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May 2023 Moms
hestia-is-wearie
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Weekly Check-In 1/23
hestia-is-wearie
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FTM/STM/TTM+:
EDD / Weeks + Days:
Baby is the size of a:
Team blue/pink/green:
Upcoming Appointments:
How are you feeling?:
Rants/Raves:
Questions:
GTKY: Coffee or tea?
EDD / Weeks + Days:
Baby is the size of a:
Team blue/pink/green:
Upcoming Appointments:
How are you feeling?:
Rants/Raves:
Questions:
GTKY: Coffee or tea?
Re: Weekly Check-In 1/23
EDD / Weeks + Days: May 5 / 25W3D
Baby is the size of a: head of cauliflower
Team blue/pink/green: blue
Upcoming Appointments: glucose/blood test and monthly check-in 2/10
How are you feeling?: pretty good except for the occasional Braxton Hicks. Middle of the night leg cramps also started the day I hit 25W
Rants/Raves:
Rave: One of my friends texted me out of the blue to check in on me and then asked to get together. It's so rare that happens and it made me really happy
Rant: DH has that same sinus infection that plagued me about a month ago. He full-on admitted to having a man cold: in his words, "I'm handling this about as well as a five-year-old." At least he owned up to it!
Questions: anyone else having Braxton Hicks right now? I forgot how annoying they are...
GTKY: Coffee or tea? I should drink more tea and probably drink too many Starbucks cold brews (within the caffeine guidelines for pregnancy, of course). I'm looking forward to drinking herbal teas again!
EDD / Weeks + Days: 25w+ 1d
Baby is the size of a: cauliflower
Team blue/pink/green: green
Upcoming Appointments: GDS tomorrow, nothing else till February
How are you feeling?: Overall decent, just hitting the tired all the time stage. I've also been having the Braxton Hicks contractions off and on, but they seem to be worse on days I don't drink enough fluids.
Rants/Raves: raves... We booked a trip to Hawaii for early next month... So excited to get out of town for a little bit. No real rants now... Just glad to be hiding below the radar of my boss since he was absolutely terrible in December after I told him about being preggers. Maybe it was his new years resolution to be more agreeable, so hopefully it sticks around till I'm off.
Questions: any other stm+ have any must have product reccomendations? I just started putting together a baby registry and am struggling with things to put on it that we don't already have since DD is only 19 months.
GTKY: Coffee or tea? Tea... I have such a huge tea collection, it's kind of embarrassing. It takes up multiple storage containers
We've started a mini-registry for this baby and added a wet bag, extra glass nail files, medicines, and footed pants. We also want to get a second bassinet so we're not lugging ours up and down the stairs like we did with DD.
Thanks for the registry ideas! We had a electric nail file for DD that broke, but we loved when she was super tiny as clippers scare me near tiny baby fingers. Your nail files reminded me
EDD / Weeks + Days: May 14 / 24w2d
Baby is the size of a: egg carton
Team blue/pink/green: blue
Upcoming Appointments: 1/25 for cervical check and baby measurements
How are you feeling?: Tired but pretty good besides my nipples, they hurt like no other. Anyone else?
Rants/Raves: Little guy picks 1am to stretch out and keeps me up for the rest of the day. Hoping tonight he’s more relaxed and not stretching to preform at the Olympics 😂
Questions: my only one is does anyone else’s nipples hurt? If so what have you done to help. I have a nursing/pumping bra and I put a ice pack between the layers to help.
GTKY: Coffee or tea? I quit coffee for awhile but since I had headaches again I started on tea. I’m loving earl grey tea with stevia from Starbucks it taste like fruity pebbles to me 🤤
@hestia-is-wearie Braxton hicks are terrible. It puts me in a panic because I have to figure out if it’s legit contractions because of my history of preterm labor. But sitting down and drinking water is suppose to do the trick but doesn’t help they are a pain in the butt.
