***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 been singing or reading to your baby this pregnancy?Open Topic. What is on your mind this week?

Heatherhah

How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week? 30wk 5days , a cucumber which seems silly to me LOL I also think squash too

 Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones? appt today to follow up being told to go to er Bp was high 155/96 yikes and some traces of protein in my urine

QOTW: Have you been singing or reading to your baby this pregnancy? I sing in the car all the time I don't read to the baby at all.

Open Topic. What is on your mind this week? Just sore and having some issues with sleep and tailbone issues tons of braxton hicks too . Just pregancy pains thats all so far.

jbranden12

How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week?I'll be 14 weeks on Saturday, so baby is the size of a large peach. Yay 2nd tri!
Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones?Next appointment in 11 days. I am excited to be able to go to an appointment in a relaxed state since I have the doppler at home to hear baby's heartbeat!
QOTW: Have you been singing or reading to your baby this pregnancy?No, I keep meaning to have DH read to baby in Danish. I did a research paper on bilingual infants last semester and learned that babies do actually begin learning language in utero. When tested at birth, monolingual babies showed a clear preference for their native language. Bilingual babies showed no preference at birth between their two native languages. Open Topic. What is on your mind this week?We are house and dog-sitting for my parents for the next month while they are in Europe. We sleep over there, but there is a lot of back and forth (we live 5 minutes away). My dog is very needy. She is 15 years old, mostly blind, and pretty deaf. I don't know yet, but I imagine it is like taking care of a newborn!

cmenasco

Can I join in!?!!  I know I'm new to Loss,TTCAL and PGAL but trying to be more active!

 How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week? 

 I was 4 weeks on Tues.....so very new.  I think LO is the size of an apple seed?!

Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones? Not yet, haven't called my OB yet, still some what in shock.  Will call next week to schedule first appointmentQOTW: Have you been singing or reading to your baby this pregnancy? Not directly, but I sing every night to my DS, so this little one will get it too once it can hear me! Open Topic. What is on your mind this week? I'm trying to feel hopeful, excited, but also some what jaded and part of me is trying to not get too excited as I'm afraid this one will result in a loss too.  But DH is super supportive and keep all thoughts positive!!

 

xxswebbxx

  How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week? 15w3d Orange Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones? Next appointment on 10/19. QOTW: Have you been singing or reading to your baby this pregnancy? Reading psych & addiction studies book for school...poor LO. I have to read out loud because my house is VERY loud! Open Topic. What is on your mind this week? I'm a SAHM/full time student. DD has after school activities M-Th, with 2 on Thursday. I dunno what I was thinking when I signed her up for all this stuff. I walk her to most of her activities as well as to and from school. I dunno what I'm gonna do once the weather gets bad & I start to waddle! Guess it's time to start looking at a second car.

astraight15

How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week?

I am 10 weeks 1 day and baby is the size of a strawberry:-)  A few people at work have already asked me if I am pregnant again...all this bloat is hard to hide!  

 

Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones?My NT scan is coming up on the 23rd.   QOTW: Have you been singing or reading to your baby this pregnancy?Not yet but my husband has already been talking to my belly! Open Topic. What is on your mind this week?I just want to wake up & have it be the day that I am going to deliver this baby!  I am so nervous:-/    

philfemgal

How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week?

I am 16 weeks and 5 days--an avocado becoming an onion.

 

Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones?We had our a/s today.  Everything that can be measured and looked at this early was looking good!  So today was a good day (though yesterday and last night was harder--very nerve-wracking waiting for the a/s).  Last pregnancy I went into labor the day after our a/s, though last time the a/s was also two weeks later.  So we've got that loss milestone in two weeks and I can't wait to be past it.  We also have another OB appt. on Tuesday.  We do them every 2 weeks just for anxiety which is very helpful. QOTW: Have you been singing or reading to your baby this pregnancy?Not yet.  We were just trying to figure out when the baby can actually hear.  I've seen everything from at 8 weeks to not until the 3rd trimester?  I know last pregnancy I saw something that said 16 weeks, so I think I'm going to stick with that even it's not true.  So we should probably start any day now.  My wife really wants to read Little House on the Prarie to the baby, but *I* don't really have much interest in listening to her read those books.  I said maybe I could wear some headphones and do something else while she is reading those books.  Open Topic. What is on your mind this week?  We found out today baby is a girl.  Her name will be Ada Alice!  (Alice after her sister who we lost.)  We've started referring to her as Ada already.  It feels a little strange to refer to a baby at this stage of pregnancy with such a grown up name--we had been using a silly nickname.  I think we might end up doing a combo of Ada and that nickname for now, but it is nice to know she has a name.Other than that, just trying to make it through the next 2 weeks as best we can.

careyalis

I am late to post, so I am 20 weeks today which I think is a banana. 

We just passed a major milestone-the anatomy scan. That is when we learned that Avery would most likely die, and it was such a relief to get a good report.

I haven't read or sang to this baby yet. Maybe I will start soon though.  

I am starting to feel more positive and my excitement is slowly outweighing my fear. We are definitely having a little boy and I am just starting to get to the point where I am comfortable buying things for the baby.