# Waiting for my niece! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 2, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-my-niece/458619 "2008-08-02T18:09:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MissMossie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MissMossie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMossie)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-my-niece/458619/1 "2008-08-02T18:09:10Z")
I am sitting in a hospital waiting room, waiting for my sister to have her baby. She left for the hospital at three-thirty this morning. It’s almost two in the afternoon and she’s about ready to start pushing. I lived with my sister and her husband this past year. I was there a week before Christmas when she came home and told her husband that she was pregnant. I was there when they had to put a pickline in my sister because her morning sickness had dehydrated and the two rounds of home IV weren’t enough. I was there at eleven weeks when she started bleeding and cramping and we thought she might be miscarrying. I was sitting next to her for that OB appointment when we weren’t sure if we would hear a heart beat anymore and then got to see my niece sucking her thumb. I got to go to the eighteen week appointment when we found out I was getting a niece and not a nephew. It almost killed me to leave for a month and a half at the beginning of June. I came back on July 19 to wait for the baby. After watching my sister grow for nine months, I’m about to meet my niece. I am so freakin’ excited. Obviously, there are no out of the womb photos yet, but you can see ultrasound pictures at [www.elizabethgracemyers.com](http://www.elizabethgracemyers.com)…yeah, my niece already has her own website. Photos will come when I have one. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-my-niece/458619/2 "2008-08-02T18:18:13Z")
Congrats! I got my first nieces (yes, twins) almost two weeks ago. Unfortunately, they’re kind of far - I’m in AZ and they’re in Seattle, so I haven’t been able to meet them yet. I hope all goes great for your sister and niece! ---
**Author:** ![MissMossie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MissMossie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMossie)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-my-niece/458619/3 "2008-08-02T18:33:04Z")
I just poked my head in her room and she’s getting ready to start pushing. The next time I see my sister she won’t be pregnant. The next time I see my niece, she’ll be on the outside of my sister. I’m now sitting in the waiting room blubbering like a fool. My sister had to pick the week of my period to have her baby. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-my-niece/458619/4 "2008-08-02T22:30:48Z")
For me it was one of the most wonderful things in the world to hold my sleeping niece in the crook of my arm. ---
**Author:** ![Ducktail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/43a26b/32.png) [@Ducktail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ducktail)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waiting-for-my-niece/458619/5 "2008-08-03T03:52:30Z")
Congrats on your forthcoming title of aunt! (If it hasn’t come already.) My brother is still quite a bit young to be starting a family, and I’d be a bit worried about people in my own age group to be having any kids, but I’m eagerly awaiting some of my slightly older friends to settle down so I can be a pseudo-auntie and start knitting things. Give us an update when you can!