Faint Positive with EPT!

[monarc23]

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So you knew with your first child what it's sex was?

that is so cool! The thing is, I was wanting a boy, but for some reason I keep thinking about a girl (like when I picture my baby it's a girl). LOL I've even had dreams of a daughter....but i've always felt i'd have a boy. It doesn't make much sense to me

and thank you for the info! I'm still staying away from tums just incase lol taking tylenol reccomended by my pharm. lady is as much as I want to take when I don't feel good (sinous crap). I never used to take tums anyhow so no point in starting now

I will just do natural things when I can to help.

As of late, i've been feeling perfectly fine other than this pain in my actual stomach (where food collects) but i've felt this pain months before I was pregnant so whatever it is has been annoying for a while just on and off

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[JenEric Farms]

I had horrible heartburn with my first, I would eat a teaspoon of mustard to get rid of it. My father-in-law suggested it. At first I thought he was nuts, because mustards sounds like one of those things that would make it worse...but low in behold...it was the ONLY thing that worked.

Just something to keep in mind as an aide.

Can't wait to find out if your are having a girl or boy!

 

[monarc23]

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haha! well guess what I swear everyday I eat something with mustard lately!!! I never really thought of it until now... ive been eating mustard a lot like with pretzels, and corn dogs the other day *shhh* LOL! anywho, that's so funny you say that. I will deffinatly keep it in mind though!!!

and! i can't wait too too many darn weeks to go until then though

 

[vkp23]

I always thought I would have a boy with my first. When I got pregnant I just had this feeling, like thinking boy just wasen't fitting. I now have a 4 year old baby girl. Mothers intuition is not often wrong. Also, I'll say one thing all women have in common is #1 you, at first, will be uptight and do everything as perfect and by the book as you can. As time goes though you will say "screw it!" and loosen up. LOL. It's a verry funny prosess and you think, "I will do everything right and be the best mom in the world" and then time goes on and your like, "oh a little ice creme wont hurt before bed as long as he/she would just stop crying long enough for me to think a single thought!" Example some one gave me one time.... With the first kid you always carry an extra steralized paci in a ziploc bag. So that child gets older you settle for finding a bathroom and washing it the sink with hot watter. But the time the second comes along it's sanitized when you pick up the paci pop it in YOUR mouth to get the dust off and back in babies mouth it goes!! That is SO true and I LOST it cause I thought I got found out, but was happy to know I wasn't the only one! And #2 By the end of pregnancy you will actually be hoping to go into labor if you fall on your butt down the stairs like I did! It was raining and I hit that top stair to go to work and slipped on the wet wood and fell on my butt all the way down. I was worried if they baby was ok. When I felt her moving just fine and started to hope I would go into labor. I was 39 weeks. I don't care who you are you will be gripeing that you want the baby O-U-T by 36 weeks. You will be ready for it to be over already. I know I have two little girls and I remember fondly how I wanted the little parasites out! LOL!! But I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world!

 

[SportTees]

With the first one I wanted a boy but couldn't stop thinking it was a girl. It was a girl and I also read every book possible trying to go for mom of the year. The pregnancy was so easy- other than weight gain I would have never known I was pregnant. This time its awful - tired, sick, sore. I hope you have an easy one!!

 

[monarc23]

thanks you two. v- that was really funny your descriptions on being the "perfect mom" and then saying "Screw it"

thing is hubby only wants one, and us living and renting off of my parents right now i think only planning for one for atleast a few years is better on all of our sanities

Theres a lot im planning for this baby that a lot of people don't do.

Bf'ing for one i know more do it now adays but around here that's sort of a taboo thing so i'll get funny looks for sure...

also looking into Elimination communication and using disposable diapers as a back up...my mom is going to think im crazy but oh well lol.

I'm also learning sign language slowly here because babies learn it faster it seems than speaking and my baby will be able to communicate with me sooner than normal

and also co-sleeping. Baby in a co-sleeper attached to our bed so the baby feels closer and safer atleast for the first few months, then after that either sleep in bed with us, or righ tbeside us in a bigger co-sleeper

hubby finnally admited last weekend that he's excited. He brings up our baby constantly now which has me smiling ear to ear.

