when the "30 yo ttc#1" ladies get their bfp's

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Very cool, M! And when you're a famous author, we can all say we knew you way back when ;)

Glad Abigail is doing well. Hopefully she's just having a rough day and will be back to normal soon. I would probably feed her on demand unless I was really about to lose my mind (and then I'd probably shove a bottle at DH and let him feed her on demand while I went and sat in a quiet room for half an hour).

I had a good appointment today. Got my glucose test done, so I'm eager to hear the results of that. T is big enough now that it was super easy for the midwife to find his heartbeat, too :) Tonight is the first session of our birth class. If I was smart I'd be taking a nap right now!
 
Great article M! :) I hope it gets published for you!

Great to hear how Abigail is doing! I'm sure Mrsk is right and she's just having a rough day! :) Hopefully things get a bit easier for you!

MrsK, Hope you pass your glucose test! :) I was so excited when I passed mine! :) I had to drink a 16 ounce coke an hour before they took the blood. Did you have to do this or was it just the small little drink thingy?

Owl, that makes sense to register for things so people at least get you the stuff you want and not just guess! :)

My sister has started planning my baby shower already! AHHH!! LOL It's going to be early February, so not long now!

I have started to feel the flutters of Emma moving more often now. I love that I can feel her now and can't wait til DH will be able to feel her move as well! He'll kiss my belly and sometimes I feel her move right after. I think it's cute because in my mind it's her reacting to her daddy's kisses! :) They're bonding already!

I find it amazing how family members find ways to piss you off. Aren't they thinking about your pregnancy hormones?! haha More family issues over here with my step mother making a fuss about how we're spending Thanksgiving with my mom instead of my father (divorced family). I'm not sure why she's doing this because Thanksgiving has always been alternating years between them. Last year was with them...so why?! Seems unnecessary. She's also putting her input for Christmas that we should start spending Christmas with one or the other and not do what we've always done since I can remember which is Christmas eve with my mom and Christmas day with dad. Why break what's been a great run?! Anyway, I am feeling that at this point I am going to have a chat with dad and mom about how I'm doing holidays from now on and not wanting to hear any complaints because once Emma comes along I am sure things will flare up even more!

Sorry for the rant but I've already ranted to husband and I'm sure he'll appreciate me not talking about it anymore!
 
Thanks, LSD, I hope I pass too!

Isn't it exciting feeling them move? I've only really hit a turning point where I'm feeling him regularly over the past week or two, since my placenta has been blocking so much. It's so cool. I guess it'll be less cool when he's bruising my ribs in 2 months...

Sounds like your mom is trying to stake a claim on you before Emma arrives! Parents! We stopped by my brother's shop today, and I'd been complaining to my SIL about mom, so I guess she passed it on. He's wondering what we should do about her - there's serious talk of doing some kind of "Stop being an asshole" intervention.
 
M, for now she is Abigail. I said we may call her Abby when she gets older but I kind of feel like her personality will determine if she is Abigail or Abby. If she's sweet and girly it's Abigail. If she's a hellion (far more likely) she will be Abby. Right now her nickname is actually monkey. When she gets hungry she makes kind of hooting noises before she cries that sound like a chimpanzee. So I think my next tattoo will be a monkey down my ribs with a tail hanging down so that if we ever have another I can add to the tat.

She slept well last night but then started getting up every hour or two this morning again so I think she may just be starting to be awake more during the day.

If you get published give us the link or let us know where so we can all claim we now a famous author!

Good luck with the glucose test!
 
Hey all!!!

Hope everyone has a great thanksgiving week! My appetite is back so I'm thankful for that!

Soooooo the reason I stayed away is because I found out my results and I had to wait for my gender reveal cupcakes to tell my family....we are having a GIRL! I'm so shocked! I for sure thought it would be a boy! Chromosome tests came back good. Turns out though, my genetic tests show I'm a carrier for cystic fibrosis. I didn't even think my mom was a carrier! My uncle died from CF when I was little and my due date is his birthday...weird right? Anyway, they tested DH last week and he doesn't know of family history with anything like that so hopefully we will not have to worry about it. Worst case, he's a carrier and we have a 1 in 4 chance of having a CF baby. In that case we just have extra ultrasounds and measurements. Best case, he's not a carrier and I can relax. Lol whatever happens will happen I suppose!

MrsK I was totally prepared to join you on the blue train! I still can't believe I'm going to have a daughter. I'm such a grown up!
 
Congrats JCM! That's so exciting and so funny. Another girl!

Best of luck to you about the genetic testing. Fingers crossed he's not a carrier and you don't have to worry at all.

I had my 16w appointment today and everything was good. She found the hb immediately and agreed my uterus was high, like I thought. And my weight gain slowed down a bit, which is good. AND she told me to schedule my anatomy scan for before we fly home for Hanukkah/Christmas so I should have pictures to show the family. 3 weeks from today!

Also, we started registering last weekend and went out and tried out strollers and picked the one we want, at which point my parents said they wanted to get it for us. Awww!

Happy Thanksgiving all :)
 
Happy Thanksgiving, ladies!

Another girl? I'm starting to wonder if my little guy is going to come out a girl after all. It'll be fun explaining to her why the customized souvenir we brought back from our cruise lists her as Theodore ;) Congratulations!

