Weekend Ticker Change

CRich15

How far along?

What size is baby?

Upcoming appointments?

Rants/Raves/Questions?

Symptoms/Aversions/Cravings?

GTKY: What thoughts or doubts, if there have been any, have been on your mind lately? 

CRich15

How far along? 36 weeks! 

What size is baby? Cabbage patch doll/ papaya

Upcoming appointments? 38 week appointment on the 30th

Rants/Raves/Questions? I just want the house to stay clean and toys to go away.. They are overrated! 

Symptoms/Aversions/Cravings? I feel horrible today! Lower back pain and nausea for some reason. I'm hoping that I will feel better after a nap! 

GTKY: What thoughts or doubts, if there have been any, have been on your mind lately? While I'm very excited about DDs arrival I'm so nervous and worry that it will be extremely difficult for us to fall back into newborn/baby mode after being out of it for almost 5 years. 

MojieJo

How far along?

38 weeks!

What size is baby?

Winter squashes

Upcoming appointments?

C-section Wednesday afternoon!

Rants/Raves/Questions?

4 more days until baby day!  I'm in shock over here.

Symptoms/Aversions/Cravings?

So, so thirsty all the time.

GTKY: What thoughts or doubts, if there have been any, have been on your mind lately? 

How I'm going to handle having two newborns when I've never even cared for one.  Typical FTM nerves x 2, I guess.

Ah825

CRich15 said:

How far along? 36 weeks! 

What size is baby? I can't remember 

Upcoming appointments? Tuesday! 

Rants/Raves/Questions? Heart burn, acid reflux, Nauseous all the time now and shooting pains in my upper thigh/groin area that make me go to my knees. Can't sleep, can't breathe. This is not fun anymore.

Symptoms/Aversions/Cravings? Not really. Just uncomfortable 

GTKY: What thoughts or doubts, if there have been any, have been on your mind lately? I think hormones are going crazy bc I've been depressed more than usual lately. Ready to get this baby out and be able to up my medication!

jenkar01

How far along?
35 weeks

What size is baby?
Pineapple

Upcoming appointments?
36 weeks check on Friday along with GBS swab.

Rants/Raves/Questions?
No drive or desire to clean or do anything on my days off.

Symptoms/Aversions/Cravings?
Carpal tunnel in both hands and swollen sore hands. It is so not fun but I can deal with it for 5 more weeks.

GTKY: What thoughts or doubts, if there have been any, have been on your mind lately? 
That I will have no idea what in the world I am doing once we get him home. Labor and delivery don't scare me, it is all the after that does. 

rock1cherry

How far along? 35w1d 

What size is baby? Pineapple

Upcoming appointments? Tuesday. I should be getting my Tdap and getting swabbed, but I'm not certain. 

Rants/Raves/Questions? DH and I had our birthing class yesterday and have been finalizing the shopping for the rest of the items we need for baby. Feels good to be accomplishing stuff. I feel so far behind, but most things should arrive this week - thanks Amazon! It's all feeling a lot more real this past week. I'm so excited!

Symptoms/Aversions/Cravings? TMI, but I just noticed I've gotten hemmoroids so I'm not psyched about that! Do they go away on their own? They're not painful, but I'm a bit embarrassed by them...that aside, I've been having a ton of BH lately. My stomach gets sooo tight, it's crazy. Not sure how baby is positioned, but I'm concerned she's not in a good position. I feel hard body parts just under my ribs and I'm hoping it's her butt, but I can't tell. Hoping the OB can tell this appointment. 

GTKY: What thoughts or doubts, if there have been any, have been on your mind lately? This kind of goes with the above - I'm worried about how baby is positioned. Hoping she's head down and not transverse or breech. That's my only doubt at this point since I can't figure it out. OB couldn't at the last appointment either. I would like to avoid a CS at all costs, but I'm determined to have a healthy delivery and healthy baby/mama in the end so I will adjust if that's the case.

