Ticker Change Tuesday!

pinottoparenthood · November 2015

Week/fruit:

Recent/upcoming appointments:

Rants/raves/symptoms?:

Questions for the group?:

GTKY: What's one thing you want to do (for yourself, with SO, etc.) before your new baby comes? (Preparing a nursery doesn't count!)

pinottoparenthood · November 2015

Week/fruit: 17/ onion... ewww! My Ovia app says pomegranate, which I like better :-)

Recent/upcoming appointments: Anatomy scan on Wednesday (a week from tomorrow)! Excited to see my little man again!

Rants/raves/symptoms?: I was freaking out yesterday over weird cramping and not feeling movement, but felt flutters this morning! Phew! However, I was up at 2 AM because my toddler keeps pulling his little peep out of his diaper and peeing all over himself at night, and then I couldn't fall back asleep

Questions for the group?: How many people are still working out? Are you finding that it's becoming more difficult?

GTKY: What's one thing you want to do (for yourself, with SO, etc.) before your new baby comes? (Preparing a nursery doesn't count!): I really want to get in some more regular date nights without our son and also take a trip with my husband just the two of us. Having one kid has definitely put some distance between us, so I'm sure having two will be the same. It's hard to prioritize your marriage once you have kids!

Mrskelley08012015 · November 2015

Week/fruit: 15/Orange

Recent/Upcoming Appointments: November 10th normal appointment

Rants/Raves/Symptoms: People telling me what I am and am not allowed to do. It's seriously beginning to drive me nuts. If I ask for your advice about it, go ahead and tell me. But otherwise please keep your opinion to yourself. I'm a big girl and if I choose to make a decision, I'll live with it. I don't care whether you agree with me or not. So kindly mind your own business and let me live my pregnant life.

Questions for the group? None

GTKY: What's one thing you want to do (for yourself, with SO, etc.) before your new baby comes? (Preparing a nursery doesn't count!) - It would be amazing to take a small trip , just DH and I.

Ellenlbishop · November 2015

Week/fruit: 18/sweet potato

Recent/upcoming appointments: anatomy scan next Monday. Excited to find out sex of LO!

Rant/raves/symptoms: I've posted on other threads but having MAJOR childcare issues. Last day of current provider is today and will have 16 year old watching DD for next few weeks. I've called 4 daycare centers and the only one with spots DD would be in room with kiddos up to 3 (she's 18 months). It seems like a huge age gap. May be only option : /

Questions: for those with kids in daycare centers, any experience with age gap listed above (18m-3)?

GTKY: what's the one thing you want to have do before new baby comes? Get our house remodeling done before winter. A trip with DH would be awesome but probably not going to happen.

sprocketsngadgets · November 2015

Week/fruit: 16/avocado

Recent/upcoming appointments: next one is the day before thanksgiving. I'm debating if I should take the day off or just leave really early because I'm sure traffic will be ridiculous

Rants/raves/symptoms?: I'm nervous about getting my panorama results. We should hear in the next week or so and I'm just keeping my fingers crossed everything comes back ok. I'm excited to learn what baby is though as anticlimactic as an email or phone call is.

Questions for the group?:

GTKY: What's one thing you want to do (for yourself, with SO, etc.) before your new baby comes? (Preparing a nursery doesn't count!) I would be happy if DH and I could have just a single dinner out without DD. We're hoping when we go visit his family for Xmas they'll keep an eye on her and the dogs one night. I'm guessing leaving after she goes to bed is the only way it will work since she's met them once and she wasn't a huge fan of them then

pinottoparenthood · November 2015

Excited for everyone finding out the sex in the next week or so!

plus15pie · November 2015

Week/fruit: Week 16 / Avocado

Recent/upcoming appointments: Appointmrnt today ( just a regular check up)

Rants/raves/symptoms?: Someone at work out of the blue that I don't know very well touched my stomach before I could even realize what she was doing. Def a big no no in my book.

