# A TYGR CUB!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 26, 2001, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tygr-cub/55935 "2001-02-26T16:30:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tygr-cub/55935/1 "2001-02-26T16:30:31Z")
It’s been a busy month… Mrs. Tygr went to the Dr. on Thursday so it’s official: _ **We’re gonna have a little Tygr!** _ Jumping for joy… 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 \ “My guys can Swim!” \ Yes, sometime in October, we will be proud parents of a cute little eating, pooping, non-sleeping, lovable, adorable baby. We’re at 7 weeks right now. Mrs. Tygr’s doctor is really happy with everything. He even did an ultrasound, so we have baby’s first picture. That was cool. So tiny, but already has such a strong heartbeat. We have been trying for a while - who knew, me getting laid off was all we needed. We can pretty much narrow it to the week I lost my job. Thank God for **Polycarp**. We would be pregnant and Tygr would be jobless if not for him. (Tons of praise to Poly for being a Wonderful Human Being). Now, for all those that say you have tons of time to unpack boxes in your new home…we don’t anymore. They are all stacked in Jr.s new room. We just decided to do a whole bunch of stuff in one month - lose a job, buy our first house, start a new job, and get pregnant. [sub]Honestly, with all the other stuff going on, I’m still surprised we found time… 😉 Although, hey, when yer unemployed, what ELSE you gonna do?![/sub] …and the strange cravings have already started. This morning she woke up, turned to me and said, "Honey, I want - _A MINIVAN!_ :eek: I paused for a moment and said, “Who are you and what have you done with my wife?” You know, the one that wanted a JEEP! The original kind, with no top and no sides!?! Honestly, you think you know a person. Then she decides to go and get pregnant and what, everything’s gonna CHANGE? Well, that’s alright. I mean, nine months of strange happenings and then EVERYTHING will be back to normal, right? RIGHT? In the meantime, we’re giddy-silly-happy… \ Bouncy-bouncy-bouncy! [sub]Oh, wait, that’s what got us INTO this situation… :D[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tygr-cub/55935/2 "2001-02-26T16:39:21Z")
Congrats to you. And HEY, it might be a tygr cubette. ---
**Author:** ![Simetra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tygr-cub/55935/3 "2001-02-26T16:42:41Z")
Super Ultra Congrats **Tygr**!! I’m very glad to see you so happy. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tiggeril](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tiggeril/32/7234_2.png) [@tiggeril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiggeril)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tygr-cub/55935/4 "2001-02-26T16:49:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tygr \* > **\ Bouncy-bouncy-bouncy! [sub]Oh, wait, that’s what got us INTO this situation… :D[/sub]** Allow me. 🙂 Congrats on the little Tygr!! May hairballs be nonexistant, and may litter training go smoothly. 😉 bouncy bouncy bouncy bouncy bouncy ---
**Author:** ![Jester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jester/32/8223_2.png) [@Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jester)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tygr-cub/55935/5 "2001-02-26T16:56:24Z")
YAY TYGR!! \ Oops. Guess I’ll calm it down. Again, yay! ---
**Author:** ![Jkayla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5fc32e/32.png) [@Jkayla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jkayla)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tygr-cub/55935/6 "2001-02-26T17:02:32Z")
I really hope the litter training goes well too. And, yeah a cubette is a good possibility…I will take either one. On being pregnant, a couple of quick comments… -This morning sickness is yucky. I don’t like it. It is steadily getting worse. -I don’t like Saltines plain. _ **EEEWWW** _ -The tiredness - I could sleep 15 hours a day. I actually need to work at my place of employment and around the house some…I have a baby room to empty out so we can decorate later. Not to mention I have to figure out where I packed the tax stuff. All I want to do is sleep. -Subway Turkey subs are wonderful things. Bland, bready yet tastey. Tygr is the most wonderful hubby I have ever heard of. He is doing everything for me whenever I am feeling miserable. I thank him 50 times all the time. While we were moving, we suspected I was pregnant (I showed symptoms almost immediately). He carried everything up the steps from the basement apartment. He wouldn’t let me lift anything. The only people who knew why I was not carrying anything was my Tygr and my Mom. He did so much. As for my Tygr’s comment: > [@](#): > > Then she decides to go and get pregnant > and what, everything’s gonna CHANGE? He being silly. He decided too. He had fun too. _Just had to clarify that._ And a mini van seems practical. I am so happy…even sick and everything. It’s totally worth it. :D:D:D:D:D:D:D Yipppeeee!! ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tygr-cub/55935/7 "2001-02-26T17:53:39Z")
::: ladles vegetarian chili on Jkayla’s saltines ::: I think I already let you know how happy we are for you – if it didn’t show well enough, **YIPPEE!!!** ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tygr-cub/55935/8 "2001-02-26T17:59:33Z")
> [@](#): > > We can pretty much narrow it to the week I lost my job. Thank God for Polycarp. We would be pregnant and Tygr would be jobless if not for him. Okay, I’ll take credit for helping find you a job. But let me make one thing clear… **You did the start-the-pregnancy thing all on your own!!!** 😃 ---
