Weekly Check In w/o 7.19

chindimples04

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of:

Team 💗💙💚:

FTM/STM/TTM+:

Upcoming appointments:

How are you feeling?:

Rants/Raves:

Questions:

GTKY: 

chindimples04

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: October 27; 25+5

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Cauliflower

Team 💗💙💚: 💙

FTM/STM/TTM+: STM

Upcoming appointments: Not until August 3, unless you count my dentist appointment today 🤣

How are you feeling?: exhausted! Napping daily. 

Rants/Raves: Teething toddlers suck. That is all.

Questions: Nope. 

GTKY: 9 points. 🙈 Guess I’m not as BA as I thought. 

galentine

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: Oct 29 // 25w3d

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: baby's hair has a color! And is the size of a popped bag of microwave popcorn 

Team 💗💙💚: 💚

FTM/STM/TTM+: STM

Upcoming appointments: 28 weeks

How are you feeling?: pretty good, minus an achey back and starting to feel heavy in the belly

Rants/Raves: I had my glucose test today, and I'm 99% sure I failed. I had GD with my daughter and recently found my old glucose monitor. I brought it with me to my appointment and tested my blood sugar after the test. If the result I got was accurate, I failed. 😢 Really really not looking forward to the 3 hour test and I don't even want to think about having GD again 😭

Questions: nope

GTKY: 9 points

chindimples04

@galentine ugh, I’m sorry! Can you just opt out of the 3 hour test and just proceed like you do? Idk if I would want to do the 3 hour test. 😭

gingermama46

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 27 weeks

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a bottle of fancy French soda

Team 💗💙💚: 💙

FTM/STM/TTM+: STM

Upcoming appointments: Not until first week of August, but I think this week I will go and get my 1 hr glucose test

How are you feeling?: Just exhausted and sore today. I slept really weird on my shoulder. DH had croup over the weekend, feeling better but we're all just tired.

Rants/Raves: When we had to have our house reno'd after flood we didn't add basement to spec, in order to get our dream kitchen we moved costs elsewhere. Well, aside from hanging stuff up and adding upper cabinets for storage, it is finally done! We moved back in February 2020 so DH has been picking slowly away at walls, flooring, ceiling, and a little bar area. So excited to have that checked on the house project to-do list!

Questions: None 

GTKY: 6

gingermama46

@chindimples04 I am so incredibly jealous of your daily naps!!

aztecash

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 10/10, 28+1

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Echidna

Team 💗💙💚: 💙

FTM/STM/TTM+: STM

Upcoming appointments: Thursday - 1st appointment DH gets to go to

How are you feeling?: I've got a little back pain, but it's not too bad yet. Pretty sure Baby E is trying to escape Alien style by bursting through my stomach.

Rants/Raves: Rant - DS starts Kinder on Wednesday. We put in a transfer from our assigned school to the one that's actually walking distance and still haven't heard anything back. He starts in 2 days and I don't know what school he will be going to. I don't even know the start and end times because the websites for both schools and the district have 0 information.

Questions: 

GTKY: 11

galentine

@chindimples04, I've considered skipping the 3 hr test and just proceeding as if I have GD. It's definitely an option. I think I'll still do the 3 hr test though, as much as it sucks. Because 1. It's not super fun or convenient to have to plan to eat on schedule all the time or prick your finger 4 times a day, and 2. We spent about $1,800 last time between doing 16 NSTs and 2 additional scans (and that was with good insurance!!). So I probably will still do the 3 hr test on the off chance I can pass.

madiirosee

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 28w5d!

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a rollerblade?! 😶

Team 💗💙💚:💗

FTM/STM/TTM+: FTM

Upcoming appointments: next midwife visit is 8/12! 

How are you feeling?: meh. Tired. Back pain. Heartburn. Pelvic heaviness. Definitely feeling the third trimester stuff lol. 

Rants/Raves: Rave: no gestational diabetes! Woo! 

