Posts by finnsal

 vanessa1031:

(i posted a smiley pic of the baby on my gallery yesterday)

Thanks, Vanessa. I saw your Julia pics right after I posted. She's really beautiful! All that hair! What a looker.

Thanks, juliemae!

Congrats brianneo, what great news. I'm looking at the beautiful pictures of my brand new niece, just born yesterday. My brother wasn't trying, but he's excited. We've been trying since Jan 08 with no luck. No in my family knows we're trying. Happy for my brother. Wishing it was me, too.

lorriec, thanks for sharing your journey so far. I took training to teach others NFP (natural family planning) - the charting and CM and all. I've seen many people who want to learn to do it because they aren't "successful" at something they thought should just happen. Your words are so true. I live in Canada, and I know what a struggle it is for people in the US to save for procedures like this. I really feel for you.

And I totally agree about including the SO as much as possible.

Thanks for the vote of confidence and the advice. I, like so many people, always sort of felt that once I decided that I wanted to concieve, I'd be pg within a month! Even talking to the people I have for whom that didn't happen, I still secretly thought it in my heart. Not to compare our experiences, but thanks for offering to be open to pm's from people who want to discuss privately.

Sorry, UTR, I don't have any knowledge to share for you, but I do have experience with freaking myself out by googling things!

I know there are progesterone suppositories and creams, whether they're ever used to supplement during pregnancy I don't know. Surely your doc would have recommended a course of action if he/she thought that it was a big concern.

That's interesting, tpgish, thanks for taking the time to contribute that info. My suspicion is that he's habitually or naturally inclined to this kind of routine, and has lived in such a routine for the better part of 20 years. So it's obviously not crazy detrimental to his health, as he's a highly functioning executive, and an intelligent person.

I think, though, that as he's aging (nearing 40), his metabolism is naturally slowing and he's not liking the body composition that's emerging. I do feel that it will be difficult for him to find a workout routine that will give him the body compo results that he wants with those eating habits.

I know Eckhart Tolle is getting "too cool" now that Oprah and itunes have gotten ahold of him, but I read "The Power of Now" four years ago and it truly changed the way I think about my life and spirituality. It's not, strictly speaking, a spiritual book, but it is about how your thought patterns affect every aspect of your life. It's great, because it fits in with any religion, and getting what Tolle is saying doesn't mean you have to abandon things you may have been brought up with. But you may have to question the motives behind some of them.

Anyway, I can recommend it, and personally know a lot of people who have benefitted from reading it.

thanks iamme. will do.

Original Post by vitenser:

you are totally right finnsal...thank you for the slap back to reality! I agree about the celebs...i think i should go into hiding now...

 Or just hire a look alike like Paris Hilton does - a skinny chick with a huge purse and giant sunglasses. Strap one of those fake little baby bumps on her, and get her to parade around your neighbourhood for you!

Thanks for sharing more information, all.

Yiscah - these are the kinds of accounts I'm hearing more and more of. I guess we're not all that "regular" for a number of reasons, so it's not hard to get tricked sometimes.

sapid - I've not been on the pill for about eight years, and I'm lucky to have pretty predictable cycles. Thanks for the advice, I love your points about enjoying the time to ourselves (I have step sons, so what it means to be busy with kids is not foreign to us!), and also about appreciating all of the inconveniences. I totally look forward to being pregnant, not just to having a baby. I hope I can enjoy it!

sunnybra - that's like an urban legend story! Crazy to know someone it actually happened to!

Canadian and US dollars are pretty much on par, give or take a few cents on any given day. The bigger factor that dictates cost is the size of the center you're shopping in. I'd guess that fitness equipment in a large eastern Canadian center is probably pretty comparable with US prices, maybe a bit more in smaller centers.

And one more - I +++ the comments on the pregancy models. And I think the reason we never see celebs looking uncomfortably pregnant is that they don't go out after 6 mos!

Thanks, brianneo! I'm still a good week away from being able to do a HPT, but it's a busy week, so that's good. The longest time, I've found over the past couple of months, is not actually the O to P wait. I feel like the time between a period (that you were hoping wouldn't show!) and O actually feels longer. You know you're at least three weeks away from being able to confirm a preg if you're successful, and you don't even get to do anything about it except "practice" :)! Once you get near O, and after that, there's always possibility, so that's fun.

I've never seen a race, and personally don't care to. I'm a suck about animals. But I love to get in a note on greyhound adoption, because a lot of people don't know it's out there as an option, and they really are such great dogs!

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Original Post by misty1993:

Original Post by finnsal:

April 4, 2001. If I ever forget, I can check in his ear.

Finnigan is a retired racing greyhound. To be registered with the National Greyhound Association, who regulate racing in the US, all pups ears' are tattooed at birth - birthdate in one of them, and NGA reg # in the other!

 

Thats really cool!

 

I actually think it's really sad.

One of my cats was born on Halloween, he's the only one I could ever remember. :)

 It makes me sad to think of him in a kennel at a track. Or being put down because he didn't win enough races. But those aren't his happy ending. Finny's happy ending is that his original owner, for whom dog racing is a business, was committed to adopting out dogs that didn't perform or had to retire. Finny was "retired" when he was two years old, because he didn't perform in any of his 30 maiden races. Now he sleeps on my couch. That's cool.

And whether you're in favour of racing dogs or horses for entertainment or not, I will say that he still runs once a day around our yard, and it's truly a thing of beauty. It's clearly what he was made to do. And he needs to do it. Around 3 pm every day he starts zipping around the house and I ask him "do you want to run" and he kooks his way to the door; when I open it, I swear he thinks it's the gate, and he takes off into about a 40 sec sprint in the backyard - I've watched it every day for six years, and I still can't look away!

I heard an interview on the national radio station in Canada - CBC - this morning with a woman who was a wife of the guy that's in prison right now. She left the...organization...about ten years ago, and is one of the few that managed to get out with eight of her children. She now lives in a city in Canada.

She said during today's interview that the group referred to the compound in Texas as "Zion", and that the children and people who were brought there were literally chosen by the leaders and often taken from their parents. They would be "given up" by their biological mothers and taken to the compound, and assigned to be cared for by one of the women there. So many of the children that were in there wouldn't even have memory of who their biological parents, grandparents, siblings are. And some have been born there and never been outside of the compound. She said that they are taught that the people within Zion are the chosen ones who will rule the earth after the last days.

Yikes.