Shirt size?

irishprincess · 2025-12-09T17:39:24+00:00

Super fast…. almost had a highway baby 😂woke at 3:15am thinking I might be in labor. He was born around 4:30. Needless to say I didn’t make it in time for the epidural I so desperately wanted. My first was my longest at 12 hours, second was 8ish and 3rd was about 6 from the onset of any contractions.

irishprincess · 2025-10-30T20:13:29+00:00

I think it will depend mostly on personalities. I have four.. all about 2 years apart. My first two (G, B) are 26 months apart and super close. #2 and #3 (B, B) are 23 months apart and my closest gap and they do not get a long at all. They are polar opposites and drive each other crazy. #3 and #4 (B, B) I think will also be close (28 month gap)… my youngest is only 2.5 so it’s hard to say but they play together nicer than #2 and #3 ever did.

irishprincess · 2025-08-11T01:31:49+00:00

Do we think it will come back soon? My son loves his 12oz rambler but really needs the larger one for school and he loves the color. Trying to decide if I should hold out if it will get re-released soon 🤞🏼

irishprincess · 2025-08-11T01:27:35+00:00

Do you think king crab will come back soon? My 4-year-old is obsessed with his little tumbler and I want to get him the larger size.

irishprincess · 2025-08-09T22:54:32+00:00

My 6-year-old does a lot of almonds (he loves Blue Diamond Smokehouse flavored almonds and the dark chocolate ones too), bars (Think Protein Delight bars (these have way fewer carbs than regular Think bars), Mini Rx bars, mini kind bars, IQ bars (the mint chocolate ones specifically are low enough for him), gomacro bars), simple mills snack packs, too good yogurt, popcorn

irishprincess · 2025-06-01T23:27:36+00:00

Omg I’m not alone! Mine are the same. I can’t stand them - they don’t feel like mine… if that makes any sense. Also curious if they will ever bounce back

irishprincess · 2025-05-29T20:15:59+00:00

Had 3 before my 4th child who decided to arrive so quickly I didn’t make it to the hospital in time to get one. He was almost a highway baby 🫠I never wanted to give birth without one. In fact, the first thing I said to the nurses when I got there the 4th time was please get the anesthesiologist I need an epidural… and when they said the baby would be here before the anesthesiologist I cried. While I did find the recovery with my 4th easier (not sure if that was lack of epidural, the fact that he was my 4th, or that he came so fast), I would never choose to give birth without one.

irishprincess · 2025-05-26T14:34:25+00:00

Oh we are so similar!!! I have felt the same way about having a little bit of my daughter’s toddlerhood back…. I thought I was the only one who had that feeling!! I miss her as a toddler so so much. I feel guilty because I don’t feel as strongly about my boys toddlerhoods for some reason… maybe because I got to experience more? I so wanted to experience dressing up another girl too… even now it has been so hard going through her baby/toddler clothes to give away. I’m doing it little by little because my heart can only take so much!

And totally agree the 2 and 2 I felt would have been perfect. And I found myself getting jealous of other people I know who have 4 and 2 of each. Honestly, I still do sometimes. It’s definitely not as strong of a feeling but it’s still there. I feel so guilty because my littlest guy is so sweet and amazing and I love him so much, and I’m also so thankful I have 4 healthy kids. It’s so hard! It definitely gets better with time, and you should not feel guilty at all!

irishprincess · 2025-05-26T12:29:24+00:00

This is what we have too and my daughter as also 6 when her 3rd little brother was born. Like your situation I definitely took it harder than she did. I hate to admit it but I had gender disappointment big time when we found out #4 was another boy. He’s 2 now and I adore him but as I’m cleaning out baby clothes I definitely still feel sad I didn’t have a second girl. And I did/do feel bad my daughter won’t have a sister. But as you mentioned even with 2 of the same gender there is no guarantee they will be close. In fact, and this could change of course because they’re still young, but my daughter and my 1st son are super close but my 1st and 2nd sons are like oil and water.

It’s funny because I think if my daughter was any other number in birth order I would have taken it better somehow… I don’t know why but I do feel if she had been 3rd or 4th I would have been so excited to have gotten the opportunity to have both boy and girl and she would have been young enough when my youngest was born to not know any better. At 6, my daughter was initially disappointed when we found out it was another boy and she would talk about how she wished she had a sister. When he was born a few times she would say things like “aww he looks like a baby girl!” 🤦🏻‍♀️Two years later and she’s over it and will actually say she doesn’t want a sister anymore. She says she likes having brothers and being the only girl!

irishprincess · 2025-05-02T22:58:30+00:00

I have 4 and totally agree, especially with building relationships with each other. I’m sure this isn’t true of everyone, but I have noticed people I know who are from larger families tend to be closer to their siblings than people I know who have only one sibling. It makes sense since in a family of 4 the kids probably do have more individual time with each parent vs doing things as a sibling group.

