April 2016 Moms
K&Elizabeth
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Weekend Ticker Change
K&Elizabeth
member
Week/fruit:
Recent/upcoming appointments:
Rants/raves/symptoms?:
Questions for the group?:
GTKY: What is your least favorite housekeeping chore?
Recent/upcoming appointments:
Rants/raves/symptoms?:
Questions for the group?:
GTKY: What is your least favorite housekeeping chore?
DD-10/3/12
DS-4/14/16
Re: Weekend Ticker Change
Recent/upcoming appointments: a/s on the 2nd
Rants/raves/symptoms?: today I woke up with the "I'm not pregnant anymore" feeling. Then I couldn't find him on my Doppler, so, obviously I'm panicking. It doesn't help that this kid is a lot less active than his kick boxing sister was.
Questions for the group?:
GTKY: What is your least favorite housekeeping chore?
Dishes for sureeeeee
Recent/upcoming appointments: a/s was Thursday, next regular appt in December.
Rants/raves/symptoms?: It's a (healthy) boy! My mind is pretty blown. My mom is one of three girls, her sister has three girls, I'm one of three girls... A boy was not at all what we expected. I'm a little in shock but very excited that every thing looks good with the placenta/cord since that's what they think caused DDs growth problems.
Symptoms wise Herbert the hemorrhoid came back to visit this week, lots of BH and boobs like crazy.
Questions for the group?: nope
GTKY: What is your least favorite housekeeping chore? Mopping. I'll sweep of vacuum, but even the steam mop is no fun.
Recent/upcoming appointments: 16 week appointment last week, will be scheduling anatomy scan for sometime in the next few weeks
Rants/raves/symptoms?: Still having fatigue and headaches but overall feeling better (not counting the fact that I peed a little yesterday when i sneezed...that was a new experience. .. does that count as a symptom?). Fingers crossed that I might finally be entering this glorious mythical 2nd trimester that I've heard so much about.
Questions for the group?:
GTKY: What is your least favorite housekeeping chore? Washing dishes and cleaning out the fridge
Recent/upcoming appointments: check in next week. Hoping to get some info in about the generic birth plan, as well as (finally) discuss the depression.
Rants/raves/symptoms?: belly is HUGE. And it gets crampy a lot. I guess that's the bh though?
Questions for the group?:
GTKY: What is your least favorite housekeeping chore? I haaaate taking out the garbage here. In the states, I didn't mind, but here it's just in a plastic bag and it's always swarmed with gnats and fkdndjsjsnssksns
Recent/upcoming appointments: went in on thurs to follow up on random bleeding. Go in on 12/14 for follow up and a/s.
Rants/raves/symptoms?: finally got some prescription gel for this acne...hopefully it clears up. Looking forward to the "glow"
Questions for the group?:n/a
GTKY: What is your least favorite housekeeping chore? Folding laundry
Recent/upcoming appts: had an appt last week, heard the babe on the Doppler 150 HB. My anatomy scan is scheduled for December 21. So finding out the babe is healthy will be the best Christmas gift!
Rants/raves/symptoms: RLP and sciatica. It's so hard for me to breathe. Especially when I have to carry a conversation. I get nervous because I don't "feel pregnant" but I know this is the honeymoon stage so I'm trying to enjoy it! I won't feel the babe kicking because I have an anterior placenta
Questions: FTM here. For STM+ what is something you wish someone would've told you during your first pregnancy?
GTKY: I don't mind washing and drying laundry but I ABSOLUTELY DETEST FOLDING IT.
Recent/upcoming appointments: A/S on Tuesday
Rants/raves/symptoms?: I'm not enjoying pregnancy cravings. I create something, we get it, and I'm instantly let down the second I taste it....
Questions for the group?:
GTKY: What is your least favorite housekeeping chore? All of them?
@AmadorRose haha! You can imagine how many times I hear this damn jingle at chipotle
19/Mango
Recent/upcoming appointments:
Finally got an appointment for my anatomy scan on Monday. I'm actually quite nervous but also excited to see my baby again. I had a couple of dreams where I found out I was having a girl after all and not a boy like I was told at the sex scan. I cannot go through that again. I am finally so excited about having a boy lol
Symptoms?:
RLP from hell, hip pain, and holy shit my nipples are huge.
Rave: whoop whoop almost midway in the pregnancy!
Questions: is anyone else already researching daycare options for LO? I spent most of my day yesterday reading about it and I'm already stressed about which place to chose and how old I want him to be when he starts.
GTKY: What is your least favorite housekeeping chore?
I hateeeeeee doing the dishes. And I hate folding laundry. I find it a waste of time. And life is too short for matching socks.
