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puppylove8910

EDD/W+D: 

Team pink/blue/green: 

Baby is the size of a(n): 

Cravings/Aversions/Symptoms:

Upcoming appts: 

Rants/Raves/Questions: 

momoftoddlers

EDD/W+D: 38 weeks

Team pink/blue/green: It's a boy

Baby is the size of a(n): *feels like a giant* baby 

Cravings/Aversions/Symptoms: Waddling. Peeing. Heartburn. Physical Exhaustion but Mental Anxiety.

Upcoming appts: Saw the midwife today. Heart rate and position good but won't do an internal check until next week. Kinda hoping to give birth before then. He feels SO low. 

Rants/Raves/Questions: I forgot how much I dislike this point in pregnancy, when I think I'm in labor every five minutes and it turns out to be nothing. Trying very hard to enjoy my last days with just my girls but that's easier said than done. Hope all is well ladies!

chichiphin

@momoftoddlers you're almost there!! I'm so sorry you've hit "that" point of pregnancy. I hope it goes quickly from here on out 

EDD/W+D: 34+5, April 1

Team pink/blue/green: pink!

Baby is the size of a(n): almost a pineapple? she's def had a growth spurt recently though, my stomach can tell lol

Cravings/Aversions/Symptoms: I'm obsessed with all things lemon right now. it's out of control. Chick Fil A diet lemonade though is my kryptonite  

Upcoming appts: ONE MORE WEEK and a day. Ugh I'm so ready to get my U/S to see where her head is. I've also decided I want a cervical check because I'm paranoid AF over the BH contractions & *tmi* diarrhea i've been having lately. So I guess less to know if I'm dilating for labor and more to know that I'm not dilated too much for 36 weeks pregnant at that point

Rants/Raves/Questions: don't think so!

puppylove8910

EDD/W+D: 3/23, 36 weeks 

Team pink/blue/green: 💗

Baby is the size of a(n): Chubby, delicious baby🤩

Cravings/Aversions/Symptoms: I've been having contractions on and off daily now, but with no consistency to them so I have a feeling this is just the new normal for the next few weeks. They're more intense than my BH contractions as I feel a lot of vaginal and rectal pressure rather than just abdominal discomfort. Sleeping well is a thing of the past, but I have gotten great at small naps throughout the day so that's keeping me afloat. I'm so happy DS still naps. No real appetite anymore, boobs have turned sore again (which I remember happening prior to labor with DS). I'm just waiting for better bowel movements which happened to me around 37 weeks last time! 

Upcoming appts: Thursday for my weekly check. Possible GBS swab since it didn't happen last week.

Rants/Raves/Questions: Trying my hardest to soak up every moment of baby girl inside as well as every moment with my DS as the only. His birthday is in 2 weeks so DD better stay put until after that! I'm also packing my hospital bag which sort of blows my mind. How is it already almost March?!? 

puppylove8910

Hang in there @momoftoddlers! Baby boy will be here soon enough 💙

@chichiphin ugh, such a long wait until your next appointment, but at least you will have weekly ones from here on out. Good luck with your cervical check! 

creativesoul63

@chichiphin we are twinsies this week with the lemon cravings and the *tmi* diarrhea making us nervous that labor is coming sooner rather than later! I had a really embarrassing episode at a friend's house on Friday where it came on so suddenly I had to stop mid-conversation and run to the bathroom!

EDD/W+D: 3/27 35w + 3d

Team pink/blue/green: pink!

Baby is the size of a(n): pineapple

Cravings/Aversions/Symptoms: Starting to have back soreness from being on my feet along time (I cooked up a bunch of freezer meals over the weekend and am now super sore). I've pretty much been in nesting mode since week 30, I feel like I have to be productive every weekend and feel useless if I'm just sitting around, but I also do need to take time to relax because being productive wipes me out! Still enjoying my lemon cookies with my raspberry leaf tea in the evenings!

Upcoming appts: next Tuesday, 3/3 for 36 week appointment - GBS swab and first cervix check! Now is where the appointments start getting interesting...

