Julieboo | Wednesday, June 05, 2002 - 02:05 pm     Hers' is December 15th, but she'll probably get induced a week early. Her first (who is almost 2 now) was a big baby at birth-nearly 10 lbs. Any names yet-even tho it is early...? (And congrats on making it thru the 1st trimester!) |
Jewels | Wednesday, June 05, 2002 - 02:12 pm     10 lbs....yikes! We are tossing around some names, but not sure yet. My name, my husbands name and our son's name starts with J. I haven't decided if the next one should start with J too or not. What do you think? |
Julieboo | Wednesday, June 05, 2002 - 02:25 pm     I think another J name would be nice. I'd do it if it were me. (but then I'm goofy that way.) Plus J has tons of names. But I wouldn't not consider other names just cuz they don't start with J.... (was that helpful or what! ;o ) |
Urgrace | Wednesday, June 05, 2002 - 03:16 pm     My neice's baby arrived on Saturday. He is 6 pounds 3 ounces and 18 inches long. She loves the fact that he has hair, which is dark blonde, and is a healthy baby. She says she can't take her eyes off of him and is in awe of motherhood. I have no doubt that she will be a wonderful mother. The father is pretty smitten too. |
Julieboo | Wednesday, June 05, 2002 - 03:25 pm     Congrats Grace! What is his name? |
Buttercup | Wednesday, June 05, 2002 - 05:04 pm     One of my best friends sent me a little paper puzzle in the mail. When I finally got it put together it read: Guess who's having a baby!!! So guess who got on the phone right away? Evidently they had taken the in-laws out to dinner and given them the same puzzle while waiting for their meal. She said the expression on their faces were priceless when they finally put the clues together. Good thing she missed seeing my face I thought it was such a neat way of telling, and just thought I'd share
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Jewels | Thursday, June 06, 2002 - 07:24 am     Julie, your advice is about the same thing I have been telling myself! I think a J name would be cute, but maybe a little cheesy for us to all have J's, but then again I would feel sorry for the one who didn't. I don't know. The girl name I really like is a J name, I just can't find a boy name I like, unless I name it after my dad, but my nephew already has a variation of is name. Such a dilemma. Congratulations Gracie! Glad everything went well! Buttercup, that is a cute way to tell people! I haven't been able to be that patient and have to call everyone right away.  |
Abbynormal | Thursday, June 06, 2002 - 08:47 am     Jewels, we know a family who has all J first names and R middle names. There are seven of them. My grandma said those people were going to get those J.R. names in there if they had to name one of them Jack Rabbit! |
Enbwife | Thursday, June 06, 2002 - 09:03 am     Grooch – good point! Don’t worry Jewels… I remember when I was 13 weeks and wished I was further along – time flies! My co-workers are sneaking around me all morning getting ready for my baby shower. It’s hilarious because it’s not a surprise, yet no one has spoken to me all morning… Funny! I bet Danz has had baby Dylan by now… she hasn’t been on here for a few days. Can’t wait to hear! |
Urgrace | Thursday, June 06, 2002 - 12:19 pm     Thought I'd pass along part of the letter from my grandniece: Well, some of the details are, I went into back labor at 6 am on Friday and was having timable contractions all day. All through the nite on Friday it just kept getting worse and I was having to breath through them. I called the OB unit at the hospital and told them and they said "oh its just false labor if it was real labor the pain would move around to the front also" . BLAH! I kept timing them all nite Friday and xxx got up for work on Saturday morning and I told him just go ahead and go because the nurses kept telling me it wasnt labor. Well, when my Mom got up at 8 I told her I thought I needed to go to the hospital and at least get checked to see what was going on. So we got to the hospital at like 9:30am and they checked me and said I was dialated to 4cm and my cervix was thinned to 90%. (But OHHH REAL labor would move to the front this was just false labor I had been in for the last 25 hrs BLAH again!) So they checked me into the hospital and I asked to take a warm shower because after 24+ hours of back labor I was in some pain with each contraction. So I took a warm shower and got out, like 10 mins later my water broke and I had him an hour and a half later. I'm just glad I listened to my body and my instincts and went to the hospital or I would of had this baby at home! I gotta get going. I'm glad all is going well. We love you guys and write back soon! See ya! Always, xox This is what I meant about trusting your own judgement, and saying "you'll know" when the time arrives. Just stay tuned in to your own body! Danzdol's baby Dylan and my greatgrandnephew may have been born pretty close together! |
Julieboo | Thursday, June 06, 2002 - 12:25 pm     Does your greatgrandnephew have a name yet? I wonder when we'll find out about Dylan. We might not find out for another month... |
Bookworm | Friday, June 07, 2002 - 08:34 pm     Hopefully Danz is sleeping whenever she gets the chance and spending all of her waking hours with her sweet baby. Tho it would be nice to hear something from her.  |
Admin | Sunday, June 09, 2002 - 07:53 pm     Here are the photos of Lisa's Mural. She did it all, except for the bark on the tree, I did that. The Disney characters are stick-ons, the rest is real paint!
