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Pregnant after 35
danuli8
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Over-40 parents...what we lack in vigor, we make up for with cunning.
PG>35 Weekly Check-In: Mismatched Furniture Edition
danuli8
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First, thanks to everyone for their great advice last week about my carpal tunnel issues. I am trying to follow everyone's tips, and I am glad to say that things seem a little better already.
My DH is driving back from IKEA even as we speak with a load of nursery furniture. I couldn't go along, unfortunately, because one of the items had to protrude into the front passenger seat for it to fit in the car at all. Even though we bought the two major pieces of baby furniture at IKEA (crib and dresser), they don't match. One is birch and the other is white--while the shelf we are hanging above the white dresser is also birch. We didn't want the super-dark-brown that everyone seems to think is the in thing for boy furniture because it would make the room look too dark. And we are getting a La-Z-Boy as our glider because we want something we can put in the living room later. I want a nice red chair. So it will be a very eclectic boy's nursery...on to the check-in!
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Hi Ladies!
Welcome to the Pregnant after 35 Weekly Check-In!
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Congratulations to the November/December Moms! Starlee99 (Michele) gave birth to Sophia Grace on 11/27/2012 at 9:45am. She weighed 7lbs 15oz and was 19.25 inches long. Kelkiss gave birth to Kayla Ann on November 27. She weighed in at 6lb 11oz and was 18.5? long. NicoleWI gave birth to Emily Jane on 12/12/12 at 11:57 AM. She weighed 8 lb 10 oz and was 21.5 inches long.
Pregnant Moms by Due Date:
December 2012
Dodo1202 (Teresa) 12/2/2012 - Boy
Kitsunefox (Deborah) 12/8/2012
Caajje6 (Wendy) 12/10/2012- team green
Dukemeli (Melissa) 12/10/2012
MonkeyMommie (Monica) 12/11/2012
KalaDec8 (Kala) 12/12/2012
Angela2004 (Angela) 12/12/2012
Fishy24 12/12/2012
Mbw410 12/13/2012
Mlangs (Michelle) 12/13/2012
Mslswes (Maria) 12/19/2012
TracyfromNH (Tracy) 12/21/2012
Mama2many (Janelle) 12/25/2012
Bloomraiser (Melody) 12/25/2012
TTsmama (Molly) 12/25/2012 - Girl
Melly918 12/26/2012
rockabelly 12/26/2012
Dawnson (Dawn) 12/27/2012
January 2013
MelleTX (Michelle) 1/3/2013- Twins!!
Kirac 1/7/2013
jbeth1971 (Jennifer) 1/10/2013 ? Boy!
REB562 (Rosa) 1/11/2013
3rdat40 1/12/2013
Simplein06 (Michelle) 1/12/2013
Spikeinc (Suzanne) 1/12/2013 ? Girl!
Chance_encounters 1/13/2013
MangomamaFL (Martha) 1/15/2013 ? Boy!
Superkarynfragilistic (Karyn) 1/16/2013
RachelG (Rachel) 1/17/2013
Cindiesheart (Cindie) 1/28/2013
JennyP1 1/22/2013
ReeceFamily (Sara) 1/23/2013
angelegee (Gloria) 1/28/2013
Kat1221 (Kat) 1/31/2013 (scheduled c/s)? Girl!
February 2013
SouthernMom70 (Amy) 2/1/2013 ? Team Green
Brooklinld 2/5/2013
eane7311 (Janine) 2/6/2013
buggirl72 (Dana) 2/7/2013
Winofairy (Sherry) 2/9/2013
Solarflare 2/20/2013 ? Twins! (Boy/Girl)
Punter (Lani) 2/20/2013
Pginsa (Charlotte) 2/22/2013
Lanesmommy (Caroline) 2/24/13 ? Girl!
March 2013
Beforesunrise (Ashley) 3/1/2013 ? Boy!
rosesarepink (Rose) 3/4/2013 ? Girl!
uctracy@yahoo.com (Tracy) 3/7/2013
CountryGirlInTheCity 3/8/2013 ? Girl!
