Ladies, new random milestone here... I just put dinner in the crockpot, thus “made dinner” for the first time in wweeeeekkkksss!!! (Like 2nd time ever since the ms symptoms kicked in).
Poor dh has done well, but all the garlic, onions, and potatoes are sprouting because they’ve been left untouched, as has most of the fresh produce in the fridge. He really does try though!
bfp#1-10/29/12,EDD: 7/3/13. nothing found @ 1st u/s, natural mc 12/10/12. "Bean"
bfp#2-5/10/13! EDD: 1/18/14. "Peanut" Arrived 1/13/14. Diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis
bfp#3- 9/26/14. EDD: 5/7/15. no heartbeat found @ 1st u/s, natural mc 10/23/14. "Little Bug"
So just looking for responses on this because I'm sometimes awful at making social judgement calls...
I love doing little April Fool's things on Facebook. I would never do a fake pregnancy announcement, but I was thinking a fake sex announcement might be funny? I already made the official social media announcement.
Like, we're team green, but could do a silly picture saying it's a boy? Or maybe, lol it's a kitten or something....
Idk, but wanted to run it past people to make sure I'm not missing something offensive or faux pas?
Eta: fix auto correct and add more info.
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Me: 33 DH: 32 Married 7/18/15 1st born at 35+4 on 6/6/16 Team green turned BLUE! 2nd born at 38+6 on 8/30/18 Team green turned PINK! Due with #3 on 6/6/20 Team Green
@pourmeamocktail have you done an actual Facebook announcement yet? If so, maybe you could get away with the it’s a kitten thing. I wouldn’t do it’s a boy/girl cuz I think that’s too easy for people to think is real and then you’ll spend the next 5 on this correcting people. Of course I’m not a bit April fools day person, so I don’t have any advice on how to actually pull it off
@pourmeamocktail I think if you already announced on Facebook and your joke was something silly then maybe. But people definitely need to already know you are pregnant.
Lol, yes, I totally needed to include in my first post that I already Facebook announced pregnancy, like a month ago. Maybe more, I think it was 7 or 8 weeks along.
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Me: 33 DH: 32 Married 7/18/15 1st born at 35+4 on 6/6/16 Team green turned BLUE! 2nd born at 38+6 on 8/30/18 Team green turned PINK! Due with #3 on 6/6/20 Team Green
@pourmeamocktail I personally wouldn’t find a joke about the sex of a child to be funny but that could just be me. You know your friends and family best.
@pourmeamocktail Yeah, I agree with @skilledsailor on this one. I wouldn't find it funny. I would find it pretty strange to make a Facebook prank about the baby being a different sex.
It's also context... I found the pizza ultrasound pic @EErin86 posted funny in this context (on TB, among a bunch of other pregnant ladies), but if I had seen it during my darkest days of IVF and loss, I would have thought, "Look at these ungrateful people trivializing pregnancy when so many of us can't get there" and felt sorry for myself.
It really depends on what your Facebook friends and family would think (and remembering that plenty of people going through infertility and loss are doing so secretly, and that stuff can sting even when others mean it in good fun).
Me: 34 | DH: 33 Married Aug. 2013 TTC #1 Sep. 2016 ***TW***
BFP Jan. 15, 2017; MMC Mar. 4, 2017 at 10w6d BFP Jun. 5, 2017; MMC Aug. 2, 2017 at 11w6d BFP Nov. 20, 2017; ended in CP All the tests. Everything normal except treated for ureaplasma and DH potentially has high DNAF. BFP Dec. 25, 2017; EDD Sep. 5, 2018; DD arrived Aug. 26th My chart: https://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/63f71d
thanks ladies, that's the sort of thing I was worried about. I think I'll try to come up with something else. Again, they all do know I'm pregnant, so I wasn't trying to fake them out. But, I wouldn't want to hurt anyone unnecessarily.
@adirat We're team green, so I wasn't trying to say it's the wrong sex, but just that we knew the sex. Mostly because everyone keeps giving us crap as to not knowing.
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Me: 33 DH: 32 Married 7/18/15 1st born at 35+4 on 6/6/16 Team green turned BLUE! 2nd born at 38+6 on 8/30/18 Team green turned PINK! Due with #3 on 6/6/20 Team Green
@pourmeamocktail That is so inappropriate of people to do, and also so strange to me! Why would you give someone else crap about her own decision about her own baby's sex? Sheesh.
