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July 2019 Moms
nagrom9319
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all groups check-in w/o 6/24
nagrom9319
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Est Due Date / Weeks + Days:
Baby is the size of a(n):
Team:
Upcoming Appointments:
How are you feeling?:
Rants/Raves:
Questions:
GTKY: What is something that you could know or do that would bring peace to you about the impending labor & delivery?
Re: all groups check-in w/o 6/24
Baby is the size of a(n): sack of grain
Team: Pink:)
Upcoming Appointments: Pre-Op tomorrow morning and RCS Wednesday morning
How are you feeling?: Sick. I can't wait to lot be nauseous and vomiting constantly!
Rants/Raves: 2 more days.
Questions: Nope.
GTKY: Knowing that me and baby will both be healthy and safe at the end of the surgery. I am super stressed about something happening to me during L&D and DD1 being left without me. She and I have been a team just the 2 of us basically since she has been born. So if I knew going in that everything will work out perfectly then I would be much calmer.
Est Due Date / Weeks + Days: 38+4; 7/4
Baby is the size of a(n): mini watermelon
Team: Blue
Upcoming Appointments: weekly checkup Friday
How are you feeling?: very tired and stretched to the max. so impatient and pray that every cramp I feel is myself going into labor
Rants/Raves: i have gained less weight this pregnancy and am swollen less in all areas, except my belly is much bigger! my little stretch mark from the first has expanded and I am just sooo ready to get this party started! so much anxiety about the unknown
Questions: no
GTKY: What is something that you could know or do that would bring peace to you about the impending labor & delivery? knowing when it will happen & that everyone will be healthy. if I knew all would turn out ok, any amount of pain would not bother me.
@nagrom9319 sometimes it feels like a big joke that baby continues to stretch us past our maximum for a month or two at the end. Let us be comfy while we grow a human!
Baby is the size of a(n): head of romaine lettuce
Team: Green
Upcoming Appointments: Midwives on Thurs, MFM ultrasound on Monday
How are you feeling?: good but now that I’m in the final stretch I’m anxious for labor to start so that I can stop worrying about pregnancy related issues
Rants/Raves: almost ready for LO! DH washed all the cloth diapers yesterday and I just need to organize my home birth supplies now. Rant is that I need to hire a sibling doula most likely and I am having a hard time finding one.
Questions: What is everyone doing for childcare of their other children
GTKY: What is something that you could know or do that would bring peace to you about the impending labor & delivery? Who is caring for my child and if I could be certain I or baby won’t need a hospital transfer
Baby is the size of a(n): baby!
Team: pink
Upcoming Appointments: this Friday, 38 weeker
How are you feeling?: over it. Want this baby out now.
Rants/Raves: rants, I’m super hormonal and everything is making me rage-y or emotional. Rave, I’m almost done
Questions: nada
GTKY: What is something that you could know or do that would bring peace to you about the impending labor & delivery?
I have a lot of peace about everything coming up. I trust my healthcare providers and I know that everything will be okay even if it doesn’t go according to my plans. Most nervous/excited about DS meeting his sister.
@nagrom9319 i feel the same regarding hoping ever cramp is labor starting and i'm only 36+4!
Baby is the size of a(n): Papya
Team: Green (but had my first dream regarding LO and it was a SHE)
Upcoming Appointments: weekly now, so Thursday. No more ultrasounds unless i hit 40 weeks. BP, Weight, Fundal measurement and cervix check.
How are you feeling?: Lucky. I'm sleeping a ton. I think it's good for me, but at the same time i'm in for a rude awakening once LO arrives. Right now I go to sleep at like 10pm and get up 2-3x a night to go pee and am having zero problems (knock on wood) falling back asleep.
Rants/Raves: Not that i'm worried, but I know there are a million little things I've forgotten and will end up ordering those first couple weeks. Last night MH and I walked through Target, i had done laundry and realized i didn't have a good newborn option for LO coming home. (my top choice is a 0-3/8-12lbs but I want to make sure i have that is smaller just in case). It was so fun, that was the first time MH and i actually purchased any baby clothes. We also found a shark swim top (12M) that we had seen on a baby during our babymoon and of course had to purchase that...I also realized we hadn't purchased any wipes so we got some of those as well. But i got a smaller container because i'm worried of rashes and don't want to over commit yet.
Questions: not today
GTKY: knowing when and of course knowing we have a health baby. last night i had a dream i went into labor and then the next thing i knew MH was in my hospital bed holding LO and i was standing next to him. I think this is my mind acknowledging there is an unknown event coming that i can't even dream about because i don't know what will happen.
Edit: because I just realized BPP is not blood pressure-whoops.
