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Weekly check-in: 5/23/15
jerseygirl227
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1. How far along are you? What is your EDD? What size is baby?
2. Age at delivery?
3. Any other children or fur babies?
4. How are you feeling? Any recommendations for dealing with MS, aches, pains, etc?
5. Upcoming appointments or milestones? Rants or raves?
QOTW: What's one of your best memories from childhood?
2. Age at delivery?
3. Any other children or fur babies?
4. How are you feeling? Any recommendations for dealing with MS, aches, pains, etc?
5. Upcoming appointments or milestones? Rants or raves?
QOTW: What's one of your best memories from childhood?
Re: Weekly check-in: 5/23/15
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2yr old DD. 6 yr old DS. One dog. ( who I'm currently mad at because my mom made a cookie cake for DH's bday tomorrow and he ate it while we were out today!).
Still really bad hip/leg pain. Right more than left. I drove to my moms today. About 45 minutes from us and I was actually having difficulty driving. Lifting my foot from gas to break. I felt like I had to use my hand to move my leg!
Next appt us a Wednesday. I'll be exactly 39 weeks then. Hoping I wouldn't make it til then. I am beyond ready.
Hmm. My faves were probably spending weekends on the lake with my dad. And then probably spending trips with my mom. We used to shop in Chicago every year. See plays in Toronto every year. Lots of fun.
1. How far along are you? What is your EDD? What size is baby?
35 weeks June 24 exactly a month from today...but there is about 100% chance I will go over like every other time
2. Age at delivery?
42
3. Any other children or fur babies?
This is my 8th child
4. How are you feeling? Any recommendations for dealing with MS, aches, pains, etc?
Not too bad. I have been having some pelvic bone pains. It sort of feels like my tailbone is pushed outward tword my back making it uncomfortable. It also aches throughout my pelvic bones...like in all the area you sit on. Hard to describe but I think its probably just the weight of baby plus loose bones and ligaments spreading apart
5. Upcoming appointments or milestones? Rants or raves?
Appointment this coming Wed. Will do the strep b test and also get an ultrasound to check baby positioning and get a size "estimate" (which are always so off for me)
Rave: Painted my laundry room and gave the whole thing a complete and thorough scrub down cleaning. Another project checked off my to do list!
My girls did their dance recital this weekend. It went fantastic and was probably the best one I have seen yet. They were great choices of storylines (they do 3 different complete themes that they basically act out through dance...for example one ballet was the Lion King .My older daughter also got a really good solo part this year in the second storyline as Tinkerbelle. The third storyline is a jazz number and my older one does the jazz as well. Its always a busy but fun weekend. Now ballet is off for the summer.
QOTW: What's one of your best memories from childhood?
I would think just spending summers outside playing. We were outside from morning to night and just used our imaginations a lot to be "transformed" into everything from princesses having a royal wedding to astronauts in space exploring unknown planets.
36+4, honeydew, due June 18
2. Age at delivery?
37
3. Any other children or fur babies?
The two kitties. Samurai has learned I make an excellent downslope for walking down from the back of couch, and the Silt the old man has just been hanging out with me sometimes. Not really his thing, to hang out, but he's an old guy so I'm grateful for his quiet support. Just two sore in the bones creatures quietly passing time together.
4. How are you feeling? Any recommendations for dealing with MS, aches, pains, etc?
Ugh. Insomnia. My hips hurt like mad when I'm trying to sleep from the pressure of my middle on my downside hip. I end up flipping over a lot. My back hurts. Just general aches and pains
5. Upcoming appointments or milestones? Rants or raves?
Going weekely now. Last week started cervical checks. Doc says baby is head down.
QOTW: What's one of your best memories from childhood?
My parents divorced when I was 8. My sister was 5. From that time all the way until I was 17 my mom always took us on a girls vacation every summer. We went so many different places - FL and Disney world, San Diego, the Smokey Mountains, Cancun, Palm Springs... I have good memories of each trip. One of my favorites was chasing fireflies in TN with my sis when we stayed at a cabin in the woods for 2 days. Then we moved from the cabin to stay with my uncle and his wife for 2 days, and each night at their place there was the most spectacular thunderstorms.
Almost 22 weeks! Spagetti Squash?
2. Age at delivery? 43
3. Any other children or fur babies? DS, 2 and 3 kitties
4. How are you feeling? Any recommendations for dealing with MS, aches, pains, etc? Feeling good, having some serious sinus issues, am going to ask about allergy meds at next appt. Feeling huge already!
5. Upcoming appointments or milestones? Rants or raves? Annoyed I had to go back twice for anatomy scan, same tech did my NT and that took almost 2 hours because she couldn't find my ovary for almost 45 minutes..this time couldn't find kidneys and see spine well. Went back and within 10 minutes new tech found everything.. 4 week check up this week. Oh and moving this weekend, GAH, not looking forward to it and worried about how DS is going to react, I keep talking to him about it and sometimes he gets upset and other times looks at me like WTF really? I'm sure we'll all settle in before DD gets here!
