2. Do you have any other children (living or not)? If so, how many/ages/how old will they be when LO arrives?
this is our first so excited
3. Do you have family support closeby? How involved will your families be?
Where we live now we have some cousins and we are all crazy close. Luckily for the pregnancy i will be home in CA where both my parents and his parents live. Shortly after baby is born we are off to a new duty station at least it will be with in the continental 48 states and should be easier for family to visit.
2. We have on DS who will turn 2 (!!!!!) In July. He is the best. ♡♡
3. We do have a lot of family support. Mostly from my in-laws, who are retired. I work 2-3 13 hour days a week and they always have LO. My parents live 2.5 hours away and try to get here as often as they can.
4. I have 3 living fir children. My cats, Doodle and Ellie. And my extremely anxious Gemma. Gemma is the prettiest, sweetest dog but she literally cowers in the corner and shakes whenever something remotely different happens. My poor girl. Doodle and Ellie are my chill little loves. (Although they both need expensive tooth extractions shortly and I am wishing I didn't have so many pets!)
Carlton was Doodle's brother and my black cat. I loved having a black cat. But unfortunately he had an intestinal blockage from eating some leaves we tracked in on our shoes. He passed away the day before my BFP on my first LO. Still miss him!!!! And be careful with leaves!
@dobbyisfree LOVE your name!! Hehe and I'm very sorry to hear about Carlton we have a 6 month old black lab mix named Sirius Black (I'm sure you can appreciate the name he's a very nervous puppy too, terrified of any new sound or object.
1. Married and coming up on our 2 year anniversary in March 2. This is my first! 3. DH's parents are 10mins up the road and my parents are about 1.5hrs away. Wishing it was my parents that were closer but lucky to have some sort of a support system. 4. Regarding pets, seriously, look at these cuties! I can't even take it!
@lilylover27 We married June 4, 2011. My sister is getting married on June 6th this year, so we get to spend our 5th anniversary in Aruba seems like there are quite a few June 2011 anniversaries on this BMB.
@ktcakes87 My husband has always wanted a sugar glider, but I have steered him away from it because I have a feeling I will be the one cleaning and caring for it most of the time.
@dobbyisfree were you on the Sept 2012 knot board? I got married then too, but that marriage didn't last long, but I'm still in the knot group with all those ladies (on fb now). Just wondering if I knew you from there!
Me 29 I Him 26 Married 4/22/16
TTC 9/2015 **TW** BFP 2/1/16 I MC 3/21/16 (11w) TTCAL 6/15/16 BFP 3/23/2017 Team pink! Quinn Leigh EDD December 1, 2017
1. I'm married. Our eighth anniversary is this June! 2. We have two boys, DS1 will be 4 next month and DS2 is 18 months, and one angel baby that would've been due in September. 3. My family is pretty involved, but they live 8 hours away. We FaceTime with them a lot and they come visit fairly often. 4. We have a German Shepherd, Arya, that we adopted just before Thanksgiving. She's about one year old.
3. Both sets of parents are within 20 minutes and will definitely be helping out. One mom may be retiring right around what would likely be the end of my maternity leave, so that will be a lot of help. Also have a BIL/SIL in town, and one out of state, which means built-in family vacation destination (eventually).
4. One 11-year-old doggie boy Doxie/Whippet/Something? mix who is my world. He's in for a rude awakening once I'm too big to snuggle with him on the couch. Poor guy.
1. Are you married/engaged/in a relationship? Married for seven, together for ten.
2. Do you have any other children (living or not)? If so, how many/ages/how old will they be when LO arrives? First-time parents, first pregnancy. All the jitters possible.
3. Do you have family support closeby? How involved will your families be? No immediate family nearby. My parents are about 10 hours away, but would want to move here if cost was not an issue. MIL is on the opposite coast. If my parents were closer, they'd be excellent help, 'specially since DH travels. We do have lots of amazing friends for a support network, so we'll see.
