Elite Moms Post up!

[Rebecca D]

I read in church that if you ride on a donkey to Bethlehem it should induce labor.

Congratulations. Mine are 11, 9, and 3. I would have three more if possible but I'm 40 and my husband said enough. I loved being pregnant, food taste wonderful. I also preferred natural birth. My first born, boy, was natural but my other two ,girls, were c-sections. I didn't like having my babies taken away after the surgery. I also don't like my scar. I do love my babies though.

The best thing you can do initially is concentrate on diet. Don't beat yourself up over working out. Enjoy your baby, they grow up fast. Workout when you can and you will gradually get back into it. Invest in a nice jogging stroller. Just my two cents worth.


Rebecca D

 

[cindylou]

God what is up with all these women who loved being pregnant? Are you kidding? lol! j/k you guys

I hope this isnt a sign that I'll be a bad mom! I had a horrible first trimester and this being pregnant is really losing its luster.

I cant wait until I can sleep on my stomach or back

 

[cindylou]

Not at all. My sister HATED being pregnant and she is an AMAZING MOTHER.

Every woman experiences pregnancy/childbirth differently and it has ZERO BEARING on what kind of mother you will be.

PERISH THAT THOUGHT OR I WILL PINCH YOU GOOD!

thanks....i wont think that again

i pray im the best type of mom that she needs. whatever kind that is i pray im that.

 

[OMEGA]

a Loved one of mine just had a Baby Girl

I am the only one that can sooth it and stop it from a cry

kiss, sincere touch, and holding.swaying in arms helps alot

 

[Cutiebaby]

God what is up with all these women who loved being pregnant? Are you kidding? lol! j/k you guys

I hope this isnt a sign that I'll be a bad mom! I had a horrible first trimester and this being pregnant is really losing its luster.

I cant wait until I can sleep on my stomach or back

omg lol. I remember sayin the same dang thing when I was pregnant. I could not wait to get back on my tummy. My back hurt to much to sleep on my back, so I had to sleep on my side, which sucked.

I enjoyed my pregnancy to the point that it was great knowing there was a baby growing inside me, a whole new life. Other than that it sucked. I already have low blood pressure, being pregnant made it lower. Therefor I was Captain passout!! I am only 5 feet, so being pregnant I had torpeedo belly and looked totally stupid with little arms, legs, head and a giant tummy.

 

[OMEGA]

When you haven't slept, bathed, eaten or had time to go to the bathroom for several days/weeks at a clip, your patience wears thin REAL FAST... then add hormones, fear, feeling overwhelmed and the next thing you know all you can do is:

you are soo right

in fact the mom voiced here level of being drained

I offered 2 days a week of my time to take the little one for the day

 

[tbuzzell]

I remember reading an article where it stated that a mother could identify an article of clothing worn by her baby based on the smell alone also they would play tapes of crying babies while a new mother slept and regardless of how the infant howled the mother would only wake if it was the slightest murmur from HER baby.

There is a lot that nature builds into the mother-child bond.

My third daughter never cried. I mean we really thought there was something wrong with her mentally because she would only make the slightest, "Meh, meh" type noises when she wanted to be fed. And yet I was in another room of the house (small house, 3 bedroom ranch couldn't have been more than 1200 ft sq, if that), two doors completely closed and I ALWAYS heard her. The sounds she made were barely audible but I always jumped right up and went to the crib to nurse her. My ex was like, "What do you have bionic hearing?"

No, that's just MY baby.

... and then she "turned 2" on her third birthday and made me feel like I had really gotten away with something as she had been soooooooooo affable for so long.

My fourth, now THAT CHILD was birthcontrol. LOL And yet, she became the child that was the easiest to deal with.

Not trying to sound like a smarty pants but what you are talking about is the node in the brain called the reticular activating systems (RAS). Like you said it only occurs with your own baby. My husband could sleep through the crying and it pissed me off.

Its has been a while since I have been on elite due to college and starting a business. I am back and ready to roar. Cindylou, I am due in September with my second baby and I too am having a girl. I see that you have some fears but don't you worry you will be a wonderful, caring mother. Breastfeeding may or may not come naturally to you so keep up with it even if it is a battle you will get passed it.

For the rest of you talking about pregnancy, I absolutely HATE IT. If I could pay someone else to carry the baby for 10 months and then I labor and deliver it would be great. Oh, I could also do without the post partum depression too. I never thought I would get it because of what I eat and how I work out and Yoga like crazy, but it happened. I also look like a little troll with a basketball belly because I am short too. It's funny how we can pick on ourselves.

I have enjoyed reading this thread and I hope it keeps up so I can get more information too. You can never be too prepared.

 

[goin on 4T]

You get to watch your woman get fat as shit and can't say a word about it. You get half the sex if any at all till about the lst two months. Then they want to have sex all day every day but you don't know hoe to tell them at that point there so fat and miss shaped you really don't want to have sex.

Then it pops out and you get 0 sex at all for a good 2 months and nothing but cry cry cry cry from the kid and bitch bitch bitch bitch from the mom.

O and to top it all of your bills just tippled.









Ya I think I will pass.

Hard to argue with those fine points; however I do love my girls and would not could not go without them!