How are you feeling?: Still have some food adversions. Energy level has come up.
Rants/Raves: Rave: I got D2 into a private swim lesson today. She loves the water and was jumping into deep water on her own. But she doesn't know how to swim so I had to save her lol. Rant: I haven't had time to workout in 3 weeks. I feel like absolute crap and feel like shit that I. Not exercising.
Questions: none
GTKY: If you had to choose a certain type of food to eat for the rest if your life, what would it be? pasta. I love pasta.
Team blue/pink/green: pink unless the anatomy scan contradicts that
Upcoming Appointments: blood tests this week, appointment at 18weeks and anatomy scan at 20 weeks
How are you feeling?: finally feeling better. Still have some slight waves of nausea but keeping food down. I can stay awake all day but still tired.
Rants/Raves: I’m loving having both kids in school this year. But my rant is having two different pick up times.
Questions:
GTKY: If you had to choose a certain type of food to eat for the rest if your life, what would it be? Probably stir-fry. Its customizable and always good.
How are you feeling?: Kinda nauseous. I was getting better, but that caused me to stupidly forget my anti nausea medication at meals and then I had a rough day yesterday and threw up 3 times.
Rants/Raves: Rant: I have been busy so I haven't been on here much. Rave: I got a lot of sleep last night because I went to bed so early cause I was feeling crappy. I didn't get up to pee til 4:30! (It's the little things)
Other rant: I *thought* I was getting NIPT testing yesterday when they drew like 15264727 vials of blood, but apparently that was for something else and I have to do it againnnn. Good thing my body just keeps making more blood.
Questions: NATM
GTKY: If you had to choose a certain type of food to eat for the rest if your life, what would it be? Burritos!! That's a hack that gives me whatever fillings I want.
@gravcass it shouldn’t all be on you anyways! Hope you’re feeling better!!
EDD / Weeks + Days: 17weeks / Feb 28
FTM/STM/TTM+: baby #4
Baby is the size of a(n): pomegranate
Team blue/pink/green: pink!
Upcoming Appointments: anatomy scan next week, midwife the week after.
How are you feeling?: today, shitty. Yesterday, amazing. I hate the up and down!
Rants/Raves: I love our neighbours, but their daughter (10) who plays with my daughter (4) drives me bonkers sometimes. I think there may be some developmental things going on too, which makes me feel guilty for getting annoyed but she is the type of kid who will.not.listen no matter how many times you remind her of rules.
Questions: anyone know the side effects for coming off diclectin? I stopped 2 days ago and now feel like crap, but I can’t remember if that’s the medication or just pregnancy.
GTKY: If you had to choose a certain type of food to eat for the rest if your life, what would it be? Thai. I love Thai food so much I would eat it every day happily.
Upcoming Appointments: midwife next week. I went and got a boutique ultrasound again yesterday. My anxiety is so bad with this pregnancy. 😣 i can’t wait until I can feel her so I have more regular reassurance that all is OK!
How are you feeling?: much better than a few weeks ago! But damn if I don’t eat like every 2-3 hours, I get super off-feeling. Headaches, dizzy, short on breath. Ugh. Got smacked with a wave of fatigue in the middle of the grocery store today. Coulda laid down on the bread for a little nap 🙃
Rants/Raves: Rant: we’re doing a combined event this week with another company. This company does events as their main thing, we sell software. It is truly wild at how completely disorganized and inept this other group is. None of this is hard and yet they’ve decided to choose the most ass-backward way to do things and it’s downright laughable/ infuriating at this point. Luckily thr attendees don’t really see the chaos but holy shit. How do people succeed while doing things SO badly?!? Rave: as part of this event, we’re taking 17 of our customers out to dinner tomorrow night for a user group session. It is a 6 course prefixe meal at one of the best spots in the city. I am SO excited for this dinner. Makes dealing with all the bullshit worth it.
