Due In May :)

[Hann12]

Robinson - yay for all the hopefully lucky Friday scans! Hope you DH sorts himself out! Men!

 

[nearlythere38]

it was meant to be next wednesday, but i phoned this morning to see if there was any free slots or cancellations this week, and luckily they had friday. naughty me!! i know first in so hopefully no waiting about. taking both the kiddies with us too so hopefully everything willl be ok and can tell my son about the baby. ive been asking him if he wants a brother or sister and he says yes, he wants another brother. so thats what i must have lol x

 

[Powell130]

Wow! Pro, I'm so sorry. My mom gets negative in my life sometimes, and I just cut her out. I'll stop speaking and communicating in any way for weeks, months or even a year. I can handle having forces like that in my life.
Powell- what a shocker with the pups! How's your humane society? Make sure to get the pups there as early, young and tiny as possible so people want them. Maybe you can put pics of them on pet finder.com and say they will be available in 7 weeks at such and such pound to get the interest going?
So happy your feeling good eggo!
I'm just waiting for the insurance adjuster to show. Did some reading about mold development after flooding in a house and I'm feeling nervous for me and LO. Already Had a nosebleed this morning too. Ugh!

Our humane society isn't too bad. That's where we're probably going to take them. Hubs wants to wait til they're weaned (she weaned last time at 4.5 weeks). I say take them when their eyes are open. They have foster mothers and formula for the young ones. I just don't want to have them too long to where they'll be hard to get rid of. Considering we still have 3 from the last litter! It's insane. I also want to get the pups gone from mom ASAP so her milk will dry up and we can get her fixed! So ready to be done with the puppy situation. I was excited for the first litter, this one...not so much...not sure if it's being pregnant, or the fact that it's so soon after the first litter and we don't have room for them! Or a combo of both.

I just don't want to have them forever and have to send them to a home, i want someone else to deal with that. Specially with working full time now and not having time to deal with them like I did last time.

I hope everything goes well with the adjuster. Mold can be bad for you!

 

[prolifer]

Thanks for the support everyone, they never offer to help us with anything. We don't drive, so we must walk or hail a cab everywhere we go. It can be tiring for the little ones so we try to avoid going far.

And what can I say? I love my kids, I don't care if they're a little different, they're still mine and I wouldn't love them any less or tease them if they were aliens from outer space!

My sister's daughter has serious teeth issues and all they ever do is tease her about it constantly. I can tell she is self concious about it because she never shows her teeth when she smiles.

 

[Powell130]

Thanks for the support everyone, they never offer to help us with anything. We don't drive, so we must walk or hail a cab everywhere we go. It can be tiring for the little ones so we try to avoid going far.

And what can I say? I love my kids, I don't care if they're a little different, they're still mine and I wouldn't love them any less or tease them if they were aliens from outer space!

My sister's daughter has serious teeth issues and all they ever do is tease her about it constantly. I can tell she is self concious about it because she never shows her teeth when she smiles.

That is so awful they treat their grandchildren like that!

I don't speak to my mother anymore because (well this is one of the many reasons) she called my niece ******** when she was younger because she said that my SIL and bro weren't feeding her right. My mother is the dumb one! We haven't spoken to her in over a year, me or my brother.

 

[prolifer]

Yeah well, the thing is, when they ask why I am so mad at them and I tell them exactly why - they look so blank and deny every single bit of it! Boils my blood.

 

[Sass827]

Congrats fluffy!
How did DD's hearing exam go Hann? I'm sure no one will know from the post about Friday.
So sorry nearly. Who would have thought they made them for only after 20 weeks? Dumb!
How is DH's family pro?

 

[Sass827]

Powell- one of our dogs was separated from her mom too early and she has a weird personality disorder from it. DH might be right about 4.5 weeks. Might be worth a bit of reading into. GL!

 

[Powell130]

Yeah well, the thing is, when they ask why I am so mad at them and I tell them exactly why - they look so blank and deny every single bit of it! Boils my blood.

Sounds a lot like my mom, she acts like she never said what she said. She said it to everyone in my family! Even had my aunts and uncles calling yelling at my brother. She said it to my face. And then tries to convince me that she didn't say it to me or anyone, that it was my dad (they've been divorced since 2007 and she tries to make me hate him, when it turns out the other way around) It's like she tries so hard to convince others of her lies, that she ends up convincing herself or something, it's so weird.

Funny you say "boils my blood" because this is what I say about my mother "she is the only person in the world that makes my blood boil"

..I hate we feel this way about the ones we're supposed to love the most..it's sad

 

[Powell130]

Powell- one of our dogs was separated from her mom too early and she has a weird personality disorder from it. DH might be right about 4.5 weeks. Might be worth a bit of reading into. GL!

Ahh I forgot about that!! Dang it lol more time for me to get attached to them.

