??? Weekly Check-in ??? 7/20/2011

stargirl76

HAWAII NESTIE/BUMPIE MAMAS  
4forluck ? Elaine ? 09.20.07

MauidAims ? Kai ? 02.16.08
MrsNFB ? Sean Patrick ? 10.11.08

kauai_luv ? Waianuhea ? 04.04.09
kshiz ? Ella ? 04.04.09
bigislandhi ? Zoi ? 06.29.09
Mrs.Ziz ? Bella Kailani ? 07.24.09
Hawaiian Honey ? Matty ? 08.07.09
MrsWinter ? Ashton ? 08.14.09
myday1708 ? Alexa ? 09.09.09
missaloha ? Ellery ? 09.13.09
MrsNJSwimmer ? Billy ? 11.09.09
Trieulam - Kiptyn ? 11.12.09 & precious angel Kylie ? 11.12.09-1.28.10
MrsPresley ? Miss A ? 11.12.09
HulaLove ? Elyse ? 12.14.09

Married2MrWright ? Libby ? 01.25.10
Sanae78 ? Kaya ? 02.11.10
SirenSong ? Samara ? 02.16.10
Mauiwedding08 ? J ? 02.10
Jaysgirljulie ? Ryan ? 03.9.10
LisaKeiko ? Johnny ? 04.19.10
redshoegirl ? Will & Dash ? 04.21.10
liubride510 ? Kailani ? 05.08.10
inamra ? B ? 05.10
rwright5 ? Mason Lee ? 06.03.10
supercoolnat ? Zachary ? 06.07.10
parrotgirl ? Mason ? 06.15.10
lelekay ? Henry ? 07.22.10
MrsIH ? J ? 08.28.10 
Vanilla15 ? Adair ? 09.10  
ECUPirate04 ? Lauren ? 09.29.10 
mrsnickandnora ? Blake ? 10.07.10(?)
eacerna ? Eleiana ? 11.03.10
SanHawaii08 ? E ? 11.09.10
annasan_k ? Zo? ? 12.17.10Oceangirl22 ? Kenley ? 01.05.11
johndrea - Everleigh - 01.12.11
kinibruin ? D ? 02.11
MrsZiz ? G ? 03.11
MauiBride2008 ? R ? 04.02.11
HappyGoLuckyGal - M - 04.13.2011
HAWAII NESTIE DUE DATES 
August 201108.01.11 ? Boy ? stargirl76
08.11.11 ? Boy ? MiniWheats
08.22.11 ? Girl ? Hawaiian HoneyOctober 2011
10.06.11 - Baby - mrs.winter
10.10.11 - Emily-Victoria - maryNamoryNovember 2011
11.23.11 - Baby - HulaLove
January 201201.16.12 - Baby - Married2MrWrightFebruary 2012
02.18.12 - Baby - adpilove -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------  
Post updated due dates or gender reports here. 
(1) What week are you in/how old is your LO?(2) How are you feeling? Any new milestones or news in the last week to share?(3) Next appointment date?  Any big ultrasounds/other exciting stuff coming up?(4) What's been your greatest BR challenge this past week?(5) What are your thoughts on birth plans? Did/will you have one? If so, what were important points/requests you included?(6) How did you decide on LO's name?(7) How do you manage stress? How do you ease it?(8) What other questions would you like to see in upcoming check-ins?
TTCers:  Which cycle are you on?  Where in the cycle are you?  What, if anything, are you doing/trying for TTC success?
**PIP a picture if you like!!**

MrsNJSwimmer

(1) What week are you in/how old is your LO? 20 months and some weeks

(2) Any new milestones or news in the last week to share? He's being creative and imaginative - using his shoe as if it's one of his play cars, oh and he finally discovered his fingers are just the right size to fit in his nostrils.  Wonderful milestone. 

(3) Next appointment date?  

(4) What's been your greatest BR challenge this past week?  He's still having the night terrors from time to time.  Last night he wasn't only crying, he was talking and laughing hysterically at some points.  Too funny.  But it made it very difficult for us to sleep!

