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PennyCat
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Re: Last minute announcement ideas?
Posted by JoesWife628
How did it go?????
It didn't happen yet  We are telling them tonight!
Thanks ladies, these ideas are great!!!! I had a dream we showed up to tell them but then I woke up before the "big reveal" actually happened. Like literally and walk in the door and BOOM I'm awake.  Dontcha just hate it when that happens?!  
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jennielee15
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Re: Last minute announcement ideas?
How was the big reveal????
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| Posted 3/26/13 10:42 AM |
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Last minute announcement ideas?
Yeah! How did it go? Tell us!
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| Posted 3/26/13 10:46 AM |
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PennyCat
Just call me mommy :)
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Re: Last minute announcement ideas?
Well ........ It went ok. I guess I thought people would be more surprised than they were, but that's ok. I came in said hi to everyone with my coat on which didn't look obvious that anything was going on ... then sat on the couch pretty quick. Some people were eyeing my stomach, but nobody said anything .. so I said we found a surrogate. People were like Oh yeah??? and I was like .. Yeahhhh me 
They were surprised, but I didn't expect to get a little surprise of my own. For years while going through infertility I complained endlessly about how my DH's cousins always get pregnant and have babies so easily and then there's me. Well, 2 of them are pregnant again and both due like a day apart, about 3 weeks after me.
It's nice that among the other babies in the family, my  will have kids his exact age to play with (one even joked they could share birthdays... ) and I know how this will sound (absurd, i know.) but I just keep thinking now that with my history, if something happens to this baby and I don't end up having him and they have theirs, it will be so hard for me to go to family things knowing we were supposed to all have our babies together. I KNOW how that sounds .. I'm feeling great about our odds here .. but you don't go through years and infertility and loss (especially a 2nd trimester loss) without some battle wounds and left feeling like history may .. just may.. repeat itself. I'm normally not focused on that and I feel bad that it was like the first thing that came to my mind when I found out we're all pregnant together. I just want to be the one who moves on with happy news too finally. I should also say that I was pregnant a few years ago along with his other cousin and we all know how that ended... I don't mean to sound negative, just oddly paranoid with them being due so close and knowing the repercussions of a loss now would be even harder to swallow.
I wish I could just bask carelessly in the happy news along with them.. I wish that at 18wks I wasn't still nervous .. I guess you can take the girl out of infertility, but you can't take the infertility out of the girl.
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HelenZ
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Re: Last minute announcement ideas?
Posted by PennyCat
Well ........ It went ok. I guess I thought people would be more surprised than they were, but that's ok. I came in said hi to everyone with my coat on which didn't look obvious that anything was going on ... then sat on the couch pretty quick. Some people were eyeing my stomach, but nobody said anything .. so I said we found a surrogate. People were like Oh yeah??? and I was like .. Yeahhhh me
They were surprised, but I didn't expect to get a little surprise of my own. For years while going through infertility I complained endlessly about how my DH's cousins always get pregnant and have babies so easily and then there's me. Well, 2 of them are pregnant again and both due like a day apart, about 3 weeks after me.
It's nice that among the other babies in the family, my will have kids his exact age to play with (one even joked they could share birthdays... ) and I know how this will sound (absurd, i know.) but I just keep thinking now that with my history, if something happens to this baby and I don't end up having him and they have theirs, it will be so hard for me to go to family things knowing we were supposed to all have our babies together. I KNOW how that sounds .. I'm feeling great about our odds here .. but you don't go through years and infertility and loss (especially a 2nd trimester loss) without some battle wounds and left feeling like history may .. just may.. repeat itself. I'm normally not focused on that and I feel bad that it was like the first thing that came to my mind when I found out we're all pregnant together. I just want to be the one who moves on with happy news too finally. I should also say that I was pregnant a few years ago along with his other cousin and we all know how that ended... I don't mean to sound negative, just oddly paranoid with them being due so close and knowing the repercussions of a loss now would be even harder to swallow.
I wish I could just bask carelessly in the happy news along with them.. I wish that at 18wks I wasn't still nervous .. I guess you can take the girl out of infertility, but you can't take the infertility out of the girl.
 Initially I thought the same thing, our nephew was born 5 weeks after my due date last year, I thought how hard it would be knowing he should have a little cousin, our daughter, to grow up with....but, I look at it this way, now instead of 5 weeks apart, his little cousin that we're expecting this year will be 9 months younger than him and I know they'll still be close......I still believe everything happens for a reason and as hard as it is to shake the feelings of loss off this WILL be your year, and I think you have every reason to believe your DS will be hanging with his 2 little playmates this fall. I have forced myself to put a positive spin on every crappy thing that has happened to me, I have such a good feeling for you and I have faith that both of our LO's will be having playdates later this year too!!  
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jennielee15
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Re: Last minute announcement ideas?
Posted by PennyCat
I don't mean to sound negative, just oddly paranoid with them being due so close and knowing the repercussions of a loss now would be even harder to swallow.
I don't think there is anything odd about how you are thinking.... I have never had a loss and the thought crossed my mind when a friend revealed she was due the same day as me....
I am a social work therapist and I will tell you what I tell all of my anxiety patients, "If you weren't experiencing stress and anxiety, then i would be worried" It's normal....Let yourself have a moment to think about all the crazy, horrible outcomes that could happen, then push those aside and think of how cool it will be to have your with your cousins, best friends built in....super fun!!!
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| Posted 3/26/13 11:44 AM |
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kahlua716
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Re: Last minute announcement ideas?
ETD because I read you already announced.
Please don't feel bad for having those thoughts- they aren't odd at all!!!
I have faith in your baby
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