FastestSlug I got a question for you

[PotatoFace]

I know this is in the wrong forum but i tried asking this in the other forum and i really got no reply.


Being a mum, what is it like being preggers. (I am not, I am just curious). Like when you get to the point where you start feeling the goober in your tummi how does it feel. Im curious. Ive heard all about birthing, but what is feeling the little wee tyke in there flipping around like?

[chloe dancer]

that feeling was the highlite of both of my pregnancies :)

thanks for asking becuase you all know how i love to ramble on about this shit.

well the very first time i felt it when the baby was about 14 weeks it was almost like tiny air bubbles similar to light gas almost but i just knew it was my baby and it was such an emotional experience.

it was like oh my god! hi in there! but i didnt have to speak. i just always felt like i had this mind connection with my baby where i could just think things and the baby would understand . but it really made the whole first trimester feel really real.

as the kicks and movements grew stronger it was just so exciting i felt elated everytime i felt a movement. it was so reassuring and i never felt like i was alone when i was pregnant becuase i had a little bugger in there with me.

the only thing better than that was grabbing someone's (friend, daddy or family member) hand and saying feel! becuase when they would feel it they would get so excited too! and its such a nice thing to share with someone.

around 7 or 8 months the kicks would get SO strong. i used to eat like a pig and one time i was eating in bed with a plate on my stomach ( i had just eaten everything on it) and my son kicked it off!!

my daughter like to squirm and actually change body positions. one time i was sitting on the couch and i pulled up my shirt so my brother in law could see my tummy move and of course she practically rolled over so my whole entire stomach moved all wierd without me moving, it looked like that alien movie andmy brother FLIPPED! he was so freaked out he wouldnt touch my stomach LOL he was like OMG ITS MOVING!!!

one of the coolest things my daughter would do was settle into a position to sleep. so like at night i would lay on my left side and go to sleep. well i could feel her shift and squirm to get comfy and i would wake in the morning with the whole baby on one side of my stomach. cool huh?!

my son was so strong and he used to get his foot or something lodged in my ribs and that would be so uncomfortable but that was during the last month.

so i guess the feeling is kind of how you would imagine it - little alien thing squirming around - except its so special ;n

oh one last thing and ill shut up! so when youre early on in pregnancy a lot of times you feel tons of movements in your tummy but you cant be quite sure if it was baby, gas, food digesting ect. but when i went for my ultrasound with my daughter it was so incredible to SEE her move and feel it at the same time.

well while we were watching her on the moniter she stretched her arms in legs and i felt it! it was like how people stretch first thing in the morning well after she stretched she curled back up stuck her thumb in her mouth and started sucking on it and the ultrasound was SO clear i could see her mouth actually making the sucking motion. to this day it was one of the coolest things i have ever seen. one of those things ingrained in your memory forever.

and all this was around like 16 weeks so she was just a wittle bitty thing!

so for me the movements were probably one of my favorite parts of pregnancy those and the ultrasounds becuase i just find them so fascinating.

*sigh*

someone give birth to something so i can hold a wittle baby!

[PotatoFace]

THANKS so much for responding. I love hearing about babies. I want them soo bad. I need to get some female plumbing bits sorted out first. But I just cant wait. Although I have this fear of childbirth.

Speaking of birth. When you went into labor the first time how scared where you. I mean I think about it now and it is a life chaning moment. It doesnt feel good, but you know it doesnt kill you(well the risk is quite low) and y ou get this amazing gift afterwards. Where there times during the actual birth when you felt like you couldnt do it. If that is too personal of a question i undertand. But if not I would love to know. Its just that whenever I think about it the whole preggers bit is wonderful the whole baby bit is lovely but the labor mortifies me.

[earthquakes]

oh...I love this stuff!

:D

~earthquakes

[PotatoFace]

me too


I cant wait till i get plump with a baby in my uterus.



But right now I am just soo afraid of my chances. See my periods are just sooo sparatic. Like I wont get them for up to 5 months then get a mother of a period. I can feel my uterus trying to reach up to my spleen and trying to put it in a head lock. Fun times. And the thing is that it is hard to know when to worry about being preggers. Like I had to take a test because I hadnt gotten one. But I dont know when to judge my period because it comes when it wants. All the warning I get is the "feeling" about 10 minutes proir. Or I will go to the loo and wipe and be like "Ohh hello there evil bloody Auntie Flow. You have come forth to spread your reign of cramps and tears!!" And I get horrid pms. I get blaoted and my stomach gets rock hard. I get constapeted and I break out in zits. But I have passed clots that I swore were aliens. They were huge. Like the size of a golf ball. Fun times

[zebra]

my first daughter broke my wifes rib with one of her kicks.

it happens.
just thought i'd barge in and share.

