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Hi Ladies! Hope everyone is well.
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Question of the week: What is something that you have experienced during pregnancy that no one had ever warned you about and you were completely unprepared for? Will you be warning unsuspecting pregnant women in the future about this?
Congratulations to these April Moms!
Lovelyday39 4/05/2013 ? Nathanial Thomas 7 lbs 12 oz, 19.5?
Danuli8 4/16/13 - Daniel Ulrich 7 lbs 11 oz, 20 inches
MrsNukem 4/23/13 - Samuel Vincent 5 lbs 14 oz, 19 inches
Lillian Mary 5 lbs 1 oz, 18 inches
Technigirl 4/24/13 - Asher Robert 9 lbs 4 oz, 21 inches
AliSarah 4/23/13 - Curtis John 9 lbs 13 oz, 23 inches
Pregnant Moms by Due Date: I know most of these ladies must have had their babies but I haven?t seen their updates. I moved the March moms to the bottom but would love any updates anyone has to add.
April 2013
Angelnumber8 (Angela) 4/04/2013
Elizabethnseanny (Elizabeth) 4/05/2013 - Boy!
Mishmax11 (Michelle) 4/7/2013
Carol*Brady (Christine) 4/8/2013
Tcfreedom (Tiffany) 4/15/2013
Lilblt19 4/15/2013 ? Girl!
Hisbabygirl76 (Stephanie) 4/16/
Shellbear+ (Michelle) 4/23/2013 ? Girl!
Palamar (Chantel) 4/24/2013
Sheloveslan (Mariah) 4/27/2013
Dresch25 (Vicki) 4/29/2013 ? Team Green
Ba23Ba02 (Barb) 4/29/2013 ? Team Green
Michele707 (Michele) 4/30/2013
May 2013
Dhreczuck 5/2/2013 ? Boy!
Jennyandjasonsbaby (Jenny) 5/5/2013
Trevinosnm (Martha) 5/7/2013 ? Boy!
TXBride (Ami) 5/12/2013
Mndyhywrd (Mindy) 5/15/2013
MotherMayEye (Amy) 5/15/2013 - Girl!
mlwinkle (Michelle) 5/17/2013
McRib 5/18/2013
Drhibbard (MC) 5/19/2013
Petrastonegirl (Petra) 5/19/2013
jteneback 5/21/2013 ? Team Green
riorisa 5/22/2013
Rebaann (Rebecca) 5/23/2013 ? Girl!
Danafromslope 5/30/2013 ? TWINS!!
June 2013
Danieleandwayne (Dani?le) 6/4/2013 ? Team Green
1Lump (Andrea) 6/5/2013 ? Team Green
JilliansMoma 6/6/2013 ? Team Green
Daphallen (Daphne) 6/10/2013 ? Boy!
Ocho2002 6/13/2013
VisciousKnitter (Sandy) 6/15/2013
Trootie2012 (Trootie) 6/16/2013
AZAmy77 (Amy) 6/17/2013 ? Boy!
Kimmy42 (Kim) 6/18/2013 ? Girl!
Bubbleleeboo (Lisa) 6/21/2013 ? TWIN BOYS!
July 2013
Beach72 (Kim) 7/2/13
Karen0477 (Karen) 7/3/13
Amypep (Amy) 7/5/2013
Superzuber (Sarah) 7/9/2013
Hlhinden (Heather) 7/13/2013 ? Girl!
Bethz13 7/15/2013 ? Team Green
SamanthaBaker 7/16/2013 ? Boy!
ASL71476 (Andrea) 7/17/2013
emikat (Christine) 7/21/2013 ? Boy!
Abeille 7/28/2013 ? Boy!
missymr (Mia) 7/29/2013 ? Boy!
honeyforlunch 7/31/2013
August 2013
SeaConquest (Monique) 8/1/2013 ? Boy!
Lucyspeople (Betsy) 8/8/2013 ? Boy!
Lilmrslay (Rachael) 8/9/2013 ? Girl!
Jkzinck (Jessie) 8/10/2013
Goatgirlnyc 8/11/2013 ? Boy!
AmyM72 (Amy) 8/22/2013
Bunnyfer (Sherri) 8/22/2013
Cali3674 (Cali) 8/25/2013 ? Team Green
Gscoville (Geneva) 8/29/2013 ? Team Green
Kestock120 (Kelly) ? 8/30/2013 ? Boy!
September 2013
Juicy71 (Dawn) 9/4/2013 ? Girl!
RedLucia 9/4/2013 ? Girl!
Kakhmama (Amy) 9/7/2013
Jerseymm09 (Sonia) 9/9/2013
Atlmommy (Tammy) 9/11/2013
Csh96 (Carla) 9/16/2013
Rubygirl 9/16/2013
DonnaMartinGraduates (Sarah) 9/30/13 ? Boy!
