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  • raincitygirl
    raincitygirl Member Posts: 3,143
    edited March 2014

    If you haven't seen the notice - this will be down from 9-3 Thursday.

    How are you doing Sandy?  Good for you taking a week off!

    Nothing much to report today - just a really rainy, grey day.

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  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 8,046
    edited March 2014

    yeah I just read the notice

    Good,ill do my laundry that day,lol

    It was a beautiful day in my part of the woods

    Cold but no wind

    Love this weather,hate thee white shit tho

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited March 2014

    Fire........what was the post name of the the sister who use to call herself Chick something......she was pretty and I think way younger then we were........damn I'm having a brain fart....

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  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 8,046
    edited March 2014

    well keep that brain fart to urself

    I fart enuf

    And my brain is dead

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited March 2014

    LMAO......thanks that was a big help................lol

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  • blondiex46
    blondiex46 Member Posts: 5,712
    edited March 2014

    changed my mind no time off til April!!!

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  • raincitygirl
    raincitygirl Member Posts: 3,143
    edited March 2014

    You are quite the warrior Sandy.

    Ducky - if you go to member list and type in Chick, you will get about 30 variations of that name and it might help you remember.

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  • chrisct
    chrisct Member Posts: 2,662
    edited March 2014

    Have you seen this?  Too cute.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4wRQOhM9Zs

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited March 2014

    Rain.........remembered her it was ChickaD........have not heard from her for sometime and was concerned........thanks

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  • chrisct
    chrisct Member Posts: 2,662
    edited March 2014

    Glad you got home safely, Diane - sounds so scary!

    I can't imagine how much that burn must have hurt, Ducky. 

    Too bad some were missing from the wedding photo - but with a family that big, it isn't surprising some couldn't make it.  Just think - all those people come from you.  My father is one of 5 boys.  One didn't have kids - but when I count my uncles and my cousins and the cousins' kids - I think, "Wow - all those people are here because of my grandparents.  It's kind of amazing.  You must be so proud.

    Exciting times - babies almost here!  Good to get ready early. I had my baby shower a week before DD was born.  She was early - but I think the due date was off too.  My mother came over on Friday and we did a bunch of errands - went to the grocery store and got diapers and wipes and baby detergent - to the department store for I don't remember what, but some last minute purchases - went to lunch at Friendly's - picked up my car after having it serviced - all while I was actually in labor.  Duh. 

    I had gotten up at 6:15am feeling a little crampy.  DH left for DC on a business trip.  My father also had a business trip in DC.  I had "cramps" off and on all day - some worse than others.  It was early and a girl I worked with who had a baby a couple  months before had had false labor, so I didn't know what I was having.  I called them "cramps." 

    When I was at the dealership paying for the maintenance on my car, I thought I might have to use the restroom - thinking I was having a digestive problem - uh, no - it was contractions. Duh.  The girl at the register asked when I was due.  I said in 11 days.  I think she could tell from how I looked that I was in labor and I was too stupid to know it.  LOL

    So we went back to my house.  Earlier in the day, we had washed the clothes I had received at the shower.  My mother ironed them for me - wondering who would be wearing them. Little did we both know the little person who would be wearing them was on her way!

    So DH and my father got back from their trips around 7:30pm and we went out to eat for what I thought would be the last time we could go out for a while.  I was starting to really not feel well once we were at the restaurant.  I decided at 9pm, that maybe I should be paying attention to how far apart these "cramps" were.  15 minutes apart.  I decided to eat a small meal - (you aren't supposed to be eating anything - again, Duh.)  We got home at 10pm.  My mother said she wouldn't be surprised if the baby came by the end of the weekend.  Well, she came at 5:53 the next morning. 

     I did everything wrong.  But it turned out okay.