[Ryoko!]

JelloFaerie- don't give up! I was told my chances of getting pregnant were VERY slim. I'm 35 weeks pregnant now, I had some of the same problems your'e having, I never knew when my period would start or if it would at all. I don't know how many "scares" I had growing up (even though I always used a condom) becuase of it. I had a miscarriage the first time which, although devastaing proved to me that yes I could too get preggers (despite what my doctors were telling me) so we kept trying. Three months later I was pregnant again, it's been a rocky road (i was diagnoised with gestional diabetes, Logan is in breech position and can't get out of it, his ass is stuck in my pelvis, I had to go on a special diet, and now they are telling me my blood pressure is high and that I'm in some sort of danger of going into a coma or some stupid shit- by next week I could be on bed rest) but it's been worth everything we've gone through.
Good luck! I hope your wishes come true.



:)

[PotatoFace]

Ryoko- thanks for the bump of support. I know. I just keep in my mind when I am meant to have a lovely baby I shall get one. No matter which way. I just want to be healthy. And I remember hearing bout your troubles with your preggers(I read the parent pad all the times). Everything will work out. Have you been staying off the juice?


*thinking BABY PUT YOUR HEAD IN THE CROTCH AREA thoughts for you*


and ouch zebra, your poor wife

[earthquakes]

Originally posted by zebra
my first daughter broke my wifes rib with one of her kicks.

it happens.
just thought i'd barge in and share.

I remember you telling me the story of your wife and delivery... One of my...most memorable forum memories actually *gets all sappy*

I cried. :f

~earthquakes

[naws]

JelloFairie, thanks for asking this, and FastestSlug - thanks for taking the time to write out that response. i'm almost 12 weeks and can't wait to start feeling things! everything i've read says it feels like "butterflies", but that just isn't detailed enough for me, your info was much more helpful.

keep your fingers crossed that we'll get to hear the heartbeat for the first time tomorrow! my uterus is tilted so the baby is still way down in there (sorry if TMI) and my doc wouldn't even attempt to listen two weeks ago.


p.s. when am i going to fit into the few cute maternity clothes that i found? i'm busting out of my regular clothes, but maternity clothes look silly. ergh. i'm so impatient, not good in this situation.

[tully]

slug's kids are adorable

her girl eats popples

they should be gay when they grow up

[sneeze]

Originally posted by tully
slug's kids are adorable

her girl eats popples

they should be gay when they grow up is it recruiting season yet?

[tully]

Girl, where have you been.

I've already designated four students this month as Future Gays of America. Baby Slug and Little Man Slug will make five and six. How are you doing with your quota?

[sneeze]

Originally posted by tully
Girl, where have you been.

I've already designated four students this month as Future Gays of America. Baby Slug and Little Man Slug will make five and six. How are you doing with your quota? goddamnit. i have to catch up!
i think i have to go out tonight and booze myself up in order to be able to appropriately work on quota fulfillment.

actually, i might have to take a refresher course, some tully training, first.

[tully]

Originally posted by sneeze
i might have to take a refresher course, some tully training, first.

My schedule is clear ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

[sneeze]

Originally posted by tully
My schedule is clear ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! and so is mine!
(unlike my conscience and my thoughts, which are more like dirty... har har.. )

[tully]

*loves sneeze long time*
*gaily*

by the way, tori played you tonight in tampa. i wonder how you sounded without guitar.

[nunu]

Originally posted by sneeze
and so is mine!
(unlike my conscience and my thoughts, which are more like dirty... har har.. ) is that how they laugh in state college? har har? me popeye de sailor man

[hollylolly1]

hey, i have a question, too. have you ever read this poem? my amer. lit professor had one of our male students read this outloud today. it was hilarious. anyway, your name made me think of it again.

"The Connoisseuse of Slugs" by Sharon Olds

When I was a connoisseuse of slugs
I would part the ivy leaves, and look for the
naked jelly of those gold bodies,
translucent strangers glistening along the
stones, slowly, their gelatinous bodies
at my mercy. Made mostly of water, they would shrivel
to nothing if they were sprinkled with salt,
but I was not interested in that. What I liked
was to draw aside the ivy, breathe the
odor of the wall, and stand there in silence
until the slug forgot I was there
and sent its antennae up out of its
head, the glimmering umber horns
rising like telescopes, until finally the
sensitive knobs would pop out the ends,
delicate and intimate. Years later,
when I first saw a naked man,
I gasped with pleasure to see that quiet
mystery reenacted, the slow
elegant being coming out of hiding and
gleaming in the dark air, eager and so
trusting you could weep.
;l ;l ;l ;l ;l ;l ;l ;l