March TTGP Grad Check-In

PeggyOlsonFTW · March 2017

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@izza2 I'll gladly white knight for you anyday.

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Also, as my LO is almost 5 months old, no one here knows me or cares about my updates and my name is constantly misspelled, you can remove me from the tags.

ChefRamsay · March 2017

I was going to wait until tomorrow to post, but since someone decided to start drama I figure I better do it now before the thread gets closed.

Considering how many people say 'thank you for the tag' I'd say they are still good to have. Personally, I was so happy the first time I was tagged in this thread that it made me cry.

*How long were you active on TTGP and when?
Sep 16 - Jan 17
*How far along are you?
11 weeks (tomorrow)

*Which birth month board/due date?
Due Sep 22nd

*Team Pink/Blue/Green?
Maybe green? We still haven't decided

*How are you doing picking out a name? Feel free to share it.

Girl names are really hard. We might have a boy name picked though, William

*Questions, concerns or other? Anything else exciting to share?
I'm really excited to hit 2nd tri this month! We're going to start telling our families in a few weeks. I'm nervous but excited to tell our DD that she'll be a big sister!

klstone25 · March 2017

**Removed for TOU violation**

I don't care what has been said. NEVER EVER use an insult that refers to someone's unborn child. This is quite possibly the lowest you can go and I'm sure you are better than that.

Everycol0r · March 2017

klstone25 said:

AndiPandi127 said:
What the actual "f*ck" is wrong with you? @izza2 was having a perfectly pleasant and normal conversation. Holy crap. Go have your baby with it's paint can name and leave this board alone if you can't be human.
I don't care what has been said. NEVER EVER use an insult that refers to someone's unborn child. This is quite possibly the lowest you can go and I'm sure you are better than that.

Yea. No.

people get flamed for baby names all the time

RunRestRepeat · March 2017

Soooooo, back to babies?

*How long were you active on TTGP and when? August - November '16 (and still lurking)

*How far along are you? 19 weeks today!

*Which birth month board/due date? July, but I'm never there. EDD is July 27

*Team Pink/Blue/Green? Team finding out - on Monday. Eeek!

*How are you doing picking out a name? Feel free to share it. We've had a girl's name picked out for ages. No idea for a boy - they are so much harder for us! We'll see on Monday if we really need to keep digging for one we both like.

*Questions, concerns or other? Anything else exciting to share? I'm starting to feel a bit of movement, so that's awesome. No major kicks (yet) but lots of little "fish flops." I can't get enough (though remind me of this when baby is kicking me in the ribs).

nlwz123 · March 2017

Thanks for the good reads while I ate dinner, peanuts!

[Deleted User] · March 2017

klstone25 said:

**Removed for TOU violation**
I don't care what has been said. NEVER EVER use an insult that refers to someone's unborn child. This is quite possibly the lowest you can go and I'm sure you are better than that.

Lol but you should go check out the baby names board. That's really the LOWEST you can go? Sheesh.

Anywho @izza2 you were being extremely kind and I am thankful to have you around. I love your new organized list @BigBadWolf12!

Happy to see so many great ladies come back to check in

VLillyV · March 2017

Apparently, I missed the drama. Oi.

@BigBadWolf12

You're so kind, thank you for the tag! Your list looks beautiful, by the way.

TW**SIGGY WARNING**TW

*How long were you active on TTGP and when? I'd say about 1.5 months, Cycle 4 in January mostly.

*How far along are you? 7weeks, 2 days

*Which birth month board/due date? October 2017, EDD 10/17/17

*Team Pink/Blue/Green? Green for now, will find out!

*How are you doing picking out a name? Feel free to share it. We're doing pretty dang good on boy names. We've already got two down. I have 1 girl name that is acceptable. Won't share likely until birth or at least we know the gender. *party pooper*

*Questions, concerns or other? Anything else exciting to share?
I miss the TTGP board. You ladies know how to whip random drive bys into gear. They are driving me crazy on our bump board! CRAZY.

Reassurance: Not everyone gets morning sickness or obvious PG symptoms. I have flown under the radar with mine. They are very normal, as if I was still waiting to O mostly. I've got some acne, some breast pain, and the occasional cramping. I believe this mildness is what caused me to think I was not KU in the first place.

I also found that I have a tilted uterus. I was unable to conceive for a few months until finally, I read on Dr. Google to LAY down and rest for at least 10 minutes. I really think this helped do the trick for me.

NYTino24 · March 2017

As someone TTCAL, I am really sad to see a celebration that I look forward to every month turn into an argument. It's also not fair to those moms who are checking in. Everyone either knock it off or the thread will be deleted and recreated.

Thank you for letting us know @PeggyOlsonFTW. Congrats on your baby. I'll remove and add tags when I'm not on mobile.

ETA thank you @izza2 @BigBadWolf12 for organizing tags. Someone else can take the thread for next month!

klstone25 · March 2017

@antoto Clearly, we disagree on this. But I find resorting to insulting someone's child in an argument to be immature and completely unacceptable.

LadyMillil · March 2017

klstone25 said:

@antoto Clearly, we disagree on this. But I find resorting to insulting someone's child in an argument to be immature and completely unacceptable.