Questions for the group?: what one thing you've been absolutely craving lately?

GTKY: What's one thing you want to do (for yourself, with SO, etc.) before your new baby comes? (Preparing a nursery doesn't count!)

I want to go away and have someone watch my dogs for the night.

I still workout everyday, I do crossfit and I can still do everything I was doing before other than burpees and handstand push-ups. Keep up the exercise ladies!!!

[Deleted User] · November 2015

Week/fruit: 18 - Sweet Potato

Recent/upcoming appointments: Next Wednesday is anatomy scan!

Rants/raves/symptoms?: Rant: Trying to avoid chocolate and sugar. Grrr, not easy. Already up 20lbs and really don't want to go much over 30 - which at this point feels like a lost cause. It's 100% mental. I've lost all of my will power and mental toughness, I feel beaten. I just want it and that's it. I'm still working out 3 -4 times a week (after November I'll be able to hit at least 5 thanks to photography slow season) but it's not enough to balance out all the shit food in my life! I eat really well besides the crap snacking - uggghhhhhhhh.

Questions for the group?: Does anyone have a tshirt that just says - "I FEEL FINE" ? sick of that constant question!

GTKY: What's one thing you want to do (for yourself, with SO, etc.) before your new baby comes? (Preparing a nursery doesn't count!) We'll do a weekend away without DD - other than that I love an amazing steak dinner, so hopefully getting up to Ruth Chris in Boston sometime pre-April as well. They closed the local one last year and it's been so sad! LOL That was our splurge place like once or twice a year.

edit for my unability to know how many weeks PG I am...

asetch · November 2015

Week/fruit: 17/onion (which is totally not a fruit, but whatever)

Recent/upcoming appointments: 11/12 normal appointment, 11/23 anatomy scan

Rants/raves/symptoms?: Symptom - had a new one on Sunday. All night Saturday night and all day Sunday I had this super heavy feeling in my chest (like a ton of bricks was on it). I could barely breath and I felt like my heart was going to pound right out of my chest - but my HR was normal all day. I laid low all day Sunday, puked my brains out Sun night and felt perfectly fine on Monday morning. It was totally strange.

My "rave" I guess you can call it that - we went and saw my grandma on Saturday (she has dimensia really bad and some days barely remembers me and how old I am). We told her that I was pregnant and much to my surpirse she was very lucid and knew what we were telling her. She said "Wow I'm going to be a great grandma then?" and patted my belly and said hi. It was really sweet and made me cry!

Questions for the group?: None at the moment

GTKY: What's one thing you want to do (for yourself, with SO, etc.) before your new baby comes? (Preparing a nursery doesn't count!) Ugh too many home projects to list them all! My "woman cave"/craft room is going to become the nursery so I have to get all my shit organized and moved to our guest room (so I have two rooms to completely redo!). We are waiting to do the majority of the much needed other house work until my BIL comes to live with us from Feb-May. Then DH and my BIL can knock out all the projects together. I'd also like to take a mini vacay somewhere this winter, but I don't know if that will happen, cuz I just started a new job and don't have any vacation yet.

BreannaaaMarieee · November 2015

Week/fruit: 15/Orange (yum)

Recent/upcoming appointments: Elective ultrasound Thursday to find out the gender!

Rants/raves/symptoms?: Headaches are the worst. Also, I don't want to fold the laundry anymore! Why can't it fold itself?

Questions for the group?:
Anyone else worrying about how your baby is doing? I know I am.

GTKY: What's one thing you want to do (for yourself, with SO, etc.) before your new baby comes? (Preparing a nursery doesn't count!)
I would love for DH & I to go to Tennessee come January and go to Parrot mountain to see all of the beautiful birds and interact with them!

erind228 · November 2015

Week/fruit: 17/onion

Upcoming appointments: Thursday, just a routine appointment.

Rants/raves/symptoms: finally feeling movement, which always helps ease the worry. (At least a little)

Questions: none

GTKY: I just want to have some date time before #4 arrives because I know it will be few and far between for us, at least in the first few months.

