October 2020 Moms
kboydbowman
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Weekly Check-in, Week 3 (10/15-10/21) - 7/6
kboydbowman
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How far along are you?
Due date?
Upcoming appointments?
Rant/rave?
Questions?
GTKY: What's your biggest fear for your current pregnancy/birth?
Due date?
Upcoming appointments?
Rant/rave?
Questions?
GTKY: What's your biggest fear for your current pregnancy/birth?
Current pregnancy -
First BFP on 1/4/22. Due date 9/13/22.
First BFP on 1/4/22. Due date 9/13/22.
Four prior losses, no living children - 1 first trimester miscarriage, 1 blighted ovum, 1 chemical, and one extreme premature live birth daughter who died at 15 days old.
Re: Weekly Check-in, Week 3 (10/15-10/21) - 7/6
Due date? 10/21
Upcoming appointments? 7/16 for glucose test
Rant/rave? Rave-I start my first day of my fellowship today! Going to make this check in quick whilebwhile eating my breakfast because I want to get there early and get settled.
Rant-nausea picked back up and I still haven't stopped meds. Got sick twice this weekend.
Questions? Nah.
GTKY: What's your biggest fear for your current pregnancy/birth? Always worried about the what ifs until baby is in my arms, but my overall biggest worry is handling 2 children, getting enough sleep, and my job over the first year of life. I was a zombie for so so long with DD.
Due date? 10/18
Upcoming appointments? 7/13 for glucose test
Rant/rave? My WFH setup has finally started working, so I'm able to connect to the network and our shared mailbox in Outlook, which means I can actually tackle my worklist from home and feel productive. It only took 3 1/2 months!
Questions? Nah
GTKY: What's your biggest fear for your current pregnancy/birth? I'd have to say all of the unknowns with the whole L&D process. As a FTM, I feel kinda short-changed that we aren't getting as many appointments and aren't able to sign up for first-time parents and L&D delivery classes right now because of COVID. I know nothing can truly prepare you for all of that, but it still would put my mind at ease that we did our due diligence in preparation for the baby's arrival, you know? I have no idea how I'll handle the pain, I have no idea how MH will be in the delivery room (we've had talks about the kind of support I think I'll need, but I truly don't know so how can he know?), and have an outline of a birth plan already thanks to the advice of a coworker who just gave birth yesterday morning. So yeah, just all of the unknowns are really weighing in the back of my mind.
Due with baby #2: Feb 2022
Due date? October 20
Upcoming appointments? July 29 for glucose test
Rant/rave? Rant- it’s been so dang HOT the last few days. The 4th was miserable but we spent most of it in the air conditioning. Real feel was 99 yesterday 😰
Questions? None for the moment
EDIT - thought of one! When did you feel your first Braxton Hicks contractions? I think I felt my first one last night!
GTKY: What's your biggest fear for your current pregnancy/birth? I have a lot of the same fears as @babyodo as a FTM too, but I also am worried about returning to school pregnant as high risk if we are returning to the classroom (we will find out the official plan from our district sometime in the next week or so). I want to start the year with my students because I absolutely love my preschoolers but I just don’t know what’s going to happen by fall. I’m worried that I’ll get exposed to COVID from a student or coworker and that I won’t get to see my baby after I deliver. I’m worried that I won’t make it to full term and baby will spend time in the NICU. I’m also sad that my mom won’t get to see her first and only grandchild in person at the hospital.
Due date? 10/16
Upcoming appointments? Two weeks
Rant/rave? Heartburn can kiss my butt. It’s been horrible lately.
Questions? Anyone want to share their plan for what they are planning on doing with LO while you go into labor.
GTKY: What's your biggest fear for your current pregnancy/birth?
not being able to have anyone to watch DD. My in laws aren’t exactly reliable plus they live 1.5 hours away. I’ve asked a few friends but I hate imposing.
Due date? Oct 19
Upcoming appointments? July 14th for glucose screening and rhogam before I drive across country for the move
Questions? Nope.
