All Week Check-In 9/6/20

luckypenny11

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days:

FTM/STM/STM+: 

Team Green/Pink/Blue: 

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: 

Upcoming appointments: 

How are you feeling: 

Rants/Raves: 

Questions:

GTKY: what is your favorite scent?

bearmomma1

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days:
11/30, 28 weeks, 3rd trimester baby!!

FTM/STM/STM+: 
STM

Team Green/Pink/Blue: 

Blue

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: 

Eggplant

Upcoming appointments:
tomorrow!

How are you feeling: 
Lots of anxiety, heart palpitations, very sore hips, sciatic nerve pain, tired..lol 3rd tri coming in hot

Rants/Raves: 

We built baby’s crib over the weekend and ordered a rug. rearranged some other furniture and DD’s room. Still need to pick out a dresser and move a few things. 

Questions:

GTKY: what is your favorite scent?
fresh baked cookies or fresh brewed coffee ☺️

bartonolivia

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 25 weeks tomorrow 

FTM/STM/STM+: 4th 

Team Green/Pink/Blue: Green 

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: cauliflower 

Upcoming appointments: 23rd glucose test 

How are you feeling: Better! 

Rants/Raves: it’s my middles 4th birthday. 😭 why does time fly by so fast 

Questions:

GTKY: what is your favorite scent? Depends on the day! Love coffee, vanilla, lemon, orange. Just depends on my mood! 

jchpg

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 26+6

FTM/STM/STM+: STM

Team Green/Pink/Blue: blue 

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: lettuce (tomorrow!)

Upcoming appointments: regular check up and GD screen this week. 

How are you feeling: exhausted and tired, but holding up. 

Rants/Raves: Sooo happy for the holiday today. It’s my work day so I can’t get so much done and ignore emails until tomorrow. 

Yes I’d preferred to take a day off, but that’s just not in the cards right now! 

GTKY: what is your favorite scent? I love the smell of a pine forest or how it smells just after a new rain. 

thankfullyamama

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 08-12-2020 (26+6)

FTM/STM/STM+:  FTM

Team Green/Pink/Blue:  blue

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a bushel of kale lol 

Upcoming appointments: with my GP tomorrow to see if I have an inguinal hernia from lifting an obese patient at work 😩 and then my GD screen is Wednesday!

How are you feeling: tired, always full yet always very hungry, emotional lol

Rants/Raves: Driving 9 hours to see DH for a few days next week and I’m slightly nervous yet excited 

Questions:  nope

GTKY: what is your favorite scent? I love the smell of my dog haha I know that sounds weird but he has hair not fur and smells like my house (which usually smells like a vanilla candle!) I also love when DH puts on his cologne, he rarely uses it but when he does omggg

shelmcclel

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 12/15 , 25+6 

FTM/STM/STM+: FTM

Team Green/Pink/Blue: 🎀🎀

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: cauliflower, tomorrow a bunch of kale or an acorn squash

Upcoming appointments: 9/24 for 28 week + 2nd 3-hr GD screen 

How are you feeling: pretty good! Getting more tired lately in the afternoons and noticing certain positions sitting or laying down are getting uncomfortable 

Rants/Raves: For my Bday DH got me a tanzanite ring Bc it will be (most likely) the baby’s birthstone. It was very very sweet. Here’s to hoping my fingers don’t get too fat to keep wearing it!

Questions: none 

GTKY: what is your favorite scent? obsessed with lavender, rose, vanilla and anything woodsy. The diptyque Baies scent is also all over our house in various types of scent
options.

dobiemom11

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 25w3d

FTM/STM/STM+: FTM

Team Green/Pink/Blue: Blue

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Cauliflower

Upcoming appointments: Specialist on Thurs to double check on his heart

How are you feeling:. So hungry and yet also so full.  Also having more trouble sleeping lately.  