AmadorRose · November 2015

@pinottoparenthood I was thinking about you on my drive home from work today and hoping there would be an update once I got home. Yay! So happy for you!

Week/fruit: 17/ pomegranate (stealing!)

Recent/upcoming appointments: check-up on the 18th and a/s on the 25th. DH may be away for training for the a/s, so hopefully we will at least be able to FaceTime. I wouldn't feel right knowing the sex before he does.

Rants/raves/symptoms?: I've mentioned this, but if ONE MORE PERSON comments on how big I've gotten/how small I still am/how wide my hips have become or, my personal favorite, that my "ass is too big for a white girl" (WTF does that even mean?!?)...I may get physical with said person. Seriously, I know I'm getting more wide than round, but I'm petite and 5 feet tall. Where do you think I'm pushing this kid out of? Of course my hips are getting wider!!!

Questions for the group?:

GTKY: What's one thing you want to do (for yourself, with SO, etc.) before your new baby comes? (Preparing a nursery doesn't count!)

DH and I seem to have hit a bit of a wall in our relationship. Since we've stopped having sex (because I sometimes spot when we try and it freaks him out) we just aren't quite as in step as we used to be. He's also very stressed about his job and having a tough time transitioning to civilian life. I've never had a combat deployment so I find it difficult to understand his being homesick for Iraq, though I know this is a common feeling for combat vets. I really want to plan a weekend away to just reconnect before LO comes. Plus, we did a courthouse wedding and no honeymoon. Maybe someday we'll get one but I just want to go on an adventure with the man I love!

pinottoparenthood · November 2015

AmadorRose said:

@pinottoparenthood I was thinking about you on my drive home from work today and hoping there would be an update once I got home. Yay! So happy for you! Week/fruit: 17/ pomegranate (stealing!) Recent/upcoming appointments: check-up on the 18th and a/s on the 25th. DH may be away for training for the a/s, so hopefully we will at least be able to FaceTime. I wouldn't feel right knowing the sex before he does. Rants/raves/symptoms?: I've mentioned this, but if ONE MORE PERSON comments on how big I've gotten/how small I still am/how wide my hips have become or, my personal favorite, that my "ass is too big for a white girl" (WTF does that even mean?!?)...I may get physical with said person. Seriously, I know I'm getting more wide than round, but I'm petite and 5 feet tall. Where do you think I'm pushing this kid out of? Of course my hips are getting wider!!! Questions for the group?: GTKY: What's one thing you want to do (for yourself, with SO, etc.) before your new baby comes? (Preparing a nursery doesn't count!) DH and I seem to have hit a bit of a wall in our relationship. Since we've stopped having sex (because I sometimes spot when we try and it freaks him out) we just aren't quite as in step as we used to be. He's also very stressed about his job and having a tough time transitioning to civilian life. I've never had a combat deployment so I find it difficult to understand his being homesick for Iraq, though I know this is a common feeling for combat vets. I really want to plan a weekend away to just reconnect before LO comes. Plus, we did a courthouse wedding and no honeymoon. Maybe someday we'll get one but I just want to go on an adventure with the man I love!

Sorry you guys are going through an out-of-step patch. It's so normal. I have had a really hard time keeping my marriage "normal" since having Rhys (my son). It's like... the child becomes the center of the universe and it's hard to focus on each other. Also, when I get impatient, I can't really take it out on a two-year-old so my husband gets the brunt of it. I have found that sex does help a lot... it's tough when you can't have it, or go through dry spells... it brings us closer. One-on-one time (out of the house, no kid, no electronics) and sex are really important for us to stay close. Hope you guys get your getaway together!

cjbwifey2010 · November 2015

Week/fruit: 17/onion

Recent/upcoming appointments: Had one yesterday with MFM. Got to see my little man again and so happy all seems to be going well.

