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***Baby Dust 8***

Hello all you wonderful ladies!!!
New post, new info!  :)

Today I am great!  Not quite 1/2 way yet, but will be in less than 2 weeks!  18 1/2 weeks now...I think I'm starting to feel baby better now.  Still very faint, but not as much doubt about it being bub now.  :D

Jamie- I am still hoping and praying with you about your situation.  I know it's not easy.  That is amazing though, that you only have 11 weeks left!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

Hkenny- Yay!  Update us on your pregnancy progress as soon as you know more!  :)

Joyce-how are you doing?  any m/s or funny symptoms?

To all ttc,  be patient and take good care of yourselves!  :)  That is the best way to concieve.
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i am going to make a new post, look for baby dust 9
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That is not good, at 28 weeks I think I got into a car accident with my twins and I had to spend 4hrs in that damn hospital being hooked up to those heart machines to monitor the boys. I hated it due to I hate hospitals and my boys were moving around like crazy their heart beats were great!! But they had to make sure I guess.

Hope everything goes well.
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so i rear ended a truck during rush hour today, probably wrote off my car that we just paid off 2 weeks ago!!
i was fine right after the accident, but after walking around i got intense double over cramps,. the police women called an ambulance. spent 5 hours at the hospital.

no bleeding, but cramps are still there, everything seemed fine, however they do not do an internal exam. they are sending me for an ulrasound tomorrow. hcg came back at 69000.

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Yeah the pill I was on it for a year and half once I had my boys, and then I got off and it took me 2 weeks being off the pill to conceive, doctors were a little surprised due to its not common that, that happens. Mind you I won't complain, because the thought of going through months and months of trying to conceive and getting AF or those negative HP tests I think I would go insane again. That was a tough road before I got pregnant with my boys, mind you I got off the pill in march for the soul purpose of giving myself 2-3 months to regulate so we could get pregnant in June..... Well, unfortunately someone else had plans for us, but oh well.
So luckily you weren't on birth control and just got off and got pregnant right away, if I were your friend I think hearing that would irritate me and frustrate me.
I am sure she will be happy for you though, and yet inside be upset I know I would. But that is only natural.
No problem!! I know it was tough I knew a girl due the same day as me and at 12 weeks or something she miscarried the baby, and was upset. I was afraid to talk to her because I was still pregnant and she wasn't. But now she is 10 weeks pregnant again, so I hope everything goes well for her.
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thanks jamie, besides being prego i still wouldnt have gotten all drunk and dumb. im just not like that, but they are all single so that is what they do. and yes some of them really did make a fool out of themselves!! it was great fun just to watch. i guess i think i am being a good freind by telling them all my email rather then them finding out by a general facebook thing. even if they are still ****** friends, cuz really they are, ever since i got married at 20....

you are right there will be no easy way telling her, and yes they are trying for their first, she was on the pill solid for 14 years so its no wonder her body is taking a while to get back to normal. i dont agree with the pill myself its sooooo bad for your body. anyways i am hoping to get ahold of her tonight so i can let her know before i send the mass email to the others........

thanks for your input!
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Well, to be quite honest if they aren't really your friends, but you feel they should know then I guess you really don't have to go and tell each one of them by themselves, I think an email to all of them would be as good as any way of telling them really. Also, lol to be honest if they thought you were boring at the wedding due to you weren't drinking and getting drunk and making a fool out of yourself, I think that sounds kinda bad. Once I quit drinking, drugs and smoking etc all the people I used to hang out wtih stopped wanting to hang out with me, because I was not as fun anymore. So yeah I know totally different situations your pregnant and I chose to quit lol.