October 2013
JackieA2013 10/3/2013
Stepharonius (Stephanie) 10/10/2013
Snapdragon 10/17/2013 ? TWINS!!
Jent5101 (Jen) 10/21/13 ? Girl!
Alicialgb (Alicia) 10/24/2013
November 2013
Suchatreat (Michelle) 11/1/2013
Nseeley (Nic) 11/2/2013
GracieBlue 11/2/2013
10-4 Lil Buddy (Aileen) 11/12/2013 ? TWINS!!
Irishgirl0525 (Lauren) 11/13/2013 ? Team Green
Hologram87 (Amy) 11/14/2013
CortneyK09 (Cortney) 11/22/13
Guennie (Guen) 11/25/13
December 2013
2ndGeneration ? 12/3/13
Psychobabble35 (Dana) 12/12/13
Carpenoctem 12/17/13
Icogburn (Iesha) 12/20/13
Happywifemomofone (Desneige) 12/23/13
March 2013
Beforesunrise (Ashley) 3/1/2013 ? Boy!
rosesarepink (Rose) 3/4/2013 ? Girl!
uctracy@yahoo.com (Tracy) 3/7/2013
CountryGirlInTheCity 3/8/2013 ? Girl!
KatieKnitsny (Katie) 3/14/2013
NBBride05 3/15/2013 ? Girl!
KKGgirlATL 3/18/13 (scheduled c/s) Team Green
Cktravel 3/19/2013 ? Green
Wildflower75 (Martha) 3/20/2013 ? Team Green
MT-Head 3/22/2013 ? Boy!
Redcatz (Kirsten) 3/25/2013 ? Girl!
Dbadura01 (Deanna) 3/26/2013 ? Girl!
Haribo 3/26/2013
Coquina (Melissa) 3/30/2013
MouserNY (Monica) 3/30/2013 ? Boy!
Indyrowergirl 3/31/2013 ? Boy!
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Re: Pregnant > 35 weekly check in...
UPDATES: I've made it to third tri, and while overall this pg has been easier than my first, I suddenly feel like I've been hit by a truck. I've started having low back pain when I've been on my feet for awhile and I am exhausted all the time. I've only gained 13 lbs at this point, but it feels like 100. A support belt I ordered just arrived today so I'm hoping that will help. Good news is I passed my 1 hour glucose with flying colors...so great to have that behind me!
QOTW: I think it wasn't so much something that wasn't told to me, but mostly that there are just some things you have to experience to really understand. I expected to be tired and uncomfortable...I didn't expect to be this tired and uncomfortable. And my friends may have glossed over the leaking urine part ...but maybe it's better there's some things you don't know.
DD born 12.21.09, conceived w/ injects and IUI
TTC#2 since Nov 2011
BFP 2.6.12 m/c 6w5d | BFP 5.25.12 c/p
-Back to the RE-
3 medicated IUIs, all BFN
-Taking a break from treatment-
BFP 11.20.12 ~ EDD 7.28.13
My Chart
Updates- We are almost to the finish line! I can't wait to find out if I'm having a boy or girl. I will be happy to put GD behind me and hope to never have to prick my finger for a blood test ever again. Starting to finalize my "nesting" and getting all the stuff ready for baby.
QOTW- Not so much something with PG but after birth. I wish someone would have told me how hard breast feeding was and to not put so much pressure on myself to exclusively breast feed. It was something I wanted to do really badly but I was in constant tears and peds office 3 times in the first week home, because my daughter was "failing to thrive". It sucked! I ended up breast feeding and bottle feeding concurrently and she was just fine. With DD#2 I didn't pressure myself so much and I had a much more relaxed experience.
Congrats to all the cutie pies born recently and hope everyone is well, JM
QOTW: I wish someone had told me to expect my husband to be a total idiot about this pregnancy and that I would pretty much want to smack him upside the head at least every other day. The other day he was going to hang a gun rack in the baby's room. Here I am starting to plan designs for the nursery and he's going to hang a gun rack. When I said he couldn't hang it in there because that's going to be the baby's room he said it isn't the baby's room yet. Ya. Great direction you're thinking in, babe. So ya I will warn future moms to be that they're gonna have to have a lot of patience with their baby daddy because men obviously do not see the whole picture.
AHHHH, Still waiting and going out of my mind!!! I scheduled to check in for an induction on Saturday at 5pm, so baby boy will be here by Monday at the latest. I so wanted to go into labor naturally, but the only pains I'm getting are from gas and baby kicking me...
QOTW: I have to agree that noone really told me just how uncomfortable I'd be by the end of this and just out of my own stupidity how much stufff you have to buy, like real necessitys not just luxury items!
