Weekly Randoms w/o 10/21

shamrocandroll

Put those randos here!

shamrocandroll

Hi guys!  I was on vacation last week and tried really hard to stay totally unplugged, and was pretty successful!  Sorry if my ghosting worried anyone.  Things are still looking good for me!    

mokay19

@shamrocandroll I was just thinking how I might need to creep you today! 😄 glad the vacation was good!

ruby696

@shamrocandroll I'm jealous of all your vacations!! I hope you went somewhere amazing!

shamrocandroll

@ruby696 Haha!  I haven't been on a vacation before this since before we started TTGP over 14 months ago.  These were more mini-trips for weddings than vacations, but this one we decided to make into our first real family trip (that was more than a long weekend).  We didn't take DS to Seattle for the wedding last month, but he came for this one in Philly and I loved having him there.  We did Sesame Place, the aquarium, and the Please Touch Museum.  It was so fun, minus a big AirBnB the first night.  

ET fix typo

ruby696

@shamrocandroll Ah, I bet he loved it! It's so fun taking them places like that and just watching them process. I'm glad you had a great time - minus.the AirBNB issue!

ruby696

I learned yesterday that I need to drink 128+ ounces of water a day. I think I'm going to die.

mokay19

@ruby696 having a big bottle makes it easier for me to get my gallon in. I have a 40 oz water bottle so I drink 3 of them during work and I’ll get at least another cup or so in at home. But not having to refill it regularly helps me drink more since my laziness doesn’t disrupt me having water at my desk. 

rox7777

@ruby696 I super struggle with liquid intake while pregnant. I ended up getting weekly fluids for 2 months with DS1 after going into preterm labor at 24 weeks. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Here’s how I’ve managed the last two babies: 

Ice water! My water has to be super cold or I won’t drink it because it makes me gaggy. I bought a bottle that’s 64oz and had a frozen thing you screw into the center at target. It also has a straw. I drew lines on it for every hour and I just try to get down to the next line before my hour is up. 

And tea and coffee also count. Skip the sugar and use flavored sugar free syrup or heavy whipping cream. I do two cups in the morning and one in the evening and count that as part of my water goal. Other than that I don’t drink anything else or else I miss the water mark.

ruby696

@mokay19 and @rox7777 I have a 32 ounce water bottle, so my plan is to drink 4 while at work. I actually really like water, but I do not really like having to walk to the bathroom every 30 minutes and it makes me feel so full. I guess I'll get used to it - I thought the 80 ounces I was drinking was pretty good. I guess not. 

jhysmath

@ruby696 I'm struggling drinking enough water right now. The only time I puked when pregnant with DD was when I only had water in my stomach and I puked water only so sometimes the thought of drinking a lot of it make me sick. When I was bfing and pumping at work I was really good at drinking water and would drink at least 64 ounces at school and probably another 64 at home I couldn't quench my thirst at all then. 

rox7777

@ruby696 I’m tempted to pull a Shay Mitchell and wear an adult diaper. She did a YouTube series while pregnant and said she often wore depends because she was on set for 16+ hours and couldn’t go to the bathroom every 15 minutes. 😂

ruby696

@jhysmath I'm hoping if I can get in my 120 ounces at work, I won't be so thirsty in the evening. I'm so tired (ha -pun intended!) of waking up at midnight to go to the bathroom.

jhysmath

@ruby696 me too! Especially because DD throws a huge fit when I leave the bed if she's not fully asleep and then it's a big process to get her back to sleep. Lately I've been super thirsty in the middle of the night, but don't feel like dealing with having to get up to drink either. 

mdfarmchick

@rox7777 that’s funny!

@ruby696 I’m supposed to drink similar. They are real serious about lots of water here in the desert. 😐 It’s so hard for me. 

@shamrocandroll we missed you! I’m so glad you had a good time—that sounds like a pretty fun time, minus the Airbnb debacle. 

I’m just here to say... coffee for the second time since I peed on a stick and even though I got half caf I feel like a brand new person. Minus this cold. And I made it to the gym for 30 minutes this morning! 

soprano19

+1 for having trouble drinking enough water. It's mostly because I can only go pee at certain times during the day. But I know I need to drink more because it really helps fight the nausea.

drkoyya

I’m currently gushing ☺️ My DH is going to be a great FTD. 

We had our NT scan yesterday. Before the scan, I was anxious about what was going on with baby. After seeing the baby, I’m over here confident the baby is fine. Now he’s the anxious one. He wants to get the results of the blood test to prove the baby is fine. He also just sent me an email with tickets to the LA baby show this weekend. I didn’t even know such a thing existed. 

jhysmath

One of my students came to homeroom yesterday afternoon saying someone at this school is pregnant. She then started trying to name students she thought might be pregnant and said it's too hard because everyone is having sex and there are no virgins left. I asked where she got her info from and she said well someone told someone and now everyone knows. I asked well if someone told someone then shouldn't you know who that someone is and she said no because she told one of the paras at the school (who I can't stand anyhow and this just makes me even angrier) and that para told her. Well for starters paras shouldn't be sharing information with students like that and this one has a big mouth and spread tons of rumors that she hears that aren't even true. She has 8 kids at home herself so I told my student oooh maybe it's her!!! you know 9 kids are always better than 8!! I'm hoping that spreads as a rumor instead and gets back to her husband who is on the school board or one of her 8 kids in our school her 17 year old step son is the one I'd really like to see get that information. 