GTKY: If you had to choose a certain type of food to eat for the rest if your life, what would it be? Ohhh probably Italian. The variety is so plentiful and I’m a sucker for good pasta.
Upcoming Appointments: October 20 for anatomy scan (I just realized how strange it is that I’ll be 20 weeks on October 20 and that was DS’s due date…which means that date is halfway through this pregnancy!! Kind of a fun fact about my boys 🥰)
How are you feeling?: my feet hurt
Rants/Raves: this weather is all sorts of bonkers. It was real feel of 99 today… and tomorrow will be 65. And 50 on Friday 🤯 but we are taking DS to his first college football game on Saturday and to the pumpkin patch on Sunday!
Questions: none
GTKY: If you had to choose a certain type of food to eat for the rest if your life, what would it be? Absolutely Mexican food
How are you feeling?: Before the cold, tired and achy in the hips.
Rants/Raves:
Rant- We ordered a manufactured home last March, and was told it would be here around December. Well now it won’t be here until late January, early February. 🙃
Questions: N/A
GTKY: If you had to choose a certain type of food to eat for the rest if your life, what would it be? Probably pasta!
Upcoming Appointments: Anatomy scan in mid October!
How are you feeling?: Mostly okay. Haven’t had quite the bounce back of energy I was hoping for, and heartburn is starting to drastically ramp up.
Rants/Raves: Rave - I got to hear the heartbeat last week, which was a huge relief, I’m finally taking some more initiative with things I want to do before the baby comes, and just found out my favorite SIL is pregnant too, due in April! Excited for my baby to have a cousin close in age.
Questions: n/a
GTKY: If you had to choose a certain type of food to eat for the rest if your life, what would it be? I’m at a point where all food is sounding super good to me, so this is tough…perhaps Thai food? It’s been a big thing for me the last several months!
Team blue/pink/green: still don’t know but finally going to find out soon
Upcoming Appointments: next Friday a check in with my midwife and NIPT blood draw.
How are you feeling?: just still having days of being bone tired. I made it all through today without a nap though.
Rants/Raves: Rant - we have less than 4 weeks to go until our last tax deadline of the year and I’m so sick of it. Just ready to be done. Everyone’s energy is very panicked and it’s making me overly stressed. Rave - We went to dinner at my parents house this weekend and I knew my parents were excited about baby but I didn’t realize how excited they are. They have been scoping out parks for forest school and finding the best playgrounds all over the place. They went on a trip to Hawaii and brought back a pile of themed baby gifts. Mom keeps saying once “our baby” is born. Just really happy to see how showered with love baby is going to be. This is the first grandkid on either side of the family (and probably the only one ever unless we have another later on).
Questions: none today
GTKY: If you had to choose a certain type of food to eat for the rest if your life, what would it be? Macaroni and cheese - any type. It’s been my favorite since I was a toddler.
Upcoming Appointments: I forget. Some random OB check in and then they will schedule my anatomy scan. Slow down, time!
How are you feeling?: Nausea is gone thankfully and starting to feel a little bit more energetic. My ribs are almost healed from bronchitis so I might be able to work out again soon! Until the SPD kicks in of course!
Rants/Raves: See above haha!
Questions: none
GTKY: If you had to choose a certain type of food to eat for the rest if your life, what would it be? Italian for sure. H’s family is Italian and even though I’m not I’ve gotten really good at cooking Italian!
Upcoming Appointments: Oct 5th for midwife. At my last appointment I brought up the discrepancy with due dates and they agreed to do a proper dating US. So I need to call today and schedule that.
How are you feeling?: just generally more uncomfortable. Lots of random twinges in the pelvic area.
Rants/Raves: Rave - This will be my first full weekend off since labor day! I have had to work portions of 3 out of the last 4 weekends. I don't even know what I'm going to do with 2 whole days off.
Questions:
GTKY: If you had to choose a certain type of food to eat for the rest if your life, what would it be? Japanese food. It's one of the things I really miss from when we lived there.
