Weekly Check-In w/o Sept 8

aisleofviewtwo

EDD / Weeks + Days:

FTM/STM/TTM+/it's complicated:

Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green:

Upcoming Appointments:

How are you feeling?

Rants/Raves:

Questions:

GTKY: What's on your list to binge watch during the newborn days?

iwantcookies

EDD / Weeks + Days: Dec 7/ 27w1d

FTM/STM/TTM+/it's complicated: FTM

Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: BLUE

Upcoming Appointments: Just took the 1-hour glucose test. Growth scan next week 😵‍💫 then my biweekly apt the following week

How are you feeling? Currently nauseous. I was the lucky few that got the nausea and vomiting from the glucose solution. Luckily I held it in until after the blood work. I was told if you get sick before they draw your blood you will have to retake the test another day. Outside of that just tired/fatigued. But also highly suggest bringing reading materials or download some shows and headphones I went in with my phone thinking I could go back to my car but nope they had me sit in the facility for an hour. I can’t imagine waiting around for 4 if I have to take the 2nd test. 

Rants/Raves:  

Questions: anyone else have a high fundal height? This is the second apt where I was measuring above(1st measurement 3cm above, 2nd apt 5cm above) and where it was harder to get baby’s heart rate. Doc said it sounded like he was far away (I have a Posterior placenta). Not much info has been given aside from wanting another US to see how baby and my fluids are doing. Sounds like I’m just withholding more fluids 🤷🏽‍♀️

GTKY: What's on your list to binge watch during the newborn days? 

Oh I’m going to have to find new shows as I’m almost caught up on all my existing ones 

caffeinatedandtired

@iwantcookies Sorry you did not feel great from the glucose test, but glad you were able to get the bloodwork done!

EDD / Weeks + Days: 12/18 / 25w4d

FTM/STM/TTM+/it's complicated: FTM

Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: Pink!

Upcoming Appointments: End of the month for glucose test

How are you feeling? All things considered, pretty good? Knocking on wood. 

Rants/Raves: Time to invest in some maternity shirts. I'm not trying to hide my pregnancy from patients, but the bump is getting to the point that my shirts are appearing shorter in length / the belly is peeking out, and I know I've still got some growing to do.

Questions: Anyone feel strongly about a glider / rocker recommendation? 

GTKY: What's on your list to binge watch during the newborn days? I'm very excited about being able to watch the Olympics in February.. otherwise, I am also caught up on shows and need to pick some new / old series. Anyone else watch bad reality tv as a guilty pleasure?

thatbaintforbetty

EDD / Weeks + Days: 12-26 / 24 & 3

FTM/STM/TTM+/it's complicated: 3rd

Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: blue!

Upcoming Appointments: 9/16, I think? My last one got rescheduled. Then 10/3, 10/17, 10/31. 

How are you feeling? Tired, itchy, leaky (boobies), huge, did I mention itchy? Oh and beat up from the inside. 🥊

Rants/Raves: WE MADE IT TO THE END OF THE MONITORING PERIOD AND ARE CLEARED! 

Had my last follow up from the exposure and officially baby is great! No signs whatsoever of anemia or any possible issues! 🎉🥳

I get a whole 6 weeks without a scheduled ultrasound, lol. And then I start growth scans at 30 weeks. Really starting feel like the end is in sight and slightly panicking about needing to have more done. 

Questions: I’m jealous of you guys with space for meals prepped ahead. Our freezer is tiny! Do you guys have a deep freezer or just not a tiny apartment fridge/freezer combo? 

GTKY: What's on your list to binge watch during the newborn days? 

Oooh I haven’t made a list yet but these are some things already sitting on my watch list:

peaky blinders
flash/supergirl/arrow/legends of tomorrow 
night agent
Witcher
GOT/house of dragons
shadow and bone
kaos
buffy/angel
x-files
star trek
doctor who (I’m behind a couple seasons) 
once upon a time
the various marvel or Star Wars series
scandal (I never finished it) 
devil may cry
wheel of time
mayfair witches/discovery of witches
charmed (old and new) 


Some I haven’t seen but some i have actually seen and am in the middle of a rewatch. I tend to go very action/adventure/sci-fi/fantasy. 

rebecksah

@iwantcookies it took me a few days to recover from the glucose test this time. the fasting really made me nauseous! hope you're feeling better soon.

rebecksah

EDD / Weeks + Days: 27+6

FTM/STM/TTM+/it's complicated: 3rd

Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: 💚 

Upcoming Appointments: yes a massage tmw thank god lol

How are you feeling? extremely stiff and sore 😭

Rants/Raves: I'm trying to see if my nausea has finally subsided. I'm starting to take 1 less pill a day to see if there's a huge difference and then possibly stopping altogether if I feel fine, but I think I'm nauseous from anxiety now lol

Questions: n/a

GTKY: my go-to comfort fall show is Gilmore Girls, so for sure that. I tried to start The Summer I Turned Pretty last night and honestly it didn't hook me in. going to try Tell Me Lies tonight but it's only 3 seasons so far (they're currently filming the next one in my city right now!)

aisleofviewtwo

@thatbaintforbetty Woohoo!! 🎉 Congrats on getting through the monitoring period—I know it’s been nervewracking. Hoping for a less anxious and more joyful remainder of pregnancy for you!

EDD / Weeks + Days: December 24, 25w0d

FTM/STM/TTM+/it's complicated: FTM

Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: 💚

Upcoming Appointments: 28-week check-up and glucose test on 9/29, follow-up growth scan with MFM on 10/22

How are you feeling? We had awful wildfire smoke over the weekend and my sinuses are still big mad about it. Starting to find it harder to get comfortable at night, might be time to invest in a pregnancy pillow of some sort.

Rants/Raves: My husband’s aunt and uncle visited over the weekend. They love a good project and probably got more projects checked off the to-do list in one weekend than I have in 2025 (rave). HOWEVER, time management and spatial reasoning are not always their strong suit, so we’ve also been left with a bunch of half-finished tasks that we’ll have to find the motivation to finish on our own now that they’re gone (rant). The joys of family!

Questions:

GTKY: What's on your list to binge watch during the newborn days? Like @caffeinatedandtired I’m very excited for the Olympics. I’m terrible at finding new shows to watch so I think I’m most likely to re-watch the classics I’ve watched a number of times already like Friends, The Office, Modern Family, Parks & Rec, HIMYM. I do tend to prefer my TV to be fairly light and airy. 

Abbott Elementary, Bunheads, and Only Murders in the Building are on my list to check out. Any other comedies I should be looking into?

virginiaham

@thatbaintforbetty what a relief, yayyyy for being cleared!! 👏🙌

EDD / Weeks + Days: {Nov transplant} 31w tomorrow 

FTM/STM/TTM+/it's complicated: 3rd

Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: 💕

Upcoming Appointments: 32w growth scan + routine appt a week from tomorrow

How are you feeling? We’re in the home stretch for this deployment and in-laws were here over the weekend which was truly a huge help 🙏

Rants/Raves:  Simultaneously feeling like they moved me past a hump and now I got this, and also like I just want to sit and rest for a month.  Like, do I really need to make dinner from scratch tonight?

Questions:

GTKY: What's on your list to binge watch during the newborn days?  Holiday Baking Championship, Christmas Cookie Challenge, and Landman.  Also our go-to rewatchable 90s sitcoms (Cheers, Frasier, Seinfeld) … my 5yo was born just after midnight and I definitely labored/delivered to Frasier in the background on the hospital network 😝