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Post by muscari on Aug 1, 2017 2:55:17 GMT -6
Our birth month is here!! How did that happen?? 😊 Of course some babies were impatient and already here - welcome little ones!
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Post by muscari on Aug 1, 2017 2:56:12 GMT -6
@easilyunamused I hope you will come play with us! ☺
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Post by addymac on Aug 1, 2017 3:10:38 GMT -6
I seriously can't wrap my head around it being August already. But at the same time I just want him out. And to stay put. Oh goodness!
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Post by yoshijo on Aug 1, 2017 5:20:46 GMT -6
Happy birth month!!
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Post by muscari on Aug 1, 2017 5:25:43 GMT -6
I seriously can't wrap my head around it being August already. But at the same time I just want him out. And to stay put. Oh goodness! I know right??! And I'm right there with you with wanting babygirl out like right meow but also for her to stay put. Ahhhhhhhhh!!!
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Post by elliecat17 on Aug 1, 2017 5:47:14 GMT -6
oh muscari and addymac I just want baby out! LOL but perhaps it's impatience with wanting to know if it's a baby girl or a baby boy.
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Post by muscari on Aug 1, 2017 5:50:29 GMT -6
oh muscari and addymac I just want baby out! LOL but perhaps it's impatience with wanting to know if it's a baby girl or a baby boy. Ideally I want baby OUT as well but.. not until next week cause I need to finish some prep first still haha!??!! Wish I could just click my fingers, get all prep finished, and voila be in labor hahaha. I can imagine you're just soooo curious to find out whether you're going to have a boy or a girl! Did you set on names yet? This is one of the main reasons why I just couldn't stay team green.. the thought of having to think of 2 sets of names was just to much for me haha. Plus I was just to impatient to know, and for me it really helped me bond with this baby/pregnancy after everything. In all honestly I have had to get used a little to the name we picked as her first name but it's really grown on me and I'm not even often referring to her by her name already (mostly in my head or to MH as I worry I'll give it away to others which I don't want!).
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Post by addymac on Aug 1, 2017 5:50:45 GMT -6
oh muscari and addymac I just want baby out! LOL but perhaps it's impatience with wanting to know if it's a baby girl or a baby boy. I'd be dyyyying if I didn't know what he was! Idk how you are doing it!! I actually just want him out - I'm so anxious to meet and snuggle him. But if he comes now I'll have to go back to work before Christmas and I reeeeeally want to be off for Christmas so I need him to stay til his due date. We will see what happens! Even DH is getting antsy- and a week ago he was all "don't you dare come out early!!" 😂
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Post by muscari on Aug 1, 2017 5:57:02 GMT -6
oh muscari and addymac I just want baby out! LOL but perhaps it's impatience with wanting to know if it's a baby girl or a baby boy. I'd be dyyyying if I didn't know what he was! Idk how you are doing it!! I actually just want him out - I'm so anxious to meet and snuggle him. But if he comes now I'll have to go back to work before Christmas and I reeeeeally want to be off for Christmas so I need him to stay til his due date. We will see what happens! Even DH is getting antsy- and a week ago he was all "don't you dare come out early!!" 😂 Ditto! I wasn't made for team green hah. MH keeps saying he'd be cool as team green but I highly doubt that. He's actually been more all like "omgosh we're having a daughter" and came up with names like the day after we found out... while I was still processing everything ;-) You know, the only good thing of loosing my job is that I now no longer have to go back to work 10 weeks after giving birth. I was seriously dreading leaving babygirl at daycare or my parents so soon already.. Now I get to stay home with her for much longer which is just fab. I obviously do hope to get back to the workfield before too long but at the same time who knows, if we can swing it financially (and we probably can) I may stay home longer? Only thing I worry about is whether I'll still be employable if I stay home longer, and whether after some time I'd not feel too socially isolated or such. But I guess time will tell.
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Post by elliecat17 on Aug 1, 2017 5:57:23 GMT -6
muscari we have 2 names picked and I randomly call baby one or the other throughout the day. H just calls it UW which are the first letters of each name. And believe me I still have a ton to do, but since the heater still hasn't been put in the nursery and therefore the new floor hasn't been laid yet and H does not seem motivated I've given up. Now I'm hoping that a take home baby may light a fire under his butt and get the nursery completed. LOL addymac It's been hard!!! I tried to much to get the early stuff gender neutral, but last week I caved and went to my SIL's and went through her old baby stuff and took some really cute girl outfits in newborn and 0-3 so that I had a cute girly outfit for coming home in just in case. MH just wants baby here now. In fact each morning he's been telling it, you can come today so papa doesn't have to go to work. (He's not going to get a whole lot of time off, whenever baby comes. His job will give him a few days after the birth, but this is their busy time of year, so they won't give a long vacation).
