September Snugglers 2016

[mrsmax]

Damon and mamamoo eva always picks the most mundane bits as her fav part. Or it is the ice cream or chocolate after paying a fortune in entrance fees!!

Feeling tired here but not too bad. Can't believe how huge I look though def more 7 months than 5! Happy Friday ladies x

 

[ciz]

Ciz- You're already calling him DS! That's so sweet!! I feel like it still hasn't really hit me that I'm having another child! I've been mom of one for almost 4 years!

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lol well for the moment hes dS haha got another scan in couple weeks to definitely confirm it. but yeah I'm feeling a lot of strong movements with him so its sunk in quite quickly this time. dd was a lot more subtle during the 20 weeks. wasn't until later and she made up for the kicks lol.

 

[mari35racz36]

Hopie - So exciting you will be telling your mom this weekend! I can't wait to hear all about it You are not the only one who love pink on here! I love pink as well. You should see my daughter's room, so girly and I love it

Aman - What a fantastic day for you! I love those kind of days. I had a Starbucks Frappuccino yesterday too


It's a long weekend here and I am so happy. Hubby took today off too so he has 4 day weekend. Yay!! He is starting renos on the baby's room today. He went to Home Depot last night to get everything he needs. I will take before and after pics to post for you ladies once he is done. I am thinking it will take him up to a week to finish. He literally has to build a walls. lol

 

[ajarvis]

Mari whereabouts in Canada are you?

I'm in Calgary and we wanted to go camping for the long weekend. But I can't find anywhere it's not going to snow/rain being pregnant with a sore hip and not allowed to drink camping doesn't sound so fun haha

 

[mari35racz36]

Ajarvis- I live in Ontario. About 40min outside of Toronto. Such a big camping weekend!! We are lucky weather is really nice here. It will be 21-24 degrees all weekend. But I'm not sure the weather up north where lots of people go camping. Hubby and I used to camp every Victoria Day weekend before we had kids. I miss those days! My kids don't want to camp now. Lol

 

[ajarvis]

I lived in the GTA when I was a teenager. We had a cabin in haliburton and a trailer in napanee. We are big campers lol.

My youngest likes it but would be happier at home. He's just SOL

 

[Sweety21]

Mumma " the carpark" ? ha ha. That's hilarious.

Hopie, good luck with telling to your mom. Can't wait for update.

On exhaustion, I am drained and hardly able to move by end of day. I also take nap with dd but, still can't keep up witgh daily routine. Don't think I will ever have the energy surgeries which everyone talks and are talking about.

 

[Just1more2]

Glad all you ladies are well!
We have a first name picked out for our boy nugget: Avery. But we are having a really hard time with a middle name!

Linz: I have been feeling like a punching bag for a couple of weeks now. It is so hard to believe that someone so small can be so strong already!! Maybe we well just have little muscle babies!
Campn: I have been doing the same thing with DS. He really gets on my nerves lately and I feel bad for being short with him...
It's so weird to think that I am going to be a mom to 2 soon. I can't really wrap my head around it yet.

 

[xanzaba]

Ajarvis, Mari- My cousins grew up in St Catherine, but now they've gone back to Winnipeg. They have a cabin in Kenora that we've been going to for years. My family and I have lived South of the Border for many years now, but I love those summers hanging out by the freezing cold lakes, going fishing, and eating chips from the chip man.

I love the names that are going around- Avery is one of my favorite, but it was rejected because my husband's family is French and doesn't sound very good with a french accent. Warren too- with a French accent is sounds like Roah-roah!

 

[hopie2015]

I hope everyone's fatigue is at least a bit better today. Tough with having little ones at home. And Mum and others who are working full-time too.. not easy. Hope everyone's OH can help out this wknd and you all get some rest time. Anyone go for a prenatal massage yet? I'm thinking that soon.

Thanks, everyone! Yes Campn- good idea..drop some hints first so I dont totally shock her. I can't believe I'm finally announcing! Just so happy to have my mom okay on her birthday and really the news we are sharing doesnt feel real!

Not good news on Zika in the US today. Wondering if the bugs carry it here or if the women were traveling. Campn- do they talk a lot about it in Florida on the news?

Lulv- are you going for your scan next week?

Mari- I miss camping too! Too risky here now with all the ticks and lyme disease.
Looks like lovely wknd weather for a lot of us. Enjoy, everyone!!

 

[amantila]

We love the name Avery too, but we were going to use it as a girl's name. Avery Marie...if I ever have a girl.

 

[ajarvis]

campn as far as I've heard there have been no transmission in the US yet via mosquito. So that's good news anyways. Hopefully it stays that way!

 

[xanzaba]

Hopie- I've heard a lot about Zika, as my sister works for the CDC and I live in a hot, humid place. The only place they know of in the US where Zika is spreading is Puerto Rico. All other cases are travel- or sex-related. We're already getting mosquitos which does scare me, but I've been using vaseline with aloe vera and it really does seem to repel them! Today I had a mosquito buzzing around me, but it wouldn't land and bite me. Finally a dragonfly came around and the mosquito disappeared

They say it is okay to us bug spray in pregnancy, but I'm saving that that for really mosquito infested times (who knows what is really safe in pregnancy).

 

[ciz]

Apparently vapour rub keeps the bugs away. Dunno if guys in US have that or something similar. Helps with headaches too rub abit on the temples =)

 

[MummaMoo]

Also lemon room sprays repels not sure how true that is - and tea tree?

 

[campn]

I've read that there aren't any transmittions in the US yet, the pregnant women who got infected all got infected overseas, or their partners were overseas and transmitted it to them sexually.

But they say that's only the tip of the iceberg, once summer hits it'll really spread.

I've been lighting those mosquitos repelling candles in our screened patio if I go out there, if you are scared of products with deet use the children's one, they're natural and mainly just citrus essential oil.

 

[amantila]

24 weeks today! Wooohooo viable pregnancy day! :] Baby had better stay put until at least the late 30's though! :]

As for bugspray, I'm just going to use the real deal. Mosquitos LOVE me and I'm not messing around with them. I've been told that bug spray is safe during pregnancy and I'd rather take my chances with bug spray than with zika. :] I don't trust the natural remedies will do their job for me. Even the kiddo spray didn't do a great job repelling them from me last year! Maybe I should just stay indoors and hide haha.

 

[x-ginge-x]

I use a dry oil spray from Avon bugs hate it and we use it in homemade fly spray for horses haha! We had a single name for each gender, Sophia jade and Oscar James

 

[campn]

Aman- Happy V-Day!!!

Also I would just use the deet kind, my GP had me swear it's the kind I'd use few years ago when I got bit bad and had a very bad allergic reaction. Apparently my own skin just hates me.

 

[Linzalora]

Hopie- No one has contracted Zika from an actual mosquito IN the continental US. They contracted it while traveling elsewhere or through sex with someone with Zika. My mother lives very far south, and she said they are taking the threat very seriously, all the same. The issue is if mosquitoes bite someone infected and then spread it- fortunately, that has not happened yet. Hopefully it never happens.

In Malaysia, we have to be vigilant against malaria and dengue, so I already feel like I'm extremely cautious (read: paranoid) about those nasty little blood suckers.

I love all the names. You ladies have excellent taste! DH and I haven't talked about it much. If it's a boy, we want to honor my father who passed away 4 years ago. If it's a girl, DH actually wants to name her after me! I was kinda shocked, and still don't know what I think about that...

I have happy news today! My DH surprised me with a new home! He's got a little townhouse for us, and it's just perfect. He's moving in now so that when I arrive, I can settle right in. I am overjoyed.