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Fine, I’m pregnant!

August 15, 2014 by Simcha Fisher

See?

Too tired and gassy to come up with any announcement more adorable or original than this, but everything is looking good so far. God willing, Fishie #10 is due in late Feb./early March. Hooray!

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Lisa Cook

Hooray!
silicasandra

Congratulations! 🙂
Rosemary

Congratulations!
Anna

Yay! Hope you’re not feeling too crummy!
Tracy Reeves

Congrats! My youngest is a month older than your Benny, and now I’m due about a month before you again! I especially had fun reading your pregnancy updates last time since we matched up so closely, looking forward to that again! 🙂
- Anna
  
  Almost the same here, except my youngest is about a month younger than Benny. But this time I’m a bit apprehensive, since I’ve got twins on the way and I may need Simcha’s writing to keep some semblance of sanity – but here she’ll be busy with her own baby…
Mary Jo Lemming Paquin

Congratulations!
Lydia

Yay! Congratulations!
JKealey

You look beautiful.
Kathryn King

I knew it! Congrats! Love it!
Margaret Rose Realy, Obl. OSB

Sweet! I’ll add you to the prayer board for all things maternity to go well.
kiwords

Wonderful news! You look beautiful.
Rachel

Congratulations!!
Tara Darnell

Yay! Congratulations – you and baby will be in our prayers!
Diana

Congrats! Such a great day to pass on happy news!
CS

Congrats to the Fishers!
Kate Cousino

More Fishers can only be a good thing.
Melissa Zech

Congratulations! Such sweet, happy news! Saying a prayer for a healthy happy pregnancy and delivery!
jennifer

I’m a long and silent lurker, but congratulations! happy for you, and a little bit jealous!
Fr. Denis Lemieux

Congratulations! Never enough Fishers, that’s what I say.
Michele

Congratulations, Simcha!! What awesome news!!!
Bonnie Engstrom

Congratulations! Wonderful news!
Colet C. Bostick

YAY! Yay Yay Yay YAYYAYYAYYAYYAY!
Julie @ CT Catholic Corner

Congrats and God bless!
MamaK

A dozen Fishers! Now you won’t have to fight over the leftover in the two six-packs. You have arrived (or will have, when the baby arrives).
Pete Socks

Congrats Simcha!
$1028912

CONGRATULATIONS! (And better you than me!!!)
- Loretta Remski Brighton
  
  Lisa, is this your way of telling the general public that you dislike children and/or are not an adequate mother? Just trying to understand your odd but common sentiment.
  - $1028912
    
    Indeed, I do dislike small children, though I imagine I’m an adequate mother (as mine have survived so far), and I think my opinions are in the minority rather than “common.”
    However, I am genuinely happy for people who feel differently and welcome additions to their growing families.
    Perhaps I should have stopped at “congratulations!” But “Better you than me!” is what I say to my real-life friends, so I figured that since I’m a semi-regular commenter here, I’d say it to Simcha, too.
    - Aileen
      
      Lisa, I may not agree with some of your beliefs but I enjoy reading your comments because you are always civil in your discourse. And I thought your first comment was funny!
      - $1028912
        
        Thanks — I greatly enjoy reading this blog and comments, and appreciate it when I can respectfully disagree (although I don’t always disagree, of course).
  - Liberty
    
    Why is it your business what she says? Or if she dislikes children? Should we be able to question your mothering skills based on your comments? Someone can not like children in general and still love and like her own. What is so odd about being happy for someone for something which you are grateful is not happening in your own life at that point? Like a friend getting a promotion to a super hard job which she is excited about but you are content to remain in your own job?
Claire

Awesome news Simcha! Congratulations and prayers!
Ezbs

A big Congrats! There is no better news than baby news. Praying you have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy and safe birth. God Bless you and your growing baby x
irena mangone

Congratulations God bless you all
Kirsten

Hooray! Such wonderful news! I’ll pray that things continue to go, and grow, smoothly! God bless you all!
Heather Renshaw

