@SquirttheTurtle I would schedule a c-section after something like that too. **shudders**
Hubby and Me Friends since 2008 Started dating: July 1st, 2013 Engaged: July 1st, 2014 Married: July 1st, 2016 R born: July 8th, 2017 N born: June 30th, 2019 Baby #3 Due: July 7th, 2022 (maybe I only ovulate in October XD)
@SquirttheTurtle WTH I've never even heard of such a thing! Terrible!
@busyzee I've posted a bunch of times (sorry to repeat) about baby#1 being a fussy, high needs baby with severe reflux, food allergies, hypersensitive skin, dysphagia, yadda yadda yadda. We've come a long way since those days but he was a 9 pound baby with a big head! His head is still in the 99+ percentile lol! He's so cute! But I'm still recovering from the trauma of the first 15 months! He never slept and still doesn't sleep. My data point says no to temperament correlating positively with size. Most babies aren't fussy or colicky though, it's just luck of the draw. So don't worry.
And per the horror story told above - the baby has to come out one way or the other so let's hope for anatomically compatible sizes lol! I think you perhaps are worrying about a small baby being 'frail' as mentioned above. I'm not sure that matters so much as long as baby isn't premature or something along those lines.
I honestly have no experience, asides from my nephew and neice and some cousins babies. i must say my neice was tiny and hard to handle for me though but she's really chubby now and an excellent eater. 8- 9- babies are quite common in my family and everyone around me(mum,MIL,SIL,Cousins!)speaks of baby weight at birth like it's a major plus! It's almost a little pressurizing honestly because it really isn't in my control!
I honestly have no experience, asides from my nephew and neice and some cousins babies. i must say my neice was tiny and hard to handle for me though but she's really chubby now and an excellent eater. 8- 9- babies are quite common in my family and everyone around me(mum,MIL,SIL,Cousins!)speaks of baby weight at birth like it's a major plus! It's almost a little pressurizing honestly because it really isn't in my control!
I honestly have no experience, asides from my nephew and neice and some cousins babies. i must say my neice was tiny and hard to handle for me though but she's really chubby now and an excellent eater. 8- 9- babies are quite common in my family and everyone around me(mum,MIL,SIL,Cousins!)speaks of baby weight at birth like it's a major plus! It's almost a little pressurizing honestly because it really isn't in my control!
Just work on having a healthy pregnancy and listen to your doctors...and yes, the size of your baby at birth is out of your control *if* you do both of those. Your ultimate end goal should be a healthy baby, regardless of size.
Finally sign on here after being sick yesterday afternoon and most of this morning and I come back to...
-vaginal cut downs (I nearly fell out of my chair that sounds so horrifying) -blood everywhere from the GD blood draw ( ) -burrito babies (cute!) and -drive through window birth weights
@SquirttheTurtle Giiiirl. Came down with something. It started Saturday when I was so gung-ho about starting in the nursery and the body aches came on strong. Sunday I started coughing and was taking Benadryl to try to live my life. By Monday night I couldn't sleep at all because of the coughing and my boss sent me home Tuesday because I was coughing and coughing and she didn't want me to get any of them sick.
My mom got me all panicked because I started running fever and I just pictured my baby being cooked alive, so I went to urgent care and they said, "Congrats, you have a virus and you're pregnant so what you've been taking is all you can take. It'll pass in 7-10 days. Best of luck. Kiss kiss!" So I took today too and I'm starting to feel closer to normal, but man. Not cool.
BFP May 2013 - MMC at 8 weeks BFP September 2013 - MMC at 12 weeks BFP February 2014 - early loss/CP at 4.5 weeks BFP May 2014 - MMC/ complete molar pregnancy at 11 weeks BFP December 2015 - DD born 8/18/2015 BFP November 2016 - pending...
@maybeitsmadeline I hope you are feeling better. I feel your pain. I had the flu recently, and my doctor didn't even bother to have me come in. The nurse just called me and said all I could take was Claritin or Benadryl. Then I had to wait it out. It was so miserable.
@oheliza44 sorry. Like I said, it's extremely rare.
Not your fault! I am really squeamish. Similarly, made the mistake of listening to a "Longest Shortest Time" podcast about birth injuries a few weeks ago and had to pull over to puke on the side of the road because it made me so queasy.
