Calling all the Pregnant PS''ers

[ChinaCat]

Lysser- Ok, the one about you BF your dog is HYSTERICAL!!!! Before I got preggo, I would always have dreams that I gave birth to a litter of kittens- for years I had that dream!
And I am so so sorry about poor Cricket.

Poor baby. I don''t have any experience with dogs/diabetes, but I know how you feel about your doggies. Hope it is easy for you to manage, and hope Cricket feels better. How does a dog get diabetes anyways? Is it genetic?

Tao- Yes, haven''t had any "good" dreams either.

Can''t imagine how much more paranoid I am going to be about losing the little guy when he gets here. Oy. It was on the news that a new mom in my city shot her 18 month old and herself yesterday. I have been in tears ever since.

Ok, so told DH about my dreams. He was NOT amused.

I guess one dream that I cheated and another that he was gay wasn''t quite what he wanted to talk about over breakfast!

A few other things I meant to say:

Whoever asked about fluids/drinking more water- my doctor told me to drink more fluids, but when I asked further, she said do drink a ton of water, but really that in of itself won''t increase the amniotic fluid. Either it''s just the way it is for me, OR I may be able to increase/stabilize my fluid levels by rest and staying off my feet. That is the only thing that could make a difference. So all of you out there that feel like you''re doing too much, you probably are! Try to take it easy. I know it''s hard.

Also about sisters- my sister (thought not a twin) tends to be a bit prickly when it comes to me about certain things. She is a lovely girl and a wonderful sister, but is the "middle" child and does have typical "what about me" syndrome. When I got married it was tense. Not sure why, I am older and she was happy for me, but doesn''t like it when attention is all on me. She was definitely the most stressful part of my wedding. I was worried about her reaction to the pregnancy, but she surprised me and was so excited for me and started crying. She has been wonderful and supportive the whole time, so you never know, your sisters may surprise you!

 

[taovandel]

Watching the news has been hard for me to.

A couple in my area had twin girls (Heaven and Miracle, I think were their names) and they would leave them for 8 hours at a time and one died from starvation. The other twin barely survived.

I just don''t understand people.

 

[sunkist]

Date: 7/25/2009 11:47:24 AM
Author: littlelysser
Quick drive by -


Congrats Applequeen and Radiant!! Radiant - We need pics!


Sabine - You are sooooo close! Ayyyyyyy!


CC - I totally get you on the realizing DH''s importance. Not that I thought he was expendable before this whole thing, but I was pretty freaked out when he went out of town for work...GAH. And I had to comment on your weird dream comment. I had a dream a few nights ago I was trying to breastfeed Izzie, our big orange dog. I''m sure Freud would have a field day with that one.


And on an unrelated, but very distressing note, I found out yesterday that our little black dog, Miss Cricket, has diabetes. She''s going to need insulin shots for the rest of her life and well, I''m just a sad camper. The vet called me at my office and I TOTALLY started crying. Anyone else have experience dealing with a diabetic dog? My poor snickadoo!

Haha! Love all your dream stories! Lysser, I also had a dream about my dog. Instead of having my baby in my uterus, it was my cocker spaniel Pepper!! I could hear him barking in there inside of me then he started digging at my cervix trying to get out!

haha! I had to cross my legs to keep him from getting out...

wierdd!!

 

[sunkist]

Date: 7/25/2009 11:00:14 AM
Author: ChinaCat

I've been polling everyone I know for what names people are naming their babies these days. Figured I'd start listing them, so we can see what's really going on out there! Everyone else, feel free to post any baby names you hear people are actually using that you know!


Roxwell- never heard this, thought it was a cool combo of Maxwell and Rockwell. Reminded me of Mela!

Nolan
Gray
Hudson- x 3, if you can believe it!
Gabriel
Savannah
Jack
Catherine/Katy
Henry
Finn
Georgia
Dale (a girl)
Emily
Liliana
Mercer

China, I hear a name the other day someone is using for a boy - Ace

ETA: You know a lot of preggos!

 

[sunkist]

We are having a difficult time coming with a name for our baby! I''m so tired of looking at baby name websites, I already read them ALL before we got pregnant

I have a short list, hubby has nothing.

Here''s my short list:

Owen
Graeme (or Graham)
Maxim (or Maxime or do you like Maximilian??)
Heath
Pierce (just added that one)

Owen has been on my list forever and I''m afraid it''s getting too popular. I really like Graeme, but hubby thinks it''s weird and I dont want him to dislike our son''s name. Our last name is one sylable, starts with an L, and rhymes with cow. So I''d really like a name with 2 or more sylables.

Do you guys use websites to search for names or books?? What does your hubby use if anything to find names?