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Post by muscari on Aug 1, 2017 5:58:11 GMT -6
One thing I'd hate is for babygirl to be like 2 weeks late, cause it'd mess up the time MH has with her once she's born so badly! Stupid non-cooperative work! Her going overdue by 2 weeks (which is the latest they normally let women go over due here, 42wks) is something I'm actually really worried about to where it gives me great anxiety. I know tis useless to worry about this cause baby comes when baby comes but ugh! I just hope that with all things going on they just won't let me go too far over my due date (though not sure how happy I'd be about being induced either.. but I can't have it all I guess heh). Again.. time will tell? Though I do plan on bringing this up at my next MFM appointment on the 8th!
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Post by elliecat17 on Aug 1, 2017 5:59:24 GMT -6
muscari you could always try and do what I'm doing. I'm going to teach only one class this semester and probably next semester so I stay employed (technically) but it will keep me employable later in life. I feel bad that I'm really not helping out much financially (professors really don't make a lot of money), but we should be ok.
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Post by elliecat17 on Aug 1, 2017 6:01:33 GMT -6
One thing I'd hate is for babygirl to be like 2 weeks late, cause it'd mess up the time MH has with her once she's born so badly! Stupid non-cooperative work! Her going overdue by 2 weeks (which is the latest they normally let women go over due here, 42wks) is something I'm actually really worried about to where it gives me great anxiety. I know tis useless to worry about this cause baby comes when baby comes but ugh! I just hope that with all things going on they just won't let me go too far over my due date (though not sure how happy I'd be about being induced either.. but I can't have it all I guess heh). Again.. time will tell? Though I do plan on bringing this up at my next MFM appointment on the 8th! Stupid work! I guess... do squats, eat licorice, and drink red raspberry leaf tea. They are supposed to help focus contractions. Not that it will make labour start any sooner then it's going to, but my midwife did tell me the more I encourage baby with gravity the better my cervix will ripen.
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Post by muscari on Aug 1, 2017 6:04:30 GMT -6
muscari we have 2 names picked and I randomly call baby one or the other throughout the day. H just calls it UW which are the first letters of each name. And believe me I still have a ton to do, but since the heater still hasn't been put in the nursery and therefore the new floor hasn't been laid yet and H does not seem motivated I've given up. Now I'm hoping that a take home baby may light a fire under his butt and get the nursery completed. LOL addymac It's been hard!!! I tried to much to get the early stuff gender neutral, but last week I caved and went to my SIL's and went through her old baby stuff and took some really cute girl outfits in newborn and 0-3 so that I had a cute girly outfit for coming home in just in case. MH just wants baby here now. In fact each morning he's been telling it, you can come today so papa doesn't have to go to work. (He's not going to get a whole lot of time off, whenever baby comes. His job will give him a few days after the birth, but this is their busy time of year, so they won't give a long vacation). Oh man I'm so sorry to hear the heater still hasn't been put in and therefore the rest of the work is stalled as well. That is rough *hugs*! I had sort of given up as well but something I said must have prompted the hubs cause he suddenly pushed himself to just get things done. We're still far from done, far far from done, but I do think that with a little luck we may have a workable nursery by the end of this weekend or early next week.... FX. A take home baby should def light a fire under YHs bum!! Will you keep the baby in your room for the first days/weeks? That's what we are planning, but in case that doesn't work well I ideally would like to have her room ready enough for her to move there too. MH will get 2 days off from work when the baby is born. We put in vacation time for 3 weeks starting the Monday after my duedate (thu 17) as there was no flexibility whatsoever and I really hope that he gets to spend some proper time with the baby (and us 3 together) after she's born. Will YH be able to take ANY time besides those days given by his work?