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Firebird05 | Sunday, June 09, 2002 - 08:08 pm     Great Pics Admin. Baby will certainly be happy in that room. If you take care of baby the way you care for us babies you will be great parents. |
Moondance | Sunday, June 09, 2002 - 08:25 pm     What a GREAT & Happy room! Lisa looks happy & Great too |
Juju2bigdog | Monday, June 10, 2002 - 08:37 am     Oh, how cute! |
Wink | Monday, June 10, 2002 - 08:45 am     Neil and Lisa the room is adorable. I see you have your walkie talkie/monitors at the ready. Those are great for picking up conversations in your neighbours' homes if they have babies and the monitors.  |
Julieboo | Monday, June 10, 2002 - 08:50 am     Thanks for posting the pictures. Lisa did an awesome job. (And the bark looks great too!) Is the blue a solid color? It looks like it goes to a lighter blue--like when it gets closer to the sun. What bedding do you have for the crib? Winnie the Pooh or something else? (Good thing you didn't have Hildi do this room!) |
Abbynormal | Monday, June 10, 2002 - 09:12 am     Great happy room! Lisa you look great too! |
Willi | Monday, June 10, 2002 - 09:43 am     A wonderful room! Lisa does look terrific & happy.
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Enbwife | Monday, June 10, 2002 - 12:10 pm     Thanks Neil for posting those for me… I have no idea how to do that. Thanks everyone for your comments. A lot of time and love went into the room. I mentioned to a few people I was doing Winnie the Pooh, and the next thing you know, every gift is Winnie the Pooh including the crib bedding. It’s really cute in there and I love to just go in and look around. Spent another 3 hours yesterday putting the crib bedding in and changing the curtains. Only thing left now is to wash everything, hem/line the curtains, and paint a happy face on the sun, then it’s ready to go. Went for my 32 week appt. this morning. All is fine with baby. Go for another ultrasound in 2 weeks to see how baby is positioned and where placenta lies. Won’t be long now… Getting very excited. Only 3 weeks left at work and I’m off the whole month of July!!! I wonder how Danz is doing… can’t wait to hear the news. |
Enbwife | Monday, June 10, 2002 - 12:12 pm     Julie – blue is a solid color, it just seems to have the effect of getting lighter in the pictures. |
Danzdol | Monday, June 10, 2002 - 12:41 pm     I am here!!!!!!! Dylan is here!!!!!! He was born JUNE 3rd at 8:37pm 7 lbs 12 oz (Went to doc appt. today and he already weighs 8 lbs!!!!!!) 20" long The delivery: To make a very long story short here are the facts................. 1. Water partially broke June 3rd at 6:50am 2. Went to hospital and got admitted 1cm dialated. Nurse said I was having a perfect labor (jinxed it) 3. Was doing wonderful and was not even feeling the contractions until 3cm 4. Ignorant nurse offers pain relief before they administer pitosin to "take the edge off" 5. Did not tell me the side effects 6. Within seconds my labor came to a slow halt and baby's heart beat dropped 7. My doc was not on call so I got a young, clueless midwife(I was disappointed at her professionalism) who did not take control of the situation 8. Anesthisiologist has to adminiter epidural 4 times because he says "I had a dancer's back=terrible" 9. Epidural slips out and stops working! 10. Because of the initial pain reliever Dylan turns into the "sunny side up" position and because it was already about 8pm they decide that c-section was the way to go after 10 hours of labor . 11. 8:37 None of it matters anymore, my little one was finally here! I am now doing beautifully. I have been walking since the 2nd day. Have very little pain on the incision and I am home recovering and getting to know Dylan. I am breasfeeding which has been wonderful only a bit sore but the rewards are awesome! I am going to post some pics in a little while and soon some newer ones. Dylan is 1 week old today and already he looks different. Thanks for checking in on us while we were away. I am soooooo grateful and thankful that I have him. Despite all the drama I will do it again in a heart beat. This is the most important thing I have done in my life. Everything else pales in comparison. |
Wink | Monday, June 10, 2002 - 12:48 pm     Congratulations Danzdol and all the best to you and your new babe. |
Julieboo | Monday, June 10, 2002 - 12:54 pm     Congratulations Danz! Can hardly wait to see pix. I ended up with an unexpected C-section too! I had a HORRIBLE nurse as well. Will save that story for another time. One thing that helped me a lot with the incision was this big ace-bandage thing that wraps around your belly and helps stabilize things. I was still very big-bellied after the birth, so this helped all that "flab" stay in place. (I forget what it is called.) Sounds like Dylan is nice and healthy. Breastfeeding rules! Congrats!!!!!!!! |