EDD / Weeks + Days: May 6, 25+2
Baby is the size of a: cauliflower
Team blue/pink/green: pink!
Upcoming Appointments: regular appointment on Monday at which I do NOT have to redo the glucose test like they originally said, since I’m testing 4x daily as if I have it anyway
How are you feeling?: the last week, I’ve really started feeling like I can’t do it all and need to slow down. In other words, I’m actually feeling six months pregnant lol
Rants/Raves: I had a meltdown yesterday, lol. Husband worked all weekend (he has to do 8-4:30 Saturday and Sunday one weekend a month, and he works an hour away from home) and I just could not deal with life by Sunday afternoon. Thankfully, he took over when he got home, and I left and tracked down an Oreo hot fudge McFlurry which made me feel a lot better lol.
Questions: not really
GTKY: Coffee or tea? Tea, of the iced and extra sweet variety. I miss it so much on this GD diet…
@jeep4x4mom My nipples were killing me early on but have finally settled down. A warm bath or shower sometimes helped!
EDD / Weeks + Days: 5/5, 25+4
Baby is the size of a: cauliflower
Team blue/pink/green: blue
Upcoming Appointments: in a couple weeks I think, including the glucose challenge
How are you feeling?: Generally tired and starting to feel a bit of overwhelm at all of the things that need to get done. I know all the important stuff will get done but that only helps slightly.
Rants/Raves: none? Idk just chugging along here. I wish tasks would get done on their own though 😂
Questions: none
GTKY: Coffee or tea? Yes please! I love iced coffee in the summer, but too much caffeine really triggers anxiety for me. Tea is a good alternative for me and bonus points that I like most kinds!
@jeep4x4mom my nipples have been pretty sensitive off and on, but I wouldn’t say they outright hurt. I hope it gets better for you soon!
EDD / Weeks + Days: 23w3d
Baby is the size of a: plop
Team blue/pink/green: pink again!
Upcoming Appointments: checkup later this week
How are you feeling?: I do some overnight work and have been feeling more lightheaded when I have to be active in the middle of the night. I need to remember to take time to get from point A to B and sit to do some activities and not just jump up and go like I normally do. I feel pretty good during the day, so I wonder why it hits me at night. Maybe my blood sugar drops not in a dangerous way but in a make you feel icky way, because I don’t eat through the night like I do through the day? Idk.
Rants/Raves: Yay for reaching viability-ish! (Although honestly this is kind of the worst time because if baby were really born/having complications now there would be, like, Decisions To Be Made and I hate that, would rather things go wrong sooner or later so the outcome is more certain and out of my hands. There’s a bit less anxiety being <22 and >28 weeks. Sorry this is Dark. 🫠)
Questions: nope
GTKY: Coffee or tea? I try to be a tea person to cut down on caffeine but I love coffee. 😂 I let myself have one a day during pregnancy and it seems to disappear so quickly!
@hestia-is-wearie Yes for me on the Braxton-Hicks! Last pregnancy I had one (1) really good one at 20 weeks and didn’t feel anything else until the third tri, but this time it’s like once to a couple times a day. It freaks me out a little mostly because I have one and catastrophize that it’s preterm labor until an hour later when I realize I haven’t had another. 😅
@caroduke Yeah my “baby” registry is funny because I feel like I have a lot of stuff I need to buy my 3 y/o so I can take the stuff she’s currently using to use for the baby. So I need like a bed so she gives up the crib (currently converted into a toddler bed), we just got a table/chairs so she gives up her current table which converted from a baby seat, etc. I am planning to buy all new pacifiers and bottle nipples because they’re only made to be used by one baby. (My oldest bit straight through some pacifiers—the newborn size when she first got teeth and even the thicker size when she was just turning 3–so I saw how they can wear out and it was very choking hazard-y 😬. This may be overkill esp if your bottle nipples look like they’re in good condition but they’re pretty cheap to replace. Also PSA if you get a wubbanub/pacifier with stuffed animal attached, the pacifier may be only 0-3 month size and not supposed to be used after first teeth appear.)