This is truly a random! We are on vacation on the CA coast and the weather forecast for our time here has been pretty cloudy, rainy and cool. But every day we have had unexpected sun and today was just gorgeous after some morning rain. I'm feeling so thankful for this time with my DH and DS before the arrival of the new little guy! Pic of the view right now from our deck.
This is truly a random! We are on vacation on the CA coast and the weather forecast for our time here has been pretty cloudy, rainy and cool. But every day we have had unexpected sun and today was just gorgeous after some morning rain. I'm feeling so thankful for this time with my DH and DS before the arrival of the new little guy! Pic of the view right now from our deck.
Welcome to CA! Rain is pretty minimal (hence our drought). We should be dry all week (they are forecasting rain on Saturday, but I'm gonna bet NO)
*Lurking from June* @BusyZee As others have suggested, let me tell you from first hand experience that bigger babies do not equal easier babies. Both my kids were bigger (9lb and 8lb11oz) and they were far removed from easy infants. DS didn't STTN until past the 1/2 year mark and nursed constantly. I'm talking every 2 hours for quite some time. Both kids had horrendous reflux and colic and spent much of their first 3-4 months crying/screaming. DD in particular had to have an emergency ultrasound for suspected plyoric stenosis as she was vomiting multiple feet across the room Exorcist style after every meal. DS wouldn't nap unless I held him. The list goes on and one. If you have a smaller baby, that doesn't mean that he/she will be more or less challenging. Every baby is different and "ease" is not related to size. I will however say that I love baby fat so that was literally the only benefit. I repeat... only benefit.
This is truly a random! We are on vacation on the CA coast and the weather forecast for our time here has been pretty cloudy, rainy and cool. But every day we have had unexpected sun and today was just gorgeous after some morning rain. I'm feeling so thankful for this time with my DH and DS before the arrival of the new little guy! Pic of the view right now from our deck.
Welcome to CA! Rain is pretty minimal (hence our drought). We should be dry all week (they are forecasting rain on Saturday, but I'm gonna bet NO)
DH and I were in San Diego at the end of February. Rained every single day including one torrential downpour where the water in the street was coming up over the sidewalk but the pockets of sunshine we got were beautiful.
@mslynn2012 Where in CA do you live? We live up in Sonoma County and just made the drive down here for the week. Of course we had beautiful weather at home last week but didn't bring it on vacation with us, ha Heading home Friday so at least if it rains we won't be on the road.
Calling all moms of picky toddlers!!!!!! He's 1.5 years old.
He doesnt like cheese, beans, eggs, meat, or green veggies. I'm looking at homemade stuff on Pintrest to sneak greens and proteins into his diet. He is like me, he could live off fruit and carbs. Also, I try to do a 'new food Thursday' and I'm running out of ideas, weirdly?!
Pintrest has a spinach and banana muffin homemade recipe I'm about to try. I'm still guilty of buying the organic pouches that mix green veggies with fruit to mask the flavor. I would like to transition to whole food but he just isn't a fan. So, I do the pouches just so I know he's getting something!
Feeding him is so stressful because I feel like I feed him the same few things over and over. He loves: noosa brand yogurt whole wheat with peanut butter and organic jam(no sugar added). muffins of any kind. cereal(Cheerios) whole wheat toast with same jam as above. steamed carrots. brown rice. sweet potatoes. any fruit. He only gets water and organic whole milk to drink.
obviously, this isn't all I feed him but these are the favorites. I try to keep 'retrying food' with him...so far no luck.
With our 2 year old she has gotten better but went through a pick phase too. She love smoothies and popsicles as a treat (it was summer then) so I could sneak in greens that way pretty easily. If you are not opposed to serving juice (although I see you say you don't currently) you can sneak in veggies that way also (similar to your fruit pouches the fruit masks the veggie flavors).
The other thing that helped our daughter get more veggies is she loves "sauce". Basically anything she could dip other food into and often she would just eat the "sauce" and just use the other food as a utensil. So we started doing a lot of home made guacamole, salsa, fresh veggie based dips.
Not sure it'll work for your kiddo but it did for ours. She since has grown out of that. She also had a meat aversion for a while. I think a lot of her food dislikes have been a result of texture vs. actual taste though so sometimes something as simple as mashing would get her to eat it.
