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Continuing on from: Last Updated 14 April 2022 Pregnant Recently Gave Birth

In her first post since Sept 28, 2016, Alice, everyone's favorite pregnancy obsessed British mum, posted yesterday that she is password protecting her blog, so only people she knows well can continue to read it. But first, she wants us to know that she is NOT pregnant and is now 40. The Sept 28th post is so SO Alice and this is the last time we get this level of detail! For those not familiar with Alice, 9 DPO is 9 Days Post Ovulation and here we go! and so on. Goodbye, Alice, and best wishes. Nobody can blog body effluvia quite like you. May you enjoy your 40s and continue to enjoy the kids!

Continuing on from Last Updated 22 July 2021 Pregnant Recently Gave Birth Thanks to @anjulibai for suggesting the thread title many moons ago.

Continuing on from: Last Updated 8 April 2021 Pregnant Recently Gave Birth Thanks to @TuringMachine for the thread title!

Continuing on from: Last Updated 1 December 2020 Pregnant Recently Gave Birth

I couldn't really decide if this woman would be of any interest but I've been following her for a while and there are a number of things that have recently made me go So she comes accross rather sweetly but she will jump on you if you disagree with her closely spaced, badly timed, ill-concieved pregnancies. She also prone to panic attacts and is very, very likely to flounce. 7th baby expected, has six boys in the same room (two bedroom house) says she'll just keep on having babies forever etc etc. Husband sleeps in boys room. She had a breakdown over imaginary twin baby, of which there was no evidence other than a hair whorl (?). She is going for the "autistic spectrum" diagnosis for two of her kids. I feel so bad because the oldest boy is having trouble behaving (7 years old) but from what I can gather she hardly ever takes them outside and they live in a tiny home. Of course he is homeschooled and has little contact outside the family. He keeps pestering her to take pregnancy tests. Gah, he is seven! Not much of a life for him It has won "Cutest Blog on the Block " but I don't see why. It's so TMI and selfish/delusional. I'm not saying the kids aren't cute but the God deciding family size factor definately isn't. alicesbaby.blogspot.com

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Continuing on from Last Updated 6 April 2020 Pregnant Recently Gave Birth This is a PEZ candy dispenser for those of you who aren't familiar with the candy.

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http://www.adarlingkindoflife.com/2016/03/easter-basket-surprise.html Guess I am not surprised, but based on how much Kathleen already has on her plate with her husband (who suffered a traumatic brain injury) and her young daughter, I can't help but question their judgement, here... not to mention the fact that these kids are being conceived by a man who may be an adult, but who also is apparently very mentally diminished due to the accident.

Continuing on from Last Updated 23 September 2019 Pregnant Recently Gave Birth

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/27/us/alabama-pregnant-woman-shot-in-stomach-manslaughter-indictment-trnd/index.html This is horrifying. And I'm seriously afraid that it's only the beginning. My take is that she may have instigated the fight or prolonged it, but I don't think that she wanted to lose her child. I see this as the beginning of our rights being stripped away. I think that it was only a matter of time until a woman was charged, it would not matter what the circumstances were. I think the powers that be have been waiting and this situation is what they will use.

Continuing on from Last Updated 20 May 2019 Pregnant Recently Gave Birth

Hello sage members of FJ! I've been lurking quite a while and have read so many stories of pregnancy and birth here over the years. So I was wondering if anyone had dealt with this particular issue. I went in for an ultrasound last week to check my ovaries after having really irregular periods for about 6 months. My gynecologist told me I have a bicornuate uterus and because my husband and I are planning on pregnancy within the next year, I should go see an infertility specialist to get some additional testing. I googled the condition (why did I do this?!?!) and I'm frankly terrified now. I have a higher than normal risk of miscarriage (especially second trimester miscarriages), early labor, breech birth, and birth defects. A lot of stories from other women involve several miscarriages and premature deliveries. Has anyone dealt with this before and has any advice? I'm young (26) and healthy, so I really didn't expect that pregnancy would be this big of an issue. We're still waiting on an appointment with the infertility doctor, but any advice in the meantime? My mind is all over the place right now. *for this that don't know, a bicornuate uterus is heart shaped instead of the normal uterine shape. It's a congenital abnormality, so I was born with it, I just didn't know until now.

