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Group 1 Check In (7/1-7/8)-Week of 12/24
xtinecatherine
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I didn't see a check in, so I thought I would get it started.
Est Due Date / Weeks + Days: 7/2, 13 weeks
Baby is the size of a(n): Lemon
Upcoming Appointments: I was not able to set up my next one, but will call tomorrow to get that going. Will likely be third week January.
How are you feeling?: Feeling great. Lots more energy. Nausea still comes and goes a bit, but definitely waning. No more run over by mack truck exhaustion. Still hating the sinus issues that never go away.
Rants/Raves: Told my kids today that we were expecting and my 14 year old DD started crying saying that she likes our family the way it is. I felt awful and that I basically ruined Christmas. Thankfully she is coming around now.
Questions: None right now.
GTKY: Did you make any big pregnancy announcements on Christmas? What did you do and how did it go? If not, what was your favorite gift. I wore a shirt that said "Guess Who's Coming To Town?" with a Santa hat where baby is in my stomach and NO ONE figured anything out (even adults). Then we told the kids that the elf bought us a new ornament. It had seven little reindeer and each was labeled with a name except for one. They all thought the unnamed reindeer was our dog. LOL. Sigh. . . So then I had to get them to figure out what it was by having them guess and telling them straight up it is not a dog or our elf. They finally figured it out, but it really makes me feel entirely ancient that the possibility of me being pregnant is that far off. My oldest son who is almost 16 said he did not even think it was possible at my age. Geez! We still have yet to actually tell the other relatives as no one figured out the shirt and everything was crazy. Since the kids did not exactly take the news as expected, I wanted to give them time before we told everyone else. So now we have to work that out. Plus, telling DH's family is hard as his older sister was never able to conceive, so I feel awful every time we do announce a pregnancy.
Est Due Date / Weeks + Days: 7/2, 13 weeks
Baby is the size of a(n): Lemon
Upcoming Appointments: I was not able to set up my next one, but will call tomorrow to get that going. Will likely be third week January.
How are you feeling?: Feeling great. Lots more energy. Nausea still comes and goes a bit, but definitely waning. No more run over by mack truck exhaustion. Still hating the sinus issues that never go away.
Rants/Raves: Told my kids today that we were expecting and my 14 year old DD started crying saying that she likes our family the way it is. I felt awful and that I basically ruined Christmas. Thankfully she is coming around now.
Questions: None right now.
GTKY: Did you make any big pregnancy announcements on Christmas? What did you do and how did it go? If not, what was your favorite gift. I wore a shirt that said "Guess Who's Coming To Town?" with a Santa hat where baby is in my stomach and NO ONE figured anything out (even adults). Then we told the kids that the elf bought us a new ornament. It had seven little reindeer and each was labeled with a name except for one. They all thought the unnamed reindeer was our dog. LOL. Sigh. . . So then I had to get them to figure out what it was by having them guess and telling them straight up it is not a dog or our elf. They finally figured it out, but it really makes me feel entirely ancient that the possibility of me being pregnant is that far off. My oldest son who is almost 16 said he did not even think it was possible at my age. Geez! We still have yet to actually tell the other relatives as no one figured out the shirt and everything was crazy. Since the kids did not exactly take the news as expected, I wanted to give them time before we told everyone else. So now we have to work that out. Plus, telling DH's family is hard as his older sister was never able to conceive, so I feel awful every time we do announce a pregnancy.
Re: Group 1 Check In (7/1-7/8)-Week of 12/24
Baby is the size of:
How are you feeling?
Rants/Raves:
Questions?
GTKY: Did you make any big pregnancy announcements on Christmas? What did you do and how did it go? If not, what was your favorite gift.
Baby is the size of: a lime
How are you feeling? Better every day which messes with my PGAL brain.
Rants/Raves: Waiting for my appointment in 2 days. And rant, fucking PISSED that the check I've been waiting on for a MONTH still hasn't arrived. Basically ruined our Christmas plans due to extreme lack of money.
Questions? Any other PGAL mommies starting to feel better?
GTKY: Did you make any big pregnancy announcements on Christmas? What did you do and how did it go? If not, what was your favorite gift.
Won't announce until after my next appointment with the hope that my NIPT results are in and good. My husband got me a beautiful Celtic Tree of Life Oija board / altar table that was unfortunately cracked during shipping but not noticed until I opened it this morning. Hopefully we can get it replaced or fixed. He also got me a new Chromebook, which is awesome!