If you're going to gossip go ahead, but don't gossip with the students you're their educator not their friend. 

shamrocandroll

July due dates should be starting to come in right about now!  Today is 2 weeks from an O-day that would give a 7/1 due date.  I get giddy when they add another waiting room/BMB and we get to "move up" the ranks!  

stella_700

@shamrocandroll That cracks me up! I love it. I'm the one that constantly calculates how far along I am, and when people (close family) ask, I give it to them by the day.

allywat

So I found out today I have an official May due date; (I had no clue honestly between April/May/June) I’m 5/17 so right in the middle. I hope to be much more active around here; my last BMB has my heart and I know how meaningful they can be. 

thepretzelchick

So...that "Last Christmas" movie that comes out in a few weeks...

Henry Golding is totally a ghost and Emilia Clarke has a heart transplant the previous year and it's totally his, amirite? So now this is a "show her the meaning of Christmas and/or how wonderful her life could be if she took better care of herself/appreciated her family and friends and job" thing. 

emlettuce

@thepretzelchick it's like they made a whole movie out of this stupid meme

mdfarmchick

To all my NOCAL friends... all of this makes me so ragey for you. And can I just say, PG&E still CHARGES you for power when they cut your power off?! How is that legal?!
https://www.kcra.com/article/report-broken-pgande-equipment-kincade-fire/29580807#

sbishop426

We found a few days ago baby #3 is a girl (we have 2 boys). I could have sworn this was another boy and I think my husband got his hopes up and is now a little disappointed. I think he’s honestly just scared because he’s always been one to be concerned about my safety and now he has a little girl to worry about too. 

shamrocandroll

@sbishop426 This will be a great opportunity for him to raise a strong and empowered girl who doesn't need anyone to protect her.  And part of that means empowering and trusting her to make good choices instead of being one of those dads who threatens new boyfriends.   

ruby696

@mdfarmchick Don't get me started on the entire situation. We just got power back on last night and they're going to shut it off again Saturday. 

tj_2

shamrocandroll said:

@sbishop426 This will be a great opportunity for him to raise a strong and empowered girl who doesn't need anyone to protect her.  And part of that means empowering and trusting her to make good choices instead of being one of those dads who threatens new boyfriends.   

Beautifully said!
My husband has been saying he's scared of having a girl (Team Green here) and I'm just going to repeat this to him.  

mokay19

shamrocandroll said:

@sbishop426 This will be a great opportunity for him to raise a strong and empowered girl who doesn't need anyone to protect her.  And part of that means empowering and trusting her to make good choices instead of being one of those dads who threatens new boyfriends.   

DD recently said “help me, Daddy” he said, “I’ll help you because I love you, but you don’t need a man to help you succeed” 😂😂
mind you, she’s  2... so she probably just needed help reaching the cookies in the pantry 

shamrocandroll

@mokay19 Bah-hahaha, that's amazing.  I like YH!  

shamrocandroll

You guys, I'm a moron and posted this week's product spotlight in the April BMB after copy/pasting it from there.  I turned it into a Friday GIF party, but no one is playing and I'm embarrassed.  Hahaha.  

ruby696

@shamrocandroll 😂😂😂

soprano19

Lol @shamrocandroll

This week has been insane. I had concerts at school on Tuesday and Wednesday nights and marching band last night. I'm effing exhausted and this morning was a special kind of struggle with nausea while trying to get ready and get out the door. On the plus side, we told my ILs last night about this pregnancy and they were super excited, and we're telling the rest of my family throughout the weekend. H's younger brother and his wife already know, and we're not super close to his older brother and family, so we'll get around to telling them eventually.

pirateduck

@manechka10  I didn't see a weekly questions thread for this week so I'm posting in weekly randoms.  I saw you were asking about a hemorrhage around the baby.  As @shamrocandroll mentioned, a SCH is relatively common and more often than not, does not lead to miscarriage.  Definitely talk to your doctor about it.  I had a SCH that was visible on my first ultrasound myself.  The doctors measured it and monitored it.  If it was growing too large and didn't resolve that could be a problem.  The next ultrasound 2 weeks later, they looked at it again.  It was not any larger, if anything it was smaller.  The doctors were not concerned at all.  By the next ultrasound they didn't even mention it and everything is progressing normally.  Don't panic.  I also had a friend who had an extremely large hemorrhage late in pregnancy.  She was monitored closely and put on bed rest for awhile, but still carried the baby to term and he was born healthy and she was safe.  Get as much info as you can from your doctors and praying all is well with your little one.

drkoyya

@shamrocandroll I’ll pop over and play 😉

m6agua

Like @pirateduck I’m going to put this here.

@manechka10 First I’m sorry that you are dealing with this SCH. As others have said most of the time they are no big deal and go away eventually. However sometimes they can be a serious miscarriage threat.  *TW large SCH/miscarriage in spoiler*

One of my close friends lost her baby at 16 weeks due to a really large SCH that was in a bad placement (Near the placenta). She found out about the SCH around 8 weeks and then it was limbo from there. At first it was shrinking and things looked positive. Then it started growing again and ultimately caused the placenta to detach which caused her miscarriage. She was on pelvic rest and not doing anything strenuous. All of the Genetic tests came back and the baby was completely healthy. Ultimately nothing she did caused it and unfortunately there was nothing the doctors could do except continued monitoring.