Rants/Raves/Questions: Rave: The Voice comes back on tonight! It's my fave guilty pleasure. Rant: I am having such a hard time being at work, I wish I could afford to take some time off before baby comes. I hate feeling like I might go into the labor while I'm at work and I'd really like to soak up some "me" time before life changes forever...

puppylove8910

@chichiphin @creativesoul83 just a friendly reminder to not get discouraged by the cervix checks. With my DS I had no dilation, no effacement, nothing each time they checked me. The doctors were convinced I was going to go late. Then all of a sudden at 39+2, my water broke at night and I was 2-3cm, 80% effaced😊

I plan to deny cervix checks this time around until 38 weeks. That's right around the corner anyway! 😯

chichiphin

@puppylove8910 i'm actually more concerned about the opposite - I've been having so prelabor symptoms that I want to see if that cervix is still nice small. I'm having paranoia that it will be too open for 36 weeks if that makes sense?

creativesoul63

@puppylove8910 my doctor said they like to do one at the same time as the GBS swab anyway, but depending on how that goes (I've heard from others it can be painful) I may deny them at the following appointments. It would be so nice to have somewhat of a heads up if I am close though!

NTbaby17

Ladies have you heard of the purple line that appears along your “natal cleft” which essentially means the top of your butt crack 😂 ? As the baby descends and you dialated the line creeps farther up and gets longer, I’m currently 1cm dialated and the line has appeared above my err butt crack and corresponds with what they say- might be worth checking ! 

https://www.lamaze.org/Connecting-the-Dots/the-redpurple-line-an-alternate-method-for-assessing-cervical-dilation-using-visual-cues

NTbaby17

Also feel like I should mention this is NOT a picture of me ! 😂👆🏻

caity_rose7

puppylove8910 said:

EDD/W+D: 3/7, 38w5d

Team pink/blue/green: pink

Baby is the size of a(n): size of something that needs to come out of me asap lol

Cravings/Aversions/Symptoms: eating everythingggggg, this is my 'fuck it' time.   last week I had tons of false labor contractions. even went to l&d Saturday night as they progressed to every 3 minutes. Then they stopped and almost none since. Seriously upsetting lol. 

Upcoming appts: in 3 days

Rants/Raves/Questions: false labor is fun!! kidding.

puppylove8910

I totally understand @chichiphin @creativesoul83! Excited to hear what you ladies find out

puppylove8910

You're so close @caity_rose7! Hang in there 😊

treetop19

EDD/W+D: March 10

Team pink/blue/green: pink

Baby is the size of a(n): ?

Cravings/Aversions/Symptoms: tired, sore, heartburn.. I can definitely tell this is the home stretch.

Upcoming appts: just had one monday with a cervical check.. only 2 cm dilated, 25% effaced, so nothing really exciting yet.  

Rants/Raves/Questions: really wish my ob group would all get on the same page.. last OB I saw was convinced I should be induced at 39 weeks (due to insulin-controlled GD), and wanted to set an induction date for this Friday (just shy of 39 weeks), she also said she'd try stripping membranes at my appointment monday.  So I went in yesterday fully expecting a membrane sweep... saw a different OB, who said they don't do those until a person is 39 weeks... so, no sweep!  and he is in the camp of 'wait until your due date and we'll see what happens'. and also 'we'll do a sweep next week'.   so.. I'm waiting it out.  but it really is annoying that all the obs aren't agreeing with each other on what should be done. 

mauvelousone

EDD/W+D: March 12, 37 weeks 5 days

Team pink/blue/green: Pink

Baby is the size of a(n): Penguin/romaine lettuce according to the app, but not really

Cravings/Aversions/Symptoms: Still heartburn and still not getting restful sleep.

Upcoming appts: Had a sonogram on Monday. The baby has shot up from 13th percentile to 25th percentile.

Rants/Raves/Questions: I'm pretty sure this baby is going to be a week late at least.  She's in the head down position and enjoys kicking me in the organs, but she's measuring 36 weeks not 37 and she hasn't dropped yet. Still, guess it could technically happen any day now.

uno_mas

EDD/W+D: 3/22 36w3d

Team pink/blue/green: blue

Baby is the size of a(n): baby

Cravings/Aversions/Symptoms: I have no real cravings or aversions, feels like non pregnancy. Waddling so much and just wanting a nap or two every day. 

