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Thats excellent news preggosauce YAY! :) HEY TO ALL YOU AUGUST MUMMIES - does anyone have facebook? If so if you want to add me as a friend - my facebook name is Shannon Smith-Erb - I think that is all you need? I would love to put some faces to names and stuff. SO add me if you like!! :) xxx

Thanks for adding me Kitkat01 - I accepted and went and had a look on your site - LoVe your wedding pics!! :) x

Preggosause- good news girl... Thats great. Belly- Sorry i only have myspace.... So guys I go to the doc in T minus 2 hrs. I am really curious to see what they say. And I have a ton of questions for her right now... Plus Jeremy is going... My rock of support so I am excited about that too. Well Ima do some work then I will get on and let yall know whats up.

ok, whats up with all the loud ads on here all of a sudden??? anyways, i go to the doc at 1:30 my time and get my u/s as far as i know. yay!!!! great news preggosauce! i wonder if she'll check me at all? i have been having lots of contractions and loose stools lately. and lots of pressure down there and pains. hmmmm. that would be awesome if i was dialated some!!! 35 wks tomorrow!!!

morn! bellybubble, I just requested you on facebook. anyways, went to the doc last night. only up a pound since last visit suckers!! I'm boasting right now, sorry :) doc said I have the perfect pregnancy, but he doens't have to be as uncomfortable as me so it's easy for him to say, so he said the itching is totally normal. and danielle, he also said the hands swelling and going numb at night are normal too, he explained why but I forget. he said my swelling is a lot, but there's absolutely no protein in my urine and my blood pressure is great so there's no concern - he did say that he bets 5-6 of my pounds are water so that's good news for me and my diet afterwards!!! I start getting checked next visit and I get the strep test next visit too which is good b/c I was not prepared (if you know what I mean) to get checked last night. I told mike he has to get to work down there for me since I can't see anything!!! oh, and I asked about the strep and they said they only check my v____a and not the b___t, he said he doesn't care if there's anything in there since baby doesn't go in or come out of there. so lucky for me, doesn't look like I'm having quite the invasive test you ladies are having!!!!

i hate getting checked but glad when they tell u how far you are. but my right side is the side that i am having all my problems with other than hip pain thats on the left. but last night my right foot swelled to 2x what my;left was! and my right hand is the one that goes to sleep. i don't get why its one sided....

danielle, my doc did say last night that a woman's uterus is tilted to the right (that's why they always tell you to lay on your left side, to take some pressure off or something) so maybe that's why your ailments are on the right side - if baby chloe is laying over there most of the time she's squishing you and aggravating your nerves and things on the right side.

well that makes sense, lol. it just looked so funny last night cuz my foot looked like a big marshmallow.... and was tight.

Morning mommies!! Great news Preggosauce!! Phew hey? Belly - I tried to look you up, but I couldn't find you. mine is patti Prosofsky, see if you can find me on there. Gabbi- great news from the doc!! Wow you suck with your tiny weight gain!! Here is hoping that lots of it is water and will just go away once Casey is born!! Doesn't it seem kinda sureal that we are already at the point were they are checking for any progress at our next appts?? I don't think it has really sunk in to me yet that she is just around the corner. Last night I packed her bag for the hospital and showed hubby how to put the car seat in the truck and then put them both by the door, just in case. :) I don't have anything packed for me yet though. I brought up all her clothes again and put them all in her room, and they are all soo cute!! I can't wait to have her. Danielle - I hear ya about the feet thing. When they get that puffy they hurt so much from being tight. I find it really bad in the mornings, when I have had my feet up all night and some of the swelling has gone down and I get out of bed and step on them. Oooh the bones hurt so much. But we are soo close.

Oh and I successfuly had a major meltdown last night. Poor Wyatt. I think I just freaked out about the whole thing, and my fears of being able to be a good mom and being able to protect her once she is actually out in the world where she is vulnerable. And the whole being able to handle labour and how it may change our relationship and the fear that we will loose some of the closeness that we have always had it just being us. He really didn't knwo what to say, so he just kind of sat there and let me have my meltdown. Felt much better after. Anyone else have their meltdowns yet?? lol!! So I amde up fo rit and went and got a Iced Capp this morning!! Mmmm yum.