 

[ChinaCat]

Sunkist-

I like Owen, Graham, and Heath.

I bought some books that I liked- the Beyond Jennifer & Jason, Madison and Montana was my favorite. They have a new version out called Beyond Ava & Aiden- I don''t like it as much, but it''s still good.

Their website is nameberry, which I like. Also try nymbler.com.

There is another book I used a lot, but now I can''t think of it. I will go look and report back.

My DH didn''t really look at books and websites. He just reacted off of what I liked, but not sure how he came up with names on his own.

Boy names are HARD.

The Beyond books have lists of 2 and 3 syllable names. I will look later and try and come up with some ideas.

 

[indypitty]

Sunkist ~

I''m right there with you on choosing a boy name. We also have a one syllable last name, which does make it even harder! I like a lot of one syllable boy names, but they just don''t go with our last name.

From your list, Owen is my favorite. We would consider that name, but already have one in our family.

We are considering:

Nolan
Gavin (too popular, I think)
Weston

Good luck!

 

[AmberWaves]

Re: dreams. I had one last night where Jon Gosselin was trying to pick me up, and I was like, what are you, some kind of kid collector? Then I had another one where we had friends over (ha, we''re actually having them over today) and we had no clean plates, so I had to wash some right in front of the guests, and when I put them into my (imaginary) dish drainer, the tiled counter crashed in. The whole time Paul was just laying around outside and I was so mad! I''ve had lots of dreams of the baby''s foot pressing out of my belly, and I would just push it back in, so weird.

Lysser: hugs and kisses for Cricket!!

 

[Sha]

sunkist, I like Maxim and Pierce the most from your list.

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Just came back from our 20 week ultrasound/anomaly scan. We are on TEAM PINK!!! Yay! I had thought it would be a boy since we Bd'ed once only on ovulation day, but I guess Shettles isn't always right! I'm excited because I always wanted a girl.

The appt. went well. The tech does a 4-D ultrasound right after the regular ultrasound/anomaly scan at no extra cost! We got 4-D shots but none of her face, because she had them covered with her hands and wouldn't move them! Still, what we got was pretty cute.

 

[Sapphire_Cutie]

Date: 7/25/2009 5:56:45 AM
Author: Pandora II

Date: 7/24/2009 4:48:09 PM
Author: Sapphire_Cutie

Date: 7/24/2009 9:38:44 AM
Author: natalina
Oh my gosh, Apple! That is great and gross all at the same time! Guys are so funny! For what it''s worth, I did have a ''glob'' of CM at the very beginning (like 3-4 weeks). No blood in it, but I had NEVER seen anything like that before! Anyway, just in case you do encounter anything like that, know that when it happened to me it was just from all the changes happening. It was one of my first signs that something was different that cycle and maybe our BD''ing had worked! So glad everything is okay (well, except your DH''s sinuses!)

Sapphire- been wondering how you were doing! You look fantastic! Congrats on 32 weeks!

Natalina: THANKS! but Im a TART! I wrote the correct date ON the jpg but WRONG in the post lol. Im 33w2d LOL. Ive been good, just been lurking cuz Ive been busy. I only have one more 2week appt on the 7th...then I start my EVERY week visit. So far the baby has been head down for over a month now. So Dr said if he''s still head down at my next visit...that chances are he wont switch position, which is kinda exciting lol.

I don''t know what that phrase means in the USA, but in the UK it means someone is a prostitute...

Pandora: Here, a lot of people just use that phrase as a shortened version for ''retarted''

 

[Sapphire_Cutie]

Date: 7/25/2009 9:36:31 AM
Author: Blenheim

Date: 7/24/2009 1:51:45 PM
Author: indypitty
Sapphire and Amber ~ You both look great! Okay, you finally inspired me to post a belly pic. I am exactly 20 weeks today (can't believe I am halfway there!). My bump was a slow time coming, but it's finally here! I heard yesterday that your postpartum belly will be very close in size to your 20 week belly. Anyone else hear that? Here goes...

Cute belly!! I hadn't heard that, but here are some belly shots if you'd like to see how I've been doing. It's so variable though. I'm nowhere near into pre-preg clothing, while there are some girls here who had their babies after me and are already fitting into their jeans. Speaking of... SapphireCutie, are those regular (non-materity) jeans?!?


Blen: They are Maternity jeans. They just dont have a panel. its just got a bit of gathering in the side of the waist band. Elastic under the jean material. They are a size small maternity which is a size 4. I can fit into a size Med which is a 6, but if I do a llot of bending or moving I gotta hike em back up a bit cuz they slide lol. At the time I found out (6wks) I was prego, I weighed 134lbs. At my 33w2d Dr apt on Fri, I was 150lbs

 

[sunkist]

Sha, congratulations on a GIRL!!!!!!

