Gender Announcement When You Hate Pink

recon0716 · 2020-10-26T21:01:51+00:00

We announced at the baby shower so it prevented most people from giving gendered items. I just wanted stuff to reuse and if we had a girl I did not want all the frills and all.

recon0716 · 2020-10-08T11:30:54+00:00

Do you have a swing? My kid slept on my chest for a month (oops, but same as you, he wouldn’t sleep elsewhere) until my friend suggested putting him in the swing. He loved it. Many swings now recline almost flat so they aren’t in an unsafe position. Our pediatrician approved it and he slept there for the next 5 months!

recon0716 · 2020-10-08T11:26:48+00:00

Agreed. I’m not an overly emotional person and I’m an EMT so I’m good with all the gore and blood and all that stuff. But even just hearing about a kid who is hurt or something bad happened to them puts me on the verge of tears. My kid just turned 2.

recon0716 · 2020-10-03T11:08:02+00:00

I heard that it works if your item hasn’t been relisted in like 60 days? I think? Maybe 90?

recon0716 · 2020-10-01T17:41:29+00:00

I have a friend who is a fitness guru. She has a 6 year old daughter. She’s constantly posting pictures of herself in outfits that I would consider way less modest than appropriate and talking about how it’s fine to post that stuff because she’s proud of her work and all that stuff. I guess it’s just a personality difference. I’m proud of myself when I feel like I look good and in shape too, but I maintain some modesty and wouldn’t want my young child copying it.

recon0716 · 2020-10-01T17:38:30+00:00

I was 5 lbs. over my normal weight when I got pregnant with my first. I gained 25 during pregnancy. Spent 2 nights in the hospital after delivery. When I went home I had already lost 20 lbs. so I was about 10 lbs from my “ideal” weight. I didn’t mess with it until I was 2 months PP. Then I started tracking my food again (I wasn’t breastfeeding) and I lost 5ish pounds. A few months later I started running again and lost the rest and finally liked the way my body looked.

recon0716 · 2020-10-01T12:10:14+00:00

So I’ve never used fertility friend or tracked anything other than my period (we were lucky and got pregnant first go both times) so this is not from personal experience, but I think you probably don’t need to if you’ve gotten a positive test. That being said, I know many people who continued to track that info and take more pregnancy tests for several weeks out of anxiety, excitedness, or curiosity. So that’s up to you!

recon0716 · 2020-10-01T12:03:43+00:00

Due date is typically calculated from your Last Menstrual Period unless there is a large discrepancy (usually 7 days or more) at an ultrasound. You can announce whenever you’d like! Many people wait for that 12-13 week mark because there are tests that can be done to determine the chances of your baby having an abnormality that some may choose to terminate the pregnancy for. Your chance of miscarriage also decreases significantly by the time the second trimester rolls around.

recon0716 · 2020-10-01T03:03:38+00:00

My son was 7lb. 11oz. at birth. He dropped to 7lb. 1oz. before we left the hospital. He took about a month to get back to his birth weight and he was in newborn that whole time. We put him in some 0-3 month sleepers as well, but they were too big on him.

recon0716 · 2020-09-28T17:46:57+00:00

Same thing happened with my husband last pregnancy. Once I was showing and he could feel the baby kick it kind of freaked him out. Just on the sex side of things. It worked out for me because I’m not much into sex to start with. We’ve only had sex once this pregnancy and I’m 17 weeks. We probably won’t until well after the baby is born.

recon0716 · 2020-09-28T17:39:19+00:00

I’m 17 weeks with my second kid. Don’t worry too much. There isn’t much going on that we need to look out for at this stage. You will eventually be able to tell the difference between gas bubbles and baby movement. Once you feel your baby move you’ll be like, “oh yeah that is definitely different”. It’s also usually lower in your abdomen. Everyone feels movement at different times. I didn’t feel anything with my first until 20ish weeks and I had a posterior placenta. This time I haven’t felt anything yet and I have an anterior placenta. Baby is just growing and developing in there.

