Logged out for privacy until further along. My husband and I have been trying off and on to get pregnant and it happened after only six months. We just found out so I don't have an appt with a nurse or dr. until the end of July.
Problem is, we don't want to tell family yet and I can't close daycare everytime I have an appt. My husband is my ONLY emergency daycare person. I only have a small handful of children so I don't think hiring some help eventually would be difficult to trust someone with my great bunch of kids. My first appt. with a nurse my husband can stay with the kids. It will be in the morning which will take about 2 hours before I get there and back. He will have no help though so I really don't want to enroll any new kids because of the private situation. This appt. is mostly paperwork I was told so I can go alone.
Second appt. is actually two days later and I want my hubby to be with me so I'm thinking I will close daycare since it falls on a weekend and we are actually leaving town that weekend. How many dr. appts will I need and how far apart?
I'm going to spend some of this weekend researching and reading books I bought, but the stress level is high because we have so much on our plates right now then I get worked up if I don't know everything about anything so I'm go go go, but I fall asleep at 8 pm every night this week no problem so I never get any "me" time.
So the main question is how many appt are typical and how do you cover for them without letting families know why you're gone?
Also share any cool ideas for letting daycare parents, but also your own friends/family know you are expecting. We are going to a family re-union on my side of the family the day after my appt and I was thinking about showing up wearing one of those pregnancy shirts and just seeing how people react. I just hope it's not rude because my sister actually is putting together a big birthday party for her kids in our hometown where most people have not seen them yet so I don't really want to take the attention away but I only get home once a year it seems and never see all my family only immediate. What do you think to share the news?
Problem is, we don't want to tell family yet and I can't close daycare everytime I have an appt. My husband is my ONLY emergency daycare person. I only have a small handful of children so I don't think hiring some help eventually would be difficult to trust someone with my great bunch of kids. My first appt. with a nurse my husband can stay with the kids. It will be in the morning which will take about 2 hours before I get there and back. He will have no help though so I really don't want to enroll any new kids because of the private situation. This appt. is mostly paperwork I was told so I can go alone.
Second appt. is actually two days later and I want my hubby to be with me so I'm thinking I will close daycare since it falls on a weekend and we are actually leaving town that weekend. How many dr. appts will I need and how far apart?
I'm going to spend some of this weekend researching and reading books I bought, but the stress level is high because we have so much on our plates right now then I get worked up if I don't know everything about anything so I'm go go go, but I fall asleep at 8 pm every night this week no problem so I never get any "me" time.
So the main question is how many appt are typical and how do you cover for them without letting families know why you're gone?
Also share any cool ideas for letting daycare parents, but also your own friends/family know you are expecting. We are going to a family re-union on my side of the family the day after my appt and I was thinking about showing up wearing one of those pregnancy shirts and just seeing how people react. I just hope it's not rude because my sister actually is putting together a big birthday party for her kids in our hometown where most people have not seen them yet so I don't really want to take the attention away but I only get home once a year it seems and never see all my family only immediate. What do you think to share the news?
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