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MATTHEWSMOM
	Age: 30 Country: USA Province/region: MA City: Bellingham Partner: Charlie Children: Yes, 2 Pregnant: Not anymore Occupation: Accountant
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Tuesday, 11 Dec
I guess this marks my official entry into the second trimester. It's much easier to relax knowing the threat of miscarriage is very low now. I was glad to hear the heartbeat at my last visit. We are looking forward to finding out the sex of the baby on Jan 21st (as long as he/she cooperates of course). I'm looking forward to finishing up my Christmas shopping this week so that I can relax and enjoy the last week before Christmas. It's our last CHristmas with just Matthew and I want to really enjoy it!

Thursday, 10 Jan

I am super excited to have my ultrasound coming up in 2 weeks. If all goes well (meaning that the baby cooperates with us) we will find out what we are having on the 21st of January. I have started buying a few things for the baby (bottles and liners) and once we find out the sex I can start planning for the newborn clothes. We didn `t find out what we were having the first time so I have tons of gender neutral stuff but let `s face it...I `ll have to buy some gender-specific items once I know what we are having!

Monday, 21 Jan

Well I went to my ultrasound today and we found out that it `s a girl!!! Matthew has been saying that he wants a little sister and it looks like he gets his wish. She was super active in the ultrasound. It `s funny because I have been feeling movements since about the 16th week and watching the ultrasound screen I was amazed at what I didn `t feel as she was moving all around! This should be an interesting ride! :) We are very happy.

Thursday, 24 Jan

I found out today that I have to go in for another ultrasound on the 11th of Feb. They were unable to see all the parts of the heart that they like to see...something about her position in the womb...the doctor said it was nothing to be worried about that this sometimes happens. I admit that I was a bit taken aback because I didn `t have to do this with Matthew. Hopefully all will go well. :)

Sunday, 10 Feb

Well - here we are almost 23 weeks along...I have my third ultrasound on Monday. They want to see a few more areas of the heart that they missed the last time. Hopefully all will go well. I `ve been feeling good - a bit tired at the end of the day but other than that I can `t complain. Our next project is re-doing our guest room for our son so that we can move him out of the nursery to make room for his sister. That should keep me bussy for the next few months and then we `ll be in the home stretch! Yay! I started getting excited about her arrival the other day...this should be a fun summer!

Monday, 11 Feb

Well we just got back from the U/S and everything looks great...HR was 148 and she was really active. I asked the technician to re-confirm the sex (I didn `t see the last time so I wanted to make sure) and this time I was able to see for myself that she is really a girl! Bring on the pink and purple clothes folks!!! :)

Friday, 15 Feb

OK - so is it just me or is it too early to be feeling this nesting instinct? I don `t remember it kicking in so early last time...I am having this incredible urge to get our guest room re-done so we can move my son in there and get him settled. Then I `ll be able to get the nursery set up for the new baby. It `s much harder this time because we now have a 2 year old running around while we are trying to do things...We `re planning on taking some days off from work and sending Matthew to school so we can get things done quickly and efficently. Her movements are getting much stronger now so it `s like a reality check that she `s coming whether we are ready or not! LOL! I really wanted to have everything settled by mid-May because I am sure that I `ll be pretty tired by then (never mind the fact that I may go early - a thought that I have been ignoring since Matthew came on his due date)!

Thursday, 28 Feb

My little one is VERY active these days...I wonder if this is a sign of things to come (if so she `ll be in good company with her brother). I am looking forward to starting the process of readying the house for her arrival. I `ve booked my days off in March to start the process and hopefully all will move smoothly! We are planning a trip to NH to visit my sister-in-law at the end of the month and that will be a nice little break for our family from the day-to-day routine (Matty loves to swim). I can `t believe that it `s been about 6 months...time is flying by...it `ll be spring before we know it...hmm...does that mean I need to start shaving regularly again???LOL!

