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[aegis2005]

Pregnant
Terri (may07wedding) due 1/10/2013 (Team Blue)
Kate (mskateb) due 2/1/2013 (Team Blue)
Heather (aegis2005) due 2/22/2013 (Team Blue)
Aly (alzi) due 3/15/2013 (Team Green)
Jen (mrsjenrn) due 3/29/2013 (Team Blue)
Lauren (babybchbum) due 4/30/2013
Tasha (tashaandsage) due 5/28/2013

Moms
Liz (aidensmom) mom to Aiden (1/25/2008)
Kim (kimandross) mom to Quinn (2/25/2008)
Kate (mskateb) mom to Lily (7/26/2008)
Kathy (mrsjason) mom to Macy (12/8/2009)
Danielle (dvroxy) mom to MacKenzie (4/10/2010) and Madeline (7/23/2012
Jen (mrsjenrn) mom to Zoe (2/17/2011)
Jennifer (jennifer8080) mom to Kennedy (2/19/2011) and Caleb (8/6/2012)
Chelsea (mrschelseap09) mom to Lila (3/11/2011)
Tasha (tashaandsage) mom to Maisy (3/22/2011) and Beckett (1/28/2008)
Mayette (etteyam) mom to Sophia (5/3/2011) and Juliana (11/14/2009)
Marissa (amellis2) mom to Amelia and Abigail (6/4/2011)
(lovethesun) mom to Mason (7/22/2011)
Lauren (babybchbum) mom to Triston (8/8/2011)
Sara (miasmom) mom to Amelia (12/27/2011)
Meghan (mrsmew) mom to Ellie (3/29/2012)
Melissa (mellis74) mom to Mia (4/27/2012)
Shawna (mrsshawanab) mom to Blake (5/22/2012)
Jen (jen812) mom to Dominic (5/31/2012)
Angela (loskadoodle) mom to Drew (6/28/2012)
Janelle (dearselah) mom to Selah (6/29/2012)
Krystal (krystalskitsch) mom to Cannon (9/9/2012)
Kara (April17) mom to Ethan (9/14/2012)
Carolyn (moonstone523) mom to Samantha (9/30/2012)
Stephanie (surfbetty530) mom to Lauryl (10/14/2012)

[sara76]

I love mornings with her. She nurses then cuddles. Then she gets in her high chair and eats Cheerios while I start my coffee. She chats with me while the coffee brews and if by the time it's done she doesn't have her banana on her tray all hell is going to break loose. Then she'll eat her banana and a few bites of my oat bran while I eat. I love how she likes things a certain way but is also very go with the flow if there is a change in what we do or where we are. I love watching her eat her entire banana while making conversation with me. Oh yeah and the walking! She is a walker now! She was taking between 3-20 steps then falling down and continuing on crawling. Now she falls and gets right back up and keeps walking. I haven't seem her crawl in 2 days. I guess it's on! So far it makes things much easier honestly. But I do look forward to the day when she stops putting everything directly in her mouth.

[amellis2]

Good morning!

I don't check in often, but my girls are 18 months old as of last Tuesday. Amelia is jabbering on in cadences, which I think is the precusor to short sentences. They are both very good at communicating their desires. They both are picking up on more and more mimicry. For example, Tata (Luis' Mom) will tell them not to do something and she sticks her pointer finger up, and waves it from left to right. I told Amelia not to touch some garbage bag that were waiting to go to the compactor, and she did the sign for it.

I am introducing new signs to them. "Rain,""Shirt," "Merry Christmas," and foods. Words that they know and say: "shoe,""Mommy,""Dada,""Poppy," (my stepdad) "Nana," "Tata," and "eat,""Thank you," and "Up."

Abigail seems a little slower on picking up on speech, but nothing to be concerned about. We are just encouraging her to not whine and use her words (usually by offering choices.)

We have started doing time-ins on occasion for discpline. I feel they are too young for punitive or corporeal discipline at this age and I have made it clear to Luis and our caregivers that spanking or any other form of hitting is not something that I want to do anyways, however discipline is needed since we have reached the wonderful age where they take things from each other and the other flips out.

I am still spending the week away from them, although it was a lot less over the thanksgiving holidays. This week MIL will be staying over here on Thursday night so that I can find a sitter for Friday so that Luis and I can go to my holiday party.

BTW, does anyone want to babysit on Friday night so Luis and I can go to my holiday party? LOL.

We have 18 month appt coming up soon, and I am so happy to done with vax for a significant amount of time. I was apprehensive about vaccinating in the first place, but I felt like I was taking a greater risk by NOT vaccinating. Anyways, so so so happy to be done for a long time! I hate watching them cry and hurt even though it is for their best interests and even though it is only for a few minutes.

[moonstone523]

Samantha is 10 weeks old. This past week was such a milestone I think. She went from a baby to, well, a baby, but one that is so much more aware and expressive.