Rant: I had my joint baby shower yesterday with my SIL who is due a month after me and didn’t realize how many people would skip over my registry. I have a great variety on there price and item wise. Not really a rant I suppose. Im thankful for any gift. But just tried explaining to my hubby we may need to buy more of the practical things we need ourselves. Since most of the stuff we got was just like cutesy items aka outfits blankets etc. I need more storage in this room! 😬😬 trying to work on that too. 

Questions: 

GTKY: 8! 

jtayl962

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 28+3

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: egg plant

Team 💗💙💚:💗

FTM/STM/TTM+:FTM

Upcoming appointments:This Friday. I had my glucose test today hopefully it turns out good

How are you feeling?: still pretty good. I had someone tell me I'm carrying well. Have no clue what that means but I'll take the comment

Rants/Raves: 

Questions:My husband and I watch TV in our bedroom at night. I want our daughter to sleep in our room the first couple of months. If you have a TV in your room do you keep it on while the baby is sleeping?

GTKY: 13. I was scared to do anything

pizzaplz

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 10/15, 27+3

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: cauliflower

Team 💗💙💚: 💙

FTM/STM/TTM+: stm

Upcoming appointments: going in for my glucose test tomorrow, but next real appointment is early August.

How are you feeling?: Large, tired, emotional. I don't like plantar fasciitis.

Rants/Raves: I have a standing Zoom call every Sunday afternoon with some of my college girlfriends, but I missed yesterday's call because of a combination of miscommunication and pregnancy brain. Such a bummer!

Questions: 27 weeks is third trimester, right? I've also seen 28 weeks, but why would the first two trimesters have 14 weeks and the last have 12? Am I pregnancy braining again, or does this math not make sense?

GTKY: 9

kandb4

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 28 weeks/Oct 12

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: rollerblade

Team 💗💙💚:💗

FTM/STM/TTM+: 4tm

Upcoming appointments: end if July (3 hr glucose 😩, rhogam and ob visit)

How are you feeling?: Pretty good. Getting swollen ankles consistently now

Rants/Raves: loving all the big movements

Questions:

GTKY: 13

chindimples04

@pizzaplz I count 1st trimester as 1-12 weeks, second trimester as 13-26 weeks, and third trimester as 27-40 weeks. That’s how my clinic sees it so it’s what I follow. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 

@gingermama46 definitely a perk of working summer school. It’s only 8-12 so I have my whole afternoon free. 

noprobalo

@pizzaplz Hmm, most of the "what size is my baby" websites put 3rd trimester at 28 weeks, but you're right. Perhaps they're calculating on a possible 42-week pregnancy?

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 10/12, 28+0

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: An old school Nintendo. I dunno, those things were pretty big...

Team 💗💙💚: 💙

FTM/STM/TTM+: FTM

Upcoming appointments: This Thursday. Not only do I get my OB appointment, but I FINALLY get to go to the appointment I scheduled 4 months ago with a sleep medicine specialist to discuss adjusting my CPAP machine and/or getting a new one. Woohoo!

How are you feeling?: Tired, hot, and lumpy. Shockingly, it hasn't improved from last week 😂

Rants/Raves: Rant -- We had friends stay with us this weekend, and our power went out Saturday evening until about 2 am. My husband struggled with the generator, but it never ran steadily and shut off after about an hour. Luckily, it was night time after a thunderstorm, so it wasn't a million degrees. It is surprisingly hard to sleep in a dead silent and pitch black house, though.
Rave -- Still riding the high from passing my 3-hr glucose test!

Questions: Since I had a scare with my blood sugar, I'm looking to cut carbs, especially added sugar and white starches. But without eating much of those, I'm falling short of what MyFitnessPal says my calorie needs are. Anyone have any go-to snacks that are high calorie but low carb (or at least low in added sugar)? I've got nuts, protein bars, cheese sticks, and single serve peanut butter containers so far.

GTKY: 11. I'm not a thrill-seeker, lol