*hides*

[kalquessa]

I think pregnancy may have traumatized me a tiny bit. I keep having dreams where I find out that I am pregnant again. I'm always like "But I just did that and it was awful! I like the one I have, I don't need another one, yet! NooooooIdon'twanttobepregnantno!" And I'm always in absolute agonies at the prospect of doing all of it again right away,

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[travels_in_time]

Hee! I didn't just do it and I have those nightmares. :D

[arhyalon]

I'm commenting here because I couldn't find a comments button above.

How is life with the baby????

[kalquessa]

Life with him is considerably nicer than it was to start out with, now that he's big and strong enough to nurse on his own. No more pumping and bottle feeding, yay! He's also up to average weight (a little over 12 lbs at 3 months) so he's sleeping a lot more at night and eating less frequently than he was to start out with, plus he's more predictable now. I feel like I can sort of do this without completely losing my mind, now. *grin* The next big step is to eliminate the one remaining middle-of-the-night feeding. *crosses fingers*

[arhyalon]

Yeah...that's a great time, isn't it? After they settle a bit and before they start really being on the go. The golden months of Baby Goodness!

(On the go is good, too, but different.)

[ladybrick]

You could change your LJ name to nopreggono.

[mosinging1986]

I had *just* taken a swig of my Starbucks Frap before reading this. Lemme tell ya, it took me quite a bit of effort to avoid spewing it all over my computer.

[kalquessa]

*sporfles coffee*

[mosinging1986]

Dude, after hearing so many stories of pregnancy and birth, I find it a wonder ANYONE ever chooses to go through it again!

[jaxomsride]

It boggles me how anyone can "love being pregnant" either. And I had a much easier time than you did.

If you are breastfeeding and there's no sign of the dreaded TOM returning you should be safe. :¬D

Evil Brain!

Have a teddy bear

[persephone_kore]

It boggles me how anyone can "love being pregnant" either. And I had a much easier time than you did.

Well, I'm sure my mom didn't enjoy everything about it (having an extra person attached in the heat of summer was one of the less fun parts), but she says everybody else seemed to be in much more of a hurry for her to give birth than she was. (It may have contributed that she thought her official due date was a bit of an early estimate.) People kept asking her when she was going to have me, and she kept thinking, "But I know how to take care of it while it's in here!"

[kalquessa]

Yeah, I know people who really liked pregnancy and were almost sorry when it was over. If I'd had less ickiness to deal with, I probably would have enjoyed it more, and it's true that it's a lot easier to take of the baby when he's still inside you. *grin* I do like mine better out than in, though. Even waking up to feed him in the middle of the night is better than puking and nausea and migraines and heartburn and back pain and...well, you get the idea. Heh.

[persephone_kore]

Well, it's not like she wanted me to hang out in there permanently. *g* I'm sure if she'd had the level of ickiness you had to deal with (yikes!), she would have been in a bit more of a hurry. But she did find it kind of funny that other people were more impatient than she was.

[mollyringle]

I hear you! At first I thought it a little annoying that the midwives were all, "What's your next birth control plan?" even BEFORE the baby was born, but they have a very valid point really. Just today I phoned them up to ask about the usual cost of getting an IUD so I can factor it into next year's medical budget. Because it is, I hear, *not* reliable to assume that breastfeeding is an effective contraceptive (with or without Time Of Month occurrences).

But in any case, yay for Bear being a big chubby nursing champ! Does he have legs like turkey drumsticks now? Mine does. Cutest thunder thighs ever.

[kalquessa]

Yeah, all the books I read were at pains to impress upon me the fact that breastfeeding does not equal birth control.

He definitely has the thunder thighs, now. *gnaws on them*

[izhilzha]

It's very interesting--and I must ask my mom about this sometime--because clearly breastfeeding *isn't* a complete contraceptive, and yet my mother (who got pregnant while ON birth control pills) swears by it, and how she spaced out my younger sibs.

Ah, the differences between individuals.