Knocked Up Rollcall

3 weeks, damn! I totally missed that. Congratulations. Awww I bet it's got to be pretty cute watching #1 wait for the impending arrival.

man if i was born amid a hurricane i would find a way to mention it in most sentences. "you want five copies of this made?, double-sided print? no problem - no problem because i was born in a hurricane".

godspeed!, anyway

no longer knocked up

oh my God today is a beautiful day you guys

congrats!!!!

the artist formerly known as Instahoof is sleeping so peacefully & I am floating, everybody. man oh man.

congratulations!

does instahoof have an alias? are you at the hospital? how is your wife?

AERO, CONGRATULATIONS, MAN!!!

whoa I had no idea, congrats aero!

awesome dude congrats

Welcome to the world, little Instahoof! And congratulations to your mom and dad!

congrats, big man!!!!

rock on!

Congrats to you all!

Instahoof! Yes! Congratulations and I hope your wife is doing well, too!

<3instahoof, congratulations family!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY INSTAHOOF!

instahoof for head hoofster, congrats!!

man if i was born amid a hurricane i would find a way to mention it in most sentences. "you want five copies of this made?, double-sided print? no problem - no problem because i was born in a hurricane".

godspeed!, anyway

― (Chris Isaak Cover) (schlump), Friday, August 26, 2011 5:17 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol can't stop thinking abt this post

O_O

Aero, I had...no...fucking...clue about this blessed event. Gotta read this subboard more often. Congratulations to the three of you.

holy moley, congratulations!!

i swear 2 god i had a dream about aero having a baby a few days ago

wow, a thousand welcomes to Instahoof!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY INSTAHOOF!

― your mom the burrito (ENBB), Saturday, 27 August 2011 04:51 (5 hours ago) Bookmark

kisses, dude. also thx for someone else to pay for our Social Security.

Congrats AERO and Ms. AERO! Hail Instahoof! <3

Congrats!

yay congratulations!

:D :D :D

GOD SPEED SWEET 'SMITH FAM

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congratulations

Well done all concerned!

hooray for instahoof!

Ohhhhhhhh shit congrats dude

RADBABY TIMES 2 U

way to go!
Tracer, that's awesome.

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Ahftikah! Ahftikah!

man if i was born amid a hurricane i would find a way to mention it in most sentences. "you want five copies of this made?, double-sided print? no problem - no problem because i was born in a hurricane".
godspeed!, anyway

― (Chris Isaak Cover) (schlump), Friday, August 26, 2011 5:17 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol can't stop thinking abt this post

―  (gr8080), Saturday, August 27, 2011 12:07 AM (14 hours ago)

Anyway, kudos and congrats all round.

WOOOOOO HOOOOOO

Woah!!!! Congrats!!

Oh well done!

Congratulations!!!!

Welcome to Instahoof Irene Tyler!

btw for my last post on the knocked up rollcall thread I wanna say that all the insane intense you-can't-know-til-you-know shit ppl throw down about the blessed event are, for me, true - that while I don't doubt that a wordy motherfucker like me could find the words to describe the emotions in me today, the pure intensity of it sort of occludes the desire to actually do it. because I'm typing this while my son sleeps with his head on his mother's belly. that's what it is, you know? it's that level of gary-snyder-in-his-groove simple depth, that view-of-a-mountain huge. completely in love with this little guy, can't even start to talk about it without crying yet.

oh man wow! congratulations!

congrats on well formed babby!

congrats, aero!

So no one has been pregnant since 2008? I am 12 weeks today. I started mood swings at 8 weeks but approaching 12 weeks... those mood swings were small thunderstorms compared to the tsunamis I am getting now.

I will be going through the day happy and excited and then out of nowhere get hit with semi-anxious, overwhelming sadness. There is no reason for it and I find trouble when I start giving it a reason or searching for a source. If it is hormonal, it has no reason other than hormones raging.

I have never experienced chemical depression or ever had PMS that compares to something like this. I am not in the habit of feeling sad and depressed without a solid reason and I guess I am not grasping the hormone thing. I never bought the hormone thing and scoffed at anyone who used it as a reason for anything. I loathed it when girls said their PMS made them do it. While PMS made me feel low sometimes, I could always control my thoughts and emotions. Can hormones alone can make me feel like my world in caving in on itself? I usually find solutions to my problems but now I feel crazy.

When I am hit with this semi-anxious sad feeling the tears start flowing and it's hard to even get out and try and take a walk to take my mind off it. I can't top crying. I tried exercising which always makes me feel great but then it exhausts me and feeling tired seems to be a trigger, not eating as soon as I crave something is another. Although sleeping and eating don't always prevent them or cure them, helps decrease their intensity somewhat.

Yesterday I woke up feeling great. Had a dip in mood so decided to sleep it off. Took a nap. I was awake 3 hours straight, worked out, had a snack, felt great but was extremely sleepy again. This is the sort of drowsiness I only previously experienced going into and coming out of anesthesia. It is really intense.

After a second, shorter nap, I woke up, ate dinner with my boyfriend and was fine for about an hour then had a drop in my mood. Unfortunately, my boyfriend was home and was quickly devoured by my tsunami of anxiety and depression. A question led to a conversation that led to a discussion that escalated and now things there are weird. We woke up this morning in separate beds.

This is my first pregnancy and his as well. I don't think I am able to articulate my frame of mind accurately to him, don't understand this hormone thing. I am happy about pregnancy but at the same time I am shocked with what I find myself experiencing. Having been a person who was previously in control and now finding myself unable to control things going on inside and with my body. It doesn't feel normal to feel so out of control, to have mood swings and these sleeping fits. I see Rosemary's Baby in an entirely different way now. It is a scarier movie than I thought, I get it now.

Is there anybody out there, who knows what this out of control feeling is all about? How to keep things in perspective so that you don't wind up taking a Greyhound to Nowheresville only to get there and mood swing back into a what have I done moment?

Sorry for that first sentence, this was previously posted on another board.

i am not a lady but based on my wife's experience, hormones can do some crazy shit in pregnant ladies. for her, things evened out in the second trimester and she was a lot more energetic/cheerful.

have you talked to yr OB about this?