Upcoming appointments: dec 8 anatomy scan
Symptoms: minor random cramping and ligament twinges.
Rants/raves: none really other than hubby still doesn't want to find out what we are having which has made me want to find out more. We found out with 2&3 did not find out with 1. He said I can find out but he doesn't want to know. Not sure how that will work. It's so exciting not knowing it really is. I'm trying to figure out what to do.
Questions: none
Least favorite chore: dusting because it never seems to end
Recent/upcoming appointments: Monday, 16 week visit with new doc
Rants/raves/symptoms?: Didn't know these sharp pains would keep stopping me in my steps, even when I'm sitting down. Grow baby, grow!
Questions for the group?: How is your belly growing and what are you having?
It's so interesting how the belly is swelling up just as i heard moms and grandmas say in the East! Women pregnant w/girls will see just the front of the belly pop up while those w/boys will see the entire belly grow all around, front and sides of the belly.
GTKY: Least favorite housekeeping chore: Dusting and mopping. You gotta do it all the time!
Symptoms - Fatigue forever!
Appts - 12/10 for anatomy scan
Rants/Raves - Quad screen results from last week came back within normal limits yesterday
Questions - Nah
GTKY - All of them, but hand washing dishes makes my skin crawl
I would suggest doing research on a few local places, go and see them in person talk to them in person and really go with your gut. Have a plan b in the event that plan a ends up not being what you want after all.
I wished I had the option to wait longer than just a few months old to send the kids to daycare. I live in California. We get six weeks at a pay rate of 33% our salary while on leave. I can get another six weeks to add on but that second six weeks is not paid and that's not something I can afford.
Recent/upcoming appointments: 20 week anomaly scan on Monday - really excited to see the baby again, and hoping that all the results will be ok.
Rants/raves/symptoms?: Fatigue, internal stretching, breathlessness.
Rave - my hubbie can now feel the baby kick externally - it's so exciting!! And his whole face lights up which is lovely!
GTKY: What is your least favorite housekeeping chore?
Putting the laundry away. We might leave it to bundle up for a few weeks then tackle the pile when we have no more socks in the drawers...
Congrats on your little prince!! Time for hunting for a boy's name!! And at least you know no one else in the family will have used your choices...
I'm so excited about boy names. DH and I struggled a lot to come up with girl names with girl names but have the same taste in for boys - Biblical and/or Victorian classic (Theodore, Gideon, Nathan, Charles). My sister likes to joke that if it's good enough for British royalty it's good enough for her.
We have middle names for both genders, and a possible first name for a girl. Really struggling for boys names though - and DH and I have completely different tastes too which doesn't help!
DH and I each went through the top 500 SSA list of girls names when we couldn't come up with a list for DD. We each deleted down to around 30-40 that we liked *enough* and then compared the lists. We had 6 names that overlapped, so that was our short list to discuss/debate over. Way less stressful than trying to come up with a list from nothing and vetoing back and forth. Plus if we didn't have overlaps we could have compared the longer lists to see if any were similar.
Recent/upcoming appointments: November 30
Rants/raves/symptoms?: I still haven't been able to figure out insurance. I'm starting to freak out a little bit. We've had 2 ER trips, and several prescriptions filled just this week. Ugh.
GTKY: What is your least favorite housekeeping chore? Honestly, all of it. But if I had to choose just one, it would definitely be bathrooms, toilets especially.
Recent/upcoming appointments: anatomy scan on Friday! So excited!
Rants/raves/symptoms?: thought I was free from the barfing finally after 2 weeks, but threw up again on Friday night and my stomach's been a little iffy since then
Questions for the group?:none this week
GTKY: What is your least favorite housekeeping chore? I'm with whoever else said all of them LOL. But really, bathrooms. Blech.
Week/fruit: 17/pomegranate
Recent/upcoming appointments: Anatomy scan 12/4 (my mom will be in town and coming with us)
Rants/raves/symptoms? Finally had to go purchase larger bras
Questions for the group? Am I the only one not super prepared for baby? I feel like I'm behind
GTKY: What is your least favorite housekeeping chore? dusting
I give up - @mrstrax - I'm off to have one of my two permitted caffeinated cups of tea to kickstart the morning.
Recent/upcoming appointments: Our A/S and 20 week appt will be on Dec 3rd
Rants/raves/symptoms?: So excited to be flying out to see my family this weekend! We found out a couple of weeks ago that we are having a girl, and I have kept it a secret from my mom so I can tell her in person! Can't wait! DH really wants to do a FB gender announcement... but I'm not convinced.
Questions for the group?:
GTKY: What is your least favorite housekeeping chore? Dishes for sure! But I only hate it if I've been lazy and let them sit until the next day...