The highlight of the week was transitioning out of the infant bath insert to the baby bath. She had so much fun discovering the water and kicking her arms and legs around freely. I have so much fun watching her discover the world.

The baby acne is gone, thankfully.

The 5pm CryFest ended a few weeks ago. Not that she is cheerful like she is in the morning, but it's tolerable. I just need to get her down for a nap around 4 or 5 and she is good to go.

She goes to bed at 7pm like a champ, and is sleeping for an hour 8 stretch and a few couple hour stretches. She wakes up 1-2x a night to eat and goes right back down.

[aegis2005]

Had my 28 week appointment last Monday and baby boy is still breeched. OB says he still has time to turn, and we'll chat at my 36 week appointment if he hasn't.

Got a letter from United that they will allow me an exception to deliver at St. Joe's. Problem is that the time frame they gave me ends on my due date and it notes vaginal birth. I'm concerned if he goes late and/or I need a c-section because he's breeched I will have issues - so I need to give them a call this week. I was hoping this whole debacle would be resolved by now, but from the little that's been reported neither side is making headway.

[amellis2]

Dec 10, 2012 11:47:21 GMT -5 aegis2005 said:

Had my 28 week appointment last Monday and baby boy is still breeched. OB says he still has time to turn, and we'll chat at my 36 week appointment if he hasn't.

Got a letter from United that they will allow me an exception to deliver at St. Joe's. Problem is that the time frame they gave me ends on my due date and it notes vaginal birth. I'm concerned if he goes late and/or I need a c-section because he's breeched I will have issues - so I need to give them a call this week. I was hoping this whole debacle would be resolved by now, but from the little that's been reported neither side is making headway.

We had a presentation for open enrollment last week and I realized we had United also. Apparently, United is still trying to negotiate with them but Baycare wants 30% reimbursement or nothing at all (an increase from 8%) Now, this was coming from the United rep, so take it with a grain of salt.

I'm sorry that this is happening at a REALLY inconvienent time for you all.

[aegis2005]

It took 45 minutes and being transferred a few times, but I finally talked to a representative that clarified because I'm in the third trimester I'm covered. Additionally if circumstances change they would cover once I'm admitted (i.e. the letter I recieved noted the covered vaginal delivery ... and my concern was if a c-section was needed).

Baby will be covered for basic care of if NICU time is needed, but if something were to come up after discharge he would need to go to a non-BayCare facility.

I'm fine with that - especially since we'll be switching to my husband's insurance about 30 days after baby gets here ...

[jennifer8080]

Things have been hectic since the move. We went to Disney last week and had a great time. It was the kids first time and they loved it. I sort of expected Kennedy to be afraid of the characters but she loved them! Caleb loved Mickey too. We managed to do all four parks, Downtown Disney, breakfast with the characters and spend some time with my inlaws. Now, we're back home. I don't think it hit me how much I miss Florida until we were back there. Kennedy had so much fun with other kids and I miss all my playgroups, and friends. So over the next few weeks I'm going to try to get her enrolled in some music, dance, tumbling, etc. She loves to dance, and even shook her little butt in the middle of Downtown Disney. We're in the process of trying to get her started in therapy here. I'm really eager to get back to speech therapy and hopefully get her talking more.

Caleb is doing great. He just turned 4 months and he's a giant. We have his appt Wednesday, but I would imagine he's at least 17-18 pounds. He's such a happy little guy! Kennedy loves him now that he's getting more interactive.

[mrsjenrn]

Zoe is up to 10-11 words now, so her speech is slowly coming along. She is, for the most part, such a happy kid and is very social. There have been many temper tantrums lately when we tell her no and no matter how much I redirect her/try to cheer her up, she persists. Sigh. If I giver her her cell phone she usually becomes happy again, but I hate doing that. I swear she is addicted to that thing! She makes me laugh every day though and I am so sad that I am missing a lot because of work. It has been so hard for me! She had her first double ear infection, just 3 weeks aftrer she stopped BFing. It broke my heart to see her in so much pain, but she was a little trooper about it. Now H and I are sick, so its been fun.

Speck is kicking up a storm and my H even felt him the other day! I have to go for my glucose test soon. They handed me a form at the dr for LabCorp to get it done there. I told her that I will never go there again and will have it done at work. The woman in the office told me that is fine and she doesn't use lab corp at all anymore after what happened to me (they're the ones who told me I was HIV+ in my first pregnancy - their computer had misreported at least 4-5 people's results and I was the lucky first one it happened to). My dr's office doesn't use them for the HIV and some other tests anymore, but apparently they still use them for the GTT. Ugh.

[april17]

Ethan was 12 weeks on Friday. It's so hard to believe we are already at 3 months. He is such a cutie pie though! He loves to smile and laugh...I even get some small giggles out of him and it just warms my heart.

He LOVES other little kids. When we go to the library class, he just sits and stares and drools at the other kids. We went to visit a friend of mine on Saturday who has a 13 month old and Ethan just couldn't take his eyes off her. It's so cute to watch him entranced.

