First of all, congratulations! Are you having a boy or a girl or did you ask not to know and are just waiting to be surprised? I'm so happy for you!
I hope your pregnancy is going well and, if not, that it gets better. The second trimester they say can be hard. I got part-way through it and, well . . . yeah.
Thank you for your condolences. I'm still in shock, as is my husband in many ways. We've considered adoption when we're more stable financially and emotionally - the second part being more important at this stage and more necessary. We've also considered trying to find a surrogate, which would probably be harder, but as we haven't looked into it that much, it's anybody's guess.
Have you had a baby shower? D you need maternity clothes and stuff? My in-laws got me some amazing - and terribly expensive! - maternity clothes for the second and third trimesters that are currently just sitting here gathering dust. You're more than welcome to them if you want.
I tried to start a scrapbook . .. I can't get beyond the front page. Hell, I haven't even finished that. I can't bring myself to put what would've been our daughter's name on the page . . . I just can't do it yet.
Sorry for the aside . . . Let me know if you want the maternity clothes - oh! And there's something else I can give you, too, that's really cool that they gave me: It's a portable changing station and playpen combination - with storage, although not much. Just enough for a few things, the basics.
Take care of yourself! And keep me updated on how your pregnancy is going.
It's a girl. I'm happy to be in the third trimester, finally. I've had lot of nausea. I've been on medication since 8 weeks.
So do you know what happened? I mean why you lost your baby?
I just got some new maternity clothes the other day so I'm good for now, but thanks! That's awesome of you. If you can't find anyone for them, you might think about consigning them at the baby consignment shop over at Oak Knoll and 183 (if you need some cash).
I had a lot of nausea, too . . . constantly. They tried so many different medications on me, from Zofran (and that shit's expensive! Thank God for health insurance!!) to Phenegran to so many other things I don't even recall. One made me so very depressed it wasn't even funny.
We know what happened and we know why, too. I was brutally raped when I was fourteen. Let's just say that I was drugged, had surgical and other implements used on me and was severely mutilated internally as a result, and was left for dead. We'd thought that I'd healed enough and that the surgical procedures I'd had after that trauma made it to where I would be able to carry. Apparently not. This coupled with my hypothyroidism, which makes pregnancy very difficult and one more likely to lose a child (my aunt, who also has hypothyroidism, lost her son when she was at thirty-six weeks).
The direct cause of death was that her heart stopped. The placenta and the umbilical cord detached internally and she, essentially, had no life support.
*sigh*
I got to watch her die. I mean that in the most literal sense. I was at a specialist's office and they were trying to figure out a way to save the pregnancy when her heart stopped beating. I was watching the ultrasound monitor and listening to her heart beat and when it flatlined, the nurse who'd been monitoring went pale. I fainted.
You're welcome on the offer of clothes! I just want them to go to a good home, to someone who can use them. This one chick I found who I thought could use them we found out was way to small for them . . . I mean, she's small enough that she'd have to gain some disproportionate and very unhealthy amounts of weight to ever get into them. So . . . alas.
There's a baby consignment shop? That's an option. What's the name of the shop? I found out that a Lifecare and a few of the other pregnancy support places in town don't take donations of clothes as such. They take them for infants and toddlers, but . . . not for mothers? It surprised me. I couldn't even donate the mobile changing table/playpen combination, which really surprised me. :(
I've been really doing well on Zofran. I started on 4 a day, plus supplementing with Unisom and B6. I'm now down to 2 a day. I've tried 1 a day, but no dice. That stuff is crazy expensive! OMG! I ordered some from the online pharmacy and I loved the little invoice thingie "You paid $10. Plan paid $1900." Yikes!
I'm so sorry that happened to you and they couldn't save her. That's just gut wrenching. I just can't imagine.
What kind of mobile playpen/changing table thingy to you have? I think we may have registered for something like that. Pack N Play or something like that?
