Pregnancy - September 2011

Lleldiranne

Hello everyone!

For those of you just finding us, this is a group that is trying to be healthier and/or lose weight while:

a) wanting to drop some weight before trying to conceive (TTC)
b) (Trying to conceive) TTC
c) Pregnant

Those in groups a & b we have a great sister group called Fit for Future Families or you are welcome to stay with us! Welcome all

bmfrazie

Hi ladies! I had tried to join the group back in June but decided to wait until we really started to try before jumping in head first. I went off the pill back in July and we thought we would see what happened. Nothing yet. This month we will be putting more effort into it though.
My name is Belinda and I will be 29 this month. I have a 9 year old son and 2 crazy dogs as well as an amazing husband.

mukie89

happy 1st of september ladies

Rachel- Im so happy to hear that you and baby are now home safe and sound I'm sorry that the birth was so traumatic and didn't go as planned and that home life is not yet running smoothly, but with some support and time im certain things will become easier:flowerforyou: thinking of you! and don't forget that you have this support system at your disposal

Not much to report here except to say that i'm ready to give up socks and shoes all together and stick with slip-ons and flip flops, the effort needed for actual sneakers isnt worth it :laugh: Also my back is really getting on my nerves (excuse the pun), can anyone recommend some good lower back exercises?

kcurtis05

Bump for later!

JKilty

Wow, September already!

Caperfae – I don’t have any glucose problems (yet-knock on wood) but I don’t think I could live without my carbs! Ha! Glad you’re getting it under control.

Abeare-Those are great benefits! When I worked in daycare seven years ago, I got paid $7.50 an hour with no additional benefits. Terrible!

Julz- I would have the same problem with the cake! Today my craving is pizza and it doesn’t look like I’m going to get any!

ElizabethJ17 – How is your daughter doing without her nuk? That can be so hard to break, but I think you’re very wise to start the process now before the little one is here! That’s so great that your friend is throwing you a shower! Fun!

RFrick- Congrats!!

Ronya – How did your meeting with the pediatrician go? I probably need to start looking into pediatricians soon…!

Jenzimmer- Cute picture!!

Rachel – Wow! Congrats on your little girl! I’m glad the breastfeeding is going well!

Belinda – Welcome back!

Melissa – I am pretty sure I’ve only worn my tennis shoes while walking this summer, the rest has been sandals! And lately, when we go on walks, my hubby has to tie my shoes since its such an effort to get down there! I’d like suggestions for back exercises also!

Sorry if I missed anyone!!

AFM: Not much going on…working like crazy as usual. We met with one babysitter last night and it went OK. I wasn’t totally impressed. She is licensed but made it sound like she’s so busy during the day that she won’t have much time to spend with our baby. She watches 10 kids in her home, by herself and said that she will not even try to do crafts like coloring with our baby until she’s at least two because its too much of a hassle. BUT she’s close to our house and it’s $95 a week, which is not bad at all for this area. I’m thinking quality of care is more important than money and convenience though! We meet with another tonight and she only has her two kids and one other baby, who also happens to be my hubbys cousin’s child, so we’re praying that goes well! She charges $85 a week but is a little out of the way on our way to work…but if she really cares for our child, it will totally be worth it!

LittleSpy

:glasses:

lilibe

I'm finally back after a long break......For those who have joined since I left, I'm expecting a boy December 5. My weight gain has been pretty inconsistent and higher than I'd like. The only thing that seems to work is tracking calories. It's a pain, but hopefully I can keep the total less than 35 if I keep it up.

Regina - Congratulations! I'm looking forward to hearing your birth story.

Rachel - I'm glad breastfeeding is going well. Especially after such a difficult birth. Hang in there!

Lleldiranne

Belinda - Welcome back. Good luck as you try to conceive.

Melissa and Jenna - The cat/cow stretch seems to help with back aches. Get down on hands and knees. Start with your back flat. Curve it up, so you're arching like a halloween cat. Gently curve it down so that it's arched the other way and your shoulders and hips are the high points. I generally start with my tailbone and try to make the motion move up my spine, but it's harder with baby. I've heard this is also good for encouraging baby to move into a good position (I learned the move in yoga, and have just kept doing it).

Linsday - welcome back. Tracking calories really is the best option to manage weight, I agree. Trying to be active has helped me feel a lot better and control my appetite, too. Mostly I just walk and swim.

Jenna - I would definitely say that quality of care is more important than cost. If someone doesn't want to do things with a little one because it's "not worth the trouble" I would have second thoughts about sending my child there. (Not to say that crafts and coloring are necessary before age 2, and anything she produced would barely be fridge-worthy at that age, but it's the process of being able to learn and explore, and especially to interact with caring adults, that matters, and it sounds like this sitter is too busy to give that). Hope the other one you want to meet with works out for you!

Caperfae - I don't think I've worn socks and shoes for months now! I have a pair of slip-ons that stay on well for school (because of a lot of walking) and sandals for everything else, even a pair nice enough for when I"m going dressy.

AFM - spent the morning cleaning out a closet and set of drawers to put baby clothes in and working on the corner of our room where the crib is going to be. I'm feeling that panic of the baby coming soon and being no where near ready! Hopefully we'll be able to get the crib and carseat by this weekend, then I'll be able to relax more, I think.
My hip has been hurting like crazy lately, and all the work this morning didn't help! Not much we can do until after baby, and hopefully once he's born it won't hurt so much. But for now, ouch!! :sad:

Caperfae

Yay it's SEPTEMBER!!! One more month to go .. I am so excited!!!
Nothing going on here. I organized the baby's room a bit and hug new pink curtains in there this morning. I'm using an old dresser for a changing table. I just have to secure the contoured changing pad to the top.
No idea if this picture is going to work but here's the room as it looks right now:


We'll be doing a bit more shopping this coming weekend, mostly for the baby but my 5 year also needs a backpack for school on Tuesday.

Well I can't get photobucket to work on this board

Lindseyjones1717

Rachel,
I'm sorry you had such a hard time..but what a beautiful baby! Enjoy every minute with her, and feel better soon!


AFM: I am doing some last minute packing of my bags..and then I am off to the hospital tomorrow at 6am! C-section is scheduled for 8:30! I am beyond ecstatic! I am bringing my laptop with me so I can skype with some family, so I should be able to update sometime over the weekend! Hope everyone has a fantastic labor day weekend..I know I will! The next time I write, ill have a baby next to me...amazing!!

MadBabysMama

Eagerly awaiting my first OB appointment in about 10 days, looking forward to seeing our baby in there for the first time and hoping everything looks good. I'm only about 5 weeks along now. It's so hard in the first trimester when you have so few direct indicators of pregnancy. I vividly remember how comforting it was to feel my daughter moving around, hiccuping, etc. in the later months of pregnancy - I miss those not-always-so-gentle reminders!

Lleldiranne

Bought the crib & mattress and carseat/jogging stroller system tonight. Glad that most of the price of it is coming from money given to us for baby stuff because that was a lot! But I feel like we got a good deal ($130 for crib, $50 for matress, $180 for travel system, a few other items and tax). If I had unlimited funds, I really could have bought so much more, there's so many things!
Tomorrow we will go to Wal-mart and use those gift cards for diaper bag and a couple of newborn size clothes (got almost none of those). It's starting to really feel close!

ElizabethJ17

Jenna-
Thanks for asking. Allison is doing really well I think we picked a great time to do it. She has been settling into the whole no pacifier routine of going to bed. She did however find a thermometer pacifier in the office today but I caught her with it before she even had it for 30 seconds or so. She had a flu shot yesterday which made me feel bad she didnt have it but she did get through it fine. Today she decided to have a poop party in her crib which almost made me throw up from the smell lol. There was poop everywhere. Lets just say she got three baths today. Two right after the incident (the first to get rid of the poop, the second to clean well) and one tonight before bed just for safe measures. Tonight is night #3 and tomorrow is day #3 without the nuk and it looks like it is part of the past for us woo hoo : )

joonzgurl

bump

RFrick

bump :flowerforyou:

diverdi

Bump

Caperfae

I am on the fence about buying a travel system or just an infant seat. We already have a 5 year old stroller that's seen better days after being damaged in our move from West to East. The handle got cracked and broken while being shipped on the bus so it makes pushing a but tricky. The infant seat alone is about $100 and for $50 more I can get the whole travel system. I can still save the other stroller for power walking when the baby gets older. It's a heavy duty Jeep Liberty with air filled tires. I wouldn't get much for it in classifieds anyway.
I'm a bit overwhelmed knowing the baby will be full term in 2 weeks and CAN come anytime after that .. we just aren't ready yet. We don't even have a backup plan for our daughter who will be in school. No childcare has been arranged for her. Nobody to walk her to the bus in the morning or to meet her at the bus stop in the afternoon. That's one loose end I don't have a clue how to tighten up.

dmdaigle17

Officially baby month for me and officially fullterm as of yesterday

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Caperfae

Officially baby month for me and officially fullterm as of yesterday

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Congrats!!!
I'll be full term in a couple of weeks, then it's anyone's guess when baby will arrive, LOL
It will keep hubby on his toes if nothing else

mukie89

julz-thanks for the back exercise advice I was doing it last night and got very strange looks from my hubby haha

Danielle- yaaaay! enjoy these last few weeks of relative quiet

I was wondering if anyone can give me insight as to the 'best' way to go about getting a baby boy circumcised? I know its able to be done in the hospital but I was also told that this is relatively expensive. Are there other good options?

dmdaigle17

julz-thanks for the back exercise advice I was doing it last night and got very strange looks from my hubby haha

Danielle- yaaaay! enjoy these last few weeks of relative quiet

I was wondering if anyone can give me insight as to the 'best' way to go about getting a baby boy circumcised? I know its able to be done in the hospital but I was also told that this is relatively expensive. Are there other good options?

It's supposed to be done within the first couple days that the baby is here. So, generally done at the hospital you give birth at by a general doctor. Last number we were told was $500 but it isn't for sure. We still don't know if we're going to have it done or not though.

bmfrazie

WOW hearing about all the babies that will be here soon makes me wish even more that this will be our month!

Just a little more on my background. I have a huge family history of endometriosis. No female in my family has been able to have kids after 26. Kid you not 3 weeks after I turned 26 I was told I have endo and that I prob should try to have a baby in the next 6 months or it might become difficult. This had me so upset but we weren't ready yet. We talked about it this year and decided that in July I could go off the pill and see what happened. This will be my first month of tracking and really "trying" for this to happen.

One of my original reasons for joining MFP was to get my weight down a little before we did concieve. With my son I ended up gaining over 100 pounds. I PRAY that that doesn't happen again. I am set out to be active and fit and keep it up through the pregnancy.

abeare

Bump

chelledmal

Hello ladies! I am back after a nice 16 day vacation home to visit my family. I had a lovely time! I've missed a lot here though. I'm seeing lots of names I'm not recognizing and fun new adventures starting.
Rachel- Congratulations sweetie! I'm sorry that what you had looked and hoped for in your labor and delivery didn't turn out, but bringing a baby into this world is a miracle no matter how it happens! I'm so proud of you! Enjoy your new chapter.
A lot of you mommas are getting close to the end of the race. Enjoy these last weeks...

