Welcome week 1 mamas!! Happy to join forces.Ā
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Estimated Due Date / Weeks + Days:
FTM/STM/STM+: Ā
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Ā
Interesting Baby Fact / Baby is the size of: Ā
Upcoming appointments: Ā
How are you feeling? Ā
Rants/Raves: Ā
Questions: Ā
GTKY: Describe your ideal relaxing day (or night). *Bonus: How can you (or a loved one) create some element of that for yourself in the next 2 weeks?
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FTM/STM/STM+:Ā STM
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Ā Blue
Interesting Baby Fact / Baby is the size of: Ā Axolotl
Upcoming appointments: Ā I was supposed to have my 20 week a/s at MFM this Wednesday but it's been pushed to next week due to one of their techs contracting COVID.Ā
How are you feeling? Ā Meh. Not as sick but just lots of aches and pains and I'm tired and irritable.
Rants/Raves: Ā
Rave: it's a short week! Not as short as I'd like since I'm working a half day Christmas Eve but I'll take it.
Rave #2: we finally got some work done on our bathroom this weekend! It's been down to the studs for 3 years (found major water damage, had some initial demo done, had a baby 2 months later, never made it a priority to build it back since we have another full bathroom and wanted to take our time to plan but now that we're adding two more kiddos, it's time!). Just a little more demo to get done this week/weekend and then plumbing can start and then from there we can tile! I started ordering everything and it hurts a little even though this is money we had put aside for this exact reason lol.Ā
Questions: Ā Nope.
GTKY: Describe your ideal relaxing day (or night). *Bonus: How can you (or a loved one) create some element of that for yourself in the next 2 weeks?Ā A complete "me" day. Chick-fil-A breakfast, a haircut, a 90 minute massage, and a day full of no responsibilities and nobody climbing all over me.
FTM/STM/STM+: FTM
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: BLUE!
Interesting Baby Fact / Baby is the size of: A pancake. Mmmm.
Upcoming appointments: A/S a week from today. I wonder if it will be 3D.
How are you feeling? Great! Working out the past few weeks has been great not just physically, but mentally having a morning routine again gives shape & purpose to my day.
Rants/Raves: Rave for cooking a fancy seafood pasta dinner on Christmas Eve for Feast of the Seven Fishes, and cooking almost nothing (except a pie for dessert) for Christmas Day. I ordered out to support a local restaurant and so I can relax and enjoy a quiet day. Might be my last quiet Christmas ever, so gonna cuddle into it.
Questions: None! Excited that we hired a birth doula and we have our childbirth workshop with her tonight!
GTKY: Describe your ideal relaxing day (or night). Sunday brunch with hubby or best friends, followed by a bath and reading all day/night. Maybe pizza or a cheeseburger for dinner and some reality TV by myself before an early bedtime.
*Bonus: How can you (or a loved one) create some element of that for yourself in the next 2 weeks? Had a great day close to this yesterday (a bath and reading all day/night). Can't wait for the vaccine to roll out so we can get back to brunch life. I miss my friends.
FTM/STM/STM+: Ā 4th time momĀ
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Ā pink
Interesting Baby Fact / Baby is the size of: Ā least weaselĀ
Upcoming appointments: Ā regular ob on Thursday, ultrasound ECG on Jan 5
How are you feeling? Ā Spacey! Pregnancy brain is real, and in full effect.
Rants/Raves: Ā I have officially started swelling. Iāve only gained about 5 lbs.... until the other day.... I gained 5 lbs in less than a week. On the plus side, I can feel the baby move all the time now. And DH felt her kick for the first time yesterday! šā¤ļø
Questions: Ā Anyone else swelling yet?
GTKY: Describe your ideal relaxing day (or night). *Bonus: How can you (or a loved one) create some element of that for yourself in the next 2 weeks?Ā
FTM/STM/STM+:Ā Third
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Green (But I did try to convince DH to go get a private scan to find out and tell family on Christmas, he was not down haha)Ā Ā
Interesting Baby Fact / Baby is the size of: Yesterday it was a box of dryer sheets
Upcoming appointments: Nothing until JanĀ
How are you feeling? I've been working at 6am everyday so I've been pretty tired but I have had lot's of time with family in the afternoons so that has been nice!Ā
Rants/Raves:Ā Ā
Questions: Ā
GTKY: Describe your ideal relaxing day (or night). *Bonus: How can you (or a loved one) create some element of that for yourself in the next 2 weeks? Honestly any day where I don't have to wake up for something is ideal haha. I also just love getting lost in a book. DH let me read for like 5 hours straight a few weeks ago, it was amazing.Ā
FTM/STM/STM+: Ā FTM
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Ā Team green
Interesting Baby Fact / Baby is the size of: Ā a bananaĀ
Upcoming appointments: just had a/s and will have glucose test and a growth scan on 1/18
How are you feeling? Ā Honestly feeling pretty good! I can start exercising again now that my placenta has moved out of the way, so am excited to slowly get back into that. And wow hitting the 20w anatomy scan milestone feels amazingāit certainly doesnāt eliminate all concern but it feels like a new chapter in pregnancy. Iām so grateful!Ā
Rants/Raves: Ā This is probably my fourth rant about sleep but here we are! I hate the no back sleeping rule because whenever I wake up slightly on my back I panic. And even though the studies seem solid, and I will keep doing everything I can to stay on my side, it sounds like the studies are on women who sleep the whole night on their backs. My doctor said even having a small incline from a pillow will make it safe to accidentally roll over, which is a relief. But I just hate this nightly worry and discomfort.Ā
Questions: Ā For FTMs when are you starting to gather things for the nursery/allowing baby products and furniture to arrive?Ā
GTKY: Describe your ideal relaxing day (or night). *Bonus: How can you (or a loved one) create some element of that for yourself in the next 2 weeks? With Christmas in mind, ideal day includes reading on the couch with DH in front of the tree and having some good homemade meals! Iām sure weāll accomplish this seeing as we arenāt seeing anyone for Christmas.Ā
FTM/STM/STM+: STM+, baby #3
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Green!Ā
Interesting Baby Fact / Baby is the size of: Paper plane Ā Ā
Upcoming appointments: Mayo Clinic offers a Nest Program, where they send you home with a BP cuff and a Doppler then call you monthly, so Iāve been doing that. I have no idea when my next actual office visit is.Ā
How are you feeling? Tired and have some nasty reflux. Ā
Rants/Raves: Iām spiraling after some minor findings on my A/S last week. I need to chill and I worry less. As for a rave- Iām happy to be back on the boards after a hiatus since like week 6. Hope youāll have me back.Ā
Questions: Anybody ever have US findings of a small BPD? Babyās is only 5th percentile so I have to have a follow up US the end of next month. There was also a small choroid plexus cyst which the OB said is nothing to worry about.Ā
GTKY: Describe your ideal relaxing day (or night). *Bonus: How can you (or a loved one) create some element of that for yourself in the next 2 weeks? I love a good meal at home with a glass of wine. Iām making a prime rib for Christmas so I hope that fulfills my āgood mealā, although Iām sure cooking Christmas dinner will be far from relaxing
@yellingbanana no swelling yet here. But I didnāt swell with either of my other pregnancies, so fx it stays away this time too.Ā
March 2016 Moms: January Siggy Challenge "Pregnancy Problems"
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