Upcoming Appointments: Anatomy scan middle of October
How are you feeling?: Pretty good now! A little tired, but that's expected.
Rants/Raves: It's been a really hard two weeks. My husband left his job after his brother tried to get him fired, and he was going to start his own business. The idea of not having a steady income, freaked him out, so he got a job at a cabinet shop. It's less money and no benefits, so I had to go back to work full time to become the provider on our insurance. He's been having some rough days dealing with anxiety and depression, and I'm just exhausted. I'm just hoping things will settle down soon and we can get back into a routine.
Questions:
GTKY: If you had to choose a certain type of food to eat for the rest if your life, what would it be? Southern American. Nothing like soul food.
EDD / Weeks + Days: March 30, 2022/ 12 weeks + 6 days
FTM/STM/TTM+: FTM
Baby is the size of a(n): plum
Team blue/pink/green: hopefully blue
Upcoming Appointments: yesterday and got to hear the little 168bpm heartbeat and fell even more in love 🥰
How are you feeling?: pretty good mostly but I have had a bad kink in my neck for a week now and it is driving me crazy.
Rants/Raves: rants- I realized today I hate my job and I can’t wait till this baby arrives so I can quit. And I am super upset that I am having some serious aversions to meat (I am a super carnivore). raves- really appreciating how adaptable my husband is being to my pregnancy. He is a trooper!
Questions: how the hell are you supposed to sleep when pregnant if you have back issues and won’t be able to sleep on your back? 😭
GTKY: If you had to choose a certain type of food to eat for the rest if your life, what would it be? Most definitely japanese food, my husband lived there for awhile and so we make it all the time (pre pregnancy of course, I rarely cook since getting pregnant).
@gravcass sorry you weren't feeling well and hoping you are feeling better.
How are you feeling?: Crummy because I'm currently home with covid I made it 2 weeks into the school year before getting it.
Rants/Raves: Well my rant is covid, haha. My rave is that we told some friends the other day we were expecting and it turns out they are expecting and due the day before us.
Questions: NATM
GTKY: If you had to choose a certain type of food to eat for the rest if your life, what would it be? Maybe smoothies right now.
Team blue/pink/green: still leaning towards blue but will hopefully know next week!
Upcoming Appointments: had a midwife appt today!
How are you feeling?: still feeling like poop but I think my aversions are lessening a little bit.
Rants/Raves: Raves- got a suprise ultrasound today with my midwife. She tried to take a peek to see if we could tell the sex but baby was waaay too active, kept crossing legs, and it's a bit early too so she wasn't able to get a good look. She is leaning towards boy though 😂😂 Rant- my husband's work schedule has been unreal lately. So much traveling and so many hours (averaging about 70-75hrs a WEEK). I scheduled an elective ultrasound for next week a few days ago so we could hopefully find out the sex of this baby together and now I'm not even sure if he's going to be here or not after confirming with him before this would be a good day.
Questions: Na.
GTKY: If you had to choose a certain type of food to eat for the rest if your life, what would it be? Oh man. That's a tough one. I'm usually a steak, potato, and veggie kind of girl. I think pasta is a close second though.
Wife. Boy mom x6. Expecting #7. Wannabe homesteader. , 💙💙💙💙💙💙
Upcoming Appointments: 17w appointment on Oct. 4, anatomy scan on Halloween!
How are you feeling?: Absolutely yucky but that's because I'm still getting over COVID
Rants/Raves: We finally had fall weather today! I am so happy. We've had 85-95 degree days for the last month and today the high is supposed to be 67. Nothing above 75 for the next 2 weeks. I can't express how excited I am. Walking home in the heat with the toddler was not fun.
Questions:
GTKY: If you had to choose a certain type of food to eat for the rest if your life, what would it be? Pasta. All kinds of pasta but if you wanted to be specific, I would choose tortellini. Tortellini soup, Alfredo tortellini with sausage, cheesy tortellini in tomato sauce. All the tortellini.
