It is time for introductions again!

NewlyWeds13

I am 42.   I have a 2 year old son and am 32 weeks pregnant with a daughter.  

 

anchiba

Hi, I'm new here too. My name's Anusha and I'm the mother of a darling little son, born May 17, 2011. We're older parents -- I'm 40 and my husband's 52 this year. We never thought we'd ever become parents, since we both have some major "issues" -- I'm a type 2 diabetic (so there's the Insulin Resistance issue), with hypothyroidism and only one functioning ovary (other one removed due to a massive cyst that developed when I was 12). My husband did an SA when we started TTC and was diagnosed with low sperm motility and zero morphology (meaning NO normal sperm). Gaaah!

Anyway, we were told by the lab at our hospital fertility clinic (where DH got his SA done) that the only way we could maybe have biological children (very low chances, if any) was through the most intensive fertility treatments possible. We were devastated because DH had just started his job after years of unemployment at the time, and we didn't have even a fraction of the $20,000 they wanted for fertility treatments. So we gave up, and thought maybe we'd adopt a child from our native country of Sri Lanka down the road, when we had the money saved up.

A few weeks later, I realized my period was getting late. Didn't worry because I've always had somewhat irregular cycles, but when it still didn't show up I panicked, thinking the cyst that destroyed one ovary when I was 12 had come back for the other on. Never in a million years did I consider another possibility!

But then my husband convinced me to check anyway, just to get it out of the way, so I did, with a Dollar Store test (didn't think it would be positive so why waste the money?) ... OMG! I almost fainted when the two lines appeared!

I got to the obgyn right away, since I was super high-risk with the diabetes and being over 35 to top it all off. I was transferred to our hospital's high risk clinic, where the u/s showed a nice little bean with a beautiful heartbeat! I was put on different medications right away, including insulin which I had to inject into my stomach four times a day, and the months went by. I relaxed a little bit only after I cleared 12 weeks and the first major u/s showed a healthy little boy! We were all overjoyed.

Had a very easy pregnancy (hardly any symptoms, no morning sickness), but then kind of paid for it with the delivery from hell: induced labor which lasted for 32 hours (I was going to have an all-natural, drug-free, crunchy-granola birth, hahahaha!!), then pushing for another four hours until my little fighter finally made it into the world. He was in the NICU until nighttime, then joined us in the room.

He's grown up to be a happy, healthy, sweet, stubborn, scrappy, good-natured little man and he is absolutely the light of our lives!

Whew! Sorry for the looooong post! Glad to be here with you all and hope to get to know you guys better!

kikijbunny

Hi all, I am rarely on, but lurk from time to time, was a regular on TTC>35 and PG>35 and here for a bit too; life's just gotten busy but it's great so see so many familiar faces... and welcome to the new ones!

I'm 41, mom to one (not sure if we're done yet, but TTC is on hold until we get a little bit more financially settled -- day care too expensive and can't really live on only one paycheck in our area).  LO is almost 15 months.  He arrived 6 weeks early and spent 22 days in NICU (I was on modified bed rest for 6 weeks prior).  He is doing super now (had ear tubes put in, and suffers some bouts of near-asthmatic wheezing every now and then, especially after colds, but otherwise perfectly healthy).  He's now walking ("doing the zombie") and seems to have caught on to correct usage of "ma ma" and "da da" but tends to like to grunt and holler at everything else.  We bed-share (though we hadn't planned to do so this long), he's still BF and I wear him as much as my back can stand.  So I suppose I'm an AP but I see it more as "this is just how we do it in our house."  

Otherwise, in my non-mommy guise, I... uh... what do I do?   I work full-time for a non-profit in the arts, I am a computer gamer geek, a Potterhead, I love historical fiction and fantasy, and would love to write novels and cultivate an herb garden someday.  

I'll have to update my siggy soon (and my blogs are woefully out of date), but here's Milo at a family wedding at the end of June (14 1/2 mo):

rach2100

A little late....but wanted to pop in and say HI!

I, too, am a rare poster but I do lurk now and again - first time mom with a 6 month old little girl; also work full-time...and try to keep my head above water.  LOL!