# Time for a Pregnant / Brand New Parent Doper Update!?! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 1, 2005, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-pregnant-brand-new-parent-doper-update/315226 "2005-08-01T23:47:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![inkleberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-pregnant-brand-new-parent-doper-update/315226/201 "2006-01-14T23:34:34Z")
Guess what I got for New Year’s? :bounce : :bounce: :bounce: KNOCKED UP!!! I’m due September 19th-esque. NO MORE KITTY PAN CHANGING FOR ME!!! yay! ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-pregnant-brand-new-parent-doper-update/315226/202 "2006-01-15T01:35:14Z")
Congratulations! I rarely have time to read the board anymore since I had my September babe, and I was so happy to read your news! > [@inkleberry](#): > > Guess what I got for New Year’s? > > :bounce : :bounce: :bounce: > > KNOCKED UP!!! > > I’m due September 19th-esque. > NO MORE KITTY PAN CHANGING FOR ME!!! yay! ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-pregnant-brand-new-parent-doper-update/315226/203 "2006-01-16T13:33:28Z")
Congrats **inkleberry** and **Dr Love Gun!** This one has a lot to live up to, since his/her older brother became known as **tinkleberry** and now has a reputation for eating wood. You and your lovely hubby are going to have your hands full! ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-pregnant-brand-new-parent-doper-update/315226/204 "2006-01-16T15:32:49Z")
Yay! The goat/hamster’s gonna have a little…um…well, newborns are kinda grub-like, but that sounds nasty… oh, well. Congratulations on your grub-to-be! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![inkleberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-pregnant-brand-new-parent-doper-update/315226/205 "2006-01-16T17:54:36Z")
> [@irishgirl](#): > > Congrats **inkleberry** and **Dr Love Gun!** > This one has a lot to live up to, since his/her older brother became known as **tinkleberry** and now has a reputation for eating wood. > > You and your lovely hubby are going to have your hands full! Yep. 😃 We seriously need to change the kid’s nickname. His defining feature is no longer pee. ---
**Author:** ![DrLoveGun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@DrLoveGun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrLoveGun)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-pregnant-brand-new-parent-doper-update/315226/206 "2006-01-16T18:28:31Z")
And I was just getting used to sleeping again. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-pregnant-brand-new-parent-doper-update/315226/207 "2006-01-16T20:37:35Z")
> [@inkleberry](#): > > NO MORE KITTY PAN CHANGING FOR ME!!! yay! I swear I’ll stay pregnant forever if I never have to change a litter box again! 😃 Actually, that’s not true - we just recently bought the electric automatic cat box, and it’s been a life- and floor-saver. My cat used to pee and poop \*once \* in the box and refuse to use it any more. So she’d go on the floor in the laundry room. Hubby was good about picking up the poop, but he’d just put paper towels over the pee (which she would then pee on again). We used his birthday money from his parents for the Littermaid. The cat hasn’t peed on the floor ONCE in the last two weeks! We’re ecstatic. ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-pregnant-brand-new-parent-doper-update/315226/208 "2006-01-16T23:25:16Z")
> [@inkleberry](#): > > Guess what I got for New Year’s? > > :bounce : :bounce: :bounce: > > KNOCKED UP!!! > > I’m due September 19th-esque. > NO MORE KITTY PAN CHANGING FOR ME!!! yay! HOW THE F\*CK DID I MISS THIS? Congrats, **Inky**! We’re due exactly a month apart! Woohoo! Little **Tinkleberry** will have a new toy to drag around by the head! 😃 E. ---
**Author:** ![inkleberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-pregnant-brand-new-parent-doper-update/315226/209 "2006-01-17T02:37:20Z")
> [@Avarie537](#): > > I swear I’ll stay pregnant forever if I never have to change a litter box again! 😃 > > Actually, that’s not true - we just recently bought the electric automatic cat box, and it’s been a life- and floor-saver. My cat used to pee and poop \*once \* in the box and refuse to use it any more. So she’d go on the floor in the laundry room. Hubby was good about picking up the poop, but he’d just put paper towels over the pee (which she would then pee on again). We used his birthday money from his parents for the Littermaid. The cat hasn’t peed on the floor ONCE in the last two weeks! We’re ecstatic. \ Consider yourselves lucky you don’t have my old cat, Oliver, who took dumps so large he BROKE the littermaid motor! :eek: \ ---
**Author:** ![Stainz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stainz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stainz)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-pregnant-brand-new-parent-doper-update/315226/210 "2006-01-17T18:47:24Z")
Our daughter was born Oct 16 (5 weeks early, so I can totally relate to grimpixe’s experiences with her daughter’s eating issues, hospital visits, etc). I was induced because of fears of toxemia, so it was a tough time for us all, but definitely worth it! She was 5 pounds at birth, went down to 4 1/2 pounds, and is now a bouncing healthy 10.75 pounds. For almost 2 whole months after she was born, I got away with not emptying the cat’s litter box … finally one day my husband said “Uh, you can do that now you know!”. DAMN!!! 😃 A recent picture of our beautiful [Sophia](http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c112/piscesmom/2dbf1835.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-pregnant-brand-new-parent-doper-update/315226/211 "2006-01-18T02:10:01Z")
