Calling all moms (and grandmoms)....

[Christiansmommy]

What's a baby pool?

I think it's when you guess boy or girl.

[elizabethann]

I think it's when you guess boy or girl.

yep.

[Christiansmommy]

Today's uppydate

We bought some paint for the nursery today. I have no idea what the bedding and such will be -- especially since we don't know if its a boy or girl -- but its a pretty robin's egg blue that if its a girl will have pink & purple flowers painted on top, if its a blue, all the trim and such will be painted blue with whatever design we decide on. Hubby is DETERMINED she'll keep the baby in her room with her... I am DETERMINED the baby needs a nursery all their own. So guess who's going to be painintg a nursery while someone else is at work? Once its done, what can he say?

As for knowing whether its a boy or girl? We will not know until it comes screaming into the world. We apparently missed the window by a week or so. The baby is now too big and scrunched up. Right now, the names she's thinking of are some real winners and I told her to get a little more traditional because everything she's picking out is REALLY trendy and sounds as if a teenager named the baby (which is what she is) but you don't want to do that because he/she is going to have that name for life and she won't always BE a teenager.

Fun! I am in the same process. Jeremy's room is partly painted...Rob will have to do the rest, b/c I get too many Braxton Hicks Contractions and need to rest. HIs room is a baby blue on the bottem half of the walls, and has 2 inch pale yellow stripes painted over the blue...we will do a white chair rail and the top will remain white...our theme is pretty much pale blue, yellow and white w/stars. When it is finished I will post pics. We have a white crib and dresser,the valance is blue and white stars and the curtains are a pale yellow and white stripe. Can't wait for it to be done!!

Can't wait to hear names too!!

[Lobodeb]

We painted Hugito's room not knowing he was a boy. You may or may not know that we didn't want to know the gender before he was born, waited about 8 months, then a nurse slipped and told me when I was having an ultrasound.

His room is a seafoam green on the bottom, sky blue with clouds on top and a Winnie the Pooh border that separates the 2 colors in the middle.

[Karen]

There are many non-gender specific things you can buy anyway, and lots of colors that don't signify gender. And baby won't care if her walls are blue or his walls are pink!

Baby's gonna be a summer baby, and won't need a whole lot of clothes right away anyway, diaper, t-shirt and socks is even too much in some summer weather!

She will quickly learn who her real friends are. How did the appointment at school, and the prenatal appointment go?

[Laura's Babies]

Hasn't this all turned into the most exciting thing??? I am STILL so excited I could POP! I just wish the Mom to Be could catch some of our excitement and get on this bandwagon with us.. I bet she is in just such a state of shock and fear..

Kim, have you ((((HUGGED)))) her and told her how thrilled you are? Has her Dad? 13 weeks huh? WOW! Not much time to prepare.

I agree with whoever suggested to look into freecycle in your area. That seems to be a great orginazation and you could hit the big time on there if the time is just right and get a lot of what you need for free.. You can also post "in search of" on there too so get busy! http://freecycle.com/

[catnapper]

Ok, at the risk of her killing me here she is. You tell me this kid looks 26 weeks pregnant!
Here she is Sunday at my mom's house.


Honestly, in the near-week since then she HAS started showing more. Here's this morning when I told her she HAD to have photographic evidence of what she looked like when she found out. My neighbor told her she wished she did the same thing - but when she was pregnant she felt to self-conscious and now she'd kill to have pregnancy photos. Love my neighbor!

Sitting down saying "Oh my God! You are such a DORK!" when I was taking the photo


Standing forward, with the comments being downgraded to "I can't believe I'm playing along with this ".


Downgraded further to "lets get this over with"


I'd like to reiterate that in the past few days she's really started to pop. I would bet by this time next week she'll look every bit her almost-7-months-pregnant.

[ramanth]

You'll be an awesome grandma, Kim! Your daughter is very pretty. It's easy to see she has the pregnancy glow.

My co-worker is 4 months along and she's huge! We feel bad for when she hits the 9 month mark. She probaby won't be able to walk.

[JenBKR]

Wow she really doesn't look seven months along, at least not to me. Is she starting to get excited at all yet?

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

At least she's smiling in the last pic.

I think it would be easier to tell if she wasn't wearing the jacket thingy and I think you'd really be able to tell if she just had the t-shirt on and tucked the bottom under the belly....I seem to remember....was it Missy?...who had pictures like that and I think it really emphasizes the belly. Might want to wait until she's a little more used to the idea of being pregnant in the first place to suggest this though.

I'm glad it sounds like she's getting over the shock and is maybe(?) starting to have a little fun - what with the decorating and all? Sounds like you're having a ball now that the shock has worn off.

[kimlovescats]

She looks very cute, and I think it's great that you are playing it up now ... she needs to feel a sense of pride in her body and for her precious baby!!!
I still have to wonder how she didn't know something was up .... for those who have had babies ... UMMM, think about the obvious changes that happen above the waist???

Well, maybe she thought those things happened when you get on the pill.

[jenluckenbach]

WOW, so many updates I missed. (darned job )

I am glad you got her to pose for photos. Later on she might even be a little more willing.

When the "room switch" happened, did she get the upstairs room with the extra room next to it (or was that Heather?? I forget). If she did, that would be perfect, nursery right next to mom.

How is she feeling today? (emotionally as well as physically)

[Jods]

Kim,
I am all teary eyed reading this thread. First off lets start with a congrats to the whole family. Second since this was all such a shock maybe your daughter will benifit from some counseling or something to that effect. Since its coming so fast and shes so far along I doubt its still really hit her and we always read horror stories about teenagers being suprised with babies (not saying she'll do anything bad) but her and the father seem to be in a state of shock they may both be able to benifit from it. I also wanted to add I am a new mother at 21 so I wanted to say if she EVER has any questions or anything seeing as how I just went through it all she can feel free to email me at anytime to ask me ANYTHING! I can give you my email by PM if you want. I know there are tons of questions I had when I was preggers and I know sometimes teenagers would rather not ask their parents these types of questions. Last I am a part of a great forum called baby and me it goes through all stages of pregnancy and right up until teen years with support and love. there is even a section for teen mommies only where a whole bunch of teen mommies share questions and concerns here is the website:

http://www.yabbers.com/phpbb/index.p...73b16498309384

Good luck I hope all goes well with your daughter. A great book for her to read would be what to expect when your expecting it was my bible through thte whole nine months. Good luck!!

[Christiansmommy]

Another great site is www.pregnancy.org . You may even want to check there yourself, and lurk. They have tons of forums about everything...and you can find the June 2006 birth board to lurk at what everyone else in her same month is going thru right now. I just lurk, am not a member, but it can be helpful just to read posts. They may even have a teen mom section.

[Jods]

Some things you may want to discuss:

I thought of a few things you may want to discuss with her,

Breastfeeding/formula feeding
circumcision vs. not circumsized (if its a boy)
pain relief during labor: ex epidural, pain meds or natural child birth

Make a list of everything she needs for the hospital if you google this you will find a list of items to bring, I'll try to find you one... Ask about how long her stay will be average is 2 days or 4 is ceasection. Make a birth plan I will PM you mine as an example.