My DH is amazing, I just want to start with that. We have a super cute dog and normally, we walk him every morning, but ever since my BFP ive been super sleepy and have not been getting up with the alarm to walk him, which means DH has to do it by himself. To be honest, the first couple weeks, I really didnt hear the alarm, but lately, I ive just been choosing to not move when the alarm goes off. Sorry, not sorry! Im hoping that the second tri will help me get my butt out of bed. It doesnt help that the weather is crappy, and cold, but maybe when it starts to get warmer, ill be more inclined to get my butt out of bed.
**TW Loss/pregnancy mentioned** Married: 7/21/12
BFP: 5/30/16 and MC on 7/6/16 BFP: 12/4/16 Due 8/8/17 -- Its a boy! Born 8/14/17 BFP: 5/19/19 and MC on 5/27/19 BFP: 6/24/19, MC on 7/24/19 BFP: 10/24, no heartbeat on 11/27, D&C 12/2 Officially diagnosed with Secondary infertility and recurrent miscarriage IVF started Feb 2020 retrieval and PGT testing: 18 retrieved, 17 mature, 16 fertilized, 9 to blast, 8 PGT normal. Transfer #1: June 14, 2020
Mommy to a super cute havanesse puppy and baby boy!
I'm having a little too much fun shopping for inexpensive, summery-yet-work-appropriate maternity wear. Thank you H&M and Zulily... (Hey, I'm 12 weeks now, the expansion is about to kick in!)
1. I'm hoping to eventually look pregnant and have a bump, and not just look fatter. Overweight (obese really) and hoping to gain the least amount of weight I can to be healthy, and as soon as I can stomach actual food I am sticking to meat, veg, fruit, dairy and cutting out crap.
2. I know I can't, I KNOW it is gas and I still feel like I feel the baby move. Go ahead, flame away, I understand that at 8.5 weeks I am not feeling it, but still...
I am at a ridiculously stupid Professional Development training today that does not apply to me at all so instead I am pinning, shopping, and reading threads.
@AKFarmerBecky common core? Student agency? Writer's workshop? Other manditory PDs to sit through that have nothing to do with our special ed. kids just to say we were physically present at something?? Hope the shopping isn't a bust like the PD!
Lol @szwill86 How to use PowerSchool PRO to update Common Core standards into our lessons and other BS like that. And to use the data to enter grades and a few other things. Yup - don't need it, can't use it, totally pointless. I would be better served at HOME dealing with the heartburn that makes me want to vomit and doing laundry.
Being taught how to keep the kids safe from rampaging grizzlies with the new guns we should get would be more useful!
It annoys me when people assume that because I had an unmedicated birth at home with DS, that I did it to be some kind of special snowflake/have some kind of bragging rights. I have many reasons for the choices that I've made but I don't give a shit about that! You birth how you want and I'll birth how I want.
@lyndshurt yessss. I'm a FTM planning a home birth and the few people we've shared with are like "you don't have to be a hero"....um that's not why I'm doing it?? I never understand why people can't just be okay with other people's decisions when they're different from their own.
@AKFarmerBecky I understand. At 12 weeks I swear I felt baby move. It was a vibrating sensation above my pubic hair line. It's hard to tell the difference!
@AKFarmerBecky I also feel phantom movements. Epically when I'm laying in bed using my doppler I *swear* I feel baby moving. In reality I'm sure I'm just pushing around my gas lol
@lyndshurt@mrsmatt1212 Yes!!! It makes me crazy the "you don't have to be a hero" or even worse "you're putting your baby in risk for no reason". I just wanna try to have this experience as fully as possible, I was always very curious about the whole process, I love the idea and am not scared of the pain (btw I'm scared of epidural). At the same time I'm across the street from the hospital and trust my midwife 100% if she decides that I'm no longer a candidate. I don't think any less of women that want the whole hospital and drugs experience. I totally understand the appeal. Why can't we all just respect each other's choices? The most important is giving birth to a healthy baby.
I'd love to see a thread after all the unmedicated births about the experience. My last bump board had several mamas that went au naturale but I never got to hear how it went and if it was amazing or just plain awful.
Im a hospital and epidural mama myself. I'm not about to do the pain if I don't absolutely have to. You ladies that do the whole experience are amazing. Not for me tho. We watched step brothers and bridesmaids during my birth. We joked and laughed the whole time. I wouldnt change a thing.
@dmbfan46835 that's what I love though, that we all get to choose the right birth for each of us! The *perfect* birth for all of us I'm sure looks different, and hopefully we all get close to what we want I'm excited to hear how everyone's birth went!
@dmbfan46835 I would be I intested in the thread as well! I really just like birth stories in general. I was shooting for an unmedicated birth but wanted to keep my options open. I ended up getting some IV drugs and asked for an epidural within the last 5 minutes(obviously didn't have time to actually get the epi) but I don't think I'd do well knowing I would have to be transfered to a hospital just to have the option. Serious props to the home birthing momma's tho! @lyndshurt@mrsmatt1212 maybe I will gets up the guts for my third. Knowing our bodies are made for this helped a lot with the pain for me but I'm still too chicken to fully commit
Every night we snuggle my son in his bed before he goes to sleep. Tonight I was feeling moody and uncomfortable so I told him I had to go potty and I would come back after to snuggle him, knowing full well that he would fall asleep before I got back. I went to the bathroom and played on Facebook for like 10 minutes and sure enough, he was snoring when I got out. Oops.
