This Is the Pregnancy Commiseration and Support Thread

babby rrrobyn killing it with chillwave vibes

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That is one gorgeous kid. Congrats rrrobyn! Also bestest to First Lady & Prez Keyes.

Good baby.

Our new baby is already at 6 oz and it's still two months til the due date, she's gonna be huge too.

I think you forgot a number

omg I want to eat him all up!!
Pregnancy has made me one of *those* kinds of SQUEE BABIES ladies
Congratulations!!! I was wondering about you & bebe

Ha, me, too. I'm a squee children kind of lady now.

And as I have been discussing with a friend, it has also rendered me incapable of watching horror movies in which kids are in danger or suffer any kind of trauma, including contracting an illness that turns them into evil killer children.

Have you watched "Under the Skin" yet? There was a scene in there that was very divisive between parents and non-parents about how disturbing it was, at least in the ILX thread discussion. (Great movie though).

yeah - it really threw me how awful it was. (I was pregnant, not a parent so I guess smacked me with reality of dependency on parents etc)

No, I haven't seen it.

Don't do it! Very distressing!

I was distressed and I have no kids!

Okay I won't see it! But some kind soul should link the thread (on Zing and can't search) so I can see what the upsetting part is.

Under the Skin (2014) dir. Jonathan Glazer

control-f "family" and you'll get the idea.

congratulations rrrobyn

I mean, I really liked the film, but I got the feeling some other people in that thread thought that scene was ridiculous or almost funny? xp

Well there was the one person who called it hilarious...

Yeah that sounds like it would be a bit much for me. Also all of the comparisons to Tarkovsky, my feelings about whom are best expressed by rolling my eyes really hard.

It was a good movie and I didn't have a strong reaction to the scene either way but i can understand why people would
congrats rrobyn -- your baby has a very dignified face

i meant congrats in general, not congrats on your baby's face

7 weeks to baby #2
getting into that stage where time seems to be moving really slowly instead of moving really quickly
interviewing doulas

christ, time is slipping by far too fast for my liking (6 weeks to go)

I think it's the panic of loads of stuff needing doing and also 'oh hey life as you know it will change forever, appreciate it while you cannnnn'

Our new baby is already at 6 oz and it's still two months til the due date, she's gonna be huge too.

― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, October 9, 2014 10:35 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think you forgot a number

― ⌘-B (mh), Thursday, October 9, 2014 11:02 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It took me like half the day to figure out what you were talking about. I meant 6 lbs, not 6 oz.

I had a dream that you told me what you named Baby 2 and it had four letters and ended in an -a but was a nonsense word like Fula or Gara or something. Anyway, if you haven't selected a name for this child, might I recommend Fula.

I just figured out this morning that I'm coming up on the year anniversary of checking myself into the hospital for my medically supervised confinement.

Our birth mom is due in 4 weeks and it's seriously freaking me out. At any time now we have to be ready to drop everything and set up camp 75 miles away for a couple days while going through all sorts of craziness involving her and her girlfriend, her family, the hospital, and the adoption agency and I have no basis for comparison for any of this.

Eeeee omg!!! so soon!

It took me like half the day to figure out what you were talking about. I meant 6 lbs, not 6 oz.

― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, October 14, 2014 3:46 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I missed that too. I was just like "man, I guess it's been a while since I had this baby. I don't even remember all the numbers I'm supposed to know."

How's it going rrobyn?
also I know sick mouthy has not long to go...

It's going well! Almost 7 weeks! He went through a serious crying spell this week but it's calming down, phew (more to come of course...). We read Happiest Baby on the Block, which is helpful re: newborn crying/colic.

My body is readjusting slowly, and I get pain in hip, lower back, shoulders but it's normal apparently and lessening each week. My body does feel put through the ringer tbh, but I was in good shape before I got pregnant and shouldn't compare them to now. I'm prob going to see an osteopath though and will ease back into walking and yoga. I think I'll be on rock climbing hiatus for a while, though the woman who co-runs the bouldering gym I used to go to just had a baby so maybe we'll figure out some shared baby care there one day!

Hello:
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canadian content:
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that Bay sleeper was the first gift i received for the baby, when i was only about 4 months pregnant - my hair stylist friend said he couldn't resist (he also recently bought him a tot-sized Gautier t-shirt, ha!). and the lambskin was given by a friend of my bf's who makes leather goods out east - pretty swanky!

That's some might fine cancon you've got there <3

but enough about us - i'm not even pregnant for the pregnancy commiseration thread! How are you doing, kinder?? You're close! I hope you're getting to rest a lot. Looking back at things, I seriously wonder why the hell I was doing work less than a week before i went into labour - my body was not happy and my brain was seriously struggling - maybe i was in some kind of weird denial about my abilities, haha, yeah probably.

aw thanks! :)

also, digestive upset, nausea, burping, farting may just continue off and on for a while after birth! i did not know this... sigh
i also didn't know how important bibs are! for spit-up and soon, drool, and later, solid food. so yeah, get a bunch of cute bibs...

My most surprising/unwelcome post partum symptom was night sweats. I'd wake up to pee in the middle of the night and have to change clothes because I'd be soaking wet and then freezing by the time I got back from the bathroom.

R, he is so cute!!!!!

Oh man, yeah, the sweats. How quickly I forget.

I had some sweats but mostly just major milk leakage! That's lessened now

Oh god yes that too. I was basically always sopping wet with milk and sweat. Sexy.

He's so cute!!!
I finished work last week. I was going to work until 38 weeks but got freaked out by everyone (2 people) telling me they stopped at 37 then the baby came the next day or the day after.
I'm OK except my legs hurt if I lie down for too long. Also can't have the house to myself/a bathroom yet as building work still goes on. But can't really complain. Not really ready for the baby to come yet...

I figure if you're able to stop work a few weeks before due date, do it! I know I wanted to have zero responsibilities come 36 weeks but hey, life.) But I also know people who happily worked right up to due date like la dee da. Keep stretching those legs and taking Epsom salts baths. I'm not a bath taker but because I had such hip pain I took many in 3rd trimester and half-resented it - now I'm like oooh long baths what a nice concept... Even if I did get to take one I'd worry about falling asleep in it, ha.

Maybe your baby will wait for the home reno stuff to be done before deciding it's time to be born ;)

I've been dreaming of having a bath for months - it was the first thing to be taken out and will be the last thing to be put in :( Have grabbed one at a hotel when I was staying over for a wedding and one at my parents' the other week.
Baby is super wriggly at the moment!

Ivy's first scheduled delivery date was today, so this time last year I was in the hospital convincing them to wait. Remembering all of this is giving me a lot of feelings!

11/12/13 would have been so easy to remember.

She would have been less than four pounds if she was born today! I think we can remember 11/18 pretty easily.

That would have been a cool birthday, though. I think some of the nurses were a little disappointed I didn't go for it.

Yeah, they were nuts. 11/18 ended up being great!

aw ivy, what a lil trouper. how much courage you all had to rustle up. and now look at her, the darling.

best wishes, kinder, i hope everything goes really well for you.

and best wishes to robyn and your darling babby also.

allow me to introduce y'all to my excellent new granddaughter Isolde

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