Rants/raves/symptoms?: Nothing really. Just excited that the halfway point is only a few weeks away!

Questions for the group?: Anyone else's breasts itching?

GTKY: What's one thing you want to do (for yourself, with SO, etc.) before your new baby comes? (Preparing a nursery doesn't count!) Would love to go on a trip (well actually 2; one with DH alone, and one with DH and DS for a weekend on the beach or something).

pinottoparenthood · November 2015

cjbwifey2010 said:

Week/fruit: 17/onion

Recent/upcoming appointments: Had one yesterday with MFM. Got to see my little man again and so happy all seems to be going well.

Rants/raves/symptoms?: Nothing really. Just excited that the halfway point is only a few weeks away!

Questions for the group?: Anyone else's breasts itching?

GTKY: What's one thing you want to do (for yourself, with SO, etc.) before your new baby comes? (Preparing a nursery doesn't count!) Would love to go on a trip (well actually 2; one with DH alone, and one with DH and DS for a weekend on the beach or something).

Yes, my boobs and stomach just started itching today... ugh! I got the Burt's Bees belly butter so hopefully that will help.

cjbwifey2010 · November 2015

pinottoparenthood said:
Yes, my boobs and stomach just started itching today... ugh! I got the Burt's Bees belly butter so hopefully that will help.

Ok cool, glad i'm the not the only one. I have some cocoa butter for my belly, I may need to put some on my breasts as well. In today's weekly video they said it was due to stretching. Geez. Not fun. I look like a crazy person! LOL

erind228 · November 2015

@pinottoparenthood, I love the name Rhys for a boy. It's the only name that my husband and I agree on, but I've been hesitant to use it because I feel like people won't be able to pronounce it correctly. What has your experience been?

pinottoparenthood · November 2015

erind228 said:

@pinottoparenthood, I love the name Rhys for a boy. It's the only name that my husband and I agree on, but I've been hesitant to use it because I feel like people won't be able to pronounce it correctly. What has your experience been?

Thank you! There are definitely a few people that don't, but I don't think it's a big deal. People usually ether get it right or ask how to say it. I have gotten a few side eyes, and one man I used to teach with was SUPER rude about it, going on and on about how I was THAT parent who gave her child a weird, unpronounceable name and I should know better... but he also told me that he thought breastfeeding past six months was gross, so he's an idiot.

Anyway, overall, we have gotten lots of positive feedback! But I'm sure he'll sometimes have to tell people how to pronounce his name. As a teacher though, if I don't know how to say a kid's name, I ask, he tells me, I make a note on my roster,and it's a non-issue. So I don't think it's that big of a deal!

brie_and_almonds · November 2015

Week/fruit: 18/sweet potato

Recent/upcoming appointments: Anatomy scan is a week from yesterday!

Rants/raves/symptoms?: Feeling a lot better these days. I can tolerate an empty stomach much better now.

Questions for the group?: N/A

GTKY: What's one thing you want to do (for yourself, with SO, etc.) before your new baby comes? (Preparing a nursery doesn't count!) Finish at least part of our basement. More space for all of our junk.

Cynthia1207 · November 2015

Week/fruit: 18 weeks/Sweet Potato

Recent/upcoming appointments: A/S and Dr appt on November 18

Rants/raves/symptoms?: pulling in my lower abdomen but besides that all is good. I have a cold but it's bearable.

I won a baby contest for blankets, washcloths and socks so I'm thrilled about that!

Questions for the group?: errr no

GTKY: What's one thing you want to do (for yourself, with SO, etc.) before your new baby comes? (Preparing a nursery doesn't count!)

That's hard. I'd love to get to see an osteopath this time. My shoulder needs some work and I think my back would benefit as well.

