Group 1 (May 1-8) Week of 11/18

shamrocandroll

EDD/weeks+days: 

Team Finding Out/Pink/Blue/Green: 

Baby is the size of a(n):

Upcoming appointments:

How are you feeling? 

Raves/Rants: 

Questions: 

GTKY (stolen from Group 3): How many kids did you want when you were younger? What are your plans now?

newmomtx06

EDD/weeks+days: may 8 

Team Finding Out/Pink/Blue/Green: finding out

Baby is the size of a(n): apple I think 

Upcoming appointments: Wednesday 

How are you feeling? Feeling pretty good! Able to eat more and more food. Still having major insomnia. I wake up from about 3 to 530 every night.

Raves/Rants: DH is only working two days this week and we leave Saturday to visit family. I am so excited for it!

Questions: 

GTKY (stolen from Group 3): How many kids did you want when you were younger? What are your plans now? Back in my late teens/early 20s I wanted three or four. Now I am thinking we will be done at two. Then again, I  used to think I’d be completely done having kids by 30 😂 Real life definitely changes things.

shamrocandroll

@newmomtx06 Have fun fun visiting family!  Also, I hear you on real life changing things.  Never expected to be having kids in my mid-30s, haha.  

EDD/weeks+days: May 7 / 15+4

Team Finding Out/Pink/Blue/Green: Blue

Baby is the size of a(n): Orange

Upcoming appointments: Nothing until AS on the 12th

How are you feeling?  Pretty good!  Nausea seems to have died down and I'm letting MH touch me again, haha.

Raves/Rants:  Had a great weekend that was a good mix of productive and fun.  Next weekend is my annual wine and cheese party with my college friends, which I host, and it's the one time of year they all come up here to visit and spend the night.  I plan to tell them the news in person, which will be fun!  

Questions: 

GTKY (stolen from Group 3): How many kids did you want when you were younger? What are your plans now?  I always figured I'd have 2.  I don't know why.  But I'll be 35 next year and based on how hard it was to get pregnant this time around, I don't want to go through it again.  

mokay19

@shamrocandroll I feel like your anatomy scan sounds so close!! 

shamrocandroll

@mokay19 Haha, after having scans and/or checks every 2 weeks up until 14 weeks, it feels like forever away to me!  But it will probably be here before I know it!  

rox7777

@newmomtx06 MH wanted to be done with kids by 30. He turns 31 two month after baby is due, so we’ll call it close enough. 

@shamrocandroll We’re scheduling the AS this week! We will probably do 18 weeks since 20 weeks is so close to Christmas. It seems like it flew by. 

EDD/weeks+days: May 5 / 15+6 

Team Finding Out/Pink/Blue/Green: Pink! 

Baby is the size of a(n): Avocado. 

Upcoming appointments: This Friday for 16 weeks. 

How are you feeling? Ragey. I feel like I’m constantly mad. I don’t even know why. Slightly stressed out. Our kids have come between 36-38 weeks and I feel like we have so much to do before April comes.

Raves/Rants: I found a rose gold crib I’m totally in love with but it’s a little pricey. My mom offered to buy it and now I have all the big stuff out of the way, but nowhere to put it since the nursery is a clusterf**k right now. 

Questions: 

GTKY (stolen from Group 3): How many kids did you want when you were younger? What are your plans now? None. Oldest of 4 and spent most of my childhood taking care of babies. Plus I studied to be a teacher and didn’t want to deal with kids all day and then come home to more. Now we have SD, 2 boys and another on the way. This is for sure my last. Pregnancy is hard for me and I’m ready to get to the next stage of life.

sbishop426

EDD/weeks+days: May 3/16+1

Team Finding Out/Pink/Blue/Green: Pink

Baby is the size of a(n): avocado

Upcoming appointments: Routine appt today. Moving to another state due to my husband’s military orders Dec 3- I need to make an appt for my anatomy scan for sometime right after we move. I’ve been researching providers in the area 

How are you feeling? Feeling pretty good just more headaches lately. Sinus junk ftw

Raves/Rants: My 3 year old keeps asking when his baby sister is coming out, it’s so cute. He’ll be 4 by then and I think he’ll love being a helper 

Questions: can’t think of anything right now 

GTKY (stolen from Group 3): How many kids did you want when you were younger? What are your plans now? I think I wanted 2-3, I can’t remember lol. I’m having 3 

mokay19

@sbishop426 are you going to look for a provider on base? I delivered DD on base and there were so many helpful things during pregnancy and post-partum. Also, not getting a single bill is wonderful. I don’t have anything negative to say about my military hospital experience! 

shamrocandroll

@rox7777 I feel like I've been pregnant forever already, but that's probably because of how anxious I was the whole 1st trimester.  Glad it's flying for you!

