TTGP Grad Check in Week of 10/31

berg · November 2016

Hiiiii Ladies!!

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1. How far along are you?

2. How are you feeling?

3. Anyone have an appointment this week?

4. Rants/Raves/Randoms

5. GTKY: When do you feel it's appropriate to start decorating for Christmas/Hanukkah?

ETA: question one

NamelessAria · November 2016

Also just putting this here so the TTGP grads see it: the November Grad Check In is up on TTGP. Berg and I tried to tag the people we could think of from here but if we missed you we're sorry!

berg · November 2016

1. How far along are you? 7w3d

2. How are you feeling? Meh. Tuesday was great, yesterday sucked, today is okay. I just hate all food. ALL of it. It's so frustrating. Also I look so fat. I know I'm only 7w, but I just look pudgy and I sorta hate it.

3. Anyone have an appointment this week? Monday is my first u/s!!!!!!!!! If the exclamation points don't emphasize it, I'm pumped.

4. Rants/Raves/Randoms: DH is home making meatballs and sauce at my request. He sent me the following text: 'So at Big Y I saw a Dad pushing his young kids and it hit me

I'm so excited to be a dad. It's been a bit foggy to me because of my work situation but I am very excited!

' I can't even... He's been so great to me this last month, literally waiting on me to the point of me having to explain that I'm not disabled. And I know how excited he is, but for him to say it like that, ugh just all the feels. We just moved out of state at the end of Aug and he's been trying to find a career, not just a job, so he's been anxious about everything. Monday can't get here soon enough.

5. GTKY: When do you feel it's appropriate to start decorating for Christmas/Hanukkah? I'm normally on the day after Thanksgiving band. However when we moved I realized I have six huge bins of Christmas decorations... six... for a one bedroom apartment. They are all currently in our living room as I haven't gotten a storage unit yet. So now I'm kinda like well I can just put these up and then the bins will go away for a while....

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Elyse1384 · November 2016

Hey! Thanks for starting the thread and tagging everyone in the TTGP check-in.

1. How are you feeling? HORRIBLE. I've barely been on here this week because I just feel so sick and can't muster the energy to interact much. Hope this terrible morning sickness, fatigue and headaches ease off soon.

2. Anyone have an appointment this week? I had my first ultrasound last Friday and I will have another next week (11/11). So far so good. FX this LO continues to grow healthy and strong.

3. Rants/Raves/Randoms I just feel like everyone newly announced pregnant woman around me is glowing, happy and not struggling. I look like something that crawled out of a sewer.

4. GTKY: When do you feel it's appropriate to start decorating for Christmas/Hanukkah? I start the weekend after Thanksgiving. I LOVE the holidays, but any sooner just feels too early for me.

ClaireCF · November 2016

Yay my favorite board!

1. How far along are you? 6w6d

2. How are you feeling? Today ok. The nausea has really set in this week. I have discovered that as long as I am actively eating saltines I feel ok. Soo that should be good for the waistline... Today is not as bad though which I'm thankful for because I have to get in a car for three hours for work.

3. Anyone have an appointment this week? I had my first u/s on Tuesday! Best thing ever. I will have my first appointment back with my OBGYN on the 14th. Already anxious for another one.

4. Rants/Raves/Randoms DH parents are coming for the weekend so we're telling them tomorrow, I'm so excited they are going to flip out. I made a "grandparent starter kit" box with a onesie, bottle, pacifier, and socks that we are going to give them saying it's a belated anniversary present. I'm trying to think of a way to sneakily film them opening it without calling too much attention to it.

5. GTKY: When do you feel it's appropriate to start decorating for Christmas/Hanukkah? I'm firmly a day after Thanksgiving person. I just really like Thanksgiving so I like it to have its time too!

delujm0 · November 2016

1. How far along are you? 7w6d

2. How are you feeling? Surprisingly good. I remember being SO TIRED at this point with my first pregnancy, and aside from a few rough days here and there, I feel pretty normal this time. I think it's just because I am ALWAYS tired now, due to DD, so this isn't really that much different...haha. Boobs don't hurt yet, but I am weird about food, especially my beloved carbs. Also I am craving soup right now so I may walk over to Panera here shortly...SECOND LUNCH ALERT.

3. Anyone have an appointment this week? Yes! I had my first appointment today! There is one bean in there, with a heart rate of 178. We could actually see the heart beating on the monitor. My due date lines up exactly with ovulation date this time - 6/16. With DD it was 3 days off. I go in for a NIPT blood draw in two weeks, and then the NT scan/quad screen 12/1.