He even keeps looking at my tummy and im like "um..hun, you can't see a bump yet goof!" LOL

 

[vkp23]

I BF'ed as long as I could. It was a nightmare with my first! To make a long story short I dried up.

With the seccond it was much better......until I went back to work. I have clinical depressing and anxiety disorder and the stress of going back to work made me slowly dry up. I'll say this much though, if you do start to dry up, DON'T GIVE UP! There are a lot of natural as well as medical things you can do to bump your production. Also, go ahead and spend the money and invest in a hospital grade pump. They work much better. I paid $300 for a medela pump and thanks to it I got a little more time BF-ing. Kudos on the baby signing. I tried to but I don't have the pacents (spell check!) for that. What on earth is Elimination communication? I've never heard of it. If it's potty training at 7 months I wish you luck! Lizzy (my oldest) didn't potty train til almost 4 years old! Every kid is dif and potty trains at dif times. They wont do til they are ready to. Like my oldest bro didn't potty train til he was 3, I potty trained at 18 months. But I give kudos to people who are able to do it sooner. As far as co-sleeping goes. Lizzy slept in our room til she was 18 months! LOL! Our 10 month old (Marlee) is still in our room! When they were really little I let them sleep in the bed with me and will still let them nap with me in the bed. Lizzy was so small she stayed in the basenett til she was almost a year old. Then we moved her crib in our room til she was 18 months. At 18 months we moved her crib to her room wich was just across from our room. At two, we put her in my old twim bed and got a bed rail. My grandpa had to make some stpes for her to crawl up to get into her bed case she is just so short! LOL! She's bigger now and so doesn't need the steps any more. I think co-sleeping is GREAT and if you do the transitions right and have a bed time rutine you have no problems moving them to their own room when they get older. With Lizzy the rutine is, shower, story, night time prayer, feed the fish, kiss and hug then lights out. No problems out of her. And never have had a problem with her going to bed. Co-sleeping IMO lets them know that you will be there for them if they NEED you. The whole CIO (Cry it out) is just mean. Now there are time they will pitch a fit and I wont respond to that, but you can totally tell when it's an "I'm scared" or "I'm hurt" or "I'm lonely" cry, or if it's an "I'm mad and going to pitch a total fit" cry. I think you'll do great!

 

[monarc23]

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Yeppers I'm looking into a medela thingy (sp) I'm suprised how many companies around my woodsey area sell them! LOL it's nice that i have options!!!

As for elimination communication, nope it's knowing when and teaching your baby to potty when you know it needs to. From the begining or whenver works for you.

The first few weeks in infancy you'll ofcourse have accidents, but once you and teh baby get the hang of things it comes fast

Least from what ive read on sites about it and watched on youtube.

thank you so much for the encouragment, and the info on your experience of co-sleeping! Hubby is really excited about having the baby close to us like that i thought he'd have an issue with it or worry about smooshing the baby.. but hey if we can snooze with a brand new puppy and or kitten with us, tehn we can surely sleep with a toddler

Infancy i plan to keep them in teh co sleeper just because that's too tiny fo rme i'd worry *bites nails* LOL

 

[vkp23]

Here is a pic of the steps my grandps made for her and her climbing them. The sheets were missing from the bed in that one pic because I was washing them. Also I made that quitl on her bed.

And here are my girls now!

Lizzy- 4 years old

And Marlee-10 months

If your interested, I make baby things. Baby blankets, baby slings, tie dyed onesies. I'll include a link to my photo bucket but if it doesn't work you can just look up user vkp23 on photobucket and see the stuff I make. There are a bunch of pics and vids of my girls and chickens and what not there too. I mostly use the photo bucket for my mom and grandparents to get to see pics and vids of things going on in my life. Any way here is the link....
http://s678.photobucket.com/albums/vv146/vkp23/

 

[monarc23]

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haha awh your babies are ADORABLE beautiful eyes on them too! I will deffnatly be looking into your stuff you make! Esp the slings!!!!