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Date: 11/10/2009 7:26:38 PM
Author: HOUMedGal
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So we''ve been calling the baby ''peanut.''And last night, we found these precious little terry bibs that we''re gonna use to tell my parents...one is in pink and says ''I love Grandpa'' and the other is in blue and says ''I love Grandma.'' We''re gonna wrap ''em up and have them open their ''gift'' exactly one week from today...I can''t WAIT to see the looks on their faces. My dad is totally gonna cry...he''s a big softy.
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Yeah, I don''t think you''re gonna make it till March.Date: 11/10/2009 7:34:58 PM
Author: icekid
Date: 11/10/2009 7:26:38 PM
Author: HOUMedGal
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So we''ve been calling the baby ''peanut.''And last night, we found these precious little terry bibs that we''re gonna use to tell my parents...one is in pink and says ''I love Grandpa'' and the other is in blue and says ''I love Grandma.'' We''re gonna wrap ''em up and have them open their ''gift'' exactly one week from today...I can''t WAIT to see the looks on their faces. My dad is totally gonna cry...he''s a big softy.
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aww, I love that HMG! My mom is going to die when we get pregnant. Especially since I told everyone adamantly that I was never having any babies![]()
(And why am I posting in the barely preggo thread anyway? haha)
Date: 11/10/2009 7:38:44 PM
Author: HOUMedGal
Date: 11/10/2009 7:34:58 PM
Author: icekid
Date: 11/10/2009 7:26:38 PM
Author: HOUMedGal
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So we''ve been calling the baby ''peanut.''And last night, we found these precious little terry bibs that we''re gonna use to tell my parents...one is in pink and says ''I love Grandpa'' and the other is in blue and says ''I love Grandma.'' We''re gonna wrap ''em up and have them open their ''gift'' exactly one week from today...I can''t WAIT to see the looks on their faces. My dad is totally gonna cry...he''s a big softy.
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aww, I love that HMG! My mom is going to die when we get pregnant. Especially since I told everyone adamantly that I was never having any babies![]()
(And why am I posting in the barely preggo thread anyway? haha)
Yeah, I don''t think you''re gonna make it till March.hehehe!![]()
You are so not going to make it till March!!!Date: 11/10/2009 8:18:16 PM
Author: icekid
Date: 11/10/2009 7:38:44 PM
Author: HOUMedGal
Date: 11/10/2009 7:34:58 PM
Author: icekid
Date: 11/10/2009 7:26:38 PM
Author: HOUMedGal
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So we''ve been calling the baby ''peanut.''And last night, we found these precious little terry bibs that we''re gonna use to tell my parents...one is in pink and says ''I love Grandpa'' and the other is in blue and says ''I love Grandma.'' We''re gonna wrap ''em up and have them open their ''gift'' exactly one week from today...I can''t WAIT to see the looks on their faces. My dad is totally gonna cry...he''s a big softy.
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aww, I love that HMG! My mom is going to die when we get pregnant. Especially since I told everyone adamantly that I was never having any babies![]()
(And why am I posting in the barely preggo thread anyway? haha)
Yeah, I don''t think you''re gonna make it till March.hehehe!![]()
You''re telling me! I just posted this in the TTC thread, but we''ve already been tempting fate lately
I just figure we''ll make it work when it happens!![]()
Date: 11/10/2009 4:51:33 PM
Author: Bliss
Burk, thanks! Your belly bump is SO cute!!!! I can''t believe how tiny you are! Your little daughter is precious, too. Lucky mama! How are you staying in such great shape? I want to look like you when I start to show. You have the prettiest figure!