Aww, she''s going to get gorgeous curls, I can just picture it!

 

[taovandel]

The actual word is retarded (so the shortened versin would be ''tard). Some people can find the word to be offensive--just to give you a heads up.


Congrats on Team Pink--Glad to see that Pink is finally catching up. On my due date board on another forum--for the first half of the month, it was completely boys only! But towards the end of the month it all turned into girls. At one point I think it was 15 boys and 1 girl!

I''m also on team pink and it''s so much fun buying girly things.

 

[natalina]

Add me to the list of girls worrying a lot more about hubby''s safety. It''s extra hard because he travels every week for his job, either by plane or car.

Sha- Welcome to team pink! Our successful BD session (hee, don''t know what else to call it) was on O day, too. Makes you wonder if there is any truth to Shettles'' theory after all.

Robbie- thx for your update and advice. You said if you could go back and prepare again, you would do a lot differently. If you have time, could you tell us what? Other than just learn more? I know you''re super busy, but if you have a chance...thanks

. Enjoy your family visit!

Blen- you look GREAT!!!!

China- I''ve been having crazy anxiety dreams, too. Not fun. No good ones here, either. But mmmmm....pancakes......!

Lysser- sorry to hear about Cricket. Hope she adjusts to her treatment well.

Sunkist- Love Graham and Pierce. I agree with your DH that the other spelling of Graham would probably be mispronounced A LOT. I have an ex with the middle name Pierce and I always LOVED it- so distinguished!! I just bought the Baby Name Wizard book (new version) and it''s my favorite resource so far. Love that it has recommended brother/sister names for each because that really helps find alternates that are the same ''vibe'' if you know what I mean. Also helps confirm your taste, if that makes sense. For example, I looked up one of our favorite boy names, and it listed 2 of our favorite girl names as sister names and I felt like, "okay- we''re on to something!" There''s also a website to go with it, but I haven''t checked it out yet.

 

[ChinaCat]

Sha- Congrats on Team PINK!!!! I can totally see you with a gorgeous baby girl.

Sunkist- The book Natalina mentioned, The Baby Name Wizard is the other book I was thinking of- and I think nymbler.com is the website, but not sure about that.

Anxiety dreams apparently are sticking around for me- last night I had one that I went into labor during a hurricane and couldn''t get to the hospital and the electricity was out and I started bleeding too much. Freaking scary. I know the chances of that are so low, but in the middle of the night it''s hard to remember that!

 

[sunkist]

Natalna and Sha thanks for suggestions on websites. I''ve been looking at those. I think I need to get my hubby to look and see what pops out and him. Cause nothing else really pops out at me. But I''m glad to hear you guys like some of the names on my list! I''m so bad at making decisions

Boy did I have quite the night last night. So I woke up last night with an ache/dull pain right above my pubic bone. It sort of feels like a light cramp. I can''t make it go away by sleeping in differnt positions. Then I keep getting little twitches on my left side. Itt kind of feels like the baby kicking, but its'' wayyy to far on my side for the baby to be over there. So I''m twitching. Plus, I''ve always been so comfy sleeping in our bed since we got married 2.5 years ago, but these days my back hurts. I''m sure it''s cause I''m preggo and I have a new weight hanging out in front of me. Is this happening to anyone else? I''m trying to figure out how to support myself, but nothings worked yet. Plus, hubby has been out of town for work this weekend, so that''s probably another reason why I didnt sleep well

 

[Sha]

Thanks guys! I'm excited to be on team PINK.

And it's nice to help break the boy streak around here, too....

tavo, I agree with you about shopping for girl clothes - I can't wait to pick up some cute things for her.

sunkist - sorry about the pain. Could it be round ligament pain? It sort of sounds like it. I sometimes get a pulling/achey/crampy pain way down in my left uterus area too, and often it's relieved a bit by changing positions. Sometimes it feels like a 'stitch' as well - it can be pretty uncomfortable. I've had it a few times but not in the last two weeks, really.

Sleeping has been getting a bit more uncomfortable for me too. I still sleep a bit on my stomach, and then usually end up alternating between my left and right sides. When I sleep on my side, though, sometimes I feel like I need a pillow to support my growing belly. It's not really that big yet, but still.... I can understand why a lot of women buy Maternity Pillows, to get that extra support.

 

[Sabine]

Morning!

Do you guys ever read through the thread and realize there was something you wanted to respond to a while ago that you forgot to, and now it''s like PAGES behind? Haha, oh well.