Well, how in the actual heck did I miss this??! Praise God in the highest Heaven!!
- June1111
  
  She’s a clever one… 😀 I wonder what else she’s hiding!
richard

Congratulations.
Micaela

Congratulations!
niknac

Here’s to every woman’s right to exercise her sexual and reproductive functions in the ways she and not someone else, chooses. Congratulations on your new baby.
- JoAnna Wahlund
  
  Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same as being right in doing it, to quote G.K. Chesterton. That also applies to passive-aggressive pro-abortion responses to pregnancy announcements. 🙂
  - Claire
    
    Exactly, JoAnna. Nothing like disguising a political agenda behind a congratulatory message.
- niknac
  
  You two are very mean spirited.
  - Ed
    
    And you, niknac, are very disingenuous. Please don’t promote your pro-choice agenda and facetiously tack on a baby congratulation.
Beadgirl

Congratulations!
afishcalledsid

Congratulations from Dave and Kate in Canada! BTW, I’m feeling gassy too and I’m not even pregnant.
anna lisa

Oh my goodness!!!! How did I miss this???? Thank you. The world needs more of your sassy little munchkins 😀
Beautiful.
Aileen

Congratulations, Simcha!!! 🙂
Kay

Shouldn’t you be sitting down in this picture? lol Congratulations! Prayers for great health all around.
MightyMighty1

Congrats! I think it’s a good thing that a mother with as many children as you have is NOT making cutsey announcements. There cannot be time for that in your schedule!
jenn rothwell

Congratulations!!!!
Lindsay Burke

Are you kidding me, Feedly? You somehow cut off my Simcha Fisher and I miss THIS?! What wonderful news!
stark61555

I love perimenopause. I am just starting the peri part. I don’t have to have a Catholic trophy kid to prove myself. God loves me and all the kids I missed carried anyhow. Being 51 has its upsides. I don’t have to nag my hub to get junk done, I do it myself. Geez, how old were you when you got married? Gee, it is like you all have to prove yourselves this way. THAT IS JUST AS BAD.
stark61555

Ok… that’s nice. Another Catholic better than you trophy kid. So? Nice but so?
- simchafisher
  
  That’s really hurtful, Jeanne. I’m a real person, you know, not some kind of personification of everything you dislike about your fellow Catholics. I’m having a real baby, who may or may not grow up to make me proud. I do not treat my children as trophies or as proof of anything. I’m not having children AT you; I’m just having children.
  
  If someone has hurt your or made you feel bad for the way your life has gone, I am truly sorry, and I apologize on their behalf. But there is no call to lash out at me just for sharing some good news. If baby announcements upset you, then you should not read them.
  - stark61555
    
    Too bad. If I share good news YOU WOULD BE LIKE PATRONIZING AND SO? THREE WORDS: trophy kid and pride. Big deal have them and pay for them. I am over it. You better look at how and why you have all those trophy kids. That’s what they are to you. At 51 I don’t have to have kids. Bring on Menopause. You are so so snooty and prove how you really are. NO NEED TO APOLOGIZE BUT APOLOGIZE FOR YOURSELF. Btw, there’s a lightening storm overhead. Sorry but I didn’t get struck by it. Come on down and see if you can pass that test. Being older has more benefits and insurance. No one knows you outside Catholic trophy pridedom and no one cares.
    - Kate Cousino
      
      You very obviously care. Just sayin’.
      - Claire
        
        Ya think?
      - Anna
        
        And about all Simcha’s topics, not just this one, as she’s posted comments on a bunch of posts… 🙂
        On a semi-related note, I find one cannot block a follower on Disqus.
  - Anna
    
    Ooh, and after you pass Jeanne’s lightning storm test, do we get to see if you weigh the same as a duck?
    Also, having looked at her other recent comments in the sidebar, do you think you could get Ikea to send her a cease-and-desist letter for claiming in public that that shelf is exactly like theirs?
that florida lady

I love that I take issue with you. Someone needs to not always laud your praises. Someone needs to do this to keep you humble. I already know that I am a first class Catholic bumella.

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