Rants/Raves: Spent the day with some good friends and some new friends at a cook-out.  Today felt normal in terms of Covid and also pregnancy.  I was feeling good and beautiful all dressed up and socializing.  Just nice to see real people and laugh in a change of scenery.  

GTKY: what is your favorite scent?  I love evergreen or holiday home scent (the red Yankee candles around the holidays).  

laurenspdx

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days:
12/8, 27 weeks tomorrow!

FTM/STM/STM+: 
FTM

Team Green/Pink/Blue: 
Team Green!

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: 
A head of cabbage 😳

Upcoming appointments: 
A few weeks until my next OB appt

How are you feeling: 
Pretty good! Definitely tired and being kicked a LOT. Heartburn at least seems under control 🤞🏻

I’ve still been able to run around and even played some (obviously non contact) Aussie Football. Had a kick and did some drills. Pretty stoked to still be moving pretty well!

Rants/Raves: 
So tired of ranting haha. Can my rant be that I have too much to rant about?

Questions:
None!

GTKY: what is your favorite scent?
I love the smell of campfire (but only a campfire that’s made and enjoyed responsibly haha).

gingkomama

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 12/15, 26 weeks

FTM/STM/STM+: STM

Team Green/Pink/Blue: green

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: butternut squash

Upcoming appointments: 28 week appt

How are you feeling: Really good physically except for being extra tired this weekend

Rants/Raves: I have been extra tired this weekend, which I'm hoping is just a fluke. I don't want to return to first trimester exhaustion! 

Questions: None

GTKY: what is your favorite scent? Definitely lavender! Hands down my favorite. 

karmba

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 12/29 - 24 weeks today

FTM/STM/STM+: STM

Team Green/Pink/Blue: Pink

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Sega Game Gear

Upcoming appointments: Ultrasound on 9/21, regular OB with glucose test on 9/28

How are you feeling: Better, the RLP has died down a bit.  And today was the first time I could feel her kick with my hand on my stomach - a viability day celebration!

Rants/Raves: Rave - this was a really good weekend.  The weather was perfect and we had friends come over Saturday and Monday.  Our friend that came over yesterday love cooking for people so he brought so much food over and left all the leftovers for us.  We won't need to cook for days.

Questions: None

GTKY: what is your favorite scent? For candles I really like "fresh' smelling things.  My favorite candle was "Greenhouse"  by Yankee Candle, but they stopped making it a few years ago.  I like florals as well - especially Rose and Lilac.

feather_heather

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 26w4d

FTM/STM/STM+: FTM

Team Green/Pink/Blue: Pink

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Acorn Squash

Upcoming appointments: 9/22

How are you feeling: Good! Some hip pain at night and sore feet by the end of the day, but otherwise great!

Rants/Raves: A woman came up to me this weekend at the campground and correctly guessed that I was 26 weeks based on the size of my bump! haha I was very impressed! She said she is a labor and delivery nurse and also used to teach all the birthing classes at the hospital she works at

Questions: Nope

GTKY: what is your favorite scent? Any fall scented or pumpkin candle - which I'm not burning while pregnant because I know how bad they are for you. Will likely be baking more this fall so I can get in some fall scents naturally lol

conni0205

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 24 + 1 12/28

FTM/STM/STM+: STM

Team Green/Pink/Blue: blue

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: cantaloupe 

Upcoming appointments: I just had one today so I’m 4 weeks and glucose test in 2 weeks 

How are you feeling: soooo good! 

Rants/Raves: I love these kicks!!! 

Questions: none 

GTKY: what is your favorite scent? Christmas candles!!

charmedlifex3

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 23+ 5

FTM/STM/STM+: stm

Team Green/Pink/Blue: pink! 

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: pomegranate 

Upcoming appointments: fluids today, OB tomorrow

How are you feeling:  a little better? I got my PICC line last week so I’ve had fluids multiple times this week as well as a blend of IV and other meds and I actually managed to not lose anymore weight and eat a couple full meals!!! 🙌🙌🙌

Rants/Raves: the weather has been basically perfect here and my doctor pulled me from work as of last week- so I’ve gotten to enjoy it! I’m done with work until the end of pregnancy in theory and that is super weird. 

