Yesterday my husband and I discussed the crib that is disassembled in our guest room closet. Way back before IVF# 1, I was driving home, and there was a blond wood crib on the sidewalk in front of a neighbors house. It's sat mutely in our guest room closet, only slightly distending the extra coats and boxes we have stacked there. My husband is the master decorator in our house--much more of an artist than I am, and willing to take risks, so he often is much more sure of what he wants. When I brought home the crib, lo those many years ago, there was talk to painting it a darker color and how he dislikes light colored wood. Fast forward 2 years, and it turns out, he could care less what color it is. The room itself is at the back of the house (good in summer, bad in winter), and could use whatever lightening effects we can muster. I poked around on Craigslist and found a multitude of serviceable changing tables and dressers in a similar finish. If we play it right, we could have our nursery furniture for under $200 (and that is if we are picky). We will be getting an organic mattress, so that will push things up a bit, but not as much as a new crib or changing table would cost.
Then this morning I looked at a parents list-serve I'm on, and found that their marketplace section is even better than CL!
It looks like I'm starting to feel hopeful, invested, believing in the future like a regular person.
Here's hoping it works!
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My doctor called on Thursday to confirm that I have antithyroid antibodies, which means my thyroid gland is getting attacked by my autoimmune system. Whoo hoo. Yet another auto immune syndrome. I do feel lucky that this we caught so early, when I'm still within the range of normal (not optimal for a pregnant lady,but good otherwise). My mom had very severe thyroiditis (Hashimtotos and graves disease, with alternating hypo and hypothyroidism; yikes!) and it took 8 months for her to get diagnosed. I'm going to try to get in to see an endocrinologist, and get the scoop on iodine and the like, and make sure I'm doing everything I can to manage this.
I felt so hopeful reading this! I love picking furniture off curbs ( or here mostly our of alleys)! This is very encouraging!
I have a tiny stash of baby things I have bought when feeling hopeful hiding in my bottom drawer!
Posted by: Tireegal | May 16, 2010 at 11:30 AM
I'm giggling as I read this post! Glad you are feeling hopeful!
Posted by: Summer | May 16, 2010 at 02:07 PM
Love it - love the hope.
Posted by: meinsideout | May 16, 2010 at 02:41 PM
that is terrific. Loving the idea about painting the crib - could have a lot fun.
Posted by: EB | May 16, 2010 at 03:32 PM
Awesome! Hope is sometimes good.
Posted by: Sara | May 16, 2010 at 04:01 PM
Bargain shopping! Even better than hope! Good luck with the anti-thyroid antibodies. I hope you can get good treatment.
Posted by: Are You Kidding Me? | May 16, 2010 at 07:35 PM
I had Grave's disease and treated it homeopathically for as long as I could. I highly recommend getting under the care of an endocrinologist. Not only do you want to closely monitor this during pregnancy, but post partum, your thyroid is likely to do wonky things, too, and having an already established relationship with someone will be helpful for you.
Congrats on the crib and the other gently used finds you seem lucky to find.
Posted by: It is what it is | May 16, 2010 at 07:55 PM
Entertaining cribs and the like is very healthty. I have not bought anything for my baby yet (after living the horror of having to return items with the loss of my last pregnancy) and so can understand that this is a big deal. 3 weeks ago I suggested to my husband that we go and look at baby things and he almost fell over. Once we did, he said that this is something that 'real' people do and he's glad I would conceed to that. So good for us!
My mother just had thyroid surgery and thankfully all went well. Her doctor wanted to remove a portion that he felt could turn malignant in the future. Thankfully the portion removed was benign. The time to take care of this is now so good for you for being proactive. Once I have baby I have to look into mine - the doctor that placed my TAC suggested i do so b/c he found it to be a little large. I hope it's nothing to worry about in both our cases...
Posted by: jaded | May 17, 2010 at 12:02 PM
LOVE reading about the hope. LOVE LOVE LOVE it.
My thyroid was apparently "borderline" pre and during pregnancy (but I never knew!) so post pg everything went bananas. I am still in the med tinkering phase/doing labs every 4 weeks phase- but thankful that treatment is as simple as popping a pill. VERY glad that you and your doctors are totally on top of this. That is fantastic!!!
Are you still on lupron? I need constant cycle updates!
Posted by: Calliope | May 18, 2010 at 07:38 AM