Hellobee Boards

@winniebee: @snowjewelz: thank you so much! Really hoping this little one sticks around.

@FaithFertility: thank you!! I'm still so nervous; it's hard to be too excited. Haha.

@theotherstark: I understand Will be here for you as you go through all the different emotions

@theotherstark: Congratulations! Fingers crossed for a healthy happy nine months for you!

@theotherstark: haven't had much time to stalk other boards, so i've missed the backstory....but congrats!

@theotherstark: congratulations! Lots of love and sticky baby wishes

@snowjewelz: The first year after my second, I kind of felt like I might want another and felt sad about my youngest growing up so quickly and feeling like being "done" was a depressing thought. But now that Logan is 2.5 and Xander is 4, I'm feeling really good about where our family is and am glad we're done! I feel like I can really start planning big family vacations now and doing things that both kids will enjoy, and they are finally able to really play together well and entertain themselves. It's fantastic!

@winniebee: Haha!

@Adira: That really is great! I do look forward to the day where there's no more "baby stuff" to do and I can really just enjoy them too!

Adoption has actually crept up a lot in conversations. I think I physically am done having kids but I don't reject the idea of having 1 more through adoption. Financially speaking we can't "afford" an adoption, but I am currently prayerfully open to that possibility down the road and believing that it will happen/or not as it is mean to be.

@snowjewelz: Some days I feel done, than others I have baby fever!

We are preventing but have definetly not been safe a few times sooo IDK lol

@snowjewelz: Right?!?! AJ has easy as pie too, from what G was sooo....lol
DH would have another tomorrow so he is zero help....lol

@Adira: @MamaG: @AngelicOne: @KayKay: @josina: @MrsF: thanks, all! Keeping my fingers crossed

Hi ladies! Charlie is now 5 days old, I suppose, so I'm finally getting a minute to write He's doing very well but things have been a little complicated around here (aren't they always?). We came home from the hospital on Sunday afternoon and oohed and ahhed over the big kids snuggling the baby (they had done the same in the hospital the day before)... and then Molly spiked a fever to 104 a few hours later She also told me at the same time that she couldn't bend her neck at all without crying (a red flag for meningitis). So I called our pedi who told us what to look for with M and told me that I had to get the baby out of the house. Even if M didn't have meningitis, any fever in a baby this little would mean hospitalization for spinal tap and IV antibiotics. Thank goodness for my wonderful parents who came back after driving an hour home (they had literally just left after caring for the big kids during the hospital stay) and took me and Charlie to their house for a few days of quarantine and also have been driving me back and forth up here for a few lab draws and appointments for the baby.

Luckily all is well - M is fever and pain free so the ped kind of begrudgingly agreed we could come home and we're all back together again. I was feeling SO guilty about the big kids - "mom has a baby and now she has to move to nana & grandpa's!" and M was kind of focused on it being her fault because of her illness And of course it's been hard for DH to not be with his brand new baby as well. Anyway - we're all settled in now finally and going through the normal nursing sleeping pooping repeat - but so happy to all be in the same house and seemingly healthy!

@mrsf: aw man! glad you had a relatively good option for somewhere to go, and everything has passed. i'm not a germaphobe at all, but i hate the first 3m when it's such a big deal for the littles to even have a fever....and obviously with 2 other kids there is no way to really avoid the germs! enjoy those snuggles!!

@MrsF: Oh wow, so scary but glad it all worked out and that you're home again!

@MrsF: aw man! That is so scary! Glad you could go with your parents, though, and that everyone seems to be fine and on the mend.

@MamaG: geeeshhhh sorry Mama

@MamaG: argh, I'm sorry. I feel like H is too - nothing too crazy like that (although we did have an urgent care visit a couple months ago when my dog accidentally knocked him into the back stair while they were both running around. H smashed his face and teeth right into the stairs. Everything is okay, but it bled a lot). I feel like he constantly has bruises and scrapes on his legs and arms from running too fast and falling, bonking his head on things, etc. Ha. Crazy kids!!

For the low point of the week K decided to lock herself in the bathroom and then couldn't figure out how to turn the lock the other way. Thankfully dh was able to pop the lock with a knife instead of needing to take the door off.

But on a high note, also bathroom related, on Tuesday she started asking to wear underwear and since then has been accident free, at least besides when she told dh she had to go and they didn't make it in time.