Monday, 10 Mar

Well, 91 days to go...it seems like such a long time. I `m not sure if anyone else out there who is pregnant while raising another child already is feeling the emotional strains that I am. It seems as if there `s no time for yourself. The first time is so easy - you get home from work and all you worry about is yourself. Now - as a mother - you seem to find yourself slipping to last place every day and that `s a bit draining. I am looking forward to getting my energy back after the birth. I `ll feel so much better equipped once I am at 100% again!

Tuesday, 11 Mar

Well, I have made it through 27 weeks and I now finally need to take off my wedding bands and just wear my engagement ring and my `back-up ` gold band that I bought last time (it `s a full ring size larger). At least I made it this far...with my last pregnancy I was out of my rings (all of them) by the 4th month (I tried to be better about my weight gain this time). Hopefully I won `t have too much more swelling!

Thursday, 20 Mar

We made progress on converting our guest room into a big boy room for Matthew. The closet is ready we just need to move out the guest room furniture and get it cleaned and painted. Once that is done we will let him pick out his new bedding and hopefully he will have a smooth transition. We say a lot of cute bookshelves at Target the other day that I want to get for his room as well as a toy storage unit. The goal will be to move as many of his extra toys into his room as possible before his little sister comes along and we get completely consumed with newborn stuff again!

Sunday, 23 Mar

We went to an Easter Egg hunt at the library today and Matthew had a blast looking for the eggs! He did so good picking them out and then waiting in line to see the Easter Bunny. We didn `t get a smile out of him for the picture but at leasthe wasn `t crying LOL! It will be so fun to see him open his basket tomorrow.

Monday, 31 Mar

30 weeks have officially passed...only 10 more to go. She has been so active these days it `s unbelievable! Sometimes it will take me by surprise and I `ll make a little noise and the girl on the other side of my cube wall will ask `Hey - What `s going on over there”

We had a great weekend away. We took my son snow tubing and he had a blast with his Daddy. I took lots of pictures. We also went to a few stores that had talking animatronics animals which were a big hit with him! He was such a good boy (just with a lot of energy). He was very interested in seeing his new cousin Riley (especially once she started crying due to a pretty big BM). Matthew wanted to see her getting her diaper changed and he kept saying `Riley sad” and `Big poop `. It was too funny! LOL! Let `s hope he `s as good with his new sister!

I am definitely feeling the pressure to get him moved to the new room now. 10 weeks will just fly by and I don `t want to be doing everything last minute. People have been giving me outfits and such for the new baby and I keep stacking them in a corner of the room until I get Matthew moved...oh well! All in good time I guess!

Monday, 7 Apr

31 weeks today! YAY! I can't believe that time is flying by so fast. We had a busy weekend getting the last of the clothes out of the guest room. Now I just need to call a local charity to have them pick up the bedroom set and then we can paint the room. I keep telling myself that we have 9 weeks but it seems like she'll be here tomorrow so I am feeling pretty antsy. She's still super active and lately she's been hitting my bladder which makes the bathroom trips all the more frequent! LOL!

Friday, 11 Apr

Well, a local charity came today to pick up our spare bedroom set. Now all we need to do is give the room a good cleaning and a fresh coat of paint and then we can move Matthew in! I hope to get this completed by the end of the month...we'll see. All of the new baby stuff is piling up in the house and I need somewhere to start storing it...argh...I think the nesting instinct is starting to kick in! LOL!

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algmiss - Saturday, 19 July
Riley had a much better dinner tonight, as I gave her yum yums right when we ate. She ate more than she has ever eaten, and seemed satisfied and really bubbly after. She actually went to sleep a lot earlier than normal tonight, so I will expect a earlier feeding in the early AM. I popped on here cause its the only time I have really had all day to relax.

I kept your husband on the phone way too long tonight sorry...

Can't wait to see you guys next weekend! I can't wait to see Alyssa again... I felt like I saw Matthew only a few times that year he was born and I blinked and he was a toddler.

So it will be good cause I will see her next week, and then again in August.

Hope you have a great weekend! We have a party tomorrow and nothing really on Sun except to drive Hunter down to Manchester. Hunter starts baseball camp in Manchester on Monday at the fisher cat stadium. He is so excited!

