week 3 (05/15/21-05/21/21) check-in w/o 11/30

mrosek91

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days:

FTM/STM/STM+:

Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out:

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of:

Upcoming appointments:

How are you feeling?:

Rants/Raves:

Questions:

GTKY: Strangest gift you ever received?

mrosek91

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 5/20 15+4

FTM/STM/STM+: 4tm

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

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: don't remember, too lazy to look it up.

Upcoming appointments: Friday for a quick doppler check.

How are you feeling?: Tired, not many pregnancy symptoms right now, but getting over a cold, and not a fan of being sick.

Rants/Raves: Too tired to think of any. (Which may be a rant in and of itself)

Questions: NATM

GTKY: Strangest gift you ever received? DH bought me hubcaps. Usually for our anniversary we pick something together that's for both of us. One year he said he found something to surprise me with, and it was hubcaps, something that's hard to find for my car, but still...

mimser

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: May 17 / 16 weeks

FTM/STM/STM+: FTM with my 20 week boy in my heart 💙

Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Blue

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: an avocado/ a chipmunk (with the tail)

Upcoming appointments: December 11 - Flu shot / December 29 - Anatomy scan / January 8 - High risk OB 

How are you feeling?: Good! Really, can't complain. I feel like there's a little pull in my back, but that's it.

Rants/Raves: My OB thought my AS was too late and got it moved over a we week earlier! 

Questions: Anybody feeling baby move yet? 

GTKY: Strangest gift you ever received? Hmm, my fiancé gave me a reusable tote bag twice 😅 The last one was last Christmas I think and his grandfather couldn't stop laughing and saying it was a bad gift 😂 I got plenty of other much nicer gifts in his defense. We like to give each other a few of what we call little thoughts.

brynn_mamaof4

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 15 weeks 5 days 

FTM/STM/STM+: 4TM 

Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: finding out (hopefully) on Thursday! 

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a light bulb 

Upcoming appointments: had a chiropractor appt today, have my 16 week tomorrow and an elective gender scan on Thursday 

How are you feeling?: The last few days have been pretty rough but today was much better 

Rants/Raves: I believe I felt the baby move for the first time a couple days ago. It surprised me in a good way! My placenta is anterior so I expected it would be longer but I think the baby was in the right spot because of my positioning at the time. Haven’t felt it sense, but it was exciting! 

Questions:

GTKY: Strangest gift you ever received? I received a “50 shades of chicken” cookbook which is strange in the best way. The description of the recipes are hysterical haha. 

vsutliff

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: May 21 / 15 +3

FTM/STM/STM+: STM

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

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of:  about the size of a box of crayons 

Upcoming appointments: dec 1 . 

How are you feeling?:  still occasionally nauseous but better 

Rants/Raves: 

Questions: cant think of any right now 

GTKY: Strangest gift you ever received? 
At least to me it was a car plug in heat up travel mug. We used to travel alot so I get the thought behind it from the gifter 🤷‍♀️ 

dlynn484

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: May 17th/16 weeks 1 day

FTM/STM/STM+: STM +

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

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: It says that baby boy is the size of a CD today. 

Upcoming appointments: I have my 16 week appointment tomorrow afternoon. 

How are you feeling?: I’m feeling some better. The last few evenings I have cut my Unisom in half. I’ve been a bit more gaggy but it is tolerable. The upside is I’ve been a bit more alert during the day. 

Rants/Raves: N/A

Questions: Is anyone opting out of the blood draw that tests for spina bifida? I believe I opted out for my last two pregnancies. I think I may do it this time but my big concern about any of those tests is receiving a false positive and adding stress. 

GTKY: Strangest gift you ever received?
When my husband and I had just started dating, he gave me a stuffed soccer ball. I’m convinced he had no idea what to get me and decided to find something random. He’s gotten much better at gift giving over the years. 😄

brynn_mamaof4

@dlynn484 please tell me you Atleast used to be a soccer player lol?!?! 

mimser

@dlynn484 I kind of just found out about the spina bifida test this week on this board. No doctor has ever talked to me about it. I read a little about it and it seems like they can diagnose it at the Anatomy Scan? As for the hormone they test, I had it measured when doing my screening for trisomy 13, 18, 21 so I assume if they had seen anything they would have flagged it...🤷‍♀️

dlynn484

@brynn_mamaof4 😂 Nope! He used to be though.
@mimser That’s a good point! I will ask if my previous test checked for that. 

ec1212

@dlynn484 I just had it done this week, but I think the late a/s at 20 weeks seems to be what the doctors really go on. The blood test is less reliable but can give a few weeks of additional time to confirm with a second blood test and do intrauterine surgery on baby's spine (if it's warranted) in a specific time frame.

brynn_mamaof4

@dlynn484 lol idk why I find that so random and funny, you win! It’s so random its kinda cute 😂

dlynn484

@brynn_mamaof4 😂