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When does everyone's OB office start biweekly visits? Mine starts now (third tri) but with my EDD moved up, I'm actually on odd weeks so I'll be seen at 31, 33, 35, and then I guess 37 for weekly visits?
When does everyone's OB office start biweekly visits? Mine starts now (third tri) but with my EDD moved up, I'm actually on odd weeks so I'll be seen at 31, 33, 35, and then I guess 37 for weekly visits?
Mine switched me to biweekly after my 28 week visit for the GD test. Not looking forward to it at all, tbh. Just show up, pee, and burn my PTO for what feels like not a whole lot. I believe she will switch me to weekly after 36 weeks.
@ngolimento, it's so frustrating because as a teacher, I'd have to burn sick time or schedule the evening appointments super far in advance. I think I better call on Monday to ask them about scheduling all these visits ASAP. Last time mine was 32, 34, 36 started weekly, but it wasn't a problem because it was summer when I hit 32 weeks.
@tooraloorah I could see how challenging it would be schedule appointments as a teacher.. that's really frustrating! My upcoming appointment schedule is: 28 weeks, 32 weeks, 36 weeks, 38 weeks and then I start weekly visits.
Breast pads at the ready! Yup. I've started 'leaking' already. Exactly 29 weeks on the dot. I don't remember it happening this early with my previous two pregnancies!! It's only a really small amount but enough to be like ickkk... Anyone else in the same boat this early on? (I hope it's alright to ask this here)
@midnight-muse i started noticing slight leakage a week or so ago. I am also 29w today.
@toorahloorah I'm using a different practice than i did w my girls. This practice has me coming in every 3 weeks which is fine by me. I think you usually move to weekly appts at 36w.
When does everyone's OB office start biweekly visits? Mine starts now (third tri) but with my EDD moved up, I'm actually on odd weeks so I'll be seen at 31, 33, 35, and then I guess 37 for weekly visits?
My biweekly appointments started at 28 weeks (so at my 26 week appt she said she wanted to see me 2 weeks later) I think once a week will start at 36 weeks. But I also have ultrasounds every 3-4 weeks (it's been every 3 weeks lately) so I've been spending a lot of time at appointments. @tooraloorah I'm a teacher, too and it sucks that you have to take a half day if you're going to take off instead of just an hour or two here and there. Thankfully my doctor schedules my appointments 15 mins after she normally takes her last appointment and I can get there JUST in time if I get someone to cover my class the last 15 minutes of school. So I only have to take half days for the ultrasounds (but even that adds up since I'm having them so frequently)
@midnight-muse I've been leaking pretty much this whole time. I want to say it started at 16 weeks, but it might have been even earlier. Usually it's just a little bit though.
@mikkimikey - more appointments sucks, but better than having your LO so early Did they give the shot to speed lung development just in case?
We didn’t get quite there yet, as the contractions slowed down considerably. It *did* take over a day and a terbutaline shot to do it, but i will take what I can get
@Puddlewonderful we used a paci- and we cut the chord by having the “big girl” talk and then having her send them off with a paci-fairy. The fairy then left her a new sleep toy to replace the pacifier. That was a slamdunk move in our house.
@midnight-muse I started leaking at 14 WEEKS. I couldn't believe it! Mine's not been enough to use pads, but usually a wet spot on the shirt in the AM.
@angiek1@Puddlewonderful We basically cold-turkey'ed my DD's paci after her 18 month checkup, when her ped recommended we get rid of it because it may have been starting to affect her teeth. I took her to a toy store and let her pick out any stuffed animal/doll she wanted, and told her this would be her big girl toy to cuddle in her crib and the paci was going away. It worked shockingly well, we maybe had one night of a little crying. I miss the paci sometimes (a recent screaming fit in a cab from the airport with an overtired toddler comes to mind) but I don't think she needed it as much as I thought she did.
@mikkimikey Have you found anything to help with the constipation? My Hgb was really low and dropped from my last lab draw so now I’m on two iron supplements daily plus the iron in my prenatal. I’m living in constipation nation.
Me (33). DH (37). DD (2.2012). MCs x4. After 4 years & 7 months, due 4.2018!
@midnight-muse yes! I'm hoping it's not a warning of how much I'm going to leak once my milk comes in, because if so, I'm gonna have to stock up on ALL the pads lol
@tooraloorah Bi-weekly from 28 weeks to 36 weeks then weekly from 36 weeks on is how my midwife does it. @midnight-muse not necessarily leaking yet, but beginning to produce again when compressed. Hoping it doesn't get to actual leaking until baby is here.