Continuing on from Last Updated: 28 January 2019 Pregnant Recently Gave Birth Thanks to @JermajestyDuggar for the thread title!

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Continuing on from Last Updated: 27 June 2018 Pregnant Recently Gave Birth

Okay, so by some bizarre cosmic coincidence one of my very best friends (who happens to also be my only friend that still lives in my home town) is also getting married. She is also marrying a guy from overseas. Her fiance is also moving here. She also met her fiance online. She is also getting married rather quickly. Her fiance is also tall and skinny. They are also having a very low key registry wedding. They are also getting married very soon. They too are inviting only a handful of very close guests. It's pretty fucking weird how similar our circumstances are. However they have diverged with her unexpected announcement that she is expecting. I'm happy for her but there's a very real and selfish part of me that feels cheated. Not long ago she and I were discussing children and how they weren't really on the cards for my fiance and I. She agreed that she had no pull towards being a parent. That made me happy because literally everyone else I grew up with except this friend has kids. It was a relief to have a close friend to navigate childlessness with. We could continue to make out plans to meet up whenever it was convenient. We'd continue our beloved traditions of trawling thrift stores and going to the market, meeting up on a whim. We could maybe sometimes do couple things and it would be great. Now that's all changing very suddenly. Mostly I feel very protective of her. She's going through some hard shit that I won't write about here, even on a totally anonymous not-a-blog. I know she won't be one of THOSE parents whose identity becomes their child. I still worry, though. I want my friend of over 20 years. I want her to be recognisable on the other side for MY sake, and for that I'm sorry. I can't help but feel left behind. I honestly don't know if I can ever carry a child to term, and if I did there's a strong likelihood they would be a very sickly child like I was. Still, the idea of having our kids growing up being friends the way we did is a tempting one. I have to remind myself that really isn't on the cards for me, and hey - maybe if I did have a kid our kids would hate each other. She really needs a friend right now and I'll be there for her no matter my worries and selfish impulses. I can promise her that. Wow, that got heavy. Ha ha. Wasn't expecting that because the whole point of this blog post was something a lot more light-hearted and far more frustrating: shopping for wedding clothes. She and I went out shopping this morning at our favourite vintage store. My friend is gorgeous and very slim - even now she's pregnant - and found a billion different things to try. Sure, it was harder than usual because she had to accommodate the kid, but she managed to find this gorgeous blue dress. Good thing she did, because the wedding is about 10 days away! I found a few things to try on but sadly vintage clothes just aren't made for busty girls. It doesn't help that the store mostly has sizes 6-10. Vintage 6-10s are even smaller than regular ones. Even in my teen years when I was a 6 I would have been too busty to find a good fit. Now that I'm a 12 it's hopeless. I tried on a 16 (and it was such a gorgeous dress!) and it was WAY too small for my chest, and swimming in other areas. It's a shame because I LOVE vintage clothes. I have a few in my closet I could wear to her wedding but they're very much winter dresses and there's no way in hell I'm wearing anything wintery in the middle of summer. So I'm calling bullshit on clothes shopping. I knew it would be painful. I wish I could just wear jeans and a nerd t-shirt like I usually do. Or even better, ripped jeans, my leather chucks and a flannel shirt (I'm not getting married 'til Autumn). In fact, my friend told me to go ahead and do it! But I have parents to placate and I think I'll look back with regret if I didn't dress up just a little. I'm definitely not wearing a wedding dress, or anything white. I have ordered a dress but it's wholesale and from China and I have no expectations of it fitting in any way even though I ordered two sizes bigger than I am. It's more of a guideline for when I inevitably have to have a dress quickly made because my tits are too big, my legs too short and the rest of me too average. It's not meant to be painful. TV and magazines say getting a wedding dress is a huge milestone in life, one to be witnessed by family and friends (and cameras!), a time when the blinders fall away and you realise in a moment from a fairytale just how beautiful you can be. Bullshit. Not for me. I've been cheated and it's just not cricket.