Attn All Pregos!

[Laura_A]

Just wanted to check in with all of you... cuz I know there are lots here... and see how you all are feeling. Things going well? How much longer?

[Charla]

Hehe!! I get to be one of the ones to check in here :D

Things are great here (updated about my first prenatal on my blog). Got about 8 months left...

[sinead]

You're so sweet, Laura! I'm at almost 16 weeks and all is well (except not getting nearly enough sleep due to my biological clock that thinks it should be up til 2am and Maggie's that says she should be up at 5ish! gotta work on that!).

How's everybody else?

[Cynnder]

bah.just battling the hind end of a nasty month of morning sickness.... phew.so glad to be just about in the 2nd tri already....no complaining yet...still way way way too long to go!

[ChristineS]

omGOSH Laura, I thought you were gonna say you needed to be added to the list, ROFL!!! I'm finally off my stupid nausea meds, which is good because they were causing personality problems -- my poor family! I actually feel really GREAT now but I tired really easily. Good thing I have so many kids to help me :)

[Rynonut Mom]

Awww - how fun! We're going to have babies to gaga over! Yay!

[d2vasquez]

cool thread just hoping it's not contagious by posting "congrats and good luck" here.....

[Rynonut Mom]

I'm not touching the keyboard.....

[~ashleigh]

cool thread just hoping it's not contagious by posting "congrats and good luck" here.....


LOL!! I am hoping the same!

BEST WISHES everyone!!!

[Nonnie917]

I don't have to worry about that anymore EVER! Tee Hee. I just get to enjoy my grandbabies. I am glad to hear that all you ladies are doing good. Can't wait to see all the new babies. This will be fun.

[Tara18]

cool thread just hoping it's not contagious by posting "congrats and good luck" here.....

ditto! hope everyone has an uneventful labor and delivery!

[MarshaZepeda]

Well I'm here feeling blah as usual, lol! I woke up this morning about 11:15ish with dd telling me, "Mom, it's ONE ONE ONE FIVE... I think it's time for you to get up now..." roflol! Poor kids were starving... :whatchuta Last night I finally had to bust out the body pillows because I was ACHING! I could literally feel my ankles swelling EEK! They are soooo big! Cankles anyone??? lol! Anyway, I think I *might* be getting some desire for scrapping back.. I did a layout yesterday! lol!

[jencaputo]

ok just had to comment to say I totally did not get what this thread was about and thought you were either calling out Italians or pasta lovers.. hehehe

i get it now.. ;)

[ChristineS]

ROFLMBO Jen!!!
Marsha, I came {{this close}} to buying a body pillow at Target today -- I've been using my favorite bath robe all rolled up instead.

[Kelsey]

congrats everybody!
:) too bad everyone lives all over the place, or i could do some serious babysitting when all the kids are born haha :D

[sinead]

I've still got my body pillow from when I was pregnant with Maggie--I've been using that bad boy for a couple of weeks! lol It's one of those cool C-shaped ones. LOVE it!

Marsha, do your legs hurt, too? My ankles are fine and aren't really swollen, but the muscles in my upper legs feel like I've been doing squats or something. CRAZY!

off to bed (or at least to the couch for some tv-vegging out!) for me! Congrats all you other preggos!

[Rynonut Mom]

Kelsey - is that you in your siggy? You'd be the cutest baby sitter!
Can you come to my house? You could have my boys doing flips in the living room and wear them out! :)

Oh - and *sigh* I still have my body pillow from Matthew! It was a god send! and you know what? It's the pillow he uses now on his bed! :) (he has the full size on the bottom bunk)

[Kelsey]

Kelsey - is that you in your siggy? You'd be the cutest baby sitter!
Can you come to my house? You could have my boys doing flips in the living room and wear them out! :)
no actually it's some pictures I took of Carly Patterson (Olympics 2004) :regular_s haha...but I could still teach them some stuff lol

[Rynonut Mom]

Ohhh - duh! now I see her name in the siggy! LOL! I thought she looked vagely familiar too - that's probally why.
They need tumbling lessons, all they want to do is wrestle! LOL!

