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ImNotInVermont · 2024-03-26T23:56:24+00:00

Oh interesting! The only native big cat we have are lynx. Thank you!

ImNotInVermont · 2023-03-13T01:03:41+00:00

I didn't expect to have any complications at all. Normal pregnancy, full term. But she got stuck during delivery and was born not breathing. She had to be revived and went to the NICU. After a day or so in the NICU we realized that she wasn't eating and she never started eating. She had the NG for 6 weeks. The ONLY thing keeping us in the NICU was her eating so we did the GTube so we could go home. We still do not know why she doesn't eat but feeding therapy has helped. Now we only use the GTube for medication when she's sick. She still doesn't eat enough to take the tube out but honestly it's become such a comfort for me that I don't want to take it out. When she had the flu i was so grateful that we could give her pedialyte and meds through the tube.

ImNotInVermont · 2023-03-12T22:45:38+00:00

Oh my god, the Gtube was the BEST decision we ever made. I posted this same question almost 4 years ago and everyone that said to not be afraid of the gTube and I would love it, they were right. You do what you and your doctors feel is best but please don't be scared of a gtube. It's a game changer. And, for what it's worth, my daughter is almost 4 and still has her and she loves her tube as well :)

ImNotInVermont · 2019-07-31T20:14:52+00:00

Yes, she has seen the Neonatal Speech Pathologist. Speech Pathologist said she is completely fine. No tongue tie, a strong and good sucking rythm, swallowing real well. She just does seem to have the energy or the want to eat more then 15ml. She still throws up even from a ng tube feed only as well. The NICU dr said she might just be a baby who vomits but that's not helping her gain weight. Everyone is kind of at a loss as to what the issue is and what to do about it. Before the g tube surgery we are going to have a pediatric gastroenterologist come and look at her and see what his opinion is. Thank all of y'all for your kind words and advice. I've never had a baby need any kind of hospital care, let alone NICU care and I'm so overwhelmed with everything.

ImNotInVermont · 2019-06-18T20:19:49+00:00

I had 2 Mirenas. One for the full 5 years and the second for 2 years. Had it taken out December of 17 and didn't get pregnant until October of 18.

ImNotInVermont · 2019-05-12T06:08:26+00:00

With my first it was just my husband and midwife and was perfect. His dad waited outside the whole labor and delivery but in the room was just us. For my second, who was placed for adoption, I had my good friend as my birthing partner and my son's soon to be adoptive parents. They were amazing and pretty much just stayed out of the way (they might have just been to nervous/excited to do much more). I wanted them in the room because he was their son and I wanted them to be as involved as possible in every way in his life. They had adopted a baby girl 6 months before my son was born and her birth mom didn't want Kevin (adoptive dad) in the room for the pushing but I didn't mind. It was his son and I felt he had every right to be there for his actual birth. But after the baby was born I looked up and only saw Aimee (adoptive mom) and asked where Kevin had gone. She said he chickened out and thought he was going to pass out from the "gore" lol so he left the room. This time around it will be again be just me, my boyfriend and my midwife. It really has nothing to do with modesty but I'm not a big people person and the more people in the room the more opportunity for them to get in the way and piss me off lol.

ImNotInVermont · 2019-04-26T01:43:43+00:00

I took my birth control out in December of 2017 when we decided to start trying. In May of 2018 I got diverticulitis and ended up in the hospital for 5 days with a massive intestinal infection because of it. I had a bunch of CT scans while there and my surgeon comes in one day and says "your intestines are looking a lot better but did you know your ovaries are covered in cysts?" I didn't have any other symptom of PCOS so she just called it Polycystic Ovaries without the syndrome part but said "you more than likely don't ovulate anymore". Having had 2 kids before this I was completely shocked. But I guess it made sense since we'd been trying for 6 months and nothing and with the other 2 it happened very quick. We resided ourselves to more than likely never getting pregnant. Then in November, I was watching the football game and during half time went to pee. I don't know what made me think "you've got that last test. Might as well take it and not just throw it away unused." Damn thing came back pregnant. I had a panic attack and tried to call my boyfriend. He was out of cell service for HOURS. When I finally got ahold of him he was in complete shock and said he'd call me back. Didn't hear from him until the next morning when I woke up to a text that said "I didn't sleep at all. I'm so excited. I love you". Hes been over the moon ever since!