Baby is the size of: kit kat.
How are you feeling? Awful again. Lost my breakfast this morning and have had a rough day. Which makes me sad.
Rants/Raves: I’m just sick of feeling like crap. Especially on special days with my fam. My birthday is Friday and I literally can’t think of anything I want to do.
Questions?
GTKY: Did you make any big pregnancy announcements on Christmas? What did you do and how did it go? If not, what was your favorite gift. Yep. We told our son, my parents and my other best friend. We did the Big. bro. Shirt and that was fun. Great reactions all around. Everyone knows what a struggle this has been so the joy was incredible.
Baby is the size of: Apricot
How are you feeling? So tired and also like my food aversions have gotten worse.
Rants/Raves: this may seem so silly but I don’t know what I should be doing as far as dressing for work since I’m in that in between phase and they don’t know yet. I’m not big enough for maternity clothes yet, but my pants and some of my shirts look like I’m trying to squeeze into a size that doesn’t fit. I probably need to order a few items in a larger size for now.
Questions? Has anyone started thinking about in room sleep options?im between a bassinet and a mini crib for our bedroom until bean transitions to their nursery where they would have their full size convertible crib and other furniture. Just not sure which in room sleep option makes sense.
GTKY: Did you make any big pregnancy announcements on Christmas? What did you do and how did it go? If not, what was your favorite gift.
My husband got excited and broke out the US pictures from our 9 week appointment while I was prepping the food. So he excitedly announced it to his family kind of without me. Kind of pist, kind of cute how excited he was.
July 8th, 12+1
Baby is the size of:
Plum
How are you feeling?
Better (*knock on wood*). Still waves of nausea and feeling unsettled, but I’ve been able to actually eat more this past week.
Rants/Raves:
Nervous about NT Scan, but trying to stay hopeful! This whole thing is just nerve racking. I don’t see how you could be excited about it, besides seeing the little peanut again!
Questions?
Not right now.
GTKY: Did you make any big pregnancy announcements on Christmas? What did you do and how did it go? If not, what was your favorite gift.
I did. Everyone in the family now knows. It was a touch anti-climactic today with the last few family people, but overall went well. We also last minute decided to announce on social media today for Christmas. We had a picture taken of us and our two dogs, and it said “Mom and Dad are getting me a HUMAN.” We’re getting great feedback and support from friends. Parents and hubby had a point that so many people now know that it will be tough to take back regardless if something bad happens. Praying for a good u/s on Thursday and a continuing healthy pregnancy. 🙏🏻
Baby is the size of: a scoop of ice cream
How are you feeling? Eh
Rants/Raves: everything hurts, my abdominal muscles are sore. My boobs are aching something fierce and the upper back pain is almost unbearable. Doing some stretching to help ease the pain, but man.
Questions? None
GTKY: Did you make any big pregnancy announcements on Christmas? What did you do and how did it go? If not, what was your favorite gift.
Every year my uncle dresses up as santa for all the younger kids and gives them a gift. We put a gift in his bag for my parents with a onesie that read “handpicked for earth by my big brother in heaven.” Tears were shed, words were said, and we were met with a mix of emotions because my last labor and delivery was pretty traumatic. Overall people are happy for us. We expected this reaction though, we had a similar reaction. My favorite gift is my new aiwa arc-1 headphones my hubby bought me. My beats quit working on me a few months ago and would’ve cost more to have them fixed than what we paid for them. I’m one happy momma listening to my music and reading my new books in peace.
Baby is the size of a plum
How are you feeling? Not bad, still lots of good aversions/craving garbage and fast food, nothing I would normally eat sounds appealing to me lately. Occasional nausea still but mostly good.
Rants/Raves: I guess my rant would be that I’m nervous about my ultrasound Friday, I’m starting to get excited to tell DD but I’m so nervous the scan won’t be good and we don’t be able to tell her. Rave is my sex drive is finally back, after a 2 month dry spell, because the thought of being touched made me sick, I have a very happy husband tonight lol
Questions: none
GTKY:
everyone basically knows but we’re announcing on social media on New Years which I’m excited for. Hubby wore his new “take it easy on me my wife is pregnant” shirt today which everyone got a kick out of. My favourite gift would have to be a maternity tee my mom got me with a little bear that says “baby” on the belly.