We still have a lot to do in the nursery and part of me wonders if it will be done before she gets here. It's ok if not; it will just be difficult to finish after she arrives. Fingers crossed that we can get the dresser built this week and I can finally put away all of the clothing that's all over the place / doesn't fit in the closet.  

yellowrose314

How far along? 35w1d

What size is baby? A pineapple

Upcoming appointments? Weekly NST tomorrow and midwife on Thursday

Rants/Raves/Questions? At this point, if I could just be suspended in the air while I sleep I think that would be tremendous. We got a mattress topper for our bed and while that's helping with the hip and shoulder pain, I still wake up feeling like I'm about to break. I have never been so uncomfortable in my entire life, and I know I have 4 more weeks of feeling like this which makes me want to cry. Thankfully it's cooled off today, which is awesome that I can get ready for the baby shower and not sweat all my make up off. I might even curl my hair!

Symptoms/Aversions/Cravings? Crazy back pain, BH 24/7, some mild timeable contractions last night, but they tapered off. 

GTKY: What thoughts or doubts, if there have been any, have been on your mind lately? Every once and a while when I think about the fact that there's going to be an actual baby here, our baby, in a month, I am overwhelmed by crippling fear. Which is usually followed by excitement, but still... I'm assuming this is normal? Right?!

jenkar01

@rock1cherry my LO is head down and he like to stretch a lot and his butt or feet are constantly forming a hard spot on my right side near my ribs. I don't know if this will help but he was head up for a bit but flipped sometime ago. Stayed head down since so far.

@yellowrose314 I feel you completely on the panic mode and excitement. Today has me really weepy just thinking of all I need to get done or what it will be like when he is home.

rock1cherry

Thanks @jenkar01 I'm hoping that's what's up here. I just get worried when I feel that hard spot by my ribs on the right and then feel something equally as hard on the left side only a little lower. Hoping that's head and butt and she just curls up differently at different points. 

Should have added lightning crotch to my symptoms. It's been terrible lately and happens a lot when I bend over. Is that normal?

schuberta

How far along?
38 weeks

What size is baby?
Winter Melon

Upcoming appointments?
I'm weekly now, so I have a check-up on Thursday. Haven't been checked for dilation yet, so I'm curious to see if all my BH are doing anything!

Rants/Raves/Questions?
Rant: Moms and gifts. I sound so ungrateful, but my mom loves to buy things for DS1 and DS2, even when we explicitly say we do not want whatever it is or that we can not use it. She's a bit of a hoarder and gifts are her love language, I think. It's so frustrating because I love her and don't want to hurt her feelings, but she *really* doesn't have the money to be buying all this junk. She is scraping by. Also she'll buy, like, six onesies that are the exact same style and size, after I've told her we have WAY too many clothes for DS2 already bc we saved so much from DS1, and by the time I get them they all smell strongly like smoke from riding in her car for so long. It drives me nuts, and I have not yet found a way to get through to her on this.

Symptoms/Aversions/Cravings?
My migraine auras have been kicking up like crazy for the past few weeks. Several a week. Sometimes two in one day. I hate it so much and I hope this flare up goes away when DS is born. I'm getting nervous that I'll have a migraine aura during labor and that I won't be able to see his sweet little face when he comes out! 

GTKY: What thoughts or doubts, if there have been any, have been on your mind lately? 
Man, I am afraid of having two kids. I'm not even that good at having one kid some days, so I don't know how all this is going to go down... no backing out now! 

schuberta

@rock1cherry I've had a ton of lightening crotch lately. It's awful! And as for your hemorrhoid question, with DS1 it definitely got worse before they got better. All the pushing in labor made it get really bad, but then they did eventually go away. I'm not sure how it's going to go this time, as I have one now and have had it for my entire pregnancy so far. Hoping it will follow the same trajectory as last time and eventually go away. It's not painful for me either, but definitely awkward and embarrassing.

@yellowrose314 panic is warranted, especially for the first! With DS1 I always told my husband that if I stopped and thought about what was actually coming, it felt like standing in the middle of the tracks and staring down an oncoming freight train, lol.

hejo2016

First time participating in the ticker change! Better late than never...
How far along? 36wks

What size is baby? Papaya supposedly

Upcoming appointments? I pushed it out a bit, so nothing until next Mon.