I know, I know Gabbi. That was part of my meltdown too last night, after I spewed all the other stuff at him, and kinda calmed down, i threw in the whole " we can't even figure out what we are going to name our child, how are we going to figure out the hard stuff???" He said he was going to make a list this weekend of the names that he really likes and we will see if we can figure one or two out that are possibles. Poor girl, doesn't even have a name yet! I never in a million years thought it would be this hard! I can just picture you trying to get the ba__sinet together! Was probably a simular scene to me trying to figure out how in the word to put together the tiny little mobile for her crib last night. There were tiny stuffed animals flying across the room before I got it figured!! Temper, Temper! :) I too felt kinda silly packinga bag, but now that hers is packed, I do feel much better about that and the whole thought of kinda being ready if she does come early. and with all the pressure and pains I have been having down there, it makes me more relaxed.

Erin you will be an excellent mommy to four kids. Not to worry. I ahve all the faith in the world, that you are going to be able to just jump right in there and be fine. Having Carl away though is going to be tough. I know exactly waht you mean when you talk about him havingt o revert back from bachelor carl to husband/daddy carl. We go through that too when Wyatt gets home, and sometimes after he has been gone for four or five months it takes a long time for him to revert back and focus on both of us, not just him. It can be very difficult. I have not yet done it with children, but Iwatch my sil do it with her kids and wyatts brother and I know she struggles with it too, and yes like you said, the kids are just like fleas because they are soo ecited to see them!My advice to you is to try to calmly tell Carl that it is really hard for you during that transition time and that you need him to be understanding and to really make an effort to get his mind frame around being "home time Carl" as soon as he leaves work and is on his way home. I have found that it does work to an extent. How long will he be able to be home for after Cree is born??

im gettng anxious. she doesn't usually do the u/s til around 36 wks, so i hope she doesn't change her mind! ive been going crazy for 2 wks, adn after this wk its weekly apts for me. ugh, its almost an hour drive from here and with gas soooooooo high its gonna be fun. but i will def let you know. my apt is in 3 hours so i am getting kids ready to go the babysitter so they don't interrupt nap time, and then i am gonna run errands with my extra time with no kids, lol. and clean out my nasty car....its awful. its just hard to clean it when you got 2 toddlers cuz you can't do much with them when ur cleaning at the car wash. but i will be back on later! bye!!

Aahhh, thanks for the chuckle Gabbi and Patti. I can just picture Gabby about to beat poor Mike over the head and Patti sitting on the floor and throwing stuffed animals across the room. Good times. Patti, you always make me feel better when you know what I am talking about. :-) Carl MIGHT be able to take off a week after Creedence is born. We still don't have a middle name for her, which isn't as critical as no first name, but I guess we need to start thinking. Nothing sounds right. I do try to 'gently' talk to Carl, but he seems so wound up lately (he's stressed about not getting offshore), that it ends up with me boohooing and him calling me and hour later apologizing for being an a__s. I know we'll be fine because we've endured MUCH MUCH worse than this, it just doesn't help that he's stressed and I am uber-emotional. My stepdad called me a b___h last night and if he hadn't said it semi-halfheartedly and semikidding around I would have jumped all over him. But I am, I am being a b___h. I am so cranky. I'm trying really hard to be cheerful, but it's a challenge, let me tell you.

Good luck Danielle!! can't wait to hear from you after your appt!! Good luck! Erin - you know it is really nice to know someone else who is in the same kind of situation with a hubby that is gone so much. You really ahve to become self sufficent and independant, and you know I always was, but I when I used to think about being married and all that, I never pictured my life this way. But I guess we adapt right? I know waht you mean about your "calm talk" turning in you being a blubbering mess - lol - me too! Usually when it gets to the point that I need to talk to him about it or say something, I am so worked up and over emotional and sensitive about it, I end up bawling too. Lots of times I don't think he gets it that I get so upset because I miss him so much. Then it turns into a mess and yup, ends up with an apology! And yes, this being preggers and even more emotional does not help the situation at all!! As for a middle name - waht abotu Tylar, or Lee, or marie?? Do you have any that you are throwing around yet??

You hit it head on...half the time the only problem I have is that I miss him so much, that any time I try to talk it's automatic tears. I do think Creedence Leigh sounds alright, but JoJo's middle name is Marleigh, so people might think we've run outta creativity! I really like the middle name Dylann, but it doesn't really go with Creedence. Creedence Dylann Callenius? Doesn't really flow. I dunno. I am already hungry. I am debating between Taco Bell or my fav chinese restaurant for some Lemon Chicken. What I really want is ice cream.