Also, about telling this girl who has been trying forever etc, well unfortunately I really don't think there is going to be an easy way to tell her. Especially if you have only been trying for such a short time, and it is still taking her awhile. I don't know too much about the situation I am suspecting this is their first? It is quite normal for women just getting off birth control to not get pregnant right  away. Actually it is very rare that women get pregnant just coming off birth control. Most times it can take up to 3-6 months to regulate again etc, so its not that uncommon, also women in general have a hard time conceiving most times it takes up to a year for their first baby. My boys it took me long 8 months to conceive them. But in a way if she was a friend she would be happy for you one way or the other, so just be honest and tell her your afraid to tell her because you don't want to hurt her feelings, but yet you felt she should hear it from you ETC.. I don't know what else to say lol
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So I have a bit of delima, its kinda dumb really, but I thought I would get your guys opinion. As of right now (12w2d) we have told family and close close friends. For those of you who have facebook I was going to post in my status something about being pregnant after my first doctors appointment which is next thursday. I had thought all along I would email all my highshcool girlfreinds and let them know before. out of the 6, 3 were in my wedding party, I say highschool freinds b/c quite honestly we arent really close anymore. You know I see them on weddings and birthday only. I went to a wedding on oct4 with them all and of course didnt drink, (said i was on antibiotics) at the dance everyone was having a great time and dancing up a storm, sober me was sitting at the table with hubby. :) anyways i was going to say something along the lines of sorry i was such a bore at kaylas wedding but I am pregnant! now I am wondering if I should tell them in email or if maybe its ok for them to find out on facebook just like everyone else. For some reason i was thinking oh i should tell them sepertely b/c they are my freinds, but really they arent.....I dont know what to do!! please help

2nd- i have a freind, who is trying to get pregnant and has been since january, her and i had talked alot of it b/c i chart and she was asking some questions, and for a few months was trying myself. She has been off the pill since Jan didnt get a period, so the doc gave her some meds to get one in august and now they think she is not ovulating.I plan on phoning her in the next few days to tell her i am pregnant, she is someone that needs to hear it from me, i just dont really know how to say it, its touchy b./c she has been trying for so long....any thoughts?
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jamie, i have 2 boys and they were good as babies, and toddlers and now they are not too bad as school aged (6 and 11) but my daughter was a good  baby, but once she hit 2 it was all down hill.  i dont know if alot had to do with my mum spoiling her (badly) or what, but now as a teenager, well let's say that she gives a whole new meaning to being incoragable(spell wrong) and i am not looking forward to her higher teen years as she is only 14 now.  omg

hkenny, i dont remember any major pain with my first pregnancy at all....nor with my first full term pregnancy.  in fact what i remember (up until this one) except for the missed periods and occassional mood swings, you could hardly tell i was pregnant with any of them.  this one, here i am at almost 9 weeks, and i look 5 months...but that is primarily due to the hernia i think....lol
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Yeah no doubt eh? LOL, if I could of ordered I don't think I ever imagine myself ordering two at once, but now that I have them, I woudln't change it for the world. Its so funny I hear people and they say "Oh I couldn't imagine doing twins, double everything, and I can barely handle one, etc" I laugh because to be honest I don't remember them being that bad. I mean yes double some stuff, but you don't have to double everything. Like bouncy seats I had one, and one swing, they took turns in it. I didn't buy two jolly jumpers they just have one, and then a round thing that they sit in and play. Oh and when it comes to toys yes when they get older um somethings you do have to buy double of everything because they learn to fight and want what the other one has, and quite frankly some days I can go bloody well insane with the way these two constantly fight over toys, and then again hey you can have 2 of the same toy and they still manage to fight over it.
How many boys do you have? Boys are I heard harder when they are little, but easier for teenage years then what girls are, I am kinda hoping this girl is nothing like me for teenage years=S

Hkenny- It could be normal I think. I don't really remember what happened in the first trimester for me. But then again your uterus is stretching and since this is your first your body hasn't experienced this before. I know if its your second baby or what not your body is kinda already stretched and knows what it is supposed to be doing, I guess that is another reason they say your second baby just kinds of slides out. You know I am hoping that is the case, because I want a painless birth like I had with my twins=)..... one can hope right.