4. Rants/Raves/Randoms: I have so few symptoms (again) this time, I was worried about the scan today, but it looked good! I should get NIPT results before the end of the month, so we might announce to our families once we have those...or wait out the NT scan/quad screen results (those are usually in fairly quickly at least). I can't wait until Christmas this time like I did with DD...she was due 6/22/15 and it was my first pregnancy, so I was barely showing at Christmas then. I was still wearing some of my normal jeans. Today when I was getting ready for the ultrasound, DH was like "are you showing already?" No, dickbag, I'm bloated because I never poop right now, but thanks. I suspect that by Christmas, when I'm almost 16 weeks, it will be obvious to the people that know what I normally look like that there is a baby on board. I want to tell them before they see me. Especially my sister who is struggling to get pregnant - I want her to be able to process this without me being in her face while she's doing it.

5. GTKY: When do you feel it's appropriate to start decorating for Christmas/Hanukkah? We usually go to the Christmas Tree Farm the day after Thanksgiving and decorate that weekend. Generally because we have family in town to help us drag the tree into the house then, so it works out.

MotherofDragons · November 2016

@Elyse1384 I'm sorry you are feeling so crummy but your sewer comment made me laugh real hard.

1. 9w2d

2. So exhausted. And I suddenly can only eat healthy food because food aversions are weird as hell. My anxiety is through the roof. Not having many symptoms makes me feel like something is wrong. Add in the election and my heartrate resembles a humming birds.

3. I had one this past Monday. It went well. Now I'm waiting for high risk to contact me to set up my appointment with them.

4. I have a half marathon on a Sunday and thinking about it is making me want to cry out of exhaustion.

5. I personally start decorating the day after Thanksgiving but I don't side eye or bash anyone that decorates sooner.

lmc929 · November 2016

1. 8 wks + 3

2. I am with @berg on feeling meh. I have on and off nausea pretty much all day every day. Having some major food aversions and smells are killing me.

3. Today! It went well and everything is looking normal.

4. I am just so excited to get a puppy! We officially get to bring him home on the 13th and will be going to pick him out from the litter this weekend. Rather than think about kid names I am thinking about puppy names.

@berg your husband is adorable – we are on kiddo #2 and I’m like – where did that sweet guy who took care of me with #1 go? I guess he’s busy taking care of a toddler and keeping up on housework while I lay miserably on the couch.

5. GTKY: Now. We usually decorate for Christmas before Thanksgiving because we have family in town for Thanksgiving and we travel for Christmas. Thanksgiving is our only chance to show off our tree - might be a little different this year with a puppy, kitten, and toddler.

@Elyse1384 I am so sorry you feel so crummy – hopefully it starts to clear up at the start of the second trimester

@ClaireCF tell us how the grandparent announcement goes – so exciting! Is this their first grandbaby?

@delujm0 glad your appointment went well today!

@motherofdragons the election stress is real….and holy shit half marathon, you go girl!

berg · November 2016

@Mother0fDragons A half marathon? Get it girl! That's awesome. Good for you! I was pumped when I got off my now ever growing ass on Sunday to run a measly two miles.
@delujm0 "no dickbag" I love it. And why is soup so good? Soup and saltines and ginger ale are my life right now.
@ClaireCF When I was in college I would eat a row of saltines while studying. I really thought they were a healthy snack. Which I mean maybe they aren't horrible if you eat like 3, but a whole row. Saltines and a hot chocolate (low fat of course), my books were covered in crumbs. I never understood why I was like 20 pounds heavier than in high school (and after college for that matter). I was so dumb and sloppy. That is the cutest idea for a reveal too!! I love it!
@Elyse1384 I hear ya on the pretty, happy preggers out there. I can't wait to tell my mom so when she asked me how I feel I can yell at her. She used to tell me how wonderful pregnancy was. How she never felt healthier than when she was pregnant. Are you kidding me lady? My 'glow' is giving me non-stop pimples. My hair for some reason looks so blah and almost greasy which is just depressing. Once you add in the bloat, I just want to curl up in bed forever.

berg · November 2016

@lmc929 A puppy!!! YAY! We want a dog so bad, but our apartment only allows cats. You'll have to post a pic once you get him/her! And as far as decorating with animals. My parents get big trees, about 12 feet without the stand. The tree sits in a corner and takes up the room, it's wonderful. One year the 75lb bulldog chased the 10lb cat under and around the tree. I was sitting on the opposite side shaking presents. Thank goodness for the couch behind me which kept the tree from smashing me. I was just surrounded by broken ornaments. Instead of scaling back my dad put two anchors in the wall and now ties the tree up every year. And I learned a very valuable lesson about shaking your presents. Hopefully your animals are better behaved (but the kitten will probably climb the tree)!

mrlight · November 2016

How far along are you? 7 weeks 3 days

How are you feeling? I’m super bloated. Also, I puked for the first time last night. I’m thinking it was just because I had a really long day yesterday and was in the car for a long time. Also, my hair is really oily. I have to use so much dry shampoo.