 

[prolifer]

I thought I was going crazy, she keeps on and on about how much she loves us and misses us and wishes we weren't always fighting with her. She twists it around so we look like the stinkers, stressing her out when she's done nothing wrong.

DH's family? His mother is gone and his father lives far away. His brothers are scattered, so it's really just him, me and the kids. We keep to ourselves, a LOT, which probably doesn't help the kids to develop socially at all but what can we do? The entire town hates us because of big mouth gran telling everyone lies about us.

One of the things we heard back was, we padlock the kids in their bedrooms and never let them come out. The kids at my oldest son's high school say our house is not a safe place to go and it's dangerous here. WTF?!

 

[mathgenius33]

Pro, I'm sorry to hear your family feels that way. What does everyone do about negative family members? As for me, I love my dad but he's kind of a negative person. For example when I was telling him a little about my pregnancy symptoms he started laughing and telling me how this was the easy part. I already know that, which is why I waited to be 32 to have kids.

I took care of his baby (my sister) when she was 2 and I was 22 when my dad and step-mom traveled Europe, which is how I already know. I mean they were the ones who had an unplanned pregnancy at an older age, not me. I'm ready for anything and don't care how hard the work is. I have absolutely no expectations except having my life flipped upside down.

So I want my baby to know his/her grandfather, I just don't want my baby to have to witness his drama and negativity. What have some of you done about that?

 

[Sass827]

I'm sorry I cant be more help. I'm in a similar boat. My brother is on drugs and my parents are enablers and my mother and father in law are in a cult. So really, I'm just holding my breath. Not really sure what to do either.
My therapist says what matters is our liitle family (me, DH and LO) and that we try to bond as our unit and make sure we are strong with smaller amounts of exposure to the crazies.

 

[Megan1986]

I haven't been on here in weeks! We thought we were going to be due in May, but are actually due June 7. I am 8 weeks, 4 days along. Did anyone else have any brown spotting? The doctor said it is very normal, but we are going in for an u/s tomorrow.

 

[prolifer]

I don't know, I must be a total weird-o because I never spot or bleed or anything ^^ Hope all is well. xx

 

[Starry Night]

I haven't been on here in weeks! We thought we were going to be due in May, but are actually due June 7. I am 8 weeks, 4 days along. Did anyone else have any brown spotting? The doctor said it is very normal, but we are going in for an u/s tomorrow.

I've been pushed back to June too. Having lots of spotting as I have a bleed inside my womb. Had one with my DS as well. I'm just a bleeder, I guess. My gran told me that she had to be on bed rest for at least 3 of her pregnancies. With one of them her doctor told her she was actually miscarrying and gave her the pills to speed it up. But when she got home she threw them in the garbage and a few months later my uncle was born. Of course, they didn't have scans back then.

They never tell you about how common bleeding is until it happens to you. I've now spoken with quite a few women who have also said they bleed in every pregnancy.

I've now put myself on bed rest because I got some spotting from doing some simple tasks. I'm a stay-at-home mom so I don't need a doctor's note but I have already been told to take it easy. I still feel guilty though. I guess because my husband is a pastor and people just expect and assume the wife is going to be super involved in everything and take it personally when I don't. I keep reminding myself I'm just a volunteer so I don't need permission.

 

[Starry Night]

to those dealing with irksome families. They are supposed to be your biggest fans and well, they just seem to suck at it. I agree with what Sass' therapist says: your family is your OH and your LO(s). Even when the relationships with your parents are good your priority is still your own little family. All the best to you ladies. Ignore the nay-sayers as best you can!

I have a great bond with my family but my SiL likes to be bit of a know-it-all which means pointing out the negatives. She was trying to tell me how hard another C-section would be on me and I was like, "um, I know how hard C-sections are on the body. I have had one. You have not." lol I love her to pieces, I really do, but sometimes you have to turn on the Ignore Button.

 

[Megan1986]

I am excited for my scan tomorrow. We saw a little heart beat at 6 weeks and it was amazing

 

[Starry Night]

Good luck!

 

[Hann12]

Morning all!
I'm sorry so many of you have bad family situations. In general mine are okay, slightly over bearing MIL and a know it all SIL too (sounds similar Starry!) - we got a preach about how hard it will be for us with 2 children as they have 2, turns out she's jealous as she wants a 3rd but my BIL has said no because they can't afford it. She's annoying anyway! But some of your stories are really tough

Hope the scans go well today!

I had 2 days of light brown spotting with this pregnancy at 5+3 I think, I was told it was left over implantation.

Starry - hope the rest helps, really wish you had an easier run of things.

3 days until my scan!! Really tired today as DD was up a but at night and very early this morning. Looking forward to morning nap time! Thankfully shouldn't be too far away as she was up so early!