Well hope everyone is doing well I have a month and 2 weeks left to go, its coming close.
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hkenny,yes as much as i want another boy, i have had a feeling it is a girl as well.  i picked up a bebe doppler monitor yesterday, at a consignment shop for like $12.  I wont be able to use it for a while yet, but it is kool that i can use it before too much longer, 12 weeks i think is when you can start getting heartbeat on doppler...???

jamie, yeah i did want twins pretty bad, only because this is dh's first and our last, and i was hoping for one of each....lol....too bad we can't just put in a order before we conceive and get what we want...lol
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well today kinda sucked, i had alot of stabbing pain low in my stomach, i was out with a friend who just had a baby and she said she had that alot at this stage so i am not worried, but it has been painful.

i did all the gender predictors as well and they ALL say boy,i thought that it was a boy even before that.
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It is normal, yet I find myself more hungry through out all my pregnancies then I ever was thirsty or maybe it is just equal???.. who knows. The other day I was more thirsty then I was hungry. With my twins I had the weirdest craving, when I smelt laundry I would crave ice, it was kinda weird. THen again I read on some sites of women craving bleach, and gasoline???.. that to me sounds funny, and of course don't give in to those cravings haha.

Joyce- I did those gender predictors too!! and they all said I had a 50% chance of having a girl, well that was not helpful because that left me with another 50% of having a boy haha. Mind you the way I am carrying this baby, and everything is like you would carry a boy. So I don't believe in the old wives tales about how you carry, heart rates or anything for boys and girls. I think that is all hog wash, they also say your more sick with girls too!! Well I haven't gotten sick or nauseous with my boys or this one so. LOL and yes unfortunately if the tech says they are 99% sure there is just one, you probaby only got just one in there. Its actually alot easier to tell when your not as far along, then when you are. LOL maybe you just want twins really badly, I don't know. But, I don't think the tech would say they are 99% sure if they weren't.

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hkenny, no you are not the only one, i have heard that there are alot of preggo ladies who are constantly thirsty....i just feel like i cant eat as much because i am drinking so much water...lol

jamie.....i have checked EVERY gender predictor that i can find and they all say GIRL  and although no matter what it is i will be thrilled with a healthy and happy baby...i would prefer a boy....boys are just soooo much easier than girls.  oh well i will recieve the baby that i am meant to have whether it be a boy OR girl....but the u/s tech is about 99% sure there is only ONE
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I am sooooooo thirsty too, its crazy, if I am not drinking water I feel so parched. When I wake up in the morning my mouth is so dry its gross. At least I am not the only one!
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Well my prenatal appointment went well, heard the heart beat, and I guess she is growing so that is good. I got my ultra sound next tuesday and we plan to get a 3d scan so I am pretty excited about that, hopefully she will be in a position so we can get a good face shot, and they can show me the sex of her. The lady last time said she saw that it was a girl, but when she went to go show us the baby she had moved by then. I don't doubt that it is a girl though, it feels a little different then my boys so that is okay.

Yeah, my husband and I got them my husband has crohn's so his immunity system *****, so he got one, and I got one and just decided my kids would get one. My kids are more prone to ear infections though, they don't really get sick too much.

Well, my next prenatal is on the 11th, its kinda scary I have a little over a month left to go. november 15th will be exactly a month until baby comes, I am getting so nervous. I am not usually worried about labor due to I know what to expect due to my boys so that is good. When I was pregnant with my twins I absolutely feared labor from day one, and prayed it would be easy and painless, and luckily that is exactly how it turned out.

Also Joyce, I am pretty sure 186 for your heart beat is pretty good. Mine have ranged from 128 and 160. Supposedly girls heart rates are the ones that are higher, but I know a lady who is having a boy and his heart rate was 170 so.
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went to my regular OB yesterday, and when they did the u/s they told me the heartrate which was around 186....is that good?  i think i am going to continue to go to him, as the other doc was ok, but i just didnt care much for him, and so the only thing we will have to really worry about is finding someone to keep the other kids for a few days while i am in the hospital.  but i still have time for that.

jamie....you are braver than i am, i have actually gotten a speech from my kids' pediatrician before because i do not believe in the flu shots.  I have a friend who is a nurse and she informed me that the flu shots doesnt prevent the strain of flu that has killed people.  So i opt out of it....my kids have NEVER had the flu and they are now 6,11 and 14...lol

hkenny....i am not sure about the bloating as i really am not sure if i have ever felt bloated before...lol....not sure what it would feel like, but yesterday when i got home i was sooooo hungry that i ate and ate and felt really full and yucky.  and then i was sooooo thirsty, i am always thirsty....and i drank 3 16oz bottles of water in a 15 min period and so felt waterlogged.....is that the bloating feeling????