(5) What are your thoughts on birth plans? Did/will you have one? If so, what were important points/requests you included?  I never made one, but I had an idea of what I wanted.  We did a birth class with the nurse from the OB's office and she told us what we could expect, and if we wanted something specific, what they would be accommodating with and what they wouldn't. 

(6) How did you decide on LO's name?  MH is a 3rd, but a) we didn't want a 4th, and we don't like his middle name.  So we compromised that the first name could be the same but the middle name would be different.  We had decided to use his one brother's name, but then he started being a real jerk, so we ended up using part of my dad's name for his mn (so he shares each part of his name with a granddad)

(7) How do you manage stress? How do you ease it?  my normal coping mechanism is food, but since I'm on WW, I'm trying to use that less, but today has been very challenging for me in a number of ways, and I'm about to eat a 42oz bag of M&Ms.

 

lelekay

(1) What week are you in/how old is your LO? 1 year on Friday!!!

(2) Any new milestones or news in the last week to share? Just everyday he walks more and longer.

(3) Next appointment date?  

(4) What's been your greatest BR challenge this past week?  Not until Aug. 1.  The pedi told us to make sure he was truly at least 12 months before coming in for that appt, so we scheduled it for 1.5 weeks after his birthday. 

(5) What are your thoughts on birth plans? Did/will you have one? If so, what were important points/requests you included?  I didn't make an official one.  There wasn't much to say, except that I didn't want anyone but MH in the room during labor (which I had already made clear to all my family, and they respected that).  I knew I wanted medication (what can I say - I'm a wimp), so that wasn't an issue.  Then I found out we needed a scheduled section anyway, so the whole thing was out the window from the get-go.

(6) How did you decide on LO's name?  I'd liked the name Henry since I was a kid.  MH took some convincing.  He didn't love it, or any of the other names I suggested at first, but also could not come up with anything he liked better, either.  He was starting to warm to Henry, but his argument was that there are no "cool" Henrys.  I argued back with a list of cool Henrys, but to no avail.  Finally one day a few weeks before he was born we were driving in the car and I said, "wasn't Indiana Jones' real name Henry?"  To which MH replied, "I don't think so."  After we argued, we made a bet that if it was his real name, our child's name would be Henry (I totally knew I was right).  When we got to the restaurant we were headed to, I googled it on my phone and won!  This story kind of makes MH look like a goofball (which he is!).  :P

(7) How do you manage stress? How do you ease it?  I'm certainly not good at it.  One thing is that MH knows that I need my alone time.  After Henry goes to bed, we eat dinner, then we both need a half hour to ourselves.  I crave and need that truly alone time.  Then we spend an hour together before we go to bed, which is great, too.

 

