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Hey Mommies and mommies to be welcome to my page!!! My husband and I live in Baumholder Germany (he's in the army) and we are expecting our first baby in January. This is my first and his 2nd. His little girl is 4 and lives in Louisiana. We couldn't be more excited to welcome this new baby in our lives!!!

This is my husband, his name is Tim. We were ,married Jan 3rd 2007 after he returned home from a 6mth tour in Ramadi,Iraq.....he is currently training in Grafenvhoer, Germany for his upcoming 15mth deployment in Feb/Mar 08....we are madly in love and cannot wait for our son to get here....I LOVE MY SOLDIER!

woops!!! It's positive x's 2!! I just had to be sure!

My baby Ladybug...i don't think she suspects anything yet!!!

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i swear i wasn't sticking it out! :)

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35 WEEKS......5 MORE WEEKS!

38 wks

Just about the time you think you can't handle hearing one more "when is that baby going to pop?", your baby will decide to make it's appearance. We predict your baby will be born 3-7 days before your due date. Your baby will most likely be born in the morning. Justmommies predicts that your baby will weigh approximately 7.8 pounds and that your labor will be about 12 hours long.

haha let's hope!

Survey
About You
Name?:	Brittany
Age?:	21
Height?:	5'1
Pre-pregnancy weight?:	106
About The Father
Name?:	Tim
Age?:	23
Height?:	6'2
Are you still together?:	sure am
About Your Pregnancy
Is this your first pregnancy?:	sure is
When did you find out you were pregnant?:	beginning of April
Was it planned?:	No not really
What was your first reaction?:	Shocked..nervous had to check the box to make sure what i was seeing was true :)
Who was with you when you found out?:	myself and my husband was in the living room
Who was the first person you told?:	i told my neighbors ..great girls
How did your parents react?:	mom was a bit nervous but she's ok with it now dad said he felt old
How far along are you?:	8 1/2 weeks
What was your first symptom?:	cramping
What is your due date?:	January 5th 2008
Do you know the sex of the baby?:	nope but i wll find out in a few months
If so, what is it?:	:)
Have you picked out names?:	Yes
If so, what are they?:	girl- lillian olive smith boy- have no clue
How much weight have you gained?:	not much yet...2lbs
Do you have stretch marks?:	nope
Have you felt the baby move?:	nope still too early
Have you heard the heartbeat?:	nope in a few weeks
About the birth
Will you keep the baby?:	of course
Home or hospital birth?:	hospital
Natural or medicated birth?:	definitely medicated
Who will be in the delivery room with you?:	my mother and my husband
Will you breastfeed?:	im gonna try to
Do you think you'll need a c-section?:	no too sure..my mom thinks so since my husband is soo tall
Will you cry when you hold the baby for the first time?:	of course it's my baby
What's the first thing you might say to him/her?:	not too sure
Would you let someone videotape the birth?	no proly not

Fun Birthday Facts

Your baby's birthstone will be Garnet (Loyalty, Constancy) Your baby's Astrological Sign will be Capricorn Your baby's Flower is Carnation or Snowdrop (Black, Dk. Blue or Red) Your baby will be born in the Chinese Year of The Rat This time next year your baby will be 23 Weeks Old! Your baby will start kindergarten in 2013, be old enough to drive a car in 2024, finish high school in 2026, and will graduate from college with the class of 2030, give or take a year. Can you imagine?

Well 10 more weeks left till my little man gets here....I have pretty much every base covered except for some essentials that can wait till mid late Nov and then by December i want to have everything i need. I am so excited and almost cry everytime i look at my son's crib and imagine him in it sleeping ever so peacefully. Lately i have been having these dreams that i gave birth to a little girl..but instead of freaking out about it in my dream i was just as happy....kinda has me worried that he might come out a she....luckily if that happens i didn't buy too many boy clothes so we're in the clear about that one. I'm a first timer here and have all these emotions running thru me...i don't know how to take them. Since about my 5th month i feel like i've aged 10yrs. I guess the mother instinct really does kick in hard when you're pregnant.....i was worried i was too young, too immature to be a mother and that i was going to be a bad mother but i know i will be a good mom. I have so many influential women in my family that are awesome mothers,my mother included, and i just take some of that from them and add it to my pot and mix it all together and it makes for one good recipe for being a great mom. I can't wait till my son is here with his mommy and daddy, he is going to have a wonderful life and so are we!

11-8-07 8 weeks left!

