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January 2025 Babies
kamays54
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Weekly Check-in, w/o June 17th
kamays54
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EDD / Weeks + Days:
FTM/STM/TTM+:
Baby is the size of a (an):
Team blue/pink/green:
Baby is the size of a (an):
Team blue/pink/green:
Upcoming Appointments:
How are you feeling?:
How are you feeling?:
Rants/Raves:
Questions:
GTKY: What's your favorite family tradition and/or favorite childhood memory?
GTKY: What's your favorite family tradition and/or favorite childhood memory?
Re: Weekly Check-in, w/o June 17th
Baby is the size of a (an): blackberry
Team blue/pink/green: Blue + Green for now (twins)
How are you feeling?: Feeling good overall, but beginning to have some considerable food aversions which is more annoying than anything else. The babies are not fans of red meat or eggs I guess...
GTKY: What's your favorite family tradition and/or favorite childhood memory?
Family Tradition: My husband and I live in Southern California, and for years now, once a week we picnic dinner down at the beach and watch the sunset. It's our absolute favorite and can't wait to include the babies in this special tradition.
Childhood Memory: Growing up, our family did bunch of road trips all over the US to National Parks or visit family/friends, etc. Such fun memories of being together and seeing cool places and hanging out in the car. Excited to do that with our family in the future as well.
With my first, I couldn't eat peanut butter. I was convinced she was going to be allergic. I'm sure that's not how that works but in my mind that's what I thought. She loves peanut butter and has not had any adverse reactions.
I love both your tradition and childhood memories. They sound like so much fun. I always loved road trips. We didn't do as many and they were mostly from NJ to FL to see family but I have some really good memories from those times.
EDD / Weeks + Days: Jan 3rd / 11w 4d
Baby is the size of a (an): Lime
Team blue/pink/green: Green for now
How are you feeling?: My husband and I thought we got food poisoning this weekend but his mother just started have the same symptoms last night and we saw her on Sunday. So I'm guessing a stomach bug. It hit me first and I thought it was just really bad morning sickness but I knew when my husband started it wasn't that. I feel so bad for him. This was only his 2nd Father's day and the first one was just a couple months after his Father died so he thinks it's just how his Father's days are going to be.
GTKY: What's your favorite family tradition and/or favorite childhood memory?
I asked this question because most of my family traditions are holiday based (pumpkin carving, Christmas cookies, etc.) and I wanted to try and incorporate some new things for both my kids. I saw a video of a family doing waffle boat nights where they make these waffles and have an assortment of toppings and the whole family was having such a good time. I had a really good childhood, don't get me wrong, but I just thought it would be fun to start doing stuff like that for my kids and start our own family traditions.
My favorite childhood memory is spending time at my grandfather's house. He lived in his childhood home with a few of his siblings and the door was always open. People would be coming and going all day and night and they would be playing music and telling stories. My great aunt always had food out. It was just fascinating as a kid and it created an extended "family" of such eclectic people.
Baby is the size of a (an): blackberry
Team blue/pink/green: green (likely doing NIPT testing in the next couple of weeks so will know soon!)
How are you feeling?: still good! Biggest change this week has been swelling and painful breasts. My boobs have never been this big in my life 😂
GTKY: What's your favorite family tradition and/or favorite childhood memory
This is a tough one for me. I feel like a lot of my favorite memories are in adulthood with some tough stuff growing up. There was about a 5-year stretch that I had Thanksgiving with just my dad and sister and we made everything from scratch. It was really intimate and special. Now my husband and I like to host
Baby is the size of a (an): cant remember. Is this called mom brain? My poor third child😂
Team blue/pink/green: will find out at anatomy scan
How are you feeling?: constipated. And it’s making me feel more nauseous. Got some laxatives today so hope its going to help soon. My mental health has been a but in the dumps. It helps to get outside but i have no motivation to do my regular hobbies (sewing/knitting) that normally kept me sane as a stay at home more of a 3 and 1 yr old. So now I’m just super bored and lonely. Been really fighting my phone because its way to easy to get sucked in and end up scrolling all day which its good for me or my kids. I do NOT want to be a mom who has my nose in my phone all day.
GTKY: What's your favorite family tradition and/or favorite childhood memory?
taking a family beach/camping trip every summer. So fun to sit around the campfire singing in the evenings and generally hanging out on the beach with cousins that i didnt always see too often throughout the year.
Baby is the size of a (an): lime
Team blue/pink/green: pink
How are you feeling?: Still so nauseous.
GTKY: What's your favorite family tradition and/or favorite childhood memory? I feel like all of our traditions were holiday based. I’d love to make some new ones.