Getting a pedicure is also on the list

aa79606 · November 2015

Week/fruit: 15/orange

Recent/upcoming appointments: check up yesterday, next one 11/30

Rants/raves/symptoms?: fatigue, muscle aches, indigestion, irritability, depression, blah

Questions for the group?: none

GTKY: What's one thing you want to do (for yourself, with SO, etc.) before your new baby comes? (Preparing a nursery doesn't count!) There's a ton of things I need to do, but I guess I'd really like to get some of our numerous home addition/improvement projects finished (repainting doors & trim that were done poorly, etc).

Meggs2559 · November 2015

Week/fruit: avocado /16 weeks

Recent/upcoming appointments: Tuesday of next week

Rants/raves/symptoms?: I'm feeling flutters and it makes me happy ☺

Questions for the group?:

GTKY: What's one thing you want to do (for yourself, with SO, etc.) before your new baby comes? (Preparing a nursery doesn't count!): I wold like to take DS somewhere for a long weekend with us. I'm so excited for baby #2, but I get these moments of guilt that like will be completely changed for our LO. I know he will be a great big brother, but adjustment is hard for everyone!

ImpatientPatty · November 2015

Week/fruit: 15/Orange

Recent/upcoming appointments: I have some blood work coming up next week for the 2nd half of my genetic testing and then a regular check up appointment the following week.

Rants/raves/symptoms?: So far it's been a good week and I thought I felt flutters today. I'm sure once the kicks get stronger I will be able to confirm.

Questions for the group?: None today

GTKY: What's one thing you want to do (for yourself, with SO, etc.) before your new baby comes? (Preparing a nursery doesn't count!) We just moved into a new house and I would love to get it fully furnished before LO arrives.

wlcromer · November 2015

Week/fruit: 16/ Avocado

Recent/upcoming appointments: Appt. Next Tuesday - And I will be scheduling my anatomy scan for the following week!!!

Rants/raves/symptoms?: I've felt pretty weepy today, heartburn is crazy. -Twins definitely make symptoms more intense for me.

Questions for the group?:

GTKY: What's one thing you want to do (for yourself, with SO, etc.) before your new baby comes? (Preparing a nursery doesn't count!) I want to get a prenatal massage - or 2 or 3 HAHA!

JayeSkylar · November 2015

Week/fruit: 16 Avacado

Recent/upcoming appointments: My next appointment is Monday. We may get to see Roo then. And or get scheduled for our next ultrasound. And I couldn't be anymore excited.

Rants/raves/symptoms?: I miss just being slightly nauseous with certain foods. Thank God My diligis does the trick (when I actually remember to take it) but I am so ready to feel my Roo moving

Questions for the group?: nope not this time around.

GTKY: What's one thing you want to do (for yourself, with SO, etc.) before your new baby comes? (Preparing a nursery doesn't count!) In all fairness. I just want to spend time with both our families (for the holidays) before it's three kids under the age of four running around his parents house and three under the age of three running around my aunts house for the holidays. And I can't wait. I do want to do something creative once we find out if it's a boy or girl but there's not much in the way of name play that I can do for our girl name as I can for our boy. (He chose our boys name because it was the name of one of his favorite comic book characters. And I just love the the name we have for our girl. I always have. Because not many girls have this name.

Bootsie327 · November 2015

I always miss doing these on time because I only bump a couple times a week, but I will catch up now!

Week/fruit: 15/orange

Recent/upcoming appointments: next monthly on the 10th!

Rants/raves/symptoms?: Appetite is really starting to come back, which is both great and also like "uh oh, soon I'm gonna want to eat all of the cookies" lol

Questions for the group?: Other STMs, did your hips also hurt with second baby? Mine are starting to kill me!!

GTKY: What's one thing you want to do (for yourself, with SO, etc.) before your new baby comes? (Preparing a nursery doesn't count!) A proper babymoon, but we are broke haha. We have taken a couple small vacays with DS, so since our 5 year anniversary is coming up on April 1st, I'd like I couples-only trip in like Feb or March- even if it's just a long weekend away in the Poconos or something. Last time, we just did a night in AC about 6 weeks before I was due and I was so swollen and tired! Want to do something more relaxing this time.

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