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[Steph32]

Ahhhh... men... sometimes they just don't get it... It's like we have to spell everything out for them! You know, it actually would be nice for him to take you to that restaurant, as kind of a "babymoon" kind of thing. Do you normally have someone that can watch your girls, so you can have date nights? We have a sitter but haven't been out in a while, though we do need to utilize her and get some nights out in the next few weeks before the madness hits!

 

[Steph32]

LOL, I think it JUST hit my dh that a baby is actually coming. Took long enough! He didn't get my sense of urgency to get things done until now, he's finally realizing the things that we need to do to ge ready!

 

[Grey Eyes]

LOL, I know, they seems to think that 9 months is forever! They miss out on the first 5 or 6 then it occurs to them!

No, we actually don't have a sitter, we have never used one actually Date nights would be nice but for some reason we never did that either I guess we have been a sort of "hit the ground running" type of couple. Before the girls were born we did travel alot, we would just decide to get in the truck and drive- it was fun! :# But after our first dd was born responsibility set in , lol, and we had to become a little more focused and careful. I think one reason we have never had a sitter is the prejudice in our community: it is so bad here the police will pull my dh over and tell him to "leave their white women alone" and "go back to the rez" and stuff like that. They wouuld never guess he was raised #for the most part) and educated in New York and has a doctorate in criminal psychology and such an extensive professional history Anyway, so our girls have already caught some prejudice treatment- I would never trust anyone here to sit them Once everything is in place we will move YAY!!! lol We are obviously very protective

Your dh is getting hit with the panick bug is he? About time Now you can share some of the pressure

 

[Grey Eyes]

My dh just had another "guy moment". I think he has baby brain I have been feeling alot of stretching pressure because of the growing baby so my dh decided he was going to help me out with chores around the house . He settled on vaccuming which I thought was nice as pushing that thing around is a pain. Only one thing. He forgot I have the brushes set to a very aggressive setting. Yeah. He got distracted and left it running in one spot for a few minutes while he adjusted some furniture.....now there is a nice big burn whole in our carpet

Definately a baby brain moment!

 

[shradha]

Coy- amazing.....loved your work....you are a good artist....you have your hands full.....taking care of family, studying, drawing.....you love cooking, you are a box full of talents?....
Men are very bad with dates........ .... How is your new assignment going on?

 

[shradha]

Patrice- so you are a navy girl by default........ When is your camp starting?..... Hopefully when you finish and start TTC...you get your BFP...... Fingers crossed for you ...all the best

 

[mzswizz]

Coy-wow you would think your dh is the pregnant one and glad you will be moving. A prejudice area is a terrible area.

Shadra-yeah pretty much a military family by default. And we dont know when camp starts just yet. We are waiting for the phone call to know whats the next step.

 

[shradha]

Laura- thanx for the tip.. will try BD in morning
Your dh is really taking care..... You must be missing him at night......when he is in the shift...

..yesterday night for the first time....we BD at 1 am.....then again at 4.30am.....surprising coz dh......is never so active.... ......

 

[shradha]

Emma and steph- take care .....

 

[shradha]

Temps are again going up...today its 96.8f ...... Appetite has gone....don't feel like eating ....... Just had fruits for dinner and breakfast....... Yesterday I tried not to drink for 3 hours and checked opk....... Saw 2 lines....not that dark but still better then previous days.....guess today would get a dark line.....but last two days I have been really wet...... So right now I am totally confused if I have already O or not......

 

[Steph32]

LOL, I know, they seems to think that 9 months is forever! They miss out on the first 5 or 6 then it occurs to them!

No, we actually don't have a sitter, we have never used one actually Date nights would be nice but for some reason we never did that either I guess we have been a sort of "hit the ground running" type of couple. Before the girls were born we did travel alot, we would just decide to get in the truck and drive- it was fun! :# But after our first dd was born responsibility set in , lol, and we had to become a little more focused and careful. I think one reason we have never had a sitter is the prejudice in our community: it is so bad here the police will pull my dh over and tell him to "leave their white women alone" and "go back to the rez" and stuff like that. They wouuld never guess he was raised #for the most part) and educated in New York and has a doctorate in criminal psychology and such an extensive professional history Anyway, so our girls have already caught some prejudice treatment- I would never trust anyone here to sit them Once everything is in place we will move YAY!!! lol We are obviously very protective

