We’re using that dratted standard calculation of gestation, which starts two weeks before we ‘celebrated’… so what was going on at the end of Jan and beginning of Feb? Hmmm… I don’t recall celebrating anything other than someone being a major babe. 
And our baby name list is pretty short already. We have leftovers from the last time, LOL! Okay, we’re accepting possible additions to the list. Later.
No way! I’m not devout enough to give up food for a month!
What We (The Tygr’s) Were Celebrating
Mrs. Tygr had just come backfrom a business trip to Kansas City.
We had just signed on our house.
I’d just been laid off. [sub]Okay, not so much celebrating that as Mrs. Tygr trying to keep my… ahh, “spirits” up.[/sub]
…and just to clarify: hedra and I weren’t celebrating ANYTHING - at least not together!
Pnuk Guy: Hey, if you wanna start a club in my honor, I’m certainly not going to get in yer way. I do concurr that I DESERVE one.
Thanks again to all for the congrats and (((///HUGS!\)))
Hi Tygr (and Jkayla),
I saw the link in your sig and couldn’t pass up an opportunity to send big congrats!
And, such a coincindence! I am now pregnant with my first baby–about 5 weeks (we’ll know for sure next Thursday when I have my ultrasound) but by the due date calendar I’m due Nov. 5. My husband’s currently jobless, but doing freelance writing, so things aren’t too bad.
Is the SDMB on some special cycle? hedra too? I’m a couple of weeks behind. I joined the November 2001 Expecting Club over at Parentsplace.com (which I found through an old post on the SDMB, posted by Sue Duhnym, I believe–thanks Sue!)
I can’t wait until the ultrasound next Thursday. Good luck with the morning sickness, Jkayla. So far, I’ve only got a little nausea, which tells me it’s time for me to eat something.
Sometimes, I just can’t stand the excitement! And sometimes, I really, really need a nap.
I’m glad to hear you aren’t too sick, and I hope jkayla is doing much better now. Take care and keep us posted!
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Hedra, Hope all is well and I will email you this weekend.
Ceejaytee, I am happy for you. The doc did my ultrasound two weeks ago. We scanned it in and sent it to Tygr’s mom.
I have another friend that called me the week after I told her our news with her own news. We were talking all through lunch about how we were both irregular cycled women and how they were going to start trying. They didn’t even have a chance to try, they succeeded. YAY!
Another friend, a mother of two, gave me her pregnancy books last night and a video. She reads a lot. She is also giving me product reccomendations (like the Diaper Champ that uses grocery bags in it to bundle diapers in their own little world). She gave us this little music/wave maker thing that hangs on a crib since their kids are done with it.
I have been having a rough time on the nausea and ended up at my family doctor Monday with a nosebleed. It is attributed to my severe pain-in-the-butt allergies. They also think the congestion is adding to the nausea quite a bit. It is. I sneeze and get sick. The OB doc and the family doc want me back on Claritin. It is the one allergy med safe during pregnancy. Besides, I will get sinus infection after sinus infection if I am not careful. That is why I was on Claritin everyday anyway.
I am tired a lot, but the past three days have not let me sleep well at night. I will try a nap this afternoon before the Raleigh Dopefest. I am on 5 hours sleep now. I know I will get sleepy at about 2:00pm. I never get the naps during the week because I am at work. Although yesterday, I almost fell onto my computer screen. That wouldv’e been ugly. I think I read that calcium defficiencies interfere with sleep. I have not been drinking milk the past few days because it bothers my stomach when my allergies are like this.
Oh well, that’s probably enough about me.
Hedra and Ceejaytee, Keep me updated on your progress. Many more women show up pregnant and we will need a status of pregnancy thread.
Jkayla:
Have you tried using saline nasal sprays? I have terrible sinus problems and the saline spray (nonmedicated) keep things a bit more moist and that seems to help. I also tear up the inside of my nose from blowing and the doc (ENT not OB) recommended some bacitracin–put a tiny bit on a Qtip and apply. It helps at night especially, when things get dry.
So far I’ve had only mild nausea, which fortunately goes away when I eat. Every hour or so, I have to eat something small or I feel lousy.
Can you take a calcium supplement to replace the milk you’re missing? Man, sounds like you’re having a rough time. Hang in there–supposedly it gets better in the second trimester!
Congrats on your Tygr cub…ain’t it a great feeling. We’re due with our first July 14th-ish, seems like a lotta doper babies coming around. I think Spiritus Mundi has one coming up in May.
Photos are of course required. Although you should resign yourself to the fact that our munchkin will be the cutest doper-ette…at least judging by the grainy ultrasounds 
http://home.revealed.net/ddwyer/baby.html
Well, we had a really special occasion this week, so I figured it was time for an update.