Stay

this weekend!

cmg08 - Friday, 18 July
I really hope the next 10 weeks go by. The shower should be a lot of fun. I need shirts as of now. It stinks I don't want to have to spend the money but I am going to see what I can do this weekend. Time does go by too fast when your not working. LOL. I can not believe that Alyssa is a month old already WOW. Time has been going by so slowly with me. I need a vacation. LMAO Soon enough I will have a long one. I hope you have fun this weekend with your family. I am going to lay low in the AC I think. TTYL

algmiss - Friday, 18 July
You are so good, I think we will put Riley in her bed after we go on our last vacation in two weeks. I will miss her in our room

Its just so easy to bring her to bed and nurse her at 330 at night. She is so sweet and all curled up next to me

But I do have my rocking chair I can use in there so I will leave my boppy in there.
I hope Alyssa gets back into a decent routine... I bet she is hitting a growth spurt and needs more milk or something? Those growth spurts kill my nipples.

It seems that Riley will be out of a sleep routine for a few days and then get back into it and I find she is the feeding queen all night long. I hate it when I don't get a few good hours of uninterruped sleep. She is not much of a napper, so when she sleeps too long (more than an hour at a time) I wake her up or else she will be burning the midnight oil.

Thank for the advice on the cereal... I will try it a bit earlier around our meal times. She is often staring at us anyway, and it might motivate her to eat more.
Hope you can relax today!

algmiss - Friday, 18 July
Um no on the sleep thing... infact maybe Alyssa and Riley may be plotting against us or something cause Riley did the every one to two hour thing last night too. She woke up from what I think were nightmares. The only thing I could do was be the HUMAN PACIFIER and it at least helped her get back to sleep!!! Jay was really tired last night from her waking up so much. He couldn't sleep through it either. Oh well its good for him to see what I go through some nights.

I am not sure Riley is actually eating her cereal cause its EVERYWHERE.

What time are you suppose to give it to them? at each meal? or do you do it closer to bed time? and do you feed them milk first or after? I am confused as to what to do

I just realized that feeding her food just added a bunch more work to my morning and my night routine... Geesh!!!

Hope you get some good sleep tonight! I am heading there now.

cmg08 - Thursday, 17 July
Hey there. It is going OK I am HOT, Tired,have severe Heartburn and my back hurts. LMAO Also I have no shirts that fit me anymore and I do not want to have to buy new ones. OMG I should not be complaining it could be worse. WHat have you been up to lately? I registered for the playtex drop ins. With all the problems they have had recently with the regular plastic bottles I did not want to take any chances of recalls. I can not believe that I will be 30 weeks tomorrow. Crazy huh. It feels like I found out yesterday. Well I have to run I will TTYL and I hope everything is good.

algmiss - Thursday, 17 July
I think you are doing pretty good with a new born. Oh ever since having a baby... everything I forget to do ... is so unlike me... but its me now with my head somewhere else. Like right now I am holding her and typing as she is fussing. I had a sitter today so she has been a little off. Everything is going well up here... Riley had some rice the last few nights... she liked it. She did better than I thought she would. But she has been SOOOO ready to eat something, cause she is always eyeing our food and even trying to intercept it.

That is great about her sleeping from 11pm to 4pm. Riley is about 10- 330 am. I gotta run, she is grabbing my fingers making it difficult to type.

algmiss - Monday, 14 July
Your welcome!!! Riley is still confused when someone else gives her a bottle. Now she is taking a bottle of pear juice from me... but not my breast milk. She will take breast milk only from a sitter, but not Jay.

Jay really has been trying to get up with her, but she refuses to take anything from him. This breast feeding thing has its benifits and its drawbacks. I love that I can do it real fast in the middle of the night... but I hate that it doesn't really fill her up enough to sleep through the night. I also don't like being ON DEMAND! She is down to only once a night up at 330.. but she has her nights where its 2 and 5 am... and I am so exhausted. It seems to fall on the nights that I have to work.