Me 41 DH 46 Not actively ttc, surprise BFP on 1/6/11! 4/1/11 m/c our sunshine at 16wks after complications from CVS test. TTC #2 **5th cycle 12/6/11 BFP! Missed m/c at 9 weeks 1/21/12, trisomy 14. Two Chemical PG 3/12&7/12
** BFP 8/16/12 beta #1 148! beta#2 407 beta #3 4000 u/s 9.10 1 lovely hb 126, Baby Boy is due 04/28/13!!
I was also wondering about you, dhreczuk. I really hope baby boy decides to make an appearance on his own.
Update: I posted yesterday about the results of my Mat21 test and NT scan. Both babies look good and the trisomy tests were negative. We did find out we have at least one boy in there. We think the other is a girl, but we'll wait to see at our gender scan in a month or so. We have a doctor's appointment next Wednesday. I'm busy gathering my list of questions for 2nd trimester. I'm still on Crinone (boo) and hope to get off that next week.
QOTW: My family is all doctors, so I've always known more than I needed to know about labor and delivery - especially when my siblings were doing those rotations. I had to tell them to stop telling me stories at one point or they wouldn't end up with nieces or nephews. However, no one told me that I could start to get out of breath already. I thought that would happen in the third trimester once the babies start physically squishing my lungs. Nope, apparently, having all this additional blood volume and same lung capacity has made it hard for me to feel like I'm getting enough air. I am going to ask my doctor to check my iron levels to make sure that I don't have anemia to make it worse.
Ottawa05
Due date: Jan 1 2014
Sex of baby too soon to tell
fingers crossed this is a healthy, sticky baby!
Question of the week: No one talks about the fear of loss - but it is very real. Also no one really believes how incredibly tiring the first trimester can be!
Updates: We had an u/s last Friday-- baby is measuring 5.5 pounds, so right on target. Still not cooperating for a good profile shot, but I don't really care about that. Baby is still head down-- at the u/s, s/he had a hand above its face, between the face and my uterine wall, another hand up under its chin, and one foot tucked up by its cheek. Judging by the movements, however, it appears that the baby is no longer keeping only one leg down below its midline. This baby is moving like crazy, now-- way more than it had been the past weeks. It's like it knows we're approaching D-day. I've been nesting, since I had a full week off from work, which has been LOVELY. I'm dreading going in tomorrow because I have to work 3 in a row and I am just so freaking uncomfortable and exhausted after one shift with a day to recover-- I honestly don't know if I'm going to make it through all three shifts in one piece. But after Sunday, I'll only have 7-8 shifts left before my due date. Hallelujah! Last night, we went to a breastfeeding class and it was really informative, but also got me super excited to meet this baby. I cannot wait-- it cannot come soon enough!
QOTW: I wish someone told me about carpal tunnel and about swollen lady bits. There is nothing like feeling like you have tingly pillows between your legs to make you feel weird, uncomfortable, and incredibly unsexy. And to make sitting, squatting, or personal hygiene massively disturbing.
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Updates/Vents: The little guy is moving around like crazy but other than that I have a check-up next week and the dreaded 1 hour glucose test. Hoping everything goes well with that.
QOTW: I think I've heard just about everything and all of the complaints before I became pregnant. I guess nothing sounds as bad until you actually experience it though. I've had some horrible bouts of heartburn/acid reflux the past couple of weeks and although I knew something like that might happen, experiencing it sucks. No one really told me how horrible it could be. Waking up in the middle of the night because your throat is burning and then having to spend the rest of the night propped upright on the couch in order to sleep has been my least favorite pregnancy dilemma up until now.
The other thing I just found out about is having bladder control issues after you deliver. I am really hoping I avoid this one because it sounds like it sucks.
All is good here, Appointment today went well and everything looks normal.
Question of the week: I think I was least prepared for just how awkward and "fat" I would feel, I know it is not really "fat" but since I have a short torso my giant boobs are touching my belly already! Not at all attractive, thank goodness it is temporary, and I have lost 50 pounds before so this too shall pass.
BFP 12/13/12 EDD 8/22/13 Lilah Ruby born 8/8/13
BFP 12/13/12 EDD 8/22/13 Lilah Ruby born 8/8/13
I would love to be added over to this board. After leaving the infertility board I just to my birth month board and I am feeling like I am too old to fit in there! LOL.
Rorr
Fraternal twin boys due August 12th.
Passed my glucose test last week! Had an ultrasound today with the high risk specialist. (She looks and talks just like Paula Dean!) Both boys look perfect and are measuring right on target.
QOTW- I wish I had know abou the lightning type feeling in the girl parts. That has been the most disconecerting thing of this pregnancy so far. I had no idea what was going on the first time it happened. I thought I rolled over onto my cell phone!
