#972784 - 08/30/09 12:49 PM
Re: FEBRUARY, 2010
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erinjill101
Registered: 06/19/09
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I haven't read any of your posts but being pregnant has been the last thing on my mind lately. Last Weds. my 12 yr. old. dd was diagnosed with and brain tumour and rushed to Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto. She underwent a 6 hr. operation and is recovering well. She is going to need further treatment but we are unaware of how they will approach the remaining tumour. Pathology reports will come back in a few days which I don't feel strong enough to even hear what the result are. I haven't left Sick Kids since last Wed. and won't be either until she is able to leave. I found a computer in one of the kids playrooms so I thought I'd re-aquaint myself with the outside world while she's napping.
I'm soo sorry to hear this Mom2-3! you and your family are in my thoughts!!
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#972911 - 08/30/09 07:03 PM
Re: FEBRUARY, 2010
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crys_c
Registered: 11/04/06
Posts: 1284
Loc: ON
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Mom2_3- I don't even know what to say except that you and your family are in my thoughts and I hope that your DD makes a full recovery. ****hugs****
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#972941 - 08/30/09 09:25 PM
Re: FEBRUARY, 2010
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Nelsonsmommy
Registered: 12/13/06
Posts: 3025
Loc: Ottawa
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Mom2_3...you and your family are in my thoughts and prayers! I truly can't imagine what you are going through but please know that we are thinking of you and sending positive thoughts your way. Please keep us posted on her recovery if and when you can((HUGS))
we had a good weekend, although it rained yesterday. we finally went shopping and i got some more nice mat clothes. I'll still need a few more pairs of pants but this will get me through for now...hopefully!!!
I've definitely been feeling much more movement in the last few days. Sorry if TMI but I was really really constipated there for about a week and I couldn't feel much and I think that may have been why. But holy cow is this little jelly bean ever active!!
We do have names picked out, we absolutely love them but I know they're not regular run of the mill names so I'm interested to hear your thoughts...Our inlaws HATE them! But as we've said this is our child and the names aren't that weird...I hope!!!
For a girl her name will be Miller Addison and if we have a boy his name will be Kaspen Lucas
Well back to work tomorrw...I'm feeling really crappy today...so hopefully a good night's sleep will fix that!
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#973032 - 08/31/09 03:37 AM
Re: FEBRUARY, 2010
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dani arnold
Registered: 12/04/01
Posts: 4538
Loc: Brantford ON
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Mom2_3 You and your family are in my thoughts and heart. I have lived through this with several friends and their children in the past 15 years, but still I know that no one can truly understand what you are going through. Hugs.
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#973176 - 08/31/09 12:17 PM
Re: FEBRUARY, 2010
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crys_c
Registered: 11/04/06
Posts: 1284
Loc: ON
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Nelsonsmommy- I like the names you've picked...they are different but nice  All that matters is you guys like them....forget about what the in-laws think!
We still don't have any definite names yet. I have a short list of ones that I like for a boy and girl but I don't think I'll be able to really start to consider them until we find out the sex. I do tend to try and pick names that I can short form...which is something that my DH really looks for in names as well.
Started to feel kicks this weekend....still a little muffled due to an anterior placenta so I haven't felt them right in the front (like with DD) it was just up under my belly button.
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#973201 - 08/31/09 01:02 PM
Re: FEBRUARY, 2010
[Re: crys_c]
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K_Vaill
Registered: 03/05/09
Posts: 177
Loc: Ontario, Canada
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Mom_2_3, I am thinking of you and hope all turns out well for your family and dd. Take care of yourself and update us if you can from time to time. You are in our prayers.
Nelson's Mommy, I like those names. Very original. Who cares what other people think about them. My sister named her son Dallas and people had problems with that, and her response was, You can name what you deliver, I'll name what I deliver!
We are pretty set on names as far as I know.....Michaela Lyn for a girl and Noah Joshua for a boy. DH doesn't really care what names we go with so long as he doesn't hate them. I've loved Michaela (pronounced Mi-kay-la, but I like my spelling better)for a girl forever so there was no question about that one! And I really like Noah for a boy. Lyn is my middle name and Joshua is DH's first name. His middle name is Fernand, which he hates, so we're not using that, even though it's a family name! LOL!
So I took a tumble yesterday! I'm ok but stiff and sore. I got up off the couch, went to put weight on my foot and it had gone numb, so it didn't take my weight. I ended up rolling my ankle, falling to the left, smacking my elbow on the wall and falling on my butt. And I had a mostly empty bowl of soup in my hand, so the curtains, floor and me were covered in cream of mushroom. DH ran in to check on the noise and the cats ran in to "clean up" LOL! I was ok and took most of the impact on my elbow and butt so I didn't go out to emerg or anything. I did call my mom to see what she thought, but she said unless I felt strange, or crampy or started to bleed I should be ok, which I am. But man am I stiff and sore today! What I'd give to be able to soak in a hot tub for a few hours!
I am normally about as graceful as a baby deer on ice, so this is par for the course with me, but being pregnant puts a different spin on things! DH wouldn't let me get up all afternoon...catered to me hand & foot! LOL! so that was a bonus!
How was everyone else's weekend? Anyone got any exciting appts coming up? I go Friday for my next prenatal appt with my regular fam Dr. and then I'll make my appt for the 20 week u/s.....it's getting closer!
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#973361 - 08/31/09 06:12 PM
Re: FEBRUARY, 2010
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veruuca
Registered: 02/08/09
Posts: 209
Loc: Langley, BC
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Mom_2_3, i'm so sorry to hear what your family is going through... best wishes on a full recovery for your daughter. i can't even imagine.
everyone's baby names are great, i haven't allowed myself to start thinking of names yet, because i'll obsess about it and let it keep me up at night, LOL. i'm waiting until we find out the sex (or not) on sept 30th. this time i won't be telling anyone our chosen name until baby comes, with DD everyone knew in advance our names and it bothered me for some reason! the last few months i pretended to change them (mostly because my mom hated the name and i just wanted her to leave me alone about it). she loves the name now, of course.
AFM, i have somehow injured myself. i woke up this morning with a sore neck, and as the day goes on it's gotten much worse (probably from attending to DD's every whim). i now also have a nasty headache and can hardly lift my arms at the shoulder. i'm starting to feel nauseous from the headache, too. ugh, i can't wait till DH gets home from work so i can head to the clinic to see if there's anything i can safely take or do for the pain! tylenol is not helping. i have my 16 wk Dr's appt tomorrow afternoon, but i can't wait that long, it's bad.
oh yeah, and our trip to the island was pretty good, had great weather for playing on the beach! if only we weren't in a 2 bedroom/1 bathroom cabin with 6 adults and 2 little ones! pretty crowded.
take care everyone... ttyl
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#973368 - 08/31/09 06:26 PM
Re: FEBRUARY, 2010
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crys_c
Registered: 11/04/06
Posts: 1284
Loc: ON
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Veruuca- I hope you feel better soon!
K-Vail- I hope you feel better soon too! When I was pg with DD I tripped and fell down the last couple steps taking laundry down to the basement....luckily I also took most of the fall on my butt...DH took the laundry baskets down and up the stairs for me for the rest of the pg after that one. It would have been a great way to get out of the heavy lifting and stair-climbing if it didn't hurt so much 
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#973450 - 08/31/09 09:00 PM
Re: FEBRUARY, 2010
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dogMelissa
Registered: 07/28/08
Posts: 487
Loc: Calgary, AB
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Hello again everyone!!! I just read over 30 posts to catch up. Not going to comment on all of them as DH is on his way home and I'm going to be in trouble for doing almost nothing today so I'll have to get to work when he gets home.
Jill, sending you TONS of hugs and good thoughts. I can't imagine what you are going through but I know that you are in good hands at Sick Kids (many kids get transferred there, even from our 'excellent' children's hospital way out here in Calgary). I hope that the stress of the situation and the worry doesn't cause any pregnancy complications. *hugs*
Whitney, congrats on finding out the genders - that is so awesome that it's one of each!!! I think that would be the best way to have twins! I have fears of having identical twins and not being able to tell them apart and always wondering if I've mixed them up and if George is actually John or whatever. When they're different genders that worry is completely gone! I've forgotten the names now but I remember thinking they were nice when I read them. I like that you're using the names with DD already, I think that will help her to bond with the babies before they are born.
Kristyn, I was with you about being jealous of those who could feel movement already - but just before the 17 week mark I started feeling what can only be movement. At first I was only feeling it if I was leaning forward while sitting (and being very still) which was actually quite uncomfy, but in the last 2 days I've been able to feel the same thing while laying down or even sitting 'normally'. I'm sure you'll feel something very very soon - or possibly already have but just don't know what it is. Everyone said that it would feel like bubbles or fluttering and that's not really how it feels for me, or at least it's not how I imagined it would feel. I imagined it feeling like the fizzies in soda or bubbles on the skin in water but it feels the way I think a bubble in thick soup/mud feels when popping, like when a bubble pops really slowly and you can see the hole opening and getting bigger. The first few times I felt it, I thought it was gas because the 'movements' were followed within a few seconds by a fart (sorry TMI?), but then a couple of days later there were no farts and now I'm sure it's the baby. I've heard that the 'average' is 18 weeks for first time moms but that also means that just as many feel movement LATER, so don't worry. I know it's tough, though; I was having dreams of a baby with no arms or legs and was half-convinced that's why I didn't feel anything.
Also, hope you're feeling better after your fall, though with that special treatment I think I'd be faking falls (just throwing soup around and sitting on the floor). *grin* Your mom is right, and even in the later stages of pregnancy everything I've read says that unless you take a direct impact on the belly the baby is usually unharmed. I'm sure it's still scary though and we'll all need to be careful in the winter. I'm already dreading the thought of walking my dog as many of my neighbours don't shovel their sidewalk!! I might end up just pacing the sidewalk 3 houses wide, or perhaps getting some of those ice-gripper things that go over boots. I hope I don't have to do either. .
Dani, thanks again for the info, I don't have time to read it all right now but I will come back to it soon. Sometimes I wonder how a person's head doesn't explode with all the info in it - yours is one of those!! Keep up the good work!!! Hope the packing/shopping goes well and hope to hear if you can get an u/s before you leave to find out the gender.
Amanda, I also really like the 'professional' pants at Thyme. I don't need them very often, but when I do meet with clients, I need to look professional. I bought a pair of nice pants from Thyme before our vacation (and a pair of shorts), they were expensive but they are really nice and when I tried them on for DH he started drooling, so I think that's a good sign. I didn't get the 2nd item at 50% off though because they were too different (or maybe cause the shorts were already on sale??) but that's ok.
As for maternity clothes... I know there's a few of you who said you've 'caved' and gone to the mat clothes. All I have to say to that is ha ha - I've been more comfy in mat clothes since the beginning of July!!!! Until this past week I was down weight but my belly was very uncomfortable in anything snug and the elastic in the button hole wasn't working for me (and didn't work at all on my 'professional' pants which have a metal hook closure). I bought a belly band pretty early on and used that for awhile but now - my belly has gotten *much* bigger in the last week! - I'm either in Pajama pants or mat pants/shorts. I have one pair of shorts that still fit, but they are very low-rise and pretty much go under the belly, so that's a bit different. I'm not in maternity shirts yet but the rate my belly is growing this week I might be in them soon!! Already most of my shirts don't reach the waist band of the shorts/pants.
Anyhow, I'm sorry that I can't remember what else was said.... someone asked about cravings. For awhile I was craving Arby's burgers but I can't have what I was really craving (the beef & cheddar) since I can't have cow's cheese so the 'regular' (non-cheese) ones weren't quite doing it for me. In the past 4 days I've been craving bread like crazy. I've wanted sandwiches, hamburgers/smokies/hot dogs (mostly for the buns) and even just plain bread. I had a slice of bread with a little honey on it and it was totally heavenly. Not sure what that's about but not caring at the moment. Oh, and I loved pickles before I got pg and not really craving them now but using a lot of relish and/or eating pickles 2 or 3 at a time right out of the jar. Of course we were on vacation and I didn't have any pickles/relish with me so I wasn't able to eat much of them.
What else is new with me? I'm finally back up to my pre-pg weight!!!!! This is fantastic news for me! We spent the past week camping and I apparently eat better while camping (perhaps something to do with less distractions and having 3 meals planned everyday) and I weighed myself today after getting back last night and I'm up 4.6 lbs from the day before we left. We averaged it out and it's nearly half a pound PER DAY. It sounds like a lot when put that way, but considering that the weight I'm at right now is still only 0 lbs up from pre-pg, I'm not going to worry about it. My belly also got *much* bigger in the last week; for those who know me I'm actually looking pregnant now though I'm sure to strangers it's still questionable whether it's a baby belly or just chubby.
