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[cheree89]

How is everyone else? increased sex drive or decreased?

About the same for me, which is to say low. My OH keeps asking me when the increased sex drive kicks in.

 

[hopefulmama]

Jeez, I guess i'm just a big hornball..
not to sound crass but as of last couple weeks i'm def easily aroused. I told my husband today that his job will be very easy from now on.

 

[lisaf]

lol, increased bloodflow!
My boobs were so sore at first that it would have been an instant turn-off if they got even bumped. Now they're not sore but the nipples are unpleasantly sensitive so thats kind of a mood-killer too.

 

[hopefulmama]

I like a little bit of pain and have a very high pain thresh hold, so when my boobs were super sore i actually enjoyed it when they were touched.

 

[cheree89]

I like a little bit of pain and have a very high pain thresh hold, so when my boobs were super sore i actually enjoyed it when they were touched.

I think that is just the hornball in you!

I have a pretty high pain threshold too, but the thought of someone touching my girls makes me cringe. I even have a hard time sleeping on my stomach and I have a tiny chest. Oh well, I'll have to get out of that habit anyway.

Speaking of sleeping on my stomach...when I was little, I ONLY slept on my stomach. My cat would sleep on the middle of my back and neither of us would move for the entire night. One day, when I was about 10 or 11 (probably after some horrid sex ed video in school), I decided that I had better learn to sleep on my back so that I would be able to sleep when I was pregnant (I have mentioned that I am a bit OCD sometimes, right?). I forced myself to go to sleep on my back for several nights in a row just to prove to myself that I could do it. I probably got about 3 hours of sleep each night, because it took so long to fall asleep in that uncomfortable position. Had I only known then that I should have been trying to sleep on my left side, I might have been more successful.

 

[hopefulmama]

I only sleep on my back or right side... so it's been a mission switching to left side.. i even put 2 tempurpedic pillows behind me so i wouldn't roll over and a foam like pillow between my legs so i i stay in position. I think trying to sleep on my left side is whats giving me those stupid pains on right side cuz i end up halfway over the pillows all sideways and twisted.

 

[lisaf]

oh yes, twisting etc makes the round ligament pains flare up! I got a U shaped body pillow to help me sleep on my sides more. I'm mostly a stomach-sleeper though I did train myself to back-sleep when I was having knee issues a few years back.

 

[hopefulmama]

Waiting for the u-shaped pillowed further along in pregnancy. So when I get back to miami we are going to do some stuff on our condo, i want to expand master closet and guest bathrooms and put more built ins- in other rooms ... I am not looking forward to dealing with construction or heat of florida. It was 70 in nyc today and i was hot, so if its 85 in miami i might die. I hate being hot or feeling sticking. I wish my husband would get over living in florida cause i hate it.

 

[lisaf]

it reached 85 here today, but I stayed inside
I'm jealous you have the opportunity to do the remodeling you want! I wish I had just an extra foot of space in the bathroom, windows that worked and weren't a hazard/a strain just to shove open and shut, carpet that was new and didn't have nails poking through... a door to my garage from inside the house, a closet for coats and my vaccuum cleaner... a little more kitchen counter space.
Haha, ok I now made my house sound like a deathtrap!
I think we can fix the carpet issue and its only one window that is truly a 'hazard' so maybe we can get that fixed too... we are just relying on the generosity of my FIL who owns the house to do this stuff. He only charges us his mortgage payment so he's not making any money off of us to put back into the house for repairs, you know? And he's out of work and still trying to finish building his own house that burned down in a wildfire 2 years ago (and I think they're going to have to move in before its finished because they can't afford to finish the flooring project?).

 

[mummy3]

Meow Great scan! As for gender guess, I cant tell from the pic but do you know the heartrate?

Hopeful, Im with you on the high pain threshold as for sex drive, other than when had the thrush and the spotting, my drive is the same and we do it pretty much everyday, is that high /low/average?

Lucky, zofran I did first and didnt help me, what did work was a combibation of promethazine and cyclizine, between them I can carry on almost as normal, if I dont take them though I will get sick!

so we went to the ob and LO was wriggling around, like everyone a few days ahead and thumb in mouth I didnt get pic today but will get one on wed! And.... we have gender check 3 weeks today so gonna find out if that intelligender test was right and we are team blue

 

[cheree89]

Hopeful -I am trying to wait on the u-pillow too. Although I can feel my bump starting when I lay on my stomach (even if all it looks like is bloat). I may have to get it sooner than I thought.