DH(27) + Me (27) = 1/14 Baby #1: Aug. 2016 Baby #2: April 1st, 2018
@tooraloorah mine start now. 28 weeks today. I’ll be back at 30, 32 and if bile acids rise we will start weekly nst and bpp At 32. If they stay the same then we stick with 34, 36, 37 then induction at 38.
Following up since I did remember to call to schedule my appointments for hopefully the remainder of my pregnancy... I’ll go 31, 33, 35 and then weekly. The receptionist was amazing in letting me schedule out in advance but I’m worried that the doctors won’t be satisfied with a couple longer than a week gaps when I start weekly appointments in March.
@midnight-muse with both this pregnancy and the last I started 'leaking' super early, but not enough to wet my bra let alone my shirt... just enough colostrum to get umm TMI incoming... crusty nipples /sigh. Pregnancy is so glamorous.
DS: EDD, December 19th, 2014. Born, December 19th, 2014! DD: EDD, July 18th, 2016. Born, July 19th, 2016!
My DD is 21 months and her day care just started to potty train her. For several months she has been practicing sitting on the potty and would pee in it occasionally, but last week they officially started her by going cold turkey without pullups all day. It was cute to get her excited about her "big girl underwear," but she comes home every day with 2-3 wet pants. It doesn't seem to be improving (if anything we probably set her back last weekend by only doing the underwear thing one afternoon, but we were out and about all day on Saturday and I wasn't in the mood to be changing accidents at the women's march).
Anyway - has anyone's day care used this method? I frankly don't feel like she's ready. The first day she actually seemed pretty traumatized about having so many accidents and she asked for a diaper immediately when we got home. I'm not going to force her to do anything, she's still so little. We aren't great about putting her on the potty all the time at home, but I figure she will initiate it when she's ready. I'd love to get her trained by April but I'm just not 100% on board with this method.
@mountainsmama, that is similar to the method we did for DS. However, we took a week at home to give him the essentials before sending him to daycare and having them follow the same method. His first week back was full of accidents but it got much better the second week. DS was about 26 months though and he picked it up pretty fast. He had no other signs of 'being ready' that people typically talk about.
I would say that if you guys aren't ready to potty train at home, then its way too early. It would be confusing to her to train at school and wear diapers/not train at home
DS: EDD, December 19th, 2014. Born, December 19th, 2014! DD: EDD, July 18th, 2016. Born, July 19th, 2016!
@mountainsmama 21 months seems too early to me as well. Forcing training before your kiddo is ready is usually a recipe for disaster. My kid has a personality where she just takes her time and is super cautious about change. Doing that method would probably have the same results (just learn to wet her pants). It has been deeply frustrating to keep trying and not pushing too hard, but she has taught us that no force on earth will make her speed up.
@ladythrice@ngolimento Thanks. I agree to avoid confusion we have to either go all in or wait a while. I worry because this will be a pretty big adjustment, then we are moving to a new house in a month, then a baby sibling after that. It's going to be a lot of change in her little world.
ETA: Also, can we just talk about all the extra laundry?! Sheesh.
@mountainsmama I just had to have a conversation with my daycare about this the last few weeks. They thought DS was ready. I thought that he was getting closer. He was going on the potty at daycare 75% of the time but never at home. They wanted me to bring in underwear but I wanted him to go at least ONCE on the potty at home before giving them any. Now he's backslid and refuses to sit on the potty at all so we've backed off. I just don't know if I have time in my life for the mountains of laundry until he seems more ready. DS turned 2 end of November.
@mountainsmama That seems a bit young to me but I'm no expert. DD just starting potty training a month ago and she will be 3 at the end of January. We tried a few times before but the whole wetting her pants didn't bother her in the way of trying to use the potty so we stopped. She would say "change my diaper, I want my diaper" and there was no way of really arguing with her. Until one day it just clicked.
I don't have any suggestions just commiserate with you. When DS was 25 months he did great on the potty, and then day care jacked things up. Now 6 months later he refuses to sit on the potty. I am hoping he gets things before baby gets here.
@mikkimikey Have you found anything to help with the constipation? My Hgb was really low and dropped from my last lab draw so now I’m on two iron supplements daily plus the iron in my prenatal. I’m living in constipation nation.
I haven’t yet. I will go dayyyyyyys without pooping and then I poop three times in a day. But by day two of the no-poops, I feel so crampy and bloated like I NEED to poop, but I can’t!
@mikkimikey Have you found anything to help with the constipation? My Hgb was really low and dropped from my last lab draw so now I’m on two iron supplements daily plus the iron in my prenatal. I’m living in constipation nation.
I haven’t yet. I will go dayyyyyyys without pooping and then I poop three times in a day. But by day two of the no-poops, I feel so crampy and bloated like I NEED to poop, but I can’t!
