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PGAL Check-in - week of 10/10/2016

lajoliedreamerlajoliedreamer member
in November 2016 Moms
Weeks: 

Next milestone/appointment? 

Rant/Rave/Anything else: 

Questions? 

GTKY: Have you ever won anything? If so, what did you win?
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Re: PGAL Check-in - week of 10/10/2016

  • rspalding001rspalding001 member
    Weeks: 34

    Next milestone/appointment? routine check up next week

    Rant/Rave/Anything else: I have a cough and its been really annoying and somewhat painful for my abdomen. Every time I cough I feel my whole stomach contract and it worries me. I did do some internet research and everything says not to worry so that's what I'm trying to keep in mind. I do think Im on the mend though so maybe this week it will finally go away. Hopefully I haven't gotten my husband and DD sick as well. 

    Questions? nope

    GTKY: Have you ever won anything? If so, what did you win? When I was a kid I called into a radio show and told about my "brush with fame". I won but since I was so young couldn't claim the prize. They let my parents claim it however, free tickets to some concert ha ha ;) The story I told was about going camping in Yosemite with Chuck Norris who was dating a distant relative at the time. We all went hiking and my sister fell and scraped her knee and Chuck Norris spit on her knee to clean the  dirt off. I think I was around 8 years old at the time. We have pictures of everyone standing around the camp fire and he has these giant body guards with him, its pretty cool in retrospect. At the time I wasn't really aware of who he was :-)
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  • lajoliedreamerlajoliedreamer member
    Weeks: 33w5d

    Next milestone/appointment? Check-up on Thurs

    Rant/Rave/Anything else: As much as I feel unprepared to have a real physical baby, I am also ready to be done with being pregnant. Despite a mostly mild pregnancy, I haven't really liked being pregnant and now that my back is freaking out and I'm randomly leaking, it's just too much. 

    Questions? None (other than the leaking question I asked in a separate discussion)

    GTKY: Have you ever won anything? If so, what did you win? Dating myself, but I once won hundreds of pogs in late elementary school. There was a contest at a local grocery store to guess how many pogs were in a big jar and I was one away from the real number. Another girl was one off in the other direction and they had to get creative in order to get enough to give us both our prize, even pull them off cupcakes. Looking back, I have no idea what the appeal of pogs was, but I loved them, even had a pog-maker!

    @rspalding001 - Chuck Norris! What a fun story to have, even if you didn't realize it at the time!
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  • tigerfish227tigerfish227 member
    Weeks: 36+6

    Next milestone/appointment? Appointment at 10 today. 

    Rant/Rave/Anything else: the last few days I've been having lots of cramps similar to period cramps and sharp pain(only lasting about 5-10 seconds at a time) in my crotch. I don't want to adult anymore. I just want to lay in bed and curl up in a ball right now. I'm planning on working until baby gets here but it's getting really hard to be on my feet all day and deal with people. I don't want to start my maternity leave until it's baby time since I want as much time with baby possible but it's damn tempting to just be done now.

    Questions? Nope

    GTKY: Have you ever won anything? If so, what did you win? I won a CD from a radio call in once. My Grandma claimed it for me cause I was a teenager and couldn't claim it myself.
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  • lajoliedreamerlajoliedreamer member
    @tigerfish227 - I feel you! I'm so done with work. I've been having such a hard time being productive with the cramps and back pain and everything, but there is so much I need to have set before I leave, and like you I want to have as much of my leave with baby as possible, but it's getting hard to care!
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  • tigerfish227tigerfish227 member
    And now I'm having a freakout today. They want to do an ultrasound next week to check on baby's growth because when they measured my fundal height today there wasn't much growth from last week. I've been talking to my mom(she's a nurse and works in maternity so it's easier to text her sometimes than to call the dr office) and she is helping to keep me sane. With the shooting pain and cramps the last couple days I felt like I should have made some progress but I'm not dilated at all still and now I'm worried that baby isn't growing right anymore.

    Mom said that since they are waiting till next week she thinks it's just precautionary and nothing to really worry about. I asked her if I could possibly be measuring less because baby is moving lower(dr said baby's head is WAY down there) and she said it's possible but the ultrasound will give us more info. Now I have to wait a week for any kind of answers and i just want to go home and cry with my Chihuahuas to snuggle me.
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  • lajoliedreamerlajoliedreamer member
    I'm sorry you're going through that, @tigerfish227! Was it a different pradtitioner than measured you at your last appt? I found that at my practice, the OB I see starts his measurement lower on the pubic bone than my midwife does so last time I was there I had a bigger measurement than I should currently have when I have always been measuring just right with the midwife. Maybe you had the opposite happen. Though I'd be freaking out too, it is definitely reassuring that they are comfortable waiting a week instead of rushing you to get it done. *hugs*
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  • kvrunskvruns member
    @tigerfish227 thinking good thoughts. I agree with your mom that the fact they are waiting until next week sounds precautionary than serious. If they wanted to measure right after the appointment it might trigger more concern. Still stinks to have to worry for a week
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  • tigerfish227tigerfish227 member
    @lajoliedreamer they rotate ob patients to all the docs and there are 2 nurse practitioners as well. Last week and this week both I saw the same person. She's one of the NPs. Last week(35+6) I measured 35cm. She didn't give me a number this week but just said there wasn't much growth. She said she isn't concerned but she still wants to do an ultrasound. I guess the way I see it is if there's nothing to be concerned about then why do the ultrasound? I feel like that was said more as an effort to make me feel better about the scan. Like obviously it's not normal if we need to look into it, right? I'm sure I'm over-analyzing it but it makes me worry anyways.
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  • tigerfish227tigerfish227 member
    I guess it doesn't help either that DH couldn't make it this week because of work so I was there alone for the first time. DH is my strength in so many ways and it was hard not having him at my side this morning.
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