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April 2022 Moms
fameonmain2
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Weekly Check-in w/o 9/13
fameonmain2
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Est Due Date / Weeks + Days:
FTM/STM/TTM+:
Upcoming Appointments:
How are you feeling?:
Rants/Raves:
Questions:
FTM/STM/TTM+:
Upcoming Appointments:
How are you feeling?:
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Questions:
Re: Weekly Check-in w/o 9/13
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Upcoming Appointments: This Thursday 9/16
How are you feeling?: Overall pretty good, still kinda crappy in the evenings but slightly better than I did before.
Rants/Raves: I was able to find the heartbeat with a fetal doppler yesterday. I know its super super early and a bit silly. But that little bit of reassurance feels nice. Hopefully getting my blood drawn for NIPT this week. Excited to find out the sex and hopefully everything looks good as well.
Questions: none at the moment
FTM/STM/TTM+: TTM
Upcoming Appointments: NIPT draw and glucose screen today…My A1C was slightly above normal and doc wants to double check it’s not more than just my terrible first trimester diet. NT scan in early October.
How are you feeling?: still gagging nonstop. Super happy I saw the baby in the u/s yesterday. I feel like we passed a big milestone!
Rants/Raves: I can’t eat sugar! I was told to cut back on pretty much all my current cravings.
Questions: natm
BFP1 04/24/2015 EDD Dec 2015 MMC 10W5d;
BFP 2 09/25/2015 EDD June 2016 MMC 9wks;
BFP 3 03/22/2016 EDD Dec 6th 2016
FTM/STM/TTM+: TTM
Upcoming Appointments: next Wednesday is my first midwife appt
How are you feeling?: feeling better- I still have a sensitive gag reflex but I’m not throwing up as much and I’ve stopped losing weight (I was down 5 lbs my first tri).
Rants/Raves: excited to finally go back to a doctor. Haven’t seen a doctor in almost 2 weeks which for an IF person is a lifetime.
Questions:
Est Due Date / Weeks + Days: April 9 / 10 weeks + 3 days
FTM/STM/TTM+: FTM
Upcoming Appointments: I just had one last week along with my first US, so next one isn’t until 3 weeks from now when I’m at 13 weeks.
How are you feeling?: So pregnant. So tired all the time. 😅 But totally amazed that I’m growing a life and got to see its heartbeat. 😊💓 Nausea has pretty much subsided with the exception of food aversions.
Rants/Raves: I had my NIPT blood draw yesterday and I am going BONKERS waiting for my results! I keep obsessively checking the patient portal hoping they’ll get posted early. 😬 So anxious to find out if the baby is healthy, and if it’s a bit or girl!!!
Questions: So hubby’s grandma passed away this weekend. We’re traveling back up to Buffalo to be with his family over the next few days and for the funeral. It was no question that I would be going with him to support him. However, the flying does make me a little nervous. From what I’ve read, flying should be fine for pregnant women. However, I’ve also read that airline crew are considered high radiation workers due to the cosmic radiation they are exposed to so high in the air without atmospheric protection. I understand this is only risky for long and frequent flights, but it still makes me nervous nonetheless. The last thing I want to do is expose my baby to cosmic radiation in the more sensitive growth period during the 1st trimester. 😟 I’m definitely flying up no matter what— Any other mamas fly during their first trimester and have perfectly healthy babies?
FTM/STM/TTM+: TTM
Upcoming Appointments: NIPT today, and then a few weeks until the midwife
How are you feeling?: Generally better, although still dealing with the nausea and fatigue
Rants/Raves: My in-laws are coming next week for a month (they haven't met my daughter yet, and she's already 16 months, so it's overdue). They aren't staying with us, but it's still going to be a lot. I think that's both a rant and a rave?
Questions:
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Upcoming Appointments: I meet with our MFM specialist on 9/29 to discuss progesterone suppostories vs weekly injections to decrease my chances of a second preemie.
How are you feeling?: Ugh, so relieved. Up to the second before our US yesterday I was so (completely irrationally) worried that this whole thing was in my head. Never mind all my symptoms and the fact that I haven’t had a period in two months. I cried when we heard the heartbeat!
Rants/Raves: I had the presence of mind yesterday to record the entire US (DH and DD6 were waiting for me in the car outside and I wanted them to see it). We didn’t do it for any of DD6’s US or Doppler checks and I so wish we had. Now I watch the video every ten minutes. We took DD6 to the beach and gave her a “Big Sis” shirt and a little necklace I had had made for her. She was ecstatic: She’s been asking for a sibling for the longest time, and now she is listing all the things she’s going to teach them. I’m nervous about seeing the specialist even though I know her already from work. Would love to not have another preemie but definitely dread the “high risk” label.
Questions:
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Upcoming Appointments: none... I think I have maybe the NT scan next? But it hasn't been scheduled yet.