Elocin (Nicole) 3/8/2013 ? Girl!
NNBride05 3/12/2013
Gundy21 (Kristen) 3/13/2013 ? Boy!
KatieKnitsny (Katie) 3/14/2013
KKGgirlATL 3/18/13 (scheduled c/s) Team Green
Cktravel 3/19/2013 ? Green
Wildflower75 (Martha) 3/20/2013 ? Green
Dbadura01 (Deanna) 3/26/2013 ? Girl!
Haribo 3/26/2013
Coquina (Melissa) 3/30/2013
Indyrowergirl 3/31/2013 ? Boy!
April 2013
Angelnumber8 (Angela) 4/04/2013
Lovelyday39 4/05/2013 ? Boy!
Elizabethnseanny (Elizabeth) 4/05/2013 - Boy!
Mishmax11 (Michelle) 4/7/2013
Danuli8 (Amanda) 4/7/2013 ? Boy!
Carol*Brady (Christine) 4/8/2013
Tcfreedom (Tiffany) 4/15/2013
Lilblt19 4/15/2013 ? Girl!
Hisbabygirl76 (Stephanie) 4/16/2013
Shellbear+ (Michelle) 4/23/2013 ? Girl!
Palamar (Chantel) 4/24/2013
Sheloveslan (Mariah) 4/27/2013
Dresch25 (Vicki) 4/29/2013 ? Team Green
Technigirl (Melissa) 4/29/2013
Ba23Ba02 (Barb) 4/29/2013 ? Team Green
Michele707 (Michele) 4/30/2013
May 2013
Dhreczuck 5/2/2013 ? Boy!
Jennyandjasonsbaby (Jenny) 5/5/2013
Trevinosnm (Martha) 5/7/2013
TXBride (Ami) 5/12/2013
Mndyhywrd (Mindy) 5/15/2013
MotherMayEye (Amy) 5/15/2013 - Girl!
mlwinkle (Michelle) 5/17/2013
McRib 5/18/2013
Drhibbard (MC) 5/19/2013
Petrastonegirl (Petra) 5/19/2013
MrsNukem 5/20/2013 ? TWINS!!
jteneback 5/21/2013 ? Team Green
riorisa 5/22/2013
Rebaann (Rebecca) 5/23/2013
Alicialgb (Alicia) 5/28/2013
Danafromslope 5/30/2013 ? TWINS!!
June 2013
Danieleandwayne (Dani?le) 6/4/2013 ? Team Green
1Lump (Andrea) 6/5/2013 ? Team Green
JilliansMoma 6/6/2013 ? Team Green
Ocho2002 6/13/2013 ? TWINS!!
VisciousKnitter (Sandy) 6/15/2013
Trootie2012 (Trootie) 6/16/2013
AZAmy77 (Amy) 6/17/2013
July 2013
Beach72 (Kim) 7/2/13
Karen0477 (Karen) 7/3/13
Amypep (Amy) 7/5/2013
Superzuber (Sarah) 7/9/2013
Bethz13 7/15/2013 ? Team Green
ASL71476 (Andrea) 7/17/2013
emikat (Christine) 7/27/2013
Abeille 7/28/2013
missymr (Mia) 7/29/2013
August 2013
Irishgirl0525 (Lauren) 8/3/2013 ? Team Green
Lucyspeople (Betsy) 8/8/2013
Jkzinck (Jessie) 8/10/2013
QOTW: What is your favorite item that you've gotten so far for the nursery (if applicable)? If you're not that far along yet, what is your favorite color that you are certain you want to use (on walls, furniture, bedding, curtains, whatever) for the baby's nursery?
Share your updates and vents:
Over-40 parents...what we lack in vigor, we make up for with cunning.