Baby is the size of: large macaron
How are you feeling? Still underlying nausea constantly but surprisingly not quite as bad as before. I was able to eat...quite a bit...the past 2 days. Which will hopefully show a nice gain at the doctor tomorrow. Of course today I feel like dirt. But I haven't thrown up in 2 days so Yay!
Rants/Raves: Still just annoyed about my NIPT results not getting to me. I should have had them last week which would have made me feel so much better over Xmas knowing whether baby is ok. But a least I'll get them tomorrow morning at my appointment.
Questions?
GTKY: Did you make any big pregnancy announcements on Christmas? What did you do and how did it go? If not, what was your favorite gift.
We don't exchange gifts. Only DD gets gifts bur watching her open them is the best gift ever:) I told MIL by showing her my 11+1 week US pic and having her figure out what it was. I told her not to tell anyone yet because I'm still not confident but I wanted her to know. She was happy but worried. We've been through a lot to get here.
With this one I can't bed share for a while because I still bed share with DD. Also I will be having a RCS so I'm definitely going bassinet to start. Once the nerves start to heal from the CS I'll switch to a crib, but not having to get out of bed MOTN to get baby will be a life saver for me.
@Panaceia did your DD do okay in the crib right away? I too am going back and forth between getting a bassinet or a crib right away...
EDD / How far along: 12+ 3 EDD 7/7
Baby is the size of: KIWI
How are you feeling? A little better every single day, more like a human
Rants/Raves: I got to see baby move around during the NT US, such a miraculous experience!! I can't wait until I start to feel her.
Questions?
GTKY: Did you make any big pregnancy announcements on Christmas? What did you do and how did it go? If not, what was your favorite gift. No announcements yet, we're thinking after the new year. DH and I don't exchange gifts but we celebrate 'xmas' with his family on NYE and this year we're doing secret santa for the adults so we'll see how that goes
Baby is the size of: clementine
How are you feeling? Not too bad. Still exhausted all the time but other than that i'm pretty good.
Rants/Raves: We had a scare today. 12 week appointment and they couldn't find the heartbeat. 4 different people tried before they sent me for an ultrasound. Baby was fine and it was great to get to see baby. We saw little hands and feet and legs and baby was laying so nicely.
I do kind of have a complaint. They told me at the beginning of my appointment that my urine was positive for group b strep or whatever the heck that is and said the PA I was seeing would talk to me about it but with all the trouble finding the heartbeat we didn't get to discuss it and I totally forgot about it until I was home so now i've gotta google and wait until my next appointment.
Questions? No questions unless anyone else has been in a similar situation with the positive urine for that?!
GTKY: Did you make any big pregnancy announcements on Christmas? What did you do and how did it go? If not, what was your favorite gift. We did. We pretty much told all our family. No social media announcement yet. I wanted to wait until our scan next week. Mostly everyone was excited. Some didn't really have a reaction... guess thats what happens with third babies? LOL
July 4th
Anyway, I was GBS+ for DD and it's very common. You just get two rounds of antibiotics before you deliver and it protects the baby. The bacteria is really common and pretty harmless to you.
Baby is the size of: plum
How are you feeling? I was feeling better until my kids got me sick. Thanks for coughing in my mouth kid.
GTKY: Did you make any big pregnancy announcements on Christmas? Nope. We were planning on telling family. Then my 17yo cousin asked me if I thought I would have anymore kids and I just replied with ”Yeah, in July”. 😂 she thought I was lying to her for a good 5 minutes, lol.
Baby is the size of: Plum
How are you feeling? Pretty good! I’m hoping to start being more active again - starting slowly
Rants/Raves: The hubby and I are in a mixed cultural/race/religion marriage, and we are getting A LOT of advice from his side that doesn’t match the current medical advice. We are trying to play the dance of being respectful while purposefully ignoring a bunch of the guidance. Close families can be hard but also a blessing! Trying to keep in mind that the intentions are all coming from love.
Questions? Just hoping you all are coming through the holiday season with some good memories, however you choose to spend them!
GTKY: Did you make any big pregnancy announcements on Christmas? What did you do and how did it go? If not, what was your favorite gift. We announced to the extended family. I was so happy to get to tell my grandmother in person. Her memory is failing, so she won’t remember, but just being able to have that moment with her was so special. And now I’m crying as I’m remembering it.