How are you feeling?: yuuuuuck
Rants/Raves: I got DD3 up an hour early this morning to go over to my mom's house so the pest guys could come over and deal with the rodent issue in our attic, and then DH texts me saying, "I have a meeting, and they still aren't here." So I call them, and the pest guys got the date wrong. They're giving us $500 because of it, but now I have to get DD3 up early again tomorrow. I also have to get *myself* up early, which is really the worst part lol. I am not a morning person.
Questions:
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Upcoming Appointments: first MW appointment next Wednesday
How are you feeling?: So tired. I had nausea for one day and nothing since. Of course my anxiety is saying something is wrong because I was nauseous with my first pregnancy. I'm trying to tell myself that it's because it's a boy.
Rants/Raves: rant: this past week has been alot. DD1 is sick; she wakes up MOTN crying and will only sleep on me which makes it impossible for me to sleep. I started work last week and we're moving.im exhausted.
Rave: my boss keeps telling me how much he missed me. He took some tasks away from the girl that took over my leave because she wasn't doing it to his standards. He told me today he's so happy I'm back because he missed my attention to detail and he never worried about my work. It was good to hear something positive for a change.
Questions: nothing
@minnie_yoga_mama I'm so sorry about YH's grandmother. FWIW I talked to my OB yesterday about travel and she wasn't concerned at all about air travel.
@doxiemoxie212 glad you at least got the $500! Hopefully your rodent issue gets taken care of today.
@miss_lynn9 glad you got such positive feedback from work amidst such a crazy week! Hopefully your little one feels better soon.
@aloha_mama so happy you had a great ultrasound!!
Est Due Date / Weeks + Days: Apr 12 / 10+1
FTM/STM/TTM+: FTM
Upcoming Appointments: next scan is early Oct.
How are you feeling?: Good! Heartburn is starting up so I'm trying to be careful about what I eat.
Rants/Raves:
Rave: Had a great ultrasound yesterday and got to meet my new OB! I like her, and I think I'll try out everyone in the practice just so I'm not surprised on day of delivery, but I think she will end up being my main person. We went back and forth on my due date, I would be much farther along based on my LMP but because I chart I know that I ovulated around CD22... anyways, she ended up wanting to stick to my original due date since it lined up much better with the scan (which I was happy about). She joked that most people have no idea about ovulation and I was just like um... do you want to see my charts? I'm pretty sure I have it right hah.
Rant: I get myself so worked up on appointment days.. yesterday I had the u/s in the morning and then the ob appt in the afternoon (thankfully from now on they will be back to back) and then I had to go to campus at night for a couple of events. All of that is fine except by the time I got home I had such a migraine that I had to take Tylenol or I wasn't sure that I would be able to fall asleep. My migraines are stress-induced, and I just know I was so worried about that appointment that it caused it. Hopefully I'll get better at managing that stress as things progress.
Questions: natm
@queenklau oh no! I hope your results come out ok. Are you still able to eat things like sweet potatoes and whole grain bread?
@kiwi2628 @minnie_yoga_mama hearing that your nausea is starting to relent gives me a lot of hope. Also, I’m glad for you both that you’re feeling better.
@doula-mama a month is intense!
@aloha_mama awww! Your DD’s reaction to the news is so sweet! 😍
@doxiemoxie212 I’ve never heard of a contractor giving back money for not showing up on time/correct day. I would be a millionaire. Sorry you have to get up early again. That sounds particularly painful with NVP.
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Upcoming Appointments: next Monday, NIPT results are due to arrive in my online portal today
How are you feeling?: I’ve grown weary of this question in my daily life. I’ve settled on “hanging in there” when people ask. Unending nausea and vomiting, but I had a big win yesterday when I had a decent meal with fluids in the evening and didn’t vomit until this morning. I hope that was the beginning of the end. I’ve lost 17 pounds, and I was a normal weight to start. My face looks sunken in. I cried for a couple hours yesterday because I felt like my weight gain/loss *should* be in my control, but I feel totally out of control. I’m experiencing the kind of weight loss that puts our baby at higher risk.
Rants/Raves: H found a fledgling trapped in our screened in patio (there is one small screen panel missing above the door). H put the fledgling up on our deck, and we watched him flutter down to our yard and hop into some brush where a very anxious adult bird was hopping around and chirping in the branches. I hope that was a reunion of parent and child, and that the fledgling learns to fly before the neighborhood cats make their rounds!
Questions: natm
@fameonmain2 so sorry about your appointment stress and migraine. Migraines are awful. Everyone’s stress relief is a little different, but maybe something like an appointment day ritual you can look forward to will help.
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Upcoming Appointments: Oct 4
How are you feeling?: MUCH better. I think my nausea has subsided so I am so excited about that. In it's place, however, is the constant feeling of hunger! Also I fill up FAST. The other day we went to a restaurant and ordered loaded waffle fries as an app, then I got a side salad and a burger- I was able to eat 2 bites of burger and 1 bite of salad. I felt like an idiot taking basically the WHOLE MEAL home. 😂
Rants/Raves: The weather is annoying me. It's too humid and hot. I'm ready for fall GIVE ME FALL
Questions: none
BFP1 04/24/2015 EDD Dec 2015 MMC 10W5d;
BFP 2 09/25/2015 EDD June 2016 MMC 9wks;
BFP 3 03/22/2016 EDD Dec 6th 2016
Est Due Date / Weeks + Days: 9+3
FTM/STM/TTM+: TTM
Upcoming Appointments: NIPT blood next week
How are you feeling?: So nauseas still- when will it end?!?! Down 5 pounds but that’s my norm for first tri.