Anyone have an appointment this week? U/s tomorrow!

Rants/Raves/Randoms I had a big work event that I was over today, and it was really successful! It went a lot better than I expected, and we had a great turnout. I’m pretty excited about it, still!

GTKY: When do you feel it's appropriate to start decorating for Christmas/Hanukkah? We’re hosting Thanksgiving at our house this year, so I’ll leave all the fall stuff up until then. But, the day after Thanksgiving, I will be putting up Christmas stuff and watching Gilmore Girls! (I am thinking about putting up one tree either this weekend or next weekend. It’s in a room I can close off from the rest of the house, so it won’t be too Christmasy for Thanksgiving.)

mrlight · November 2016

@berg That’s so sweet of your DH! I’m almost to the point of saying I’m not disabled to my DH, too. He yelled at me for picking up a pumpkin the other day.

When I lived in an apartment in college, it was like Christmas threw up in our apartment. We found a place for all of the Christmas decorations, including 2 trees!

@MotherofDragos Good luck on your race Saturday!! I definitely don’t think I could do that right now.

@lmc929 Yay for a new puppy!! They are the best!

lmc929 · November 2016

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My two favorites to choose from above

swanbrooner · November 2016

1. How far along are you? 9 weeks today

2. How are you feeling? Pretty good! Nausea is getting better. My chief complaints are hormonal chin acne, poor sleep quality, and general exhaustion.

3. Anyone have an appointment this week?

Not until after Thanksgiving

4. Rants/Raves/Randoms
It's my nephews birthday tonight, and they picked a great restaurant. FEED ME, SEYMOUR!

5. GTKY: When do you feel it's appropriate to start decorating for Christmas/Hanukkah?
I don't decorate for Christmas, which deeply concerns my family. Days of dragging out decor as a child ruined me, and I just don't care to mess with it.

mrlight · November 2016

@lmc929 They're both so cute!! We had a really hard time picking out our puppy almost 2 years ago. We "visited" the puppies once before we got to take our puppy home. When we went to pick our puppy up, all of the puppies went outside and were kind of wandering a little bit, and we ended up choosing the one that didn't really want to leave our sides to wander as much. We took that as a sign that he was meant to be our puppy and that he chose us.

ClaireCF · November 2016

@lmc929 ahh look at those little fluffs! I love them! DH has a half sister with two kids so my father in law has grandkids, and my mother in law is definitely considered a grandparent to them but this will technically be her first grandbaby. The other two are in middle and high school now too so there hasn't been a new one in a long time!

delujm0 · November 2016

@swanbrooner props for the Little Shop of Horrors reference.

Sirius37 · November 2016

Hey ladies! I waited to post today until after my appt

1. How far along are you?
7w1d

2. How are you feeling?
The nausea is getting annoying.... I'm O'ing so hard that it a bates just for tomorrow. I've never thrown up on an airplane and don't have any desire to start now.

3. Anyone have an appointment this week?
I had it today! measuring right where I expected and it had a great heartbeat! has anybody not been given an exact number for heartbeat rate before? Everything looked good but I was a little surprised when the midwife told me she didn't have a number.

4. Rants/Raves/Randoms
I finally get to tell my family tonight! They're on their way here now! DH got the hope chest all done up and we decorated the inside of it like so:

We''e posting our U / S picture and something like "See you in June!" on the lid part above. I'm so excited to see their reactions!
5. GTKY: When do you feel it's appropriate to start decorating for Christmas/Hanukkah?
I'm on the day- after- thanksgiving train. If people want to go earlier that's fine..... just not until after Halloween!

Sirius37 · November 2016

By the way @lmc929, you have better wwillpower than me - I'd take them both home!

berg · November 2016

@lmc929 I agree with @Sirius37 I'd take them both! So adorable!

@sirius37 that is the cutest idea for a reveal! I hope it went well

lmc929 · November 2016

@Sirius37 and @berg I'd take them both too - if they weren't expensive and enormous

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