O.K. how many people here are pregnant?

Thanks guys!

I can't wait for his arrival...just about 8 weeks left. It's hard for me to believe that it's been 7 months since we found out the news.

Here are some ultrasound pictures:

http://s14.photobucket.com/albums/a301/PissBottleMan/Ultrasound%20Pictures/

PBM

im not pregnant per se....but my 20 yr old son is expecting his 2nd baby march 7th. so im gonna be a gramma again. and its another boy!! yay!

yanno...its a bit weird knowing that ed's 5 days younger than me n just having babies and im already a gramma.

Saw this on YouTube and thought I would share.

It's a short little video show how the belly expands as the baby grows.

Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU6ojtBW0Qo&NR

PBM

hello all, this is DinghyDog writing on behalf of pacifier! we are now the proud parents of little Anna born 28th of Oct. Everything is going well and she is the most beautiful thing ever! she is a week old today!

she was born at 7 pounds 3 ounces, and 19.6 inches. her Apgar scores were 9 and 9! did really well straight out.

hey PBM, some nice ultrasound pictures!

PissBottleMan wrote:

Thanks guys!

I can't wait for his arrival...just about 8 weeks left. It's hard for me to believe that it's been 7 months since we found out the news.

Here are some ultrasound pictures:

http://s14.photobucket.com/albums/a301/PissBottleMan/Ultrasound%20Pictures/

PBM

I missed these! Very cool! I loooooved looking at the ultrasound photos of Annabelle. We had some great profile shots, so I knew she had my nose even before she was born.

btw, I love the name xavier

tooferz wrote:

im not pregnant per se....but my 20 yr old son is expecting his 2nd baby march 7th. so im gonna be a gramma again. and its another boy!! yay!

yanno...its a bit weird knowing that ed's 5 days younger than me n just having babies and im already a gramma.

hey, congratulations! keep us updated and we'll want to see pics when he is born! do they have a name for him yet?

pacifier wrote:

hello all, this is DinghyDog writing on behalf of pacifier! we are now the proud parents of little Anna born 28th of Oct. Everything is going well and she is the most beautiful thing ever! she is a week old today!

she was born at 7 pounds 3 ounces, and 19.6 inches. her Apgar scores were 9 and 9! did really well straight out.

hey PBM, some nice ultrasound pictures!

Congratulations to you both!!!

Thank you all. Well, yes, I did begin to show signs of pre-eclampsia and they decided to induce me for the sake of my kidneys, but the induction ended up being for my due date anyway. At least I didn't have to go up to 10 days over like they suggested.

I was hoping to go through the birth without an epidural but because of the gel they gave me to bring on contractions I was having contractions about every two minutes or so and they were extremely painful in the front and in my back. hot water on my back helped ease the back pain and that made the other pain bareable, but after a few hours I was still only about 1 cm dilated so the midwife decided to break my waters. She said I had to decide then whether I wanted an epidural or not. I didn't want to decide right then so she said she could give me about an hour after my water breaks to decide. However it turned out that I didn't need that hour because once she broke my waters I started throwing up violently from pain and, being someone who cannot handle throwing up, I asked for the epidural straight away.

After that it was painless. The contrast was ridiculous. I have a picture of me sitting with a cup of tea on my leg and a smile on my face while I am having contractions every two minutes!!

It took just a couple of hours to go from 1cm dilated to 9cm dilated. When it came time to push I stopped taking the pain relief so that I could feel what was going on. That was an interesting experience, I'm glad I got to feel it, even though I ended up throwing up again (I think I got it pretty easy though, only vomiting 3 times in my whole pregnancy) and I had to have stitches. Apparently I screamed a terrifing scream when I had the episiotomy, but my memory of it was that it didn't hurt too bad.

They had to use the vaccuum to help our baby (Anna) out because her heart beat kept dropping with each push. It really pulled her head out of shape, but it quickly went back into shape, as you can see by her pictures at http://www.flickr.com/photos/45215389@N00. I believe DinghyDog has already given her birth details. Anna was born a strong and healthy baby, lifting her head from day one, turning her head towards my voice on day 2 and even smiling already.

As for me I think my body must have gained a lot of fluid because I really started swelling in the last couple of weeks of pregnancy. I put on about 12kg with the pregnancy and in just over a week I have lost about 7kg. I am feeling pretty good. Anna is a wonderful baby. I think we got very, very lucky. She is active through the day, sleeps well at night and hardly cries unless she has a good reason to. I hope she stays this way, but everyone keeps telling us it will change.






PICTURES (in case you didn't read that whole ramble )
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45215389@N00.



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What a beautiful baby pacifier. Congrats to you!

We have another shower at work today for me and PBW. We're at 32 weeks! Little X-man will soon be here.

I hope everyone else is doing well.

PBM