Alyssa will probably be fine if you keep up that routine. Jay doesn't have it in him to make a consistant routine, as his schedule is just never the same anyway. Maybe you could have a trial run where you go out to dinner around when she needs to eat and have a sitter do it. That way you'll be back in two hours anyway AND you get a date night.

We are looking forward to coming down to, and I have a few dresses that would be great on Riley. Its hard to pick just one.

Now if we could have a wardrobe change we might actually be able to wear some of these cute dresses instead of letting her grow out of them.

Gotta run to work

algmiss - Saturday, 12 July
I just hit a yard sale and found seriously a dozen pairs of shoes 1 & 2's and a couple 3's in perfect condition for NOTHING!!!!! I need to share with you cause OMG Jay is saying its a bit rediculous I have this many shoes for Riley

So I will bring some your way next time I see you and you can pick some out. Some of the sandles that I got in twos might not fit Riley next summer but may fit Alyssa. Some of them I can give you may fit for the winter months too. But all of them are totally cute and barely used. Gotta run!!

cmg08 - Saturday, 12 July
Hey there! Sorry it took so long to get back to you. My home computer is not working right now and here at work I am so busy. I am glad that the last couple of days have been nice weather wise. How was your lunch and shopping with your aunt yeaterday? I am doing good just ready to get the next 2 months to fly by. (Yeah Right!!!) I will TTYL Hon give Matthew and Alyssa a big hug and Kiss for me.

cmg08 - Thursday, 10 July
The heat has been horrible and HOT LMAO. I am starting to get tired all the time. This is really starting to suck. How are you and the family? I have to run cause I have a customer. TTYL.

algmiss - Wednesday, 9 July
Believe it or not.... JoNathan is wonderful with babies. He always has been, and he is very knowledgable about them. I used to joke that he knew more about babies than me, prior to Riley. So I think he will be fine with her. I am more worried about Hunter. He always takes his frustrations out on him. We have had a very peaceful home so I can imagine that it might get shook up a bit. I am thinking if he is not that great... at the very least we have 2 1/2 years left of him being with us, till he is 18. I can do ANYTHING when I think of the short term. We had him for almost 5 yrs... and it was tough, but we were able to get him into sports and into therapy, ect. He was pretty good except after a visit to TN.
That is great you got some decent sleep. It makes such a difference feeling rested. Anyway, hope everything is going well... I am leaving work right now for the rest of the day, so I can take Hunter to a doctors appt for his new leg. He is growing like a weed!!!!

algmiss - Wednesday, 9 July
I also have infamil ones too! I switched over to similac but we stocked up on them, and the coupons expire after a few months. I keep on getting them in the mail. I will try to remind myself to send them out.
Riley slept last night!!!!! I didn't nap, I never do... just can't seem to make myself do it even if I am wiped. JoNathan comes in today... we are scared... I don't know if you caught it... but he decided to come back and live with us again. So today is the day

I hope he treats us ok... I mean as good as any angry teen could

Hope your having a great day!

algmiss - Tuesday, 8 July
That reminds me that I have a bunch of $5 similac coupons that I said I would give to you if you still need them. However, I noticed they have my name on them and they look like checks. Do you think someone else can use them... I would think a sale is a sale and they wouldn't mind someone else using them. Anyway, I don't think anyone actually checked the name. I am probably not going to use them and they expire the end of august I think?

I am still so tired and hope to take a nap when I get home today. Went home for lunch and Jay was trying to uphold the routine today. She was awake, ready to feed and then off to a 1 hour nap. I am going to cross my fingers that she fall back into the same routine that was so predictable. I also realized that yesterday Jay spent the day watching TV in the VERY dark cellar cause it was so hot yesterday and its cool down there and Riley probably associated dark with night time, so she slept all day. Needless to say, I told Jay to leave the lights on when he goes down there today, so she knows its not nighttime. I am not sure if that really was what did it... but she can not sleep all day again or mommy is going to be INSANE!!!!
I am going to start the sitter anyway in two weeks or so. Jay isn't going to be available all that much to watch her anyway, so its a good time to start it. That is so cool about the puppets and puppet making. I would never be that creative either...