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Re: PG>35 Weekly Check-In: Mismatched Furniture Edition
FYI-our nuresery furniture doesn't match either. We are using the same stuff we used for DS (hand me downs) and a new dresser from IKEA and a rocker we bought. I'm not really a matchy-matchy kind of gal anyway but the furniture we got from a friend is really nice and light birch as well. The dresser is brown-grey and the rocker is also light birch. It works and I think it looks sweet.
QOTW: What is your favorite item that you've gotten so far for the nursery (if applicable)? If you're not that far along yet, what is your favorite color that you are certain you want to use (on walls, furniture, bedding, curtains, whatever) for the baby's nursery?
My mom got us these really cute curtains for the nursery from Germany on her last visit. They were too long so I hemmed them and I am using the leftover fabric to make decorations for DD's nursery.
Share your updates and vents:
I have a growth scan on 12/28 that I am looking forward too. I am getting bigger and more uncomfortable and my boobs look ridiculous. I can't believe I still have 6 weeks to go!
I really like/appreciate contrasting pieces of furniture. Just have to make sure it all balances. That being said- we bought all black-brown furniture for LO's nursery from IKEA
QOTW: What is your favorite item that you've gotten so far for the nursery (if applicable)? If you're not that far along yet, what is your favorite color that you are certain you want to use (on walls, furniture, bedding, curtains, whatever) for the baby's nursery?
I've been fairly nursery crazy and I'm happy to say that it's pretty much finished once we get the last of our backordered items in in January.
From IKEA- Sundvik Crib, Expedit Shelf, Hemnes Dresser- all in black brown as well as a few floating shelves. Using the dresser as a changing table.
Walls are a light brown, curtains navy, a cushy pillow rocker in brown w/a bright red throw pillow. Bedding is baby blue/navy/white/brown/red all hand stitched (quilt going on the wall)w/vintage cars of all kinds on it.
My fav(s) is a toss up between the fun PBK rug:
https://rk.pkimgs.com/pkimgs/rk/images/dp/wcm/201229/0004/img66o.jpg
or the fun woody made of license plates on canvas
https://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/yhst-83532116742892_2238_1109153198
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All systems go- glucose test and another ultrasound for next appt in 4 weeks. Then I start going in bi-weekly!
My twin cribs won't be matchy matchy b/c we are getting a crib/dresser from a friend and then I will be buying another crib. I will try to match the color (oak) but not the same exact crib.
QOTW: What is your favorite item that you've gotten so far for the nursery (if applicable)? If you're not that far along yet, what is your favorite color that you are certain you want to use (on walls, furniture, bedding, curtains, whatever) for the baby's nursery?
I am doing a yellow and grey neutral themed nursery since both boy and girl will share the nursery. The girl will get the yellow striped crib skirt and the boy will get the grey. Then I will mix/match yellow and grey crib sheets so I can use them for either crib (more bang for my buck).
https://www.potterybarnkids.com/products/boys-harper-nursery-bedding/?pkey=bunisex-nursery-bedding&cm_src=unisex-nursery-bedding||NoFacet-_-NoFacet-_--_-
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I have my a/s this Thursday and getting super nervous. I hope both babies are healthy and everything checks out ok.
Me:40 AMA, DH:36 0% morph, TTC#1;
BFP#1 4/2011, MMC 6/2011 11wks Trisomy 13;
BFP#2 11/2011, CP
FSH: 17.9, AMH: 2.2
IVF#1 w/ICSI: ER 4/3: 5R,4M,4F
ET 4/6 All 4 (1-8A+, 2-8A-, 1-3A) BFP#3
Two weeks of beta hell = Blighted Ovum
IVF#2 Aug/Sept: ER 8/27: 4R,3M,3F
ET 8/30 (1-8A+, 1-6A+)
Beta#1 9/10: 350; Beta#2 9/12: 796; Beta#3 9/20: 9155
Expecting Boy/Girl Twins! My babies were born 4/23/13 at 36w1d!
