***PGAL Check-In***

Mrs Nice

Hello Ladies,Welcome to Thursday PGAL Check-In! I hope I find you all well and positive this week! If you have any questions you would like answered, please don't be shy! You can also ask the PAL ladies. Bake, little buns, bake! How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week?Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones?QOTW: What are your thoughts on dopplers? If you have one, how often do you use it?Open Topic. What is on your mind this week?GTKY: What are some of your guilty pleasure names? 

weddedwife

How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week?
I'm 21 weeks. I think my baby is a squash?Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones?I have weekly appts. to check cervical length. My loss milestone is 5 days away. Yeah, I'm freaking out.QOTW: What are your thoughts on dopplers? I don't have one.
Open Topic. What is on your mind this week?My loss milestone is coming up- I am scared, worried, etc. There isn't really much room for anything else. GTKY: What are some of your guilty pleasure names? Sorry, not sharing any names! (I know, I'm no fun )

Heatherhah

How far along are you? 22wks 5 days

What size fruit is your baby this week? papaya

Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones? next ob appt is August 27th

 QOTW: What are your thoughts on dopplers? I have one

If you have one, how often do you use it? I use it about 2 times a day on average

Open Topic. What is on your mind this week? Just wish that her kicks were consistant. So I could have some peace of mind if possible.

 GTKY: What are some of your guilty pleasure names? I don't know.

medblais

How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week? 7 w 2d, which makes baby a blueberry size

Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones? My firstt appointment is coming up on the 27th, and hopefully we will hear the heartbeat.

QOTW: What are your thoughts on dopplers? If you have one, how often do you use it? I don't own one because I would use it obsessively. With my first pregnancy, it was what we looked foward to at each midwife visit, because at the time she only had the doppler there. I want to keep it was that reward for going to my appointments.

Open Topic. What is on your mind this week? Symptoms and how different this pregnancy is. I am having a hard time some days thinking this pregnancy will last because my symptoms are SO mild compared with last time. I know every pregnancy is different, and a different sexed baby could be even more different...but I never expected this much of a change. While it is nice to feel pretty normal, it doesn't feel what for me pregnant has felt like. I'm wanting the weeks to go by and get me smoothly out of my 1st tri.

GTKY: What are some of your guilty pleasure names? not really at a place for that yet

Petunia844

How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week?   31w3d (ticker's off by a day) so that makes me a pineapple I think.
Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones? We have appointments weekly at least from here on out.  My pre-e diagnosis milestone is 32w and my loss milestone is 33w.
QOTW: What are your thoughts on dopplers? If you have one, how often do you use it? We didn't get one, they sort of terrify me.  When I lost Peyton, they couldn't find his heartbeat I had to sit there through shear agony only to find out he was gone... I didn't want one in my house, I knew it would just make me more anxious if I ever couldn't find it in seconds.
Open Topic. What is on your mind this week? Ugh, I have a whole post about it on pgal but this week is a mess... I'm already fighting to stay calm with my milestones being so soon... now our tenant (we rent a condo) is threatening to move out over issues we have no control over.  I would say maybe it's a good distraction, but right now it just feels like a major headache that I don't need right now.
GTKY: What are some of your guilty pleasure names? His name is decided, it's in my siggy.

philfemgal

How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week?I am 8 weeks and 5 days.  Baby is a raspberry.
Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones?We have an appointment a week from today and then two weeks after that and then two weeks after that.  By then it will be almost time for our anatomy scan.  We are approaching when I got pregnant the first time.  That doesn't feel very much like a milestone though.  We've got at least another 6 weeks before we are approaching our first loss milestone and then another 4 weeks after that for the second loss.
QOTW: What are your thoughts on dopplers? If you have one, how often do you use it?We have a doppler.  It was my wife who insisted we purchase it.  I've never been very into it.  It just makes me nervous.  We used it during the first pregnancy and for a good while couldn't hear anything.  Then we thought we were hearing their heartbeats--heard two of them after all in two different sports on my pelvis--but the beats were not nearly fast enough.  Realized that we were hearing my own heart beat.  Maybe once or twice did we ever actually hear Alice's heartbeat.  It always took a long time of searching to find it and was mostly a pain.
Open Topic. What is on your mind this week?I've been really emotional and kind of down lately.  I think it is the combination of the anxiety and still grieving and the hormones.  And I keep comparing how we are feeling this pregnancy to the last pregnancy.  Even though we were very nervous about something going wrong during that pregnancy we were still hopeful and excited.  This time around it is just so hard to feel attached and to think we are really going to get a baby.
GTKY: What are some of your guilty pleasure names?We have trouble even coming up with real names, let alone guilty pleasure ones.

xxswebbxx

Hi Ladies....excited to be joining you!

How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week? 7w 3d...Blueberry

Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones? 2nd OB appointment is on April 24th....Olivia's 4 month angelversary.

QOTW: What are your thoughts on dopplers? If you have one, how often do you use it? I don't have one & I think its best I don't. I feel it's just something else I would obsess over.

Open Topic. What is on your mind this week? Getting to see my LO again. We didn't get to see much on the u/s. Then the printer was broken so they sent us home with a CD which didn't work.

GTKY: What are some of your guilty pleasure names? Nothing in particular but I love boy names for girls.

careyalis

How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week? I am 11 weeks 5 days (ticker is off) and I think my baby is a lime? Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones? My next appointment is an ultrasound at 15 +3 and we are hoping to find out the sex that day.  I really love that no one else knows that we could possibly find out that day, so we can react to the news on our own without an audience.  QOTW: What are your thoughts on dopplers? If you have one, how often do you use it? I love my doppler!  I was REALLY big with Avery because of extreme amounts of amniotic fluid (polyhydramnios) and she had short limbs due to the dwarfism, so I was unable to feel her at the end of the pregnancy.  We knew that she could die before birth, so my doppler was the only way to know that she was still okay.  I generally use it a couple of times a week and it has done nothing but bring me peace. Open Topic. What is on your mind this week? Yesterday was a really hard day for me.  It was Avery's 6 month day and I just wanted to hold her so much.  That has pretty much been consuming my thoughts.  I don't like for time to pass because it just makes it easier for others to forget and harder for me because I am nowhere close to forgetting.  I really miss my baby. GTKY: What are some of your guilty pleasure names?  I love Brooks for a boy, but DH isn't having it.  I also love Ansley and Blakely for girls, but those were also nixed by the hubs.