Baby is the size of a(n): skunk
Team: pink
Upcoming Appointments: today!
How are you feeling?: good just wish my restless legs would go away
Rants/Raves: I’ve been 2cm and 50% for 2 weeks now. No progression. Except for the fact that she’s super low now!
Questions:
GTKY: What is something that you could know or do that would bring peace to you about the impending labor & delivery? That I could make it through without an epidural. I don’t want one and I’ll just be disappointed in myself if I have to have medical intervention or an epidural. I hate the way the epidural makes me feel!
Baby is the size of a(n): romaine lettuce
Team:
Upcoming Appointments: Thursday 6/27
How are you feeling?: Tired, hungry - wish I could eat more (can't with heartburn/indigestion issues), anxious about delivery being so close
Rants/Raves: Not really a rant, cause I know people mean well, but I'm tired of being asked if I'm ready... is anyone ever really ready for this?
Questions:
GTKY: What is something that you could know or do that would bring peace to you about the impending labor & delivery? Wish I could know how everything will go with labor and delivery, that the baby will be healthy, what I'm going to go through post-partum, whether I'll be able to breastfeed like I plan to, etc.... so many unknowns!
7/7 - 38+1
Baby is the size of a(n):
Winter Squash
Team:
Pink
Upcoming Appointments:
Thursday weekly OB visit
How are you feeling?:
Overall, good enough that I feel like I shouldn’t complain... but today I’m feeling a wicked increase in pelvic pressure. LO was already head down and low before. At our last check up, Dr. said that we look ready - so it could be any day, for us. My OB doesn’t like to go more than a week past due date, so it’ll be anytime in these next 3 weeks!
Rants/Raves:
DH is bring a big help and encouragement these past few days, and his excitement is helping me focus on positivity. I feel very lucky to have him.
MIL still won’t let me have pineapple. I’m never going to convince her of that one.
We had a leaky ceiling in the baby’s closet last week. It turned out to be a fluke thing where rain flew at the perfect angle threw a vent up in the attic for long enough to collect a puddle just over the closet. We haven’t gotten it fixed yet... the first contractor was a no show, and we are scrambling to find someone else. All of LO’s stuff is spread out on the guest room bed for now.
Questions:
GTKY: What is something that you could know or do that would bring peace to you about the impending labor & delivery?
At this point, my nerves are mostly about the actual labor and delivery process. If I could know in advance how it’s all going to play out, that would be lovely. For now, I am going back through my birthing book and reminding myself of all the babies that have already been born in the history of the world.
We have my mom flying out in 2 weeks. Originally she was just flying out to see the baby, not necessarily watch my other 3. If I don't make it to 39 weeks, we don't have childcare and I'm really uneasy about it. I have had a few friends volunteer to stand in, but they are mostly working moms of other young kids so it's not feasible.
Plus, no one realizes how much of a handful 3 young kids is. It's more than your typical high-school-age "babysitter" can handle. 3 kids requires a pro. And for folks about to have your 3rd baby, you are about to see what I am talking about! It is so much work just to keep 3 kids safe, fed, and halfway clean.
I looked on care.com but didn't find anyone for emergency-middle-of-the-night type jobs. I may move my mom's flight earlier but any date seems like a complete random guess.
@cbeanz I can only imagine trying to find care for three, I hope something works out that isn't too stressful. I also had a few moms from my son's school offer to take him but they have kids and lives and jobs and I really don't think they can offer what we need. I've reached out to a few doulas to see if they offer child care support during labor, but I also was able to find a few potentials on Care.com by filtering with 'doula' keyword.
I know my mom would come out if we were really in a pinch.. but with how it went last time I don't know if I want to even go down that road.
Baby is the size of a(n): Baby!
Team: Green
Upcoming Appointments: BPP Friday that hubs gets to join! Excited to see the baby again and maybe get a best guess for delivery date from my OB
How are you feeling?: Ready, in terms of "stuff" but nervous about all the unknowns
Rants/Raves:
Questions:
GTKY: What is something that you could know or do that would bring peace to you about the impending labor & delivery? I just wish I knew the date so I could have childcare lined up. It's funny how pregnancy plays mind games with you in so many ways. Everything is such a mystery despite our best medical technology. You never know when baby decides to show up, you never know what they are going to look like or who they are going to be. It's just funny.
Baby is the size of a(n): baby
Team: pink
Upcoming Appointments: had a check up today. Nice and quick belly measure and heart beat check. Go back next Friday
How are you feeling?: the heartburn is really killing me, but overall still pretty well
Rants/Raves: we had my oldest’s birthday party yesterday since his actual birthday is the day before my due date. Such a fun day, I can’t believe he’s almost 5!!
