December 2019 Moms
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Group 2 Check In (12/9-12/16) w/o 8/12
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Re: Group 2 Check In (12/9-12/16) w/o 8/12
A little shy, but Harry Potter nerd to the extreme!
physically: my mornings are great. i get a lot done and have high energy. By the afternoon into the night my acid reflex kicks into the max. I take zantac to help but its so much earlier this pregnancy. Sleeping upright last pregnancy was the worst and that started after 30 weeks. I get real bad back pain by the end of the day too picking up my 10 month old all day, so I finally busted out my belly band to try to help.
I also opened up to my husband about my anxiety and feeling down and how I have been thinking of seeing a therapist. He was not as supportive as I hoped and reacted pretty negatively.
Lord have mercy on me if my son gets my personality, lol!
@lilyrheas sorry that your hubs didn’t seem on board with therapy, I am very pro talking to someone. Like you said you know - all of those feelings are pretty normal, but hopefully you can talk to someone and just get some good coping tactics. Do you have teledoc with insurance? We can use them for phone/virtual therapy appointments which is cool. Also worth seeing if your health insurance has a nurse midwife via phone program. It’s pretty cool how tech is helping things become more accessible.
@rjgmcmanus do you have a body or pregnancy pillow to sleep with? It does help release some hip pain.
@lilyrheas there’s an app where you can text with an available therapist. If DH isn’t thrilled with you going to see someone that may be a good compromise. I’m from a typical Italian American family and there’s always been a stigma against therapists and going to one if anyone in my family has gone to one l, no one has ever spoke about it.
People tend to tell me things that would usually be considered TMI...so maybe they would describe me as “hard to freak out”?
@ale9687 I do...about the only time I feel okay is first thing in the morning, after sleeping with it. Then it's all downhill the rest of the day.
shot. Then when I had 16 week bloodwork done they said I was still testing I forget if it was positive or negative for the antibodies because of the shot. I just don’t really understand it and need to ask about it. I know I got another shot at 28 weeks last time and another after she was born. Your baby shower invite is so cute!!!
@KTZ17 I am Rh- and have had 2 miscarriages (a MMC and a CP) and had the rhogam after each of those. During my pregnancy with DD I had a rhogam at 28 weeks and then after delivery. I still had some not clinically significant antibodies when they checked my blood type in April from when I got the rhogam after my CP in February but they weren't concerned.
Rants/ raves, my gums are feeling sore lately, I need a cleaning scheduled
Questions, no none I can think of.
How would my friends describe me? Man idk. I guess organized, efficient, practical. Not touchy feely. I don't really have many friends and I've definitely pulled away more from them during this pregnancy. I keep to myself mostly.
@anniemarie887 @ale9687 Thanks for the response. I am defiantly going to look into a virtual therapist. Or check out the text, that sounds very useful too. I think my husband just cant comprehend how I am feeling at the moment. We became a 2 child family last October and then we planned this third to be quick after the other. Yet, even tho it was all planned I also became a stay at home mom for the first time last year. So I am having a difficult time balancing staying home, doing school, chasing the two kids to appointments and school and events. Doing all the mom stuff 24/7 now and being pregnant has put a lot of mental stress on me. Not that I don't love it but he does not understand why I find it hard some days and he takes it the wrong way, like i am complaining about being a mother. I more just need help sorting my thoughts of the days events.