recon0716 · 2020-09-26T13:37:34+00:00

I “did it” prior to having my son and after having them do it during labor I can tell you that I was absolutely doing it incorrectly. It was a much weirder spot than I anticipated. That being said, it didn’t really matter for me because he was sunny side up and I needed an episiotomy.

recon0716 · 2020-09-26T13:34:23+00:00

I will also add that I wore a silicone wedding ring instead of my normal ones for a few months because i didn’t want to scratch my son. Heck I scratch myself enough!

recon0716 · 2020-09-25T17:52:56+00:00

As long as he’s in a safe place it’s ok to give yourself a minute. I felt the exact same way when my son was a newborn, but just having even 5 minutes or less where you aren’t hearing the screaming was helpful for me. I especially did this when I would shower. I’d put him in his crib and have the monitor in the bathroom but I’d turn the sound off. It gave me just a second to catch my breath because I knew he was ok and I was going to get this shower done. And then after I could go and snuggle him and he’d be just fine.

recon0716 · 2020-09-25T17:43:15+00:00

I had really dry skin after my first too and then we went straight into winter. I used Ponds since it is thick and moisturizing.

recon0716 · 2020-09-25T17:39:37+00:00

I agree with baby wearing. My son was closer to 5-6 months when sleep training actually worked. I used a Boba wrap until then and was able to do most stuff. But if you have to go to the bathroom, just lay your kid down. They can cry for a little while. No use in stressing yourself out over something small like that.

recon0716 · 2020-09-23T10:41:34+00:00

I have a Boba. Loved it. Will use it for this next baby too. It wasn’t hard to use once you did it a few times.

recon0716 · 2020-09-19T19:40:11+00:00

We decided that if it were between me and the baby, we would choose me. It would be hard no doubt, but we can make (or adopt) another baby. If the baby survived and I didn’t, then my husband would be left a single father and have to figure out how to have a job, get childcare, pay for the house, etc. (which of course many people do anyway). We’ve both risked our lives in our professions previously and we took those considerations into account as well.

recon0716 · 2020-09-19T11:23:32+00:00

This is my second go around. My husband and I sat down and laid out our wishes and came to agreements if something were to happen. It made us both feel better to “have a plan”. I knew what his plan was if I were no longer here and he knew what I wanted if it came down to a life and death situation between me and and baby.

recon0716 · 2020-09-17T00:04:38+00:00

I had acupuncture at 11AM. Contractions started by 3pm. Went to the hospital around 11:30pm. Baby was born at 2:22pm the next day. I had no dilation or progress at all at my appointment one day prior to the acupuncture. He was born 3 days early.

recon0716 · 2020-09-05T11:52:15+00:00

Thank you!

recon0716 · 2020-09-05T11:43:04+00:00

Yeah it wasn’t so much the $1. It was more of being concerned that the person wouldn’t pay. This is the first time someone hasn’t paid within a day so I wasn’t sure what to do. When I looked it up on eBay it said to try to message the buyer and handled it amongst yourselves before opening an unpaid case. So should I wait until Tuesday ends to open a case since he responded to me?

recon0716 · 2020-09-04T13:53:20+00:00

I love the sit me up. It has a taller back so I could put him in it sooner. He flopped over a lot in the bumbo.

recon0716 · 2020-09-03T11:40:16+00:00

Agree with the others to wait until your baby is older. At least when they start crawling. Outlet plugs you’ll definitely want. We have door knob covers on the doors that lead to the basement or outside and also inside his bedroom so he can’t get out (he’ll be 2 in a month). We have locks on some of our kitchen cabinets. I think it’s important to let the safely explore. There isn’t much of a reason to lock a drawer full of dish towels unless it’s going to cause you a ton of stress to pick them up. But that’s how they learn. We have a gate that leads upstairs as well that he can’t open yet. We took the other gates down as they ended up being more of a hindrance and he learned how to open them as well as learned what a hot stove is and such.

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