@adirat@pourmeamocktail I legit do not understand why other people care so much about our children's genitals. We're not team green or anything but are patiently waiting that 20 week anatomy scan. Meanwhile our parents freak out if we refer to the baby as one gender (sometimes I say he, sometimes I say she) asking if we know already.
@pourmeamocktail FWIW, I would find a baby name joke way funnier. Like say you're naming your child something absolutely ridiculous.
@crispy11@love4b It is nice to connect with STMs with "older" kids because I think most of the STMs on this board have toddlers. I am super excited to be there for my DD during that transition and take/pick her up from school while I'm on maternity leave!
Definitely! My most active BMB on here was April 2013 and back then I had a toddler. It’s so crazy to think that I have one of the big kids now! DD1 will be 7 this June! I’m excited to be home for the start of school too. My third was Sept 2016 and he was born on DD1’s second day of Kindergarten. We may be doing the same thing for DD2!
DD1 6.2011 DD2 4.2013 - vbac DS1 9.2016 - vbac, team green Baby #4 due 9.2018
@EErin86 my work has been so busy too recently. (It always is but I’ll finish this phase in the summer!) I’m glad our K is based on where you live. My friends from april 2013 are in the process for applying for Kindergartens and it’s so confusing. PS- I *loved* your story above with your coworker’s response. I need to start using that!
DD1 6.2011 DD2 4.2013 - vbac DS1 9.2016 - vbac, team green Baby #4 due 9.2018
DH has to work nights all weekend so I am laying around relaxing. I am watching Parenthood on Netflix and I am at the end of season 5 where Camille and Zeke sell their house. I’m laying here crying thinking we are starting our own family and we get the opportunity to create so many fantastic memories as a family of three now. I am so excited to show my child unfailing love and to play with them in the yard and on the lake. To go to dance recitals and baseball games and to just nurture and grow an amazing human being. How lucky are we to be given the chance to raise another human?!
@crispy11 DD #1 starts kindergarten this September. I’m so scared to be in labour around that time. I understand kindergarten isn’t a huge deal and time can be missed etc but she is a very shy gal so I don’t want her starting a couple days later than the other kids and them being comfortable while she’s still getting used to it.
@born2run911 do you have family in town she could stay with that would make sure she was able to get there on her first day? I could see missing the first day of school being hard for a little one
@nackie yes we have family around that could take her, but I feel that it should be DH and I taking her for her first day. I would be very sad knowing I wasn’t there to drop her off on her first ever day of school. It’s just one day though so the odds of me being in labour that day at that time are pretty low so I guess no point in stressing until we’re closer to.
Sil is watching DS and I got hubs out for a couples pedicure with me. It’s only his second one ever and watching him try not to jerk his feet around at the ticklish parts is so fun. I love today.
@born2run911 hopefully you won’t miss her first day! I wish you my luck from last time. I woke up around 6am knowing it was the real deal. Dropped the girls off on their *second* day, went to the hospital, and then he was another easy vbac at 2pm. It was great! (Waaaaay better luck than my first two births, including the one that spanned two midnights and ended with a stat c-section for placental abruption!)
DD1 6.2011 DD2 4.2013 - vbac DS1 9.2016 - vbac, team green Baby #4 due 9.2018
@SkilledSailor my in laws freak out every time I call little love a "he".. dh and I are seriously convinced it's a boy but my MIL & SIL are convinced it's a girl. They have no logical explanation except that my MIL usually guesses correct.
Finally booked our “baby moon” to Folly Beach outside of Charleston and our best friends who are 2 weeks behind us in due date are coming along in June! The boys are making lots of jokes about 2 preggos at the beach, but all I can think about is my feet in the sand!
My DD (2.5) starts school next week, she’s been at an in home sitter since 3 months and I am oddly irrationally anxious about it! Like what if she doesn’t like the food, her teachers, throws toys. I will blame the hormones
@born2run911 it would be a bummer for someone else to have to take her the first day (or few days) but I think you should have that plan in place. With my daughter I ended up in the hospital for an entire week: Sunday to Sunday. (It was a planned induction started that first Sunday, and by Wednesday afternoon labor still wasn’t progressing so I had a c-section, and they keep you 4 nights after a c-section).
Finally booked our “baby moon” to Folly Beach outside of Charleston and our best friends who are 2 weeks behind us in due date are coming along in June!
