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Hi!! I am so sorry I never got back to write, I felt terrible for a bit and now suffering from headaches :( Did any of you have this? I am not complaining, I know this is all for a great reason, just looking forward to the second tri.

Alice, sorry the transition is going a little rough, but it sounds like she is doing amazingly and that's great! You are still a great mommy :)

Nikolina, hey hun!! So good to hear from you and I am with Alice, 20 drug free hours...whew!! I am having a planned C-section due to previous surgeries, but I could imagine having to change to something you weren't mentally prepared for. But I am happy you all are doing great!

Emmy, hey there! How are you feeling? Anything new to share since you are a couple of weeks ahead of me?? OMG 3 days until you know what you are having!! Can't wait to hear the news :)

Missy, Hi! How are you doing with everything? How are your sweet girls? How are you feeling? I pray things are easing up physically for you!

Shayann, how are you doing?

Van, you still with us?

AFM, I have moments each day of feeling ok, bad, terrible...lol so all over the place. I have had a few emotional moments where I felt as though I was having an out of body experience and willing myself to get it together, LOL!! I am 11+2 today, first appointment with my OB is next Monday and I am ready to see Skipper (my husband's nickname for the baby). Then next Thursday we go in for our First Trimester Scan, and they may be able to determine the sex...ladies I STILL am UNSURE as to if I want to know or not. HELP :) Give me pros and cons of each choice please :)))

Jada

Hay Alice!! Wow you are so lucky that Anna sleeps so well at night!! At how many weeks she got in to routine? At the momeny Mason is all over the place, and sometimes is so frustrating at times, i cried few times, its very overwhelming, but i keep reminding myself that it will get esier! And i hope soon we will have a bit of system. Newborns are not easy lol So great that Anna is in goos hands at daycare and that she loves there! I hope i will find some1 like that too when i go back to work!! Ohh yea 20 hrs labour wasnt easy, at one stage i tought i gona explode ha ha but to be honest i was scared to take gass and air cos i tought it will make me feel sick ha ha so silly :-) But i glad i did experience the pain, so i know how it feels :) but next time, if there will be next time ha ha, i definitely gona take some drugs ha ha How many weeks Anna is now? O yea i ment to ask you, did you tried breastfeeding at the start? If you did, how long it took you to stop?? Lods of love to you and lil Anna :)

Hay Jada!!! Skipper lol soo cool nikname :) Ahh so sorry to hear about headaches, but it is normal to have them, i personally didnt had any, but girl at work had them at the start of pregnancy, but they go away after few weeks :) so hang in there hun, soon you gona feel better :) Well about the gender... The reason why we didnt find out is cos we wanted that last suprice at the end of pregnancy, and it was soo worth to wait, it was amazing to find out from my hubby that we are having a lil boy, he was first to see :) It just made that lil bit special :) but i have to say it was hard not to find out!! :) The downside is that all you buy for baby is gona be white, cream or yellow. But they grow so fast that we already been clothes shopping for Mason for all blue and boys stuff!! Soo cutte :)
But if you decide to find out the gender, you knowing is it girl or boy i think will bond closer you with the baby before its born. And its great to know, so you can paint room and get lovely clothes for lil Skipper :) But go with what you feel, if you want to find out, do!! And we are dying to know aswell lol so we wont have to wait as long lol lol
Sending you lods lods love hin and i hope soon you feel better :)

Hay Missy, hope you are doing well hun xx

Emmy thinking of you!! Can not wait to hear about gender scan :)

Lods of love

Nikolina

Hi sweet ladies!!!

Jada, hun, so sorry about the headaches! :-( But your first trimester is almost over, hopefully things will get better then :-) LOL, Skipper, that's so cool! :-) Finding out gender is entirely up to you and your husband :-) I don't think I would have been able to wait until birth, I really wanted to know, to be able to prepare (both her stuff as my mind :-p). But I bet it must be special to find out at birth, as Nikolina did! So do whatever you feel like :-) In any case: if you haven't decided by the time your scan comes around, maybe it's better not to find out: you can always change your mind at the next scan, but you can't undo finding out ;-)

Nikolina, it sounds like you're an amazing mum to Mason, hun!!! Don't feel bad about crying, I'm 100% sure every first-time mum has done so! I sure did :-) It's just such a huge task, and no matter how much love you put into it, sometimes you're just overwhelmed... And tired! :-)
Anna took her time to get to this sleeping pattern :-) I think she was about 3 months old when she first slept 8 hours between bottles. I did need to hand her her soother in between sometimes :-) But her crib is next to my bed (without bars in between), so I don't have to get up for that :-p In Anna's case, she suddenly started sleeping a couple of hours longer when I put a special pillow in her bed (anti-reflux), it's a rectangle, and a triangle on the side. But I don't think that's some kind of magical tool that makes all babies sleep better though :-p I think it was a number of factors. I did breastfeed Anna the first 5 weeks or so, but I didn't have enough milk, so she got extra bits since she was 1 week old (and increasingly more formula, as my milk did not increase). I started pumping less often around her 2-3 weeks (I couldn't feed her directly) cause it was too demanding, and I intended to stay at 3 times a day, but by the time I got there, I 'dried out', lol :-p I pumped one or two single times after that, and then it was over. I think the whole process of quitting took about 2.5 weeks, although I'm not entirely sure anymore. Anna is now 18 weeks :-) I've posted a pic on CMP :-)

http://www.countdownmypregnancy.com/my-pregnancy/my-babyphotos_entry.php?u=32610&babyphotoid=1220

Don't know of this link will work :-p

Emmy, only 2 days left!!!!! :-) So excited for you!!!! :-)

Missy, I hope you're okay, I can't imagine how busy you must be with your 3 girls!!! :-) How is little Aubrie doing?

