Parent Thread

trex said:

Were they naturally concieved? This may sound horrible, but I had a minor panic attack waiting to get my first ultra sound with both, hoping there weren't two heartbeats. If there were three, I'd have an extreamly hard time not terminating. I wouldn't, but I'd think about it. I have "Irish twins" and it's hard. I can't imagine actual twins.

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My wife went to a doctor and took some sort of medication and then a shot. Some sort of hormone thing I think.

The first ultrasound I wasn’t there for, but when my wife called me after getting out we both were freaking out a bit. Well, a lot actually. We were (and are) in a good financial place, but the logistics were pretty scary.

And then we went to the next ultrasound, and low and behold there were 4. At this point we were beyond freak out and really were just unbelieving. Doctor talked to us about reduction, not suggesting we do it but just mentioning that it was an option. We looked into it solely for the reason of increasing odds of the children being healthy, but found there wasn’t significant differences.

Found out in later ultrasound it was 2 boys and 2 girls. Then sometime between the week 20 and 22 ultrasound we lost one of the girls. It sucked.

Ritley said:

Then sometime between the week 20 and 22 ultrasound we lost one of the girls. It sucked.

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Oh man I can't begin to imagine the level of suck. Wife was 6 or 8 weeks along in 2014 when her godmother died and sure enough a few days later we lost the kid.
We did get our second kid but you always wonder how that one would have turned out.
(plus we had some fuckups because her ob was on holiday at the time so she had to see someone else, who decided she had not been pregnant at all and basically did nothing at first, later though did give her some medication that seems to be really important if you still plan on having kids afterwards... ah well).

My son is 3 and half. I'd forgotten what feeding every 3-4 hours is like. Couple that with the three year old that likes to be up at 6 am and I'm exhausted. Going on about 5 hours of sleep a day for the past week. I really think I love caffeine more than my family sometimes.

Thankfully our parents have been a big help. My mother in law is staying over tonight and keeping my daughter so both my wife and I can get a solid njgjtd sleep.

ToeMissile said:

Only 3-4? My daughter has always been on a 1.5-2 rotation.

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Is she breast fed? My wife wasn't producing milk, so we had to do formula.

To break from the baby talk (solidarity my brothers, been there, done that, have the scars and T Shirt), we have decided to home school the kids next year. They have upped the crazy to 11 on policies in response to the shooting in February, along with the stress of them running the place like a meat grinder. Bottom line kids aren't allowed to be kids anymore as that may affect their test scores at the end of the year. My son is a marked target already (much of which is self inflicted, yes), so he is a lock to be suspended and/or expelled under these new policies. My daughter just can't handle the pressure put on them to ace these end of year tests, and she is a mess every single year. I'm done, I'm out, and I'm not even nervous. I've been researching this all school year for my son, but now I think it's just best that they both go. I just wish there were more secular options available but around here, there just isn't.

Tyen maybe if you spent more time making EQBrowser and less time making babies I could be grinding on Coirnav at work right now.... HOW BOUT THAT

Kid used the potty for the first time today

DID I JUST READ EQ-AR?!

Noodleface said:

Kid used the potty for the first time today

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Such a good feeling when the potty training starts.

Nothing was working for months. Today my wife said "I heard your friend <FRIEND> is using the potty now" and he ripped his diaper off and used it.

Hey guys, how is everyone? Just doin a little warm-up.

What do you all think about vaccines?