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Oh how fun Alirenee!! My son just turned one last week and I am due in Oct so my babes will be 17 mo apart! I am SO anxious to find out what I am having but I am waiting until the big DD to know! :) I am right there with you! I really would like a boy since my babes are so close in age but a girl would be great too! Congrats! How far along are you? Are you due in Sept?

I just responded to you in another post...was your post the one on the AFP test?? I just responded there....That's so cool yours will only be 17 months...very cool. I'm due Sept. 30th. I feel and look like I did at the TAIL END of my last pregnancy and I'm only 5 months!! Crazy!!! But I feel good. More power to you for waiting to find out... my hubby and I can't do it!! He's glad too he doesn't even have to repaint the nursury!! We have EVERYTHING already set up for a boy! We just need to buy another crib! October what??

Yes that was me! I feel bad when people have to be so stressed and nervous with these tests!!!! Oooh You are almost an Oct baby with me!!! :) I actually don't know my due date...as bizarre as that sounds! It has been pushed back and forth in the first 2 weeks in Oct (from Oct 5-Oct 18)because the babe is small- which is why I think this is a girl...because the little kicks are so danty and since day one of kids with my son they were wollaps! ha! We won't be changing the nursery either. Same as you just need another crib and to do a "big boy" room! :) He won't be getting out of his crib anytime soon! Well if I have anything to do with it at least! I just have this big feeling that when I go in next week for my U/S it will be pushed to the end of Oct...I don't know why!!! Where are you from? I am SOOOO wishing I was looking further along. I can feel that I am starting to show a little...but as dumb as it feels I just don't feel PG when I don't have the awesome bump! I LOVE LOVE being PG. Do you?

Love you...I love being pregnant too!! I feel like you have a pretty similar att_tude as I do about the whole thing. So many people complain about so much and though I feel I have more miinor complaints this time around, I'm thrilled to be pregnant again. Plus, I will have been pregnant for almost 18 months straight by the time this is over so I have rights to a complaint here and there ;) We live in NJ. I'm from NY, my hubby from NJ. You??

You know I think some people have just plain out CRAPPY pregnancies! You know. I just feel lucky to not have any bad things going on. Honestly...I delivered at 39 weeks with my son and the day I went into labor I can say with no lies that I felt awesome and had not gotten to the "I am ready for this thing to be out of me" stage yet. But a lot of it was mind over matter. I just felt like...Ok this is my first pregnancy so I am sure I will go late so instead up using my due date as a count down I used 2 weeks past due for my count down...that way I couldn't get frustrated if it didn't happen! But again...I think we are both really lucky to be able to say we love it. Like I just love everything about it....of course I hate that my body isn't 100% where it used to be...but I guess that goes with the territory right!!! I am 29 (30 Sept 2nd so go for the 2nd!!!) and live in MN. My hubby and I are both from MN. I actually lived in Cazenovia NY for 3 years as a kid! It's a small town in upper NY

Yes, I've heard of that town....that's way up there! I lived in NYC for a few years before I moved out to Jersey. Anyway, I totally agree that it's mind over matter and I never got to that point either. My only problem now is that I think I'm such an expert cause I just went through this so recently, but it's making me worry more...make sense?? For instance, I gave birth in a hospital with NO epidural last time. It was quick and easy for the most part. Fast and furious. I'm worried now that I'll need an epi or that it won't go as quick as they say it does with your 2nd etc, etc. I'm just trying to completely put it out of my mind for now. I had no clue what to expect last time, just went with the mentality that I can totally do it and did it with flying colors. No sense worrying. I just turned 31 years old last December. Good age I think 29-32 to have kids. You're still young and strong but old enough to be mature enough :):)

I CAN TOTALLY RELATE!!!!!! I feel the same way. I was telling my doc....I just did this but feel like a newby...like I am more nervous because I don't remember what I can and can't do. And the labor as much as I love labor...we now know what we are in for!!!! By the way NYC is my favorite city!!!!!

Well they are at least watching you! I actually had a little rougher of a time, I dilated from 3-10 in about 2 hours but he didn't drop so it took 4 hours of back labor (ugh wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy) because my cervix was pushing up against my back and never dropped into place- whatever that means and trying to get him to drop before he was actually out and then I had 4th degree tears but as bizarre as it is...I still seems like such an awesome easy delivery! I am excited for all that excitement again!!! My a__sumption is there is no other option but easy delivery this time ha! :)

Ha!!That sounds exactly like my sister's 2 births!! Well we never talked about it. I was super high...like he was under my ribs after 4 hours in labor! My last appt was at 38 weeks and he just said my cervix was still posterior/anterior (which ever one that was meaning it wasn't in "delivery" position yet) but it wasn't a concern or anything. He didn't say a thing about how high I was. Oh heck yes I got an epi- even though I will do my darnest to not get one this time. I made it to 8 cm and then I knew that was the most they would let me go with still getting one...I THINK I can say that if I didn't have the back labor I would have been ok...but there is nothing like that...now looking back on it...thank goodness I had it because that would have been a LONG 4 hours! ha! :) modern medicine...gotta love it!

That's cool...I just cannot for the life of me get used to the idea of a needle going in my spine. Worries me like crazy so I hope to just deal with the pain again. I'm praying it's a fast as last time and I know they say your 2nd often is. I didn't have the back labour though...all I remember from the very start with the contractions was feeling like the front of my hip bones on each side were going to crack apart. Hurt like crazy and I don't konw how else to describe it. When I explained that too to the nurse she said that's the first time she ever heard that! No back pain. I heard it's very painful though. I just kept telling my husband on the way to the hospital that I though my hips were gonna break apart!

That is so funny.....I just remember thinking- IN THE BEGINNING...That's weird..why am I having such a back ache? My nurse was like "dear that is called back labor" I couldn't feel any contractions in my stomach. They were ALLLL in my back- like when my stomach would contract my lower back would hurt and that is it. Then when they broke my water...all hell broke lose I wasn't thinking "hmm this is weird" I was like "oh hell no" I was all gun-ho for no epi but you do what you have to do I guess!!!! I will try it this time!!!