@sbishop426 DS keeps asking me if he can look in my belly.    It's super cute!

rox7777

@shamrocandroll I’ve been absolutely miserable this time. And still getting MS. BUT I have terrible anxiety so I tend to feel like I never have enough time. So basically I can thank my anxiety for time flying. 😂😭

drkoyya

Hi 👋🏾 Took a little break but I’m back 

EDD/weeks+days: May 4th, 16 weeks

Team Finding Out/Pink/Blue/Green: Pink (Did an elective ultrasound a couple weeks ago so this may change, if it does I’ll be the first wrong estimate for the tech in 19 years)

Baby is the size of a(n): Avocado

Upcoming appointments: Today! Had a slight scare because my Dr couldn’t find a heartbeat on the Doppler. Turns out that I have an anterior placenta and baby looks fine  

How are you feeling? Generally good, when I don’t have a headache

Raves/Rants: My mom had a gender reveal party for herself, at work. She lives in Vegas, I live in So Cal. My husband and I were not present 🙄

Questions: Christmas break is around the corner and I want to take advantage and prep for baby. STM/TTM, any suggestions on what we should do between 20-24 weeks? 

GTKY (stolen from Group 3): How many kids did you want when you were younger? What are your plans now? 

The idea was always two and that’s still the plan. Originally was thinking having them close in age, but that probably won’t happen now.

rox7777

@drkoyya If you’re a first time mom with plans to have a baby shower, I wouldn’t go buying much. Essentially at 20-24 weeks I would focus on making your registry, price comparing, and cleaning out anything in your home to make room. Over Christmas break I’ll be cleaning out the future nursery, purging the house in general and likely stocking up on sales items since I’m a TTM that won’t be having a shower. I plan to do bulk baby shopping around “tax-mas” time because there’s usually a lot of good sales that time of year. 

sbishop426

@mokay19 the base we’re PCSing to is small and doesn’t have a hospital so I’ll be delivering at a civilian hospital. The base clinic doesn’t do OB stuff so I’ll have prenatal care off base as well. 

mokay19

@sbishop426 ah gotcha... That’s frustrating to have to worry about but I’m sure it’ll go great and there will be a great doctor in the area ☺️ 

babyfoxden10

EDD/weeks+days: May 2nd 

Team Finding Out/Pink/Blue/Green: Pink!

Baby is the size of a(n): Avocado or as tall as a grande coffee 

Upcoming appointments: See November Appointments for full story... But my 16 was supposed to be Thursday and ended up being today after a dizzy spell and heart palpitations at work. 

How are you feeling? I was doing just fine until today. I really need to eat more I’ve been so concerned about picking out the right foods that I don’t think I’ve been eating enough hence the lightheaded feeling today which led into heart palpitations when I panicked. 

Raves/Rants: Rave: I work with some awesome people and they totally helped me out today! 

Rant: My MIL’s friends are sending weird gifts like a pacifier for a 3 mos old and checks made out to my husband. Kinda odd. I won’t be having a shower which is killing my MIL, but I don’t want one. If people want to send gifts I’d prefer if they did it after she’s born. 

Questions: I haven’t gained any weight yet. I’m petite but I lost 5 lbs in the first trimester and I’ve only gained 2 back since. Should I be consciously trying to eat more calories?

GTKY (stolen from Group 3): How many kids did you want when you were younger? What are your plans now? Being one of three I’ve always wanted 3. Being one of two my husband wants 2. Let’s get through baby 1 first!

mokay19

@babyfoxden10 you should only worry about your weight if your Doctor is. That said, if you got dizzy from lack of calories then you need to eat more. Yes, the “eat for two” is a lie. But also yes, you need a few hundred extra calories per day. You also need more water to help you kidneys with the increase in blood volume. 

Basically, if you’re experiencing physical side effects from not eating, then eat and drink more. But always consult your doctor. 

laurasauruss

EDD/weeks+days: May 5th. 16 weeks

Team Finding Out/Pink/Blue/Green: green

Baby is the size of a(n): navel orange

Upcoming appointments: AS Dec 10th

How are you feeling? More headaches these days, nausea is getting a lot better though

Raves/Rants: Neither rant nor rave, but I forgot how hairy your belly gets during pregnancy (just me?), and did not miss feeling like you have to pee a whole bucket only to just get some trickles 

Questions: 

GTKY (stolen from Group 3): How many kids did you want when you were younger? What are your plans now? I guess I always thought I'd have to because that seemed to be average. We've talked about it and want to stop at two (because we don't want to be outnumbered lol), but we'll see how it goes and if in like 5 or 6 years we want another, we can consider trying again or adopting. Buuuut this baby is coming so much sooner than planned, so now I feel panicked like I want to experience it again further down the road. 

spiderlover25

@drkoyya I second waiting on purchases if you’re having a baby shower but it’s a great time to start prepping the room. Painting, selling stuff to make space, etc. 

@babyfoxden10 I didn’t gain anything with DD2 until the third trimester and my doctor was okay with that because I was eating healthy. I would be more concerned with eating full meals than with the number of actual calories.

EDD/weeks+days: 16+4, May 2

Team Finding Out/Pink/Blue/Green: blue!!

Baby is the size of a(n): eclair

Upcoming appointments: Had our anatomy scan today due to above average NT score. Baby’s heart is looking great as well as everything else! It was awesome but so weird to see his penis after having 2 girls. 

How are you feeling? Great!

Raves/Rants: can winter just be a big rant... I hate the snow and although we haven’t seen it yet, I know it’s coming any day. 

Questions: 

GTKY (stolen from Group 3): How many kids did you want when you were younger? What are your plans now? I’ve always wanted 3 but thought that we would stop at 2. Since #3 is on the way I think we are officially done!

ETA due date