Ladybug - April 2013 Dandelion - October 2018 Angel "Aurora" - July 2020 Angel "Sawyer" - May 2021 Angel "Maxine" - January 2022 Angel "Violet" - March 2022 Baby Dove due March 2023
Thanks for the well wishes! Feeling much better now:)
EDD / Weeks + Days: March 25th 13+5
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Baby is the size of a(n): Lime
Team blue/pink/green: sneak peak said boy
Upcoming Appointments: none ATM. My last two racked me up over $300 so trying to figure out expenses going forward.
How are you feeling?: hit or miss. This morning brushing my teeth had me over the toilet two seconds later.
Rants/Raves: my insurance must have been way better last pregnancy. I hardly paid anything out of pocket until the birth. The bills this go around were a bit of a shock.
Questions:
GTKY: If you had to choose a certain type of food to eat for the rest if your life, what would it be? Pizza! Can't ever have too much lol
Upcoming Appointments: OB in 3 weeks, then anatomy scan that I still need to schedule
How are you feeling?: As far as pregnancy ok. Some heartburn, headaches. Energy starting to come back and the nausea is lessening.
Rants/Raves: I've been MIA because DD has HFMD, and now I do too. She was being a terror at daycare last week, and started breaking out in the blisters on Monday. I feel pretty crappy, and she's been so miserable.
Questions: NATM
GTKY: If you had to choose a certain type of food to eat for the rest if your life, what would it be? Probably sushi
@bbrahmbhatt A friend of mine’s baby just had HFM and then she caught it right after her kid got better. Ugh it sounds miserable- I hope you all recover soon!
Team blue/pink/green: we are getting the ultrasound tech to put it in an envelope and I’m driving it directly to my favourite bakers. My husband, myself and all of our family will be surprised Oct 21 no one knows that we are finding out the sex !
Upcoming Appointments: October 13 for anatomy scan !!
How are you feeling?: so effing awful. Fainted today, couldn’t catch my breath and my heart was racing. Went to the drs and they couldn’t find the heart beat on the Doppler (it was a new dr to me, she was scanning my ovaries) and so she wheeled in the ultrasound and saw that baby was clapping! Lol
Rants/Raves: rant- still feeling so sick. It’s not gotten any better.
Rave- I’m still pregnant and I’ll forever be thankful for this tiny human my body is growing
Questions: my dr said I’m not eating enough. Not necessarily weight wise since I was overweight going into pregnancy but he wants me to eat more smaller frequent meals/snacks in a day. What do you eat? Regardless if you’ve got morning sickness. I’m just at a loss. I already do oranges, cut up veggies and hummus, yogurt. I hate so much it’s so difficult. And I’m lactose intolerant but all this baby wants is dairy. It sucks lol. I hate lactose free
GTKY: If you had to choose a certain type of food to eat for the rest if your life, what would it be? All. The. Sushi! And poke bowls. Ramen. 😍
@babymac4321 I’m struggling with smaller, more frequent meals, too. Honestly, what I eat varies based on how I’m feeling. When I was feeling sicker, things like apple sauce and buttered toast were things I tolerated well. My protein snack I usually do beef sticks (tho I think it’s turkey) and almonds and cheese sometime midday. With the nausea, cold food helped me, so grapes, apples,melon- all of that went down easier. My deal now is that if I’m not eating more frequently, that’s when I get headaches and nausea so even though I work from home, I try to pack some snacks to quickly grab while I’m at my desk between calls and that’s helped me develop the habit better than before. Good luck!!
EDD / Weeks + Days: March 15th / 15 weeks + 4 days
FTM/STM/TTM+: FTM
Baby is the size of a(n): Orange
Team blue/pink/green: Pink!
Upcoming Appointments: Midwife appointment on Tuesday.
