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March 2017 Moms
kjd291
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GTKY : October Highs and Lows
kjd291
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Another month passing! Thought we could all reflect back and share the highlights and low points of our months! What were yours?
Re: GTKY : October Highs and Lows
A very overdue rent check finally came in so huge sigh of relief!
Found out we are having a girl
Dropped off the truck today to get it fixed at last
Lows:
DH hasn't gotten orders yet so we still don't know where we are moving to
Constantly staring at things in the house that need to get done but I am way too tired to do
Finding out T2 is a boy!
The month flew by
Starting a pile of stuff for the baby in DS's closet
Starting the holiday season! I love buying Christmas presents.
Lows:
Getting all of our tags/car insurance bills that are due next month. Plus it just being that time of year to spend money
married to M since 6.13.09
T - 3.3.14
A - 2.24.17
Low: Hips relaxing so soon so I wasn't able to run or even walk my race I trained for with a friend.
Lows: I didn't do everything I usually do to celebrate fall and Halloween because I was so busy with school, I've had three flat tires this month, I'm really behind on Christmas shopping and I'm usually almost done by now and it's started to stress me out this month.
On the bright side, once I get through next month I just have two weeks of class left then I am DONE and I can relax until baby is here.
Lows: because of the bump...unnecessary talking rubbing from the in-laws. Maternity clothes shopping (because it's so expensive! Even with coupons)
DH: 37
DD: 03/17/17
DS: 12/06/19
A great anatomy scan!
Quickening and feeling lots of flutters
Getting back in the groove of work
Getting an obvious bump
Lows
Difficulty breathing/feeling faint every so often
Discomfort while sitting/sleeping in usually comfy seats and my bed
Thinking about money. *sigh* We're planning on taking a financial planning class for baby so hopefully that'll help relieve some stress.
Seeing babies 3 times and having them grow appropriately each time
Finding out we're having two girls and a boy!
Telling our parents and siblings our triplet news
Renting and moving stuff to a storage place in the city we're moving to
Finally getting a cute little bump
Lows:
A bathroom renovation that we thought would take one weekend is now going to take two... but the second one isn't for another three weeks so we have a room with about 7 pieces of tile and a toilet. The rest of the floor is the orange waffle stuff that goes under the tile, and the vanity is in our garage. Oh, and it has no doors, so two doorways. Good thing I'm not shy about peeing with the door open!
Me - 28, Lean PCOS
DH - 31
Married June 2010, TTC since March 2014
Blog: ourbinarystar.com
FET cycle #3 Transfer July 28th 2016, Triplets born healthy on February 26th 2017 at 33w1d!
-Found out we're having a boy!
-Picked out a name
-I have a ton of energy and am definitely putting it to use!
-I seriously have fallen in love with DH all over again this month with how patient he's been me and how involved he wants to be in my pregnancy journey.
-Feeling baby move regularly
-It's Halloween!!!
Lows:
-I had this darn degenerating fibroid, which was incredibly paintful and was on bed rest because of it for a couple weeks. It was awful.
-I can't get comfortable no matter what I do.
-Waking up all night to pee.
-I am hungry All. The. Time. but can only eat small amounts at a time so I'm full and starving sometimes at the same time.
-Great anatomy scan and a healthy little boy!
-DH suddenly has been very interested in what is happening each week, how big baby is, what I'm feeling.
-Doing some landscaping and home improvement and just so grateful we are able to do it.
-Feeling great and able to workout consistently, just so thankful to be able to be active.
Lows:
-Ongoing issues with my boss, he has been saying some really sexist things to me lately and I'm in the process of talking with HR on how to have a conversation with him, and I have put some of the things he has said on the record. It's so uncomfortable, and I hate confrontation like this that is on a personal level.
Me - 28, Lean PCOS
DH - 31
Married June 2010, TTC since March 2014
Blog: ourbinarystar.com
FET cycle #3 Transfer July 28th 2016, Triplets born healthy on February 26th 2017 at 33w1d!
- Found out its a girl and have my DH and I agree on a name!
- Fun reveal with parents and in-laws
- Got new carpets upstairs (finally!)
- DH getting a very good raise at work - less worried for mat leave
- Feeling baby move and more energy during the day
- Starting my course next week to be able to teach Grade 7 - 10
Lows:
- Not sleeping entirely through the night - lots worry about work
- Feeling stuck in current position - no use to change now if going on Mat leave for a year.
- Feeling like work is always the last place I want to be.. and that making a risky career change was the stupidest thing I've ever done.
- waiting 4 more months to meet my little lady!