This week will likely be quiet for me. I am finishing up some Christmas shopping (thankfully we draw names in both of our families so I have little shopping to do!) and will likely hit the library class and maybe a first time moms network class. It's nice to try and get out of the house with him as I go a little stir crazy being cooped up. Not use to all this alone time. Ethan isn't getting much in the way of Christmas from us. Keeping it simple since he doesn't know any different!

Oh and yesterday I hit the Goodwill store in Oldsmar with my mom and sister and I found a bunch of cute clothes....several still with tags. Most of the infant clothing is $1.17 each so you just can't beat the price. I believe I bought about 10-11 things for him in bigger sizes so that I can just store them until they fit. I could have bought more, but was trying to keep myself in check!

[tashaandsage]

I've been feeling my pregnancy more this past week than i had been, in the form of awful headaches, back pain and lots of round ligament pain. I've also been much more emotional. Not helping is that yesterday my 98 year old grandma, who I have been really close to my whole life, was admitted to the hospital and put in ICU. They will only do so much because of her age, and the doctor said we know what the ultimate outcome will be. I've been trying to prepare myself for the past few years for the fact she can't live forever, but now that we are facing the beginning of the end, I know I'm going to have a really rough time with this. Being pregnant and already emotionally fragile isn't going to make it any easier.

[amellis2]

Dec 10, 2012 16:49:20 GMT -5 tashaandsage said:

I've been feeling my pregnancy more this past week than i had been, in the form of awful headaches, back pain and lots of round ligament pain. I've also been much more emotional. Not helping is that yesterday my 98 year old grandma, who I have been really close to my whole life, was admitted to the hospital and put in ICU. They will only do so much because of her age, and the doctor said we know what the ultimate outcome will be. I've been trying to prepare myself for the past few years for the fact she can't live forever, but now that we are facing the beginning of the end, I know I'm going to have a really rough time with this. Being pregnant and already emotionally fragile isn't going to make it any easier.

Tasha, I was here just a few months ago. I'm here if you ever need to talk.

[babybchbum]

Dec 10, 2012 16:49:20 GMT -5 tashaandsage said:

I've been feeling my pregnancy more this past week than i had been, in the form of awful headaches, back pain and lots of round ligament pain. I've also been much more emotional. Not helping is that yesterday my 98 year old grandma, who I have been really close to my whole life, was admitted to the hospital and put in ICU. They will only do so much because of her age, and the doctor said we know what the ultimate outcome will be. I've been trying to prepare myself for the past few years for the fact she can't live forever, but now that we are facing the beginning of the end, I know I'm going to have a really rough time with this. Being pregnant and already emotionally fragile isn't going to make it any easier.

Hugs I am so sorry you are having to go through this.

We find out Thursday what we are having ... And I am so excited!

I have been more of an emotional mess lately too. Between headaches and panic attacks I am ready for things to calm down. We are headed to Mickeys Very Merry Christmas this weekend and I am looking forward to get away.

[tashaandsage]

Dec 10, 2012 19:10:35 GMT -5 babybchbum said:

Dec 10, 2012 16:49:20 GMT -5 tashaandsage said:

I've been feeling my pregnancy more this past week than i had been, in the form of awful headaches, back pain and lots of round ligament pain. I've also been much more emotional. Not helping is that yesterday my 98 year old grandma, who I have been really close to my whole life, was admitted to the hospital and put in ICU. They will only do so much because of her age, and the doctor said we know what the ultimate outcome will be. I've been trying to prepare myself for the past few years for the fact she can't live forever, but now that we are facing the beginning of the end, I know I'm going to have a really rough time with this. Being pregnant and already emotionally fragile isn't going to make it any easier.

Hugs I am so sorry you are having to go through this.

We find out Thursday what we are having ... And I am so excited!

I have been more of an emotional mess lately too. Between headaches and panic attacks I am ready for things to calm down. We are headed to Mickeys Very Merry Christmas this weekend and I am looking forward to get away.

Thank you, Marissa and Lauren!

That's exciting about your ultrasound being Thursday. Mine is two weeks from Thursday. I have absolutely no preference, I'm just impatient to know. Still thinking boy?

[alzi]

I don't have much to report. We are getting killed by insurance. This kid is going to cost so much freakin money. After paying 2 arms and a leg to the dr for the birth, we keep getting bills for the different tests. Fuck man. Any $$ we had hoped to save up for baby and use during mat leave is getting eaten up by bills.

[melis74]

We got back from Chicago last night...or should I say this morning, due to a flight delay. Mia did great on the way there, the way back however, was ...let's just say I hope we don't have that luck again, eek! She had blowouts in both directions too, I swear, it's like their intestines know when the perfect(or not so perfect) time to do that is. On a happy note, she loved meeting the Northern family and has started scooting forward, getting into the sitting position on her own and eating stage two foods like they are the best thing ever!

ENT update from last week: her hearing is perfect now, thank goodness!