4. What pets do you have? We have an angry, spoiled dutch bunny.
1. Are you married/engaged/in a relationship? DH and I have been married for almost 8 years.
2. Do you have any other children (living or not)? If so, how many/ages/how old will they be when LO arrives? We have one DD who will be 2 1/2 when this LO arrives.
3. Do you have family support closeby? How involved will your families be? We relocated so no family close by
I'm sure they'll come and visit when LO comes...well, hopefully they will. It's a little sketchy as to what my MIL will do.
4. What pets do you have? We have a 7 year old pomeranian.
1. Hubby and I just celebrated our 8 year wedding anniversary
2. I have 3 amazingly wonderful little girls who will be 4, 6, & 8 when this little bundle arrives
3. For now, yes. My mom is only maybe a mile away, her subdivision is pretty much right next to ours and she takes our girls once a month overnight to give hubby and I date nights. She also loves taking my girls out one at a time for "nana and me days" And we all get-together almost every weekend. Sadly, I am pretty sure we are going to make a big move before baby gets here. We are sick of the cold, and want to move somewhere that has a graduate school I am interested in. It will be rough, my older brother and his family (whom we were extremely close with) just moved 6 hours away so that was kind of part one of ripping the bandaid off. My younger brother and sister are also super close. My plan is to basically just kidnap my whole family and make them come with :-) Sadly, my dad,his wife and my baby sister are living over seas right now. He is as supportive as he can be from so far away, we video chat often and he is loves to send things for my girls for christmas and birthdays.
4. I have the sweetest/most rotten almost 3 year old American bulldog/pitbull mix. His name is Raji and he has the best smile around.
D&E 2/08/2008 DD1 7/31/2008 DD2 6/16/2010 DD3 5/10/2012 IUD surprise pregnancy/MC 2015 Little Rainbow Due 10/2/2016
3. We both have wonderful families. My family lives about 6 hours away. We usually visit every other month or so, but I imagine that will slow down once the baby comes. My mom, sister, and I talk/text daily. We are also really close to his family. They are a 12 hour drive away, so we usually opt to fly. They are nearing retirement, so they have more free time and often visit us. It makes me sad that we aren't closer to our families, but this is where we are right now.
4. We have 3 dogs--all rescues! I start getting teared up when I think of the smallest one not being able to sleep in the bed anymore. She's my little princess!
*Loss & bfp mentioned*
me 28 (Lean PCOS, hypothyroid) dh 33 TTC #1 since early 2011 May 2011- natural pregnancy (metformin only); m/c @ 9 weeks + D&C July 2011- lap to remove dermoid cyst August 2012-current- 9 rounds of Clomid, 1 cycle of Femara, several cycles of soy isos, 1 IUI, O'd every cycle, BFN August 2014- lap to remove uterine septum. Everything else looking good. Moving onto IVF Feb/March 2016 Just kidding. Natural bfp 1/30/16. 1st beta 2/1 = 110. 2nd beta 2/3 = 332.
First ultrasound 2/19 - one baby with a heart rate of 127! EDD 10/11/2016
1. Married for eight years. (Seem to be a lot of '07/'08 anniversaries here!)
2. We have a son who will be just 3 when this LO is born.
3. Nope! We live in the UK; my family is in greater NYC, my in-laws are in LA. It really sucks when we just need someone to watch DS for a couple hours but that's life. We see everyone at least once or twice a year.
4. A dog and two cats that we imported from the USA with us four years ago.
2. Do you have any other children (living or not)? If so, how many/ages/how old will they be when LO arrives?
DD is 2 and she will be 2 years and almost 11 months when this one comes
3. Do you have family support closeby? How involved will your families be?
My parents live 5 minutes away and they are incredible. They watch DD everyday while we work and always tell us to go out on date nights and such. I'm scared to see how things change when there are 2!