We went for the eighteen week ultrasound the other day. That is one of the coolest experiences I’ve ever had. The technician was great, pointing out right off what we were looking at.
It had never really occured to me that an ultrasound takes a picture through the skin of the mother, so it also takes a picture through the baby’s skin, too. We saw little bones of the face, ribs, spine, arms, hands, legs, feet… The tech showed us where the eyes were, showed us the heart beating. Then she turned the camera and started taking pictures of different depths down along the baby’s body, getting cross section shots! She showed the baby’s heart, lungs, kidneys, said everything looked real good.
Then she started moving the camera, pointing it to get shots of various bones. She had a light pen and she’d touch the screen once at each end of a bone and the machine would calculate the length of the bone and feed that info into the computer. She did legs, spine, arms and head. Then the computer ran the calculations and said that the baby is about seven to eight inches long and weighs about nine ounces. Surprisingly, the computer calculated that, according to the measurements, the baby is nineteen weeks along rather than eighteen weeks. The doctors will look at those numbers and see if they can get a true due date.
Then the tech asked if we wanted to know the baby’s gender. We’d agreed that it would be just as much a surprise now as later, so we said yes.
We’re having a little girl.
My friends and family are laughing at me because I’m so giddy-giggly-happy. I tell them I’m tickled pink. Then I say that if we were having a little boy I’d be tickled blue.
Mrs. Tygr’s still feeling the occasional queasiness. Felt it during the ultrasound, too. Then we saw on the screen that the baby was really moving and kicking her feet. Mrs. T said “So THAT’S what’s been ruining my appetite today.”
I said that the baby was just being a typical female, not wanting to have her picture taken.
So now we’ll be starting to decorate the nursery. We both agree that we’re not overly “pink” people, so it’ll probably be some color a little more gender-neutral.
I’ve scanned the pictures in and am going to start looking for a free web page space to put them on.
:: Tygr wanders off smiling, humming and giggling to himself ::
Great news Tygr…
As far as the gestational time goes…we had a similar experience at mrs beagledave’s ultrasound…original due date was July 13 or so…ultrasound indiacted July4th or so…
Our CNM was hesitant to officially change the date because then we could run into issues of induction if the baby had not delivered by say July 18th.
I tend to split the difference and say July 10th…but the little critter (we think ours is a girl also) will come when she wants.
Anywho…great to hear the news…have fun with the nursery…and be nice to the Mrs
wooohooo a cubette…that’s great news!!! I know you’ll be great parents for a special little girl.
weeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
Well, at least someone is getting some!
I kid, I kid cause I love.
Congratulations to the both of you.
Hey! Cool, you’re welcome! It was invaluable to me when I was preggers, I hope you’re enjoying it.
Tygr, congrats on the girl! Little girls are wonderful! My husbands says if we have another, he’d want another girl.
[sub]Diaper changes are a bitch though. It’s like trying to clean dijon mustard out of a wallet.[/sub]
Well, ACTUALLY, Merc…
No, no. I shan’t bring that up here. Mrs. Tygr would rather I not open our intimate life to you people. (She knows what weirdos you all are. Um, we all are.)
Suffice to say that sudden and random bouts of nausea do wonders for cooling the ardor.
beagledave: Thanks and good luck with yer first, too! So, are you walking around with this goofy grin like the one I can’t seem to shake? And Mrs. T would CERTAINLY be happy if they move up her due date by a week.
…and I AM nice to the Mrs. That’s what got us into this situation in the FIRST place!
ultress: You are so sweet. Thank you!
Evnglion: Me, too! Wheee! (hook my arm in yours and do-si-do around in a circle)
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A girl. Very cool. Every daddy, I think, secretly wishes for a little girl to spoil (Just a little bit of spoilling, now, mind you!) and cuddle.
Now that you’ve sonograms, you can join the vast baby-photo-showing conspiracy, where you’ll be able to enjoy the pleasures of duelling wallets at two paces. First one to draw, wins… Of course, sonograms trump everything, save for First Tooth photos…
I have seen the ultrasounds.
She is adorable – well, as adorable as 18/19-week fetuses (feti?) ever get!
It’s a real joy to work with one of my favorite fellow Dopers.
And, just to embarrass Tygr, let me comment that the lavender panties were a particularly nice touch!
(Now, let’s see him explain his way out of that… :D)
Yep…a mixture of anticipation, awe and sure terror describes beagledave right now…
mrs beagledave is at the point where her belly (no, its not THAT big honey…you look as gorgeous as ever ) is making it harder for her to sleep…we’re at week 31 now
Congratulations Tygr and Jkayla
Thought of any names yet?
awesome! best wishes to you and mrs. tygr.