Questions: nope
GTKY: What is something that you could know or do that would bring peace to you about the impending labor & delivery?
My first two deliveries have been so different. First was 16 hours, second was less than 3 hours. Would love to know how this one will unfold
Baby is the size of a(n): some kind of lettuce, I forget😏
Team: blue
Upcoming Appointments: Wednesday
How are you feeling?: Tired, ready to hold my baby!!
Rants/Raves: Just enjoying summertime and playing outside with my kiddos. Housecleaning is officially done!!
Questions: none
GTKY: What is something that you could know or do that would bring peace to you about the impending labor & delivery? Prayer and scripture. I know that no matter what happens, God's got this and he will give me strength! It took awhile to get here, and I still get anxious sometimes, but I have peace! I'm just ready to do it! Both of my other two were pretty traumatic births, so I have a lot of people praying that this time will be different ❤
I think I only want it because it is being denied to me.
Baby is the size of a(n): walrus
Team: Blue
Upcoming Appointments: tomorrow
How are you feeling?: ugh this past week hit has gotten real. I keep having irregular, painful contractions and tons of pressure as baby moves lower. With my first, I never had a real contraction until I was actually in labor and so now I feel so tricked , haha
Rants/Raves: Done with shifts at work and just have some administrative stuff left
Questions: when is this baby gonna make an appearance??
GTKY: What is something that you could know or do that would bring peace to you about the impending labor & delivery?
Just knowing when and if it's the real deal - I am nervous about not being able to call my babysitter in time as she is about 20 mins away and the hospital is another 30...but I also don't want to have a false alarm (again).
The thing is, I try to pick my battles with my MIL. The pineapple thing is a bit annoying, but I'm not going to get into an actual fight with her over it. I more decided to share it as a funny annoyance.
Est Due Date / Weeks + Days: 35 weeks 4 days 7/25
Baby is the size of a(n): pineapple
Team: Blue
Upcoming Appointments: Thursday weekly appointment. 36 weeks will find out results of GBS test.
How are you feeling?: uncomfortable. I’m pretty sure dilation and effacement is progressing. Last week I was 1cm and 70% effaced. This week there have been several ‘episodes’ where I just feel pressure and I’m pretty sure it’s baby descending. That and BH have me on my toes, but my pregnancy ball and the pool are my friends.
Rants/Raves: I’m just happy to be in the safe baby zone. It’s taken so much to get here and to know that he’d have little to no NICU stay at this point and my body is assuming the position makes me excited even if it takes longer than I’d like.
Questions: None
GTKY: What is something that you could know or do that would bring peace to you about the impending labor & delivery?
Well other than having a Chrystal ball to know the exact day, I think my focus now is on making sure my mind is fortified not to give up on the delivery I want.
Also, after posting, I noticed the basic theme of the gtky question answer is ‘I wish I could know and co tell my delivery so it’s planned perfectly.’ I think that’s probably the hardest part about pregnancy- we have no control over our own bodies for 9-10 months. I can’t even control when I pee 😂.
We’re all just more anxious because we’re st the finish line.
Baby is the size of a(n): pumpkin
Team: blue
Upcoming Appointments: csection and tubal tomorrow
How are you feeling?: nervous. Ready for tomorrow to be done and over with.
Rants/Raves: honestly drawing all the blanks
Questions: csection moms, what was your breastfeeding journey like afterwards?
GTKY: What is something that you could know or do that would bring peace to you about the impending labor & delivery? Idk honestly.
Baby is the size of a(n): Pomeranian. Or, like everyone else has said, a baby 🤷
Team: girl
Upcoming Appointments: today
How are you feeling?: Ok. Pretty over it, but trying to keep her in for another week or so preferably.
Rants/Raves: My husband has been so great throughout this whole thing ❤️
Questions:
GTKY: What is something that you could know or do that would bring peace to you about the impending labor & delivery? That my home renovations would be done before baby is born!
Baby is the size of a(n): Cabbage patch kid
Team: Pink
Baby is the size of a: Cabbage Patch Kid
Upcoming Appointments: OB’s office hasn’t gotten back to me about my appointment request for this week. Like my doctor; not a huge fan of the office staff 🙄. I should call today.
How are you feeling?: Ready to be done. But generally okay. The pelvic pressure is real. I ran a mile and swam a mile Sunday and felt like baby was going to fall out during the run part of that. Also getting a lot of period-like cramping and BH, which are teasing me all day long, but obviously no regular contractions yet.
