PGAL wo 10.12

bbrahmbhatt

How far along are you?

How are you feeling (symptoms, mentally/emotionally)?

Any upcoming appointments? 

GTKY: Pumpkin spice: love it or nah?

theletlers

How far along are you?
13 + 2
How are you feeling (symptoms, mentally/emotionally)?

A lot of discharge this week which is normal I know, but annoying! Less nausea, but more migraines. I typically suffer from them, but had none during the first trimester.
Emotionally I’m all over the place. I’m worried about needing to go back to work and get a job during the year of covid, but we currently live with my parents and just know it won’t work well to still be here when baby is born. We’d like to maybe just stay through the rough part of winter and then move after that (we live less than an hour outside of Chicago so winters can be cold and snowy and not ideal for moving!) I was sort of hoping to get a just random job that I don’t care much about so it’s not trying to start a new career already several months pregnant but apparently I’m too qualified for anything entry level and can’t even get an interview. It’s just draining to think of a job that I need to put mental effort into doing right now living in a bit of a stressful environment with two kids and that causes extra behavioral issues for my oldest son while pregnant. If that makes sense. And for whatever reason I can’t shake this feeling that something is off in this pregnancy and I don’t know what it is even. I had an appointment last week but they said everything is fine. Even thought all they did was check vitals, heard baby’s heartbeat, asked if I wanted genetic screening and sort of left it at that. I’m not even sure what else I was looking for, but baby has a heartbeat so that’s good. 

Any upcoming appointments? 

Not until the beginning of November.

GTKY: Pumpkin spice: love it or nah? 

I guess in the middle? I don’t tolerate dairy well, so not as many options for me when we go out in that flavor. But I don’t dislike the flavor. 

BuckeyeNut05

How far along are you?
~11.5 weeks

How are you feeling (symptoms, mentally/emotionally)?
Physically, I do alright until mid-afternoon, and then the nausea starts to rise and peaks just around / after dinner. My energy level is slowly going back up. 

Mentally, I am doing better especially since they were able to find the hb at the second appointment. I will breathe easier after my genetic testing results and the anatomy scan (hopefully good news), which they moved up to 18 weeks since they cut out the appointments in between 11 and 18 due to COVID. 

Any upcoming appointments? 
Not until Dec 1 now. 😳

GTKY: Pumpkin spice: love it or nah?
Meh...I mean it’s good, but I really don’t get the obsession. 

@theletlers we used to live ~40 min outside of Chicago and (self) renovated and moved (not self, thank goodness) in Jan. It was terrible!!!

bblair24

How far along are you?
13 weeks tomorrow!

How are you feeling (symptoms, mentally/emotionally)?
Symptom wise, some days are better than others. Yesterday I felt halfway decent, today I’ve felt like crap and just laid all day. Queasy and exhausted and just bleh.

Mentally, I’m struggling. Not so much with the PGAL brain this week, just generally down. I’m tired of COVID. I’m tired of political arguments and rants. Everything just seems wrong right now and I feel lonely. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Any upcoming appointments? 
November 19th for my anatomy scan! 
@BuckeyeNut05, I’ll also be having my anatomy scan at 18 weeks. She said we’d wait 6 weeks for the next appointment rather than 4 weeks. I wasn’t sure why, but it makes sense to limit appointments due to COVID. I didn’t really think about it much - I was so happy that I’d be seeing the bean at 18 weeks instead of having to wait until 20, haha!

GTKY: Pumpkin spice: love it or nah?
Not a big fan. I don’t love the flavor, and also struggle with dairy like @theletlers said. I’d rather have hot chocolate! 

aisukurimsarang

How far along are you? 13w4d

How are you feeling (symptoms, mentally/emotionally)? Skipping this one this week 

Any upcoming appointments? Nov something or another. Oops. 

GTKY: Pumpkin spice: love it or nah? In things that require pumpkin spices... Like bread, pie, scones. I take cinnamon in my coffee, but not pumpkin! 

theletlers

@BuckeyeNut05 oh that sounds cold!!! I’m hopeful everything can wait until maybe end of February or March and we can hopefully catch some mild winter days for moving big things at least. Our last love was so chaotic and now this one will be to move into our own space while I’m very pregnant, so likely chaotic as well. 

@bblair24 Now I want hot chocolate!

thedomesticgeek

How far along are you? 11 weeks 6 days

How are you feeling (symptoms, mentally/emotionally)?
So much better after seeing a heartbeat. I couldn't get the thought out of my head that it was another missed misscarriage. It still haunts me that we didn't know about our missed miscarriage for an entire month, and I was terrified that it would happen again. 

Any upcoming appointments? November 6th. We're debating on the genetic testing, we'll see if insurance will cover it I guess. 

GTKY: Pumpkin spice: love it or nah?

Yes please! I have at least one a year. This year it's decaf, so a little sad, ha! My daughter had a decaf version and lost her mind at how good it was. She was used to pumpkin steamers, so the addition of decaf coffee made her so happy. 😂