Have we totally lost our mind?.. Family 2.0

VA Susan · #61 10/18/11, 08:30 PM

Congratulations Suzy! Hope you are feeling well and have a happy pregnancy. May God bless you, the baby and your family!

punkcat · #62 10/18/11, 09:24 PM

Congrats! My brother and sister were 16 and 14 years old when I was born, but I DEFINITELY was not planned, I was a "whoops"! My mom had a hard time with it at first, but it all worked out really well in the end. My mom and I are best friends, neither of us know what we would do without the other. My siblings were amazing to me growing up, put up with me through my bratty years, took me places, played with me. I in turn helped with their kids through my teens and now that we're all adults we are all really close.

I do wish my parents had had another kid after me, as I was lonely a lot (especially since both siblings moved out when I was 9 or so), but other than that it was great to be the third kid.

Again, congrats to you and your family.

Forest · #63 10/18/11, 09:51 PM

Congratulations! That is GREAT news!

CrossCreek Mom · #64 10/18/11, 10:31 PM

Congratulations !!

Here's something to try...no guarantee of course, but it has proven true for a lot of folks we know.

If you have a wedding band, tie it on a 12-15" string. Have someone with a steady hand to hold it a couple of inches over your left palm. It will twist & move some, but should get still in a bit, and then start to move again. If it circles your palm, it's a girl and if it swings in line with your fingers, it's a boy.

It's cool to do this and attach a note to the calendar on the birth month or gender-reveal ultrasound. If you decide to do this & are willing to share...post back & let us know.

lonelyfarmgirl · #65 10/18/11, 10:43 PM

must be nice to be able to say well lets have another kid. pop! there it is. and you question whether or not you should?

bluetogreens · #66 10/18/11, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by lonelyfarmgirl

must be nice to be able to say well lets have another kid. pop! there it is. and you question whether or not you should?

Actually it is nice, I am so sorry some suffer from the inability to have children and we ourselves (susyq and i) went through at least one positive miscarriage before our first was born and it was devastating. And if you look at the start of this post we originally started planning in May and has taken us until October for a pregnancy. In that time frame a lot has happened that made us question our sanity in regards to having another child, My potential discharge from the Air Force due to hip surgeries, the economy taking stronger nose dives and leading to us believing in a more "prepper" type mentality that a kid definitely will contradict/force changes of plans. We as a family decided that if we didnt/couldnt have another child adoption/fostering may have been an option as we are only in our early thirties and have so much more love to give and share with this world. Our final decision that made up our mind was that we realized there would never be a "perfect time" but there may be a "too late" time and we went from there.

Again i repeat we do not regret our decision but if you never question where ya come from how can ya ever determine if where you are going is right.

michelleIL · #67 10/19/11, 06:35 AM

this post makes me smile!

lonelyfarmgirl · #68 10/19/11, 10:53 AM

What I was really getting at is with all the studies that show the lack of population growth to maintain the race, and the secret government eugenics undertakings, and the new, popular 'trend' of getting fixed early and never having children, people need to be having babies. I can understand if you have 8 already, but with only a couple, if you have the God given ability to have babies without a great health risk to the mother, you should use to the fullest. Especially people with the 'reality of government', 'I cherish my freedom', 'survivability' mind-set. We need as many people in that category we can get.