[midgetprincess79]

cool thread just hoping it's not contagious by posting "congrats and good luck" here.....


I'm with you....LOL!!

[digimumma]

I get to join you all here now!! We've just found out that we're expecting babe #5!! I'm 5 weeks so very early but I've already had my fair share of morning sickness...LOL

Good luck and best wishes to everyone :)

[JennStar]

Congrats ladies- I love seeing everyone's tickers in their siggys!!

So, I have to ask. . . .anyone have any names picked out yet??

[Charla]

Wow!! Congrats, Tina!! :D Sorry about the m/s though.

Jenn, yeah, we have names picked out but they're a surprise. Too many people I know follow me around on this board, and we like to keep it a secret. ;)

(this is exciting for me...with Jasmine we never did come to agreement on a boy's name. Good thing it didn't matter!!) :D

SOOOO funny, Jen!

[Cynnder]

ok..so those body pillows are worth it? im doing ok right now...so far I can still sleep really well...i just used my boppy last time it worked ok....but if a body pillow is wonderful......... hmmnnnnn...............

[RachelS]

i loved my body pillow while i was preggo. i took it with me everywhere... it did take up a lot of space in the car though...

[MarshaZepeda]

I've still got my body pillow from when I was pregnant with Maggie--I've been using that bad boy for a couple of weeks! lol It's one of those cool C-shaped ones. LOVE it!

Marsha, do your legs hurt, too? My ankles are fine and aren't really swollen, but the muscles in my upper legs feel like I've been doing squats or something. CRAZY!

off to bed (or at least to the couch for some tv-vegging out!) for me! Congrats all you other preggos!
My upper legs are fine. It's mainly my calves and ankles in the morning and late evenings. (Maybe I should stop wearing my heels now?) lol! Almost ALL of my shoes are either on heels or wedges (call it insecure if you want, lol!) I'm only 5'4" and most of my friends AND my sis are in the 5'6" - 6" range, lol! Anyway, I want one of those C shaped pillows SO BAD! Look at this one: The Snoozer (http://www.snoozer.com/pregnancy.asp?prodid=szr1001)... does anyone have it??? If so, is it worth the price?

Also, I just ordered this video (http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/sr=8-14/qid=1151071244/ref=sr_8_14/601-2285348-1037757?%5Fencoding=UTF8&asin=B00008J2I7) and really want this series (http://www.fusionpilates.com/), too... I got Fit Mama in the mail 2 days ago and it's still sitting in it's wrapper, lol! I'm going to open it up today and check it out... I hope it's good! Has anyone ever tried the Fusion Pilates one???

And woo hoo! Congrats Tina! How many does that make us now?

[Cynnder]

congrats Tina...

no names here yet...guess we'd better start.. LOL!

[MarshaZepeda]

i loved my body pillow while i was preggo. i took it with me everywhere... it did take up a lot of space in the car though...
Omg... OFF TOPIC... but your avatar is TOOOOO CUTE! I always wondered about it but I just read the description under your siggy and that is so precious! lol! LOVE it!

[Cynnder]

off topic here too ...marsha..speaking of avatars..i never noticed that you stuck a reflection of you and Dh in your lens! neat girl!

[MarshaZepeda]

How many does that make us now?
If I go by the ones responding to this thread, here we are today:

Christine: 25w
Me: 16w 4d
Sinead: 16w
Deanna: 11w
Charlene: 5w 4d
Tina: 5w

[Charla]

Wow, that's a lot :)

I loved my $8 Walmart body pillow. I couldn't justify the $50 or whatever the c-shaped ones cost. :)

[JennStar]

I bought 2 regular body pillows at Costco for about 8-10 a piece. They were the best!! And I slept with both of them! DH was so glad when I was able to put them away after the boys were each born.