Well i have 8 weeks (give or take) left...i hope it's take! I wonder everyday what my little man looks like...does he have mommies feet or daddies nose...is his hair dark or light or does he even have any hair? i just want to see him and hold him and tell him how much i love him and how i am so glad that he's here..finally! Today it hit me that he's almost here because i went thru a list of things that i still needed to get and do before he got here and the list was considerably short (oh he has the hiccups!) Today i was thinking about my husband and how i cannot wait to see him with our baby boy. I imagine myself waking up from a much needed nap and walking in the living room to only see my son and my husband, the 2 loves of my life, napping....my husband with our baby on his chest both of them asleep so peacefully. Or my husband walking in after a hard days work, beat tired, only to light up when he sees our baby boy so bright eyed to see his daddy. It brings a smile to my face and brightens up my day everytime i think about this.

So enough of the mushy stuff....i'm also excited that i've got all of my baby gear and am glad to say i don't need anything else in that department....not only did i not spend a fortune (all 2nd hand) but everything looks brand new and is up to date with awesome consumer reports, so i feel safe that my 2nd hand goods were good quality! All that's left to do is wash everything!!!!! That's alot of laundry! Today a lady asked me when i was due and i said towards the end of December (really Jan 3rd but i have a gut feeling i may go in early) and she touched my belly and said "oh no he;s still high up, you might even go over your due date" boy did i want to slap her! But oh well if that's the case that's that....he'll come out when he's ready, not when i am! As the holidays approach i am excited to be getting gifts for my loved ones.....i've already got most of my husbands gifts and the one that i am really excited about is my pregnancy phots that i am going to do. Since this is our first baby why not capture the moment for him and for my son. I'm really excited to be doing this and can't wait! Well ladies i am going to head out...i got tired writing this and want to lie down! Keep on truckin and remember it's almost time!!

Dec. 1.08

Well 4 weeks and some odd days left..i cannot believe it! On my myspace i have all of these tickers and countdowns and my eyes pop out of my head when i see how many days i have left..craziness! Tim (husband) has been gone for the past month and some weeks been training in the field for his upcoming deployment ...luckily he came home for 4 days for thanksgiving and we had the best thanksgiving ever. We put up our tree and made thanksgiving dinner and enjoyed it with some good friends :) A few days after that he had to leave again and he's is suppose to come back next weekend...so let's keep our fingers crossed that he does! Ya know never with the Army, they say one thing and mean another. Christmas is right around the corner and lucky me i have got everything done..from decorating to all of the shopping.....i just need to mail off a few presents and send out those cards. I figured since this was my last month of being pregnant :( and :) i would take it easy buuuttt i was wrong....i was looking at my calendar and i could not believe how many appts i have and only one of them are for the dr. and i know soon they are going to want to see me weekly!!! I guess it's good to stay busy to pass the time but i don't want it to pass too quickly. I'm really excited for the end of the month to come because my mother is coming out and soon after i hope to deliver. I have nothing left to do for my little man..everything is washed,assembled,packed and ready to go! It's funny..i know of 5 other friends of mine that are pregnant as well....the first gilr is due anyday,the 2nd has 2 weeks left,the 3rd has 3, then there's me who has 4, the 5th girl is only 4mths and the last girl just found it......i swear when you're pregnant it seems like everyone else around you is too! I have a feeling tho that i might go early....just like the feeling i had when i knew before the ultrasound that my baby was a little boy....and here are some reasons why i think so...

1. i live in an apartment building with NO ELEVATOR that's right baby...STAIRS!! and 7 flights of them...
2. my husband has a strong sexual appetite and when he was home for those few days we had minimal sex but he still managed to kick start those braxton hicks and boy was it hell...they stopped when he left lol
3. womens intuition...strong one

So i really think that if the stairs don't do it then my husband will :) I just do these to keep optimistic that he could come early..that would be a treat..speaking of treat i am going to go eat some cake and milk!

Dec.4.08

Today is the saddest i have been in a long time....i realized that during my whole pregnancy my husband has treated me like "his vessel" .....here we go...

