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alia999
	Age: 29 Country: Province/region: City: Partner: Chris Children: Yes, 2 Pregnant: Yes Due date: 11 May ,2008 Occupation: Dayhome Provider
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Monday, 28 Jan

This is something I wrote for a baby shower contest it sums it up pretty well I think!! I have a 7 year old son Noah and a 5 year old daughter Rylie already and they are fantastic but they were going to be it, until this little one came along and surprised his father and I. So we have nothing for him, I happily gave all of my baby things away to people I knew thinking well I `m not going to need them! HA HA jokes on me! As of right now we don `t even really have a place to put him. ( I say him but we have no official confirmation) For the past 4 and a half years I have been running a very busy Day-home, this is something I love to do and because I have cared for some of these children for years it sometimes feels like I have 6 kids instead of just the two, but I have to admit I was looking forward to some time to myself to focus on my dream of being a writer once my daughter was in school full time . I started doing things just for me and was really feeling like I had a bit of myself back to myself. I thoroughly enjoyed about a week and a half of afternoons to myself before I found out I wasn `t alone and at first I cried. Now I have turned a corner and am really really looking forward to the birth of my baby. Because I am a contract worker I do not pay into E.I, and our finances will not allow me a maternity leave. So my schedule in May after maybe a week off should look something like this, actually my schedule already does look like this I just have to add another much smaller one to the mix.7 am wake up(for good) Feed baby, (whether he likes it or not) feed my kids, feed day-home kids, clean children, dress children, feed dogs, clean kitchen pack lunches, remember what a full head of hair does for ones looks and disentangle my fingers from mine. I `m hoping at this time that the baby will be alright being tied to me somehow8;30 am: By this time I should have 6 kids to deal with (including my own) I `ll get them ready for school, grab the dogs (who will be going crazy with anticipation) and we `ll walk to school where I will drop two off and pick up one, I will pray it `s not raining because although I love worms as well as the next person I see the futility in trying to rescue everyone from an inevitable death by baking . Also I `ll hope the nice guy with the Rottweiler has decided to walk the other way this morning as my yappy little bichon cross does not understand his own mortality and his big brother basset hound hardly offers much in the way of protection.9am Provided I make it home alive and have not been arrested for manslaughter after killing someone for saying oh you got your hands full there, or are they all yours? (yes I have four 5 year olds they `re all mine, forget they are all of different ethnicities I had a busy year) I will get home where I will probably have to deal with poop of some sort, animal human I don `t know, all the fun is in the surprise. Soon another little one will arrive bringing my grand total once again to 6, we `ll play, we `ll dance, I `ll inevitably stop someone `s world from crashing down around their ears by affirming the fact that yes it `s ok if they want to be a golden kitty, golden kitties can exists in ones imagination. All this must be done in almost absolute silence as it will also be nap time for our smallest member.10;30am Assuming everybody is still in possession of all the body parts they came with. This is when I will cut up enormous amounts of fruit, break out the graham crackers throw them on the kitchen table and stand back to avoid the stampede. This will also be the time I check on the well being of the cat and let him out of whatever closet they have him locked up in.10;31am snack time is over, it `s time for the chicken dance I do this dance with ever growing dread as I know one day soon one of them will discover the Macereana and it will sweep through my home like wild fire (running the day-home is kinda like working at a radio station that plays only over played one hit wonder novelty music. I also believe Who let the Dogs out is actually a clever virus destined to spread from generation of children to generation of children ultimately causing parents to be happy when their child buys their first heavy metal c.d. if only because it doesn `t bark.) So lets get that baby out of bed, who am I kidding if he doesn `t sleep like the dead he `ll be up! I `ll get him fed and changed and cuddled, strap him on with a Bjorn of some kind and that quickly brings us too11:30 Lunch I `ve always said meal times with small children are like working in a restaurant full of angry dwarfs. They `ll be sitting at my table bright and shiny faces slowly turning evil as hunger takes over the rational part of their brain. I `ll be slaving over a hot pot of boiling water baby still strapped to me, wondering if ketchup counts as a food group and hoping that cleanliness is not next to godliness as I do not know where I will fit in a shower. Do I match colored bowls with spoons