Rants/Raves/Questions? Sleeping pretty good since I've moved into the guest room. Just much better with lots of pillows and no husband. This kid has his/her head cocked to the side though, so its scraping on my inner hipbone. Such a weird feeling!

Symptoms/Aversions/Cravings? Loving watermelon, pretty sure I polished off almost the entire one myself. But space in my stomach is so limited, not eating tons of "normal" foods anymore.

GTKY: What thoughts or doubts, if there have been any, have been on your mind lately? Oh man, I could write a novel here. I'll start by saying this baby is VERY loved and will be very welcomed into our home. But, we had decided on 2 kids, mainly because of lack of time and lack of money. Also, we have a pretty big space between our 2 kids, 4.5 years, and I didn't really want to be "advanced maternal age" for a 3rd. Cue 3rd baby while I had an IUD in. The IUD had been in almost 3 years, it NEVER occurred to me to be worried about a pregnancy. Now that I'm nearing the end of the pregnancy, I'm finding myself freaking out about the money and the time, neither of which I can create more of... I start crying in the grocery story, panic attacks looking at my weekly Bump email... man. I know this baby is here to teach us something, I know it will all fall into place somehow, but its going to be stressful. But yes, I already love this baby very much. And it'll keep me young, right?? (I'll totally be the mom at the kindergarten meet up where everyone says "Oh, they had that baby late in life!")

edited because spacing is weird!

Jillybear82

How far along? 35 weeks

What size is baby? a pineapple

Upcoming appointments? My 36 week appointment is on the 31st.  It will be the first peek I have gotten since the anatomy scan.

Rants/Raves/Questions? OMG the swelling sucks.  I couldn't wear my wedding band and engagement rings today.  And no I don't think my baby has dropped.  I'm carrying him really low.  (people have said something to me twice in the last few days)

Symptoms/Aversions/Cravings? Nothing out of the ordinary

GTKY: What thoughts or doubts, if there have been any, have been on your mind lately?  I will feel a lot more settled once we have more of the items on our registry.  Right now I feel totally unprepared. 

marikkita12

How far along?
37 weeks

What size is baby?
Romaine lettuce

Upcoming appointments?
Growth scan on Monday, 38 week appointment the following Thursday 

Rants/Raves/Questions?
Going to sea world tomorrow to try and encourage things to start on their own 

Symptoms/Aversions/Cravings?
pancakes. I want them all. 

GTKY: What thoughts or doubts, if there have been any, have been on your mind lately? 
I'm scared of the delivery part. I know that the longer baby stays in the better it is for him but he's been measuring big the whole time and I would really like to avoid a csection. I spoke to some nurses about the success of vaginally delivering larger babies and they started throwing terms around like shoulder distocia and saying that babies get stuck and then they end up in the nicu. I don't want any of those things

jenkar01

@marikkita12 Mommas have big babies vaginally all the time. My mom had four babies all vaginally ranging from 6# to 10# and none of us had or have issues. Mother in law had 5 all vaginally ranging from 7# to almost 11#. Yes there are complications but all those complications can happen with smaller babies as well. I am a nurse who use to work in the NICU and have seen 5# babies with birth injuries. It doesn't matter the size of the baby, sometimes things just happen unfortunately. Just remember every mom, baby, and delivery is different. Enjoy the process and know you'll have a beautiful baby to hold and love soon.

schuberta

@marikkita12 my old OB and the nurses tried to scare me with all the big baby birthing issues, too, but I think it's more dependent on baby's presentation than their size. Unless you have totally uncontrolled GD, I don't think the baby will be too big for you to birth. My son was 9lb 7oz and I had zero issues with delivering him. One stitch for me, no problems for him. Honestly, my OB was telling me all the way up until I was pushing that he could be too big to birth vaginally. I'm not sure why they do that--you just have to have confidence that you can do this and if baby *is* too big, then deal with it at that point, you know?