Dh and I are still trying to decide what to do for Godparents. Honestly, we are both somewhat religious (Catholic) and would like to pick meaningful Godparents who would be there to support our lo''s religious journey. But we don''t really have any good candidates. His brother and sister are really big partiers, and just not at a point in their lives where I can picture them as Godparents. My brother and sil are responsible and everything, but neither is religious at all. But we might ask them because we may be asking them to be the guardians should something happen as well.

Phoenix, congrats on 3rd tri! This one went by the quickest for me definitely!

China, I had SUPER weird dreams all through the pregnancy, although they have died off a bit now (unfortunately because I''m sleep worse and worse! I''m lucky if I get an hour and half before waking up, and I do that all night, so I feel like I never get to the dream sleep state anymore!). How are you feeling today?

Lysser, sorry to hear about your pup! But at least treating with insulin shouldn''t be as difficult (and expensive) as other things that can happen to our pets, right?

Tao, you were one of the ones I wanted to respond to pages ago...about getting married at the aquarium. That would be totally awesome! I had dreams of getting married at the Pittsburgh zoo for a while. Although I have to admit, I was not a fan of the "nature walk" at the VB aquarium because it was hot and humid and it made me really swollen.

Sha congrats on team pink! so exciting!

Sorry for anyone I missed...but my stomach is growling and I have to go make myself some GD friendly eggs...can I just say, the absolute WORST part of GD has been having to have eggs for breakfast EVERY stinkin day. I mean, there are other things I could "technically" have and follow the diet, but every time I try, my numbers are bad. I am soooo sick of eggs. Oh well, only a few more days!!!!

 

[steph72276]

Hi, Sabine! Yea for only a few more days...I bet you are so excited!!!!

I had a really busy weekend. I did a lot of exercising as far as walking lots and swimming, so I''m feeling good this morning. I am 13 weeks tomorrow and have a doctor''s appointment. I have been really nervous about this appointment and hope and pray we will be able to hear the heartbeat on the doppler tomorrow. The little flutters I keep feeling are reassuring though, but I am still a major worrier this time around. I have to clean my house today, so I better go get started. Hope everyone has a great week!

 

[Mandarine]

Sabine, how exciting!!! You're almost there!!!!!!!!!!. I love eggs...but can see how they would get old specially when you HAVE to eat them rather than WANT t eat them. Just a few more days though!

Sunkist, sorry you're in pain! I had similar pains early on (but I think that's because my belly grew so fast)...it definitely sounds like round ligament pain!...hopefully it eases soon!

Sha, congrats on team PINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

China, I have had vivid dreams the entire pregnancy...from really really pleasant ones

to very sad ones (like deaths!)

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Phoenix, congrats on the 3rd trimester! I'm coming right after ya!

Lysser, I am so sorry about your doggie!!!!...

Blen, thanks for posting those pictures!! You look GREAT!!!!!!!

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Hi everyone else!

I am so not ready for Monday!....had a fun weekend though!. We went to a wedding and boy...the babies would not stop kicking me the entire party! I think the really loud music was stressing them out

I felt guilty...so I left kind of early.

Yesterday I went for a girls night out and the two girls I went with gave me a really cute Petunia Pickle diaper bag!!!!!!!!!!

I love it...it's the packpack (but you can carry it like a purse too)...and it is nice and big!. It's a really cute blue color with darker embroidery...I love it!. One less thing to worry about

My baby shower is this Saturday!!!!!!! YAYYYY!!!!



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ETA: Congrats on 13 weeks Steph !!!! You're over the hump now

Good luck tomorrow and yay for flutters!!!!!!!!!

 

[taovandel]

So, just got back from the doctor''s.

And boy did we just get the surprise of our life!!!

The u/s tech was wrong!!!!

I''m having a boy!!!!!

How crazy is that? I''ve been calling this poor baby Isla (hopefully his hearing wasn''t developed well enough, lol.)

His name is Evan Alexander.

He is head down and everything is measuring perfectly.

It''s just too funny--I was on birth control pills when I got pregnant so we had like what, a 1% chance of getting pregnant, and I was given a 2% chance it was a boy at the 1st u/s.

 

[Mandarine]

haha Tao...well, better to find out now than later once you have all sorts of cute dresses!

Welcome to team BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love the name! Alexander is one of our top names

M~

 

[taovandel]

We already started filling out a pink girly baby book and bought a bunch of clothes.

Thankfully a coworker just had a baby girl so we can just give him some of it. Some of it we will return and some we will hold onto for a friend who should be finding out the sex of his baby in about 3 weeks.

We also registered already! Now we have to change things from our registry.

