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Good luck with it all. I will honestly say that I found my first baby the hardest to adapt to, baby 2,3 and 4 just fit right in to the routine and I really didn't "notice" the extra work as much as I thought I would which is why I'm not ruling out a 6th lol. I will see how life is with baby no5 here and make my decision from there but I do think once you get into the realms of a big family any additional children just slot in really.Quote:
Originally Posted by babypinkno3
Bigger family are just more work no doubt about it. I have been feeling horrible, hubs is out of town, and kids still need to be fed, taken to school, ect. It is feeling really hard right now as I have zero family here to help and only aquantices no friends so no one I would ask to be a sitter. This is def. Our last as I am not having kids in my 40s. A lot easier being prego at 21 w zero kids than 38 w 5 lol that's for sure.
I would love 5 kids. I just love being part of a big family and even bigger now with DHs side. I have 11 sisters and sisters in law. A quiet weekend where we don't see anyone is rare and there is always support on hand when you need it. I want to give my kids the same
I m already thinking of having a fourth one but dh was always good with two boys
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I would also love 4 but my husband was more than satisfied with 2 so we met in the middle at 3. But maybe we can oopsie daisy one day!lol
For those who have done harmony or planning on doing it is there a form I need to take for my obgyn to fill out? How do I get my obgyn to order it ? How is the process?
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My dr just asked me if I wanted it at my 12 week apt...... I said yes & the rest is history! Just ask your OB!Quote:
Originally Posted by HealthyGirl
I asked my dr last time n she filled out a form
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I have 4 sisters and three brothers and would have lots of support except I live cross country from all of them and dh's family as well. It def. Is not what I planned or want for my family:( We get back about every other year for a couple weeks but its a long expensive trip and just not enough time. It's very sad seeing them all together and having family stop by or be able to help. When my kids are sick or I'm sick and dh is out of the country I literally have no one to call. I have tried getting dh to just leave his job and begged and pleaded for my happiness as well as our families but he makes good $$ to allow me to be a sahm and he's older and doesn't want to start fresh. How can I argue with common senses lol. It's always harder when I'm prego and I think how no one will be there to come hold baby, congratulate us, or anything:( sorry 1st trimester sucks hoping when I feel physically better my mood might lift.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pearl327
Girl, I cannot imagine!! So where do you live and where do they live? Do they come visit when the babies are first born??Quote:
Originally Posted by Atsaukina1
My MIL lives across the street and SIl lives behind us. Most would hate it, but we love it. I call my MIL my personal assistant.haha My parents and sister and brother are very involved too, so that's always nice. I'm a teacher but we don't have to pay child care or anything. I just walk them across the street to my MIL's house. She has dinner prepared when I get home. I'm spoiled rotten. I hope to stay at home when number three gets here though!! I've always wanted to be a SAHM :) You are very blessed to be able to stay home!
Sahm is a blessing seriously.
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How early is too early for Braxton hicks. I think I'm having mild ones already.
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Atsaukina that must be really tough and I can imagine a bit lonely for adult company when your DH is away. I hope you get lots of visitors to help you out when baby arrives
I usually start getting them around 14 weeks. I've been getting them for a few weeks already. Not too bad yet but if I do something like lift my 2 year old or even just stretch out on my back when I'm laying down I can set them off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hitmebabyonemoretime
It is definitely not too early for Braxton hicks Hitme, I think we can get them all the way through pregnancy just most of us don't start feeling them that early
OK ladies if you know the sex already can you please put your information into the spreadsheet. You will find the link on the New Complete Pink swaying statistics thread or Blue swaying statistics thread. We have to do this to help the next lot of swayers out :).
I'm just off to do mine now xx
It's super easy - just multiple choice and doesn't take long at all :)
Need to do from a computer imagine?
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Will do mine next Wednesday [emoji1]
Covered in blue. What are u having ?
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We live on east coast they live on west coast. I am the only one to leave. NO ONE comes to visit when babe is born. Family doesn't have money to fly out. Last time mil came but while she met my 2m. Old she was meeting the 3 year old for the first time! She only stayed a week. My family just met my 2 year old as I hadn't seen them in 3 years! When I say no one comes to visit I mean that literally. I am always trying to talk dh into living on his mom's land and then the big pay cut wouldn't hurt so bad. I know I am very fortunate to be a sahm and especially with him traveling all the time and no family here they goQuote:
Originally Posted by Boysboys
To some random daycare and I def. Don't want that. It's been 10 long years here so think I'd be used to it by now but I still dream. I grew up w all my aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents so very sad for my children not to know them and my nieces and nephews not to know me well.
