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classicstar28 · September 2014

Happy Wednesday, ladies!! I fixed my computer!! Yay! Here are my pretty rainbow pictures from last night.

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One more week down and that much closer to meeting our sweet LO's!

Just a reminder that this is a weekly check-in for those of us who start a new week of pregnancy today. If you are new, please feel free to jump in, give us your EDD, and welcome!

How far along are you/fruit/EDD?

How are you feeling? Symptoms?

Any appointments coming up? Anything you need T&P for?

GTKY: How did you meet your SO? Any funny/interesting stories from those early days?

classicstar28 · September 2014

How far along are you/fruit/EDD? 34 weeks, butternut squash, 10-15

How are you feeling? Symptoms? Physically, same old same old. Rib pain, hip pain, not sleeping well, etc. I'm not sure if this is Pgal brain, but I've found myself worrying a lot about something happening to DH or me. I worry about Lilly, too, but not as much since she moves pretty regularly throughout the day. I often feel like crying and my emotions are all over the place. It's weird to be back to having so much anxiety and crazy emotions after feeling so much calmer the last few months.

Any appointments coming up? Anything you need T&P for? I have one more two week stretch between appointments. I had my 34 week appointment yesterday and I'll go for 36 weeks on the 16th. After that, I'll go once a week. Anyone have any words of wisdom about the group b strep test? It doesn't sound all that bad, but neither did cervical checks and that hurt way more than I expected.

GTKY: How did you meet your SO? Any funny/interesting stories from those early days? I was tired of meeting men who didn't really know what they wanted and I was ready to get married. I talked to my mom about it and she suggested I try eHarmony. DH and I started communicating on Easter and met the following week. Our first date lasted about 8 hrs despite both of us going in expecting maybe an hour or so. Two of our earliest dates were high school related since he is a hs teacher. He took me to chaperone prom (date #3) and to his school's spring choir concert (date #5). But, he really is the most amazing man I've ever met. He basically told me he wanted to marry me after about a month. We moved in together and got engaged about 2.5 months after we met and married 11 months almost to the day after we met.

whiteroses05 · September 2014

How far along are you/fruit/EDD?
30 weeks!!!! Let the count down begin! Riley is the size of a cucumber with EDD 11/12/14
How are you feeling? Symptoms?
I actually feel pretty good with the exception of him wanting to sit on my ribs and lack of sleep.
Any appointments coming up? Anything you need T&P for?
I have an ob appointment tomorrow morning. I just ask for continued t/p for growth and strong heartbeat.

GTKY: How did you meet your SO? Any funny/interesting stories from those early days?
I met my husband while trying to complete my first year of college through a mutual friend. I would say our first date would stick out in my mind. We drove around town with our friend, since I didn't know him. He sat in the back seat and I in the front seat. The whole drive he keep me laughing and then we all decided to go back to the college apartments were both friend and I lived to watch a movie. The night ended with him sitting in one end if the couch and him on the opposite side of the couch eating Mac and cheese while watching Spider-Man 2. Which is funny to me bc it showed personalities from the beginning. We are both pretty stubborn and both expected on that date for the other to move closer. Lol to this day it hasn't really changed lol I will say he was the best decision I made.

classicstar28 · September 2014

@mmheartspb Could you send me the stretches, too? I've not been able to find anything to help with the hip pain. Movement is amazing to feel. I know a lot of people talk about how movement keeps them up at night, but I find it so comforting that I often fall asleep feeling her moving. I'm so sorry you had that nightmare. What is the deal with Pgal brain popping up this week? Hopefully it will die back down quickly as you continue to feel movement. What a crazy story with you and YH. It's simultaneously kind of sad and wonderful at the same time. Awful to be cheated on, but now you have each other. And 10 years is awesome! DH and I were on the fast track of life and have only known each other for 2.5 years.

classicstar28 · September 2014

@whiteroses05 Yay for starting the last stretch! I feel like the 30s have been going by pretty fast, but it may be an illusion just because of the bi-weekly appointments. Your first date sounds funny. Sitting on opposite ends of the couch and the mac n cheese. Kind of random. I can just picture you guys sitting there, waiting for the other one to move. But, it sounds like it worked out! Good luck at your appointment tomorrow!

classicstar28 · September 2014

@RN536 Yay for third tri!!! FX you passed your 3hr GTT! How awful that you had to do it twice, though. Yuck. I hated doing just the 2hr. How cool that you met your husband through eHarmony, too. Your first date story sounds like it was a bit of a mess! Our second date was a bit like that. Good thing for great chemistry!

longcat07 · September 2014

How far along are you/fruit/EDD?
21w / pomegranate / 1/14/15

How are you feeling? Symptoms?
this hip pain is brutal. and i think my energy has "returned" in the form of still being falling-down-tired but sleeping 2-3 hours less each day. lmao. also feeling more movement, mostly low and on the sides, although there has been a few light pokes in the middle.

