Ladies due in Sept/Oct/Nov 2012, gather here!

[HappyLea]

Ooh, im loving the m/s tips.

With my 3 DS's i felt sick in morning and that was it, i was ok rest of the day. This pregnancy i feel sick all day and wretch alot. I eat to take the sickness away but it doesnt last long. Im snacking on everything from strawberries/grapes to crisp and choc. I feel horrible, by the afternoon i just need to sleep i cant move.

I think i may try something sucking on something to stop me eating so much.

[HappyLea]

Ok ladies i typed in google to look up these preggo lollies and becareful what you type i just got lots of porn stuff coming up

I finally found them under pregnancy lollipops.

DH will be wondering what i been upto

[Mochagirl]

It so sad that she doesn't want to see him more. I love going to my IL's at least once a mth and they love spoiling the boys. DS1 has slept with Grandma since he was 2yo and soon DS2 will be joining them. She loves to wake up to them in her arms.

My Mom's like that with my kids, and that's the way I want to be with my grandchildren some day!

My MIL isn't terrible, but she's not a hands-on grandparent at all. They live across the country, but have enough money to travel all around the world (they're retired), but we're lucky if we get one visit a year from them. When they do come they don't cuddle with the kids or play with them, so honestly my kids couldn't care less when it's time to leave. When my Mom leaves after a visit, my kids cry for days because they miss her so much.

[purplepoet20]

Mocha - The crying is so hard. DS1 wakes up in the middle of the night for 2-5 days crying because Grandmas not there.

[Mochagirl]

You ladies make me thankful I didn't get m/s this pregnancy! Sorry you're feeling so sick!

As for my vision of a daughter, honestly I've never been interested in the pink, princess frilly stuff. I would imagine if I had a girl she'd be a bit of a tomboy anyway since she'll have 3 big brothers, and since that's how I was as a kid, that would be perfect for me. What I yearn most for in a daughter is more the relationship I could have with her as she grows up. My Mom and I are best friends - she's the first person I call when I need to talk to somebody, and we love spending time together. Little boys are wonderful - they worship their Mommy - what I worry that as my boys get older they're going to get more interested in things that I'm not involved with, like sports, and want to spend more time with their Dad than me. I'd like just one kid who has more potential to be interested in some of the same things as me. I know there's no guarantee that my daughter and I would be as close as I am to my Mom - I know enough women with strained relationships with their mothers to know there's no guarantee - I just want the chance that maybe we could grow close like that.

One thing that really broke my heart once when dh was set against having baby #4 (I eventually wore him down, obviously), was when I was visiting my Mom's house and one of my SILs was there with her pigeon pair. She was brushing her 7 year old daughter's hair in the bedroom next to mine and telling her that all she ever wanted was to have a little girl who she could do girl things with and all her dreams had come true. They are very close and do everything together.

[Mochagirl]

Mocha - The crying is so hard. DS1 wakes up in the middle of the night for 2-5 days crying because Grandmas not there.

Yeah, we get that too. One thing that helps for us is we do FaceTime with her on my iPhone right before they go to bed so she can say goodnight to them.

[auroara78]

Ah yeah Mocha, that is what I'm more after, just the chance of a good/close mother-daughter relationship! It'd totally be up to her if she were a girly girl or a tomboy, I did play a lot of boy games being that I had my older brother, but i did plently of girl activites as well with my best friend growing up.

About M/S, I had some during this preg. that lasted for nasty hours on end, and some days i felt fine. I don't know why, but potatoes really helped when I did have it. (I think it's something about how starchy potatoes are), I think they absorb quickly into the blood ****** and this is why I think it might quickly curtail nausea...but I don't know for fact.

I've also heard that hard candy, sucking on it helps, hope the jolly ranchers work for you Flava!

DH said yesterday that he thinks we are done now, unless things drastically change. We def. would need a bigger house and car for a 4th, and even though i've been saying on here that I was relucant to go for a 4th, for some reason, when he said that, I felt really closed in and antsy! Like he was killing all my hope! Guess i really was counting on the idea of a
4th, so if they said boy again, I'd have that lingering fantasy of my 4th being a girl. I don't even know if i want a 4th, but just him saying that he was closed off to the idea now...just didn't sit right with me. Previously, he was the one who seemed so open to 4 kids, but i guess the reality of being a stay at home Dad is getting to him, lol. I dunno why it bugged me so much. I'd truly be happy to be done with 3, no matter what gender.

[Flava]

happy-that is so funny omg I find this lollies is this the real thing? It's 21 pops for 5.49 but the shipping is 5.99. so stupid.
Can't we just buy this somewhere?

Anyway my m/s is not so bad , but of course don't feel good .Actually just got worse yesterday but still if it would just stay like this then Im happy because I know it can get a lot worse.
I went to store and got club soda and chips. But didn't find any sour hard candy uhhhh.

[Flava]

aurora- no jolly ranchers for me yet!

My mom never saw my kids and MIL only saw DD1 and 2 and DD3 once in the hospital that's it. so my kids dont have a grandma. FIL is coming to visit us this summer we already got him a flight ticket. I just know he want to find out the gender so maybe we have to go to a private u/s .Now just think about how is that for me!!! OMG...they all sit there waiting to hear boy and I lay on the table and if they say it's a girl no way I will look at them at all.
So because of this I don't want to go and I don't want to find out !AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[purplepoet20]

Flava - do you have a Mat shop or a baby store nearby? We have a place that is a combo of baby stuff, kids toys, and homeschooling. Babies R Us may have them. Calling around helps to save time on dragging kids around town.


I am close to my sister but it is mostly because my mother was never into doing things for us. When I was 9yo my hair used to be so tangled I had an orange sized knot by my kneck. My dad tried to get it out for a two long visit but ended up taking me to get my hair cut super short. He bought us brushes and hair products. After that I started to take care of my sisters hair so she would have to have a painful knot. I also liked to brush my other sisters hair because my step-mom wouldn't do it and she liked to be pretty. I started brushing my boy's hair when they were babies just so they would get used to it and they had Cradle Crap. DS1 has curly hair so he likes it when I spike it up and DS2 likes to brush everyone elses hair.

I used to wish that my mother was more involved with us when it came to simple things. I can remember a lot of things even back to 4yo and I don't remember her every shopping with me or brushing my hair. I do wish she would have talked to us more because we had to learn everything from our grandma, dad, school, and friends.