I never knew it could be tested through urine either, I remember it as the swab from previous pregnancies! But from further research on the internet last night it seems that it actually can be detected in urine and I had to do a urine sample with my blood work a few weeks ago.
From what I read sometimes they will give you an antibiotic now and other times they just do the antibiotic during labor/delivery so not sure what they will do for me. I think I will give them a call to see what they say since it got overlooked yesterday.
Baby is the size of a: Plum
How are you feeling? Felt great over Christmas Eve and Christmas Day when we were on vacation at the beach (maybe the fresh air helped?), but we got home last night and I've felt meh and uncomfortable. Tiredness and food aversions returned today, too. Boo. Otherwise, I do feel like I have slightly more energy. Or maybe it's my imagination because a nap sounds great right now.
Rants/Raves: Just keeping my MIL off DH's back because she wants to start telling people. It's their first grandchild, so I get she's excited, but being PGAL earlier this year and only being 12+2, DH and I are cautiously optimistic and don't want to tell anyone more than our parents and my sister until after our second appointment in early January. And even then, I'm not sure we'll post anything publicly or of FB. If we did that, maybe February, but we'll see.
Questions? Nope!
GTKY: Did you make any big pregnancy announcements on Christmas? What did you do and how did it go? If not, what was your favorite gift. No big announcement since it was just DH and me celebrating Christmas together (we don't travel back to our home state for Christmas). Our parents already know, and I talked to my sister yesterday and told her. Again, cautious optimism after a loss. Favorite gift: a Garmin!
Baby is the size of: lemon
How are you feeling? I have been so sick since about week 7. I woke up Christmas Day feeling actually pretty good so I was hoping it was a turning point. Not so much. Woke up this morning and got sick again
Rants/Raves: we had family over for Christmas including my in laws. I love them but my mother in law keeps touching my stomach without asking! I don’t really have a noticeable bump yet and even if I did it makes me extremely uncomfortable! My husband said something to her the last time we saw them a few weeks ago but she doesn’t seem to get it. I feel awkward saying anything since it’s not my mom but I feel like I’m going to lose it if she keeps doing it!
Questions? Those of you with morning sickeness (or all day sickness) have you had any relief yet? If you did, was it a suddenly stop of feeling horrible or was it a gradual feeling to feeling better?
GTKY: Did you make any big pregnancy announcements on Christmas? What did you do and how did it go? If not, what was your favorite gift.
We were exactly 13 weeks on Christmas Day! Our families already knew as well as close friends. We made a social media announcement since we had an appointment last week and everything looked great! People have been super supportive! We took a picture with our German Shepherd with him wearing “I’m going to be a big brother” shirt.
Downside, NIPT still not back as they got backed up over the holidays, and I'm still on pelvic rest for the unexplained bleeding until I'm firmly and safely in the 2nd trimester - so 2-4 weeks
Other random update, my missing check FINALLY arrived and we have some breathing room.
@indulgentgypsy sounds like everything went well! My NIPT is also delayed due to the holidays. I took the test on Friday and I just got the email today that my sample arrived. It is definitely stressful, so I feel your pain!
I think my biggest turnaround point was when I had figured out my hydration issues. As soon as I was able to regularly meet my liquid goals, I’ve felt significantly more human. My care team told me that (with obvious exceptions), the food and the liquid that I can keep down is the best kind, so I stopped worrying as much about my pure water intake and my exact nutritional balance. I focused more on what was making me feel well.
I’m not sure how helpful all this will be, but I hope you all start feeling improvement too! Whenever I have been feeling badly, I try to remember why I’m feeling this way... trying to grow a tiny human is hard work 💛
Baby is the size of: Plum
How are you feeling? Physically getting better, except for this horrible head cold I have right now.
Rants/Raves: I’m not loving this period of pregnancy. I’m waiting for NIPT results and can’t help but worry. Can’t feel the baby yet so more worrying!
Questions? Does anyone else NOT have a bump? I’m a size 16 but I’m jealous looking at the bumps starting!
GTKY: Did you make any big pregnancy announcements on Christmas? What did you do and how did it go? If not, what was your favorite gift. We are waiting for NIPT results to share with the world but our family knows. My favorite gift was definitely a paid for babymoon my mom