redshoegirl

(1) What week are you in/how old is your LO? 15 months today!
(2) How are you feeling? Any new milestones or news in the last week to share? I'm a bit frustrated. We knew it would be hard to find somewhere to rent in our new town - Aussie landlords are incredibly uptight (you can't paint, have to get special permission to hang a photo on the wall, etc.) and 99% of them won't allow pets. But even expecting it would be hard, it's been harder than we anticipated to find somewhere to live. Worst case scenario, the boys and I will just stay here longer, but I'd love if we could move when we wanted to. Milestones...hmm. They've just gone up to 24-month sizes in their shirts (still in 18-month size for pants). Does that count?
(3) Next appointment date?  Any big ultrasounds/other exciting stuff coming up? Ear specialist next month, then 18 month checkup. Oh, and Will has a doctor appointment this afternoon - he was sick about 1.5 weeks ago and seems to be struggling to get rid of his cough (he wheezes a bit when breathing, I can hear congestion rattling in his throat, etc.). So hopefully they can give us something to help with that.
(4) What's been your greatest BR challenge this past week? Discipline. I'd love ideas if anyone can give them to me. Will is fine - the issue is with Dash: he thinks I'm funny. If I give him my serious face and serious voice when telling him not to do something, he laughs. I really don't know what to do. The only thing I've found that seems to get through to him is if I take him and sit him down a few feet away from me and THEN do the serious voice...the physical separation seems to get through to him, but even then half the time he just stares before giggling. How do I get him to understand that he is not to do something if he won't take me seriously? I feel like such a loser lol...if I'm having this problem at this age, can you imagine what things will be like when he's a teenager?
(5) What are your thoughts on birth plans? Did/will you have one? If so, what were important points/requests you included? I had a very loose one. It was basically, "I want to try delivering vaginally, but we'll play it by ear. Other than that, let's get these babies out in the safest, healthiest way for everyone involved." That pretty much summed it up lol! I knew ahead of time I'd probably go for pain relief (I'm a big wuss and frankly I don't think I could have handled a 22-hour labor without it). I also knew that even though both boys were head down, there was a good chance I'd end up with a c-section, which happened. The rest of the stuff on birth plan examples - dim lights, music, etc - I just didn't care about!
(6) How did you decide on LO's name? We were set on William's name before he was even conceived. There's a joke in Ben's family that he was named after a dog his parents had, and their current dog is named Bill. So once he and I joked that it would be funny to name OUR son after their dog as well...but really, we both just really liked William. Dash was a little different. We racked our brains but couldn't come up with a second name we both liked (I lobbied hard for Calvin, but Ben haaaated it). I was wandering through the stacks at work, looking for inspiration, when I saw The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett. I love Hammett's work - Nick and Nora Charles are some of the true greats of the detective genre - and loved the name Dashiell. I figured Ben would hate it - he doesn't like nontraditional names - but it stuck with me and eventually I suggested it to him, thinking he'd shoot it down. Instead he sat there and went, "Dashiell. Dash. Will and Dash. I like it!" I was totally shocked lol! I was also concerned about what an unusual name it is - I didn't want to be one of THOSE parents who name their kid Rhyaaanngha just to be unique - so I kept looking at names pretty much until he was born. But Ben and I both kept coming back to Dashiell, so that's what stuck.
(7) How do you manage stress? How do you ease it? I'm like lelekay - I very much need my alone time. Not even a lot of it - just half an hour will do - but I need the space to not have to do anything for anyone but me (even if it's just posting stuff here lol).

SanHawaii08

(1) What week are you in/how old is your LO? 8+ months

(2) Any new milestones or news in the last week to share? MH started his "paternity leave" - he took a little time off after E was born, while we were still in the hospital, but always planned to take a longer chunk off later.  so now he's being a SAHD for 4 weeks!  the first 3 days have gone great.

(3) Next appointment date?  9 months

(4) What's been your greatest BR challenge this past week?  not much...same as always, i guess, trying to push E's bedtime and wakeup times back a little bit.  i'm tired of getting up before 5am!

(5) What are your thoughts on birth plans? Did/will you have one? If so, what were important points/requests you included?  I had one, the midwife looked it over and was like, yup, okay, and it was never brought up again.  <shrug>  i think what i wanted was pretty typical of what they usually get.

(6) How did you decide on LO's name?  we each took *forever* to list of what we liked, then compared - there was 1 overlapping name, which we then both nixed, so we were back to square one, hah.  my dentist actually jokingly suggested E (it's his own name), but that reminded me that i liked it, even if it was more common than we originally wanted.  we went to the hospital with 2 names, the other being less common, but one or two days after he was born, I finally decided there was no reason not to name him E if I liked it better than the other name, even if it was more common - seemed like a silly reason to choose a name I liked less!

(7) How do you manage stress? How do you ease it?  i'm all about the alone time too

MrsNJSwimmer

lelekay:

(7) How do you manage stress? How do you ease it?  I'm certainly not good at it.  One thing is that MH knows that I need my alone time.  After Henry goes to bed, we eat dinner, then we both need a half hour to ourselves.  I crave and need that truly alone time.  Then we spend an hour together before we go to bed, which is great, too.

