tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938234907079894484.post294301966277656431..comments2023-05-10T05:13:23.123-07:00Comments on The Mother's Lamentations:: Simple (and exciting) updates...and a rant about announcing pregnancyMalloryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04991788960863652000noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938234907079894484.post-16082106215190187792012-10-14T06:27:02.657-07:002012-10-14T06:27:02.657-07:00I thought this sentence was interesting: "it&...I thought this sentence was interesting: "it's just as likely that he'll be more solidly convinced that we have awful, rotten children." Because maybe you share my pain. <br /><br />Jeff, I think, really thinks our children are unruly and naughty and unspiritual. I try to tell him that evening is their worst time, when they're tired and hungry and just miserable and that they really are mostly great and obedient for a lot of the day, but I don't know if what I tell him about what he doesn't see is as influential on him as what he does see when he comes home: crying, fighting children.<br /><br />And I agree that you should be able to announce pregnancy when you want.Mimi Colletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15879880111595536353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938234907079894484.post-80003774748698647702012-09-09T13:06:05.722-07:002012-09-09T13:06:05.722-07:00I love you Mallory! And I am so excited for you! T...I love you Mallory! And I am so excited for you! To know the excitement, as you have been trying for awhile, and then succeeded... that should explain in itself, why you are telling people. It should be a mom's choice when to tell others! Not the worlds' to say. We told people immediately, which was shocking as we have had 3 miscarriages, and not the greatest history of pregnancy. But it is what it is. And we had been trying, and we were just way to excited to keep it in! How are Bug and Gizmo doing on the news? Are they excited for another brother? Or a sister? I cannot wait! :) Meghann Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00273027553971638260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938234907079894484.post-27674319888588695852012-09-06T16:14:31.222-07:002012-09-06T16:14:31.222-07:00Congrats on your pregnancy! How exciting!!
My tho...Congrats on your pregnancy! How exciting!!<br /><br />My thoughts on waiting the 12 weeks or whatever amount of time: With our first three we didn't hesitate to tell people, but that third pregnancy ended in miscarriage and to have to relive it over and over when well meaning ward members would ask how I was feeling or how my pregnancy was going (and then seeing their upset faces after I told them) was heart wrenching and actually made it harder to heal (for me, of course everyone is different). So with the next two pregnancies we waited quite awhile to announce it, just because I didn't want to go through that again, it was still fun to announce it later on and not have to feel the horrible pains of having to announce a miscarriage not long after. In fact, I felt very guarded about the whole thing. Even now I hate announcing things that I don't feel are a "for sure" thing, feeling like if I do then I'll jinx it and it WILL go wrong. :/ Thats just my experience. I also don't care whenever anyone feels like announcing for themselves, whatever! :)<br /><br />One big rant on due dates though--I really wish women weren't even given a due date, but a due "month" or something. Because it really could go two weeks EITHER direction (that means two weeks "late" is still safe), but so many women (and doctors it seems) are so hung up on their due date that they induce two weeks early thinking its great. When in reality they could be having a baby four weeks early. Inducing has become so common and I hate it. With my last, I wasn't going to be induced and was a week "overdue" and got SO MUCH flack from people about not being induced; even my stupid doctor (I will NEVER go to a OB/GYN again) told me my baby was going to be stillborn if I wasn't highly monitored. (Which is obviously ridiculous, and I had him perfectly safely and naturally, almost exactly nine months after the day he was conceived--funny that!) Anyway, thats my pregnancy rant! haha Melindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11738664615930618450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938234907079894484.post-71908303815913291812012-09-05T15:29:18.061-07:002012-09-05T15:29:18.061-07:00Oops- and Congrats! Sorry I forgot to mention that...Oops- and Congrats! Sorry I forgot to mention that in the previous comment. *embarrassed*TopHathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03014761105792283513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938234907079894484.post-4002096740638183992012-09-05T15:28:38.746-07:002012-09-05T15:28:38.746-07:00Totally on the pregnancy announcement thing. I wai...Totally on the pregnancy announcement thing. I wait until I'm far enough along that people have a hard time guessing the due date because I like to keep that secret. :) But we totally told everyone immediately with my first. <br /><br />This past summer I overheard a couple of people in my ward mention that they were upset about another ward member announcing her pregnancy early because for them, "It seems like she's been pregnant forever!" I was all, "Her pregnancy is too long and inconvenient for YOU?!" BAH. It is totally up to the mother's choice when to announce pregnancies. No one owes anyone a "short" pregnancy or anything.TopHathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03014761105792283513noreply@blogger.com