Good news for a change. My baby sister is having a BABY!

[PassingFair]

She's 40 and pregnant with her first child!

I'm 12 years older than her and never expected
that she would decide to have children.

The best part is that she's already 5 months
pregnant and just found out about it yesterday.

THREE pregnancy tests were negative.

She's calling the baby a NINJA.

I'm SO happy for her!

:party:

[HopeHoops]

1. I never had relations with that woman.

:evilgrin:

Tell her CONGRATULATIONS! Babies are wonderful. Two of mine are adults now and the third will be in 17 months.

[PassingFair]

2. She's been married for around ten years.

They decided to stop using protection at X-mas time,
just to see what would happen...

She THOUGHT she was pregnant, but the tests
kept telling her she wasn't.

She missed a doctors appointment to come home
for my brother's funeral, and it wasn't until
yesterday that she went in and the doctor did
an ultra-sound and the first thing they saw was
the baby -- sucking its thumb!

I have a 16 and a 20 year-old, so this is wild!
I wish she lived closer to me. I'm in Michigan
and she's in Minnesota.

[HopeHoops]

3. It's tough when you want and can't achieve.

My wife and I knew all three times - weird sensation, but we knew. We had some scares when we were together in college (late 80's) and weren't in a position to deal with kids, but when we decided to start a family it happened on the first try. The other two also happened on the first try. I've known women who just couldn't seem to get pregnant and it is heartbreaking. Tell her I'm glad she made it and I really hope all goes well.

[bigwillq]

4. Awesome!

Congrats, Auntie! :bounce: :hi:

[PassingFair]

5. Outta the blue!

She and her husband are art collectors (in a very MINOR, but
avid way).

She texted us that she wanted us to gather around the computer
last night at 8:00 to see their latest photo acquisition.

I told my husband, "It better be a sonogram" (I didn't want
to get off the couch)...sure enough, it WAS!!

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Congrats!

[elleng]

7. GREAT NEWS!

but how could those 3 tests show negative???

p.s., my first was born 2 weeks before my 40th birthday, and 2d few months after my 43d, fwiw.

[PassingFair]

8. Apparently it's not unusual to have a false negative...

but QUITE unusual to have a false POSITIVE...

She had also been losing weight, over 80 lbs
in the last year and a half.

She was getting frustrated because she wasn't
losing any more weight, but she was sticking to
her weight-watchers plan...

I hope they don't make her take those screening
tests -- at 5 months...

[ellisonz]

9. Congrats!

:headbang:

[VenusRising]

10. Congratulations, Auntie!!

It's very reassuring that she's 40 and getting ready for her first.

I'm 35, widowed for almost 2 years now, and I would love to have a baby one day.

We had just decided to start trying to have one about 2 weeks before my husband passed.

It was heartbreaking.

This is happy news!!

:bounce::toast:

[PassingFair]

11. She always told me she didn't want children...

Then she married a guy who didn't want to rule it out.
She had NO trouble conceiving, so ...proof that you shouldn't
worry until you know you've got something to worry about!

She told him she wasn't going to drive herself nuts
with fertility treatments, etc...

When she started losing weight, I thought, maybe
she's getting into a good position to have a baby...
but she's 12 years younger than me and we don't have
a "normal" sisterly relationship. My mother worked when
we were younger, and I was more like a junior mom than
a sister.

I never asked her whether they were "trying" or
whether they wanted a baby, I thought it would be
rude.

She wants me to come out to Minneapolis when the
baby comes, because our mother is a bit "daft",
and she will need someone to run interference!

I feel more like a grandmother than an aunt in
this situation!