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Post by muscari on Aug 1, 2017 6:07:57 GMT -6
One thing I'd hate is for babygirl to be like 2 weeks late, cause it'd mess up the time MH has with her once she's born so badly! Stupid non-cooperative work! Her going overdue by 2 weeks (which is the latest they normally let women go over due here, 42wks) is something I'm actually really worried about to where it gives me great anxiety. I know tis useless to worry about this cause baby comes when baby comes but ugh! I just hope that with all things going on they just won't let me go too far over my due date (though not sure how happy I'd be about being induced either.. but I can't have it all I guess heh). Again.. time will tell? Though I do plan on bringing this up at my next MFM appointment on the 8th! Stupid work! I guess... do squats, eat licorice, and drink red raspberry leaf tea. They are supposed to help focus contractions. Not that it will make labour start any sooner then it's going to, but my midwife did tell me the more I encourage baby with gravity the better my cervix will ripen. What kind of licorice are you talking here? The REAL kind (i'm a Dutchie so pretty picky when it comes to licorice since we got the good stuff here hahahaha) or the crazy candy you americans call licorice as well? haha J/K! I didn't know licorice was in that list as well... don't mind having to eat that! Red raspberry leave tea, would have to see whether I can find that here! I haven't been able to stomach tea hardly at all during this pg though Squats! I'm worried I'd topple over and/or wouldn't be able to get up no more!? hahahaha. I was helping painting the nursery yesterday and had sat down on my bum to do the bottom part of the wall and I seriously had issues getting back up on my feet, it was both hilarious as sad (though what was keeping me from getting up most was the fact I can't put full pressure on my one ankle still...). I felt so ridiculous! I do try and stay as active as possible, for some reason I feel that that is important too??
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Post by elliecat17 on Aug 1, 2017 6:13:19 GMT -6
muscari Oh I mean the real stuff, not the candy! I do squats in the bathroom because 1 baby hits my bladder and 2 I can use the counter the stand back up. Plus they aren't like workout squats it's more like how you are supposed to squat to pick something up. Which I so haven't been doing. As for the tea, I have only been able to drink it cold.
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Post by muscari on Aug 1, 2017 6:17:49 GMT -6
muscari Oh I mean the real stuff, not the candy! I do squats in the bathroom because 1 baby hits my bladder and 2 I can use the counter the stand back up. Plus they aren't like workout squats it's more like how you are supposed to squat to pick something up. Which I so haven't been doing. As for the tea, I have only been able to drink it cold. Glad to hear I'm not the only one who looks at her H to pick up stuff she accidentally dropped
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Post by muscari on Aug 1, 2017 6:34:31 GMT -6
Ugh I found a store here that sells the red raspberry leaf tea but they want me to order a huge bag before they will ship it! Guess I'll look some further haha.
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Post by elliecat17 on Aug 1, 2017 6:41:13 GMT -6
muscari darn on the tea! Yes baby will sleep in our room for a bit at the beginning, but I had hoped to do naps in the crib so that when it was time to switch out of the cradle into the crib full time it was an easier transition. As for time off, probably not. He might try and get some in September when my parents come visit since they are coming from so far away.
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Post by muscari on Aug 1, 2017 6:46:13 GMT -6
elliecat17, Yeah our plan is to have baby in our room at the beginning as well, I haven't really thought about nap time! I like the idea of doing those in the crib at some point to make the transition maybe a bit easier. What a shame YH won't likely be able to take some time off right after baby comes home. Hopefully September will work out - and you will have some quality family time!
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Post by elliecat17 on Aug 1, 2017 6:51:48 GMT -6
elliecat17 , Yeah our plan is to have baby in our room at the beginning as well, I haven't really thought about nap time! I like the idea of doing those in the crib at some point to make the transition maybe a bit easier. What a shame YH won't likely be able to take some time off right after baby comes home. Hopefully September will work out - and you will have some quality family time! Eh such is life right? Im also hoping baby comes a little early because the fall semester starts on the 28th! I don't want to be lecturing while past due.
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Post by muscari on Aug 1, 2017 6:53:15 GMT -6
elliecat17 , Yeah our plan is to have baby in our room at the beginning as well, I haven't really thought about nap time! I like the idea of doing those in the crib at some point to make the transition maybe a bit easier. What a shame YH won't likely be able to take some time off right after baby comes home. Hopefully September will work out - and you will have some quality family time! Eh such is life right? Im also hoping baby comes a little early because the fall semester starts on the 28th! I don't want to be lecturing while past due. Will you be teaching this fall semester class so soon after giving birth or will you have a substitute for some of the course? Just curious! I can't imagine being back at work - even if tis just a day or part time or such - so soon after giving birth!
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Post by elliecat17 on Aug 1, 2017 7:05:07 GMT -6
Eh such is life right? Im also hoping baby comes a little early because the fall semester starts on the 28th! I don't want to be lecturing while past due. Will you be teaching this fall semester class so soon after giving birth or will you have a substitute for some of the course? Just curious! I can't imagine being back at work - even if tis just a day or part time or such - so soon after giving birth! I'm teaching a practicum/Seminar mix class, so we are only meeting 2xs a month. I will probably do the opening lecture, just because it's all syllabus stuff and talking about expectations, although I know that there is someone who could do it for me. Besides since I teach early childhood classes I was just going to bring baby with me. LOL But I haven't decided yet. If baby comes really close to the start of class I may just post a video in our online portion that talks about the syllabus and expectations and let that be the first lecture. I have a lot of freedom so I'm not too worried. Such are the props of being 1 of 2 early childhood professors in the entire school.