Anyway..
Bwahaha that's very funny. At least dh takes a week off from work but nope babe born at home and I'm up making breakfast for fam next day:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pearl327
Braxton hicks- that seems very early. I don't ever get them. Do you think it could be dehydration which can also lead to cramping and such.
I did it on my iphone but I run the full webpage in safari. Tapatalk drives me nuts lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Hitmebabyonemoretime
A girl :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Boyzmommy
Oh that's tough Atsaukina! You really can't really on family at all.
Maybe join some groups and make some good friends to take their place xx
Covered in blue need to change your name lol
Nope its def. Not the same. I could rely on them but they are almost 3,000 miles away so not much they can do lol.
Coool congrats covered in blue. Seriously u name should b changed now
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Lol I know. It's a silly name anyway. I remember when I signed up everything I put in had already been taken so it was just a random 2 second thought that has sort of stuck.
I know this isn't a big deal but I'm annoyed and I don't know who else to rant to lol. So I told my Mum and Dad on the weekend that we were having a girl. Their response was pretty dull - just like "well you know it's still very early and baby is still tiny etc etc. Which is fine. It is pretty early and of course until baby is born you can't be 100% sure. With their response I didn't think to tell them not to tell anyone but I did tell them they were the only ones who knew. So anyway I find out today from SIL that Mum has been telling everyone! Including her big mouth friend who in turn told SIL (they work together). She sounded annoyed that I hadn't told her and she had 2 little boys so I can understand how she might feel. So there you go. Not really how we had planned to do our gender reveal! I feel like I still needed time to work through all my feelings. But instead I've spent the evening sending crappy little messages to the rest of our family and friends that I didn't want to hear via the grapevine.
Oh sorry to hear covered!! Maybe she told everyone out of excitement? We did a gender reveal with our family but mil and sil had a fake suprised. My husband was very disappointed...
Atsaukina - that must be really tough. Do you at least have friends or another mom support group in your area you can meet up with and at least have people around you? I couldn't imagine how tough that must be for you!
Covered - that's annoying! Especially when you're so excited about your girl and wanted to tell others! I know the damage has been done, but I would tell your mom to stop telling people! Maybe though she's secretly excited, but is cautiously optimistic until baby girl is here?
Work has been crazy busy so I haven't been on as much - sorry if I missed anything big! I will go back through and read the thread more carefully when I get a second. We were able to tell most family this weekend and they were all excited, happy and over the moon! Also, I finally asked my mom how her m/s was with my brother and I and she said minimal nausea Off and on, so such a relief to me that I don't feel like a turd all the time!
Covered I know how you feel. My mom posted it under a photo of me on Facebook. It didn't dawn of her that she would not be the last person I need to tell in person and that it's a secret. So now I'm in a hurry to tell people and maybe do a Facebook announcement to start to filter random questions.
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Oh that does suck covered. We haven't shared our prego w fam yet, I usually do after first trimester, but I would be very upset if someone went and blabbed their mouth and ruined my own sharing in my own way. Def. Let mom know your upset but what can you do? Now that everyone knows you have more support and people to share with so don't hold a grudge too long:)
Taytum- I was part of a homeschooling group but kids are in school this year besides my youngest two. They are all aquantices though not good friends. My midwife comes at 1 day, 2 days, 1 week, and ,6 weeks after birth so that's nice. After that I'm on my own. Really trying to make a plan to get back anywhere on west coast to at least be some kind of driving distance to family and be able to see them a couple times a year would be amazing instead of once every couple years. This move would've been way easier and less risky with less kids so really kicking myself I wasn't able to convince dh sooner. He really will not want to go now w 6 kids to take care of.
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Our Facebook announcement [emoji170]
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So cute Hitme! They are just gorgeous xx
That is an awesome announcement Hitme!!
Oh Covered.... I'm sorry your gender reveal was ruined :(
In the comment/caption section I put that we knew it was a boy right in the heading, before the cut off point - we went on to include how we knew, and what we planned to name him. This was to avoid all the "will you find out" "maybe it's a girl" which it did but then I got the equally harsh "ANOTHER BOY!" Comments, and "your a baby factory". It's brought some new emotions to the table ladies. If I'm lucky to go HT and succeed, no one will know until I have her in my arms.
This stirred up all my gender disappointment and increased my gender desire.
My happy announcement is a public front for all I'm really feeling. Thank god for you guys.
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