Lisa - I don't envy your housing situation. It was great to get my own home (thank you housing crash - I know it put tons of people under water, but for me it was great!). CA is so expensive, I don't know how anyone owns anything there (I used to live in SF - insane)!

Hopeful, you are lucky to be able to afford a place in NYC - I have several friends who live there and I just cringe at the thought of what a small condo costs. I have lived a bit of everywhere, and I love living in the heart of the city, but I have come to reality that what I chose to do for a living just wasn't compatible.

 

[hopefulmama]

Mummy- having sex everyday is high i'd say, we do it like 4-5 days a week but 2 of those days we double dip haha. I mean i'd do it 4-5 times a day if i could but my husband is too tired, lazy ass.

you know what im loving about being pregnant around halloween, the reeses and kitkat bags i have in the fridge haha

 

[cheree89]

Meow Great scan! As for gender guess, I cant tell from the pic but do you know the heartrate?

Hopeful, Im with you on the high pain threshold as for sex drive, other than when had the thrush and the spotting, my drive is the same and we do it pretty much everyday, is that high /low/average?

Lucky, zofran I did first and didnt help me, what did work was a combibation of promethazine and cyclizine, between them I can carry on almost as normal, if I dont take them though I will get sick!

so we went to the ob and LO was wriggling around, like everyone a few days ahead and thumb in mouth I didnt get pic today but will get one on wed! And.... we have gender check 3 weeks today so gonna find out if that intelligender test was right and we are team blue

Congrats Mummy! I didn't know you could get a gender scan so early. I am staying team yellow, but part of me wants to know!

Oh and everyday is HIGH!

 

[hopefulmama]

Cheree- ya i have a great place here thats actually quite large and in a great area. i've had it since 05 before the building opened and i haven't been able to part with it. We were going to buy a larger place here but neither of us want to raise our kids here, so seems better to just keep the current place for when we come to city etc. Plus our place in Miami is quite large and we completely customized it when the building was in construction so everything is just the way i want it (well did 2 1/2 yrs ago), we took two 2 bed/bath apts and made one big one. can't complain...

 

[lisaf]

cheree - the housing crash here still hasn't brought houses to the reasonable/affordable range. And unfortunately the way the coastline is situated, the nearest towns are about 40 minutes away, and with traffic/commuting it takes longer and I can't stand that. Plus the gas costs have made commuting so expensive for some (I know someone who spent $800 a month on gas!)

There was a house that was almost affordable down the street from me... it was 800sqft, 1 bedroom, 1 bath decent looking interior from the pictures, but the outside looks like a total shack. And that gem of a house was selling for $450K. There is a 2-3 bedroom, 2 bath 1200 sqft home a block down from there that is selling for $673k
Can't afford the mortgage on either of those places even if we had the downpayment for it, which we don't...

 

[hopefulmama]

wow I dont think i could go without knowing. a. i'm too controlling and need to know eveyrhting, b. for shopping and decorating, c. for name reasons

 

[lisaf]

lol, but hopeful... what if little baby crosses their legs?
Or what if you get told girl only to have a boy?

 

[hopefulmama]

i'd probably curse the doctor out big time and blame my husband hahahaha

Well i'd end up have to return... I am not into pink so that would never happen.. but i like a neutral cool room with some femme touches so that wouldnt be as hard. My MIL is crazy and has already started buying baby girl stuff .. me and my husband both want a girl and apparently so does she.

 

[lisaf]

lol, well I bought 1 girl thing but it was a bargain, lol... and if we're having a boy, our friends have a girl and I'd just give it to them.

I also just bought my travel crib... I got it brand new for free with my Amex rewards points (thank you Amazon for letting me spend Amex rewards points with you!).
It was totally pricey and I didn't think anyone would buy it for us from our registry since it costs more than the standard Pack N Plays that everyone gets.
I got it in blue because I think it looked better than the silver... girls can like blue too

 

[cheree89]

Lisa - All I can say is ! I loved living in SF, but I knew I couldn't afford it for the long term. It is a bummer, because you just can't beat the weather/beauty (although I was pleased to leave the traffic).

I am hung up on Alice in Wonderland for a nursery theme. I think it could work for either a girl or boy, and I think you could really make it cute for one or the other if you knew in advance. I just can't imagine Alice in Wonderland as a totally neutral room.