Welcome to Gaia! ::

Yeah I know. It's a joke we have. She made a little pink paper heart and attatched it to a piece of elastic. Her own bouncy heart.

GAK! HEARTS!!!!

I´m actually still awaiting registration here, buuuut, it looks like I can go ahead?

I´m Kristall, and I´m 24 years old, but I shall turn 25 in the first week of Oct as you can possibly see in my profile. I am also an artist; computer enthusiast (read: geek); I love Anime (and other styles of art and animation); and I LOVE language. Currently, I have no job (merf) and no children (merf!).. But I am engaged (1 year in the end of Oct) to a Dutchman who is 23 years old. Our relationship is, obviously, long-distance, but we are working to change that. I also have a friend who is helping (moral support is good!).. he has been helping us find out stuff about moving and my getting citizenship in the EU.
(Yes, I will be moving there.)
So, as you can guess, I have been teaching myself (with the help of books, CD´s, friends) Dutch and German.

I am not really comfortable saying where I live.. I´m sorry. I will be moving first to Germany and then eventually the Netherlands. I may need to get German citizenship -which is what we´re looking into first- before I can get citizenship in Holland -especially with the way things are going over there regarding foreigners.

Anyway, sorry, that was so off topic.

Basically, I have a friend -who has moved back here!- who recently (a few weeks ago) had a baby! And I´m crazy about her son. Currently, I haven´t been able to spend much time with them, because they lived in another state until recently, and their son is still too young for them to have babysitters (and.. she´ll have her mom or her best friend do the babysitting for her child, I expect).. I spent a lot of time with her during the last month of her pregnancy, and that, along with my age, just kicked me into baby-mode..
I long to have my own child and am fascinated with everything I can find about it, and hearing stories from other mothers/fathers just is amazing to me.

Yes, this has been a new thing for me.. when I was 17, I was pretty sure I never wanted kids.. then as the years went by, I started changing my mind, and now I´m certain that if I CAN have children (when I was about 12 yrs old, it was discovered that one of my ovaries were damaged, but no effects have been discovered since, so maybe it healed.. or, at least, wasn´t damaged too badly. I can go through all the things that women my age normally go through, and have no unusual effects with it, and my doctor seemed to think everything was working fine), I will have at least one.

Even so, it is not safe for me to try and have children -for about another two months- as I had been on the Shot last year (and there is a little warning about giving it about a year before you try and concieve), which is fine now. I had also set myself a rule.. that I would wait until I was 25 before having children and... maybe that´s old, but I wanted to make sure I had a CHANCE of being emotionally and physically able to have children. Anyway, as things are going with my fiancé and I (the whole.. international thing and our plans), it will still be a couple years before we can start, but that´s ok with me. I mean, ok, I randomly whine at my fiancé -and my best friends- that "I WANT A BABY!", but I can wait.

Blah, I really don´t feel like I meet the requirements for this guild.

I´m really just a supporter who wishes to learn as much as I can. A few months ago, I stumbled on a breastfeeding thread on Gaia, and what I learned there helped a lot.. infact, it changed my mind on the topic -as did watching my friend with her newborn (she breastfeeds.. and insists that the n****e-soreness associated with it really isn´t THAT bad).

Oh! The reason I brought her up was because talking to her has greatly helped me to get rid of a lot of stupid fears I´d had about pregnancy, childbirth and newborns.

welcome to the guild new members and supporters, you are all welcome here, we have different support networks and we have people that help you with whatever question you have. We try to help in any way we can. We may not be perfect, but many of us speak from experience.

Allo all! I'm a 26 soon to be 17 year old parent of a 5 1/2 year old daughter. I'm about ready to send her to kindergarten in a few weeks. hehe I've been engaged for about 8 years to her dad. We are saving for a house, so he is living with his parents and me with mine. I also take care of my 12 year old sister off and on too.

I'm a licensed Nurse and active online in many things, but Gaia has become a new home these days hehe. Any thing else you want to know just ask. I'm pretty good about getting back to people.

Just wanted to give all our new members/supporters a big WELCOME! heart It is wonderful to have y'all here. i hope you find the GPG to be an inviting and friendly place to hang out and chat with others. So welcome aboard and have some fun! biggrin