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Post by happyfeet9 on Aug 1, 2017 7:08:28 GMT -6
Yay! Happy birth month!
There are a bunch of birthdays in my family this month - including mine - so I'm hoping that they come on a day that they have their own day since they'll be sharing.
My RCS is scheduled for my grandmother's 89th birthday (a week from today) which could also be cool since baby girl will be named after her.
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Post by muscari on Aug 1, 2017 7:11:30 GMT -6
Yay! Happy birth month! There are a bunch of birthdays in my family this month - including mine - so I'm hoping that they come on a day that they have their own day since they'll be sharing. My RCS is scheduled for my grandmother's 89th birthday (a week from today) which could also be cool since baby girl will be named after her. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk It's MHs mothers bday on the 8th, and I really really REALLY hope baby doesn't pick the 8th to make her appearance cause I would just NOT like for them to share birthdays (long story). I do love the idea of your babygirl being born on her granny's birthday especially since she'll be named after her! ♥ You could ask your dr to plan your RSC around midnight and have them deliver babyboy just after midnight so they have their own birthdays? hahah just kidding ;-)
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Post by muscari on Aug 1, 2017 7:12:15 GMT -6
I'm teaching a practicum/Seminar mix class, so we are only meeting 2xs a month. I will probably do the opening lecture, just because it's all syllabus stuff and talking about expectations, although I know that there is someone who could do it for me. Besides since I teach early childhood classes I was just going to bring baby with me. LOL But I haven't decided yet. If baby comes really close to the start of class I may just post a video in our online portion that talks about the syllabus and expectations and let that be the first lecture. I have a lot of freedom so I'm not too worried. Such are the props of being 1 of 2 early childhood professors in the entire school. Sounds good! Funny, reading this makes me somehow long back to my time in university. I've always loved being in uni! I could be a perpetual student if €€ and all permitted hahaha! There's so much interesting courses and degrees I'd love to work on hahahaha
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Post by happyfeet9 on Aug 1, 2017 7:18:17 GMT -6
Yay! Happy birth month! There are a bunch of birthdays in my family this month - including mine - so I'm hoping that they come on a day that they have their own day since they'll be sharing. My RCS is scheduled for my grandmother's 89th birthday (a week from today) which could also be cool since baby girl will be named after her. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk It's MHs mothers bday on the 8th, and I really really REALLY hope baby doesn't pick the 8th to make her appearance cause I would just NOT like for them to share birthdays (long story). I do love the idea of your babygirl being born on her granny's birthday especially since she'll be named after her! ♥ You could ask your dr to plan your RSC around midnight and have them deliver babyboy just after midnight so they have their own birthdays? hahah just kidding ;-) Hahahaha I def understand about not sharing in laws birthdays! Baby boy will have FIL's name as his middle name and I'm sure MIL won't like it, but tough for her lol. Someone from my D14 birth month group recommended that, but I have a feeling these twins would demand their own birthday parties, even if they're 24 hours apart, esp bc they are boy girl! Thanks but no thanks lol! Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
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Post by happyfeet9 on Aug 1, 2017 7:20:25 GMT -6
elliecat17 I didn't realize you are a professor - me too! And you are a rockstar for teaching this fall! I'm teaching in January and am sweating my course because it's a total redesign from the person I'm taking it over from. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
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Post by elliecat17 on Aug 1, 2017 7:23:42 GMT -6
happyfeet9 the only thing that has kept me sane at this point is the re-haul I'm doing of my course. I switched the book, because last year when I was hired I used the book the old prof had requested and it was utter garbage (IMO). This year I have a book that is MUCH better and so I'm fixing the class to reflect the new book. Plus our winters are SOOO long here and I have no friends in the area, so I knew if I didn't teach I'd be at severe risk of PPD. What do you teach?
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Post by happyfeet9 on Aug 1, 2017 7:26:32 GMT -6
happyfeet9 the only thing that has kept me sane at this point is the re-haul I'm doing of my course. I switched the book, because last year when I was hired I used the book the old prof had requested and it was utter garbage (IMO). This year I have a book that is MUCH better and so I'm fixing the class to reflect the new book. Plus our winters are SOOO long here and I have no friends in the area, so I knew if I didn't teach I'd be at severe risk of PPD. What do you teach? That definitely makes sense - I'm sure the effort will be reflected in the quality of the course. The previous prof didn't even use a textbook, so I'm still on the hunt. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
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