Ok...I just found out that I am pregnate! I am so excited. This is my first child and I am MORE THANK EXCITED!!! I have actually know for a couple of weeks which has give me ample time to think about a lot of things.

My husband has 2 kids from a previous marriage and this will be our first together.

I keep getting this feeling that having this kid is a horrible horrible mistake. I can't say exactly why I feel this way, but I do know that I feel like the few choices I can independently make over my own life, without regard for anyone else, will be completely stripped away once this kid gets here. I feel like my independence is going out the window. I've talked to DH and he just says "don't say that". I feel lost and alone. I've also been extremely depressed lately as well, so maybe that has something to do with it.

I'm really trying to get through my work day without thinking about DH's court date tomorrow. It's not working!

My fiance's stepkids who are 14 and 16 live with us and visit their mother. Their mother works at nights and leaves them alone while she works the night shift til 4 in the morning. She told the kids to tell us that the neighbor watches them but she only from what we heard comes down and checks on them. Doesn't stay in the apartment house. Is there any way we have a say on what goes on and that they are staying alone in the middle of the night. I can understand them being by themselves if during the day but at night? Any thoughts, please help?

SS7 is here visiting us for the summer and BioMom has been freaking out because he begs her on the phone to stay here and live with us. She forces him to talk to her new boyfriend on the telephone and promises him that she will take him "somewhere fun" when he comes home at the end of the month. Just last night she says to him, "Jason (new BF) will play GI Joes with you when you come home". This being said after he tells her that he does not want to wait until he is 12 to live with us.

Loca Grande cried wolf one too many times... As much as Loghead and I tried to appeal to them, none of them wanted to see their mother today before going in for her "surgery."

She keeps calling it a surgery, but I am now guessing it's just the biopsy for the growth on her thyroid. I'm not really sure. Heck, when I talked to her husband last night, he didn't even seem sure as to what was going on! Sadly, that makes me question what's really going on with her. Is this just another of a MILLION ploys this woman has made to get attention from her kids.

Bm drops skids off before she goes to work everyday when we have them every other day. My husband just says i don't mind their my kids, yeah easy for him to say beacuse he works i have to babysit while bm has no worries of getting a babysitter just drops them off as she pleases. what should i do?

the bm does whatever she pleases, doesn't follow court order, calls the house alot knowing that my husband's mother will answer and always gives him the phone (my mother in law loves the bm and hates me). Bm is friends with my husbands sister, my sd10 always comes to tell me what has been said about me when sister in law and bm are together, learned how to ignore and keep my cool.

So just as i suspected BIObitch saw SD8's new haircut and flipped out. actually threatened court action! is she effing kidding? what judge in their right mind is going to entertain that shit??? Poor kids haircut is so cute and she loves it but her mother has made her feel embarassed. This woman is working towards a court ordered psych eval! I feel so bad for SD. She has no self esteem as it is and being able to pick out her own haircut gave her the boost she needed.. of course until her BM decided to give her hell about it.

I am both a bm and a step parent. The situation involves my bio child but could end up happening with any child. bf of my bio kids passed away around 6 years ago. Prior to that the children had visitation with him every other weekend for around a 9 month period of time and prior to that he had supervised visits with a third party present and for about a 1 1/2 years the oldest child did not visit him at all after an altercation between the two in which law enforcement was involved.