Any appointments coming up? Anything you need T&P for?
next appointment is in two weeks. and i have to update about our scan on friday...wound up not having time over the weekend. first and foremost, all limbs and organs are present, accounted for, properly shaped, etc., and baby is measuring within the "on target" window (3 days behind my EDD, which is based on LMP and we all know how accurate those are, lol). everything normal and healthy. second, i have an anterior placenta, which is why i haven't been feeling as much movement as i thought i should by now (compared to DS, almost 5 years ago) and why it's mostly been low and a little on the sides. (i'm revisiting my decision about sushi now, lol...maybe i'll cut it out in the 3T. still cutting out deli meat though.)

the rest...baby was very comfortable in a frank-breech position, spine-to-spine with me, with his/her butt way down in my pelvis. s/he didn't want to move other than bicycle kicking and flailing arms (none of which i felt, lol). not only could the tech not get the sex (and had trouble getting the bottom of baby's spine), but she couldn't even get a good profile shot because of the way baby was facing outward, so we have no cute pictures either. *whine* lol. since everything is good/healthy (which is the important part, and we ARE stoked for that), there will be no more scans. so we're getting a scan done at a private 3D/4D place at the end of the month, since i guess the 3D/4D pictures come out best after 23w. the good news there is, even though we have to spend money on it, if baby remains modest, we can keep coming back till they can see what they need to for free.

GTKY: How did you meet your SO? Any funny/interesting stories from those early days?
haha, SO and i met online (before OKcupid went completely to pot). i wasn't really looking to date yet, just kind of testing the waters of online dating, as i'd only been widowed for about 11 months. the ONLY reason i started talking to him was because i'd seen that he looked at my profile, and he seemed really cool, but he was far enough away to not be a "threat" (i.e., someone i'd actually wind up dating because he seemed that cool). evidently the only reason he looked at my profile was because, by some fluke, OKcupid put me on his home page as a "new account" in his "region" (??? kind of a BIG region, lol), and his brother's ex-girlfriend was from the podunk town i lived in, so he recognized the name. a frivolous click out of curiosity, no interest whatsoever. (i was in central upper MI, in the marquette area, and he was here in the twin cities.) we were messaging right away, chatting through yahoo messenger by the next day, talking on the phone by the end of the week, and meeting in person about four weeks after the first message was sent. oops. lol

edit: forgot a detail. you know, because i didn't write a long enough novel for y'all.

longcat07 · September 2014

@mmheartspb - i'm so sorry for your awful dream.

PgAL brain can be brutal. i hope it lets up soon. i hate to be a pest, but can you send me those stretches too? or maybe just post them here? lol, they seem to be pretty popular. i'll be seeing a PT at the end of the month for my SI joint pain but the hip pain on top of that has nearly immobilized me.

@classicstar28 - you're getting so close! i honestly don't remember how the GBS test was...i don't think it hurt, but it might have been uncomfortable (like getting swabbed for a pap) but then i also didn't have cervical checks till i was in labor and they definitely hurt...i assumed it was because i was actually in labor though. i understand the anxiety of something happening to you or your DH too, having been there.

@whiteroses05 - 3/4 of the way there! hang in there! i hope your appointment goes well.

@RN536 - w00t for the 3T! *fx* that your 3hr glucose test went well!

edit: clearly i'm have a bad day getting my posts right the first time, lol

classicstar28 · September 2014

@longcat07 I'm sorry your hip pain is so bad and you're still so tired. I also have an anterior placenta and there is a section near my belly button (or what WAS my belly button, lol) where I never feel anything. All of the movement I feel is along the top and sides. I'm so happy to hear that your a/s went well, though I'm sorry you didn't get any cute pics or find out the sex. I hope that the 3D/4D place gets you some awesome pictures and you can find out the sex at the end of the month! That's really interesting that a random act of curiosity brought you and your SO together.

erinel · September 2014

mmheartspb : I'm sorry about your stillborn dream, I had one of them too, it's terrible. What a cute story for meeting your DH!

classicstar28 : Group B strep test is no big deal at all. I agree, cervical checks are worse than expected.

whiteroses05 : Good luck at your appointment tomorrow!

RN536 : Yay for third trimester!

longcat07: I had an anterior placenta with my son, and although it is tough not to feel as much, I hear that it can be a lot more comfortable because you don't feel those jabs as much.

erinel · September 2014

How far along are you/fruit/EDD?

14w/lemon/ March 4, 2015

How are you feeling? Symptoms?

Feeling good, not quite as tired. My boobs started to actually hurt and grow over the past week, I guess they had a delayed reaction to the pregnancy.

Any appointments coming up? Anything you need T&P for?

We have a regular appointment next week. I have no reason (other than PgAL brain) to think anything is wrong, but I can't help but be nervous! We will talk about our first tri screening results during that appointment, and it will be a big relief to hear everything is fine.

