS he whines and makes a scene the whole time, unless we are moving, then he's fine. last time i tried to bring him with me to get his winter clothes it was a nightmare. ended up just throwing clothes in the stroller and hoping they matched, lol! sure hope he grows out of that.
you SIL sounds like a nightmare. i have never heard of someone arguing with what another put on their registry. who cares if she doesn't see a need for it! it's not for her, hello! if she ever has another baby, buy her a bunch of stuff you know she doesn't want, lol. a stroller is a must IMO. we have always had one for ds and it has been so nice. especially with the basket on the bottom to store things while out. no one wants to hold the baby for hours, geez! you can't tell me she did. no way.

She is still holding the baby. My niece is almost one and no one not even dad can hold her and my sil refuses to let her cry. She gets up at 4 to get ready because she can't if the baby is awake. It's insane. I want to put the child in her crib and bar the door so sil can get some rest. I couldn't imagine having a child like that.

 

[moter98]

Oh.
Wow.
Babies do need to learn to soothe themselves. It's a pretty important life skill to learn. I could not ever hold ds all the time, nor would I want to. Cut the cord already.

 

[MightyMom]

LOL with my family it is the exact opposite! They bought me a Moses basket even though I told them I was going to co-bed/co-sleep. They bought be a set of bottles even though I was determined to nurse. They said my Moby wrap was a "silly" item to register for, why should I need to hold the baby all the time? It drove me nuts! I was angry because it seemed to me that they could not simply give me "uncontroversial" items like swaddles and layettes. They felt they HAD to buy me things that contradicted my parenting style to try to persuede me to do it THEIR way. So frustrating.
I'm doing ok. Very very very nervous. I don't feel well today either, I have a cold coming on. I see a RE on Wednesday, it is my first prenatal appt. I have had some tight feelings in my belly, and I am nervous this is yet another mc. Typical PARL stuff I guess. I just wish time would pass faster, it feels like every day has been dragging on!

 

[MightyMom]

She is still holding the baby. My niece is almost one and no one not even dad can hold her and my sil refuses to let her cry. She gets up at 4 to get ready because she can't if the baby is awake. It's insane. I want to put the child in her crib and bar the door so sil can get some rest. I couldn't imagine having a child like that.

YIKES! Not even dad?? That is a little...codependent and unhealthy. There is a girl on America's Next Top Model who says she will be a virgin forever and never marry because her mother gives her everything she needs and she cannot imagine a man being as selfless as her mother. IMO it is a very twisted way to raise your child. They should WANT to go out on their own, not be TERRIFIED to leave your side!

 

[mailcmm]

She is still holding the baby. My niece is almost one and no one not even dad can hold her and my sil refuses to let her cry. She gets up at 4 to get ready because she can't if the baby is awake. It's insane. I want to put the child in her crib and bar the door so sil can get some rest. I couldn't imagine having a child like that.

YIKES! Not even dad?? That is a little...codependent and unhealthy. There is a girl on America's Next Top Model who says she will be a virgin forever and never marry because her mother gives her everything she needs and she cannot imagine a man being as selfless as her mother. IMO it is a very twisted way to raise your child. They should WANT to go out on their own, not be TERRIFIED to leave your side!

That chick is crazy! Lol and yes its crazy how sil always has to be there. I love my kids and spend entirely too much time with them. Lol but that being said I could take a shower or leave them with my mom. I could clean the house and they would entertain themselves. It was lovely.

Cramping is very normal. I am still cramping. And yes it still terrifies me. Amazed everyday that I wake up still pregnant. I am really starting to get more excited but still so very very cautious. I hope this is your sticky bean. Like you I had 3 losses but mine were all super early. What will they do at your first appointment? Will you get a peak? I hope so.

 

[Twinkie210]

Mighty- Glad you are stalking and CONGRATULATIONS!!! I know it is scary, but I will keep everything crossed that this is a super sticky bean! Now you will have to make sure to keep us updated on what the RE says!

Mail- your family is crazy! I didn't really care if people bought off my registry as long as they bought things I needed (for instance I registered for receiving blankets, but I could care less that I got the ones I registered for if someone wanted to buy a different print you know?) I got a couple things from one family member that was not on my registry and I may not evrer use. One is one of those baby carriers that you wear on your chest the other is a formula mixer, which is handy, but I am either going to breast feed or use the ready to feed formula not the powdered. Most people bought stuff off my registery or clothes for little guy.

moter- I am sure you are ready for a fresh cooked meal! I had pizza rolls for like 5 days straight one week, because they only took a minute in the microwave, I switched it up and made myself a grilled cheese and it tasted like Heaven, LOL. How are you feeling?

