Parent Moments: Planning for the Big Day
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Parent Moments: Planning for the Big Day
Wow that is quiet an ordeal so happy that it all worked out. The planning of everything can be difficult. My family was trying to plan flying in from another state to visit, unfortunately my due date came and went so we weren't sure when the baby was going to come and the family had already purchased their tickets. Seemed like everyone gave all the advice in the world to help the baby come sooner. In the end we were a week over due but the baby came just before the family flew in for our visit together. Some how everything works out in the end.
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Oh my! Whatever happened leading up to the birth of your son is irrelevant. They say that something good always comes of something bad, you just have to live life as it comes and accept all the changes that come with it. Ride the wave.!
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Its really great to see that in this world with all of the tragedy occuring that the only thing that was bad in this story was the fact that Rich was stranded at the airport. He should be really happy that he was home for the birth of his son and the fact his wife was being helped by family
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I have a large family and I have stories I could tell about all of them, but I'll only focus on the first pregnancy. With pregnancy number one, I became ill and my doctor sent me to a hospital out of my local area for blood pressure testing. I was kept in that hospital because it was discovered that I had toxemia and labor was induced one month early in my pregnancy. That certainly wasn't part of my plan. But, the important thing to me wasn't that my plans were disrupted. All I cared about was for health of my baby.
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I believe John Lennon wrote "Life is what happens when you've planned something else." I think it is wonderful that everything worked out as it did. Dad came home, baby arrived. The fact that her mother-in-law was able and willing to help out was really nice. I have a mother-in-law like that. She came to our house for two months to help out when our first born arrived and it was a god send. Everyone should be so lucky to have at least one person in their life like that. Thank you mom!
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After trying to get pregnant for 10 yrs, i finally got my wish. I was actually 4mo before i even found out i was.My husband was so excited cause it was our first. I wanted a boy. he a girl. Well when it was time for the ultasound I got my wish!! Boy!! The doctor says i was due Oct. 28th 2003, my mother in law prayed that he wouldnt be born on Halloween. Then the due dtae hanged to Oct 13th. Then when i went in on the 13th , the doctor tells me "Oh we got about 2 more weeks". I said "I dont think so"he says "oh really when do you think, i told him when he is ready..Well 3am that next morning i am in the hospital doctor comes in kicks off his shoes and says "ok now push", i push and after only 8 hrs in labor out comes my baby boy.It was the 2nd happiest day of my life.
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I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say, "My pregnancy didn't go as planned." As a mother of three, I have experienced the heartbreak of the perfect pregnancy plan gone wrong. During my first pregnancy, I had endless lists and plans. Once I was admitted to the hospital, there was someone at every twist and turn just waiting to ruin my perfect plan. I felt as though I were in some nightmare, in which I couldn't awake. I don't know how many times I said, "This isn't part of the plan." Then after 43 hours of labor, and only the last seven hours of it with an epidural, I gave birth to my beautiful baby girl. With each subsequent birth I learned to become more flexible with my plans and lists, which isn't easy for me (control freak). I can look back now and laugh, which is also what I do when I hear a pregnant woman talking about all her lists and plans. To all the mothers-to-be: The pain will be a memory, the smiles and laughter will never be forgotten, breathe and laugh.
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I tease my daughter that I coughed her right out of me. When my 11 year old was born everything went perfect, right up to my 7th month. I became very ill, and was almost hospitalized with pnemonia. I went to the doctor on Monday and he assured me everything was fine and as long as I stayed in bed and rested, the baby would be fine and it was still about 6 weeks away; plenty of time to get well and get my strength back. That night I began coughing so hard I got cramping and felt sick to my stomach. I called the doctor, who sent me to bed and told me to come back to the office the next day. I took his advice and went in first thing the next morning. When I got there the doctor told me he had good news and bad news for me...the good news was I was going to have a baby in about 40 minutes (emergency c-section), I was already dilated to a 6, the bad news she was breach. So to this day I attribute my severe coughing spells to her pre-mature birth...and I coughed her right out of me.
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In my house, we refer to this phenomonon as Jamie's Law. If I try to plan something, anything, one by one it will all fall apart. On the day that I gave in to the law and decided that this was a true problem, I had planned to go to the library, wash the car with Baylee, and finally go pick up dinner. Well, the library had closed that day for "repairs", I couldn't turn on the hose for the life of me, and when it came time to eat, Baylee fell asleep making leaving impossible. I know better. It's so much easier to just go with the flow!
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that was a nice story and you really can't plan when there are children, husbands, mom-in-laws pregnancy and not to mention self and life it's just too much to do.
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