Completely understandable how you would be cautious about leaving your kids! I would too. Especially with the stories of your neighbors and the cops and all of that. I wouldn't trust anybody! We were also very hesitant to leave Nicholas with anybody, and I really couldn't even imagine just "finding" a random person that I could trust enough to leave him with... but after the first 2 years of his life with no couple time I gave in to the idea and we ended up finding someone that we completely love and trust, even more than some of our own family! We've had her for 2 years now and Nicholas has built a great relationship with her and they so much fun together. But man, that first time leaving him was soooo hard. I'm such a control freak and really hard for me to trust anyone else. We did a "test run" and only went out for about an hour, then came back. It was a slow process but now we feel totally comfortable. And she is really the only person I leave Nicholas with, other than my mom.

About the prejudice thing... we kind of have the same issue... although where we live it is very much a "melting pot"... so many colors and races that no one really looks at dh differently... but whenever we would travel to other areas of the US he gets a lot of suspicious looks. One time when he was in the midwest they wanted to arrest him for no reason... just based on profiling... so he would kind of cringe a bit whenever I would suggest moving somewhere that just happens to have a predominantly Caucasian community.

 

[Steph32]

Ok, I have to admit something that's really been a big issue lately... and I'm finding this very strange because I've never experienced this before and didn't have this with my first pregnancy... ... but I've been craving non-food things (pica I guess?), not to the point where I would actually eat it, but just strongly craving the SMELL of certain things to a point where it is so overwhelming that it makes me want to eat it. Although just smelling it for a long period of time is satisfying. I know they say that this is linked to an iron deficiency or some other kind of nutrient deficiency, but who knows. Here's my crazy list of things I "smell" crave:

-The smell of the car and air conditioner right when it comes on in the car, especially when it is hot
-The smell of my shampoo, which has an odd scent, it's not really fruity or sweet-- sometimes in the shower I'll open the bottle and just stand there taking big whiffs of it...almost wanting to just put some on my lips to taste it... but I know it wouldn't taste the way it smells
-Tea tree oil-- wanting to do the same thing as the shampoo
-Chemical-y or rubbery/latex smells like paint, gasoline, auto parts, tires
-This is the strangest one-- BUILDINGS-- sometimes I'll walk into a building and there is something that smells so good about it that I want to eat it... maybe it's the paint or the plaster or concrete or something? Ever since I told this to dh he's been joking around about me wanting to eat buildings.

I'm sure if I walked into a home depot or an auto parts store or something like that, I would love the smell and want to stay there for hours. I've always liked the home depot smell anyway, but this is different... it's like my senses are so awakened that I literally CRAVE these smells and can't get enough.

Anyway, being the "natural" and "organic" person I am, this is hard for me to think about... I don't want to have to smell these things, most of them are NOT good to be inhaling! But I can't help it!

Tomorrow I'm going to ask my doctor about this, maybe get my iron levels tested again. Last time I got tested it was borderline low... I think that was around 20 something weeks? But since then I've been good about taking my prenatals and the cravings are getting worse...so you wouldn't think that iron deficiency is the issue?

 

[Grey Eyes]

Steph- WEIRD about the "smell crave"! Seriously (okay, not seriously ) did you ever watch that movie called Perfume? Where this weird French (?) guy had such a heightened sense of smell he craved to smell people, women in particular? He would rub his nose all over them (eeeewww!) and just inhale Anyway don't watch it because at the end he gets devoured by people who, um, smell-crave him to death, lol. Seriously, Steph - Don't. Eat. The. Building.

Okay enough joking. All joking aside, yes, I would say have your bloods checked and make sure everything is in balance. I have heard that this can be pretty common although I have never experienced it. Be careful smelling gas and such as that can be very harmful! But building- - Go for it I absolutley love the smell of old books! And leather Weird, huh?!

 

[Grey Eyes]

LOL, I know, they seems to think that 9 months is forever! They miss out on the first 5 or 6 then it occurs to them!

... but whenever we would travel to other areas of the US he gets a lot of suspicious looks. One time when he was in the midwest they wanted to arrest him for no reason... just based on profiling... so he would kind of cringe a bit whenever I would suggest moving somewhere that just happens to have a predominantly Caucasian community.