@babywiik those sleepovers sound fun! Do you have a date set when you are going to move back?
@bass04 I just got 2 pairs of maternity leggings last week. I waited a while with my first but with this one I feel like I'm showing way earlier. Also, I felt like where my pants were hitting me on my stomach made me more nauseous so over the belly pants were needed lol.
Baby is the size of a (an): Brussels sprout
Team blue/pink/green: Still green
How are you feeling?: Still having periods of nausea/vomiting, but it is getting slightly better. Also very tired a lot.
GTKY: What's your favorite family tradition and/or favorite childhood memory? My favorite family tradition is a Christmas thing. We have a "cheese feast" and everyone brings different cheese and crackers and meat. They've been doing is for something like 50 years, and maybe more, so way before charcuterie was cool.
@fk18 I don't drink as much as I probably should, but I definitely have a goal for 64 oz. a day, which is the standard 8 cups. I was talking to a friend and she told me she had a few complications later in her second pregnancy that was caused by not drinking enough water, and the nurse told her she had to drink two of those huge hospital jugs a day, and I think that would be 64 oz. as well.
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@fk18 and @MandyBeeSLP I also bought a glass 64oz jug and I fill it up at the beginning of the day. As I drink things (even not water like lemonade) I pour out the amount I consumed so every drop counts. I try to sip on it all day and because it’s glass and clear - I can see how far I have to go. I’m shocked I’ve been able to get 64oz down because normally I am just not thirsty. I want to say that I feel so much better or it’s helped with my bloat or other symptoms but honestly it hasn’t. I just dutifully do it everyday because I know it’s the recommendation.
EDD / Weeks + Days: Jan 7 / 11 weeks 1 day
FTM/STM/TTM+: FTM
Baby is the size of a (an): Lego man!!
Team blue/pink/green: blue baby!
Upcoming Appointments: July 2nd for a scan with MFM. I believe it’s an anatomy’s scan.
How are you feeling?: Intermittently better. Although the nausea can come out of nowhere and hit me like a ton of bricks still. I’m exhausted and by 3pm, it’s nap time! Not that I get to take a lot of naps but I’d like to!
Rants/Raves: I agree the first trimester is looooonnnng! I also agree about the maternity clothing thing. I gave up and just bought some comfy leggings, jumpsuits and even a pair on insanely cute maternity jeans from Paige. Just decided to embrace even though it’s still early, I’m bloated and uncomfortable and sick of trying to shove myself in my existing clothes! We all need some comfier stuff eventually, might as well do it now!
Questions: none
GTKY: What's your favorite family tradition and/or favorite childhood memory?
Gosh, great question. Pregnancy brain is not helping. I guess I would say that we love St Patrick’s Day in a very passionate and deep level despite the fact that we aren’t particularly Irish. Every year we make several homemade cornbeef briskets, eats tons of cabbage and died everything green! I’ve loved it since I was a kid and excited for my kids to enjoy it too! I’m sure I can come up with something better but that is all I have for right now!
Baby is the size of a (an): cherry!
Team blue/pink/green: pink
How are you feeling?:
nausea comes and goes and isn’t horribly awful. I’m struggling with nighttime insomnia but it’s mostly because it’s super hot and humid here lately. Food aversions are definitely still here but I’ve been doing protein shakes to help get in nutrients
I’m finally finding the energy to get my workouts in and it’s helping with my mood and energy. I also took advantage of my local thrift store’s weekend and daily clearance deals to snag a bunch of tunic length shirts and cute dresses for maternity wear for under $2.50 a piece. I figure once my normal high waisted leggings stop fitting I’ll just invest in a few maternity pairs from Old Navy or Amazon.
GTKY: What's your favorite family tradition and/or favorite childhood memory?
One of my favorite traditions that we do as a family is Birthday Breakfasts. It’s just a silly tradition we started when my husband and I got married, but on birthdays we make whatever the person wants for breakfast. It’s something mundane like Oreo pancakes or French toast, but sometimes it’s a bacon cheeseburger (my husband), Costco pizza (my son), and my personal favorite birthday breakfast request is cold leftover lasagna.
Baby is the size of a (an): ripe apricot? apparently
Team blue/pink/green: green but I wish I knew!
How are you feeling?: Mostly okay. Some days I feel normal and sometimes I just want to lie in bed. Food aversion stuff has been rough, luckily it seems no matter what either an egg sandwich or peanut butter toast works. My boobs also are still sore all the time
GTKY: What's your favorite family tradition and/or favorite childhood memory? really St Patricks day. My moms side of the family always had a big get together with a traditional meal and it was just a nice gathering, that I miss.