November 2016 Moms
CecilTheBear
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Tuesday ticker change 5.3
CecilTheBear
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Didn't see one yet, so let's do this thing!
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What's new with baby (size, development):
What's something new you are doing to get ready for baby:
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When is your next appointment:
GTKY: What's your favourite board or card game (past or present)?
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What's new with baby (size, development):
What's something new you are doing to get ready for baby:
Rant/rave/symptoms/questions:
When is your next appointment:
GTKY: What's your favourite board or card game (past or present)?
Re: Tuesday ticker change 5.3
What's new with baby (size, development): plum!
What's something new you are doing to get ready for baby: nothing!
Rant/rave/symptoms/questions: after two blissful weeks of relatively low nausea, my "morning" sickness came back like a bat out of hell.
When is your next appointment: Friday. And hopefully I get my NIPT results back this week. Kind of a stretch, though, because I just had them done last Friday. The nurse said that panorama sometimes turns them around within 5 days, though, so I'm hoping.
GTKY: What's your favourite board or card game (past or present)? This is tough - we play a lot of board games. I think I'd have to say Carcassone though. It's one of the few games that is just as fun with two people as it is with a group.
What's new with baby (size, development): Lemon- vocal cords and teeth are developing
What's something new you are doing to get ready for baby: I've started a registry.
Rant/rave/symptoms/questions: The bloat has been so much better lately. I have been having some issues with keeping my dinner down in the evenings for the past few nights. I'm hoping this will pass again soon.
When is your next appointment: OB appointment today, A/S is booked for June 10th.
GTKY: What's your favourite board or card game (past or present)? Scattergories or Crib
What's something new you are doing to get ready for baby: Pretty much nothing. I'm feeling more relaxed than I was with DD, so I figure all that needs to happen will get done eventually!
Rant/rave/symptoms/questions: I finally have enough energy to stay up past 9! WooHoo!!!
When is your next appointment: May 10
GTKY: What's your favorite board or card game (past or present)? I love the game of Life. I used to try and cheat to land on all the 'have a baby' spots...especially the twin ones. Maybe it was foreshadowing!
Sweet DD born at 41 weeks Feb 2015
*Diagnosed with lean PCOS*
TWINS due 11/22/2016
Week: 10
What's new with baby (size, development): Little prune sized baby
What's something new you are doing to get ready for baby: Still nothing
Rant/rave/symptoms/questions: Nausea is here and lingering. I am not loving this and feel awful. This was what the whole 1st tri was like last time so while I'm grateful I had a break this time, I am not happy to be feeling this way now.
I also have to pee all of the time.
When is your next appointment: This Saturday at 7:30 I have to go do the glucose tolerance test at the lab since I had medication controlled gd last time. So I have already started eating better and getting used to the diet again.
TW:
We are also waiting to get the results from DH's blood work to see if he too is a carrier of Tay-Sachs like me. If he is then there is 25% shot that our baby will be the fatal disease. So I have been wrestling with my emotions over that. And somehow last time I wasn't tested for it and our son seems to be ok but it has been an eye opening experience for sure.
GTKY: What's your favourite board or card game (past or present)? yahtzee but in general I really like board games.
What's new with baby (size, development): Plum, almost out of 1st tri!
What's something new you are doing to get ready for baby: told our kids, our nanny, and starting to tell friends.
Rant/rave/symptoms/questions: I'm now in the on-again off-again nausea phase. Hoping offs start beating ons soon, but thankful the all-day nausea is giving me a break (hopefully a permanent one).
When is your next appointment: 2 more weeks I think
GTKY: What's your favourite board or card game (past or present)? Right now, Agricola. We LOVE board games and often do a board game double date with some friends of ours. Lately that's included Terra Mystica, Dominion, Race Across the Galaxy, and Puerto Rico. I love them all.
What's new with baby (size, development): Key Lime
What's something new you are doing to get ready for baby: I am getting a snoogle today!
Rant/rave/symptoms/questions: most symptoms were going away. Yesterday I was nauseous, faint, and had sore boobs.