Hope your having a great day

algmiss - Tuesday, 8 July
How are you this morning? sounds like you and Alyssa are getting into a good groove where you are getting to take care of yourself and have a little time for yourself. Its so hard sometimes. I am still having a hard time these days transitioning to the work place and taking care of baby and myself and the rest of the house too. Last night she was in RARE form. She was UP all night. Jay let her sleep all day yesterday, in his arms, and hense she was UP hyper all last night. She thought it was PLAYTIME at 2am.

I was pretty upset last night and this morning, since this is a work day for me.

I made Jay get up with her since he caused her to be out of her schedule. He brought her back to the room at 4am... and then she fed, again was hyper and fed again at 6am. I was SOOOOO TIRED and TICKED OFF!!! She is like clockwork too at night. so this was out of the ordinary for her.. he is home with her again today, and he will be up with her again tonight if she doesn't sleep.

He assured me today he would stick to the schedule. It just made my day stink! I am so tired I have a hard time focusing on work.

I might need to have a full time sitter starting sooner than later if this continues.
I miss being home and taking care of Riley.

cmg08 - Tuesday, 8 July
I can not believe that I am in my third trimester. I can not wait to see my little man. I am wicked excited for the shower. I feel kind of bad though considering it is my second baby but, whatever. How is Matthew and Alyssa? I have to run hon I will TTYL..

algmiss - Monday, 7 July
You still have so much time. Also if you are going to start boosting your supply it will FALL OFF! I swear its my motivation for continuing to BF!

algmiss - Monday, 7 July
When I need to boost my supply, I feed her on one side only and pump on the other right after. I then pump the side she fed on too and get out the last few bits. I do this every feed and then I even do this in the middle of the night, cause I am up anyway and only takes 20 extra minutes. But after you get your milk going you got to be careful and keep pumping and tapper off pumping after a bit. I get like the dairy queen after a few days of this routine. I just took a pumping vacation... and need to start boosting my supply again... Every few weeks I do this and get it going again, especially when I feel like its getting low.
Jay and hunter are going to the shower too. We also are going to Camp Sunshine right after the shower is over. We might have to leave a little bit before cause we will have to check in, and I don't know how late they staff the front desk.

Riley did so well in the car this time... only one melt down for about 20 minutes. I feel the pain of the two kids not being happy thing too, Hunter has a real hard time with it in the car too and gets MAD!

I bet she will enjoy the bath!!! Have fun and take a few pictures.

algmiss - Monday, 7 July
Hey... how is Alyssa doing today? It was so great to see you guys this past week. I will be back again on the 27th and then again the following month on the 10th for Alyssa's christening. Its great I will get to see how she changes every few weeks. We just got home from the Cape last night. It was relaxing.... or as relaxing as it can be with a small baby and a bored little boy. LOL Riley had her first swim in a pool and LOVED it! She did not like the beach at all. It was simply too windy and her tent was having trouble staying up. Oh well... I bet she will be fine at a calm lake some where for now. She does like the outside a lot. Hope all is well, talk to you soon!

cmg08 - Tuesday, 1 July
We got some of Luca's room done but it was too humid so we will finish sometime this week or this weekend. I hope it is sooner than later. When I called you I was having a very emotional day . I made the slideshow that is on here and lost it. I guess it comes with the territory. LOL. I guess I will let you go. Will we see you tonight at Chuck and Karen's? If so I will see you later MUAH!!!

cmg08 - Sunday, 29 June
Thank you It is now done. It was a very emotional thing to do. I was in tears because time just has gone by so fast and the song really works with the slideshow. I called to talk to you like 20 minutes after you posted the message but you were taking a nap. Hope you are all doing good. TTYL

algmiss - Sunday, 29 June

What a great big brother!!! He'll be a pro before you know it! Hunter is so in love with Riley its crazy!!!

cmg08 - Saturday, 28 June

What a cutie pie big brother!!!