How far along are you?
How big is baby?
Team Blue, Pink, Green? And name(s)?
Appointments this week?
Symptoms?
What have you done to prepare for baby this week?
Rants/Raves/Questions:
GTKY: When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you "grew up"? Did you end up doing anything similar?
Me: 29 DH: 33
Married: 5/30/2013
DSS #1: 5/25/2007
DSS #2: 1/22/2011
DS #3: 7/8/2012
BFP: 3/14/2016 ~ MC: 3/19/2016
DS #4: 4/21/17
Re: Saturday Ticker Change 3/4
Married: 5/30/2013
DSS #1: 5/25/2007
DSS #2: 1/22/2011
DS #3: 7/8/2012
BFP: 3/14/2016 ~ MC: 3/19/2016
DS #4: 4/21/17
5 weeks until my mom comes home from Hawaii. She has been working there since November and I am sooooooooo ready to have her home. Just praying this baby waits until she gets here because I really want her around.
For years and years I wanted to be some sort of teacher, which is funny because my mom homeschooled me until high school. My mom was a teacher though, so I think I partially just wanted to be like her when I grew up. I actually had decided to go to college to become an ESL teacher and was accepted at a couple of different schools and everything and then decided to first take a year off and do a missionary school and spend a few months in India. I met DH doing that, so it was a good choice. And after that I felt like the parts about being a teacher that appealed to me would be better utilized as a social worker. So, I went to college for that. Not a social worker right now though. But, as a doula I love teaching my clients and I think I will always have teaching others as part of my job. So, I think I knew myself pretty well as a kid.
DH: 30 year old pneumatic electrical engineer
BFP: June 25, 2016 and MC: July 3, 2016
DD2: April 16, 2017
BFP: November 30, 2018 EDD: August 14, 2019
DD: 6/20/11
DS: 2/23/13
EDD: 4/15/17
Otherwise, I'm feeling tired but not too achey or anything so I feel lucky about that.
Other than that, I bought myself a fancy set of gel pens and made a color-coded to-do list There are about 30 things that need to get done before baby and all I want to do is fun projects (I've been wanting to build us a headboard for our master bedroom for sooooo long. But it makes no sense to spend my time on something like that when, I don't know, we need to install carseats!).
My rave is that my zoloft seems to have really kicked in. I think I'm on week 3 of it and I feel much more balanced. I still have quite a bit of stress but it seems to be in the normal range, considering how much needs to be done. But I'm able to meditate without panicking and I'm just feeling more like myself. I have much more hope for a smooth post partum.
DH: 36
Married 5 years
DD born 8/30/13
#2 expected 4/25/17
C'mon people!
DH: 36
Married 5 years
DD born 8/30/13
#2 expected 4/25/17
@cafedisco I'm so happy to hear that you are better with the Zoloft! That's great news! Now, install that car seat and then work on a headboard One task for baby boy, one task for you!
Married: 5/30/2013
DSS #1: 5/25/2007
DSS #2: 1/22/2011
DS #3: 7/8/2012
BFP: 3/14/2016 ~ MC: 3/19/2016
DS #4: 4/21/17
I think a teacher? Although I work at a university I am not a teacher - currently a business analyst with technology systems. Went to school to be a physical therapist and got a degree in public relations and marketing. Kind of all over the place.
Pink- name still TBD
I wanted to work on horse farms with show jumpers. I managed to groom for a while, but burned out quickly and so began my restaurant career.
June- Femara 7.5mg + Trigger + IUI = BFN August- Lap & Hysteroscopy = Blocked & Partially Blocked Tubes
September- Femara 5mg = CX - No Response on Left = BFN October- 100mg Clomid + Trigger + TI = BFN
IVF # 1: Stims 11/30 ER 12/12/12! (10R, 10M, 8F, 2T, 6 F) :: Beta #1- 176 c/p @ 4w4d
FET #1 February 26th :: Lost 4 to Thaw, Transferred 2 = BFFN
IVF # 2 Stims 5/10 ER 5/21 (15R, 13M, 13F, 2T, 7F- 6d3 & 1d5) :: Beta # 1- 15 c/p @ 4w
FET #2.2 Scheduled for September 20th
2 Thawed, 2 Transferred! Beta #1- 96, Beta #2 906! :: EDD June 10th
2015- 2 failed FET. We are done
SURPRISE! BFP 8/8/16 EDD 4/1/17
Rave: Its DD's 2nd birthday today! We stayed at a hotel last night and spent this morning at Magic Kingdom! She had so much fun!
Rant: We spent the morning at Magic Kingdom and now I can't walk
In second grade, I thought being a professional golfer was my path (we weren't a golfing family so I have no idea where that came from) but wanting to be a teacher started around 4th grade. I went to school for Paychology, decided to go to grad school for Marketing, and ended up working in hospitality after undergrad. Part of my job involved sharing Disney history with guests which reminded me how much I loved teaching and I finally found my way into the classroom after getting my Masters in Elementary Ed. The fourth grade version of me knew what was up all along but I'm okay with the path I took to get here. If I hadn't worked for Disney, I wouldn't have met my husband!
Baby #2 due April 2017
Married: 5/30/2013
DSS #1: 5/25/2007
DSS #2: 1/22/2011
DS #3: 7/8/2012
BFP: 3/14/2016 ~ MC: 3/19/2016
DS #4: 4/21/17
Also still in a panic about how much I have left to do at school to get ready. We have this week of school and then spring break. I was hoping to have everything done by Friday but that seems impossible.
I always loved school so being a teacher was always on my radar. Towards the end of HS/beginning of college I considered psychology, journalism, and political science but none of them really stuck. I actually majored in Sociology but teach Spanish. I wish I could just take Soc classes and get paid. To be honest, I"m not sure teaching is in my future for much longer. I just don't know that it is my calling anymore.