It aall started like this....recently i made a new friend, which is very important to me because being Army and stationed overseas it's hard to make friends that are into the same things as you...most of the other wives are older with kids and are into volunteering and such....just not my cup of tea. SO i made a new friend YAY! She's 22 with a 2yr old..she just started to go to the gym and i offered to watch her son when she goes, since she only works out no more than 2hrs how hard could it be to watch a 2yr old..plus he is very well behaved and the cutest thing...plus i thought it'd be a good idea for me as well since i really don't have much experience with kids and i would like to be around some since i'm going to be a new mommy and all. So i was really excited and couldn't wait to tell my husband, which i was very happy about because i don't get excited too much about anything unless it has to do with my baby or pregnancy and it's just nice to have a little change. So here i am in the best mood about my good deed that i am doing for my new friend and i tell my husband and he just shits all over the idea...i mean he just tore it apart saying things like "he better not be there when i'm home" and "he better not touch my x-box or break my shit" and telling me that i was crazy and why would i do this.........my feelings were so hurt i didn't know what to do, so i yelled at him and asked him why he wasn't being supportive of my want to do this and why he was being so negative towards it. He couldn't think of a valid reason so i hung up and cried. I was expecting him to be happy that i had found something else to do besides sit here and wait impatiently for my son(since i don't work) and just say "Well if that's what you want to do that's fine" I was so sad. And then i sat here and was thinking about a few conversations i had with some other wives and how their husband were during their pregnancy and they all said that there husbands were saints and treated them like there were precious glass taht could break if not handled correctly. And then that made me sad and i cried even more. My husband treated me no different when i was pregnant. If i wanted him to do extra work around the house it was like pulling teeth...we'd argue about it and then i'd say F it i'll do it myself and then he'd fianlly do what i was asking him to do. He never asks me if there was anything i needed, showed no concern when i told him that i was going into labor and delivery because i was scared that something was wrong. Perfect example...went to the movies one night and i had brought a couch pillow with me to support my back....we get in the movies and i forgot it in the car...i asked him to please go get it and he adamently would not go. Straight up told me that he was not going back out there....so what did i do..i sat there uncomfortable as hell because there was no way i was going outside in the freezing rain to get that pillow.Then during the whole movie i was having Brxtn Hicks like crazy and i told him about them and not once did he ask me if i wanted to go home or if i needed something.

I know i sound like i am bitching cuz i really am lol but my feelings are really hurting right now and i am so sad that my husband was like this. I wanted to feel fragile,delicate, like i could break or be hurt but he treated me the same, not only that he doesn't make me feel special that i am going to be the mother of his son. He has never expressed a proudness of this either and that's when my heart kinda broke. The 9th month is here and our son could arrive anyday, he will be born and 2mths after that my husband will be gone for Iraq for 15mths. I feel like i got gipped...my whole pregnancy should have been a breeze at home but it wasn't and now my husband is going to leave and i am going to have to be mom, dad, and wife....it's not fair and this realization breaks my heart. I feel worn out just thinking of this pregnancy and what's to come.

Dec.13.08

So things have not changed too much between my husband and he...he has realized to not argue back with me when i am being irrational and completely unfair which i guess is better late than never and pretty much as good as it's gonna get. I've come to terms that this is who he is and who knows if he's going to change or not...i hope he does. On a lighter note.............

Had my 36wk appt the other day and found out that i am a fingertip dialated..not even a whole centimeter :( and that my baby is healthy and everything looked good :) She also told me that at my next appt that if my GBS test came back negative she will start the sweeping of the membrane.........i was really excited to hear about this because i've read lots of articles and heard from many women on here that this is what started their labor and some went into labor 7hrs to a few days later..which i think is better than going way past due. So i'm keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that i can get this done. Also she told me that they will only let me go 1wk past my due date not 2 like some dr's do..so i thought that was cool cuz it kinda gave me an idea of when i can expect my baby boy! So yeah hoping to get swept and then afterwards drink me some castor oil and sit back with the trots and wait :) I am so determined to have him sooner than i want, it may sound selfish but i'm sorry i can't help it. It's mainly for my husband. He's army and deploying in early March and i want him to spend as much time with his son as he can...cuz when he gets back our baby boy will be nearly a 1 1/2yrs old....he's going to miss all the things that babys do and it makes me so sad. So in 2 weeks we are trying some natural ways to get this little booger out! I hope it works!

1.2.08

Well it looks like my little boy is not going to come on time. Oh well..i had a feeling that he wouldn't but i was trying to be optimistic and hope he would come at least at 38wks. So tomorrow i will be 40wks....a full 9mths pregnant! There are little to no signs of labor or progress..which worries me to think that i may just have to be induced and go thru the horrid induced labor pain which i hear to be just as painful if not more painful than regular labor :~(....oh well anything to get this kid out...i am still extremely constipated and have heartburn from time to time, but i am such a professional at knowing exactly what to do about treating it that i don't worry to much about what i eat anymore to prevent it in the first place lol. I have an appt. Friday with my midwife and hope to see some progress was made. She is going to do another sweep and send me home hoping something happens...who knows she may say that no progress was made and come to the conclusion that i may enivatably need to be induced and make my date for induction if he doesn't come by a certain time. Which would make the waiting game a whole lot easier than sitting around wondering when he is going to come,at least by induction i will have a date to expect him :~) Let's hope she does that! Well tomorrow is my 1 year anniversary and i have not had a chance to get my husband anything let alone a card since our car broke down and since we are low on funds it appears that all we are getting eachother is the pleasure of eachothers company. Which is ok with me! Who knows maybe he will decide to come tomorrow,that'd be a nice present!