My family tends to have bigger babies also. I was one of 5 and I was the smallest of her kids at 8lbs 13oz beside my youngest sister who was born a bit premature at 7.5 lbs. I thought the fact that my Mom had 2 babies that were >10lbs was bad until my Grandmother (Dad's mom) was visiting for the holidays and said that she had weighed 13 lbs 10oz at birth. This was before epidurals and because they lived in a very rural area (nearest hospital was over an hour away) it was also a mostly unassisted home birth.
I sneak veggies into all sorts of stuff. When DS1 was little and pickier I'd put protien and veggies in the food processor and mix it with yogurt. He'd eat almost anything if it was mixed with yogurt. He also loved the veggie pouches mixed with fruit. (the meat ones are disgusting though).
Does he eat sauce with pasta? I make a veggie spaghetti sauce with grated zucchini, carrots, squash, onion, and whatever's in season. You can add ground turkey/beef into it for protein.
Re: Weekly Randoms 3/20-3/24
I'd like to order a 7 lb baby please. That's how this works right?
Married: 6/2016
TTC:6/2016
BFP: 11/22/2016 | EDD: 7/29/2017
Friends since 2008
Started dating: July 1st, 2013
Engaged: July 1st, 2014
Married: July 1st, 2016
R born: July 8th, 2017
N born: June 30th, 2019
Baby #3 Due: July 7th, 2022
(maybe I only ovulate in October XD)
@busyzee I've posted a bunch of times (sorry to repeat) about baby#1 being a fussy, high needs baby with severe reflux, food allergies, hypersensitive skin, dysphagia, yadda yadda yadda. We've come a long way since those days but he was a 9 pound baby with a big head! His head is still in the 99+ percentile lol! He's so cute! But I'm still recovering from the trauma of the first 15 months! He never slept and still doesn't sleep. My data point says no to temperament correlating positively with size. Most babies aren't fussy or colicky though, it's just luck of the draw. So don't worry.
And per the horror story told above - the baby has to come out one way or the other so let's hope for anatomically compatible sizes lol! I think you perhaps are worrying about a small baby being 'frail' as mentioned above. I'm not sure that matters so much as long as baby isn't premature or something along those lines.
That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.
All these experiences clarify ALOT!
I honestly have no experience, asides from my nephew and neice and some cousins babies. i must say my neice was tiny and hard to handle for me though but she's really chubby now and an excellent eater. 8- 9- babies are quite common in my family and everyone around me(mum,MIL,SIL,Cousins!)speaks of baby weight at birth like it's a major plus! It's almost a little pressurizing honestly because it really isn't in my control!
Yea ok.
Just work on having a healthy pregnancy and listen to your doctors...and yes, the size of your baby at birth is out of your control *if* you do both of those. Your ultimate end goal should be a healthy baby, regardless of size.
Married: 6/2016
TTC:6/2016
BFP: 11/22/2016 | EDD: 7/29/2017
-vaginal cut downs (I nearly fell out of my chair that sounds so horrifying)
-blood everywhere from the GD blood draw (
-burrito babies (cute!) and
-drive through window birth weights
You guys never let me down. LOL.
Me: 26 Him: 27
Dating: 5/2011 Married: 6/2014
Mirena out/TTC: 02/2016
BFP #1: 12/01/2016
EDD: 07/24/2017
Married: 6/2016
TTC:6/2016
BFP: 11/22/2016 | EDD: 7/29/2017
My mom got me all panicked because I started running fever and I just pictured my baby being cooked alive, so I went to urgent care and they said, "Congrats, you have a virus and you're pregnant so what you've been taking is all you can take. It'll pass in 7-10 days. Best of luck. Kiss kiss!" So I took today too and I'm starting to feel closer to normal, but man. Not cool.
Me: 26 Him: 27
Dating: 5/2011 Married: 6/2014
Mirena out/TTC: 02/2016
BFP #1: 12/01/2016
EDD: 07/24/2017
BFP September 2013 - MMC at 12 weeks
BFP February 2014 - early loss/CP at 4.5 weeks
BFP May 2014 - MMC/ complete molar pregnancy at 11 weeks
BFP December 2015 - DD born 8/18/2015
BFP November 2016 - pending...
Me: 26 Him: 27
Dating: 5/2011 Married: 6/2014
Mirena out/TTC: 02/2016
BFP #1: 12/01/2016
EDD: 07/24/2017
Married: 6/2016
TTC:6/2016
BFP: 11/22/2016 | EDD: 7/29/2017
The phrase "vaginal cut down" makes me cross my legs and squirm. I imagine it's the reaction men get when they watch someone get kicked in the balls.