How fun! I road tripped through SC a few years ago and remember the most beautiful sunset on Folly Beach! I also remember thinking that someday when I have kids it would be a great place to go for a few weeks during the summer!
@crispy11 thanks! The thought of an “easy” labour sounds wonderful. Here’s to hoping for easy labour’s with impeccable timing. @MandyMost we will have a plan in place when the time comes if necessary. We have lots of family around so it wouldn’t be an issue other than the fact of me wanting to be there. I’m sorry you had such a tough labour! That’s a long time to be in the hospital holy!
Re: Weekly Randoms 3/5
Poor dh has done well, but all the garlic, onions, and potatoes are sprouting because they’ve been left untouched, as has most of the fresh produce in the fridge. He really does try though!
bfp#1-10/29/12,EDD: 7/3/13. nothing found @ 1st u/s, natural mc 12/10/12. "Bean"
bfp#2-5/10/13! EDD: 1/18/14. "Peanut" Arrived 1/13/14. Diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis
bfp#3- 9/26/14. EDD: 5/7/15. no heartbeat found @ 1st u/s, natural mc 10/23/14. "Little Bug"
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I love doing little April Fool's things on Facebook. I would never do a fake pregnancy announcement, but I was thinking a fake sex announcement might be funny? I already made the official social media announcement.
Like, we're team green, but could do a silly picture saying it's a boy? Or maybe, lol it's a kitten or something....
Idk, but wanted to run it past people to make sure I'm not missing something offensive or faux pas?
Eta: fix auto correct and add more info.
DH: 32
Married 7/18/15
1st born at 35+4 on 6/6/16
Team green turned BLUE!
2nd born at 38+6 on 8/30/18
Team green turned PINK!
Due with #3 on 6/6/20 Team Green
Of course I’m not a bit April fools day person, so I don’t have any advice on how to actually pull it off
Doctor says you are what you eat..... Woops!
DH: 32
Married 7/18/15
1st born at 35+4 on 6/6/16
Team green turned BLUE!
2nd born at 38+6 on 8/30/18
Team green turned PINK!
Due with #3 on 6/6/20 Team Green
It's also context...
I found the pizza ultrasound pic @EErin86 posted funny in this context (on TB, among a bunch of other pregnant ladies), but if I had seen it during my darkest days of IVF and loss, I would have thought, "Look at these ungrateful people trivializing pregnancy when so many of us can't get there" and felt sorry for myself.
It really depends on what your Facebook friends and family would think (and remembering that plenty of people going through infertility and loss are doing so secretly, and that stuff can sting even when others mean it in good fun).
Married Aug. 2013
TTC #1 Sep. 2016
***TW***
BFP Jun. 5, 2017; MMC Aug. 2, 2017 at 11w6d
BFP Nov. 20, 2017; ended in CP
All the tests. Everything normal except treated for ureaplasma and DH potentially has high DNAF.
BFP Dec. 25, 2017; EDD Sep. 5, 2018; DD arrived Aug. 26th
My chart: https://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/63f71d
@adirat We're team green, so I wasn't trying to say it's the wrong sex, but just that we knew the sex. Mostly because everyone keeps giving us crap as to not knowing.
DH: 32
Married 7/18/15
1st born at 35+4 on 6/6/16
Team green turned BLUE!
2nd born at 38+6 on 8/30/18
Team green turned PINK!
Due with #3 on 6/6/20 Team Green
@pourmeamocktail FWIW, I would find a baby name joke way funnier. Like say you're naming your child something absolutely ridiculous.
DD2 4.2013 - vbac
DS1 9.2016 - vbac, team green
Baby #4 due 9.2018
DD2 4.2013 - vbac
DS1 9.2016 - vbac, team green
Baby #4 due 9.2018
DD2 4.2013 - vbac
DS1 9.2016 - vbac, team green
Baby #4 due 9.2018
My DD (2.5) starts school next week, she’s been at an in home sitter since 3 months and I am oddly irrationally anxious about it! Like what if she doesn’t like the food, her teachers, throws toys. I will blame the hormones
@MandyMost we will have a plan in place when the time comes if necessary. We have lots of family around so it wouldn’t be an issue other than the fact of me wanting to be there. I’m sorry you had such a tough labour! That’s a long time to be in the hospital holy!