The place where you can consign maternity clothes is called Lil Ones and More. It's on Oak Knoll just west of 183. There's a little strip plaza there with a gas station, a Subway sandwich shop and a couple other random things.
I hope your pregnancy is going well and, if not, that it gets better. The second trimester they say can be hard. I got part-way through it and, well . . . yeah.
Thank you for your condolences. I'm still in shock, as is my husband in many ways. We've considered adoption when we're more stable financially and emotionally - the second part being more important at this stage and more necessary. We've also considered trying to find a surrogate, which would probably be harder, but as we haven't looked into it that much, it's anybody's guess.
Have you had a baby shower? D you need maternity clothes and stuff? My in-laws got me some amazing - and terribly expensive! - maternity clothes for the second and third trimesters that are currently just sitting here gathering dust. You're more than welcome to them if you want.
I tried to start a scrapbook . .. I can't get beyond the front page. Hell, I haven't even finished that. I can't bring myself to put what would've been our daughter's name on the page . . . I just can't do it yet.
Sorry for the aside . . . Let me know if you want the maternity clothes - oh! And there's something else I can give you, too, that's really cool that they gave me: It's a portable changing station and playpen combination - with storage, although not much. Just enough for a few things, the basics.
Take care of yourself! And keep me updated on how your pregnancy is going.
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So do you know what happened? I mean why you lost your baby?
I just got some new maternity clothes the other day so I'm good for now, but thanks! That's awesome of you. If you can't find anyone for them, you might think about consigning them at the baby consignment shop over at Oak Knoll and 183 (if you need some cash).
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I had a lot of nausea, too . . . constantly. They tried so many different medications on me, from Zofran (and that shit's expensive! Thank God for health insurance!!) to Phenegran to so many other things I don't even recall. One made me so very depressed it wasn't even funny.
We know what happened and we know why, too. I was brutally raped when I was fourteen. Let's just say that I was drugged, had surgical and other implements used on me and was severely mutilated internally as a result, and was left for dead. We'd thought that I'd healed enough and that the surgical procedures I'd had after that trauma made it to where I would be able to carry. Apparently not. This coupled with my hypothyroidism, which makes pregnancy very difficult and one more likely to lose a child (my aunt, who also has hypothyroidism, lost her son when she was at thirty-six weeks).
The direct cause of death was that her heart stopped. The placenta and the umbilical cord detached internally and she, essentially, had no life support.
*sigh*
I got to watch her die. I mean that in the most literal sense. I was at a specialist's office and they were trying to figure out a way to save the pregnancy when her heart stopped beating. I was watching the ultrasound monitor and listening to her heart beat and when it flatlined, the nurse who'd been monitoring went pale. I fainted.
You're welcome on the offer of clothes! I just want them to go to a good home, to someone who can use them. This one chick I found who I thought could use them we found out was way to small for them . . . I mean, she's small enough that she'd have to gain some disproportionate and very unhealthy amounts of weight to ever get into them. So . . . alas.
There's a baby consignment shop? That's an option. What's the name of the shop? I found out that a Lifecare and a few of the other pregnancy support places in town don't take donations of clothes as such. They take them for infants and toddlers, but . . . not for mothers? It surprised me. I couldn't even donate the mobile changing table/playpen combination, which really surprised me. :(
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I'm so sorry that happened to you and they couldn't save her. That's just gut wrenching. I just can't imagine.
What kind of mobile playpen/changing table thingy to you have? I think we may have registered for something like that. Pack N Play or something like that?
The place where you can consign maternity clothes is called Lil Ones and More. It's on Oak Knoll just west of 183. There's a little strip plaza there with a gas station, a Subway sandwich shop and a couple other random things.
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What hospital are you having your baby at? I imagine you've already had your baby shower, but is there anything that you didn't get that you need?
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My baby shower is next Saturday. :)
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Anyhow, next Saturday, huh? :) Cool. Where are you registered at?
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