[Andree]

well, since there's a thread and all and I've spilled the beans on my blog and over at scrappersdailydose, I guess it's only fair I do here too :P

Yep, I'm 5 weeks pregnant!! wahoo! Alhtough I'm not thrilled about having MS during summer (we we're planning to TTC mid summer so I'd have nice tail end summer breezes :P) but someone had other ideas ;)

So I'm due mid to end febuary (depends what cycle lenght I enter) and since we got "had" by my calculations, it only means my cycle was much shorter this month than it should have been :) Anyway, yay for this thread :)

Now you all know why I'm been so MIA with the scrap pages. I'm in sleepy mode from wake up to after nap time and am ill until bedtime. Fun times :P So I'll very likley not pop up often until this is all over (which I truly hope will not last my whole pregnancy like last time!)

Congratulations to everyone else too and Thank You Laura for "hooking" us all up :D

[Charla]

Congratulations, Andree! You, Tina and I will all have ours right around the same time :)
I hope you feel better soon...so sorry about the MS. Has it already started? I understand the sleepiness...I'm right there with you (well, actually, I don't feel as tired as I did with Jasmine, which is good since it's harder to sleep now!)

[Andree]

OMG! I felt sick before I even knew I was pregnant. I thought I was coming down with a cold. The weirdest thing is, I was SURE I wasn't pregnant (because by my calculations I shouldn't have been!) except I ovulated early so that put everything into the spinner!

So yes, ms started before I knew and has been getting steadily worse. With my first, it started exactly 2 weeks after I knew, ON valentines, I just remember telling my DH how U felt weird that day and it didn't stop :P This time is sorta creeped up on me :P Hopefully the difference means it won't last as long. I just hope I don't get the pukies as THAT I can't tolerate. I'm actually afraid of it since I haven't in a LONG LONG LONG time.! Weird I know. I should only be so lucky twice :P

Cool that we'll be three at the same time. I've got 2 other mommie's in my mommy group (Same group as Andrea actually, that's how I know her :) Met her BTW, she's a great person :) ) that are also due in febuary. I'm well surrounded it seems :)

[Cynnder]

yeah Andree..congrats girl!!!!!!!!

[sinead]

Here's what I have: http://store.babycenter.com/product/for_parents/maternity_pillows/3784?stage=

It's AWESOME and totally worth the money! I tend to fold it in half, too, and use it to get a comfy lounging position on the couch--really helpful in 3rd tri when you are supposed to be lying on your side all the time, which is difficult because that big 'ol belly throws you off center.

Anyway, congrats to all the newly preggo girlies! I was several weeks late because I realized what was going on. We went through infertility before we were lucky enough to get Maggie (I even had a prescription for injectible meds and had taken the shots class!), so it never crossed my mind that I could be pregnant without even trying. God had other plans, though, and I was 9 weeks before I even tested. Boy, it sure makes the 1st trimester FLY by!

Oh, and I'm pretty sure I felt the baby move today. What a weird feeling! :regular_s

[Charla]

I can't wait for that feeling. Congrats on feeling movement! Yeah, not knowing for 9 weeks would make that nervous time go really fast :) How exciting.

[Rynonut Mom]

Oh - Congrats Andree and Tina!!! :)

not touching the keyboard....

[digimumma]

Thanks everyone!
LOL @ Michelle not touching the keyboard!

We have picked out names but it's a secret. We chose 2 girls and 2 boys names, and then voted with our 4 babes on which ones we liked best!

[MarshaZepeda]

Oh, and I'm pretty sure I felt the baby move today. What a weird feeling! :regular_s
Isn't it? lol! The other morning I layed on my tummy to talk to dh while he was getting ready for work and baby must've not liked it too much because talk about movement! lol! But I haven't felt a whole lot. Mostly flutters and such... :)