Weekly Check-In w/o Sept 15

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: Have you started nesting?

thatbaintforbetty

EDD / Weeks + Days: 12-26 / 25 & 3 (I literally have to double check this every week because I don’t remember. lol) 

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

Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: blue

Upcoming Appointments: Tuesday with OB

How are you feeling? Huge, itchy, tired, leaky (boobs), having to pee allllll the time. And of course like there is a wrestling match going on inside me. 

Rants/raves: had to break out my breast pads, which I wasn’t sure I still had but was surprisingly happy to discover them easily in my closet, because my left boob has decided it’s going to have a slow leak. 🧐

DH and the girls all got flu shots this weekend and nobody screamed! I think that’s a first and they definitely got a treat afterwards in recognition. 

Questions: anybody have bunk beds for older kids? DD1 broke her bed frame, not shocking, and I’m contemplating moving them to bunk beds since their room is so small. 

GTKY: Have you started nesting? Not really. With DD2 I literally dreamt of how to rearrange closets 🤣 (Although maybe since I’m thinking of completely redoing the room^)

virginiaham

@iwantcookies I forgot to ask on last week’s thread but when is your next ultrasound / how did it go??  I know the first thing they’re probably wanting to rule out is polyhydramnios (increased amniotic fluid) though I don’t have experience with it.  Hoping you’re able to get things checked out quickly.

EDD / Weeks + Days:  {Nov transplant} 31+4

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

Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: 🩷

Upcoming Appointments: Thursday for growth scan and 32w checkup.

How are you feeling?  An old back strain is flaring up again and forcing me to slow down and the busy bee in me is raging against it 😂

Rants/Raves:  y’all I’m frustrated.  I just happen to have my annual appt in August with my PCM who is in the functional medicine/root cause mindset.  My nutrition and iron labs looked terrible (anemia, low blood protein, low calcium), and my repeat labs haven’t really improved despite starting iron and eating avg 150g protein/day—which is making me wonder if I have some malabsorption issues because I’ve always been underweight.  The midwife hasn’t really been concerned pregnancy-wise to this point because my other two were both healthy/term/appropriate weight, plus I’m asymptomatic, urine dipstick is fine, I’m gaining weight and I’m measuring on track.  Like I can’t chase these labs.  If the growth scan looks good and midwife says she isn’t concerned on Thursday I think I just need to tell my PCM to chill with this until a few months after I deliver.  Maybe the root cause of my crap labs is literally just pregnancy 😅

Questions:

GTKY: Have you started nesting?  Completely, and also experienced the weird rage when I can’t get to something nesting-wise that I desperately want to do (is this normal orrr pathological?? 🙈). So far cleaned/detailed the second hand stroller we got, cleared out/cleaned the corner for the mini crib where she’ll sleep in our room, washed the clothes and blankets/wraps/burp cloths we kept from our other kids, and have my list of things to order.  Also a huge list of things I’d like to declutter but some of those may be infant nap projects.