    (((((((TOL)))))))


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  • Joan811
    Joan811 Member Posts: 2,672
    edited March 2014


    Chris, love the birth story...  You did everything right - even had some dinner!  Nothing fun happens at the hospital anyway....Love that you remember those details.  I should write mine down...I had so many births - all a blur. (No C-sections for me)  Oh, I remember the first birth...the night of my brother's bachelor party.  I lived in an apartment in my parents' house and my mom and sister-in-law to be were furious because the men were drunk.  In the midst of all this, I came down the stairs not knowing there were a bunch of drunk males hanging out...I think I cried.  My dad  opened up a cabinet door into a fan that then broke and chewed up the wood door. My dad then decided to follow us to the hospital and he hit a dog and wrecked his car.   I went off to the hospital and forgot about everything..I got there about 2 AM and had baby at 4:44am on the 4th (August).  

    See what you started, Chris?  Here come the birth stories.....but I love them!

    Here's a toast to the grandmas-to-be.  It's gonna be great!

    I wish everyone here could come to NY to meet up.  It would be awesome.  Please come!

    Diane, for some reason I thought you got stuck on the other side of that pass...hope your trip home was uneventful.

    Sandy, hope you have minimal SEs from this week's chemo...one day at a time....that's all anyone gets. 

    Ducky, every time you post the twins' pix I cry...they are precious.

    Back to work here until 8 PM.

    ..

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited March 2014

    The stories are great......keep them coming.........I need the laughs today.......

    Christ great....love your endurance

    Joan......hysterical.......the only luck your father had that night was a new Grandbaby.....LOL

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  • chrisct
    chrisct Member Posts: 2,662
    edited March 2014

    Not good timing for a birth and a bachelor party.  Glad your dad didn't get hurt. 

    My husband was starving when we got to the restaurant and ate too much.  So HE didn't feel good.  So I got to be up all night by myself - doing laps by myself - doing effleurage that I learned in childbirth class on my own belly by myself.  Mr. I don't feel good came downstairs around 1 am annoyed wanting to know what was going on. I called the Dr. - the doctor from another practice covering for my Dr.'s group - and she wasn't too interested in what was going on with me.  Didn't ask me any questions - said she didn't think it was real labor - it could turn into real labor... I think she wanted to go back to sleep. 

    So Mr. I don't feel good went back upstairs to sleep.  I sat by myself and then did more laps until the contractions were 3 min apart for an hour and I started having visions of calling 911 and having the baby in the living room.  I called the Dr. again and she asked where I lived and said lackadaisically - "Why don't you go on in and we'll see what's going on..."  So I told Mr. I don't feel good that the Dr. said to go to the hospital.  Well, I got there - they had me sign papers - I had no idea what I was signing so as far as I'm concerned, they weren't legal - changed into a hospital gown - got hooked up to the monitors...

    I saw the bell-shaped graph that was a contraction - a little while later, I saw that the graph got jaggedy - that was transition I realized after the fact - at the time, I was in too much discomfort.  Not to mention exhausted because I was running around doing errands all day like a moron. 

    I asked for an epidural, but after 45 minutes, they hadn't come and I knew at that point, it was too late.  Not too much longer and DD was born. 

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  • sheila888
    sheila888 Member Posts: 25,634
    edited March 2014

    Chris...I love reading your stories....

    (((TOL)))

    Good Night

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  • chrisct
    chrisct Member Posts: 2,662
    edited March 2014

    Fast forward 2 1/2 yrs ...  I woke up at 5am to go to the bathroom.  I got back into bed and realized something was going on.  I went downstairs and timed the contractions and they were 3 min apart, but lasted only 30 seconds.  I was a little nervous because they were starting out 3 min apart.  At 6, I went upstairs and told DH I think things are getting going and I was going to call the Dr.  He jumped out of bed, showered and was dressed in like 5 minutes.  I guess he learned his lesson from the last time.

    No one called me back, so I called again around 7:30. My doctor called me back that time.  It was a Saturday morning and I could hear her kids in the background.  So I called my parents to come watch DD and they came over around 9.  We got to the hospital around 9:30.  I felt lousy.  There I was thinking since I had already done this, I knew how it was going to go, but it wasn't the same. The first time came on gradually and increased gradually over the course of about 24 hrs.  I actually had the biggest endorphin rush of my life after she was born.  I even asked if they had given me drugs, I felt drugged.  They hadn't.