1. Married 5 years next month 2. DD1 is 4.5, DD2 is 22 months. They will be 5 and 2 when surrobaby(ies) arrive 3. My family lives 45 minutes away half the year, but I wouldn't call them super-involved. My in-laws nearly 2 hours away, however, are very involved, and I couldn't imagine life without them. They are the bomb. 4. I have a dachshund and 2 black kitties that are brothers. The dachshund is a pain in the butt (8.5 years old and NEVER able to be completely house trained out of pure stubbornness, but I love her), but my kitties are my world. Just love the bro-cats
Re: GTKY-Family Ties
1. Are you married/engaged/in a relationship?
married for just over 5 years.
2. Do you have any other children (living or not)? If so, how many/ages/how old will they be when LO arrives?
this is our first so excited
3. Do you have family support closeby? How involved will your families be?
Where we live now we have some cousins and we are all crazy close. Luckily for the pregnancy i will be home in CA where both my parents and his parents live. Shortly after baby is born we are off to a new duty station at least it will be with in the continental 48 states and should be easier for family to visit.
4. What pets do you have?
one spoiled rotten Jack Russell mix
2. We have on DS who will turn 2 (!!!!!) In July. He is the best. ♡♡
3. We do have a lot of family support. Mostly from my in-laws, who are retired. I work 2-3 13 hour days a week and they always have LO. My parents live 2.5 hours away and try to get here as often as they can.
4. I have 3 living fir children. My cats, Doodle and Ellie. And my extremely anxious Gemma. Gemma is the prettiest, sweetest dog but she literally cowers in the corner and shakes whenever something remotely different happens. My poor girl. Doodle and Ellie are my chill little loves. (Although they both need expensive tooth extractions shortly and I am wishing I didn't have so many pets!)
Carlton was Doodle's brother and my black cat. I loved having a black cat. But unfortunately he had an intestinal blockage from eating some leaves we tracked in on our shoes. He passed away the day before my BFP on my first LO. Still miss him!!!! And be careful with leaves!
2. This is my first!
3. DH's parents are 10mins up the road and my parents are about 1.5hrs away. Wishing it was my parents that were closer but lucky to have some sort of a support system.
4. Regarding pets, seriously, look at these cuties! I can't even take it!
@ktcakes87 My husband has always wanted a sugar glider, but I have steered him away from it because I have a feeling I will be the one cleaning and caring for it most of the time.
Married 4/22/16
**TW**
BFP 2/1/16 I MC 3/21/16 (11w)
TTCAL 6/15/16
BFP 3/23/2017 Team pink! Quinn Leigh EDD December 1, 2017
2. We have two boys, DS1 will be 4 next month and DS2 is 18 months, and one angel baby that would've been due in September.
3. My family is pretty involved, but they live 8 hours away. We FaceTime with them a lot and they come visit fairly often.
4. We have a German Shepherd, Arya, that we adopted just before Thanksgiving. She's about one year old.
2. This is our first.
3. Both sets of parents are within 20 minutes and will definitely be helping out. One mom may be retiring right around what would likely be the end of my maternity leave, so that will be a lot of help. Also have a BIL/SIL in town, and one out of state, which means built-in family vacation destination (eventually).
4. One 11-year-old doggie boy Doxie/Whippet/Something? mix who is my world. He's in for a rude awakening once I'm too big to snuggle with him on the couch. Poor guy.
1. Are you married/engaged/in a relationship? Married for seven, together for ten.
2. Do you have any other children (living or not)? If so, how many/ages/how old will they be when LO arrives? First-time parents, first pregnancy. All the jitters possible.
3. Do you have family support closeby? How involved will your families be? No immediate family nearby. My parents are about 10 hours away, but would want to move here if cost was not an issue. MIL is on the opposite coast. If my parents were closer, they'd be excellent help, 'specially since DH travels. We do have lots of amazing friends for a support network, so we'll see.
