I was due yesterday, but am still preggers. I’m so tired of hearing “So…anything?”
Sigh.
Congratulations to the newly pregnant and still excited and growing pregnant dopers, from a crabby-can’t-wait-to-actually-have-this-baby doper.
Poysyn…
Hang in there! I can only imagine how you are feeling…
Good luck!
My wife and I are due on February 12 with our first child, a son. I have no idea what is in store for me, do I?
We’re both very excited.
genie - my baby girl name suggestion is Louise 
When you say noticing the weight do you mean a sort of pull in the muscles around your abdomen. I’m noticing something like that and thought it was cramps but its fairly steady and only when I stand up/walk around.
Congrats Uncle GrandfatherTrout and don’t forget - presents that make noise are evil (eg drum kit). But if they need batteries that will eventually go flat then one day you will be forgiven.
Cool names sniglet999, here’s wishing you some sleep soon. Sleep deprivation, is something I am really not looking forward to.
I’ll send some prayers up for you Siemsi that it all goes okay. I found out at 6 weeks but had alot of bleeding until about 2 1/2 months in. It was a very stressfull time but Anne-Marie decided to stick around thank-god.
Congrats FallFast and MrsFallFast see above for baby girl name suggestion, and I’ll give you a second option of Marita which I believe means “little Mary”. It is scary the first time around isn’t it, everything is all so new and strange.
Nuke get ready for double trouble with twins, but also double the cute factor - twice as hard to resist.
Aren’t husbands cute when their being all protective and expectant fatherish angelicate? Mines been fantastic and he keeps telling me that I get better looking every day which is really sweet.
Poysyn - “So…anything?” 
sorry couldn’t resist. Must be worse than waiting for Christmas to arrive as kid. Hang in there, and don’t forget to post lots of photos afterwards.
Jpeg Jones any names picked out yet for your son? I’ve found the SDMB a mine of useful information about impeding parenthood and when in doubt you can always ask.
Good Luck Everyone
I’m at 23 weeks with my first child, a son. I’ve been having some seriously bizarre dreams, I pee all the time and I’m still puking my guts out nearly everyday. And, sometimes, I seriously want to kill women who say, “Are you kidding me? I loved being pregnant!”
I’m pretty excited. And scared… Crabby. Tired. Hungry. But mostly excited.
A while back I asked for name suggestions from our fellow Dopers. Uhh… Feel free to use any of them. 
Silver Fire you have my deepest sympathies re the puking, I was so relieved when my morning sickness started to settle down. I know what you mean about wanting to kill those women and can I add to that list those men who say “oh its not that bad, I’ve got x number of kids and we never had a problem” Well No Sir YOU didn’t have a problem because YOU were not the one puking.
On the up side there are a bunch of wonderful people out there as well who will gladly hold the bag, pass tissues and whatever else it takes to help you get through.
Um, I think that was something I noticed more with the first pregnancy. I’m getting that now, but not a lot–this time I’m getting pain in the pelvic area; bizarrely, not just in the muscles but in soft tissue. Pretty much only when I’m walking; I’ve already developed a waddle that shows up when I’m tired. Oh well, I feel pretty lucky with my pregnancies overall (though I can’t say I love being pregnant…).
Genie, I developed a bit of that when I was pregnant with totnak. (For the record: I am not pregnant now, nor am I trying to become pregnant.) Apparently it’s more common in Scandinavia than in other places, for reasons unknown, but it happens in many places. What is happening is well-known: the hormones are softening up all the joints in your body so that the baby will fit through the pelvis more easily. But why some women don’t even notice it while others are in pain or worse is not understood at all.
In any case, if it goes beyond the “hurts when I walk, especially if I’m tired” stage, definitely bug your doctor about it. I don’t want to scare anybody but it can get rather nasty. And whatever happens, listen to your body and take it as easy as you can! (It’s so much easier to follow all this advice the first time than the second, isn’t it? 
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:eek: I used to live in Scandinavia! Must have picked it up there.
[TMI warning] I know about the relaxin hormone thing, but I’m not sure this is it. It isn’t my joints or bones, it’s the territory surrounding my vulva. I figured it was just the weight; I carry very large. [/TMI warning]
There is this woman at my gym who is just amazing in a slightly annoying kind of way–she’s now 8 months along and barely shows at all (and since she wears two-piece outfits, it’s easy to see). I don’t know where her internal organs could possibly be hiding. She keeps looking at me in amazement; I can tell she’s wondering how I can possibly be two months behind her.
Just home from the doctor - I’m 8 weeks along tomorrow. I’m a little nervous, I’ve had two m/c in a year and a half, both at over 15 weeks, otherwise perfectly healthy. I had pretty hideous morning sickness with previous preganacies, this one isn’t too awful, fortunately. I’m going in Monday for sonar - wish me luck!
genie, the gal at your gym made me think of my friend Janice. She’s always been really skinny, put on mere ounces it seems with each of her three pregnancies, and lost about 5 or so pounds after each child was born. I swear, if you looked at her belly at 8 or 9 months along, it was perfectly flat with a little baby-shaped outline sticking out.
I’m still one excited puppy. We’ve already decided on names, long ago. Aurek for a girl and Casimir for a boy.
I am, indeed. 7 weeks or so. It’s funny, we were married for more than 20 years when we had our first daughter last June, we did the TTC dance for years to no avail, and then BAM one day, there it was. Now that we’ve finally gotten started, it seems like we’re just going to keep on going.
I don’t mind, I’ll be 43 in April, but I’m healthy and my doctor and midwife team expect that we’ll be blessed with another beautiful, healthy child.
I know you addressed that to Roadwalker, but I wanted to chime in. Danielle was born in a home waterbirth last summer, and we have every intention of welcoming baby #2 in the same fashion. With a healthy mom, uneventful pregnancy and trained homebirthing professionals, I think it’s a really positive way of giving birth.
But whatever the birthing method, congratulations to all the other Doper parents to be! Whee, babies!
Our 4th child, now 4 years old was born at home. We didn not intend for it to be that way. My wife tends to drop kids quickly, her longest acive labor being around two hours. her shortest, about 65 minuites.
When Sarah was ready to be born, we were waiting for my mom-in-law to arrive and babysit. Then I realized that if we bothered to drive to the hospital, about 30 minuites away, we would have the baby in the car so we just satyed at home. I called paramedics.
Then it was time for Sarah to be born. My wifes mom arrived in tome to coach and i played doctor. We had a kit ready with towels and blankets and a bulb syringe. Sarah slipped right our and I plopped her on her mom’s tummy. Then the EMT’s arrived.
My wife was taken to the hospital where she spent two misirable nights. After that we wondered, who needs hospitals?
So baby 5 was born at home with a midwife. I still got to catch. That night mom, dad and baby slept in the same bed.
That’s just how we prefer it.