Maybe it's because I've been around here for 2 years, but that was nowhere near the worst thing that has been said here.

m6agua · March 2017

Meanwhile I'm here thinking how did me asking about being tagged turn into all this drama?

krys-2 · March 2017

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picklesplease · March 2017

@izza2and @BigBadWolf12- Just a heads up that MRSCORKER has had her LO, so she could probably be removed from the list of Grads. Also, thanks for the tags ladies! If it weren't for the tag, I probably would have missed this month's check-in. I also bow down to you ladies, your organization is amazing!

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BigBadWolf12 · March 2017

@berkemama thanks! I don't see her in the month by month list I posted, but let me know if you saw her in my list and I'll take her out (I can't edit the other lists, but mine I can). It is possible I lapped years and had someone from, for example, oct16 in with the oct17s.

momtoleo · March 2017

*How long were you active on TTGP and when? Lurked August - November 2015, Active November 2015 - August 2016

*How far along are you? 31w5d

*Which birth month board/due date? April 30, 2017

*Team Pink/Blue/Green? Blue!

*How are you doing picking out a name? We've got it. Just trying to figure out a nickname. Right now, he's being called Piglet, IV ("Four"), Junior, Cary and pretty much anything else besides his given name.

*Questions, concerns or other? Anything else exciting to share?
Just chugging along. Crazy to think that we've reached single digits in terms of weeks. Toured a second hospital this week and liked it SO much better than the first.

abjm0325 · March 2017

I'm going to scoot on past whatever happened earlier on this thread. Yikes. Glad to see all of the check-ins!

*How long were you active on TTGP and when? August-November 2016 (long-time lurker

)

*How far along are you? 20+4

*Which birth month board/due date? July 17, 2017 (sometimes participate in July BMB)

*Team Pink/Blue/Green? Pink!!

*How are you doing picking out a name? Feel free to share it. Not great. We had a boy's name in mind, so of course we found out we are having a girl.

*Questions, concerns or other? Anything else exciting to share? We had our A/S on Monday and it was awesome. The baby is healthy, measuring right on track, and now we know we're Team Pink! So thrilled to see everyone's posts here and see how you ladies are doing.

NamelessAria · March 2017

@KirstinH88 Sorry it kinda took me awhile to reply. We're going to San Diego. I've actually never been to California. And honestly, I've never been further west than Arkansas.

So I'm pretty excited. I'm not 100% sure what one does in San Diego but just having an actual vacation with my husband for the first time is really exciting so I'm not feeling super picky on what we do while we're there. I'd like to maybe go see the beach and such since I've heard nice things about California beaches. Hopefully I'll still feel up to doing things at that point.

catem07 · March 2017

Kinda bummed I missed the drama.

How long were you active on TTGP and when?
June-July 2016

*How far along are you?
35+5

*Which birth month board/due date?
April 2, but I just get the feeling this baby is coming in March. Maybe it's just wishful thinking...

*Team Pink/Blue/Green?
Pink

*How are you doing picking out a name? Feel free to share it.
Margaret Grace

*Questions, concerns or other? Anything else exciting to share?
Doing a big pre-baby shop tonight at Costco and Target. Packing my hospital bag this weekend, and possibly installing the car seat.

picklesplease · March 2017

@BigBadWolf12 - I think I saw her tagged somewhere. I'll go back and double-check. It's possible I misread something, too.

KirstinH88 · March 2017

@NamelessAria I definitely think if you have never visited CA, then San Diego is a great place to start! Hopefully the weather is beautiful when you come. I'm more in the Northern part of the state, but my best friend is from San Diego, so I've visited a few times. And this may be me, but there is no such thing as "vacation" if a beach isn't involved.

Hopefully you have a great time.

babymish · March 2017

Thanks for the tag @izza2 and @BigBadWolf12

*How long were you active on TTGP and when?

11 months from Oct 15 - Aug 16

*How far along are you? 9weeks 3 days

*Which birth month board/due date? 4th Oct 17

*Team Pink/Blue/Green? Green for now but we will find out.

*How are you doing picking out a name? Feel free to share it. We have had our names picked out for a long time we will reveal when we find out the gender

*Questions, concerns or other? Anything else exciting to share?

I have had really bad morning sickness for the last 3.5 weeks with acid reflux joining in the fun and games last night - but today is the best I have felt in 3.5 weeks and it's been amazing! We also found the heart beat on our home doppler today

m6agua · March 2017

@babymish Aaaahhh!!! I am so excited for you! Congrats!

Sugargirl1019 · March 2017

Omg @virginaham get in here!!

BigBadWolf12 · March 2017

@Sugargirl1019 I think you had a typo: when is @virginiaham due?? exciting

ETA: your post history says October!! yay!!!

virginiaham · March 2017

Heyyyyy guys. Lol @sugargirl1019 thanks for the tag girl. So glad to see so many good updates from other grads and I'm rooting everyone here on always

How long were you active on TTGP and when? October 2015-January 2017

*How far along are you? 8+1

*Which birth month board/due date? October 2017 / due October 14th

*Team Pink/Blue/Green? I would love to be team green but H is dying to find out so we'll find out at the 20ish week AS

*How are you doing picking out a name? Feel free to share it. I've successfully vetoed a terrible name my H half-jokingly loved so that is major success at this point in the game.

