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August 2014 Moms
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~*August 2014 Weekly Check In*~
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I think I forgot to do this last week... oops.
How far along are you:
How big is baby:
Weight gain/loss:
How big is baby:
Weight gain/loss:
Food cravings:
Symptoms:
Stretch marks:
Maternity clothes:
Sleep:
Best moment this week:
Sex:
Movement:
Belly button:
Stretch marks:
Maternity clothes:
Sleep:
Best moment this week:
Sex:
Movement:
Belly button:
Labor signs:
What do you miss:
What are you looking forward to this week:
Something interesting about this week:
This week's confession:
What do you miss:
What are you looking forward to this week:
Something interesting about this week:
This week's confession:
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Re: ~*August 2014 Weekly Check In*~
How big is baby: Who knows?
Weight gain/loss: +12 pounds... finally some decent gain!
Stretch marks: none new.
Maternity clothes: yes please
Sleep: pretty excellent
Best moment this week:
Sex: baby: boy.. in the bedroom: good, but I'm at the point where O is impossible
Movement: Baby is very active all day, but mostly at night.
Belly button: starting to disappear
What do you miss: Orgasms
What are you looking forward to this week:
Something interesting about this week:
This week's confession:
Stella - 7.7.11 | Ian - 8.6.14 | Isaac- 7.20.18
#4 due 4.22.23
How big is baby: Cantaloupe
Weight gain/loss: + about 16lbs
Maternity clothes: For sure - I love maxi dresses and plan to get several more
Sleep: Tired all of the time no matter how much I get
Best moment this week: having a weekend off with my husband and catching up with a good friend
Sex: Girl!
Movement: Yep - she's clearly a dancer who keeps practicing her moves on my bladder
Belly button: Still an innie, though it seems to be tightening
What do you miss: Cold cuts sound really good some days
What are you looking forward to this week: The end of the week
Something interesting about this week: ...
This week's confession: I ate a lot of Reese's eggs
How big is baby: Spaghetti squash
Weight gain/loss: +4
Stretch marks: none
Maternity clothes: Jeans
Sleep: not great
Best moment this week: weekend away in VT with my best friends and their s/o's it was nice and relaxing
Sex: Team green
Movement: Baby is very active all day, but mostly at night
Belly button: I haven't noticed a difference
What do you miss:
What are you looking forward to this week: starting to paint the nursery this weekend
Something interesting about this week: It's our second wedding anniversary today!
This week's confession: I had a teeny weeny mini mimosa this weekend
How big is baby: cauliflower
Weight gain/loss: ~25 lbs up
Stretch marks: none at this time
Maternity clothes: yup, for the most part
Sleep: not bad.. I've been sleeping better since we upgraded to a king bed
Best moment this week: having a good appt last Wednesday
Sex: boy
Movement: daily, although it has seemed less intense the past few days
Belly button: hanging in there
What do you miss: Taking a vacation. H is going to Disney this week for a work-related event that he created. The past two years, I've been able to join him once he was done with work and stay at Disney for a while to have fun. Also, we've taken cool trips to national parks in the summers. I don't get to do that this year and it's really bumming me out. I guess it will be a long time before vacations happen again
What are you looking forward to this week: Not much
DS born 8.11.14
BFP #2: 9.14.16, EDD: 5.24.17
How big is baby: cauliflower
Weight gain/loss: +8, but that is just since my 8 week appointment. I know I gained more before that.
Stretch marks: same ones that have always been there!
Maternity clothes: 24/7
Sleep: pretty good in general
Best moment this week: when my husband felt the baby kick through my stomach!
Sex: as far as the baby goes: Boy! As far as my H and I go: um...not so much but we're making more of an effort!
Movement: quite a lot!
Belly button: starting to push out
What do you miss: just the same stuff as usual. Cold glasses of white wine, margaritas.
What are you looking forward to this week: finding out the results of my 1 hour glucose test, and seeing my MiL who's in town.
Something interesting about this week: the nursery is sooo close to being done! YES!
This week's confession: I have to spend so much money this week on myself and feeling guilty about it! I need a pedicure, eyebrows waxed and a bunch of new makeup! And I use the expensive all-natural kind...*sigh*
How big is baby: grapefruit
Weight gain/loss: + 10 lbs
Food cravings: Greek food this week.
Symptoms: heartburn, cramping.
Stretch marks: not yet
Maternity clothes: yep, mostly pants
Sleep: not great. Wake up a lot.
Best moment this week: SO felt the baby move for the first time this week.
Sex: boy
Movement: lots of it!
Belly button: innie
Labor signs: none
What do you miss: wine
What are you looking forward to this week: appt tomorrow
Something interesting about this week:
This week's confession: I watch baby story too often on TLC.
First BFP: 12/16/13
EDD: 08/23/14
Baby BOY born: 08/29/14
How big is baby: Cantaloupe
Weight gain/loss: probably 7-10 up?
Stretch marks: none new, yet
Maternity clothes: oh yes!
Sleep: pretty good, sometimes waking once to pee, usually back to sleep pretty fast
Best moment this week: J adding "and Siena!" when we listed family members, melt my heart
Sex: sporadic- some weeks several times, some weeks droughts.
Movement: yup! feels like rolling, maybe a few kicks
Belly button: innie, more shallow
What do you miss: nothing really
What are you looking forward to this week: Viability
Something interesting about this week: nothing
This week's confession: I ate a carton of Ben and Jerrys this weekend after H fell asleep and hid it under some other trash so he/my son wouldn't see
How big is baby: Unsure... Cauliflower?