Right now I'm in the process of packing boxes and finding a new house to live in. This apartment life is for the birds! We gave our 60 day notice, but haven't been able to actively look for a new place until now. So the hunt is on! I'm feeling VERY overwhelmed knowing I have to be out by September 30th but have no clue where I'm going to. I am praying hard that God shows us the right direction for our family. I know He won't leave us homeless.
My pregnancy seems to be flying by. I am closing in on 18 weeks already! It just seems like yesterday I found out. I guess staying busy and keeping up with my 14month old helps a lot. Almost half way there! Yay!

Hope the rest of you are doing well. Excited to get back in the loop of things.

Raynamama

bump!

chelledmal

I was wondering if anyone can give me insight as to the 'best' way to go about getting a baby boy circumcised? I know its able to be done in the hospital but I was also told that this is relatively expensive. Are there other good options?

I gave birth at home, so a hospital wasn't willing to take me or my son as a patient because he wasn't born in their facilities. We searched around for other options as well. We ended up finding a Jewish physician in the Houston area that had been practicing specifically on circumcisions for 30 years! Religiously speaking, circumcision was supposed to happen on the 8th day, which is when this doctor came to our house for the procedure. He sanitized the area, used sanitized materials- all done very hygienically...just like it's done at the hospital...and did it all right on my table. haha! I think the price was $450

Lleldiranne

I was wondering if anyone can give me insight as to the 'best' way to go about getting a baby boy circumcised? I know its able to be done in the hospital but I was also told that this is relatively expensive. Are there other good options?

For both of our other boys, we had the circumcision done in the pediatrician's office. I liked this better for two reasons: 1) I liked the method they used at the dr's (plastic bell) far better than what the hospital used (metal bell) and 2) I was feeling enough better to be there with my baby while it was being done - don't know that I would have been able to in the hospital. I would suggest researching the methods - all I am aware of are plastic bell (or plasti-bell I think), metal bell, and traditional, but I haven't looked into it in the past 8 years. Find the one that you like best (plastic has a little "bell" that stays on for a few days and falls of when it is healed, about the same time as the cord falls out, so it was really easy to take care of; metal uses a metal bell that is remove at the end of the procedure, so there is more work to taking care of it as it heals). I do have to say, it was not very traumatic for either of them, and it was amazing to see how quickly a 3-4 day old baby soothed at just the sound of my voice and my touch on his head. I don't know the cost difference for the dr's office vs the hospital, but for me the type of procedure and the fact that I completely trust my pediatrician (vs somebody at the hospital, where my pediatrician doesn't have privileges) were more of a factor. Insurance covered it at the time.

RFrick

OK. Finally going to try an get this story written down… Wish I’d taken the time to do it sooner – hope I can remember everything.