Lots of love!!!

Alice

Team blue ladies!!!
A little boy! I cried with joy! My little girl is so excited to have a baby brother! :)

Oooh, Emmy, congratulations with your little baby boy!!!!!! :-) I'm so happy for you, hun, that you are having your rainbow baby, and it is going so well!!! :-) You deserved this happiness so much!!! Hopefully the sickness will start easing off!!
Now you and your husband can start discussing names! Unless you already agreed upon a boy's name when you were pregnant of Charlotte and didn't know yet she was a girl? You should call him George ;-) Lol, I'm just kidding :-)

Lots of love!!!

Alice

Emmy,

That's WONDERFUL!!!!! CONGRATS :)))

How are you feeling physically? Hoping you are feeling better!!

Jada

Hey ladies...well I couldn't let the hubs know and I NOT know...so we found out today....Team PINK!!!!

Jada

Thank you ladies!

Still can't believe we will have one of each :)

Awwww Jada how lovely! So happy for you on team pink :)

I'm still feeling nauseous but miles better than before! Nearly 17 weeks so glad it's finally easing hehe!

How are you feeling? xxx

Hey Emmy,

Nooooo 17 weeks and still nauseous?! Lol!! I'm still tired a lot (in bed typing this ha ha), nauseous at times, and headaches :/ But I'm happy and the baby looked great today! The doctor gave us a great report no defects :) He says she's very active so we better get ready lol!!

hello hello!! <3

Emmy, yay a boy!! congrats!!! (and I'm so jealous! lol). Yes, she's doing great! already weights 11lbs 6oz at 5 weeks today. lol. She's such a chunk! I'm doing ok. still recovering a bit from the c-section. I'm so sorry you're still dealing with morning sickness! I know it can be awful. :( Can they give you any sickness meds? Sept will be here before you know it!! so exciting! Ahh I'm so glad you're back on here, I've missed seeing your posts! <3

Jada, awesome!! Since I have 3 girls, I can tell you it is so sweet to have a baby girl! Get to buy tons of pretty dresses and bows and head bands! :) Congrats!!!!! so sorry you're having morning sickness too. :( I hope you find relief soon. we're doing ok. My girls are good. A bit jealous of baby but they love her a lot and enjoy talking and loving on her. Though it tends to make Aubrie mad because they love her a little TOO much. lol. Averie has her kindergarten graduation soon. *cries* I can't believe it! I'm feeling sore still sometimes but at 5 weeks today it's much better than it was at 2 weeks right after my hubs went back to work, so that's good. :) Yes, all those emotions you're feeling are normal! lol. Those hormones are really good at letting you know they're there! Once when I was pregnant with my first, I asked my hubs to make me some toast and he put jelly on it but not butter and I legit cried for an hour because he forgot the butter. LOL. Even though he made me a new piece WITH butter, I couldn't stop crying about it. haha. He thought I'd lost my mind. Awe!! skipper! What a cute nickname!! :))

Alice, yes. I am indeed enjoying her. :) She's doing great. She's such a chunky little thing. lol. Bigger than my first 2 girls! So sorry to hear you're back at work, I know it's hard leaving our little's. Brave mama you are. I'm not ready to go back to work, thinking about going back in Sept so I get some time with her first. Yes, I'm VERY busy with all three of them! Getting them up and ready for school, feeding baby and dealing with her and getting them out the door on time to drive them to school, shopping, feed baby, going to pick them up, make dinner, feed baby, bath, bedtime, feed baby... go to sleep at midnight, wake once or twice during the night because someone needs to be fed (baby) or someone needs to potty or get a drink...lol... it never ends. In this season of life I've def got my hands full and it will be a while till we have another one if we do. I think i'm done with pregnancy but I would love to adopt a baby boy some day. :) Are you wanting more?

Nikolina, yes! They keep your hands full for sure! haha. But totally worth it. :) Speaking as someone who's had 3 c-sections, they're not a walk in the park by any means.... it's a hard recovery, but I'm glad he's here and healthy and all is well. Emergency ones are always the hardest (my first one was too.) Yes, dissapointed is a great word to use to describe it, I too felt very dissapointed. If you opt for a repeat c-section next time (if you want another) it will go much smoother I promise! Unless of course you have a vbac, I can't offer any advice on that...lol but, if you're doc says you can try it would be very rewarding if you have a successful one and can help take away some of the dissapointment from your c-section. But don't feel guilty for having one, because you're a bad ass just for having to go through one! :) Yes, breastfeeding IS very hard, and very time consuming. I am still breastfeeding but only a bit. Mostly formula as I don't make much. But I give her what I make and I'm ok with that for now. You have to be ok with your decision, a happy mama and happy baby are all that matters regardless of how you choose to feed your baby! <3 Yes, I know how you feel about it being hard after hubs goes back to work. Mine took 2 weeks off also, and some days I feel like I'm drowning trying to heal from the c-section and take care of 3 kids. o.O lol. We're doing ok. She sleeps good for the most part. 3-5 hours depending. Sometimes once a night sometimes twice... she's still trying to get a schedule down. :p

I can't believe it's going to be summer soon! Anyone have any summer vacations planned? I wish we did.... I need a vacation like woah. But all our monies are going to taking care of 3 kids...lol, so no vacations for us. Hubs and I will probably go to the beach (like always) for our 8 year anniversary in July but that's about it. I'm still waiting on our newborn pics... but once I do I'll post a few on CMP and I'll link you here. :) You all will appreciate one of them since we did kind of like a st pattys day one but also could be rainbow baby one since that's what she is. :D