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Quote: Originally Posted by Jennifer J We use old ice cream pails lined with plastic bags. I can't dump either and don't have the luxury of hosing them off in the back yard when it's -20*F in MN So we encourage running to the toilet OR using the plastic lined bucket, so that mommy can mostly cope. Man, didn't realize I was so spoiled with a hose.

We went to a party, with the kids, at a friends house. We had fun, played games and at 12:00 we all had sparkling grape juice. The kids thought it was great to stay up that late. They had never been up that late before! We really had a nice evening with old friends.

Quote: Originally Posted by Rob's Wife Rob has requested I get my waters broke. He just can't take the suspense any longer. MW is coming out to check me again around 8 tonight and will either strip the membranes or break my water pending my okay for one or the other. Here's hoping things go quick enough for an epiphany baby! So it's time to kick those birthing prayers into overtime folks! Prayers for you to have your baby...

Quote: Originally Posted by Catholic90 So here's another question.....what do you do with the BOWL once it's been puked in? 1. throw it out 2. wash it in bleach 3. dishwasher Personally, I think puke is much more disgusting than poop. As for those puke bowls, in our house they got bleached then dishwasher sanitized (and only metal bowls were allowed to be puke bowls, unless we had a spare ice cream pail around, in which case it just...

Ruby - glad you and DH are coming to peace with the situation. That's great to get more adjustment time! KG - wow, that's wonderful you got to feel baby move! Martha - praying that you're holding that baby girl in your arms!

KG, that's awesome on feeling baby move! And it will only happen more often from here. Martha - woohoo! I'll be praying and thinking about you tonight. Mary - I love the name! What a tiny guy, and so handsome! Congrats. Thanks everyone for the thoughts. After DH got home and we talked more I calmed down. It's going to be fine, we can do it, we tend to overspend too... we just need to cut back, and we are both happy that I will...

Can I ask for some prayers for my sister. She was due 2 weeks after me, but found out the baby died at 8 weeks. I just about cried when I got the email.

Quote: Originally Posted by mommamia Sadly we test without lemons, if we allow lemons the samples are sooooo contaminated that it defeats the purpose of teaching them to count plates. Lets just say, for a while I couldn't eat out at all. But then I got over it. In my line of work, very little bothers me anymore. I'm so glad I don't like lemon in my tea.

I should get an award for starting this thread.