Salt Lake City Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
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Hey everyone! Our dear Stacy discovered the submission form for the "Harpo Hookup" and we'd like to apply for one for a get together we can ALL attend! If you'd like to participate, you will need to do the following:
Go to this website for the submission form:?
https://www.oprah.com/ownshow/plug_form.html?plug_id=3893165
Then, copy and paste this into the body of text:?
Once in a lifetime, if a person is lucky, they will have one amazing friend; someone that they can talk to about anything, that is there for them through everything, that will laugh with them, cry with them, and treasure the precious moments they share together. I am fortunate enough that I have not just one of these friends, but a group of them. We came together over the course of 6 months, having met on a message board for pregnant women. As our bellies grew, so did our bond. And, as each of us entered the unknown territory of motherhood, we reveled in our successes, offered aid in our failures, and celebrated the new lives we were bringing into the world.?
And we?ve never met.
Though we?ve spent countless hours writing e-mails most of us have never been face to face. We have attempted to arrange get togethers on several occasions, but because of limited finances in the current economy, the financial strain of having newborns, and many of us being out of work, the plans always fall through. We often joke that we talk to each other more than we talk to our ?real? friends, but, the thing is, we are each other?s real friends?we just live thousands of miles apart. We are jointly requesting a Harpo Hookup so that we, with our families, might be able to all meet one another for the first time.?
Here is my story:
Finally, write a short paragraph about how the ladies of this group have impacted your life. Each submission can only be 2000 characters, so be brief but impactful in your addition.?
If we are awarded said "hookup", only those that submitted will be included in the trip, so if you'd like to be a part of this, please submit soon and let us know that you did so, either on the GTG wall, or by messaging myself or Stacy.?
Thanks for being awesome ladies! Hope to meet you all soon!
Go to this website for the submission form:?
https://www.oprah.com/ownshow/plug_form.html?plug_id=3893165
Then, copy and paste this into the body of text:?
Once in a lifetime, if a person is lucky, they will have one amazing friend; someone that they can talk to about anything, that is there for them through everything, that will laugh with them, cry with them, and treasure the precious moments they share together. I am fortunate enough that I have not just one of these friends, but a group of them. We came together over the course of 6 months, having met on a message board for pregnant women. As our bellies grew, so did our bond. And, as each of us entered the unknown territory of motherhood, we reveled in our successes, offered aid in our failures, and celebrated the new lives we were bringing into the world.?
And we?ve never met.
Though we?ve spent countless hours writing e-mails most of us have never been face to face. We have attempted to arrange get togethers on several occasions, but because of limited finances in the current economy, the financial strain of having newborns, and many of us being out of work, the plans always fall through. We often joke that we talk to each other more than we talk to our ?real? friends, but, the thing is, we are each other?s real friends?we just live thousands of miles apart. We are jointly requesting a Harpo Hookup so that we, with our families, might be able to all meet one another for the first time.?
Here is my story:
Finally, write a short paragraph about how the ladies of this group have impacted your life. Each submission can only be 2000 characters, so be brief but impactful in your addition.?
If we are awarded said "hookup", only those that submitted will be included in the trip, so if you'd like to be a part of this, please submit soon and let us know that you did so, either on the GTG wall, or by messaging myself or Stacy.?
Thanks for being awesome ladies! Hope to meet you all soon!
Re: ..
What I wrote:
I started actively chatting on the message boards after Ileft physician assistant school due to my pregnancy. I knew I couldn?t raise mychild the way he should be raised while spending sixty plus hours a week inrotations, commuting, schoolwork, etc. I enrolled into a nursing program, butmy loneliness, and lack of friends going through similar experiences, broughtme back to the message boards every night. I am thankful for their supportthrough both happy times and those not so good; through the birth of Mickey andthrough making the decisions that have, post partum blues, and everything elseI have experienced.
I would love to be given an opportunity to meet these ladiesin person. I feel like they are a large part of my life, and yet I?ve neverheard their voices. I see pictures of themselves, their spouses, their lovedones, and know so much about their thoughts and lives. Yet I?ve never receiveda hug from one of them. Oprah, please grant us this wish. It would mean so muchto us to formally be introduced to each other and their babies.
Here is my story:
When I was pregnant, I went into pre-term labor at 29 weeks. Because I had progressed so far, I spent 3 weeks on strict hospital bedrest. These girls were the first to check on me, kept me company when my husband couldn't, and kept me sane. When the doctor let me spend the next 3 weeks at home on bedrest, they celebrated with me, chatted with me, and laughed with me. When my daughter was born early, they checked on me daily and prayed for my baby. They have sent me cards, care packages, and gifts that they couldn't use. These women have been by my side through every hard step of pregnancy and now raising my baby. These women have become my best friends. Now I just want to meet them all to thank them and love on them and their little ones.
When my daughter was born, the doctors discovered that something was wrong with her little heart. Sadly, my Cora was rushed to the NICU across town. I was completely heartbroken that I was separated from my new baby and husband on the very first night that we became a family. As I was sobbing in my hospital bed, I turned to my best friends online for support.
Cora had heart surgery weeks after birth, and my girls were there every step of the way. I am overwhelmed by the encouraging words and many prayers they shower me with, and I would like the opportunity to hug and thank them in person. Oprah, would you PLEASE give me this chance?
ETA: Yeahhh...not sure what's up with all that gibberish at the beginning of this post, but I'm not able to remove it, sorry. Also, I had a HECK of a time getting my blurb to be soooo short I could have easily written 2000 words!
At 37 weeks pregnant, I had emergency surgery for a life-threatening gallbladder infection and a c-section. My son was rushed to a NICU unit 45 minutes away before I even had the chance to hold him. I was devastated. Over the course of the next 9 days, the longest 9 days of my life, I drew strength from the ladies I had formed relationships with online. I called on them for prayers and advice. One of them even drove an hour to come see me in the hospital before I was released. She helped me take my first steps out of my hospital room, my first steps toward meeting my beautiful son. These ladies deserve to be thanked for all of their kindness, and I would love to do it in person.
I didn't save mine, but it was something like:
"Even with this being my second pregnancy, I had dozens of questions. The women I met online were there to answer them for me. My relationships with them only grew when I was diagnosed with PPD. My husband wanted to be supportive, but it was hard for him to talk about. These women gave me a safe haven to go to when I felt overwhelmed and helped me to understand that PPD doesn't make me a bad mother."
It was much more eloquent than that, though...
These are making me cry...we all have seriously been through so much together!
I had to leave out about my stupid rash...but here's what I submitted for my story:
I had my first son late 2003. He and my father were the light of each other's world. In early 2005, my father passed away. After becoming pregnant again last Summer, I felt his absence. It was filled by these women. Two weeks prior the end of my pregnancy, my husband and I discovered that our beloved dog had bone cancer. After surgery, our pet was losing his fight for life. We had to choose to let him go. These friends were there for me throughout his surgery and checked in with me the day following his passing. They offered words of support and love and helped me to be at peace with our decision.
Here is my story:
I am a military wife. Our son was conceived after the loss of our first in an unexpected pregnancy a year prior. I live in Hawaii, so very far away from my family and friends, I spent a good majority of my pregnancy alone and worrying. These ladies helped so much when I was facing my husband deploying to Afghanistan and then again when he was shipped over to Okinawa for school. They helped me so much just by laughing with me, crying with me and keeping me in their prayers. It would mean the world to met these amazing ladies and their families, as well as their little ones as all of our little ones have been growing up together, even if hundreds miles apart.