When is your next appointment: May 24
GTKY: What's your favourite board or card game (past or present)? I love board games! I have too many favorites. I really enjoy Solarquest (think monopoly but in space). We also love Settlers of Catan. For a large group, Cards Against Humanity.
- BFP: 3/10/16 — Baby Girl born 11/20/16
TTC#2 April 2019What's new with baby (size, development): size of a brussel sprout, losing its webbed hands and feet
What's something new you are doing to get ready for baby: nothing lately beyond trying to make a mental list of the few things we'll need to buy for this one.
Rant/rave/symptoms/questions: nausea is still pretty constant but the vomiting seems to have stopped (fingers crossed!). I'm still exhausted and very constipated.
When is your next appointment: May 16
GTKY: What's your favourite board or card game (past or present)? DH and I have been playing Scrabble more lately so that's the current favorite but @Kimmykins143 and @ash111916 I've always loved Life and also had the goal to have so many kids that I needed two cars!
Week: 11
What's new with baby (size, development): lime
What's something new you are doing to get ready for baby: just discussing whether we keep DS in his room or move him to the bigger room before LO gets here. I think he should stay in his room and make the other a guest/nursery room. We have some time to figure it out I guess
Rant/rave/symptoms/questions: feeling better just so tired and lazy most days. Told some friends at work though
When is your next appointment: May 13 for 12 week checkup and May 18 for NT test
GTKY: What's your favourite board or card game (past or present)? Settlers of Catan or Cards Against Humanity
What's something new you are doing to get ready for baby: ahhh I never have nothing new to say here, whoops. I guess telling our families on Sunday? MIL already has a huge bag full of baby stuff she says... she's been collecting for awhile now lol, why am I not surprised.
Rant/rave/symptoms/questions: everything seems to be annoying me / it's great having a loving & supporting family / just tired, hard to get a solid night of sleep / when can you start feeling the baby move? I swear I felt a kick yesterday!
When is your next appointment: May 25th, feels like it's so far away!
GTKY: What's your favourite board or card game (past or present)? probably Scrabble!
Baby is the size of a house mouse. Also little one has the ability to make facial expressions and suck their thumb..... Adorable.
What's something new you are doing to get ready for baby:
Nothing really. Once I know what I'm having maybe I'll get moving a little.
Rant/rave/symptoms/questions:
Im in the second tri so any day/week now I'll start feeling absolutely amazing. I can't wait for energy again I miss doing things.
When is your next appointment: Not till June 3rd with my OB. I have about another 2-1/2 week wait till I get my genetic panel results but the doctor already said we could handle the results over the phone and save me yet another appointment.
GTKY: What's your favourite board or card game (past or present)? I use to be really into euchre but no one I spend time with now knows how to play. Mostly we are a Cranium and Pictionary family. With the right group Cards Against Humanity is loads of fun.
Week: 14- second tri!!
What's new with baby (size, development): size of a peach. Or a troll!!
What's something new you are doing to get ready for baby: my moms husband bought us a stroller and car seat this weekend! And then a wal mart trip for dog shampoo turned into us buying a pack and play.
Rant/rave/symptoms/questions: feeling a bit better minus the headaches everyday. And the RLP made me unable to sleep one night but mostly really good.
When is your next appointment: may 20. And we need to decide if we're going to do the screening blood work. Big decision.
GTKY: What's your favourite board or card game (past or present)? I love all board games!!! Life, clue, sorry, uno, headbands, you name it!
What's something new you are doing to get ready for baby: Nothing! It's still so early and I'm a procrastinator so this will probably be my answer for the next 20 weeks.
Rant/rave/symptoms/questions: I finally have more energy but at the same time I'm exhausted? No more morning sickness though so I'll take it!
When is your next appointment: May 9th I have my monthly appt then on the 10th I have my NT scan. And I have to go in next week for my two hour GD test because I'm considered obese. So that was a nice self esteem booster!
GTKY:
What's your favourite board or card game (past or present)? I'm a Yahtzee fanatic. I also love pretty much all board games.