Our first (likely only) u/s is on Sept 11 - we will be finding out the gender and I'll post it here within a few days of finding out. We're assuming that baby will cooperate as we're planning to have a 'gender reveal' party the weekend after the u/s (I'm going to bake a cake with a coloured filling to 'reveal' the gender when it's cut), so I won't be posting the gender until after the party - I'm sure you can all wait a few days though! I'm very excited to find out.
I'm not going to share our names yet - they're not secure and we have no middle names at all picked. We're leaning towards a couple though and I'm fairly sure we'll meet some resistance because they're not really 'mainstream' names. Nothing totally crazy though (we met a couple who told us about a guy they knew who was named H. Brian Cox Jr and had a son and named him the third - turned out that the H stood for Hardon. Like seriously?!?! That's just mean.) The names we're leaning towards aren't weird/cruel like that but they're no where near the top 100 popular names. If we have a girl her middle name (or one of, if we go with 2 middle names, we're also not sure of this yet) will be Josephine after my grandma. She was really special to me and passed away last year and I want to honour her memory. I'm not sure if we'll be sharing the name we have chosen until the birth though as many of our family members (well mostly MIL) is against even finding out the gender and was quite upset when SIL named her daughter before she was born. I'm not sure how she'll react if we do the same, so we might just keep the name to ourselves to avoid many people saying 'ugh that's awful or making us question it'. We have been referring to the baby as Sticky since conception, so that can continue if we decide not to share the name.
Sorry, this is long again. I'm done now!!!
*hugs* to anyone who needs/wants them and keep up all the good baby-growing work everyone!!!!!
Melissa
ETA: PS: DH gave me a 'spanking' when he got home for doing nothing today. To be fair I had a lot of catching up to do!!!!!! :P
Edited by dogMelissa (08/31/09 09:01 PM)
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#973460 - 08/31/09 09:14 PM
Re: FEBRUARY, 2010
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dogMelissa
Registered: 07/28/08
Posts: 487
Loc: Calgary, AB
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Ok and let's just try this... using the HTML code for my photobucket picture (most recent belly picture)... not sure if this will work.
Melissa
ETA: w00t!!! Or at least it worked on my computer. I hope you all can see it!!!!
And just to prove how much I grew in a week, here's a comparison picture from 16 - 17 weeks:
For those of you who are trying this - you have to be in the 'full' reply screen, it doesn't work in the 'quick reply' and I used the HTML code (in full) that was provided by photobucket.
Enjoy!!
Edited by dogMelissa (08/31/09 09:16 PM)
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#973506 - 08/31/09 11:16 PM
Re: FEBRUARY, 2010
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veruuca
Registered: 02/08/09
Posts: 209
Loc: Langley, BC
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#973539 - 09/01/09 03:21 AM
Re: FEBRUARY, 2010
[Re: veruuca]
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dani arnold
Registered: 12/04/01
Posts: 4538
Loc: Brantford ON
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Great belly pic Mel.... and yea, I still havne't gotten around to taking one yet!!!
5 more days!!!! the insanity is jumping now, trying to get the rest of our stuff packed, figuring out last minute gifts ..... man! some of my family are REALLY hard to buy for!! I'm going to make nick take me back to the craft market again.... see if I can pick up a couple more things.....
My brain is close to exploding!! My best buddy, and partner in crime, Helen tell s me that i'm a glutton for punishment- it never fails that when my life is insane, I take on 10 new projects!! and once again, she's predicted my life accurately.
I'm about to start a new blog. Recently I've regained my focus on my passion: Natural Mothering/Parenting. So I'm starting a new blog that will be updated daily with articles and news stories and medical studies to do with Natural childbirth, breastfeeding, attachment parenting, baby wearing, co sleeping, intact boys/genital mutilation, Elimination communication.........
..... while I'm working on the set up and content, I doubt that it'll be up and running before we get home next week. But as soon as I have it up, i'll post a link here.
................if anyone can tell me where to buy an extra 10 hours for my day, I'd greatly appreciate it!!!
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#973658 - 09/01/09 12:08 PM
Re: FEBRUARY, 2010
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crys_c
Registered: 11/04/06
Posts: 1284
Loc: ON
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Hey Melissa! Good to hear back from you again. Hope that you had a great time camping And I love the belly pics...you definitely popped....so cute! And good job getting back to pre-pg weight it must be a relief.
Can't really say I have very many cravings right now. The one thing I think I'd like to eat every so often is McDonald's (I've only gotten it once though)....but I don't know if I'd call it a an actual craving.
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