Ooh, Kin looks pretty.

But I of course meant my love Chi. On whom I bestow kisses.

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P.S. Do you guys happen to have a June 10 CI set I could snatch (and by snatch I mean buy)? I've just realized I don't have one. I'm so behind on getting CIs. I at least have one of the other months (though only one of at least May, July, and August).

The umbrella doesn't seem to be helping much with the water whirl you have going on around your feet there.

You should sue.

Lemme check my inventory when we get home later. I have some offers pending out there and I don't remember if I used my extra Junes or not. :3

Chi: Coo. <3 Where are you guys?

Kin: It's my own fault. I'm jumping in puddles.

I was at home when I posted that, but we were leaving. I had a non-stress test (or rather, the baby did) as today's my due date. Apparently the only verdict is she's more than content and healthy to stay put. e_e;

Is your baby date counter going to start going into the negatives?

That would be funny..

Dude you need to tell her to get her little butt out here!! :XD

I have a feeling she's gonna be a handful. I was talking to my friend who has two kids and said the first was hardly any movement with him when she was pregnant. He was a really easy going and happy baby. Her second he was very active and spent the first 3 months being very collicky. He has grown out of the collickiness and now is just a handful. He's apparently a baby who needs attention or stimuli to keep him happy or he gets fussy. She said he's also very much more expressive/talkative too and she still thinks he will be the kind of kid who will always be a bit of a handful and getting himself into trouble. :P

Hey Chi!
In case I forget, good luck with the baby! You know, since the due date is close and all. ^^;

@Cami
Good question. Maybe it'll do an overdue counter?

@Feyona
Hi there. <33

@Izumi
It's luck of the draw. When early on in the pregnancy I became curious (sometimes concerned) about her high activity level, many mothers said they were in the same boat only to give birth to the laziest, most content little slugs ever. With colic, more and more research is pointing toward it being a nutritional issue. No real yes/no on it, but it's enough to make one curious, especially since no one knows what causes it for certain.

I figure if she's content and happy in there, at least she's content and happy. Maybe she's just not ready, for some odd reason. My reasons for wanting her here now are purely selfish anyway. My commuting class begins Thursday, whereas the online one begins tomorrow. I don't care about the online one, as that's not meeting in person 'till September 12th. The other? Yeah, I'm a little nervous. It'll work out though. I'm smart and can keep up.

@Springy
Thanks! :hug: We'll see how it goes!

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*dashes off to quick thaw some chicken*

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*decides that chicken is a bust, and therefore spaghetti and meat sauce it is?*

*snuggles Chii* I'm happy that baby is doing well... but ya know. You could always do what I did and have her induced if she decides to over-stay her welcome. XD I did that with my son because I was dilated to a 4 and having contractions... when I got there they said I could either induce or go home and because it was the day AFTER he was supposed to be born I opted for having him induced. He came out just fine.

A lot of people assume that because I'm 40 weeks that I'm miserable and tired of being pregnant. Do most women really have that rough a go of it? I have pelvic pain, but that's it. I love being pregnant. My friend absolutely hates it.

I'm going to miss it. :(

The only reasons I want her out are selfish and only due to classes, not me being in discomfort or being tired.

o.o It sounds like it would be really uncomfortable, carrying around five pounds of baby. Really cumbersome, and then there's the bumping into things and...

Glad it isn't bothering you, though. And on the other hand, if you're pregnant, you can make other people do stuff for you! *punt'd really hard*

Five pounds? Try eight or nine. That's where Terra is right now. :lol: If they let me go the full 2 weeks over I may be looking at a 10lb baby. We'll get a more direct assessment on her weight this Wednesday.

xD I have no sense of measurement.

But either way, that sounds really uncomfortable. @[email protected]

For my friend, she's been uncomfortable for months. I've only been uncomfortable if I get up to walk and the baby's weighing on my pelvis, and this has only been for... I dunno, 2 or 3 weeks? I'm reluctant to say 3 weeks because the pain had only JUST started before I got a break from work, and I've not been off work for 2 full weeks yet.

The days are melting together. @[email protected]

But anyway, no... it's not been bad for me at all.

8lbs of baby, plus about a pound of placenta, plus 10 lbs of amniotic fluid. :)

sounds about right... i remember being there... but Chii... you either don't ever have any complaints.... or your baby is treating you like a goddess... because yeah... I wasn't really comfortable with Perrin.

@ Chi - :D Glad motherhood's working out for ya.

@ Kin - :gonk:?

10lbs of amniotic fluid including increased blood volume. >3< My amniotic fluid isn't as high now as it was before since the baby's taking up more room. I think they said my blood volume (well, any pregnant woman's) is twice was it used to be.

Feyona, I guess I have a nice baby then? She moves when I ask her to and give her a little pat. She'll kick when I talk to her. She responds quite nicely to her environment, and she's not even here yet. During her non-stress test she kept poking at the bands around my belly due to the pressure changes, hehe.

She sounds like an angel... I hope she stays that way for the rest of her years and treats you like the wonderful mother I know you're going to be. I'm so happy for you!! Soon you're going to feel like you're overworked and under-appreciated... but the first time your baby smiles up at you you'll feel your insides go all warm & squishy. And you'll never be the same.

Haha. Fey, you make it sound so wonderful.

Chi, for your sake, I pray your kid doesn't end up like me.

@Fey
I probably will feel overworked, but I won't feel under-appreciated when my husband will be doing as much with the baby and around the household as I am. We're both temporarily unemployed, both schooling, and both intending on being just as hands-on with our daughter as possible. Cooking and cleaning duties will be shared, and we'll make sure we give each other "shifts" to do homework when need be.

Depending on how good the baby is, I will go back to work (with her) two or three days a week, depending on what hours are available to me at my grandparents' business.

This isn't my first time raising an infant, but it is my first birthed child. I'm looking forward to all the fun things I've already experienced, but this time with someone who gets to stay with me. <3

@Anna
Oh pfft... you're not a bad kid.

@ Dystopia ~ It really is Dys... there's nothing in the world you can ever experience that will prepare you for parenthood... I wasn't even sure i wanted a kid when I got pregnant... it was an accident with someone I barely knew... but i stuck with it... and the first day I got to hold him in my arms... I quite literally fell in love. The parental bond that forms is... devastating to just about anything else you wanted out of life. It's the kind of thing you would kill for. I know if someone threatened my child I would. And I'm a pacifist... so that's saying something. I know this isn't true for all parents... because some parents can abandon their children... but almost NEVER have I heard of it happening without something they're using that alters their own natural body chemistry. It's there to make sure we keep the species alive... and it works wonders.

@ Chii ~ Awww... that's really sweet. I wish my ex-husband had been half as there as your husband is... then again if he had been he probably wouldn't have been an ex. I was pretty much raising him by myself when we were living together. Now that we're apart it's almost the same... but at least he comes and visits every once in a while.

On a side note... I'm going to run away... work needs to be left so I can take a nice warm bath and get some rest.

@ Chi - I'm not, when you don't have to live with me. >>

@ Fey - Heh. As amazing as that sounds, it doesn't appeal to me. I just don't think I could handle being responsible for another person's being and success. @[email protected];