Baby Race 2008...

Gotta get a way to keep up with and take predictions on who's due next and who we think will go. So, post your due dates here and make your predictions on who will go next.

Shill (Susan) Baby #2- I am due 10/15 (competing with Bier-due 10/14) LOL! I hope I'm next, cause I am soooo ready.

flgirl (Pamela) Baby #3 - I'm due 3/8/2009!!

sunquest76 (heather) due december 9, 2008.

Awesome. This is so much easier tha ntrying to remember who is due when and who's next. Plus, I see new faces. Hi Newveggie.

Bier (Erica) Baby #2- Official due date of October 14th. We're scheduling our c-section for the 10th!

There will be another close race come December between newveggie and sunquest!

Shill & Bier, you guys are so close together!  It could be a tie. 

Oct. 10th, eh? Now I have a date to aim for. LOL! Isn't it wierd to know the exact date. I'm a walking time bomb.  I hope to go a little early. For some reason, I think because my daughter came the day after my little brother's birthday that this LO will come the day after my big brother's birthday...Oct. 8th.

Oct. 7th is my older bro's and my ex's birthday. I want her to have her own day.

That is too coincidental about your daughter coming after your brother's birthday and this one possibly the same. 

Hi, I'm due January 11th, 2009. I don't know about you guys but I'm getting scared. This is my first and I'm scared about the birth.

I was afraid about giving birth to my first as well. I wasn't so much concerned about the pain because I knew there was a fix for that. The biggest thing I was concerned about was having all the family in the room while pushing and pooping on the table. Silly, I know, but those were the types of things that worried me. Labor was rough but in all honesty, the memory of it fades very, very quickly. Plus, you can't do anything about it now; all you can do is make the very best of it.

After coming home from the hospital, my mother and mother-in-law left and we were alone. That terrified me. I couldn't believe someone would actually send us inexperienced people home with this totally dependent infant! We did great, just like all the first-time parents before us and just like those will do after us!

Switching gears, it is official: our c-section is scheduled for October 10th at 9:30am. It is strange knowing when our son will be born but it's also kind of nice that we don't have to play the waiting game again. Hopefully the baby doesn't have other plans because I'm in a wedding 7 days before that!

Yay! I'm last so far, haha.

Baby #1 due 4/18...

I am just over a week away from the 2nd trimester and I can't wait! Everyone and their mother has been telling me I will feel less tired and irritable once the 1st trimester is over.

Original Post by disease_of_ease:

I am just over a week away from the 2nd trimester and I can't wait! Everyone and their mother has been telling me I will feel less tired and irritable once the 1st trimester is over.

 Psha! I wish I felt less tired and irritable after the first trimester. I was all over my husband this past weekend for petty little things and I'm at 37 weeks!

Seriously, I hope it gets better for you. For a majority of people it does! The second trimester you're supposed to get a new wind!

Well I'm 24 wks today and all I do is cry cry cry. I'm so depressed at times that I question my decision to have a baby. There is so much I want to buy for my baby but I don't have the finances right now to do it. I just pray that I do when she gets here. I haven't bought anything for myself in so long aside from a maternity shirt here and there.

Original Post by bier:

Original Post by disease_of_ease:

I am just over a week away from the 2nd trimester and I can't wait! Everyone and their mother has been telling me I will feel less tired and irritable once the 1st trimester is over.

 Psha! I wish I felt less tired and irritable after the first trimester. I was all over my husband this past weekend for petty little things and I'm at 37 weeks!

Original Post by nenewa:

Well I'm 24 wks today and all I do is cry cry cry. I'm so depressed at times that I question my decision to have a baby. There is so much I want to buy for my baby but I don't have the finances right now to do it. I just pray that I do when she gets here. I haven't bought anything for myself in so long aside from a maternity shirt here and there.

 All you can do is go forward with confidence. I am a firm believer in only getting what you can handle. You have to know everything will be fine and do all you can to ensure that. Remember, YOU come first. If you aren't ok, baby will know that. It's not the situation you find yourself in, but how you handle it that defines you. You will be fine. I did it and survived...so far. I am now faced with 2 as a single parent. You'll be amazed at those who are willing to help you, but only if you first help yourself.

Original Post by nenewa:

Well I'm 24 wks today and all I do is cry cry cry. I'm so depressed at times that I question my decision to have a baby. There is so much I want to buy for my baby but I don't have the finances right now to do it. I just pray that I do when she gets here. I haven't bought anything for myself in so long aside from a maternity shirt here and there.

 Oye, I can totally relate to the financial issues! When my daughter was born four years ago, we had very little money and lived in a tiny, cramped apartment. When our daughter was a year old, our friends had a baby girl. He worked for a company his father owned getting paid way too much for doing way too little. His wife decided to stay at home with the baby but also received a paycheck from daddy's company. I was so jealous of all the money they had and the fact that they were able to spoil their daughter in ways that I couldn't afford to. I was also jealous of her ability to stay at home while I was stuck working all the time. I realized that we don't need all the things money can buy because we have a great family. I didn't have a lot growing up (even though my parents had a lot of money) and I think it's taught me to be a more humble person (which I'm sure was their intent). No amount of money will be able to provide the love and caring which only you can give. You will make it work with what you have. We did and our daughter has turned out great so far!

Bier is absolutely right. We never had money growing up and never missed it either. It will never make you happy and could never solve life's problems. As a society, the more money we make, the more we spend, and the more we want. It's not so bad to be on a budget. I really think you appreciate all the special things when you do get them. I know I am 100 times more savvy with my money than most people my age. I don't feel the need to have a new car, a big house and all the fluff that people think is important. You will learn a lot by struggling a little. (((hugs))) 

Spoiled kids will usually be spoiled and unappreciative adults.

Original Post by disease_of_ease:

Yay! I'm last so far, haha.

Baby #1 due 4/18...

I am just over a week away from the 2nd trimester and I can't wait! Everyone and their mother has been telling me I will feel less tired and irritable once the 1st trimester is over.

I've got you beat by one day, I'm due 4/17!

I really hope my irritability diminishes next week too because I am a bitch to my SO lately. I feel bad and I try so hard to help it but oh well.