Are you guys taking colace? I took 100mg twice daily for my entire pregnancy with DD (as instructed by my OB because I had a friable cervix, low placenta, and other issues and straining at all to have a BM would cause a big bleed to start). It's totally safe per both my old and new OB (we moved). I'm now doing it just once daily with this pregnancy, but I'll probably increase to 2x daily soon because I can't with any constipation and I know it's safe and works for me. Maybe ask your OB about it if you aren't doing it already? Colace FTW!! Constipation is awful!
@mikkimikey Have you found anything to help with the constipation? My Hgb was really low and dropped from my last lab draw so now I’m on two iron supplements daily plus the iron in my prenatal. I’m living in constipation nation.
I haven’t yet. I will go dayyyyyyys without pooping and then I poop three times in a day. But by day two of the no-poops, I feel so crampy and bloated like I NEED to poop, but I can’t!
Are you guys taking colace? I took 100mg twice daily for my entire pregnancy with DD (as instructed by my OB because I had a friable cervix, low placenta, and other issues and straining at all to have a BM would cause a big bleed to start). It's totally safe per both my old and new OB (we moved). I'm now doing it just once daily with this pregnancy, but I'll probably increase to 2x daily soon because I can't with any constipation and I know it's safe and works for me. Maybe ask your OB about it if you aren't doing it already? Colace FTW!! Constipation is awful!
I second Colace. It was a lifesaver during 1st tri for both pregnancies. Along with uping the fiber in my diet where I could.
I second Colace. It was a lifesaver during 1st tri for both pregnancies. Along with uping the fiber in my diet where I could.
Agree with colace. I’m taking 3 after supper along with 5 fiber caps. I have a BM about every 1.5 days. My body has enough stuff going on, gotta keep things moving!
So I was cooking eggs today. I like them runny, but it got me thinking should I eat them that way since they are not cooked all the way. Who would eat Sunny side up or over easy eggs?
So I was cooking eggs today. I like them runny, but it got me thinking should I eat them that way since they are not cooked all the way. Who would eat Sunny side up or over easy eggs?
You're not "supposed to" but lots of people dont follow those rules.
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Yup. I've started 'leaking' already. Exactly 29 weeks on the dot. I don't remember it happening this early with my previous two pregnancies!! It's only a really small amount but enough to be like ickkk...
Anyone else in the same boat this early on?
(I hope it's alright to ask this here)
@toorahloorah I'm using a different practice than i did w my girls. This practice has me coming in every 3 weeks which is fine by me. I think you usually move to weekly appts at 36w.
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So I get to see them weekly for a little while. Then it will go back down to every two weeks until 36 weeks.
They have checked my cervix at the last two appointments I’ve had due to the contractions. But that should stop until 36 weeks soon.
I was also advised to come in if I have more than 4 contractions in an hour, even if I just think they’re Braxton Hicks!
@midnight-muse I've been leaking pretty much this whole time. I want to say it started at 16 weeks, but it might have been even earlier. Usually it's just a little bit though.
@Puddlewonderful we used a paci- and we cut the chord by having the “big girl” talk and then having her send them off with a paci-fairy. The fairy then left her a new sleep toy to replace the pacifier. That was a slamdunk move in our house.
Me (33). DH (37). DD (2.2012). MCs x4. After 4 years & 7 months, due 4.2018!
@midnight-muse not necessarily leaking yet, but beginning to produce again when compressed. Hoping it doesn't get to actual leaking until baby is here.
Baby #1: Aug. 2016
Baby #2: April 1st, 2018
DS: EDD, December 19th, 2014. Born, December 19th, 2014!
DD: EDD, July 18th, 2016. Born, July 19th, 2016!
Baby #3: EDD, April 16th, 2016
Anyway - has anyone's day care used this method? I frankly don't feel like she's ready. The first day she actually seemed pretty traumatized about having so many accidents and she asked for a diaper immediately when we got home. I'm not going to force her to do anything, she's still so little. We aren't great about putting her on the potty all the time at home, but I figure she will initiate it when she's ready. I'd love to get her trained by April but I'm just not 100% on board with this method.
We read the book, "Oh Crap Potty Training" and found it extremely helpful.
I would say that if you guys aren't ready to potty train at home, then its way too early. It would be confusing to her to train at school and wear diapers/not train at home
DS: EDD, December 19th, 2014. Born, December 19th, 2014!
DD: EDD, July 18th, 2016. Born, July 19th, 2016!
Baby #3: EDD, April 16th, 2016
ETA: Also, can we just talk about all the extra laundry?! Sheesh.
I haven’t yet. I will go dayyyyyyys without pooping and then I poop three times in a day. But by day two of the no-poops, I feel so crampy and bloated like I NEED to poop, but I can’t!