> [@Stainz](#): > > Our daughter was born Oct 16 (5 weeks early, so I can totally relate to grimpixe’s experiences with her daughter’s eating issues, hospital visits, etc). I was induced because of fears of toxemia, so it was a tough time for us all, but definitely worth it! > > She was 5 pounds at birth, went down to 4 1/2 pounds, and is now a bouncing healthy 10.75 pounds. > > For almost 2 whole months after she was born, I got away with not emptying the cat’s litter box … finally one day my husband said “Uh, you can do that now you know!”. DAMN!!! 😃 > > A recent picture of our beautiful [Sophia](http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c112/piscesmom/2dbf1835.jpg) What a sweetie 🙂 Congratulations! I have that same outfit for Lauren in a different colour, and I think we have the same sheets too! How long was she in the hospital? I’m so glad to hear she’s healthy and gaining now! ---
**Author:** ![Stainz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stainz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stainz)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-pregnant-brand-new-parent-doper-update/315226/212 "2006-01-20T06:04:48Z")
Thanks **Cyros** … all is going well now. She was in the hospital for 2 1/2 weeks (I was in there for 10 days total) … it was such a hard, weird twilight-zoney kind of time for both me and **McDeath\_the\_Mad** … arguing with ICN nurses, worrying about our baby, serious sleep-deprivation, stress … [Here](http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c112/piscesmom/82b40946.jpg) is a picture of her at her lowest weight: Sophia was healthy but she didn’t know how to eat so she was feeding through a tube. Now she’s an expert! 😃 Looking back at it now, I realize how much I missed being able to show her off to visitors - we really missed out on people stopping by with gifts, flowers, balloons, etc and having pictures taken in our room … we were in such a weird state of mind and no-one really knew how to handle it, so we had a few family members come by, but since she was in the Intensive Care Nursery the whole time, no-one could hold her or anything … it was kind of sad. BUT … by the time we brought her home, we were SO comfortable with taking care of her - we learned a lot from those sometimes VERY pushy ICN nurses - and she was on a regular schedule too, so there were a couple of pluses to our situation. It all worked out just fine … but if we have another baby, I hope it all goes a bit more “by the book”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Shana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shana)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-pregnant-brand-new-parent-doper-update/315226/213 "2006-01-20T10:58:30Z")
Oooo Congrats to all the new moms! I haven’t been here too much lately. My little one keeps me real busy. I can’t believe he’s four months now! **Stainz** , Sophia is just gorgeous. Thank goodness she’s alright now! She looks the picture of health. ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-pregnant-brand-new-parent-doper-update/315226/214 "2006-01-20T14:39:56Z")
I haven’t been in this thread before, so maybe this isn’t the place, but I wanted to share the news I got last night. My daughter called to tell me I’m to be a grampa for the second time on Sunday unless she goes into labor on her own before then. The planets are all lined up (or maybe the doc has an early tee-time, however it works) and on Sunday they will induce Serenity to join her big brother and the rest of us waiting out here. So I have that to look forward to. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Stainz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stainz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stainz)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-pregnant-brand-new-parent-doper-update/315226/215 "2006-01-21T00:34:46Z")
Congrats grampa! **Shana** - my little one still sleeps a LOT so she is giving me lots of time to do stuff … I am sure soon though she will need much more entertaining, so I’m enjoying these quiet times while they last. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-pregnant-brand-new-parent-doper-update/315226/216 "2006-01-21T18:45:04Z")
> [@Avarie537](#): > > I swear I’ll stay pregnant forever if I never have to change a litter box again! 😃 Having become a father last Friday the 13th (of all days!) I can attest that a week old baby can’t compete with a quartet of cooped up cats for smell. Friday the 13th lived up to its devilish reputation, mother got up at about 5ish in the morning, intending to deliver without support from from friends or family as she had done twice before. The baby unfortunately decided to sit as I had done, with her head facing forwards instead of at Mummy’s back and got stuck at 4cm dilated IIRC. So poor ba had her head shoved back inside and her Mum got half an epidural to tide her over followed by an attempt to suck baby out the a c-section (a close friend to hold her hand) and a spinal block. Baby (first name Rosaline after the friend who accompanied her Mum) was born with a little stork mark on her forehead from being pressed up against Mum’s pubic bone but no other signs of ill health. A week and a day old she’s doing well, huffling, puffling (and peeing on Daddy 🙂 ) A touch of oral thrush is putting her off her food a little bit but otherwise there have been no hiccups. It felt surreal holding her for the first time but as I told her Mum, its not felt wrong in all the time I’ve held her in my arms 😃 ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-pregnant-brand-new-parent-doper-update/315226/217 "2006-01-22T15:10:25Z")
**Pushkin** -congrats! So glad your little one arrived safe and well. ---
**Author:** ![Stainz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stainz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stainz)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-pregnant-brand-new-parent-doper-update/315226/218 "2006-01-25T00:40:12Z")
Congratulations **Pushkin**! Post a pic or two? Ours was sunny-side-up too and came out looking like she’d been in a fight - she even had a black eye. I know they say you can’t remember pain, but I will never forget the agony of the ‘back labour’ … WITHOUT an epidural … ugh … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-a-pregnant-brand-new-parent-doper-update/315226.md?page=10)