Today is my due date...

JessieK · Post by **JessieK** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 8:14 am

...and I have already been a mommy for 23 days! I already know my daughter's signals, how to pump, how to warm the formula and how to feed her. I already know how to do diapers and baths and gas drops and eye drops. I already love her and we three are already a family. I still can't believe I gave birth to her. She is so perfect...formed, yet evolving. It is an amazing experience. And I don't have to go through labor today!!! Yay!!!!!

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 8:19 am

Been meaning to point this out... You are riding the crest of the latest baby boom. I am seeing new babies everywhere! Including two of friends.

Went for a bike ride in the canyon last week and there was this future playgroup of 13 Moms, all with new ones in snugglies out for a hike! Saw another yesterday.

Anyway, congrats and hope your internals are all fixed up!

Best wishes,
The Weekender

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 8:24 am

"Tic Tic Tic" is what it is (that is the maternity clock ticking there).

I think that very few couples can stick with their "I won't have ANY kids feelings. They get to a certain age and think "Oh, just one."

Biologically, RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!!!

So, the "No Kids" generation is playing catch-up.

mvhplank · Post by **mvhplank** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:15 am

NorCalMusician wrote:... So, the "No Kids" generation is playing catch-up.

Well, not all of them. A good friend (now my lawyer, but a friend longer than a lawyer) and his wife agreed never to have kids and have stuck to just cats all this time.

Here was his reason: both his parents died at a fairly young age (in their 30s? No later than their 40s, I think) of natural causes. This left the children in the care of a rather casually selected guardian, who placed all of them in boarding schools. It was a pretty hideous way to grow up and, since he couldn't be certain whether or not he'd inherited the early-death genetics, he didn't want to do the same thing to his own potential children--so he didn't have any.

We're both in our 50s now, and he still happily refers to his family state as "child-free." (He does have nieces and nephews, and he seems to be entirely content with that.)

M

PS--congrats, Jesse! Myself, I went almost 2 weeks late with my daughter and at the time would have much preferred a child who paid attention to the "schedule."

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:19 am

I felt that way, about boomers when my first was born in 92. There was a new boom then, of mid 30somethings with the timeclock.

Advantage: my son, 3 weeks early, attended his baby shower.

Chuck_Clark · Post by **Chuck_Clark** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:38 am

Glad you're happy, Jessie.

But still, when I first saw the title of this thread, I thought, Oh, lordy, she's doing it again ALREADY!?!?!?!

Can't help it - sometimes my mind works in strange ways.

Roger O'Keeffe · Post by **Roger O'Keeffe** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 11:06 am

Just think of today as Labor Day and take the rest of it off!

Post by **Nanohedron** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 11:34 am

Chuck_Clark wrote:Glad you're happy, Jessie.

But still, when I first saw the title of this thread, I thought, Oh, lordy, she's doing it again ALREADY!?!?!?!

Can't help it - sometimes my mind works in strange ways.

I thought the same thing!

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 11:38 am

Hey why not? As the pediatrician says, one's a hobby, two is a family!

markv · Post by **markv** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 12:08 pm

The Weekenders wrote:Hey why not? As the pediatrician says, one's a hobby, two is a family!

My Mom always said you're not really a parent until you have two. I always kind of took offense to that, until we had our second. Now I understand, Oh Boy do I understand. The best part is you wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

Mark V.

xcaliburgirl · Post by **xcaliburgirl** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 12:24 pm

My Mom always said you're not really a parent until you have two.

I'm not a parent, but I'm the oldest of 5 children.

My parents have a saying like that. They use it to answer people who wonder how they can cope with that many kids:

3 is the hardest, but once you get that down, what's a few more?

Post by **Nanohedron** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 12:33 pm

Oldest of five, here, too. Mom had twins a little over a year and a month after me, and another less than ten months after that. Four whelps in diapers at the same time! Fortunately for her I up and potty-trained myself (so she tells me) shortly after the fourth was born. Yow. Small wonder she took a couple of years off before the fifth came along.

TomB · Post by **TomB** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 12:44 pm

Roger O'Keeffe wrote:Just think of today as Labor Day and take the rest of it off!

On a somewhat related note to this, every year on her own birthday, my wife calls her mom and wishes her a "Happy Labor Day."

All the Best, Tom

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 5:32 pm

You can renew your books over the telephone now in most public libraries ...... Oh

That due Date!

Couldn't help it, it was your subject line, and being a librarian .... well you know ....

I'm happy to here that things have settled down for you and your family.

Take care.

MarkB

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 7:16 pm

TomB wrote:
Roger O'Keeffe wrote:Just think of today as Labor Day and take the rest of it off!

On a somewhat related note to this, every year on her own birthday, my wife calls her mom and wishes her a "Happy Labor Day."

All the Best, Tom

Speaking of which, it soon will be Labour Day in several countries of the world.