and cups or do they want rainbows today (I `m going to guess this will be the time of day I try not to cry) Then it will be done, food and milk on the table, children once possessed by hunger will be exorcised by mac and cheese and in between open mouthed chewing and spilt milk someone will strike up a chorus.... Who let the dogs out who? who? who? and out of relief and a need to please those dear dear little monsters, I `ll dance, like a puppet on a string.12pm Clean up time, or shall I say the time to beg, plead and bribe. I maintain that the cornerstone of good parenting is trickery and deceit, but a little bribery never hurt anybody. I will supervise this tidy from my perch on the couch covered in blankets trying to distract them from the fact I am feeding the baby, I know later I will hear whispers of boob, followed by squeals of embarrassed laughter but I will take them in stride because I know these kids still have to navigate puberty, neener neener.12;30 Another walk to school, this one usually dominated by squirrel sightings and Adios to my four 5 year olds! Now it `s me the baby and one other 3 year old. I am thinking by the time we get home the baby should be ready for another sleep which will leave the 3 year old and I to clean and read, ooh ooh maybe this is the time I will sneak in a shower? Get out of my PJ `s? More than likely though this will be the time I eat and lay on the couch, maybe watch my stories? This time will also be reserved for weekly grocery shops, (grocery shops, I could write a book about grocery shopping with children but I `ll save that for when your giving away therapy) errands, Dr and immunization appointments and the occasional nervous break down.3;30 My 3 year old will have gone home but now it `s time to get the others from school so my third and final trip today! I go early, so I can talk to the other parents, some of my only adult contact comes in this form and I need it, I don `t care if the person I `m standing next to is in the mood for some idle chit chat or not as long as the response I get has nothing to do with cats or Pokemon I am riveted to the conversation. I rescue my children from the mob of 300, who like lemmings feel the need to exit from the same door at the same time, and send my son back to his class four times to get whatever it is he `s forgotten. Then it `s off to the playground, where I will deftly dodge flying rocks and swinging swings to save any one of the 6 I will be watching from the perils of the monkey bars (baby still safely strapped in Bjorn)4;30 home from the park and time for another snack, this time I open the pantry and hide behind the counter peering out occasionally to make sure everyone sticks to the one snack limit. I `ll tend to the baby before the nightly homework battle ensues. It looks like Noah has me cornered when he throws out his pout and sneer card but I counter with a half an hour of video games and am victorious!!!!!! Small victories are what it `s all about, it `s how you wear them down enough to break even in the big ones.5pm TV glorious TV one kid left to go home and I start supper firmly convinced that yes ketchup is a food group. Soon I will be done work, dinner will be on the table, my hubby will be home and I `ll start the count down to bed which I should be able to get around to in 6 hours or so, after some more stories, songs, feedings, burpings, poop and maybe even finally that ever elusive shower!!!!! I figure I should be able to get in 4 to 6 hours of sleep before I start it all over who needs 8 right?So, that is my abridged schedule and after writing and reading it I am still excited about this baby I `m not quite sure how he `s going to fit but I know he will, and I know he `ll be loved and welcomed into the zoo that is my life. I `m thinking I `ll take it slow and enjoy the bit of calm I have now while trying to avoid the ever growing questions about my birth canal and how that baby got in there anyway. I do have to say though if you could add some sort of psychiatry to the prize package I would be greatly appreciative. Thanks guys!!!

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firstmaybaby - Sunday, 4 May
baies r us also sells the world's largest selection of bpa free bottles 2 :) congrats on the baby!

MonikaOH - Thursday, 1 May
Hi,
Avent bottles have BPA. Plastic Born free, Adiri and MAM and all glass bottles are BPA free. Medela pumps are OK, too.
MAM bottles are the cheapest ($12 for 3) and you can get them on line at Walmart with free to store shipping, or at Target. Hope that helps

newmom-2be - Tuesday, 29 April
LOL!! I definitely don't want to have a jungle down there, but if my little man decides to come in the next few days I won't have a choice. I've got an appointment made to have a wax done on Thursday, but if any I may just have a bikini wax instead... I don't think it's that bad. I know this should be the least of my worries at this point. I know especially during pregnancy that it's super sensitive down there... I'm so confused. Hubby thinks I'm crazy and should just go natural. What we women go through!

Anyhow hun, thanks so much for your advice. Congrats and goodluck with your pregnancy!!!

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