Swimmer, here''s the way I see it....How this baby was conceived is no one''s but yours and your husband''s business, so if you don''t feel like telling anyone, you certainly don''t have to. But if you feel as though you are being untrue to yourself by allowing the "oops" baby assumption to perpetuate, then perhaps you should say something to them. You could even just walk the middle line and say "You know, we have really wanted this baby for a long time, and it was no accident we conceived when we did" without going into the gory details, if you don''t want to.Date: 11/11/2009 8:29:43 AM
Author: swimmer
I need some insight here, I told some dear friends last night, am 15 weeks tomorrow, and they just assumed that this was an ''oops'' baby and not the product of many fertility treatments well over a year of only thinking about getting pregnant...but I didn''t correct their thinking and now I feel badly. It was so rough while friends were getting pregnant just by making eye contact with their DH or BF I felt so very isolated and now I''m perpetuating that myth that it is easy to get pregnant? I feel like I betrayed my 4 month ago self. So now the question is, to share that this baby was a very very very hard fought battle that really isn''t anywhere close to being over?
Date: 11/15/2009 8:29:16 PM
Author: Bliss
Thank you for all the support...It means more to me that I could ever say.![]()
Prayers for you all and lots of dust!!!!
Swimmer, totally feel you on that. If you want to talk about it, I think you should feel free to. Or you could perhaps emphasize how much you''ve been hoping for this baby. That might open the dialogue. Some people feel uncomfortable talking about it, so... I was at the gym the other day and there was this GORGEOUS pregnant woman on the treadmill. She said hello so I said hello and told her how beautiful her baby bump was. She just glowed. We chatted about all the pregnant people in our building (five!!!) and she was so excited about her baby. But then later in our conversation, I shared that I was pregnant, too and added, ''Wow, it''s such a miracle to even get pregnant these days... we feel really lucky.'' And I feel like she just closed up after that. But man, her belly bump was gorgeous at 7 months!
Puppmom! Hello!!!! Thanks! Welcome!
For us, we BD''d on O-2, O, O+1, O+2....then crazily, I felt CF a week later (which is normal) so we BD''d again.![]()
inhisarms17 Congrats on TTC! I think O-2 would be 2 days before ovulation...O is the day you ovulate and O+2 would be 2 days after ovulation. Some say it''s best to BD the day before ovulation, on the day of ovulation and for a couple of days after that for good measure (if you can) since the sperm can live in your fallopian tube for a day or two...hanging out for the sighting of the Great Pumpkin (egg).
Anyone, please correct me if I don''t have that correctly!
The other things that I did faithfully after reading the TTC thread that I feel worked was:
Cut down on caffeine drastically (no more coffee, only 1 cup of black tea a day, not green bc I needed the folic acid!)
Stopped stressing about getting pregnant (easier said than done, but about 5 people told me I was getting in my own way)
Ate pineapple during the implantation window
Drank relaxing herbal tea that had antioxidants like roobios.
I started taking prenatals a year before I wanted to get pregnant bc I heard the sooner the better if it''s in your system.
Also, I didn''t chart per se with complete temps. I charted based on CF only. It was my first complete month of charting just with CF and I figured that if it didn''t work, I''d graduate to the charting with CF and temps. But my CF was ironically like clockwork and I could tell immediately when I was about to ovulate and when I was ovulating. TMI, I know!
On another note... Anyone else feeling super nauseated? I made the mistake of bragging to DH last night that I hadn''t lost my cookies once and maybe unlike my poor mother who tossed her cookies through her 1st and 2nd trimesters, I was the exception to the rule. Hello, karma! Today, I woke up the sickest I have ever felt. Didn''t throw up, but felt like I was on the boat ride to Hades with the waves rocking and rolling. Just got my arsenal of original ginger chews, teas and snacks. Ginger chews saved my life.
Oh, and I bought this tea called ''Get Maternal'' but had to toss it out of my cup when I found out that it had stinging nettles in it. I know red raspberry leaf tea is supposed to be a tonic for the uterus but upon looking that up, too... I found that SOME say both cause miscarriages in early pregnancy, along with the stinging nettles. Though for centuries midwives have been prescribing it, I still feel like I shouldn''t have it until later in the pregnancy.
I''ll stick to my roobios, which was really awesome pre-preggo and up until now.
I MISS COFFEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!