Glad all the scans and appointments are going well, and I hope the CF test comes back clear!

What stroller did you choose, Owl? I've become that crazy lady who has to resist the urge to stop people using "our" stroller (Baby Jogger City Select) in the wild and asking if they like it. I'm sure that would be really appreciated when it's 20 degrees out and you can't even tell I'm pregnant through my coat. I saw someone using it as a double the other day and I really was close to yelling out the car window ;)

I'm just waiting for my mid-December scan to make sure my placenta has moved up. Based on movement, I have a feeling it's shifted up into left anterior, because all the kicks I'm feeling are on my right side. We have our hospital orientation on the 3rd, and then our birth class starts in January! We were signed up for one that started last week, but she canceled it because we were the only couple. Not impressed! Especially this far into the pregnancy, when all the natural birth classes are several weeks long. We were lucky to find one that we liked and that didn't involve DH changing his work schedule.

I'm in double digits tomorrow! Crazy! Where did the time go?
 
MrsKChicago said:
What stroller did you choose, Owl? I've become that crazy lady who has to resist the urge to stop people using "our" stroller (Baby Jogger City Select) in the wild and asking if they like it. I'm sure that would be really appreciated when it's 20 degrees out and you can't even tell I'm pregnant through my coat. I saw someone using it as a double the other day and I really was close to yelling out the car window ;)
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We picked the Baby Jogger City Mini GT. A lot of the strollers out there these days have these very curved handles and maybe it's my height but they killed my wrists even after just pushing them in the store for a couple minutes! In any case, DH stopped a couple leaving the store who had the exact same stroller/carseat we picked and asked them all kinds of stuff about it, lol. So don't feel bad :)
 
Ooh, is that the one with the super easy pull handle to fold it up? I wanted more versatility out of mine, but that easy fold sure was tempting (ours is a pain to fold, but I'm hoping I get the hang of it). When we first looked at strollers, a random dad in the store actually interrupted us to show us that stroller and talk about how much he liked it.
 
Yes, I love the pull the handle to fold thing! Amazingly easy. I think it will work well for us since we'll be traveling a lot with it (and I'll be doing plenty of traveling just me and her). It's fairly light too. I'm sure you'll get the hang of your fold. I was really torn about giving up the option to reverse face (we looked hard at the City Vera) but the weight and easy fold won out. I have no idea what our plans are for a second (besides eventually) so we weren't too worried about adding a second seat.
 
I think City Joggers in general have a lot of innovative features. One of my favorite features on ours is the hand brake. The foot brakes I tried were all such a pain! And it's so so easy to take the seat off and swap it for the bassinet and so on. Maybe one day they'll combine all their great ideas into the One Perfect Stroller.
 
Yeah, the holy grail of strollers :) Light, easy fold, versatile. Am I missing anything? I think I'm definitely a Baby Jogger fan too. Everyone swears they love theirs. The GT has the hand break too, I liked that as well.
 
I have the city select, MrsK! I love how easy it is to push! Plus we needed the option of the second seat because we transferred two embryos...just in case! Our car seat is by uppababy. It's super cute and easy to snap in and out of the car and stroller. I needed easy. I can't struggle with buttons too long without going crazy. My stomach is so high up now. It's crazy. I went core my caffeine limit today...I needed it though.
 
I can't wait to get ours! I'm hoping I can get it assembled and get it kind of broken in and figure out the trick to folding it before the baby is here. DH says it's sooo easy, and I can't get it to work at all! I'll be that crazy lady pushing an empty stroller around the neighborhood ;)

I don't think going over the caffeine limit is a big deal as long as you're not doing it all the time. You need every mg you can get in the first trimester!
 
I'm really tempted to just buy the stroller. Everyone is doing the free second seat right now, and it would increase our resale value even if we didn't use it. DH is in favor of just leaving it on the registry because there are a couple people who might buy it. I guess saving $500 because someone else bought it beats better resale value, huh? I wish there was an easy way to make it clear to shower guests that if they get the free second seat deal offered, they should take it.
 
I couldn't wait, we just bought it. Plus, someone had put together a floor model on accident and they had too many so I got like 30 percent off. Do you have BuyBuy Baby? They will give you a 20% off coupon every month. Sign up with them! I just get them emailed to me every month. Sometimes twice if I use my coupon right away. We also got the floor model for the car seat. So basically I got both for about 400 bucks. It was awesome.
 
We're registered at Buy Buy Baby, but all the coupons I've gotten have excluded Baby Jogger. And a few other brands of things we picked. Typical, huh? I thought it would be nice for people to be able to use the coupons on other things, though. We're registered at Amazon, too, so I based which registry some things went onto on the price minus 20% to see which was cheaper.
 
Congrats on the girl! Maybe one day in another 30 years all the girls will be on a similar thread together. Hope everything comes back well with your red tests.

Abigail and I took our first solo outing yesterday. Unfortunately it was to the grocery store. Boo. Although, I did hit up the Starbucks drive thru on the way there.:coffee: We did really well until the ride home when she woke up ready to eat. So the groceries had to sit in the car for a bit while I gave her a bottle. But there is one of the few benefits of living in the cold!
 
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