***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: Have you ever gotten any unwanted advice about pregnancy or labor as though you have never been through it before?Open Topic. What is on your mind this week?GTKY: What is your all time favourite book to read?

Heatherhah

How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week? 25wks 5 days, cauliflower

Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones? The only milestone is our 1 year for losing Sydney on September 30th.  Pregnancy wise no real milestones.

QOTW: Have you ever gotten any unwanted advice about pregnancy or labor as though you have never been through it before? not really

Open Topic. What is on your mind this week? Just trying to get through this month with out losing my mind and my heart.

GTKY: What is your all time favourite book to read? I have a few ,I loved the Outsiders as a teen.

jbranden12

Hi ladies, happy Thursday!
How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week? Coming up on 9 weeks, so between a raspberry and an olive.
Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones? Had a sono yesterday, we still have a heartbeat! Saw our little gummy bear wiggling around. Baby measured 8+5, which is exactly what Patricia measured the first time we saw her. It was strange and although I was relieved everything looked good, it reminded me what a long road we have ahead.
QOTW: Have you ever gotten any unwanted advice about pregnancy or labor as though you have never been through it before? No, no one has said anything. I expect this to happen more when I start showing, probably in a few weeks!
Open Topic. What is on your mind this week? Working through some issues with DH, taking it one day at a time.
GTKY: What is your all time favourite book to read? Scarlett, the sequel to Gone With the Wind.

blessedhope

  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? 11 weeks, size of a lime Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones? Getting close to the second trimester  QOTW: Have you ever gotten any unwanted advice about pregnancy or labor as though you have never been through it before? I have a SIL who keeps saying things about why I should not have a c-section. She really needs slapped. Open Topic. What is on your mind this week? I had a dream last night that I had a girl. GTKY: What is your all time favourite book to read? I grew up on little house on the Prarie series and I still love them! I am babysitting two girls on the weekend and I am reading Little House in the Big Woods to them.  

Petunia844

How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week? 34 1/2 weeks, I think honeydew?
Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones? Next appt will be Tuesday, an NST
QOTW: Have you ever gotten any unwanted advice about pregnancy or labor as though you have never been through it before? YES! Or people talking to me about what labor will be like as though I haven't been there...makes me want to punch them in the face.  How do you think my son came out of me last time? 
Open Topic. What is on your mind this week? scroll down a few posts for the whole fiasco... even if my logical brain knows that nuchal cord is super common and nuchal cord x1 is not normally a problem at all... it's all I can think about.  I thought I was obsessive about kick counts before... I do still really believe he's coming home with me, but holy sh*t I didn't need the last 3 weeks to be THIS stressful.  I'm still praying we can schedule a follow up u/s and get better news.
GTKY: What is your all time favourite book to read? Probably sadly the Harry Potter series... I could read it 100x

pottermommy

@ PETUNIA  you know that's why my name is pottermommy : )

Petunia844

pottermommy:

@ PETUNIA  you know that's why my name is pottermommy : )

Hahaha I know!

careyalis

I am 14 weeks  4 days and I think I'm a lemon 

I have an ultrasound next Wednesday at 15 weeks 3 days and my doctor told me that there is a good chance that we will find out the sex at that appointment. I am excited about possibly knowing without the pressure of everyone else knowing that we know. That way we can react without an audience and tell people when we are ready. 

I have not really received advice from people, but a friend of mine was like " I have Aton of pregnancy books if you want to borrow them!" which kind of rubbed me the wrong way even though she was trying to be sweet. I already know what happens because I read every one of those books and gave birth just a few months ago. 

I am in a good place mentally right now, but the ultrasound on Wednesday is kind of looming over me. They were able to spot Avery's condition at 18 weeks, so I feel like this next ultrasound could be far enough along to see complications. I'm just praying that this is my rainbow.  

Eta: I forgot to add a book!  My favorite book ever is  I'll Love You Forever. It makes me cry every time. 

philfemgal

How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week?I am 11 weeks 5 days, so a lime going on a plum.
Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones?We just had an appointment this morning.  We have our next one in just 12 days thankfully.  I am usually okay the 1st week after an appointment, but during the 2nd week I start flipping out.  Even before my spotting episode that sent us to L&D, I had already freaked out a few days before that just worrying that something is going to go wrong.
QOTW: Have you ever gotten any unwanted advice about pregnancy or labor as though you have never been through it before?No.  I think my loss was so early that it wouldn't be that inappropriate anyway.  I actually wonder a lot how similar to labor at full term my labor was.  I especially wonder how the pain compares because ideally I'd like to go natural, but the pain I was in a few hours before I delivered was bad.  I keep thinking the pain must be worse with a full term birth, but there's no way I could take hours of even worse pain than that.
Open Topic. What is on your mind this week?Well as I posted on PgAL, we had our first trip to L&D already for spotting.  Hoping that is it until full term.  We also had another appointment today with a nurse practitioner rather than our regular OB.  I usually like NPs better than MDs, but not this time.  My wife and I both left the office saying, "I refuse to every have an appointment with her again."  There was nothing she did that was totally horrible.  She just rubs me the wrong way and I really think she doesn't read my chart before having appointments (this was the second--and last!--one with her.)
GTKY: What is your all time favourite book to read?Maybe The Handmaid's Tale.

astraight15

How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week?I am 5 weeks & the baby is the size of an appleseed:-) Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones?My first appointment is on the 18th and I am hoping that everything goes well! QOTW: Have you ever gotten any unwanted advice about pregnancy or labor as though you have never been through it before?I haven't gotten any advice yet because nobody knows yet.   Open Topic. What is on your mind this week?I am super nervous about this pregnancy and I am just keep thinking about the long road ahead.   GTKY: What is your all time favourite book to read?I love to read anything by Jodi Picoult...My Sister's Keeper was my favorite!