I know, it can be really difficult I was walking in our one grocery store a few weeks back and there was a couple shopping for vegetables and they were having trouble finding what they wanted- so, naturally they asked one of the help passing by. The helper stopped, stared at them strangely, and rudely just kept walking on! IThis happened with a couple other store-helpers and finally the woman said "Ah, I know what this is all about" and the couple left the store in disgust. See, they were a mix, or bi-racial, couple. He was African-American and she was Caucasian. It is so ridiculous and I swear these people around here drive me crazy. Dh and I have talked about ewhen we move we hope God helps us find a very nice place for our girls! I never viewed us as being "bi-racial" or being anything but just Alex & I I wish the world would adopt that same view!

 

[Grey Eyes]

Temps are again going up...today its 96.8f ...... Appetite has gone....don't feel like eating ....... Just had fruits for dinner and breakfast....... Yesterday I tried not to drink for 3 hours and checked opk....... Saw 2 lines....not that dark but still better then previous days.....guess today would get a dark line.....but last two days I have been really wet...... So right now I am totally confused if I have already O or not......

Shradha- if you have been noticing an abundance of cm (especially very wet or very thin and stretchy) in the last two days then I would say your body is gearing up to Ov in the next day or so Especially with your temps rising Which means your 4:30 am BD is great timing And yes, you will get better opk results if you "hold it" and don't drink for about 3 hours! Perfect work!

K, ladies, I am off to .....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....z.zzzz.......

 

[SpudsMama]

Steph, it's funny you mentioned the smell cravings. We had an old family friend over last night and she was telling me about how she loved the smell of furniture polish She didn't mention any problems during her pregnancy though... xx

 

[mzswizz]

good morning ladies..how are you all?

AFM, im cd14 and my temp is 97.71. DH wentout to celebrate his cousin's 21st birthday last night so i just enjoyed being alone catching up to my shows. I didn't go to bed until close to 2am and DH came home around 3am. So we both fell asleep. Well, dh and i dtd this morning. I must admit it was pretty funny because dh complained that he hasnt received any sex in 2-3 days and its long overdue Well now i have to see what the tww brings because....
I GOT MY POSITIVE OPK!!!!!!! So let's see what happens this cycle. It came as a shock because i was not expecting a positive opk at cd14. I really thought it would've happened later. So with FF having my LP as 11 days...AF is due around June 2nd or 3rd now. So now we shall wait.

 

[Grey Eyes]

good morning ladies..how are you all?

AFM, im cd14 and my temp is 97.71. DH wentout to celebrate his cousin's 21st birthday last night so i just enjoyed being alone catching up to my shows. I didn't go to bed until close to 2am and DH came home around 3am. So we both fell asleep. Well, dh and i dtd this morning. I must admit it was pretty funny because dh complained that he hasnt received any sex in 2-3 days and its long overdue Well now i have to see what the tww brings because....
View attachment 404043I GOT MY POSITIVE OPK!!!!!!! So let's see what happens this cycle. It came as a shock because i was not expecting a positive opk at cd14. I really thought it would've happened later. So with FF having my LP as 11 days...AF is due around June 2nd or 3rd now. So now we shall wait.

OMG Patrice- I am so excited now! O my gosh, I can't wait to see your temps in the next week or so! Don't sign any papers yet lady, lol! Wouldn't that be a kick to get all set for the Navy then find out your prego I would be so happy for you and your dh if you catch this eggy though! And not to be crude but if you held-out (lol) on dh for 2-3 days then his, um, , are all muscled up iykwim! So you got some super-hero Yay! Keep usposted! Your temps are like 97.7 now, right? Can't for tomorrow!

 

[Grey Eyes]

Patrice- beautiful pic btw- I love the smileys! They make me feel happy just looking at them!

 

[lauraemily17]

Woohoo Patrice!! You know I have had s funny feeling this month may be it for you, life works in funny ways sometimes.

Just a quick up date from me but you were all right about seeing my midwife. Been referred to the hospital as protein is in my urine & blood pressures up. At 1 point it was 150/100!!! Back down to 90 though now but still not good with protein in my urine. Had blood taken & waiting to be seen to find out what it all means. Don't know how much protein there is yet but hoping not a lot!!