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[RStar]

gefilte fish bottle?

[Nephythys]

SQUEEEEEEE!!!! Congrats and happy happy baby tidings!

Please let me know when the shower is- so I can sends our luvs to you and the baby (since being there in person is not likely)

[flippyshark]

That is such wonderful news. Mazel Tov, Omedeto, Felicitaciones, Glückwunsch!

Now, if you can just train Munchkin to change diapers.

[Moonliner]

Oh, and of course we need to quote the latest in parenting protocol... XKCD:

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Thanks to all of you! I'll mojo you when I can. Each post is like a reassuring hug.

Originally Posted by Betty

Any food cravings? (I thought icy cold cantelope was, pretty much, the best food there ever was.)

Any weird dreams? (I had a few strange ones involving kittens instead of babies.)

When do you start feeling the wiggling around? I forget. I don't think it's for another month or two is it?

The food thing is weird. Fruit is always appetizing. Often meat can turn me off. Most things I can eat anyway, I just stop looking at it and suddenly I'm stuffing it in my mouth like a chipmunk. I don't usually eat without thinking, now I do.

My initial hormone overdose seems to have mellowed out (or rather, my body is used to it now) so now I "crave" whatever I see. I see an ad for pizza, I want pizza. I drive by a chinese restaurant, I want chinese. I almost feel like pointing at the sign and saying "THAT!"

I have had some very vivid dreams (which I didn't used to) but I tend to wake up about 4am and go back to sleep intermittently after that (which I didn't used to either) so I forget the dreams in the process.

Wiggling won't be felt for a while. It's only about 3 inches long now.

Originally Posted by Moonliner

What to expect when your expecting

This was the first book I picked up, and I liked it. In reading reviews online and as evidenced in the conversation here, it seems that people respond to it differently (same goes for all other baby books). I prefer encyclopedic, biological books instead of emotional support ones, so I also picked up the Mayo Clinic book, which is awesome. I seem to be ok with reading about all the things that could go wrong - in fact I feel empowered with the info. My biggest annoyance with What to Expect was the cutesy conversational tone. Then my sis-in-law gave me a stack of her books, including the Girlfriend's Guide and Chicken Soup for the Crazy Pregnant Lady, so now I'm set if I have an emotional onslaught (which I probably will eventually).

Originally Posted by Alex

Also, as happy as I am for you, I'll find your children as uninteresting as I do everybody else's. So don't take it personally.

I would take it very personally if you thought my kids were interesting. It wouldn't be very Alex-like.

Originally Posted by flippyshark

Now, if you can just train Munchkin to change diapers.

If Nana can take care of Wendy, John and Michael...

[Capt Jack]

Originally Posted by Tom

Just thirteen years and six months until little DM can start posting!

nah...6 months tops...

it may end up being stuff like

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for awhile....but hey, we all have days like that eh?

[mousepod]

Originally Posted by Capt Jack

nah...6 months tops...

it may end up being stuff like



for awhile....but hey, we all have days like that eh?

Are Lisa's cats going to teach the baby to type?

Congratulations to both of you! This is most wonderful news.
I know it's a little early, but you do realize you're going to have one cool kid, right?

[Promo-Man]

Congratulations!
and enjoy

[Strangler Lewis]

You will also want to read "The Girlfriend's Guide to Pregnancy." Or at least GD will. If only to read the "sex after pregnancy" chapter, which includes the tale of the author's girlfriend whose husband demanded and got a BJ in the recovery room.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Originally Posted by Disneyphile

Would love to help in anyway I can too. Just gimme a call.

Ditto, ditto, effin' ditto that!