**Author:** ![hedra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/779978/32.png) [@hedra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hedra)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tygr-cub/55935/9 "2001-02-26T18:26:44Z")
**Tygr** , are we doing some evil twin thing or something? Lessee, no new house on our end, but well, **epeepunk** got laid off from his job, and BAM, our second child is ALSO due in October! 🙂 ALSO narrowed down to the week he lost his job (though actually just before the axe fell). Anyone know of any good AutoCAD drafter positions in Delaware? I’m a week behind you, **Jkayla** , 6 weeks along (due right at the end of October). Not much morning sickness, so far (I recommend slabs of lemon, skin on, dropped into ice water - wash the lemon carefully first, of course, but the lemon scent and taste saved me from yooking many many times with my son). Crackers did NADA for me. Eating loads of protein helped, especially before bed (keeps that blood sugar up). Not much sleepies, either, so far, but that will come, I’m sure. My midwives said growing a baby is equivalent to hiking 20 miles every day - so no wonder you are exhausted! 🙂 Hoping all the best for your pregnancy. After two miscarriages in a relative row (many months apart), I’m just hoping this one sticks. But it feels good so far, so I’m keeping hopes up. 🙂 Happy baby-growing! (So reassuring to have seen a strong heartbeat at this point, too!) ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tygr-cub/55935/10 "2001-02-26T22:29:56Z")
Verrrry Cool, **Tygr** , **hedra** …! I just had to pop my head in and say _Congrats_! ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tygr-cub/55935/11 "2001-02-26T22:34:51Z")
((((Tygr & jkayla)))) YAY! My son’s birthday is October 2nd. Try and have yours arund then, okay? 😃 Super-mega-congrats! ---
**Author:** ![Jeannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@Jeannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeannie)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2001, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tygr-cub/55935/12 "2001-02-27T01:43:21Z")
CONGRATULATIONS! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2001, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tygr-cub/55935/13 "2001-02-27T15:04:08Z")
Okay, **hedra** , stop it. Yer freakin’ me out here. Too many co-incidences! Thanks for the advice to help settle Mrs. Tygr’s tummy. I get VERY bothered when my love is unhappy, and the morning-hurls she’s experiencing fall under that heading. Plus it’s doubly upsetting coz there’s nothing I can do to make her feel better! ☹ **Persephone** : :)[sup]Hi![/sup] Oct. 2 might be a little early, but I’ll get her out walking 'round the block for several hours each day for the week before that. My understanding is that that helps things along. Many thanks to all y’all for the kind words and kudos. ---
**Author:** ![Pnuk\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Pnuk\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pnuk_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2001, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tygr-cub/55935/14 "2001-02-27T15:30:13Z")
_sniff sniff_ for a moment i thought we were all being invited to join the Tygr **club** congrats. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2001, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tygr-cub/55935/15 "2001-02-27T15:37:30Z")
Yippee and Yeehaw for all three of you!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2001, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tygr-cub/55935/16 "2001-02-27T16:07:55Z")
Congrats everyone! ---
**Author:** ![Jkayla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5fc32e/32.png) [@Jkayla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jkayla)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2001, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tygr-cub/55935/17 "2001-02-27T17:52:12Z")
Thanks for the well wishes…and the advice. Today is a yukkee day for me. Sick, porcelain god kinda morning. Ahhhh, but then this afternoon, there is turkey. Wonderful turkey. That helps. Hedra, I hope everything does go well for you. **fingers crossed & prayers being said**. I will try the protein increase because the crackers don’t do much. Of course it doesn’t help matters that I don’t like plain saltines in the first place. I may try pretzels. A coworker suggested that. Persephone, I can go for Oct 2. My actual due date is Oct 11th, but I am sure by the 2nd I will be ready…They said give or take two weeks, right? Thanks again. ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2001, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tygr-cub/55935/18 "2001-02-27T21:19:21Z")
----:)/ x o x o x ----///\\ ---
**Author:** ![hedra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/779978/32.png) [@hedra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hedra)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tygr-cub/55935/19 "2001-02-28T15:41:32Z")
hope the protein works - plus extra protein may help keep pregnancy-related hypertension (NOT preeclampsia - different things) away. Did you try the lemon? Also, many women swear by ginger tea (not gingerale, there isn’t enough ginger in it). email me if you want to join a group of women all due in Oct - okay, a group that includes me, as there are probably a few million ‘due-date’ groups around that you could join(message board, elsewhere). I’ll just tell you which one **I** am on, if you want to know! And thanks for the prayers - I’ll take any I can get, though I have a general good feeling about this one. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2001, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tygr-cub/55935/20 "2001-02-28T15:59:14Z")
Lessee…seven weeks ago…was…middle of January…what were you two (Hedra and Tygr)celebrating? Ramadan? I fully expect threads from both of you for " What shall we name the baby?" These are sooooooooooooooo much fun. Here is to a healthy uneventful pregancy. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tygr-cub/55935.md?page=2)