O.K. how many people here are pregnant?

I guess I can finally post in this thread. Mandy is due in January!

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PissBottleMan wrote:

I guess I can finally post in this thread. Mandy is due in January!

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Congratulations. I was just about to write that I sure hope you're having a girl because I don't know how a boy would feel about being called Mandy, but then I realised that Mandy is probably PissBottleWoman. woops. well that makes more sense

genevieve wrote:

This can be either your significant other or you personally.
I keep seeing people post in different threads that they are,
so I thought we deserve a thread for it.

Im due May 17th. Have no idea if its a boy or girl, but secretly want a girl a bit more.
This is my first baby.
I thought us ladies could swap info and so-on its always nice to have support.

Hey I went on the Foo Fighters website and in thier Goods section they have bibs and one-pieces, sooo much more than here. I think Ill email 10c and see if they have any plans in the future for the same sort of thing.

Any way to make this a sticky?
Kat? Sea?

More importantly - how many plan on naming their child after band members?
(be it boy *or* girl!)

genevieve wrote:

This can be either your significant other or you personally.
I keep seeing people post in different threads that they are,
so I thought we deserve a thread for it.

Im due May 17th. Have no idea if its a boy or girl, but secretly want a girl a bit more.
This is my first baby.
I thought us ladies could swap info and so-on its always nice to have support.

Hey I went on the Foo Fighters website and in thier Goods section they have bibs and one-pieces, sooo much more than here. I think Ill email 10c and see if they have any plans in the future for the same sort of thing.

Any way to make this a sticky?
Kat? Sea?

it should say how many women.

EddiesGurl wrote:

What happened in 2000 w/ your first??

We went to the VA Beach show when my wife was at 32 weeks. The baby was already head down and low. When sonic Youth started their set there was some movement and then it really intensified. She started to have contractions. We walked out for Sonic Youth and then I held rolled up shirts and a sweatshirt across her tummy for Pearl Jam. After the show the contraction never really subsided and two weeks later we were in the hospital and she was placed on a drip to suppress everything. We went one night and everything looked fine. The next morning the babies heart rate dropped a couple of times and they decided to do an emergency c-section at 34 weeks. It was one of the most terrifying events of my life and I still don't like to think of it.

My daughter was very small, but healthy, and she came home with us two days after my wife was discharged from the hospital, but on a monitor. The monitor is another nightmare story, which I will spare everyone from.

Today my daughter is off the charts in growth. I'm 6'-0" and it looks like she will be all of that as well. She is very pretty and has curly red hair. I tell her that she will be a model when she grows older. We were extremely fortunate. My son was born at 36 weeks normally, no c-section. He had a bout with jaundiced but that was it. Now he is destroying our house.

You are far enough along that I wouldn't be concerned. The doctors said the loud music had nothing to do with the contractions but I think they did. Since then I've seen a lot of pregnant women at the shows and my wife will be going to the first Camden show with me this Saturday. She is carrying differently this third time around and I just can't imagine our luck to be that bad that something like my story I just told would happen again.

I forgot to tell you that your pictures look great. Good luck with everything! You will be fine.

PissBottleMan wrote:

Any help with Nausea? PBW is not doing good at all...very sick...smells I don't even notice set her off.

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Sorry... no advice on that, but very happy to hear you are expecting

PissBottleMan wrote:

Any help with Nausea? PBW is not doing good at all...very sick...smells I don't even notice set her off.

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Smells are the worst part of the first trimester!!!! There's not much you can really do about that, but avoiding riding public transportation, if possible, helps.

I didn't have morning sickness very bad, but there were about 2 weeks where I vomited EVERY morning and then felt vaguely sick until about 4 or 5 pm. Then I found that if I ate something with a little protein before bedtime, I wouldn't be as ravenous the next morning and that helped a lot. I still didn't have much of an appetite, but I didn't throw up anymore.

The key to keeping the nausea away is to not get too hungry. She needs to find something she can tollerate eating (even if it's some kind of junk food or something weird!) and just eat a tiny bit of that whenever she is the least bit hungry. As soon as you let yourself get hungry, the nausea strikes, and it's hard to get rid of. Salty things like crackers or pretzels were good to eat. A lot of people suggest eating a couple of crackers before you even get out of bed. I could never do that though, because I was always SO thirsty in the morning. I also found that sucking on hard candy like peppermints or lollipops helped a lot.

I hope she finds some relief! As uncomfortable as I am right now (at 36 weeks and 4 days), I wouldn't go back to the first trimester for anything!

Thanks for all your advice...I feel so bad.

She can't stand to look at crackers any more.

Apple Juice is doing good...cereal...fruit.

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