    This time started fast - contractions were worse.  It was busy at the hospital - there were no labor and delivery rooms - I was in a room with 5 other women in labor separated by curtains.  I was lying there thinking, "This is what it must feel like to die..."  Eventually, they took me to an operating room because there was nowhere else for me to deliver.  It was the doctor, a nurse, my husband, and me in an operating room.  I didn't get an epidural that time either.  They did give me a cervical (or paracervical)block (shot in the cervix)-.  My water hadn't broken yet, so the doctor broke the water  which went SPLASH all over the floor.  A few pushes later and DS was born at 11:50am.

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  • raincitygirl
    raincitygirl Member Posts: 3,143
    edited March 2014

    Chris - I can't believe your recall.  With my son, I was pretty sure it was false labor, so I drove to the hospital because my docs office was there and he said to just stop by.  Ended up getting admitted to delivery,  I remember a nurse crawling up on the table, straddling me, and turning him a bit.  No drugs, no blocks.  With my daughter, I woke DH to say it was time, called my friend and arranged to drop off my son, whose third birthday it was about to be.  My water broke all over the car and I swear I could smell it until we finally sold it.  That one was fast and furious, pretty much born in the hall with my husband nearly passed out from the breathing running behind.  DH actually had to have oxygen for a short time......  You probably remember what you were wearing and what you ate :)

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  • chrisct
    chrisct Member Posts: 2,662
    edited March 2014

    Owwwww - turning the baby - sounds painful!

    I was lucky - water broke in the bed (or on the floor) at the hospital. 

    I was wearing my navy blue maternity sweat outfit for DD and I have a picture of me with my running watch in my hand on the phone to my parents asking them to come over to take care of DD so I can look up what I was wearing with DS - tank top and shorts.  It was a beautiful day - I had been looking forward to enjoying it outside.  Last day of summer - then it turned cold and raining.  Lots of record cold temps that fall.  Just when I wanted to take the baby outside in the stroller.

    I remember that I had an ice cream with my lunch (pig) and I had a junior steak with salad on the side for dinner...that was my small dinner which I shouldn't have been eating at all.  Didn't get sick though, somehow. 

    See how I used to be able to remember things?  I can't remember a damn thing anymore...  :(

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  • chrisct
    chrisct Member Posts: 2,662
    edited March 2014

    Your DH needed oxygen - this is why women are the ones who have the babies...lol

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  • raincitygirl
    raincitygirl Member Posts: 3,143
    edited March 2014

    He has always been so  mortified when I mention that - he says he was hyperventilating from all the breathing.  I think he was freaked out from watching too close :)  I was doing the breathing too and I didn't nearly pass out.  Years later, I was a birth coach for a friend whose husband didn't think he could handle it - I really didn't find it difficult to watch.

    It's a very windy and wet day here - feel like putting on jammies at 3:30 p.m.!  You know, cause I can't read and relax in regular clothes.

    Tonight is DD's boyfriends birthday, so she wants me to make her hair "fun".....off I go.

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited March 2014

    LOL........I had 6 and can remember each and every birth like they were yesterday.....I had just turned 22 with my first, and 34 with my last........the only one that was born normally was the first.............all the others had to be turned, and were face up instead of face down...........baby #5 was breech........they could not explain why they were all born that way, but they were.........

    They were all pretty decent size too.....8 1/2...7....8 1/2....8lbs 14 oz.......8lbs 5oz.....9lbs 4 oz........

    My youngest daughter had 2 babies.......her first was 11lbs 12 oz...23 inches long....a boy.........her second was 11lbs 14 oz............22 inches long.........and she was a week early.......both C-section.......

    She is very thin....I near died when I heard their weight.....knew she was huge, but was shocked just the same.....figured maybe 10 1/2,,,,,,,,,when my SIL said the weight I said.......OMG....

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  • sheila888
    sheila888 Member Posts: 25,634
    edited March 2014

    First was 9 pounds 4oz  21 " long  (labor 5 hours) 

    Second one was  9 pounds 3 oz 22" long   (labor 3 hours non stopped..i was induced  )

    Easy pregnancy and easy and short labor delivery.....