anyhow i hope all is well with everyone and i will keep as updated as possible.
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im with ya i'll post just to post!
felt like garbage today, did not sleep at all last night,went for lunch with my dad and could hardly eat,at least compared to normal. came home and slept from 2-6. ate the rest of my lunch and felt sooo bloated and gross. i thought this was suppose to end at 12 weeks??? lol

how is everyone else doing?
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Well got a prenatal appointment today at 4:45pm figured I would post something considering no one else seems to post on here anymore lol. Oh and my kids get their flu shots today...fun fun, not really.
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Ok, so after my youngest ds was born, i gained some weight, when my ex and i got married in 04 i topped at 313....i lost nearly 100 lbs in 2-3 yrs...which i have started to gain some back,but it is to be expected....anyhow, after losing the weight i had a slight "apron" that hung down.  Well today i noticed that the middle part of this "apron" is no longer hanging...i am not sure if i am starting to show already or if my hernia is being pushed out by my uterus a little.  i decided to keep the appt.  with my regular OB just to have him check it since i have been going to him since ds was born in 02 and he was the one who told me i had a hernia to begin with. I go on tuesday the 28th so hopefully he can reassure me that the hernia is NOT gonna cause me problems.  anyhow just thought i would share that with you.  
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Yeah, it was a **** off, and then 36 weeks I figured I would give up bedrest and walk my butt off!! Which I did do. Everytime I got up or sat down being pregnant with my twins there was so much pressure on my tail bone that I thought it would snap in half everytime I did those things it was nasty. Luckily this time around I don't have that.
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keeks,
     i was told that between 5-6 months i will be put on bedrest til the end of the pregnancy....this by a nurse NOT my doctor,  I am high risk because of age, i have a HUGE incisional hernia that goes along my c-section incision.....AND i lost 2 pregnancies in the 5th month.  and it is just a gut feeling, about twins, but the doc said that at this point if it shows only one on the u/s then there is only one...idk, maybe my intuition is messed up because of the bean....lol
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Hkenny ~ I wouldnt worry about it , I started to show around 20 weeks , like noticeably , but around 14 weeks I had that akward looking fat but not pregnant lol......That part SUCKED I would rather have a pregnant tummy at 11 weeks than just an awakward fat ponch until the 2nd trimester LOL.....If you were measuring big then I would think maybe twins but showing & measuring are 2 different things so its probably okay :)

Joyce ~ YAY for a sneak peek at the bean! How exciting! Why do you think its twins?....Hope all goes well with your Surgeons appt.....Why are you high risk & why do they think you'll need bed rest between 5-6 months??....I sure hope you dont need bed rest it *****!

Jamie ~ Hows everything going with the family hun? Hope its getting easier!.....Your almost done girl! damn lol your pregnancy went by 10x faster than mine it seems haha!!.....Have you decided for sure on a name now?.....Oh man the pregnancy you had with the twins was like mine , dont you HATE it when they constantly tell you "its gonna be soon" and then you make it past that point & you think your doing good only for them to be like " okay now your not gonna make it to here"....Pissed me off everytime LOL

Katebud ~ Tommorows the big day ? or did it already come & go?....Im so excited to find out what your having! I still say GIRL :)

Quick Update ~ Things still kinda suck around here but im sure it will get better , I have to testify in my friends trial from a car accident like 5 years ago & im NOT happy , they want me to leave Rylen for a whole day to do it & I flat out refused cause im still breastfeeding , so now they've supenaded (sp) me to a video testimony which still ***** but i'll take what I can get I guess....Rylens doing great , hes 10lbs 2oz, but hes not chubby just LONG lol.....He smiles now & makes all kinds of noises! I just adore him!......Anyways I gotta go eat dinner before the munchkin wakes up! Hope your all doing well :)
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twins and my cervix started shortening at 24 weeks, it was 1.8 cms it is supposed to be 5cms or something, and then by 28 weeks it was 1cms short so I was high risk of giving birth at 24 weeks, they constanlty told me I wouldn't make it to 28 weeks, and then I did then told me I won't make it to 32, and then 36, but I made it to 38 and had two 6 pound boys.
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What made you high risk???  the nurse i talked to said something about possible bedrest from about 5-6 months which would be (20-24 weeks)....ugh

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