GTKY: How did you meet your SO? Any funny/interesting stories from those early days?

We met through friends at a bar. We were both friends with the couple that set us up, I knew them because I had dated one of their good friends, and DH knew the guy from growing up together. Apparently the guy told DH that he had to come out and meet me, unbeknownst to me or the guy's girl friend. The set up worked out!

carlsonbaby2014 · September 2014

Hi ladies!!

@Classicstar28 - those rainbow pictures are BEAUTIFUL!!! I love the story of how you met, and married, your H, how sweet!!

@mmheartspb - yay yay yay for feeling your sweet Olivia move!!! I love it!! I'm so sorry about your scary dream ((((hugs)))). Those are the worst and definitely shake up PgAL brain. I bet it makes those movements from your sweet little girl all the more welcoming to you.

@whiteroses05 - Wow, just 10 weeks left to go!!!!!! So exciting!

@RN536 - FX for your test! Your first date with your H sounds like a comedy act, but look at where you guys are now

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@longcat07 - sorry about the hip pain

I feel ya, it is no fun! I love the story of how you met your SO

. Very cute.

@erinel - I hope the appointment comes quickly and you're able to get the reassurance you need that everything is fine

. I remember counting down the hours, it seemed, between appointments because that reassurance was so key. Many ((((hugs)))).

How far along are you/fruit/EDD? 26 weeks, baby is the size of a head of lettuce!

How are you feeling? Symptoms? Still having trouble sleeping but thanks to mmheartspb, I've got some stretching homework to do when I get home to help my hips. That, and I'm going to get a mattress topper to alleviate some of the major pressure points since we have a very firm mattress. That advice came from my MW, whom I adore. Mr.carlsonbaby has been moving around a TON. I was really sick last week with the flu, and of course this caused major PgAL brain panic, but I've been getting hiccups and jabs of reassurance that all is well

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Any appointments coming up? Anything you need T&P for? I just had a MW appointment and it went really well, so nothing coming up for me for a while...not until my GTT at the end of September!

GTKY: How did you meet your SO? Any funny/interesting stories from those early days?

We were both at the same apartment complex at University and I always had a boyfriend (total jerk, I might add) but the day after I broke up with him, my H showed up at my door with freshly baked (from a box) poppy seed bread

(my favorite! how did he know? stalker?)

. We never stopped hanging out after that. We were dating, officially, 2 months later, engaged 4 months after that, and married 7 months after getting engaged.

classicstar28 · September 2014

@erinel Those early appointments always seem to kick pgal brain into high gear. Hope that it comes quickly so you can get that reassurance that all is well. Glad you are feeling a little less tired this week.

@carlsonbaby2014 Eww..the flu is never fun and I can't imagine how horrible it must have been pregnant. Glad that you are feeling better and that your LO is moving a lot. FX that the stretches and mattress topper help with the hip pain!! How cute that your husband brought you your favorite bread! You guys were on the super speedy plan like we were!

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AnyMax · September 2014

Hi Wednesday ladies. Just wanted to pop in and give all of you a pile of (((hugs)))
Thank you for all the support you have poured on over the last eight months.

carlsonbaby2014 · September 2014

Omgomgomg @AnyMax!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've been thinking of you and YH and your sweet Lena every day!!!!!! So good to 'see you' and I can't wait to read all about your experience meeting your rainbow

. I'd totally pimp this reply up with love gifs if I wasn't mobile so I leave you with a montage of smileys:

>:D< :x :-h

classicstar28 · September 2014

Hi @AnyMax!! I am so happy for you and you family! I was just thinking about you, YH, and Lena this morning. I hope things are going well and I can't wait to read your birth story!

boxermamax2 · September 2014

How far along are you/fruit/EDD? 10 wks, prune, April 1

How are you feeling? Symptoms? Feeling pretty good, no symptoms other than large sore breasts, exhaustion and some gas.

Any appointments coming up? Anything you need T&P for? Had my second u/s the other day and baby is growing right on track with a good strong hb!! Hubby was there so it is finally 'real' for him. Next week I meet with the genetic counselor and she will order the verifi test.

GTKY: How did you meet your SO? Any funny/interesting stories from those early days? We were introduced through a mutual friend. I was going through a divorce and he had been divorced for a few years, neither one of us was looking for a relationship and it all just came together.

classicstar28 · September 2014

@boxermamax2 I'm so glad that your u/s went well! DH has said that seeing all the scans has helped him connect, too. Good luck with the genetic counselor next week and the verifi test. I'll be looking for the results when you get them.

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Began trying for a baby January 2012
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BFP 4.25.2013 EDD 1.3.2014 MMC 6.3.2013 D&C 6.19.2013
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BFP 3.31.2014 EDD 12.10.2014 Baby boy Carlson born 12.19.2014