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First time mom due in late June

krcatlinkrcatlin
in June 2013 Moms
Hi all! I just found out yesterday that I am pregnant. I have been charting for months and had a pretty good idea that I might be last week but I waited until 16 days post ovulation and yesterday got a positive pregnancy test! My husband and I have been married since 2010 and our babies due date as of now is our 3 year wedding anniversary. We are currently expats living in Beijing, China but we will be returning to Atlanta in December and I will be staying. Unfortunately, my husband is on a 3 year contract in China and we get a very large bonus (cost of all prenatal care + delivery x3!) if he stays until next December. So at this point the plan is for him to come home in late May, spend my last month with me and hopefully the subsequent 1-2 months with our new family :) A lot of changes are about to happen but we are both so happy that I am pregnant!
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Re: First time mom due in late June

  • ChinaFamilyChinaFamily member
    Congratulations! My husband and I are also expats living in China. We live in Wuxi (near Shanghai). I plan on giving birth here, as we've looked at some of the facility and they look pretty awesome. Hope you have a happy and healthy 9 months!!!
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  • krcatlinkrcatlin

    Thanks for reaching out! How do you like living in Wuxi? Yeah, we would consider me staying here longer if it weren't for the air here. It is so bad during the winter and even before now I have never reacted well to it. Add to that that I really want a natural birth and China is not the right place to have the baby. They have state of the art hospitals here but they are very pro medical intervention, just like most hospitals in the states and having babies at home is not legal...so back I go.

    It looks like you are pretty early days in pregnancy as well! When did you find out?

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  • Ktrue85Ktrue85 member
    Welcome, and congratulations!  How awesome that you have found another expat living in China!  Just goes to show what an amazing community this is Smile
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    CP: 01/2011 |  MMC: 01/2012  |  MMC: 10/2012  |  DS: 11/2013  |  MMC: 11/2014  |  DD: 01/2016
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  • ziggy23213ziggy23213 member
    Congrats and welcome!  Really interesting that we have two ladies on here living in China!
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    Congratulations and welcome!
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  • ChinaFamilyChinaFamily member

    I found out at 4 weeks when I was already feeling sick, about 2 weeks ago now. The morning sickness is progressively getting worse though. My EDD is June 16th.

    The air quality here isn't as bad as some areas like Beijing/Tianjin, and Chengdu. I used to live in Chengdu, and it's much worse there. I love the blue skies of Wuxi. I know of 3 expat ladies here who've just given birth, and a couple more who gave birth last year. They've all had good experience at this one particular hospital in Wuxi, and so I'll be going there. It's a Chinese hospital with a VIP section for pregnant expats. I'll go for a check up November 5th to see what it's like. It's just comforting to know other mom's have delivered there and have felt comfortable there. 

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  • SLSeibert1SLSeibert1 member
    Welcome and congratulations!
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  • krcatlinkrcatlin
    I really wasn't feeling sick at all until later this week.I usually LOVE garlic but my husband has a pizza with garlic on it and I swear my stomach almost revolted. Since then the whole kitchen makes me ill and the smell of coffee (my everyday companion until I got pregnant) grosses me out. Added to that the fact that I am exhausted and it's been a long week. Going to need to tell my boss soon because I will be flying home for Christmas and not flying back...at all. I already work from home but fingers crossed I can start working a new territory so I won't have to work nights for long. It's also really hard not to just tell everyone...that being said, I'm only 6 weeks and I know I should be at least 12. Mom/dad/sister and close friend here don't really count. 
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