4. What pets do you have? We have an angry, spoiled dutch bunny.
1. Hubby and I just celebrated our 8 year wedding anniversary
2. I have 3 amazingly wonderful little girls who will be 4, 6, & 8 when this little bundle arrives
3. For now, yes. My mom is only maybe a mile away, her subdivision is pretty much right next to ours and she takes our girls once a month overnight to give hubby and I date nights. She also loves taking my girls out one at a time for "nana and me days" And we all get-together almost every weekend. Sadly, I am pretty sure we are going to make a big move before baby gets here. We are sick of the cold, and want to move somewhere that has a graduate school I am interested in. It will be rough, my older brother and his family (whom we were extremely close with) just moved 6 hours away so that was kind of part one of ripping the bandaid off. My younger brother and sister are also super close. My plan is to basically just kidnap my whole family and make them come with :-) Sadly, my dad,his wife and my baby sister are living over seas right now. He is as supportive as he can be from so far away, we video chat often and he is loves to send things for my girls for christmas and birthdays.
4. I have the sweetest/most rotten almost 3 year old American bulldog/pitbull mix. His name is Raji and he has the best smile around.
DD1 7/31/2008
DD2 6/16/2010
DD3 5/10/2012
IUD surprise pregnancy/MC 2015
Little Rainbow Due 10/2/2016
1. DH and I have been married for almost 5 years.
2. This is hopefully our first take-home baby!
3. We both have wonderful families. My family lives about 6 hours away. We usually visit every other month or so, but I imagine that will slow down once the baby comes. My mom, sister, and I talk/text daily. We are also really close to his family. They are a 12 hour drive away, so we usually opt to fly. They are nearing retirement, so they have more free time and often visit us. It makes me sad that we aren't closer to our families, but this is where we are right now.
4. We have 3 dogs--all rescues! I start getting teared up when I think of the smallest one not being able to sleep in the bed anymore.
She's my little princess!
me 28 (Lean PCOS, hypothyroid)
dh 33
TTC #1 since early 2011
May 2011- natural pregnancy (metformin only); m/c @ 9 weeks + D&C
July 2011- lap to remove dermoid cyst
August 2012-current- 9 rounds of Clomid, 1 cycle of Femara, several cycles of soy isos, 1 IUI, O'd every cycle, BFN
August 2014- lap to remove uterine septum. Everything else looking good.
Moving onto IVF Feb/March 2016 Just kidding. Natural bfp 1/30/16. 1st beta 2/1 = 110. 2nd beta 2/3 = 332.
First ultrasound 2/19 - one baby with a heart rate of 127! EDD 10/11/2016
2. We have a son who will be just 3 when this LO is born.
3. Nope! We live in the UK; my family is in greater NYC, my in-laws are in LA. It really sucks when we just need someone to watch DS for a couple hours but that's life. We see everyone at least once or twice a year.
4. A dog and two cats that we imported from the USA with us four years ago.
1. Are you married/engaged/in a relationship?
Married for 3 years, together for 10
2. Do you have any other children (living or not)? If so, how many/ages/how old will they be when LO arrives?
DD is 2 and she will be 2 years and almost 11 months when this one comes
3. Do you have family support closeby? How involved will your families be?
My parents live 5 minutes away and they are incredible. They watch DD everyday while we work and always tell us to go out on date nights and such. I'm scared to see how things change when there are 2!
My in laws... Not so much lol
4. What pets do you have?
We have 2 Australian Shepherds!
Fell in love: Dec 2005 // Married: Feb 9, 2013
Little Miss Rosalie Harper--Born Jan 9th, 2014
2. DD1 is 4.5, DD2 is 22 months. They will be 5 and 2 when surrobaby(ies) arrive
3. My family lives 45 minutes away half the year, but I wouldn't call them super-involved. My in-laws nearly 2 hours away, however, are very involved, and I couldn't imagine life without them. They are the bomb.
4. I have a dachshund and 2 black kitties that are brothers. The dachshund is a pain in the butt (8.5 years old and NEVER able to be completely house trained out of pure stubbornness, but I love her), but my kitties are my world. Just love the bro-cats