 

[moter98]

haha! i had pizza for a few days straight and now i can't bring myself to make another one. really missing fresh food. if my scan brings good news, i could be able to cook tomorrow already. i'm doing good here. feel pretty normal. no bleeding for 9 days, yayyyyyy! anxious for my scan tomorrow.
but planning ds's nursery in full force. ordered some paint samples online. gonna go with a pastel yellow or pastel green to match the jungle theme we are doing. he will have wall decal jungle animals on the walls. kinda works perfect cause i already have a safari animals comforter/crib set from DS and safari animals crib mobile as well as hanging toy above changing table. i did DS's room in wallables sun moon and stars and airplane. this time i want to do more matching theme. only thing is, none of my furniture will match until he about 2 years old. oh well.

 

[mailcmm]

Twinkie... Like you I don't care what pattern just as long as its useful.

 

[mailcmm]

Moter... I am sure everything is going to be perfect. And if it is all healed I would stick to the modified bed rest. And just remember rid nothing else no lifting or high stretching. They say that's an old wives tale but I believe it. Can't wait to see your nursery start to come together. I love decorating. Are you big into pinterest? I found some great ideas on pinterest. Love that site.

 

[moter98]

yeah, i will most likely be doing modified bed rest till end of pregnancy even if it heals. dr said from here on out, no lifting, no exercising, no sex (poor dh). now that this has happened i have to take it as easy as i can. luckily i was only working part time and planning on staying home full time once the baby was born, so a few months earlier shouldn't make too much difference.
i will have to check out pinterest. excited to decorate the nursery and what better thing to focus on right now than that.

 

[mailcmm]

Omg I give you one day before you are a total addict. Pinterest is awesome. Lol you liking to be crafty and decorate will absolutely love it. I got a recipe off it that I modified to fit my diet but it was an oatmeal casserole with raspberries, banana, and chocolate chips it was amazing. I used Splenda and unsweetened chips. They have recipes, beauty, decorating, party, exercising, etc all tips posted by people online. Go crazy girl I bet we don't hear from you for 3 days lol

 

[mailcmm]

I am having a panic attack. Drs office called to tell me I failed my sequential screen bloodwork. I knew that and the high risk specialist said that with my combined results it wasn't a problem and that the us looked great. And last appointment the dr commented on how the high risk report felt confident Finn is healthy. So I don't know why the nurse called to refer me back to high risk for an amnio. Totally panicking. When I told nurse what high risk had told me and told her my combined screen results she said oh for your age that's a great number. I'm sorry I didn't realize they called you. So I called the high risk specialist and am waiting for a call. I just need to double check. God I was doing so freaking well.

 

[moter98]

Omg I give you one day before you are a total addict. Pinterest is awesome. Lol you liking to be crafty and decorate will absolutely love it. I got a recipe off it that I modified to fit my diet but it was an oatmeal casserole with raspberries, banana, and chocolate chips it was amazing. I used Splenda and unsweetened chips. They have recipes, beauty, decorating, party, exercising, etc all tips posted by people online. Go crazy girl I bet we don't hear from you for 3 days lol

Haha! Uh oh, I see another addiction coming on. I love crafts and recipes and baby decor!
Have you heard of enjoy life brand semisweet chocolate chips? They are gluten free, dairy free. Can you have them? They are really good and very similar to regular semisweet chocolate chips

 

[moter98]

I am having a panic attack. Drs office called to tell me I failed my sequential screen bloodwork. I knew that and the high risk specialist said that with my combined results it wasn't a problem and that the us looked great. And last appointment the dr commented on how the high risk report felt confident Finn is healthy. So I don't know why the nurse called to refer me back to high risk for an amnio. Totally panicking. When I told nurse what high risk had told me and told her my combined screen results she said oh for your age that's a great number. I'm sorry I didn't realize they called you. So I called the high risk specialist and am waiting for a call. I just need to double check. God I was doing so freaking well.

So your results haven't changed? Sounds like miscommunication between drs. I bet everything is just fine. Take a deep breath. Your u/s looked good. They did not see any soft markers. And your numbers were good