QOTW: What's one of your best memories from childhood? I guess summer time, my mom was a teacher so we got to hang out at home all summer, my cousins lived next door and we shared a pool and would just spend HOURS in the water or going to the beach for the day. There were always bbq's going on either between the two houses or at my parents friends, everyone had kids the same age so there was always fun to be had! I kind of feel sad sometimes most of my close friends have chosen not to have children
Me 43 DH 48 Not actively ttc, surprise BFP on 1/6/11! 4/1/11 m/c our sunshine at 16wks after complications from CVS test. *5th cycle after loss 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 born 5/6/2013!
TTC #2, bpf 1/15/15 Baby Girl due Oct 1! She's here, 9/26/2015!
16 weeks.
November 10
My little avocado
2. Age at delivery?
38
3. Any other children or fur babies?
17-yo dd, 2 pups & 1 cat
4. How are you feeling? Any recommendations for dealing with MS, aches, pains, etc?
Lots better than the first tri. No more nausea. But I'm still pretty tired - I NEED my afternoon nap or can't function by dinner time! - and everything just generally feels "off" and harder to deal with. Allergies are also kicking my A$$, which my dr attributed to pregnancy hormones making them worse this year.
5. Upcoming appointments or milestones? Rants or raves?
Ultrasound this Thursday
I'll rave about my 17-yo DD being the absolute BEST and always being the first one to jump up and offer to help me with any and everything. She helped my husband carry in some new furniture pieces we bought today and kept telling me to sit and relax. It's been a long time coming, but she's going to be the most incredible big sister!
QOTW: What's one of your best memories from childhood?
Nothing specific is coming to mind, but we did lots of family camping trips to Yosemite and Big Sur when I was little. Those were always fun & a big part of my memories.
39 weeks. EDD 5/31/15. I'm guessing baby is baby-size by now.
2. Age at delivery?
37
3. Any other children or fur babies?
1 cat, who has decided her new favorite place to nap is on the changing pad. Here's to hoping that she will be scared enough of the baby to avoid doing that once the little guy is here.
4. How are you feeling? Any recommendations for dealing with MS, aches, pains, etc?
Feeling big and tired and achy. Also, feel like my couch is trying to swallow me every time I sit down. One of these days, I just may not be able to get back up.
5. Upcoming appointments or milestones? Rants or raves?
Weekly check-up on Wednesday. I think I'll rave about the date night the DH and I had yesterday - dinner at a nice restaurant that we hadn't tried before, and then a movie. I was concerned about going out and spending the money, but DH convinced me, since it may be our last "real" date night for a while, and I'm so glad we went out. It was such a nice relaxing evening.
QOTW: What's one of your best memories from childhood?
33 weeks, July 11, dorian fruit (whatever the heck that is)
2. Age at delivery?
43
3. Any other children or fur babies?
Three kitties
4. How are you feeling? Any recommendations for dealing with MS, aches, pains, etc?
Been having trouble sleeping. Am up every two hours or so to go to the bathroom and then I can't get back to sleep. When I DO sleep, I get lots of pain in my hips and back. Other than that, I am okay.
5. Upcoming appointments or milestones? Rants or raves?
QOTW: What's one of your best memories from childhood? Baking Christmas cookies with my mom was always a blast. We'd also go down to the Jersey shore every summer with the extended family. I'm already hoping that some members of my family will want to rent a house for a week in about two years so I can make sure our LO experiences all the fun I did. So much fun! Lots of good memories.
Olive
Due Christmas Eve
39 @ delivery
DS is 5 & DD is 2
I've been quite miserable for a couple weeks. 24 hour nausea & extremely super extra exhausted. .. Practically fell asleep in the middle of lunch (at a restaurant) with my DH & Literally slept all day on Saturday.
I am realizing how much I relied on Zofran last time. I'd take the zofran, nausea would completely disappear and I'd have my morning coffee. This time around Zofran is gone and coffee smells & tastes like the worst thing in the planet.
On top of that the only time I feel better is when I'm actually eating the few things that I can ... Cereal (lots of cereal) and other cold carbs so I've gained 10lbs already!! And I do not need to gain 10lbs.
So now along with physically feeling like crap I mentally feel like crap b/c I am so useless and can not get out of my own way to get anything done!
Ok done with rant!!
Childhood memory ... Probably camping with my best friends family. We were inseparable and her parents took me a long for many years every summer for a week or two long camping trip along the California coast ... Big Sur, Pismo Beach etc ... I can still remember the smells of the forest & the feel of cold beach breeze ... Can't wait to start the tradition with my own kids