My FFFC is that I completely lose control over Girl Scout cookies! I eat mostly healthy and the only thing I buy at the grocery store with added sugar is dark chocolate. I don't buy anything with white carbs, or processed food in general. Now... When it's Girl Scout cookies season I go crazy. I buy cookies from 2 different states so I can get all the varieties and I keep half of the boxes at my office so I don't have to share with DH.
Omg Girl Scout cookies. I am a sucker for them too! *nerd alert* I was a long time Girl Scout (highest level, until my senior year of high school) so I can't NOT support Girl Scouts. I am also a sucker for s'mores so of course we got a box of those! They are delicious. I've had an aversion to sugary treats but these cookies have been an exception. Luckily I can only handle a couple at a time but normally I go nuts and eat an entire sleeve. @LivLew@dmbfan46835
@dmbfan46835@lyndshurt I just placed my orders and can't wait to receive them! I did order s'mores from both bakers (the one covered in chocolate and the graham sandwich). I've been doing a Whole30 since Jan 1st and am starting reintroduction today so I can't touch any cookies until almost mid-February : ( edit: yep, my Whole30 will only be a a Whole20.
They only do girl scout cookies here as points of sale (like table sales at stores and stuff) so no individual sales and they don't start selling until February
Ahhh Girl Scout cookies.. I love the samoas. People at work always sell them for their kids and it's a perfect excuse to buy multiple boxes from each colleague.
@Nxy I totally went to stalk that thread, but I think it got taken down. Or I just couldn't find it. Holy one-off posts on that board!! At a glance I saw three posts on the same page with "showing already?" in the title. Come on people.
FFFC: I don't like Girl Scout cookies, or cake, or peanut butter, or really many sweets with the exception of chocolate chip cookies and ice cream lol. Pregnancy has enhanced my aversion to sweets. Some say I'm lucky, but I more than make up for it with my salty-sins
@middy412 I used to be like you. I grew up eating something savory for dessert. I would order an appetizer when everyone else was ordering dessert. Unfortunately, age came with a sweet tooth. By the time I turned 30 I started loving cookies, pies, ice cream, etc.
I know its not Friday but... i just stuck one yo dd in her toybox with some toys in the kitchen whilst i eat breakfast - shes delighted and i know ive got a good 20 mins till she climbs outta there
Sometimes I come up with well thought out responses to things or want to respond to things and even start to type it out, but get frustrated trying to tag someone (I'm on mobile) so I just end up erasing it and just continue to lurk.
Sometimes I come up with well thought out responses to things or want to respond to things and even start to type it out, but get frustrated trying to tag someone (I'm on mobile) so I just end up erasing it and just continue to lurk.
same. I prefer to respond by quoting because it's easier.
You go homebirthing moms. I had two fantabulous intervention and medication free births. Wonderful experiences and I would absolutely do it all over again. So far I have had miserable pregnancies and fantastic birth experiences and I'm ok with the tradeoff. I won't type it all out but yeah, two amazing experiences and quick recoveries (I honestly felt 100% fine the next morning after my second...I wouldn't have believed myself either, but I felt completely normal. Even the first poop was nbd). It doesn't always suck. Both were in the hospital since childbirth is messy AF and ain't nobody got time to clean up from that. Granted with my second I was at the hospital for 20 minutes before he was born, but still. Great experience. I hope you guys get a great experience too.
Sometimes I come up with well thought out responses to things or want to respond to things and even start to type it out, but get frustrated trying to tag someone (I'm on mobile) so I just end up erasing it and just continue to lurk.
same. I prefer to respond by quoting because it's easier.
Nxy
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Re: FFFC 1/20
Married: 7/21/12
BFP: 12/4/16 Due 8/8/17 -- Its a boy! Born 8/14/17
BFP: 5/19/19 and MC on 5/27/19
BFP: 6/24/19, MC on 7/24/19
BFP: 10/24, no heartbeat on 11/27, D&C 12/2
Officially diagnosed with Secondary infertility and recurrent miscarriage
IVF started Feb 2020
retrieval and PGT testing: 18 retrieved, 17 mature, 16 fertilized, 9 to blast, 8 PGT normal.
Transfer #1: June 14, 2020
2. I know I can't, I KNOW it is gas and I still feel like I feel the baby move. Go ahead, flame away, I understand that at 8.5 weeks I am not feeling it, but still...
Being taught how to keep the kids safe from rampaging grizzlies with the new guns we should get would be more useful!
It annoys me when people assume that because I had an unmedicated birth at home with DS, that I did it to be some kind of special snowflake/have some kind of bragging rights. I have many reasons for the choices that I've made but I don't give a shit about that! You birth how you want and I'll birth how I want.
Im a hospital and epidural mama myself. I'm not about to do the pain if I don't absolutely have to. You ladies that do the whole experience are amazing. Not for me tho. We watched step brothers and bridesmaids during my birth. We joked and laughed the whole time. I wouldnt change a thing.
i had an unmedicated labour the first time. I'll just say.. I'll be getting an epi this time.
edit: yep, my Whole30 will only be a a Whole20.
Edit September to July
And we are quite boring, it's kind of endearing though
I just went to look and couldn't find their UO thread. Did it get shut down?
@Nxy I totally went to stalk that thread, but I think it got taken down. Or I just couldn't find it. Holy one-off posts on that board!! At a glance I saw three posts on the same page with "showing already?" in the title. Come on people.
Both were in the hospital since childbirth is messy AF and ain't nobody got time to clean up from that. Granted with my second I was at the hospital for 20 minutes before he was born, but still. Great experience. I hope you guys get a great experience too.