@jeep4x4mom It’s not too bad when I’m just fully clothed with a good bra on, but when I’m getting dressed if my nipples brush anything I’m like owwwwwwww.
@ashleyp625 Oreo McFlurry will make almost anything better. 🙂
@abjm0325 Throwing up is the worst. I’m sorry it’s still happening.
EDD / Weeks + Days: May 16 24 weeks
Baby is the size of a: cantaloupe
Team blue/pink/green: blue
Upcoming Appointments: follow up ultrasound for Mr Wiggle Worm Friday
How are you feeling?: Ok, back pain is still bad first thing in the AM, but then it goes away. I need to be more active. Work has just been insane and I haven't worked out during lunches like I am used to doing, working instead
Rants/Raves: Also just making my way through like @courtney701 said. Rave is that DH is awesome super supportive. But rant is that also like Courtney I am sick of having to ask multiple times to do the things I can't do. Carry the laundry baskets up man, c'mon!
Questions: NATM
GTKY: Coffee or tea? Right now tea. Finding that coffee has me more tired and jittery, so I have been doing variations of black tea.
@hestia-is-wearie a few here and there but I got them early and ALL the time with DS2
@jeep4x4mom mine are definitely sensitive. I have to cover them up at certain angles in the shower but they aren't painful.
@ashleyp625 I didn't know that hot fudge oreo mcflurries were a thing!?
FTM/STM/TTM+: 4TM
EDD / Weeks + Days: 6/2
Baby is the size of a:
Team blue/pink/green: pink
Upcoming Appointments: A/S 2/1
How are you feeling?: Like a WHALE. I just feel so large. Three point turns to roll over in bed. She feels so low already too which has happened progressively earlier for each pregnancy so I shouldn't be surprised.
Rants/Raves: All my kids have been sick this week. MH and I have been cleaning up vomit and diarrhea around the clock since last Saturday. Finally today (Friday) everyone is back at school and we're both fully at work. Somehow we seem to have been spared, but it's been so brutal. So much laundry. And so much work to catch up on today (so naturally I'm Bumpin)
Questions: How much maternity leave are we taking? Particularly for US based folks ...
GTKY: Coffee or tea? COFFEE. Although I enjoy the experience of tea, I don't particularly enjoy the taste. I drink multiple cups of coffee a day though.
small) and of course had no maternity/parental leave policy because there was no need for one yet. I was prepared for the absolute worst but I’m getting 12 weeks fully paid leave, with the option to take more unpaid if I want or need it.
EDD / Weeks + Days: 23W6D
Baby is the size of a: Grapefruit
Team blue/pink/green: Blue
Upcoming Appointments: 2/3 Glucose test
How are you feeling?: Ready for this sinus infection to go away! It is really wearing me down.
Rants/Raves: Rants.. TMI hemorrhoids for the first time. Raves getting lots of hand me downs from family and coworkers. The one thing I want to splurge on is a nice wagon.
Questions:
GTKY: Coffee or tea? Right now my crutch has been Dr Pepper. Black coffee doesn't sit well. Once a month I get an occasional Starbucks. I only have a handful of teas I care to drink.
Still figuring out the plan once baby comes. I can take 12 weeks FMLA with 6 weeks of that being short term disability and 6 weeks paternity leave. My plan right now is to not return to work after leave. Just trying to figure out the best time to notify them so I don't have to pay back any of the leave.
25 weeks today!
Baby is the size of a: eggplant I guess
Team green
Upcoming Appointments: so big update on my end. Went to MFM this week for an US and the doctor came in and said I DONT have the velamentous cord, I have just the marginal cord. HUGE relief. However, my baby is measuring super duper small, like 14%tile. So didn’t walk away feeling totally great but still another waiting game which I hate. 4 more weeks until next US with MFM and they’ll see if baby if following their growth curve or if they go under 10%tile tons more tests. Ugh.