GTKY: What's your biggest fear for your current pregnancy/birth? I try not to dwell on health stuff that's out of my control. I mostly worry that we've bitten off too much with all kinds of life changes all at once, and how am I going to juggle job and baby and travel and covid next spring when I need to come back to Arizona, ugh. Also speaking of covid, how are we going to deal with grandparents coming from hotspots in Arizona and California and wanting to cuddle baby.
25+1
Due date?
10/18
Upcoming appointments?
Glucose screening, hemoglobin check, and Preeclampsia labs all in one in three-ish weeks.
Rant/rave?
My high risk doctor told me a different weight for baby than the ultrasound report said and now I'm an anxious mess wondering which measurement is right. I envy people who don't have to obsess and panic that baby is gaining too fast or too slow. Bleh.
Questions?
How is it actually really July 😬
GTKY: What's your biggest fear for your current pregnancy/birth?
I have a lot of anxiety after losing my first baby during labor so I can't really put my finger on a single biggest fear.
@amapa20 that's a really helpful tip! I wasn't really able to feel any BH last pregnancy, at least nothing that really felt like one, and so far it's the same this pregnancy, I'm curious to know if I'm able to feel them later on.
Will your grandparents be willing to
quarantine for a few weeks before visiting?
Due date? 10/20
Upcoming appointments? 7/20
Rant/rave: glucose test looming in my near future 😩 I always get so sick. I did mention it to my dr and she said since I’ve never had GD she may let me do an alternate test but I dk what it’s called or that it was even an option. I also talked to her at my last appointment about how upset I was that I was sent home last time with as far along as I was progressed and how fast my labors are. She made sure to put a note at the top of my chart to not send me home so on call dr knows. I feel way better about that now. Last time I was sent home at 7:30 made it back at 8:15 and baby was delivered by charge nurse at 8:50. I’ve for sure had some anxiety about this one being born out of the hospital.
GTKY: What's your biggest fear for your current pregnancy/birth? Haha oh shoot just answered that above^
Due date? 10/19
Upcoming appointments? 7/28 for a video visit and 7/30 for a fetal echo (just because of DD2’s history)
Rant/rave? My next appointment is a video visit but after that I sincerely hope they don’t think I’m going to continue doing this. There is literally no point to chatting about my morning sickness and fetal movement for 5 minutes. I want her heart tones and my fundal height checked to be sure nothing is going amiss. Also, I’m checking my BP and urine at home but I’d feel more comfortable with them doing it.
Questions? Nope
GTKY: What's your biggest fear for your current pregnancy/birth? With DD2 I went from 6cm to her being delivered in about 10 mins. I’m just nervous about getting to the hospital too late or too early.
First BFP on 1/4/22. Due date 9/13/22.
@JLaVO888 I'm glad to see that you are back! A lot of people stopped posting around the time quarantine started.
How far along are you? 25 weeks 3 days
Due date? 10/16
Upcoming appointments? Last week of July
Rant/rave?
Rant: I'm stressed. Whenever I feel like this year can't get any worse, it does.
Rave: I enjoyed having a three day weekend. I spent a lot of time with DS, and I did a lot of cleaning. I continue to be thankful that this pregnancy appears to be normal and going well.
Questions? nope
GTKY: What's your biggest fear for your current pregnancy/birth? I have a lot of fears about this pregnancy/birth. The health of my baby is always my biggest worry. Lately, my most realistic fear is that my father will never meet this baby, and I'll probably never see him alive in person again. I'm trying to be hopeful that he will get better, but I'm starting to accept the fact that he is most likely near the end.
edit: spelling
@amapa20 I totally feel you there, I don't think realistically we can say no to the in laws so
I'm planning to let them fly when they want to and just be the hand washing no kissing police when they visit. I'm nervous though because they won't quarantine even if we ask them to and in the past my MIL has been sick and not said a word until we were there to visit and then acted all hurt that we wouldn't do hugs etc. 🙄
At least they're really the only family we're close to or that are part of our lives so I won't have to deal with crowds of people and germs with a newborn.