I''m excited about a boy though---it''ll definitely be something new. And I hope he pees on my husband first!

 

[taovandel]

Yeah, the nature walk is a killer---Thankfully the ceremony was only about a 1-2 minute walk from the main building.
I dreaded walking through even that much and I was only 17 weeks pregnant at the time. Not sure how you managed to do it when you were what 37 weeks pregnant!

 

[anchor31]

tao - That''s pretty funny! Congrats on team blue then!

 

[AmberWaves]

Wow, Tao! (hehe, that rhymed!) What a shock! Now, this is my own paranoia asking, but HOW was the first tech wrong? Did you have a 3d/4d ultrasound the first time? Sorry if I am being really intrusive, but I am so freaked out about that happening to us, too- since I was SO sure it was a boy! How''d your hubby take it? Congrats on arriving (albeit LATE) to team blue!

Sha: Congrats on team pink!! We''re a mighty small group here!

Sunkist: sorry about the pains! I don''t get those, just the top of my belly gets super hard and almost achy. I do have back pains, though.

Sabine, it''s so soon! I can''t believe it.

Steph: good luck with the doctor''s appointment! I hope you hear the heartbeat!

Madarine- I wanna see the diaper bag!

 

[sweet pea]

Sha Congrats on a baby girl!!!
Tao Wow! I am so happy for you that you found out *somewhat* quickly that your first u/s was wrong... what a shock that would have been! Welcome to team BLUE Evan Alexander is a great name.
Sabine So happy for you that you only have a few days left!
Steph Yay for 13 weeks! I''m jealous that you are feeling flutters I have been trying to feel my little guy, but nothin'' yet, lol.
Mandarine Hope you have a great time at your shower! Where are you having it? (someone''s home/restaurant...)
China My dreams have been more intense, but don''t make any sense. There have been lots of people from my past popping up in them, weird!

 

[taovandel]

I have no idea how she was wrong.

When she did the first u/s she was like "It''s a girl! I see no winky!" then she kept looking around and was like, "I don''t like to say for sure unless I''m 100% sure...but I''d say I''m 98% sure it''s a girl." She even added on that she has only been wrong once when she was first starting out as a student and she hasn''t been wrong since. She set us up for another u/s just to confirm everything.

When we came into the office today she was like "Normally if it was showing girl before--it''ll be a girl." but within in like 2 seconds she was like, "It''s a boy!" and she showed us his bits. Apparently the cord was blocking everything at the first u/s.

Just got back from the store from returning clothing---and wound up picking up a bunch of cute boy clothes.

I''m not upset about the change in gender---it just took me a bit to get over the shock. I''d been thinking it was a girl for 4 weeks now and so I''d gotten used to the idea and bonded with her. I''m just thankful I found out as soon as I did instead of finding out as he was coming out!

 

[sunkist]

Hey, Tao, so you ARE on team BLUE!!! Yay! How funny. So you guys totally see the winky too this time?

Mandy hooray for baby shower, have fun!

Amber, your tummy gets hard on the top? Cause mine gets hard on the bottom and I always wonder why it doesn''t get as hard on the top too. No pain for me when it does that though. Pregnancy is so interesting...

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I asked hubby to rub my belly with lotion last night I told him I didn''t want to get itchy skin so could he rub me down. It was nice! And he really got to feel the baby kicking a lot.

I think we might have a name picked out for this little boy. Well a first name at least - Graham. This is such a huge thing picking out a person''s name!! And how did we come to this name? Well I was trying to show hubby some baby name websites last night and as he wasn''t really interested, I told him I need some input or I''m just going to have to name the baby on my own. So he said, ''Let''s just go with Graham.'' Ok! Graham it is! hehe

I feel like everyone else puts so much more thought/time into their baby names...

I guess we still have to choose a middle name now.

 

[AmberWaves]

Tao, I''d be the same as you- totally happy with it being a boy, but I already have so much stuff! I''m pretty darn sure ours is a girl, I saw those three little lineesm ya know, and one of those odd underskirt shots that I honestly didn''t feel comfortable seeing, if you know what I mean. Little boys are so much fun, I used to nanny for a set of them and there is nothing better than a little boy when he''s ready to play!

Sunkist: yeah, the top of my belly gets super hard all the way down to my belly button, it''s hard up to the underside of my belly (unless I''m laying on the bed, in which case it''s hard then), where it''s not as hard, but getting there. I can''t really feel a difference in my uterus (meaning where it should be, above the belly button) like I used to when it was below the belly button, can you? Also, where do you feel the kicks? I feel them really low in my pelvis, but she sometimes ventures up around my belly button- mostly low, though.