Georgia 3/15/2012 Matilda 6/12/2014 TWINS!! Babies 3&4 EDD 11/22/2016
What's new with baby (size, development):
13 weeks, lemon...I've been feeling the baby move since last week so that's been awesome (STM)
What's something new you are doing to get ready for baby:
Signed up for a prenatal yoga workshop today, excited to get some more strength back...I was in such better physical shape my last pregnancy
Rant/rave/symptoms/questions:
I've been getting migraines that make me throw up, so I'm gonna ask my doctor about those at my appt tomorrow
When is your next appointment:
had my NT scan on Monday, so cool to get to see the baby
GTKY: What's your favourite board or card game (past or present)?
Past: Monopoly and UNO, present: Cards Against Humanity and Pictionary!
Week: 10! This feels like a milestone.
What's new with baby (size, development): functioning joints is all I can remember but that seems pretty cool
What's something new you are doing to get ready for baby: Not much. I spent a bunch of time browsing on lucies list today. Probably pretty far from major decisions and even farther from actually buying anything but it's feeling more fun to look.
Rant/rave/symptoms/questions: I think nausea is easing up.
When is your next appointment: May 13.
GTKY: What's your favourite board or card game (past or present)? I played pandemic for the first time over the weekend and that was cool. For classics I'd probably say scrabble or monopoly.
Week: 14
What's new with baby (size, development): Peach.
What's something new you are doing to get ready for baby: trying to find a new OB on the west coast/dealing with insurance. My H's new insurance for work isn't supposed to kick in until August, so we're hoping to expedite that as we're moving in June, and I know from experience that our current insurance will only cover emergencies only out-of-state.
I was was planning to use one of the OB's highly recommended by my MIL (she's a L&D nurse) but apparently he doesn't take H's insurance. Gaahhhh.
More reasons for me to get a job ASAP, maybe my insurance will be better.
Rant/rave/symptoms/questions: I guess my rant is per above. I'm feeling better but still so tired all the time. But that could be due to the teething toddler.
When is your next appointment: May 12 for my blood draw for the sequential screen and check-in with my OB.
GTKY: What's your favourite board or card game (past or present)? Card game is either poker, or pinochle. For board games, I like chess (but am terrible), and Catan.
ETA: just so weird because this happened with me too with the alpha thalassemia trait. They only screened for it because one of my iron values (MCV) was low. So I'm wondering why they only screened you this time around.
I have no idea why I was tested this time around and not last time. I did switch to a new OB but in the same practice my last OB was in before she started her own practice. The crazy part is that none of my relatives in at least four generations is Jewish but must have been much further down the line. I will keep everyone posted.
My other little whisp of hope is that when my son was born they told us he had a blood type that was virtually impossible. We had him retested and they had put the wrong type in his file because he is the same blood type as both DH and I. So maybe there was a human error again???
If you and your husband both fall in the category of 'general population' your odds are extremely low to both be carriers. I hate odds so I know that's not always comforting so I won't get into that incase you are like me. I'm now 3 weeks into the worry over it and have had two appointments with a genetics doctor and spent too much time on Google.
How fun! Several of you are OUT of the first tri!! wahoo!
Week: 12!
What's new with baby (size, development): plum/toy soldier; most organs and internal systems have developed. S/he is truly a tiny human. Just has a lot of cooking to do. :-)
What's something new you are doing to get ready for baby: I'm finally starting to seriously consider our announcement to the world (ie facebook, lol). I have some ideas but I'm fairly undecided still.
Rant/rave/symptoms/questions: its all good. energy seems to be increasing.
When is your next appointment: a few weeks. booo. but I got a call about genetic testing results. baby is looking good and I'm "low risk" so yay. Also, the sex is determined!! They are holding the results for me at the office. Hubbys picking it up today and tomorrow I will go to a local bakery and get a special cupcake made so hubby and I can find out together tomorrow night!
GTKY: What's your favorite board or card game (past or present)? taboo, I know its not a board or a card game but its my favorite.
Heres hoping they stop soon though!