Upcoming appts: tomorrow for gbs test and possibly nst 

Rants/Raves/Questions: just so curious about when this guy will arrive and how it will all go down.  I feel really flexible about how birth goes, no preconceived expectations. My other two were early though and I nested so hard and over prepared this time. I feel ready now so if he is late I literally don’t know what I will be doing for the next month. 

uno_mas

@NTbaby17 yes I have read that before about the purple line!  I can’t see around my body even with a mirror at this point though LOL

@puppylove8910 you are SO close!  Hoping you are getting lots of rest and just being really good to yourself these days. I feel like false labor is really common with 3rd babies.  Frustrating for sure. 

Love this old article from Mothering about the last days/weeks of pregnancy.  https://www.mothering.com/articles/the-last-days-of-pregnancy-a-place-of-in-between/

momoftoddlers

@treetop19 That is so frustrating! I had a similar experience, thought I was getting a cervical check at my 38 week appointment Monday bc that's what one midwife had told me, and then the midwife I saw that day said she wouldn't do it til 39. But she'll also do a membrane sweep that day, if possible, so hopefully if I'm still pregnant then it'll be the impetus for this baby to come out! I had contractions all day yesterday and then went to bed and nothing happened. Such a mind game! 

momoftoddlers

@chichiphin TMI but speaking from personal experience, lots of diarrhea in the weeks leading up to birth, could lead to avoiding the nerve-wracking/painful after birth poops lol. Always a silver lining!

chichiphin

@momoftoddlers oh boy I'd love for my IBS to be good for something!! 

Malidocious

LOL @momoftoddlers @chichiphin Me too!  Definitely having plenty of diarrhea right now... was not expecting it.  I've been basically unable to poop this entire pregnancy, but the last few days have been different!  TMI, but whatevs.

EDD/W+D: Due March 13th / 37+5!

Team pink/blue/green: Team pink!!

Baby is the size of a(n): According to this one app I use, the baby is the size of a lightweight kettlebell or a swiss chard.  Interesting. I had an u/s last Friday and she was 6 lbs exactly, in the 22nd percentile. 

Cravings/Aversions/Symptoms: My cravings remain the same... Arby's roast beef sandwiches, cottage cheese and cheese in general, fudge-y desserts I do not need, and a newish craving is for hot french fries.  Must be really hot, otherwise I'm not interested!  I still have aversions to a lot of red meat and fish.

Upcoming appts: This Friday, I'll be 38 weeks.  My regular OB will be out of the office at this appointment and I'll be seeing one of her NPs, so I'm really hoping she won't want to do a cervix check... I'd rather wait til next week at my 39 week appointment with my regular OB.

Rants/Raves/Questions: I'm mostly just speechless at the idea that we are THIS CLOSE to being done with pregnancy.  I feel like it just started and we were all in here, excited at the idea of new babies... and here we are, it's finally happening!  I feel like I've been pregnant FOREVER while simultaneously feeling like it went by in the blink of an eye.  I'm emotional, apparently.  Lol!

I'm nervous about contractions and I'm oddly nervous that I won't be able to tell I'm in labor ... but I imagine I'll know when it's happening.

puppylove8910

What a great article @uno_mas. I needed to read that today. I've definitely entered the in between and I will embrace it a lot more now 💗

uno_mas

@puppylove8910 I am so glad you read it and that it helped.  It made me cry in a way that felt
good today.  Right there with you in the “in between”.  It helped to be reminded that it’s a real and normal space to be for now. 

silverhope

@Malidocious you can decline the cervix check of you don’t want one from your NP. Also I def knew when labor was real—it hurt! For hours ha. Or maybe your water will break so that will be an easy tell.

EDD/W+D: 37w, 3/18

Team pink/blue/green: pink!

Baby is the size of a(n): skunk

Cravings/Aversions/Symptoms: want cheese fries and coffee. Prob not at the same time ha. 

Upcoming appts: tomorrow. I got a cervix check last time even though I didn’t want one bc he said that would let him confirm the head was down. I’m gonna decline it tomorrow now that I know she is head down. I don’t think cervix checks mean anything and could cause infection so no thank you. 

Rants/Raves/Questions: just wondering if this baby will come a lot later than her bro. I have a feeling she won’t cone as early as he did (37w5d)