Looks like I need to take a page from this book - I never get any alone time, which maybe is why I don't have good coping mechanisms.  Thanks, ladies!

vanilla15

(1) What week are you in/how old is your LO?  10.5 months

(2) How are you feeling? Any new milestones or news in the last week to share?  she says "uh oh" all of the time now.  I guess the teachers must say that at school b/c we don't say it at home very much, but it is kind of funny to hear her say it just randomly while she is playing with her toys or just walking around.

(3) Next appointment date?  Any big ultrasounds/other exciting stuff coming up?  nothing coming up

(4) What's been your greatest BR challenge this past week?  nothing out of the ordinary (knock on wood!)

(5) What are your thoughts on birth plans? Did/will you have one? If so, what were important points/requests you included?  we did have one (I used the Bump's template).  I brought it in to my OB and she read it with me and we talked about what was & wasn't possible.  I told her this was just best case scenario & of course, all of it could change if needed.  I knew I wanted an epi, but I wanted to hold out as long as I could before I got it and I didn't want Pitocin.  The dr on call wanted me to get both right away, but I said no & they called her and she said that was fine.  She put a copy of it in my file and gave it to the l&d nurses as well (though I also had a copy in my hospital bag just in case).  I didn't care about music or lighting and I did tell her just DH in the room so she agreed to kick anyone out as needed!  and when things had to change, she told me b/c of this, we are not going to be able to do this.  I think it was good to have...if for nothing else, a good way to talk everything over with your dr.

(6) How did you decide on LO's name?  it was an old family last name.  I had liked it for a few years, and said that would be the girl name.  BUT I was soooo sure it was a boy, I really hadn't thought about it that much.  (hence DD didn't have a middle name until we were about ready to leave the hospital)

(7) How do you manage stress? How do you ease it?  I am pretty laid back overall so as long as I can get away from whatever is stressing me for a little while, I am usually ok.  Even if it is just running to the grocery store or to pick up dinner, any little break helps me.

(8) What other questions would you like to see in upcoming check-ins?  speaking of LO's name, are you happy with LO's name?  (one of my friends recently told me she regretted her DS's name...it made me wonder if there are others out there)

inamra

(1) What week are you in/how old is your LO?14.25wks
(2) How are you feeling? Any new milestones or news in the last week to share?LO got his first stitches (3 total) this past weekend. Split his forehead when a sharp pebble lodged in his head from a fall =/
(3) Next appointment date?  Any big ultrasounds/other exciting stuff coming up?In a few days, to remove the stitches.
(4) What's been your greatest BR challenge this past week?Probably #2. It was so scary at the time, but he's doing really well now so I'm feeling much better!
(5) What are your thoughts on birth plans? Did/will you have one? If so, what were important points/requests you included?I didn't, but I wish I did and would've included not allowing the dr break my water.
(6) How did you decide on LO's name?Found it in a name book.
(7) How do you manage stress? How do you ease it?Mmmm, I'm religious, so my faith helps me the most. But physically, eating also makes me feel better Talking it out with MH also helps too.
(8) What other questions would you like to see in upcoming check-ins?

stargirl76

(1) What week are you in/how old is your LO? 38 wks, 3 days(2) How are you feeling? Any new milestones or news in the last week to share? Tired and achey. I'm glad we're almost there! (3) Next appointment date?  Any big ultrasounds/other exciting stuff coming up? HAH! Next big thing coming up? Scheduled c-section Monday AM! Ahhhhhh! Can't wait to meet him... (4) What's been your greatest BR challenge this past week? Just standing up/sitting down/rolling out of bed. Other than that (and the heat), I'm pretty good; it's been very easy.(5) What are your thoughts on birth plans? Did/will you have one? If so, what were important points/requests you included? We're having a scheduled c-section, so I don't really have a plan. Just no visitors until we're ready.(6) How did you decide on LO's name? Something we both liked. There were a few other contenders, but we just came back to this one regardless.(7) How do you manage stress? How do you ease it? I usually take alone time or talk it out with DH. Working out usually helps a lot too.38 wks