Rants/Raves: D6 is playing softball this year and she has a game at 4:50pm on Sunday. I mean, come on.
Questions: If anyone here has babies of different sexes- did you notice your symptoms being any different with one vs the other? Any difference in MS, heart-rate, etc?
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Upcoming Appointments: None until new insurance in October
How are you feeling?: Still very tired and occasionally nauseous. So ready for this part to be over!
Rants/Raves: I start my new job tomorrow! It’s been nice to have a few weeks off, but I’m
so excited to start the job I’ve been working towards for years!
Questions: natm
@Ivorytower2 I have the same question about different pregnancy symptoms vs sex of the baby. I've been much less nauseous this time around and it hit much earlier but not sure if that means anything.
Heart rate was the same ish, though - I think that's been proven in a lot of studies to really not have anything to do with sex.
@doxiemoxie212 very very interesting! Makes me so interested to find out what I'm having. I've been thinking boy, but the symptoms are a lot better this time than with DS5 so wonder if it could be a girl!
But it could also just be that it's my second pregnancy, I'm older, and my body is less able to power through.
Est Due Date / Weeks + Days:
9+2
FTM/STM/TTM+:
STM
Upcoming Appointments:
Next week for a normal appointment. Just had my dating US and it’s such a relief to be positive. It was hard to convince I was actually pregnant until I heard a heartbeat
How are you feeling?:
Mostly exhausted. But it’s hard to tell if that’s pregnancy or beginning of the year teacher tired.
Rants/Raves:
Rant! I am only 9 weeks but can’t hide my belly. I already look like I did when I was 20 weeks with my first.
@Ivorytower2 I have two boys and one girl. I feel like my pregnancies have been pretty consistent except everything is exacerbated with this one.
FTM/STM/TTM+: I have a lot of kids 😅
Upcoming Appointments: Blood draw Friday to check progesterone, midwife later this month
How are you feeling?: Still feeling pretty crummy overall but definitely better than I was.
Rants/Raves: I’m done with pants. Pants suck. I have a stretchy skirt I’m going to wear tomorrow and after today I’ve given up squeezing into my fat pants. But I’m afraid there’s still not quite enough belly to hold up the maternity pants yet so idk what to do. I think I need some new leggings; I purged my stretchy ones (they’d seen better days) and those athletic kind aren’t going to fit any better than my jeans at this point. I do have some flory dresses I can wear while the weather permits. Ugh. I hate this in-between “fat or pregnant” stage. On one hand I don’t want to carry around a huge bump for forever but I’m also ready for it to be apparent that I’m pregnant and not just suddenly chubby, you know? Trying to reframe that to be grateful I’m putting on some pounds to nourish my babies instead of struggling to keep food down!
Questions:
April 18th/ 9wk 1 day
Have to do a 24 hour urine collection to get a baseline of protein. Hoping to avoid pre-eclampsia this time.
@monstera13 awesome about the new job!
Est Due Date / Weeks + Days: April 29/ 8 weeks
FTM/STM/TTM+: TTM
Upcoming Appointments: Monday!! Only online though.
How are you feeling?: A bit like booty. I'm either nauseous or disgustingly full. I'm havign a hard time deciding what is going to taste good. I feel gross when I don't eat often enough, I start to get a headache.
Rants/Raves: Rave: we got an applicant for the paraprofessional job working with math services, so I might get an extra helper! And I'm almost done iwth diagnostic testing at school! Rant: meh.
Questions: I don't remember-has everyone's experience with the ultrasound been that H can't come? I'll ask on Monday at my appt but just wondering what's been normal or if there even is a normal. I'm expecting that he can't come.
BFP1 04/24/2015 EDD Dec 2015 MMC 10W5d;
BFP 2 09/25/2015 EDD June 2016 MMC 9wks;
BFP 3 03/22/2016 EDD Dec 6th 2016
Est Due Date / Weeks + Days: 4/23 but from what I’ve read I will deliver on or before 36+6 so like 4/1 / 9w today
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Upcoming Appointments: First appt with my regular OB this coming Thursday.
How are you feeling?: Tired. I’m luckily not sick all the time but evening does make me feel gross.
Rants/Raves: I keep crying what feels like all the time at the most random things. Ugh. I feel crappy today and it’s not nice outside. I may go out and do an errand by myself to try to get out of my funk.
Questions: Has anyone successfully explained siblings to your first child? I mention the babies and he says “no” or tells me they are kittens…
On the flip side, she loves her cousin and understands he is a baby. She diapers and feeds her stuffed animals. She pushes them around in a baby stroller.
I’ll be watching this thread for any toddler book recommendations to prepare siblings!