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Harpchick
Harpchick has 63 days to go and is now in week 31
	Age: 38 Country: US Province/region: New York City: Rochester Partner: Hubby Bob Children: Yes, 2 Pregnant: Yes Due date: 10 Dec ,2008 Occupation: Harpist
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Scheduled c-section date: Tues, Dec 2, 10am... woo hoo!

It's a girl! Again!

I'm Amy. I'm 38 and pregnant with my third child. If you ask my teenaged son, my husband Bob and I are hopeless perverts for "carrying on like that at our advanced ages". Maybe my son's right: there will be a nearly-16-year age gap between our oldest and our youngest, with a three-year-old thrown into the mix too! He considers it the height of rudeness that we are supplying him with another baby sister and not the brother he had in mind. Ah well, life is tough, no? My husband and I have been married almost 17 years and tortured my parents by living together for a few years before that at the university where we met. In addition to our two human children, we have three canine ones: Basil, the always-cheerful epileptic cocker spaniel (who happily responds to "Bubba", "Banana" or anything that begins with "B" at this point) and Hoover, an aging shepherd/Yeti mix named after our vacuum cleaner for good reason. The latest addition, as of August 18th, is a cocker spaniel puppy named Snickers, or "Snick" for short.

'Water' the odds? It's been a weird pregnancy. When we had our CVS testing way back in May of this year, the genetic team ruptured our amniotic sac and we lost most of the fluid around the baby. It's been a long recovery period, during most of which they thought the baby would die, but the tear seems to be healing and our fluid has coming back, so now our prognosis is very hopeful indeed!

Amniotic fluid update 7/1/08: We're up to 11cm! Two weeks ago we were at 4cm and last week it was 9cm, so we're on an upward trend! Hooray! If we get to 13 we'll be considered "normal" again!

Amniotic fluid update 7/14/08: Hmm. Still at 11. But hey, it hasn't gone down!

Amniotic fluid update 8/3/08: HOORAY! 14.8cm!! So we totally exceeded the "normal" mark! The baby is even ahead of things for growth. So it would appear we are out of the woods!

Amniotic fluid update 9/2/08: Well, it's official. We're out of the woods! We've gone a whole month without losing fluid. In fact, we have SO much amniotic fluid they didn't even bother measuring it this time. Within a nanosecond, the tech exclaimed we have more than we need and there wasn't even any point in measuring

Amniotic fluid update 10/1/08: A whole month since our last fluid measurement, but we're at 15.6cm, hooray! On today's scans we could clearly see her lungs "practice breathing", moving the fluid in and out, so we're confident that her lungs are on track despite early fears. Two months to go!

The Name: At least for now, the name we're thinking about is Tiana Claire. Tiana is a name my husband is fixated on; he likes Tia as a nickname, though we like Tiana as a formal name. Meanings of Tiana include:

Russia: short for 'Tatiana'. Cherokee Indian: 'beautiful soul'. India: 'princess'. Greece: 'highest beauty'. England: variation of 'Diana".

The 'Claire' middle name is after the protagonist of Diana Gabaldon's 'Outlander' series of books. (Read them, or forever hang your head in shame...) I always pick my kids' middle names after my favorite literary characters.

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Eloises-mummy! - 11.3 hours ago
Hey all,
Im back lol its 22:55pm im shattered we went all the way to wales for 20 minutes of service. My sister walked out and they didnt want to go to the wake so me and my little sister were left so dissapointed .

My grandpa got a good sending off though. which was nice.

I dont know how im going to cope tomorrow when eloise wants to be up again in 6 hours time lol.

sleep well all or good evening all those overseas friends lol

marinewife8412 - 12.4 hours ago
I can't believe that happened to you!!! What a little miracle that baby girl is for you and your husband!! You should go after then for medical malpractice b/c they harmed you!

marinewife8412 - 27.6 hours ago
Just came across your profile and see that we both live in good ol' Rochester! I'm not the only crazy one up at 145am

Hope the rest of your pregnancy is a healthy one!

Eloises-mummy! - 28.6 hours ago
Hello Everyone.
Well its currantly 5:44am here and im soon to be on my way to wales (otherside of the country) at 6am. I'll be trapped in a car with my mum, two sisters, eloise and my 1yr old nephew Harley. So its going to end up being a 6 hours journey of arguements lol and whats worse is ive been allocated baby duty all the way there and back. Wish me luck! lol 12 hours ina confined space with them lol.

We're going because of my grandpas funeral which isnt the best reason to go to wales for. W ehavent seen any of that side of the family for 9 years so im getting rather nervous.

I hope all you ladies have a good day and preciousgem. I hope you had a great labour. Look forward to reading about it soon. xxxxxx

Eloises-mummy! - 34.1 hours ago
Hey hows your day been? Not too exausting i hopea and not missing those fruit pastels too much i hope. lol