Hi everyone! Thanks Tigger for starting this group. My name is Megan and I like a few others in this group am also a "youngin". I am 14 weeks tomorrow (with my first) and am excited to move into the second trimester. My official due date is November 20th. I don't plan to find out the sex. I got fairly lucky in my first trimester and only experienced a week or two of morning sickness, but was tired the entire time. :yawn: I've been trying to remain active throughout this pregnancy and have found a deep love and appreciation for prenatal yoga.

I'm really looking forward to hear everyone's birth experiences, especially those who are planning to go the natural route!

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Welcome everyone! So glad we are getting together a good group of us - and a good group full of good people too I have been friends with most of you for a little while and am so happy we get to continue being friends.

I'm brittany; due with my second boy around June 15 (:

Yea! Someone that shares my due day. It will be interesting to see how close they actually are.

This is really cool since June 16th is my birthday so would be cool if one of you had a kid on my birthday! Bring on the awesome Geminis!

My son will be 5 on June 16th! His original due date was June 6th.

I'm not pregnant now, my daughter will be 3 weeks old tomorrow! She was 11 days late. I hope none of you ladies have to wait quite so long.....

Thanks for starting this group @tiggerhammon! I am Melitta, live in Spain and just 2 weeks post partum w my second little munchkin. He is awesome, and being parents 2nd times around is so much easier and relaxing. After my first, I was so overwhelmed w parenting, work, and moving to a new country that it took me 3 years to buckle up and lose the baby weight. But this time, I am determined not to make that mistake again. I fell in love w MFP last year, I learnt a lot, I was very active on here about a year ago and lost about 10kg, felt great.

I also had a repeat Csection, because of prior abdominal surgery for a large fibroid, so I had no choice. My belly has been cut open 3 times. Have a big pouch which I would like to get rid off. I recovered quite well after all 3 surgeries and I found that the key was to get up as soon as possible (within 24 hrs) move around even through the pain, and then walk walk walk walk. Nothing strenuous but movement. I hope your VBAC will go smoothly, FC!!!!

I am really excited to get back to exercise when I am given the clear in about 4 weeks, I really missed it during the pregnancy. In the meantime, my mini goals for the coming four weeks is to come on to MFP regularly, walk 4 to 5 km 5 times a week, replace the batteries in my scales and weigh myself, and track my calorie consumption (no judgement just track) a few times to see what I am dealing with.

I am looking for new MFP friends, my old friends have either given up or have achieved their goals and not that active, and I am particularly looking for friends who are just after baby. Feel free to add me anyone!

Xxx, Melitta

Hi all!

I am currently pregnant with baby #2 (and last). He/she is due 10/14/14, so I am 19 1/2 weeks pregnant today. I have to have a c-section due to complications with the first pregnancy and will be at 37 weeks. I live in Connecticut, USA. I love MFP but have been slacking lately with tracking foods. I'm not too worried about it because I have still been making good decisions and only gained 6 1/2 lbs so far. I plan to jump right back on board once I'm okayed by my doctor after my c-section. I am an high risk, geriatric pregnancy...geriatric at 37...lol I have GD and have been managing that with diet alone so far!

Our daughter is 22 months (on June 5).

Anyone in this group is free to friend request me, the more the merrier IMHO!

Good luck everyone!

Hi! I'm a SAHM mom to an almost 19 month old daughter, and baby #2 is due mid-lateSept, a few days shy of our 5 year wedding anniversary. It will be brief, but for a short while this fall I'll have 2 under 2! I just stopped BFing my daughter (I let her self-wean), and while I don't have my whole body to myself yet, I'm glad to at least have my boobs to myself for a few months! We're planning to have at least one more baby after this one, so it will be a few years before my body is 100% my own again.

Hi, my name is Erin, I am 31 years old, and 23 weeks along with my first. We are having a baby girl, she is due on September 25th! We are very excited and nervous of course. We are going to be moving in about three weeks, so there is a lot going on right now! I like many others plan on breastfeeding and I also want to try cloth diapering, although I think I'll start of with disposable and phase them in as I figure things out. I am just starting to research the world of cloth diapers--there are SOO many options!

I am also planning on making most of my own baby food once we start on solids--anyone have any good resources/tips for this? I have a Vitamix, so I am planning on mostly using that.

Thanks for the invite and starting this group. I don't have any experience to bring to the table but can offer support to the best of my ability. I am 26 and married, expecting our first child due December 10th (which means I'm 12 weeks today).

A vitamix is good, great machine.
I plan to exclusively make my own baby food, snacks and all. No commercial baby food/snacks for me.
When starting, be sure to only give baby one type of food at a time. It is tempting to mix carrots and apples or potatoes and peas etc... but baby needs to have only one thing at a time to begin with.
I, personally, steam everything. Keeps more of the whole nutrition if you don't boil or microwave it. I keep things fresh as much as possible, like bananas - no point in even warming those.
First, cut and remove any parts you don't want baby to eat. Be sure to remove stems, seeds and tough skins. Then, steam and then put in your Vitamix. When first starting baby on solids, puree it completely, smooth as possibly can be. As they age, you can increase the texture of their foods.

Once they are at the snacking age, there are so very many ways to make you own baby snacks that are so much healthier, cheaper and tastier than the puffs and such from the store.

Wow, you are a wealth of knowledge. I was just reading your post on cloth diapers yesterday. I plan on going back to that one for reference. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. As a first time mom, there is so much to learn! You seem to have it pretty squared away!

When it comes to baby foods i found my daughter very early on loved buttnernutsquash and sweetpotato mashed together as it no only tasted really nice but it was sweet, its a really good combination.
If you have baby rice and they don't seem to like it much as lots if babies don't i used up the boxes i had that my daughter didn't like by madhing banana into it and it was gobbled up then.
You don't have to start them on plain foods as much ad they say you should. Those little taste buds want flavour aswell. You also have to make sure you don't have to much of a gap from a food. I've seen it with bith mine that they very soon forget the food and then you find it hard to get them to eat it as they progress to more solid eating.
I difn't start weaning my daughter till 5 months as the babies digestive system can't cope with solid to early on unlike some ppl think. Too many ppl want to feed their babies at 3 months which unless the health visitir or dr had told you to is too early.
I'm allergic to Gluten so i felt it was best to go as long as my motherly instinks could go as i was going to start weaning at 6 months but i felt she was ready. I golden rule for weaning is that you're baby should beable to sit unaided, of cause i talking about babies who have no medical conditions csusing it to be a problem to sit unaided.
I remember with my son i would make my own lunch and dinner, foods like fish and veg and would just take some of mine and put it in the blend for him.
When you start weaning putting blended foods in an ice tray and freezing them is a good way of having the small amounts of food smaller babies can eat. I did this with blized peas and the butternut squash &sweet potato mash.
I use to freeze them then asoon as they was solid pop them out into a contsiner and keep them in the freezer that way you can have small amounts of bubs food at hand quickly and you can increase the amount cube at a time till they clearly want a bowl full of food.