Below are the most recent 3 friends' journal entries.

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
_pregnant_ [ taz ]	1:50p	Pregnancy rant - 31 weeks I'm super uncomfortable. I'm 31 weeks pregnant. The pinching in my butt, leg, and back is driving me nuts. The constantly itchy skin. The breathlessness and fatigue. I don't remember feeling this uncomfortable and irritable with my daughter who is now two and a half and driving me crazy. We're a one parent household right now. All I hear is MOMMY! MOMMY! MOMMY! Now I translate 31 weeks to being almost 8 months along and start freaking. Is everything going to be ready? Will breastfeeding be just as hard the second time around? Is my two year old going to keep screaming and drive me over the edge when I've been up all night with a newborn? Daddy won't be home for at least another 5 months and family is either not willing to help or live far away. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
_pregnant_ [ erikakaboom ]	11:49a	Newbie! Hi Ladies! My name is Erika. I'm new to the community so I wanted to stop by and introduce myself. After 2.5 months of marriage, my husband and I discovered that we are pregnant earlier this week. We didn't really plan to have a baby this soon but we couldn't be more thrilled! It's a baby; what's not to love? I have been on birth control since September and had to get the prescription changed twice. My body wouldn't adjust to it and I got tired of being sick so we just quit taking the pill and decided to let God give us a child when he was ready. Since the first week in December, I have been experiencing pregnancy symptoms. I was nauseous for several weeks. I could smell everything. My boobs hurt so bad that I secretly wanted to cut them off. I have had minor cramping in my uterus and a few light pink smears of blood for one day when I would wipe after going to the bathroom. I couldn't and still can't seem to catch my hunger. I've cried all the time for no reason. I pee all the time. I choose mustard over mayo, want chocolate all the time even though I don't particularly care for it, think ranch is disgusting one day and want it the next, and my husband and I drove to six different stores on Saturday looking for peppermint bark because I just had to have it. My period never came last week when it was supposed to. On Monday of this week, I took a pregnancy test and it came back positive. I took two more and both came out positive. I'm estimating that I'm about 4 weeks along. I have a doctor's appointment scheduled for Monday to find out all the jazzy details, such as our due date, how far along we are, etc. Anyway, I look forward to getting to know ya'll (excuse my word choice "ya'll" - I'm kind of a southern belle. . . hehe). I'm kind of terrified about this whole pregnancy thing. I feel so fragile. I never imagined that I would get pregnant being overweight. Now there's not really much I can do but just make sure my baby is healthy and happy. Have an amazing week! =) (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 27th, 2009
_pregnant_ [ persephonefalls ]	11:46a	I think I'm pregnant! Hi guys. I think I'm pregnant, and I'm absolutely flipping out. My husband and I went off birth control two years ago, and we've been casually trying to conceive since then. My doctor told me that I should chart, and when I thought I was ovulating, we should have sex every two days for eight days--four before, and four after. However, I have a really long and irregular, unpredictable cycle, so my doctor told me it would be more difficult for us to chart and conceive like that than it would be for women whose cycles are more reliable. Due to my stressful and busy work schedule, we haven't really been so good about charting and trying to specifically have sex when I think I'm ovulating, so to be honest, even though I've been wanting to be pregnant, I didn't really believe that it would actually happen any time soon. But over the weekend, my breasts started to feel really tender and sensitive, and I've been extra gassy, so I started--not being suspicious, but wondering. So I took a First Response pregnancy test this morning, and got the infamous two pinks lines. My guess for conception would be about two weeks ago, 12/11. So--how likely is a false positive? Aside from what I mentioned above, I haven't noticed any other "signs" of pregnancy--I haven't even been moodier than usual. And with the cards stacked against us like this, I'm almost afraid to believe it's true until I get in to see my doctor (you better believe I'll be calling her first thing tomorrow morning!) But in the meantime--this is for real, right? And what does all this stuff I'm reading on the internet mean, when it says that when you're two weeks pregnant, you're not even pregnant yet? I'm really confused. (13 Comments |Comment on this)