Unexpected Babies

Bizzy wrote: i have been thinking about this and really IMO no baby is unexpected - after all you have a maximum of 9 months to get used to the idea. To me its an unexpected pregnancy.

My friend found out she was pregnant at 7 and a half months, shes now pregnant with number 2 (planned ) and she keeps complaining about how slow this pregnancy is going

I had an unplanned pregnancy. I spent up until about week 8 thinking 'I don't want to make this decision, I hope I miscarry.' Then from week 9 I thought 'why not give it a go' and gradually got more and more excited until I hit 13 weeks and then miscarried which was the hardest thing I've ever been through.

Well, for a start, she still had her period , up until 6 months
second,she was already kinda biggish , so she didn't show till 8 months (and she already knew )
I asked her once why she didn't feel the baby kicking, and she made a good point "If you don't expect to feel a baby kicking, you don't exactly look out for it" , also placenta was at the front, and if she did feel kicking , she probably thought it was gas or just didn't take much notice ....she was still on the pill as well , and babies were something she and her partner had planned for when they were 30 , tho they had recently bought their first house .
Anyway , 7 months and she starts feeling off, then notices milk leaking in her breasts, does a test , its pos, so she goes to the dr thinking shes about 6 weeks .
Dr tells her he suspects shes 6 months, sends her for emergency scan , where she is told she is 7 and a half months preg with a baby girl (healthy )
texts her partner "yep, pregnant, 7 months along, its a girl "
No response, his boss calls 10 mins later "can you come pick your boyfriend up please? he got your text and fainted "
She had a really rough first 6 weeks postnatal, after a 3 day labor, then was really down about being a mum before she had planned (she did only have a couple of months to get used to the idea, as opposed to 8 or 9)
Fast forward 3 years , and shes one of the best mums I know, she adores her daughter and is so excited about this baby ...Im very proud of her .

DD is a semi planned whoopsie. DP and I had been together 7 1/2 years. We had decided we were going to get married on our 10yr anniv sometime earlier that year. It took 3times without protection he knew, I knew, I kept saying I need to go get ecp and he was like yeah ok, but didn't seem bothered.

Well two weeks later I did a test while he was at work, told him when he got home and he just jumped into bed with me and cuddled he was so excited. He was telling people when I was only 8weeks. He has gone through all the crap what am I going to do, he still is. He's talking about getting a second part time job to help pay the bills so I can stay home with DD but I won't let him. He has Mon off so I can work then, and I can work Fri and Sat so we will try and get me a job, I'm just not ready for it I like staying home with DD too much lol.

She is the best thing in the world, Iw ouldn't be without her now!

Do you find it hard though Emma with 4 girls?? I am struggling with 2 and the thought of another one is starting to freak me out Not saying anything at the moment!!!

Ooooh Lisha, does that mean you tested?!

Yes, it's hard having four of them, but no more so than having 3. If I could have planned things, I would have liked a bigger gap between the gremlins and lil miss, coz the first few weeks with 3 under 2 were insanity, but they all play together and entertain each other so well that it's all just a distant memory now - altho the gremlins fight so viciously that you'd never believe they once shared a placenta!