We went in to the hospital last Wednesday evening about 11:30 pm. They inserted prostin gel in hopes that it would thin my cervix. (I was only dilated 1 and 50% effaced when I went in.) They inserted the gel again around four. At 8:30 I hadn’t progressed at all and they started me on pitocin and magnesium. At that point my contractions were sporadic and not very strong. My Dr. came in sometime that morning and I was at 2. She scrapped my membranes again, this time a bit more thoroughly. That really didn’t do anything much at all. She came back in around 5:30 pm (Thursday) and I was only dilated to 3. She broke my water using the head monitor for the baby. She got it attached to the baby so we just left it on so that my belly monitor could come off. As much as I dislike internal monitors it sure felt good to not have that strap around my belly after almost 24 hours! My contractions started getting stronger then, but they were still 5 to 7 minutes apart. And they had me maxed out on pit. My nurse talked to me about putting and internal contraction monitor in. This would be much more accurate than the one around my belly and would also enable them to give me more pit since they would have a more reliable reading on the contractions. I figured if there was one monitor down there one more really wouldn’t make any difference. Plus, by that time I was really starting to get worried about the chances of a c-section considering how slowly I was progressing. Around 1 or 2 Friday morning I let them give me a dose of Nubain. That stuff is amazing!!! I know why people do drugs if it’s anything like that. It goes in your IV and in a couple of minutes you have this nice warm fuzzy feeling and the next thing you know you’re asleep for a couple hours only slightly aware when you’re having a contraction. It wears off then with no side effects to mom or baby, giving you the benefit of having been able to rest a bit. By 5 am my contractions, while still 4 to 5 min. apart, were getting harder and harder to handle. I called my midwife/doula to come in. She got there around 6:30 Friday morning. We discovered that every time I stood up or sat down I would have a really good contraction. So I tried to do that for a while, but was so exhausted I could barely move. I also threw up somewhere in there. Shift changed around 8. I was still only dilated to 5 and the nurse and my doula convinced me that I needed to lie down and rest for a bit. That was really hard for me to accept because it felt like giving up! I mean lying down is sorta counter productive when you’re wanting a baby to come out!!! Also, all this time she stayed really high and didn’t really engage at all. I finally agreed to lie down and try to rest. So much for that!!! I hadn’t lain there for very long and my contractions started getting stronger and closer together. I was so glad that my doula was there!!! I lay on my side and she had a way of pushing on my back and hip that made contractions about 50% more bearable. They checked me and I was to 8. They kept telling me to tell them if I felt pushy. I finally did and they called my Dr. Well, I felt pushy through about three contractions and then I really did need to push. It only took about five pushes to get her out. It was so cool because I could feel each part of her come out and it didn’t hurt at all. I ended up with only a small scratch that burned a little the first time I peed and then didn’t bother me any more. I told my Dr. that it was pretty pathetic when the tops of your feet (because of the swelling) hurt worse than your bottom two days after delivery!!! My Dr. obviously didn’t make it to the birth in time and even the floor Dr. didn’t get there. My nurse and doula delivered the baby. I got to hold her and feed her right away. DH had to leave a few hours after the birth and they didn’t want me to have her in my room if I was going to sleep so I let them take her to the nursery for her bath while I slept for a couple hours. That was the only time she was away from us the whole time we were in the hospital. I was hoping to be discharged 24 hours after birth, but had to be on the mag for 24 hours and my Dr. wanted me to stay for observation for a while after that. So we didn’t come home ‘till noon on Sunday. The main complication we had after birth was Nikki’s billi reuben kept climbing until it peaked at 17.5 Wednesday. This morning was the first morning I had been home since last Wednesday morning because I had to take her to the lab every day for a blood draw. Her poor little heels are quite poked! She is a week old today. Nursing is going quite well it seems to me and I feel like I have a better milk supply than I did with DS. I want to get the scales out this evening and see how she is doing weight wise. DS loves her and his main fault is that he is really way to ‘helpful’. I want to encourage that though so it seems to be taking a good deal of time and patience on my part right now to let him help with her and hold her as much as he wants. He really is so sweet with her!!!

Overall it wasn’t the birth that I had wanted. But I have to admit that it was a much, much better than my experience with DS and all things considered I am pretty content with how things turned out. The bills are a little overwhelming since they’re about three times what we had hoped they would be if I’d had a home birth. But, that is manageable. What matters now is that it’s all behind us and everyone is fine and doing well.

chelledmal

Regina! I didn't know you had your baby! Congratulations. A little early, correct?

RFrick

Regina! I didn't know you had your baby! Congratulations. A little early, correct?

Yes. Sixteen days.

Lleldiranne

Congrats Regina!


Been having a lot of pressure and pain in my lady-parts today. I'm thinking baby has moved down a bit, but it doesn't seem like a whole lot. I don't recall this with the other babies. Hopefully it will ease up because I don't know if I can go through 2-5 weeks of this. I feel like such a wimp!!

Who was it that knows about car seat installation? Hubby tried to install the infant seat w/ base in our van, and it's loose and bouncy at the front (the back part of the baby seat, farthest from where it is attached). It is attached via a latch system, but it seems like we need a tether or something (which we don't have, and no where to attach to car) to make it safe. I don't remember this issue before!