Weight gain/loss: about 20 lbs up.
Stretch marks: yep.. can't avoid those anymore.
Maternity clothes: all the time!
Sleep: I WISH, too much tossing and turning, or should I say rotating?
Best moment this week: Friday night when DH felt her for the first time.
Sex: Girl
Movement: A LOT! but usually only when sitting or laying
Belly button: Getting shallow, but still an innie.
What do you miss: BEER and steak. I refuse to eat steak if it's not Med. Rare
What are you looking forward to this week: My bday Wednesday, and my OB appt Thursday.
Something interesting about this week: Finally have my crib in my house.. still have to put it together.
How big is baby: a head of lettuce
Weight gain/loss: +7
Stretch marks: no
Maternity clothes: so comfy...
Sleep: I sleep like a log if I can make myself stay up until 1 am. If I go to bed earlier than that, I get hit with 3-6 am insomnia, but it's good thinking time.
Best moment this week: practicing labor positions with H at childbirth class
Sex: no
Movement: tons! Most active early a.m. and late night, but now Baby pipes up in the afternoon too
Belly button: out out out
What do you miss: the occasional beer
What are you looking forward to this week: visiting my mom and 19 year old cat this weekend
Something interesting about this week: It is almost May
This week's confession: I am confession-less
how big is baby: a spaghetti squash
weight gain/loss: I'm sure more than I know of
food cravings: eh
symptoms: achy back and tired
stretch marks: I may be developing some new ones I can't really tell
maternity clothes: I prefer them
sleep: aweful
best moment this week: DS proudly announced and showed ultrasound photos at 4h
sex: it's a girl
movement: she goes crazy when her dad says her name into my belly
belly button: flattening out
labor signs: nah just Braxton hicks
what do you miss: dr pepper...though I'mcheating and drink Iit every now and then
what are you looking forward to: having tomorrow off
something interesting:
this week's confession: I spent to much on baby stuff and eat to much candy over the weekend
How big is baby: Grapefruit
Weight gain/loss: +8-9 pounds
Stretch marks: just on my boobs
Maternity clothes: heck yes
Sleep: still sleeping really well most of the time, only have to get up once/night to pee
Best moment this week:
Sex: Baby=girl; with H, some, but not as often as before
Movement: more at night, some mid-day. H was able to feel her move for the first time about 10 days ago & his face lit up!
Belly button: innie but not as deep
What do you miss: a nice cold beer on the deck with H on a warm evening
What are you looking forward to this week: appt on Fri with OB, have a few questions for her
Something interesting about this week: Got to see my friend who had her baby 11 days ago & get a bunch of gory details from her first hand. She had a scheduled c-section so it might be a bit different for her than it will be for me
This week's confession: Is painting the nursery a confession? I know some people are very anti painting while pregnant, but it needed done, it was low VOC paint, and all of the windows were open.
How big is baby: Cauliflower
Weight gain/loss: I'll find out officially at my appointment tomorrow but I think +19. Still doing better than last time!
Stretch marks: I honestly do not even want to look.
Maternity clothes: Yes and I bought some new shirts from Old Navy recently. I'm already over the ones I have.
Sleep: It's ok. I tend to wake up to pee around 2-3am and then DH wakes me up at 4am when his alarm goes off. DS doesn't wake up until 7-8am so I could sleep past my 6am alarm but I really enjoy my coffee and GMA time before he gets up.
Best moment this week: My Come to Jesus potty training weekend went pretty well and we are on Day 4 of underwear (not for sleeping) and Day 2 of no accidents. Perhaps one day he'll actually tell me when he needs to go rather than being dragged to the bathroom after I notice he's pacing around looking uncomfortable, but overall it's going pretty well.
Sex: Boy
Movement: Lots. I think he had a growth spurt recently because I feel him from way down low all the way up to under my boobs.
Belly button: Getting flatter.
What do you miss: We bought a grill this weekend and I really, really wanted a margarita while we were cooking hamburgers.
What are you looking forward to this week: Getting the GD test over with tomorrow.
Something interesting about this week: BIL is in town for 2 weeks doing whatever it is he does with the Navy Reserves.
This week's confession: I gave in to a pregnancy craving for Trader Joe's ice cream sandwiches. They are so good but also so bad for you.
How big is baby: Papaya
Weight gain/loss: I think up 14lbs.
Stretch marks: None yet
Maternity clothes: Exclusively
Sleep: Not great
Best moment this week: Cookout at a friend's on Saturday
Sex: GIRL
Movement: Little kicks- FI felt her for the first time!
Belly button: Innie, but getting shallow
What do you miss: Not feeling fat
What are you looking forward to this week: The weekend. It's been a rough start to the week
Something interesting about this week: Nothing.
This week's confession: Nothing
How big is baby: Cantaloupe?
Weight gain/loss: +12 pounds
Stretch marks: none new.
Maternity clothes: yes please
Sleep: decent
Best moment this week: Spending time with DD and her being very cute.
Sex: boy
Movement: Baby is very active all day, but mostly at night.
Belly button: Normal
What do you miss: Alcohol
What are you looking forward to this week: Mommy spa day and Baby parade at the MLB game
Something interesting about this week:
This week's confession: