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I'm so excited for you Syllandra!

awe! not long now whee are you all packed for the hospital JUST incase baby decides to make an early entry?
thats to pirate and syllandra smile

Congrats Hikari! Another boy for the GPG!! blaugh

Dirge- Glad to hear things are good with you and your little one! Not long now! Do you find that people are starting to ask you things like, "Are you all ready?" or "Are you getting nervous?" I know it's been happening to me and while people are just excited and mean well, after a few times it's starts to get a little annoying!

Jools- I am indeed packed! I actually just did it yesterday because late Sunday night/early Monday morning I though I was going to have to wake up my fiance 'cause I thought for sure he was ready! But once I got up and took a walk around the house the contractions stopped and it's been pretty quiet since...so it's back to waiting!! whee

Apparently that one is actual medical fact. I had asked Dianne about it and she said it holds true most of the time, but sometimes you get those little boys or girls who didn't read the memo about how they're supposed to be acting. [XD] And the more active they are in there, the higher their heart rates will be. I know Luna's has been really active like mine has been--like he NEVER sleeps and hasn't since I started feeling him better around 20 weeks--and that may be a factor. At my 31 week, he had been quiet that whole morning and his heart rate dipped into the 140's for the first time ever. So maybe in general baby boys aren't as active in the womb as girls are? I know out of miscarriages they have a higher rate and don't seem to be quite as hearty which might be it too. I really have no idea why it is, now that I think about it. LOL, anywho.


I'm somewhat packed. I have to admit I've been a bit lazy about it as I'm super low maitenance anyway and won't have much to toss in my bag minus underwear and a clean shirt and bottoms. Oh, and deoderant and shampoo, maybe. But other then that, I don't have a 'beauty routine,' so I don't have a lot to pack minus necessities. I suppose I should figure out what outfit we want to bring him home in. We're going to get our carseat in the car this week hopefully and then after that, there isn't too much to do. I made sure to have his portion of the bag all ready to go, so I have all the sample sizes I've been getting everywhere in there, because why bring a full sized nice diaper bag for the car trip home which will take 15 minutes tops?

WHOO, another boy. 2006 is a very good year for them it seems. ;] Grats, Hikari.

As for annoying questions...hehe, I have to admit most of them are at this point. After you hear the same thing over and over again, you just get tired of it. Like if one more person tells me I look like I'm going to pop at any minute, I might smack them, because I technically have another month to go and I don't need to hear what I already know: I'm the one carrying him for crying out loud. I KNOW he's big and I'm fully aware I'm huge. gonk "Are you excited?" is up there on my list. NO, I'm dissappointed to be giving birth. I just feel it's a pretty obvious question to be asking.

I think the most annoying though are the people who act like I'm going to be walking the Green Mile here or something. Dude, I know it's not going to tickle, but I'm not going to be dying. So don't give me that bewildered look when I tell you the idea of the pain doesn't bother me. I have a high pain tolerance and know it, so it doesn't scare me. Since I know what's happening and that it will go away and if I need them there are painkillers -shrugs- why worry about it? It's a fact of life and I can handle it. I know the hospital I'm going to believes in using as few interventions as possible and that they do a good job. So what do I really have to worry about?

Oh there I go on a mini-rant. mrgreen

I guess the simple answer would have been, "YES, I'm getting a lot of those as well."

You can add me and Ethan to the list of boys with high heart rates! His is always in the 150's too. I always get a little comment on it at every appointment.

Dirge- I understand what you mean about the whole pain thing. I want to do this with little to no drugs if I can and when I tell people that they look at me like "Oh boy, are you sure? It's gonna hurt." I mean I realize that fact. I also am kind of getting annoyed with the "Are you sure you don't have twins in there?" YES, I am positive! I have had three ultrasounds (one of them was just last week), I am sure they would have figured out it was twins by now. And most of them still look at me like, "Okay sure, but I still think it could be twins." gonk

Nopen-My mom is already doing the same thing to me and I am not even overdue yet. I still have a week to go. She calls me every other day with a million questions. I understand she is excited, it's her first grandchild and she lives 2 hours away but come on! She always ends our conversations by asking if I am going to call her and let her know as soon as I go into labor. I really hope she doesn't honestly think I wouldn't call and tell her. She was the first to know I was pregnant besides my fiance, the doctor, and myself (on grandparents day of all days too)!

Because I will be living around my family, and unfortunately my in-laws at the time the baby is born Aj and I had to sit down and talk about who we wanted to know immeidately and who we wanted there and such. We decided we wanted my mom and possibly my grandmother at the hospital with us, and then he and my mom in the delivery room. And then we would wait a few hours before calling any of his family. But that we'd call my family and our close friends first.

Why AJ wants to do it that way I don't know but I certainly like it.

I will admit I'm getting tired of my MIL trying to be all knowing about my pregnancy. She had me believing that I was this horrible mother already and I was doing everything wrong, until I went to the perinatalist and my OB and they're sitting there telling me I'm doing great and the baby is happy and healthy, and that I couldn't be doing anything more right.

Awe boys! 2006 is definitely the year for boys! Time for someone to announce a girl soon huh! smile
Glad everyone is ok! Time sure flies fast!
Congrats hikari, I was going to pm you and ask you how things were, great news though! Have you considered any names at all?

Aw, thanks.

Actually we decided on names long before we even found out we were pregnant. Since the baby is a boy, his name will be Anson Orion. Anson after AJ, and Orion after our best friend.