Questions:

GTKY: what is your favorite scent?
Rose water 

@feather_@feather_heather  candles are bad for you 😬😳? 

 

luckypenny11

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 12/17, 25+5

FTM/STM/STM+: STM

Team Green/Pink/Blue: pink 🎀

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: cauliflower/eggplant/prairie dog

Upcoming appointments: OB appt 9/25, glucose screening 9/29

How are you feeling: pretty good! The belly brace I ordered came last Friday, and I'm loving it - makes such a big difference on walks and chasing DD around the house.

Rants/Raves: I had such a great holiday weekend! DH and I both took Friday off so we could spend time together, and we ended up getting a bonus lunch date when my in-laws came up on Sunday and watched the baby during her nap.  I also got to see one of my good friends who I haven't seen for over 2 years (she and her husband just moved back from Rwanda in January).  

GTKY: what is your favorite scent?  a toss-up between evergreen trees, honeysuckle, and the ocean

willashbaby

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 12/18/20 25+4

FTM/STM/STM+: STM

Team Green/Pink/Blue: Blue 

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Foot is a AAA battery, lol.

Upcoming appointments: Just had one today (caught a yawn!) next is October 7, growth scan, glucose (again), TDAP, and FLU

How are you feeling: Overall not bad, constipation is the worst part but I'm managing. 

Rants/Raves: Not much but work, Today was the first day with virtual training and there's so much we still don't know. 

Questions: Nothing baby related. 

GTKY: what is your favorite scent? On DH it's Tom Ford Ombre Leather, sooooooooo good. On me it's Kilian I Don't Need a Prince by my Side to be a Princess. It's very marshmallowy and yummy, I wear it all Fall/Winter. 

cassafrass15

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 26+4

FTM/STM/STM+: STM

Team Green/Pink/Blue: Blue

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Eggplant

Upcoming appointments: GD screen & ultrasound 9/24

How are you feeling: Horrid anxiety - the kind where every ailment I have I'm convinced it's a death sentence. But otherwise pretty good! Still having trouble breathing through my nose and the nagging, but infrequent dry throat/cough is stubborn. Our skies are hazy with the smoke from CA's wildfires, so I'm sure that isn't helping!

Rants/Raves: We had a nice, relaxing and socially-distanced weekend in the mountains. Wish it had been a little cooler, but it was so fun to see DD playing in the streams and experiencing a ponderosa pine forest and all of it's wonders (we live in the Sonoran desert, so it's definitely a unique experience for her). 

Questions: Does anyone else use Flonase? It's not on my list of "approved" medications, but my PCP seems to think it's fine. Can't get my OB's office to call me back...

GTKY: what is your favorite scent? The Sonoran desert right before and/or after the rain. There's a common yellow-flowering bush here called the creosote and it gives off a sweet, musky and citrusy scent just before and right after rain. It perfumes the whole desert and is lovely.

@bearmomma1 Ditto on the anxiety. Mine has probably never been this bad.

@tryingktogku Oh man DH's cologne always makes me want to go to pound town.

@feather_heather Candles are bad?!

willashbaby

@cassafrass15 I used flonase all through my last pregnancy. Totally fine especially since it pretty much just stays in your sinuses. My OB prescribed it for me even lol (this was before OTC). I alternated with nasonex. 

feather_heather

@the_road_to_oz and @cassafrass15 - Because I dealt with infertility and went thru IVF I did a lot of research on eliminating toxins from my everyday life to try to improve our chances of conceiving. Candles were unfortunately one of the bad things I had to eliminate - the wax releases harmful chemicals into the air that you breathe in, and also the fragrance oils used in them are not healthy for use either. The good news is that 100% beeswax and 100% soy candles are safe - although much more expensive!