~~~Preggie Pact/TTC~~~

stoneycakes

I forgot to post this last week!  How are all my Preggie Pact ladies this week?

stoneycakes

No news over here.  Still waiting until spring to TTC.  My newborn AIOs are on their way to my house right now, though!

TJ1979

stoneycakes said:

No news over here.  Still waiting until spring to TTC.  My newborn AIOs are on their way to my house right now, though!

Jealous! What did you get?

stoneycakes

TJ1979 said:

No news over here.  Still waiting until spring to TTC.  My newborn AIOs are on their way to my house right now, though!

Jealous! What did you get?

They are the THX brand from a co-op.  It was a great deal which I couldn't resist!  I think it might cause my uterus to cry out when I open the package, haha.

CLLDLL

@stoneycakes How exciting about the NB fluff!! We need pics when it arrives!

AFM - Not much new happening.  We started the day weaning process, and so far G has been ok.  He's down to nursing first thing in the morning.  Right before nap (weekends only).  Then right when I get home from work and again about 1/2 hour before bed.  It was hard the first few days, but he doesn't seem to miss it now.  We just offer a cup of water or coconut milk.  It makes me sad though.  But my body seems to think that the baby making factory is closed until I wean.  We probably won't be fully weaned until March or April, which is when we want to start seriously TTC if I'm not KU by then.

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stoneycakes

CLLDLL said: @stoneycakes How exciting about the NB fluff!! We need pics when it arrives! AFM - Not much new happening.  We started the day weaning process, and so far G has been ok.  He's down to nursing first thing in the morning.  Right before nap (weekends only).  Then right when I get home from work and again about 1/2 hour before bed.  It was hard the first few days, but he doesn't seem to miss it now.  We just offer a cup of water or coconut milk.  It makes me sad though.  But my body seems to think that the baby making factory is closed until I wean.  We probably won't be fully weaned until March or April, which is when we want to start seriously TTC if I'm not KU by then.

DS just fully weaned a couple of weeks ago and, even though I had already had AF for a few months, I could see a difference when I ovulated this month.  Way more obvious signs. I ovulated hard, lol!

CLLDLL

SecretAgentKate said:

I've been all gung-ho about getting pregnant w/ #4 ASAP, but I've compromised with MH that #4 would be our last biological kid (we will likely foster and/or adopt down the road), and now I feel panicky.  Henry is 1 today, and my husband thinks that means he's not a baby any more and we need to kick this into gear and I feel like I just want to snuggle him and baby him and hold off on #4 until the first 3 are all in preschool/school so I can have the last baby to myself all day long.  I don't know, for not having a period and not being pregnant, I'm quite hormonal lately. 

Awww.  That last baby stuff gets me all hormonal and mushing feeling too.  Actually my whole pregnancy with G we kept saying he was our last.  So his first three or four months of life, I ate up every little snuggle and first I could.  I'm so glad I did, even though we've since decided to try for one more!

stoneycakes

@CLLDLL Random nosey question...was G an easier baby than your oldest?  I just wondered because you have a much bigger spacing between your first two and now you've decided to have another much closer. I apologize if this is none of my business.  Feel free to ignore me, I won't be offended.

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candlequeen

Happy Birthday Henry!!! <:-P

CLLDLL

stoneycakes said:

@CLLDLL Random nosey question...was G an easier baby than your oldest?  I just wondered because you have a much bigger spacing between your first two and now you've decided to have another much closer. I apologize if this is none of my business.  Feel free to ignore me, I won't be offended.

@stoneycakes LLOL!  I don't mind answering a bit.  D had a very difficult first year.  He was born 5 weeks early and thankfully his only immediate complication was jaundice.  At 3 weeks he was Dx with MSPI.  Then reflux.  I was given some very bad BF'ing advice and we gave up after only a few weeks.  He caught some sort of virus after his first week in DC and ended up hospitalized with pneumonia at 10 weeks.  Then we fought colds and ear infections until he was 15 months old when he got tubes put in.  That made him a completely different kid.  At that point, I thought all babies were like his first year.  I was depressed, over-weight, and really not up for going through it all again.

So we basically decided he would be an only child out of fear of what another would do to me and/or our marriage.  When he turned 3, I started working out and eating better.  DH was inspired by that and started working on some issues of his own.  By the time D started kindergarten we were different people & actually happy with ourselves and our marriage.  And we got bit by the baby bug.  Big time.  My one sis had just had her second child and my other sis was KU with her first. It took about 6 months to conceive G, but it was actually an awesome journey.  I learned how supportive MH can be.  I also learned to appreciate D even more, because I realized I had taken my fertility for grantite and we might not be able to have another baby.  (I was 33 and DH was 41 at the time.)

G was 100% opposite of D as a baby.  He was born at 39 weeks.  Had no health issues other than MPI which once I got used to the diet wasn't a big deal. He BF well from the start.  STTN at 9 weeks, with just a couple "regression weeks" right before developmental jumps.  He's easy going, and really just fits well in our family. 

So I suppose him being an easy baby did play into our decision to have one more.  But also my confidence as a mother (that wasn't there when D was a toddler), and my feelings that our family just isn't quite complete. Also I really love how D and G play together, but I know D will soon be a busy "tween" and I want G to have a sibling to go through life with.

Sorry that got so long, but hey, you asked!!!

stoneycakes

@CLLDLL That wasn't too long at all.  Perfect answer!  I love hearing stories about easy babies, lol. I pretty much can't imagine what an easy baby would be like, but I'm really hoping we will be blessed with one next time around!

CLLDLL

stoneycakes said:

@CLLDLL That wasn't too long at all.  Perfect answer!  I love hearing stories about easy babies, lol. I pretty much can't imagine what an easy baby would be like, but I'm really hoping we will be blessed with one next time around!

I'm convinced that God/The Universe/Fate/Whatever you believe in, gives parents a hard baby first to help them appreciate their second easy baby.  I literally spent G's first three months just waiting for the "other shoe" to drop.  I kept thinking, well something has to be hard right? I guess it kind of has now because G is full on throwing terrible twos type tantrums and he's only 14 months, but even that isn't too bad to me.  I've BTDT!

FX for you, that your next one is easy.  Although, I think just the experience you have under your belt alone will make it easier on you!

candlequeen

OMG I soooo don't belong on this post but CLLDLL is right!! I love Colton and would do every second all over again, but Harper is so much easier!! I had a huge panic attack at one point in my pregnancy with her and thought "omg what if Colton was my easy child?!!!" Of course, there was no turning back, but she is so mellow and relaxed. She has a high pain tolerance too. When we went to the Dr. yesterday I felt so bad that her ears had gotten so infected but I literally cannot tell when she's sick b/c she's ALWAYS happy! Don't be scared of a second baby stoneycakes, you just do what you know to do! A good mom just deals and knows that "this too shall pass!" 

bumpuser5078523

I'm out this cycle. I told Chad we'll have to try harder this time. Last month black Friday threw a wrench in things and he was too tired after work two of our three days.

Cindergurl

Dh has changed the plan and decided we are going to wait a year before we ttc (we were going to start in feb). So now I am really going crazy with the baby fever It doesn't help that I still haven't got my period, and I took a pg test last week and it was neg. Ugh I really hate having PCOS.

TJ1979

@cindergurl PCOS sucks. Hugs.

Cindergurl

Thanks TJ