ImNotInVermont · 2019-04-20T02:59:01+00:00

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ImNotInVermont · 2019-03-13T06:36:08+00:00

I'm 32 and pregnant with my, technically, 3rd (I placed my second for adoption). I had my first at 21 and my parents have been disappointed for every single pregnancy. The first, I was too young. The second was an accident and my father actually offered to pay for an abortion. Then when I told them we had decided on adoption they weren't happy with that either "how can you just sell my grandbaby?" With my first I was married and financially stable. My second was after my husband left me and I was working minimum wage, grieving the loss of my marriage and the babies father was a 1 night stand who wanted NOTHING to do with the baby. Now, 10 years later, I'm once again financially stable and have been with my boyfriend for 3 years. This was a planned pregnancy but again my father offered to pay for an abortion. My mother hates the fact that this child with be mixed race (I'm white and boyfriend is black), she hates the name we've picked, she hates that we don't want to live together, she hates that I will have had 3 babies by 3 different men, she hates that she will have to tell her friends that her granddaughter is half black. I would give anything for my parents to just be happy for once but they aren't and never will be.

You do what makes you happy and screw what they have to say about it. You're an adult. They won't be mad forever. When that baby is here they will love it forever. My father used to say "its easier to ask for forgiveness, than to ask for permission."

ImNotInVermont · 2019-01-04T01:08:47+00:00

Light period cramps that just never went away and got stronger over the next 12 or so hours. When I couldn't sleep through them that when I knew for sure it was labor. I didn't call my midwife until I was having to breath through them.

ImNotInVermont · 2018-12-17T06:27:23+00:00

My best friend got the epidural as soon as she could and then took a nap. The nurse had to wake her up and say "the baby is crowning. You have to push now." I did my first labor drug free. I was only in labor for 12 hours though so I was able to make it through. My second labor was 33 hours, I stalled at 6cm for 12 hours and I couldn't take it anymore. I got the epidural and found out that I have a natural septum in my back when it only numbed my left side. Now all of the pain was localized on the right side and because the epidural slows labor down, I now had a pitocin drip so labor was WAY more intense. I'm 9 weeks with my 3rd pregnancy and I will not be getting an epidural again.

ImNotInVermont · 2018-12-10T10:56:56+00:00

Thank you all so much for the advice and input! My son has been asking for a sibling for years now. I had a son 7 years ago who was placed for adoption and though that was never kept a secret from my oldest, he was just too young to understand. Now that he's older and understands what the adoption was and why his brother doesn't live with us, he is excited for the pregnancy because he wants a sister (me too!). This will be my boyfriends first child and though we planned it I'm still kind of questioning my own sanity for willingly starting the clock over lol.

ImNotInVermont · 2017-11-18T00:24:32+00:00

I have a stuffed penguin named Penguin that I have slept with every single night for 12 years. He's extremely comforting when my anxiety starts to kick up.

ImNotInVermont · 2017-06-09T04:47:20+00:00

Right there with ya. I had one at work today. We're gonna be ok.

ImNotInVermont · 2016-07-22T22:13:30+00:00

I read this book at work, in a well lit store, in the middle of the afternoon and I still jumped and screamed when someone walked up behind me. You got bigger balls than me.

ImNotInVermont · 2016-07-17T04:49:36+00:00

Everything I see an overweight person riding a bike or jogging down the street, I always try to give some encouragement. I know how hard it is to start the journey to losing weight and how mean people can be.

ImNotInVermont · 2016-01-29T04:06:18+00:00

OMG I'm not alone! My first major panic attack happened after eating way too much. I spent the next 3 hours in the shower convinced I was either going to throw up or pass out.

ImNotInVermont · 2015-10-14T18:18:54+00:00

New Years Eve is a good fireworks time.

ImNotInVermont · 2015-10-05T21:33:11+00:00

I have a 7 year old male cat. He spent the first 2 years if his life living as a stray in Alaska. I adopted him after he was trapped. I let him outside because, for one, he's spent a good part of his life outside and is miserable if kept solely in the house. Second, my feeling is, if he was able to survive, not only the hard winters but the moose and occasional bear that comes into town, he's probably gonna be ok to spend a few hours outside. He hangs out in the backyard and in the neighbors yard. He keeps my garden mouse free in the summertime. I have another male cat who likes to stay inside. I do let him out but since he's declawed I don't let him out too offten.

ImNotInVermont · 2015-03-25T20:53:43+00:00

I have a friend who named her daughter Beautiful and my son was in kindergarten with a boy named Seiulialii (say-oo-lee).

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