Updates:
Starting to get tired of heartburn every night. Mostly I just take a zantac with milk every evening and it does ok. Also getting back into tired mode, but also been nesting and excited about getting nursery together. We had our shower last weekend, and have picked up the remaining big items on the list, so feel like we are getting prepared. Recliner for the nursery comes tomorrow too, so excited to get the room together!
QOTW:
For me, I wish someone had told me how quickly pregnancy would go by. Of course I've been feeling pretty well for most of mine, so maybe its a perspective thing. But I can't believe I am already nearing the end and will be meeting baby boy in less than 2 months!
~~~BFP 10/9/12, EDD 6/17/13~~~
Any updates or vents?
Moved quietly into the second tri and things are really going great. The results of our MaternT21 all came back perfect so that's a huge weight off our shoulders. Only bummer was that the doctor forgot to check the box to notify us of gender so we'll have to wait for the a/s to figure that out (which we scheduled today for May 31)!
Question of the week: What is something that you have experienced during pregnancy that no one had ever warned you about and you were completely unprepared for? Will you be warning unsuspecting pregnant women in the future about this?
How truly un-pregnant I could feel and how that feeling is absolutely not correlated to any loss. My two previous pregnancies ended in mc and I felt more pregnant the entire time in both of those and this pregnancy, I have barely felt pregnant the whole time and it's going great!
TTC #1 since 5/10
BFP #1 7/22/11 - EDD 4/2/11 - M/C 8/15/11 (7w0d)
BFP #2 9/23/11 - EDD 6/5/12 ♥It's a Girl♥
BFP #3 2/20/13 - EDD 11/2/13 ♥It's a Girl♥
Update: My little girl, Emi Linh, was born on April 3. She was a couple weeks early but it's amazing how time flies...we just celebrated her month birthday yesterday!!
Congrats to all the moms out there who had there little ones and good luck to all the moms on the cusp of delivery and/or who are in the midst of their journey. Enjoy it...time really does fly by. I love holding my little girl in my arms but a part of me misses being pregnant too. And even now, a month later, I miss those early days when she was still an itty bitty (although I don't miss the early struggles of sleep deprivation and the hormonal tears! haha)
Your screen name Bunnyfer
First name - Sherri
Due date 8/22/13
Sex of baby Its a girl
Any updates or vents? Been getting lots of kicks...mostly when I am at work, so I find myself pacing a lot to get her back to sleep so I can get back to work.
Question of the week: What is something that you have experienced during pregnancy that no one had ever warned you about and you were completely unprepared for? Will you be warning unsuspecting pregnant women in the future about this? How bad the sleeping is. I always knew it was difficult, but I figured it started late into the pregnancy. I have been unable to sleep good for almost 3mo now. Between the kicking, the heartburn, the backaches, the body temp all over, not to mention peeing every 3 hrs...goodness..
Update: Well, we've been home for over a week, and we are doing a pretty good job of keeping everybody fed, and sleeping. I'm sure when hubby goes back to work, it will be more of a struggle. It's been fun watching my DD who is 17 try to back seat parent myself and DH. Hubby doesn't stand up for himself, so I have had to jump in and tell her to back off a bit. I am feeling a little less of a connection with hubby, but I think we are both starting to work on that as well. For instance, this morning, hubby put Curtis down in his co-sleeper and just gave me a hug and a kiss. It was really nice and I love that he recognized that we both needed that!!
QOTW: I guess the thing I was most unprepared for was how my gynie "turned" at the last minute in my pregnancy. For most of my pregnancy, I told her over and over that I wanted a natural, drug free birth, and that I would be avoiding an epidural and a c-section both like the plague. And, she was fine with that, reassuring me over and over that she was good with that plan, that since I had done it before (even a long time ago), that chances were I'd be able to do it again. When I took the hospital prepared childbirth class, I thought it was crazy. It seemed like more of an epidural and c-section prep class than anything else. I told dr. gynie this and she wasn't surprised but was still reassuring. But, once I got to 38 weeks, she started in on how big the baby was, and how worried she was that I wouldn't be able to get him out if he stayed in too much longer. She inched up her preferred induction date until I felt lucky that she let him stay in until his due date. On his due date, she sent me for a growth scan and gave me a hard press toward a c-section. The next day, when I went for induction, she offered me a c-section every time she saw me. She was shocked when she came in the room and found I had birthed my giant (9lbs, 13oz, 23in) baby with no drugs and no c-section.
So, I guess if I would choose to warn anyone about this, it would just be that sometimes drs say what they think you want to hear in order to build your trust over time so that when you get to the end of the line and they change their tune, you will think they are being reasonable. Even if you think your doctor is totally on board with everything you want, you should still do your research and KNOW FOR SURE what it is that you want and why it is that you want it. Come to think of it, that's true of a lot of people out there other than doctors too!