This Is the Pregnancy Commiseration and Support Thread

Hope all is still going well for you, Carl.

I'm having occasional but annoying almost-faints: in the last month it's happened twice in the bathroom and just now on the station platform, which made me miss my train because boarding would have been a very bad idea. When I told the midwife she basically said, "meh that happens to loads of people, your blood pressure is perfect" so I'm more annoyed than worried.

Baby Center and the like always list fainting as one if the fun things you can enjoy as a pregnant person. It sucks that it's happening to you!

How far along are you now?

29 weeks on Sunday. I have been given iron tablets for the fainting, and the afternoon off work hurrah. Midwife basically told me to consider him a parasite and do all I can to replenish what he's sucking out of me. Babby was head down, arse out for her and his heartbeat was strong so draining my life force is clearly to his advantage.

Ha! I remember when I started craving milk like it was the only thing that mattered in the world. Then I read the weekly update and that coincided with the baby sucking all the calcium from me to make its own little bones and it all made sense.

Checking in xo

Oh, you know, nothing major. I'm having a baby tomorrow morning at 7 am.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

I didn't get the evite.

Does your room have a whiteboard? You should totally write up a Monday to-do list like:

1) Brush teeth
2) Have babby
3) Freak out over babby reality
4) Etc.

And then cross items off as you complete them throughout the day.

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL!!!!

yaaaay carl!! you are one of three women i know who is in the exact same position -- one already had her baby (girl) and you seem poised to be next, although i haven't heard about the third one.

It's raining babies.

lolololol This is exciting!

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-r1a-7OVQHV4/TWb41Xv5P0I/AAAAAAAAEbM/1jkbplItMWo/s1600/cakeify-hurray.gif

There is a white board. Under "special needs" the nurses wrote "Stay pregnant :)" because that is how we joke in the perinatal surveillance unit.

Anyway me and the baby made it to 34 weeks, 6 days, which will significantly reduce NICU time so I'm pleased and can get excited about getting THE FUCK OUT OF THE HOSPITAL and also having my wee baby.

I haven't been outside in almost three weeks, guys.

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OMG Carl and Jeff!! This is so exciting!!!

http://www.nataliedee.com/091205/NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.jpg

Outside there are trees, which are like very tall vegetables, and shiny metal animals with glowing eyes that you get inside of to go places.

Gosh, there really IS a Nathalie Dee cartoon for everything.

Natalie Dee had a baby at 33 or 34 weeks because of preeclampsia so that is extra appropriate.

I wasn't going to post the link to that story until AFTER your birth but know that I dearly dearly wanted to. I'm glad we're on the same wavelength there.

I've read it (and Jessica Valenti's story) about 1000 times since I learned of my particular complication, mostly because the stories had happy endings.

I've been meaning to come here, and have just caught up with what day it is and been reading about how you couldn't even go outside all this time!!! All the best!

yes!!! uh, break a leg or something? <3

break a water!

Bust a move.

tuesday keeps getting closer and closer, best best wishes<3

this is so exciting!!

Waiting waiting waiting

zomg I only just saw this. exciting! all the best, carl, jeff and babby

^

<3

thinking of u guys this morning!

Baby is born! Everything is looking good. More later.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

yeah!!

Yayyyyyyy

Congratulations! Whooo!

Yay new baby!!!

yaaaay i was thinking about you guys when i woke up!
congrats!! give carl a squeeze for me!

Good news!

:)

Yay carl, jeff, babby!!!!

gosh now I am going to spend the entire day wondering about babby's genitals and name

Yay! Thumbs up all the way for the new baby!

Congratulations!

congrats!

radical news

congratulations!!!

It's a girl, Ivy Elizabeth. She's hanging out in the NICU now getting warm now. Carl is doing good, recovering.