QOTW: My nursery is orange and blue. It is designed around a canvas print of my dog at the beach wearing a orange Hawian shirt. It is not your typical girly girl nursery but I love the beach theme. I ordered an orange fabric rocker but it has not come yet. I think that will be my favorite piece.
Updates and vents: My BP continues to gradually go up. They decided not to start me on the weekly ultrasounds until Jan 11. I did find out that they will not let me go one day past my due date due to my issues. That takes the marathon going through my neighborhood the day after my due date out of the equation so that is a relief.
I am ready for Christmas to be over with so that I can get ready for this baby.
QOTW: Our baby's room is going to be the only open, available bedroom in the house (our bed is so big, it takes up one entire bedroom so we use the adjoining bedroom as a dressing room). It's also the biggest bedroom and because it has 4 windows on one wall and is at the front of the house, it stays nice and warm all year round.
The room was already a sage green colour, so we're keeping it because it's nice and neutral and I don't feel like painting. I will be making an Ast?rix the Gaul mural on one of the walls with the main characters doing their "thing" with their village in the background. Then the crib I'm getting is a dark brown and has an attached (but detachable) changing table-- my friend never used it for her 2nd child and is giving it to us for free. The dresser is my old dresser that I cleaned out a bunch of my clothes from (I can't fit into much anyhow!) and repainted a maroon. The new knobs and handles will arrive next week or so. We're keeping a couple pieces in there from before-- a bookcase my dad built and is older than I am and some other items. They are mostly dark wood, since that's what I like-- dark and cherry finishes.
I don't know what my favourite item is yet, but I'm pretty stoked about the mural that I'm going to make. And I think the dresser looks fantastic already.
Update/vents: My next appointment is December 26th. I hope I get to see the baby and not just hear it this time. I'm also guessing we'll have the chance to look at my b/w that was taken last visit (although no call means no worries). My 20 week U/S will be in January, 3 weeks after my December visit. Woohoo! Can't wait!
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QOTW: I will be thrilled to just have a room for this baby when the time comes. We have a major renovation planned to expand our kid's existing rooms and add another one. No ideas yet about decorating or anything, although I have been caught looking at bedding and maybe a new crib for this LO.
UPDATES: Got to hear the heartbeat last thursday for the first time and even though this is baby #3, sure doesn't make it any less thrilling to hear for the first time. I have my NT scan on Weds which I am looking forward to. I am rocking a horrible bronchitis/sinus infection and haven't been to work for a week. Luckily we managed to get our christmas tree last night, I think the kids were starting to think that Christmas had been cancelled!!!!!
Karen - 36 DH - 39
I'm not quite sure what we are going to do yet in terms of the crib color. I know that we are going to paint the walls grey and get a dresser off of craigslist and paint it yellow.
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I have an OB appointment Wednesday, complete with 1 hr glucose test, and our a/s on Thursday.The Daily Nugget
Cycle 12, IUI #1 - 33m post wash 10/15/10 = BFN
Cycle 13, IUI #2 - 15m post wash 11/16/10 = BFP, missed m/c, D&C 1/3/11
Cycle 15 - 18, IUI #3-6 = BFN
Cycle 20, IUI #7 = BFP!, missed m/c 9/14, D&C
DE-IVF Aug. 2012: ER 8/30 11R, 7M, 4F; ET 9/4 returned 2
Beta 9/18 #1-820, #2-1699, #3-7124
10/1 1st u/s measuring right on track, 125 bpm
I also used furniture from 2 different IKEA lines, one white, one a light wood ( a bit darker than birch. We chose the pieces because they fit best in the room.
I haven't done any shopping for this baby. She or he will be sharing a room with my daughter, she's still in her old crib that converts to a toddler bed. I've started looking at big girl beds for her. The room was a classic winnie the pooh theme, but now that I know how much my daughter loves animals, I think that will be the new one. We'll focus more on the baby once we know the sex. He or she will be sleeping in a bassinette in our room for the first few months anyway.