mrspresley

(1) What week are you in/how old is your LO?she's 20+ months
(2) How are you feeling? Any new milestones or news in the last week to share?she said her own name! sadly she said it for the 1st time in front of the babysitter and not me and when I tried to get her to say it the next day she refused....but then today she all of a sudden started saying it again so I caught it on camera! it's cute b/c in the video she first repeats me and mumbles "what's your name" and then says "Annalise!!!!" in a really excited voice video linkpotty learning is going really, too! she is officially in training pants now and some days she never wets them and then on her "bad" days she wets about twice. so pretty good IMO.  I really would love to see her done w/trainers by the age of 2   she wakes up dry in the mornings so I know she is ready/able.  when we ask her to pee (and she is motivated - by food, stickers, some activity, etc) she pees - so I think she knows and understands this bodily function....but she is stubborn and doesn't always want to pee when we ask her to, so that is our struggle right now.  she always tells us when she needs to poo, though (has been for 5 months now) so at least we don't have to deal w/poops anymore!
(3) Next appointment date?  Any big ultrasounds/other exciting stuff coming up?nov for her 2 yr appt
(4) What's been your greatest BR challenge this past week?sleep regression.... she hasn't cried before bed for a while now (and if so it's been more of a 30 second whine) and now all of a sudden she is crying before her nap and occasionally before bed? as if it wasn't bad enough when she was younger and crying "maaaaaaaaaaaaaama, maaaaaaaaaaaaama, maaaaaaaaaaaama" but now she cries and says stuff like "mommy help! mommy help!"  it is really hard to let her CIO but as we quickly found out, going in only makes it way worse and she seems to max out at 15 min and then lay down and goes to sleep.
(5) What are your thoughts on birth plans? Did/will you have one? If so, what were important points/requests you included?I think they are good. I didn't really have one except one that was similar to Lisa's.  I think it's good to have a plan, but to also be open to things going differently than planned bc that is often the case! you don't want your baby's birth to be "ruined" bc you have such a rigid birth plan and things don't go the way you want them to 
(6) How did you decide on LO's name?went through baby name books... I made lists and he vetoed them until we found one we both liked LOL
(7) How do you manage stress? How do you ease it?mostly by talking about it.    I do think I do some comfort eating too, though :P
(8) What other questions would you like to see in upcoming check-ins?

Married2MrWright

(1) What week are you in/how old is your LO?

Libby is 18 months old and I am 15 weeks pregnant.

(2) How are you feeling? Any new milestones or news in the last week to share?

Recovering from 16-hour days for a 5-day seminar out-of-town last week. Ex.haus.ted. Nausea has lessened A TON in the past week or so, though! Hooray! Went 6 days without nursing Libby (we're down to about 2x/day during the week) and tried to pump while away and got nothing! I was sorta sad that I'd come home and not be able to nurse her. But she latched right on and there was milk. I was totally surprised!

(3) Next appointment date? Any big ultrasounds/other exciting stuff coming up?

OB appt. on the 12th...another u/s...hopefully we'll know the gender soon!

(4) What's been your greatest BR challenge this past week?

Mommy being away for 6 days....my mom ended up bedsharing with Libby each night (in Libby's room) just so everyone could get some sleep. She's a trooper! I got home Sunday and Libby went back into her crib...so I guess it didn't derail us too much.

(5) What are your thoughts on birth plans? Did/will you have one? If so, what were important points/requests you included?

Had one...most went out the window with being induced though. Hopefully this time I can go naturally...no induction. We shall see. I ended up with an epidural, which I hadn't wanted to do, but had to due to the extreme affects of the pitocin. I did labor for 12 hours w/out it, but those last 2 I NEEDED it!

(6) How did you decide on LO's name? Both of our mother's middle names.

(7) How do you manage stress? How do you ease it? Try to unplug as much as possible and not sweat the small stuff.

(8) What other questions would you like to see in upcoming check-ins?
TTCers: Which cycle are you on? Where in the cycle are you? What, if anything, are you doing/trying for TTC success?