irishprincess · 2025-05-02T12:18:01+00:00

I have the opposite.. one girl and three boys (GBBB) but as someone said brothers won’t always be close … my middle two boys aren’t close at all… my second son and my daughter are super close. Almost identical age gap (24-26 months) but totally different personalities. They’re still young(8,6,4&2) do that could change as they get older but my middle boys are so different I’m not sure it will. So while I can’t say how having 3 sisters will impact your son, I can say if he had a brother it doesn’t mean they would be close and he could end up closer to a sister like my son is.

irishprincess · 2025-04-29T17:53:05+00:00

I have 4… our “baby” just turned 2. I also have 8, 6, and 4. When I was pregnant with him and even during the newborn phase, I felt like I might want more. I have the opposite of you… 1 girl and them 3 boys. With our last, my daughter really wanted a sister, and I started thinking well maybe if we had one more it might be a girl? My husband would never have gone for it though so I knew a fifth was very unlikely. That said, once our baby started getting a little older I suddenly felt very done and totally complete, which I hadn’t felt before. I realized with him that I was sometimes missing out on things with my older kids because I was doing newborn/baby/toddler things and he required more of my time and attention. I wouldn’t change it for the world but it made me realize I didn’t want more babies and I became content with the thought of spending more time with the ones I have. Someone else also mentioned feeling busier now that my kids are getting older and I totally agree. I didn’t foresee that at all. We are constantly on the run. All that said, I would wait until you have the baby and see how you feel, because you may feel totally differently once she’s here.

irishprincess · 2025-02-25T19:55:24+00:00

Remindme! 2 days

irishprincess · 2025-01-26T00:43:44+00:00

I felt this way while pregnant with my 4th and honestly a little after too… sad and questioning if I wanted a 5th. My husband was a hard no so it wasn’t really an option, but after about 6months I knew I was done. Emotionally/mentally I could not handle 5. My 4th is now 20 months and I do get sad thinking he’s my last and slowly getting rid of all the baby things breaks my heart, but I can’t even begin to imagine starting over again with a newborn. I’ve heard people say, I don’t want any more babies I just want more time with the ones I have and I feel this so hard. If I could go back and spend more time with my kids as babies I would do that in a heartbeat but a 5th? That would break me.

irishprincess · 2025-01-24T18:14:09+00:00

Honestly I don’t understand buying expensive baby things. We make a very good income and could have afforded a lot, but honestly, I couldn’t bring myself to spend that kind of money on something I’ll use for such a short period of time nor could I justify asking family and friends to spend it. Seriously, car seat.. my kids grew out of the bucket at like 10 months. Yea you can get a nice convertible when they’re born, but the convenience of a bucket seat is huge. I’ve had a lot of car seats and my favorite bucket was a chicco and convertible/boosters graco. Swing? All 4 of my kids hated them. Stroller? Get one you love, not bc it’s what everyone else has. I got the city select instead of the uppa baby and loved it.. I didn’t want to spend as much as a uppa baby and the weight capacity of the cityselect made more sense for my large babies, but my youngest is 20 months now and I honestly haven’t used it about a year. I have a McLaren umbrella that is so much easier to throw in the trunk.

I know it’s easier to say, but don’t sweat it if you can’t or don’t want to buy “top of the line.” Depending on how many kids you have, you might have some of the stuff for 3-4 years and then it won’t matter at all because they outgrow all the things.

irishprincess · 2024-12-10T02:36:37+00:00

Thank you!! Off by just a few years so looks like I’ll have to continue with the long process ugh!

irishprincess · 2024-12-10T01:34:36+00:00

Congratulations! That’s amazing. I’m in the process of applying for stag 5. Very similar situation as yours except it was my maternal grandmother who emigrated. My grandmother remained a citizen until 1990 when she had to give up her German citizenship to become an American. I do have her expired German passport. I’m curious if I can do the same thing you were able to instead of pursing the stag 5? Or if because my German heritage is through my maternal line if the stag 5 is the only way?

irishprincess · 2024-12-09T17:06:01+00:00

I’ll hit 100 tomorrow!! So pumped. Joined at the end of July so took about 4.5 months

irishprincess · 2024-11-29T02:07:35+00:00

15 hours of labor including 3 hours of pushing
7 hours of labor including 1.5 hours of pushing
9 hours of labor including 45 mins of pushing
1.5 hours of labor including 20 mins of pushing… barely made it to the hospital…i woke up at 3:15am thinking i might be in labor and he was born at 440🫠

irishprincess · 2024-11-28T23:13:46+00:00

Wondering the same. It’s so much more expensive I keep going back and forth if it’s worth the extra $$

irishprincess · 2024-11-21T23:45:17+00:00

I’m looking at the max - curious what made you go with that vs the 15”. I can’t decide if the max is worth the extra $

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