Lows- my husband has been waiting to hear back about a new job, total change of field for him but he would be much more happy,..pretty much ever since I became pregnant, and it would be a huge salary increase, with benefits, and we would move in the spring to a new city which we both want so bad! but! we have had to wait this long and it's still not a guarantee so I know DH is feeling some pressure with the baby on the way. We hope to get a positive phonecall before November 15th! So we will continue to keep our fingers crossed while we wait.
Also, I have become the lightest sleeper and am awake multiple times a night. No fun!
- buying and moving into our new home. It's is beautiful, and more than I could have ever hoped for.
- my new job being great, and finding out the girls mat leave I am doing is moving away so I should roll into a permanent position.
- spending time with my family now that we live in my home town. It's been fantastic to be able to be able to be around them, and have them around to help us when we need. Support has been something my life has been lacking for the past five years, as DH works away 3/4 of the month.
Lows
-DS is having a very difficult time adjusting to kindergarten, and they have flagged him as on the autism spectrum disorder, which means we are going to be having a lot of out of town trips while we try and get him a diagnosis (if he needs one). It's been incredibly hard for me to grasp, as the letters I'm getting about him do not sound at all like the child I have at home.
Lows: got my hair cut/highlighted & ever since I've been regretting it; had no time to relax, volunteer, or do all the fun fall things I wanted to.
Got to spend a long weekend in Massachusetts visiting my family
Doc told us all looked great at the anatomy scan (we go in tomorrow for an appointment to review everything in detail)
We found our DOULA!
My stepson is now stationed 100mi from us instead of 3000mi, so we get to see him every weekend!
Feeling Baby moving around regularly now!!!!!
LOWS
Tech at our anatomy scan was terrible. It was a very disappointing appointment.
Still haven't heard from my husband's teenage daughter, despite multiple attempts to speak and see her.
* Started to feel my son kick!!
* Celebrated 5 years of marriage with a cute babymoon weekend at the beach.
* Had 2 positive observations at work and made some extra cash by proctoring PSAT tests on the weekends there.
* Received good news about the health of both of my remaining grandparents, who early in the month had been in the hospital, looking like the end was near.
October lows:
* My car battery died
* Pregnancy brain has hit full-force (I forgot an important vet appointment for my dog; I've forgotten multiple times to make copies of tests for classes even though the tests were already planned, written, announced, etc.; sometimes I end up standing in the shower wondering which steps I've already done).
* My 11th grade students finished their big fall-semester essay and now I have to somehow grade 130 argumentative essays, at 4 to 5 pages each. The thought of attempting to give meaningful feedback while I'm buried in all my other daily tasks, and my new pregnant-lady early bedtime, makes me want to dig a hole and hide.
* This was potentially our last month in a pre-apocalyptic United States, because I can't imagine the election results are really going to make anybody happy...
*TW* - BFP & MC in March 2016.
BFP in June 2016; EDD March 2017.
Samuel born February 2017!
-Feeling baby move more
-Getting to become a midwife patient in my male dominanted doctor practice
-Traded in my little sedan for a much needed roomier SUV
-Had a good anatomy scan and everything is growing as it should
Lows
-My husband works for an animal pharmaceutical company and is doing so much traveling that he's gone 3-4 days/week. I can't stand it. It's tough being pregnant and dealing with a busy toddler by myself most days.
Highs:
-Healthy AS & confirming that we're having a baby girl
-Feeling baby move, I got 2 good kicks last night!
-Getting a new bed fo free
-Lots of fun, fall activities with family & friends
Lows:
-Stupid family drama
EDD: 3/13/17
Good anatomy scan
Finding out we're having a boy
Getting some more things ready for the baby
Feeling pretty good over all
My bump is clearly a baby now and not a big dinner
Lows:
Thinking about everything that needs to be done before the baby is overwhelming.
Third UTI so far this pregnancy and no relief (will definitely be bringing this up at my appointment tomorrow!)
Maternity clothes are expensive and stores around here have very poor selections
Baby Boy: coming March 2017
Feeling kicks! She moves most nights when I lay down and when I am sitting at my desk
Bought the crib/rug/curtains for nursery and have a vision for what the room will be like!
My friend gave me several bags of hand-me-down baby girl clothing that is in excellent condition - super pumped
Gave a presentation at work that I received really positive feedback on!
Lows
My DH works at his family business, and his brother is taking out his own family issues on DH at work.
Heartburn has begun and ow it's painful/unmanagable at times
- Good anatomy scan.
- Lots of baby kicks that I can see/feel on the outside.
- DH got the job he applied for, same company but it takes him out of retail so he gets weekends/holidays off now and a good portion of it will be work-from-home. It's also a pay increase (could be slight or significant depending upon performance, but either way it's more money).
Lows:
- We have to move for the new job eventually, which means selling our house, buying another, and finding a new OB (probably when I'm in third tri).
- So much insomnia.