Updates: Not much news on the pregnancy, just nauseous and tired. MH bday was last week and my DD's kid bday party was over the wknd. Her actual bday is Friday and I'm baking cupcakes for her to take to her last day of school on Wednesday. I'm tired of baking and I've barely done any Christmas shopping. I'm just ready for the holidays to be over so I can get a break. I feel like a total scrooge this year.
DD born 12.21.09, conceived w/ injects and IUI
TTC#2 since Nov 2011
BFP 2.6.12 m/c 6w5d | BFP 5.25.12 c/p
-Back to the RE-
3 medicated IUIs, all BFN
-Taking a break from treatment-
BFP 11.20.12 ~ EDD 7.28.13
My Chart
QOTW: We haven't gotten a thing yet, or really figured out how we are going to rearrange the house to fit baby in. Not sure I am going to do a themed nursery - thinking just a nice pattern/colors.
Updates: Nothing really, feeling pretty good still. Have to wait several weeks for our level 2 ultrasound and probably amnio for the high NT results. Trying to keep myself sane during the wait.
~~~BFP 10/9/12, EDD 6/17/13~~~
I am STILL pregnant - I can not believe it. Having had increasingly earlier babies for the last 3, I never dreamed I'd get much past the first of Dec, let alone this close to Christmas. DH just started a new job last week & the job site is nearly 2hrs away - my last labor was just 2 hrs start to finish, so maybe I'm ok waiting until the end of the week so that he won't miss it.
Honestly, my two favorite things for this baby are 2nd hand. One, is a navy blue wool-felt covered Euro-style bassinet that I picked up at Goodwill back in the early part of the summer for only $5. The other is a small vintage postage-stamp multi-colored quilt with a pale yellow flannel backing. It has lived at my mom's house, and all my other babies have used it when we've gone to visit her. When we were there the last time, I told her how much I have always loved it, and she told me to take it home!
I've made his quilt in oranges, greens, browns & blues to coordinate with his brothers' quilts; a couple of the cute little neck-tie onesies; several gauze swaddle blankets; recovered our Boppy in bright colors, etc. But, yep, the second-hand stuff is my favorite this time.
This was me but this pregnancy is a lot harder than I expected. I have started to complain more to DH because if I don't then he thinks everything is fine and doesn't realize that I do need extra help. He helps but he does it at his pace and not mine.
QOTW: I have not gotten anything for the nursery. Our plan was to wait until after the holidays and then get started on it in January. I know that I will buy a white crib but thats kind of it. I like furniture that isn't too matchy. I really have just starting looking online to get some ideas, hello pinterest
. I want to go with a neutral wall color and I know I don't want a theme but nothing is decided.
Updates: Nothing much has changed and I feel mostly pretty good. I still have headaches often and I'm tired. In the last week I have felt some twitches and a bubble a couple times. I'm anxious to really feel movement.
BFP #1 - missed m/c 4.18.11 found @8w3d, d&c @13w
BFP #2 blighted ovum found 8.2011 @8w, misoprostol
BFP#3 - missed m/c 6.11.12 @ 9w3d, d&c revealed extra chromosome 15
BFP#4 8.10.12, DD born 4/26/13
We have the dressers for the nursery, and that's it! We have a lot work to do in the next 10 weeks!!!
I still feel good. I start my twice weekly NSTs the week of January 11th I believe. I can't get over that it's already time for them! This pregnancy has flown by!
I love "mismatched" furniture and we plan to do the same. Sets for any room of the house have never appealed to me. Yours sounds great!
Nursery favorites: I've picked most things out but haven't bought anything except for the crib and glider (both on order still). His nursery will be robot-themed, which I'm super excited for...partially because my robot collection will be part of his decor.
Updates/vents: I'm getting over a cold which was no fun, especially without meds. Besides the sleeplessness, all is going smoothly. I'm a little nervous about how big my belly is going to get in the homestretch...10 weeks to go starting tomorrow!