Knocked Up Rollcall

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

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lol can't stop thinking abt this post

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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?

Congratulations, *tera! Can't help with the hormones though.

I will next week at my visit for sure. It is just that books and sometimes doctors are very generalized and each pregnancy is different. This is why I wanted to hear more personal experiences.

I just happened to meet a woman this evening and we started talking and she mentioned that she had it for nine months straight but never suffered from post-partum. She also mentioned the fatigue being overwhelming and said she spent the entire pregnancy in bed, she loved her bed, just wanted to be in bed. Her advice was to give in to it. It did make me feel better to hear a mother of three describe things I have been experiencing.

Twins this morning, boy okay-sized, but spending the night in NICU to get his blood sugar up, girl gigantic (for a twin) currently sleeping on my chest like a pro.

congrats! I became a big brother 28 years ago yesterday when my brother and sister were born. they've had the most awesome bond their whole lives.

congrats dr. superman!!!

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Congrats to the whole
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congrats!

congrats! don't throw jimmy olsen out though, wtf?

congrats!

Awwwwwwww congratulations!!!!!

Congrats with superbaby!

Congrats!!!

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Heyo

Congrats!

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Congrats, dude.

Whoa

Way to go, Shakey Mo!

should be findin out the gender on Wednesday... this will be a 5-year age difference between children, which is a little wider than most parents I know, but on the other hand I think I will appreciate having to deal with only one set of diapers at a time.

Congrats Shakey!

^^!

*clap* *clap* *clap*

yay shakey!
your wife must be a week or so behind mine, we just found the sex

Good job, Shakey!

it was a lot of hard work on my part, lemme tell ya

Congrats, shakey

I'm almost a decade younger than my older bro; it can be done. congrats

it was a lot of hard work on my part, lemme tell ya

― the choogler and the chosen one (Shakey Mo Collier)

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holy shit! congratulations man!

congrats!

"hard" work

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shakey I have 3 siblings which are older than me by significant gaps - 6yrs, 18yrs and 20yrs - and its just fine