Rants/Raves: At this point, not much to report beyond the above. Waiting on baby is pretty much all-consuming. I’ve gone from being convinced she’d be early to being convinced she’s never coming out. I’m still going in to the office, but I’ve wound down and rarely have anything to do these days, which is somewhat frustrating. It would be better to have things to keep me busy and take my mind off things, but at the same time, it’s probably good not to have the stress of a long to-do list hanging over my head. Particularly because I’m still very new at my job and trying to prove myself, so the pressure is on to produce excellent quality work product every single time (not that it isn’t always, but once you build some credibility, there’s a little more leeway).
Questions: Nope.
GTKY: When????
My second was a CS and breastfeeding was a breeze. But I had breastfed my first so it all kind of came right back and felt easier second time around.
Good luck tomorrow!!!
Baby is the size of a(n): Baby!
Team: Pink
Upcoming Appointments: Tomorrow GBS and general check up
How are you feeling?: Insane. Every facet of life is in chaos right now. Work is crazy busy (see below), my house is in disarray, and I'm feeling like a whale all the time. We had a leak in our master shower early spring. We had to save some money to fix it, which included new flooring in the bedroom, and bought the floor tile around Mother's Day. DH wanted to install the tile to save some money, so I gave him time to do it. After weeks and weeks of not getting it done, I finally convinced him to hire someone to do it. The guy showed up on Saturday and took three and a half days to lay the cement board and the tile. It's not grouted, mind you, it's just stuck down. It's 300 sq ft tops. The guy was so freaking slow!!!! We have been sleeping on the couch for a week now, my dresser is in the living room, and the kid's room is packed with the rest of our bedroom furniture. I NEED MY BEDROOM DONE, DAMMIT!!!
Rants/Raves: Jealous of you moms who are done with work or have wound down. I work with old guys who have no clue about pregnancy and maternity leave. Their wives raise all their kids and they just continued working with little to no disruption. I've been telling them for a month now that they need to start taking over my cases and it just hasn't happened. Finally, on Monday, I had a sit down with them and just started assigning cases and tasks to them (they're my bosses!) Their eyes were huge as I started going down the laundry list of things that were going on in my many cases. I'm to the point where IDGAF, I'm not doing it. One of these days I'm just going to be gone and it's better to draw that line while I'm still here for questions than it is for me to be unavailable because I'm having a baby. It's been stressful, though, because they keep asking me whether I'm going to do ______ and I have to tell them no. That's very contrary to my normal approach to work.
Questions:
GTKY: What is something that you could know or do that would bring peace to you about the impending labor & delivery? Oh Lord. As a FTM the complete unknown is freaking me out. I would love to know whether baby and I will make it. It would kill my husband if he lost one or both of us and I hate that that's even a possibility. I would love to know that she's going to be healthy and that we didn't miss a birth defect by not doing a million tests. I would love to know WHEN it'll happen and whether I'll be able to handle the pain. I'm not opposed to meds, but I want to give natural a shot. It would make things easier if I knew whether that was realistic or not. Going beyond L&D, I'd love to know whether I'll be able to survive the sleep deprivation and whether I'll be able to breastfeed.
You WILL be able to survive the sleep deprivation. You WILL do great in labor and get through the pain. Your coworkers will be forced to learn their way without you. It's so hard when you're in the midst of all the chaos to believe you'll get out on the other side but you'll get there and it'll be good.
Baby is the size of a(n): weight of a small penguin
Team: pink
Upcoming Appointments: Just had a check today (2cm) next one is July 2
How are you feeling?: I'm starting to relax. I've gotten a good amount done off my checklist and now I'm just waiting for Target to deliver the last couple things off my registry. Hospital bags are packed and my work schedule is finally calming down. Hoping these last two weeks are a bit more relaxing. Still feel like a fire breathing whale but not much can be done about that.
Rants/Raves: I totally had terrible pregnancy brain and ordered a bunch of wrong things off my registry. (Adult hangers wrong sized closet drawers ect) of course online order only. Thankfully the target help desk gave me a second 15% off coupon to use so I'm super happy about that. Now I just have to wait 5-7 more days for shipping.
Questions: anyone make freezer meals yet? Any favorite go to meals or things to avoid?
GTKY: What is something that you could know or do that would bring peace to you about the impending labor & delivery?
Just wish I could know if I'll have everything ready and done before she gets here. I honestly just need her to stay put until at least after the 4th of July. Also I wanna know what doctor is going to deliver her. There are two that I really like and trust and I am worried if it's not one of them I may say something stupid in the pain of labor to the doctors I'm not a fan of.
@bartonolivia I totally agree! There last thing I want is an epidural. With my first it failed and it was the worst experience so I'm not willing to go through it again.
@hoodevil0611 OMG how can you run at this point! I can barely walk a mile without wanting to die!