Married: Oct 2015
Baby G born June 2017
TTC#2: July 2018
BFP #2: 2/6/19 MC 3/14/19
BFP#3 from IUI #2: 6/30/20 EDD 3/9/21
Married: 6/2016
TTC:6/2016
BFP: 11/22/2016 | EDD: 7/29/2017
My little girl was measuring ahead of schedule earlier in the pregnancy, but I think that's leveling off a bit.
my happy boy
@BusyZee As others have suggested, let me tell you from first hand experience that bigger babies do not equal easier babies. Both my kids were bigger (9lb and 8lb11oz) and they were far removed from easy infants. DS didn't STTN until past the 1/2 year mark and nursed constantly. I'm talking every 2 hours for quite some time. Both kids had horrendous reflux and colic and spent much of their first 3-4 months crying/screaming. DD in particular had to have an emergency ultrasound for suspected plyoric stenosis as she was vomiting multiple feet across the room Exorcist style after every meal. DS wouldn't nap unless I held him. The list goes on and one. If you have a smaller baby, that doesn't mean that he/she will be more or less challenging. Every baby is different and "ease" is not related to size. I will however say that I love baby fat so that was literally the only benefit. I repeat... only benefit.
@mamadcb - we are in Orange County. Not too far from Disneyland.
my happy boy
He doesnt like cheese, beans, eggs, meat, or green veggies. I'm looking at homemade stuff on Pintrest to sneak greens and proteins into his diet. He is like me, he could live off fruit and carbs. Also, I try to do a 'new food Thursday' and I'm running out of ideas, weirdly?!
Pintrest has a spinach and banana muffin homemade recipe I'm about to try. I'm still guilty of buying the organic pouches that mix green veggies with fruit to mask the flavor. I would like to transition to whole food but he just isn't a fan. So, I do the pouches just so I know he's getting something!
Feeding him is so stressful because I feel like I feed him the same few things over and over. He loves:
noosa brand yogurt
whole wheat with peanut butter and organic jam(no sugar added).
muffins of any kind.
cereal(Cheerios)
whole wheat toast with same jam as above.
steamed carrots.
brown rice.
sweet potatoes.
any fruit.
He only gets water and organic whole milk to drink.
obviously, this isn't all I feed him but these are the favorites. I try to keep 'retrying food' with him...so far no luck.
With our 2 year old she has gotten better but went through a pick phase too. She love smoothies and popsicles as a treat (it was summer then) so I could sneak in greens that way pretty easily. If you are not opposed to serving juice (although I see you say you don't currently) you can sneak in veggies that way also (similar to your fruit pouches the fruit masks the veggie flavors).
The other thing that helped our daughter get more veggies is she loves "sauce". Basically anything she could dip other food into and often she would just eat the "sauce" and just use the other food as a utensil. So we started doing a lot of home made guacamole, salsa, fresh veggie based dips.
Not sure it'll work for your kiddo but it did for ours. She since has grown out of that. She also had a meat aversion for a while. I think a lot of her food dislikes have been a result of texture vs. actual taste though so sometimes something as simple as mashing would get her to eat it.
My family tends to have bigger babies also. I was one of 5 and I was the smallest of her kids at 8lbs 13oz beside my youngest sister who was born a bit premature at 7.5 lbs. I thought the fact that my Mom had 2 babies that were >10lbs was bad until my Grandmother (Dad's mom) was visiting for the holidays and said that she had weighed 13 lbs 10oz at birth. This was before epidurals and because they lived in a very rural area (nearest hospital was over an hour away) it was also a mostly unassisted home birth.
I can not even imagine having to do that.
https://www.lemonythyme.com/welcome-home-muffins/
I sneak veggies into all sorts of stuff. When DS1 was little and pickier I'd put protien and veggies in the food processor and mix it with yogurt. He'd eat almost anything if it was mixed with yogurt. He also loved the veggie pouches mixed with fruit. (the meat ones are disgusting though).
Does he eat sauce with pasta? I make a veggie spaghetti sauce with grated zucchini, carrots, squash, onion, and whatever's in season. You can add ground turkey/beef into it for protein.
DS1 - 7/2011, DD 12/2012, DS2 - 4/2014, MMC - 12/2015
::cue balling into fetal position and rocking in a corner:::
and after reading that, I am less bummed that I have to have a scheduled c-section with this baby (due to 2 previous c-sections)