How are you feeling?: Honestly, I’ve been even mired tired since I entered the second trimester. Nausea has eased up, but I’ve had terrible indigestion and acid reflux. Congestion went away for three glorious days, but now it’s back
Rants/Raves: I went to the movies yesterday and had popcorn and candy and when I came home I felt awful. My stomach was so unhappy.
Questions: N/A
GTKY: If you had to choose a certain type of food to eat for the rest if your life, what would it be?: Ooh, so tough. I’m going to keep it simple and just go with bread and cheese. I could live off of some good bread and cheese forever.
Upcoming Appointments: early glucose test this week and regular ob appointment Friday
How are you feeling?: Feel good but having severe aversions to meat and anything meat texture.. Even veggie burgers 🙈
Rants/Raves: I have this coming week off work and it's just jammed packed with crap to do every day.
Questions:
GTKY: If you had to choose a certain type of food to eat for the rest if your life, what would it be? Pasta with all the creamy sauces...I generally avoid this stuff for overall health but I love it.
I didn't get around to this last week! OK, my answers are always the same, blah blah, but the GTKY is fun
GTKY: If you had to choose a certain type of food to eat for the rest if your life, what would it be? I'd say Mexican/Tex-Mex as well! I've also been crazy about beans in every format since I was a kid.
Re: Weekly Check In 9/19
EDD / Weeks + Days: March 19th 14w2d
Rant: I haven't had time to workout in 3 weeks. I feel like absolute crap and feel like shit that I. Not exercising.
EDD / Weeks + Days: March 14th, 15weeks
@mamahosch That’s the day of my anatomy scan too!
Rant- We ordered a manufactured home last March, and was told it would be here around December. Well now it won’t be here until late January, early February. 🙃
Anatomy scan in mid October!
Mostly okay. Haven’t had quite the bounce back of energy I was hoping for, and heartburn is starting to drastically ramp up.
Rave - I got to hear the heartbeat last week, which was a huge relief, I’m finally taking some more initiative with things I want to do before the baby comes, and just found out my favorite SIL is pregnant too, due in April! Excited for my baby to have a cousin close in age.
I’m at a point where all food is sounding super good to me, so this is tough…perhaps Thai food? It’s been a big thing for me the last several months!
FTM/STM/TTM+: 4TM
Baby is the size of a(n): dill pickle
Team blue/pink/green: Green
Upcoming Appointments: Anatomy scan middle of October
How are you feeling?: Pretty good now! A little tired, but that's expected.
Rants/Raves: It's been a really hard two weeks. My husband left his job after his brother tried to get him fired, and he was going to start his own business. The idea of not having a steady income, freaked him out, so he got a job at a cabinet shop. It's less money and no benefits, so I had to go back to work full time to become the provider on our insurance. He's been having some rough days dealing with anxiety and depression, and I'm just exhausted. I'm just hoping things will settle down soon and we can get back into a routine.
Questions:
GTKY: If you had to choose a certain type of food to eat for the rest if your life, what would it be? Southern American. Nothing like soul food.
@muggsd - When I stopped diclectin, I immediately started B6+Unisom, and avoided feeling icky again.
@noxacanthus _ I'm glad they are doing another scan for due dates. That's really important!
FTM/STM/TTM+: FTM
Rant- my husband's work schedule has been unreal lately. So much traveling and so many hours (averaging about 70-75hrs a WEEK). I scheduled an elective ultrasound for next week a few days ago so we could hopefully find out the sex of this baby together and now I'm not even sure if he's going to be here or not after confirming with him before this would be a good day.
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Dandelion - October 2018
Angel "Aurora" - July 2020
Angel "Sawyer" - May 2021
Angel "Maxine" - January 2022
Angel "Violet" - March 2022
Baby Dove due March 2023
EDD / Weeks + Days: March 25th 13+5
Pizza! Can't ever have too much lol
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