    I'm hoping my DD has an easy delivery

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited March 2014

    Sheila......when I had my 6th.....the one that was 9-4...............she had to be turned.....and it is true they literally turn the baby from the outside, while the Dr. is at the other end up to his elbow turning too................not much fun.............well for this action they said to me "we can't give you anything because we need your cooperation............there was no such thing as an epidural 45 years ago.............and you think........OH BOY.............well after she was born I said to the Dr..............did you get the license number of that bus that just came out of my body.................he laughed...........

    II had friends who said "oh I was out cold, they had to wake me to tell me what I had"................can honestly say I never had a delivery like that.............

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  • chrisct
    chrisct Member Posts: 2,662
    edited March 2014

    omg - good thing they were C-sections - yikes nearly 12 lbs!.  DD was 6lbs 4oz - DS was 7lbs 13 oz. 

    Sheila, I hope your DD has an easy delivery too!  Your first labor was only 5 hours?  Wow.

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  • raincitygirl
    raincitygirl Member Posts: 3,143
    edited March 2014

    Sheila - your baby will have her baby very soon!!!  You will be a wonderful grandmother!

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  • blondiex46
    blondiex46 Member Posts: 5,712
    edited March 2014


    How is everybody...me getting through, looking forward to 3 weeks off!!! Dr. took me off the chemo, told him how bad it was making me so got my last one wed and then 3 weeks off then onto another one.

    HAPPY FRIDAY!!

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited March 2014

    Sandy......finally some warmer weather............thank heavens.........can you believe I'm excited over just above freezing.........LOL

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  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 8,046
    edited March 2014

    in my neck of the woods they r callin for snow wed and thurs.

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  • chrisct
    chrisct Member Posts: 2,662
    edited March 2014

    Sandy - hope you enjoy your weeks off to the fullest!

    I've noticed the increase in daylight and I've heard the birds chirping - now for the temperatures to get rising.  Maybe 50 tomorrow...  that's a start, but I want it warmer!  (not too much warmer - I don't want it going right to 95 and humid...)

    ((((((((TOL))))))))

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  • Joan811
    Joan811 Member Posts: 2,672
    edited March 2014

    Chris, 4:30 am?  That's my hours....
    Saturday was like spring.  We were in Newport RI quietly celebrating anniversary.  We didn't tell our kids we were going anywhere and nobody remembered or called etc.  I don't want them to send gifts or worry about entertaining us.
    Woke up early Sunday and  it was in the low 30s.  I really felt it.  We checked out and I realized I couldn't find my prescription sunglasses that I wear every day.  I last had them in the car Saturday PM but can't find them.  Grrrrrrrrrrrr....
    We were walking to the hotel elevator Saturday night when we passed the business center...there was a guy in a suit sitting in a rolling chair in front of a PC on a desk...guy was completely passed out in an unnatural pose, totally still...I thought he either died or was a dummy.  It freaked me out.  So I woke up with a crazy dream about being held in a hotel room with a murderer ... was trying to escape in my dream and was being pursued...woke up and my heartrate was over 100.  I was freaking out....
    Weird!!! 

    I like birth stories better....My first baby I had an inhalant - nobody even asked if I wanted it...but I woke up to a beautiful 6 lb. 6 oz. daughter.  Second baby induced...labor was under 2 hours.  Doc injected me with demarol just before delivery.  Nobody asked.  I slept for 12 hours and awoke terrified, not knowing where I was. I finally saw my 7lb. 12 oz. daughter #2.  I managed to breastfeed and became a breastfeeding and childbirth advocate and volunteer for 25 years. DH did not come in for birth until  DD #3 was born with no drugs --an amazing experience.   Chris, I am surprised you came up with the term "effleurage"...I remember it now!  I love your stories too.
    I'll save the boys' birth stories for a lull in the thread :-D    but I must reveal that my 5th was 10 lb. 7 oz. and my 6th was 9 lb. 7 oz. 
    OK - trying to get tired after having espresso today and tea tonight.  Gotta prepare to get up the hour earlier for work.

    Sheila, so excited for you.

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited March 2014

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