*Questions, concerns or other? Anything else exciting to share? I had a bleeding scare a few weeks ago but it died down and everything is looking good. We were loaned a home Doppler from a few friends and my time working antepartum paid off today...I found baby's heartbeat!

KirstinH88 · March 2017

Just as an FYI for whoever does the April Grad Check-In next month and does all the tagging:

Shaunessa was not in TTGP. She is in the April BMB, but I just confirmed with her that she wasn't part of this group. (She was definitely missing out!

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Jrl10051 · March 2017

Hi all,

Congratulations to all you ladies!! i cant believe I even made it here this month. February was a brutal month for us and we literally only BD'd 3x in February, but guess we did time it right.

*How long were you active on TTGP and when? Started lurking and commenting in January. Didn't get in much in Feb due to a crazy stressful personal life.

*How far along are you? 5 weeks 3 days I think

*Which birth month board/due date? EDD is Nov 4th or 5th

*Team Pink/Blue/Green? Green!

*How are you doing picking out a name?
Havent even begun to think that far.

lulu1180 · March 2017

@Jrl10051 This thread is meant for those that were regular posters here on TTGP and have moved on to their BMB so that they can come back and update us on the progress of their pregnancy. This is not the place to post about a BFP. Also, you were not a regular poster on this board at any time. I understand that you made an effort to post (although I don't know that I would really consider 1 time that much of an effort) but that does not mean that you get to either 1. Rub your BFP in our faces after you were obviously not tracking or barely tracking and 2. Come back here at any time and update us. The other ladies that come back here were on here for long enough that we were invested in their journey and truly want to know how things are going. We do not know you and while we are happy for anyone that gets their BFP, there's no reason to tell us about it, you could have and should have moved right on to your BMB.

tamalahoops · March 2017

Jrl10051 said:

Hi all,

Congratulations to all you ladies!! i cant believe I even made it here this month. February was a brutal month for us and we literally only BD'd 3x in February, but guess we did time it right.

*How long were you active on TTGP and when? Started lurking and commenting in January. Didn't get in much in Feb due to a crazy stressful personal life.

*How far along are you? 5 weeks 3 days I think

*Which birth month board/due date? EDD is Nov 4th or 5th

*Team Pink/Blue/Green? Green!

*How are you doing picking out a name?
Havent even begun to think that far.

(stuck in box) QFP

lulu1180 · March 2017

Thank you @tamalahoops I was so pissed off I forgot the QFP!

tamalahoops · March 2017

Also you only posted once. What could you possibly mean by "didn't get to post a lot." You literally almost never posted except for that one time.

Edited to rant some more: The absolute NERVE of someone coming in to a group of women who are ACTUALLY ACTIVELY TRYING to conceive to be like "LOL I got pregnant and we only had sex three times" Is appalling to me. Why, why, WHY.

tripledaggerWed95976 · March 2017

Jrl10051 said:

Hi all,

Congratulations to all you ladies!! i cant believe I even made it here this month. February was a brutal month for us and we literally only BD'd 3x in February, but guess we did time it right.

*How long were you active on TTGP and when? Started lurking and commenting in January. Didn't get in much in Feb due to a crazy stressful personal life.

*How far along are you? 5 weeks 3 days I think

*Which birth month board/due date? EDD is Nov 4th or 5th

*Team Pink/Blue/Green? Green!

*How are you doing picking out a name?
Havent even begun to think that far.

Seriously?? Next time please read the instructions the top of the page before posting...

here I'll help you out this time-

"If you were a regular poster on TTGP we'd love to get an update on you this month! Please tell us how you are doing!"

you were not in ANY way a regular poster. Move on to your BMB

ETA: also, just yuck to your post in general. The more I read it the more it looks like a really desperate attempt to come throw your cycle 1/1 BFP in people's faces. If that was your purpose, shame on you

JulesDP · March 2017

tamalahoops said:

Also you only posted once. What could you possibly mean by "didn't get to post a lot." You literally almost never posted except for that one time.

Edited to rant some more: The absolute NERVE of someone coming in to a group of women who are ACTUALLY ACTIVELY TRYING to conceive to be like "LOL I got pregnant and we only had sex three times" Is appalling to me. Why, why, WHY.

[Deleted User] · March 2017

@Jrl10051. WOW. Just wow. This is NOT what I clicked here to read. You obviously haven't the slightest clue what just happened here because you're really NOT a member of the TTGP Community. If you were, you would already known what PPs have stated above.

Not sure what made you think we needed to hear about your recent BFP on a monthly Grad check-in of all the ladies we have come to know and love, who are now at various stages of pregnancy and/or recently given birth. Did you even READ the thread before you posted?

The ONLY appropriate place for this post would have been on the intro thread of your BMB.

Congrats on your lucky, "guess our timing was not so bad afterall," bfp. I need a drink. Eta
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