November 2013 babies!

[bythestream]

I had them checked quite a while ago and my vitamin d was really low, they told me my iron was low but not too bad. Then I got a call from these researchers, and no doubt it's gone down further. I think it will be good after birth too since I like to breastfeed for a year.

Have fun watching the zombie run Zem

[zem7]

Well we had a good weekend. The 4 hour drive wasn't too bad, but glad that we don't have to travel anymore till the baby comes. My husband ran in the Zombie run, he "died" lol. It was a lot of fun. Hope you all had a good weekend. I need some rest. Yesterday my legs got all swollen, haven't had that happen before. It has gotten better, but not back to normal.

Pit contractions- Sorry I shortened the name, its pitocin.

Ha! well what happened is. We have 4 children. Of the 4 only one of them was planned. LOL. Well the day after baby 4 was born I got a tubal ligation done. We knew we didn't want anymore kids. They did the ligation and the labs came back after they tested the tissue that it was an entire cut out of both tubes. So we were told it was a success. So we went on knowing we could not get pregnant again. Boy were we wrong!! lol. That comes up to baby 5, I just knew even before I tested that it would be positive. I even told my DH, who told me I was crazy. Well took 3 tests and sure enough positive. Had to have an early scan to make sure it wasn't a tubal pregnancy, everything was fine. My body just decided that we weren't done having kids, so it fixed at least 1 tube. After Rozline is born I will be getting a second tubal done at 5 weeks PP. This time they are going to remove the entire tubes on both sides. Dr. said if I get pregnant after that, it would be a miracle! So I guess that is the story in a nut shell lol. If you have any questions you can ask, I have no problem answering.

[Lizzie Lizard]

ZEM! That is such a crazy story. Goodness. I can't even imagine the shock. I have heard of people getting pregnant after a vasectomy, but I always assume they didn't wait until the tubes had cleared out. Never heard of getting your tubes tied (or they were cut?) and the egg still got through?? That is some girl you have got there! Amazing!! What is the % that it can happen??

My weekend was good, but a little annoying... DH was supposed to take DS camping. He and his sister and her family were going to camp up north of LA in Malibu. (To be honest I always thought this was a bit of a weird idea. I am so pregnant and didn't want to go. We werent sure how our DS would do, etc) But whatever if they wanted to go! So they found out there is a fire watch or whatever and you couldn't have fires at the camp site. So they all came and camped in our backyard. It was fine, I continued on with my plans of not camping, and my son woke up at midnight screaming, so nice that I just went out and got him and they weren't in Malibu, but my house is such a wreck this morning!

They tried to stay outside, but of course the playroom is wrecked from 3 boys playing in it, the kitchen, bathrooms. Ugh. I told my husband this sets me back 2 days worth of cleaning! Thanks! He says he will help clean, but I am the one that works from home and can't stand things in disarray, so of course I will end up doing the bulk of it. Oh well. It's family, and they had fun, but not only did I not get a night off, but it put more work on me. Booo.

[zem7]

They cut a section out of eat tube. It is a 1 in 10,000 chance. BUT most of the ones that do get pregnant end up being a tubal. Not many make it through. Yes it was quite the shock. If I am being honest, we were totally pissed off.... I know that may sound bad, but we had the next 5 years all planned out, now we can't do many of those things. It took me almost 2 months to become ok with having another baby. I am now excited, but worried about what it is going to be like having 5 kids. My oldest is 7....

Glad you had a good weekend, sucky that now you have all that cleaning to do.

[bythestream]

Yeah that sucks you didn't get the weekend off Lizzie and now the house is a mess. I should really get up and do the vacuuming but I slipped on the gravel drive this morning and I'm really sore in the pelvis now and I think I might have pulled a muscle or something in my groin. The worst thing was I was holding my 2yo hand and I pulled him over too. I felt so bad, he banged his head but luckily only a little scrape.

[bythestream]

I think it will be really great in years to come you have 5 kids all so close together Zem but I imagine it's going to be pretty exhausting for the next few years.

So do you just have 1 or 2 at school already?

[zem7]

2 are in school, would have been 3 but this state has an earlier cut off date then the one we came from. Brooklyn is in second, Riley is in Kindergarten, and Blake would have been in preschool. So he will be starting next fall. Dimitri will be 2 here in Dec. so he isn't starting school for a few years.

[mommymachine]

Hi everyone. Zem glad you had fun at the run! I agree that this baby will bring so much love and joy to your life

Up here in Canada, I had a great thanksgiving. I'm not crazy about turkey but the fixings were amazing. Yum! My husband and BIL spent 14 hours cooking on Saturday to fill my freezer with ready to go meals for after the baby comes!

I am so ready to have a newborn. This pregnancy is my hardest yet and I am so ready to be done. I hope she comes a bit early. 37/38 weeks would be soooo nice...as long as she's ready of course

Wish we would hear from some of the other ladies, a lot of them must be at least full term by now!

[zem7]

Yes I agree, were did everyone go?? Seems like it is just a few of us that talk now.

I like thanksgiving, but also don't care to turkey LOL. We have huge family thanksgivings and christmas dinners. Usually around 25ish people. I usually eat everything but the turkey, we also make a huge ham that I tend to go for. In the US turkey day is Nov. 28th. My due date...lol. If everything goes to plan I will have Rozline by that point.

[Lizzie Lizard]

Bythe******, so sorry about your tumble. That is terrible. I feel like you are having some bad luck here at the end, the flu, the fall, etc. Hang in there! Did you get your Fe infusion? Has that helped?

Zem, omg I loved how you said you were pissed. I would be so so pissed. 1 in 10,000??? Those are some ridiculous odds that you beat. I just can't imagine how fun it will be for you all though. So nice to have so many siblings, family, etc. Then when they all grow up all the grand kids you will have. Such a big fun life! Even though so much work now.

Glad you had a good thanksgiving, mommymachine. Another one that doesn't like turkey?? You guys are crazy!! I love turkey. The fixings are amazing, but the turkey is up there too for me.

My doc is going out of town for T-day, but she said she won't let me go that far so no worries. I am feeling so so big recently! I went to the gym this morning and my spin instructor even commented on it. (In addition to spraying water under my bike and making jokes about how my water will break in spin class. Lord, I hope that doesn't happen!)