2nd trimester check in 9/11

wabash15 · September 2017

Good morning!

This is a weekly check-in for those in their 2nd trimester: weeks 14 through the end of week 27.

Congrats to all the strong ladies who have made it this far! It's such a great feeling and we've all accomplished so much! We are now 1 week closer to the end of this especially long journey we call "infertility."

Please post below a little about yourself, how many beans you have growing inside, if you have found out the sex(es) and what your EDD is. Please also let us know how far you've made it on your journey and when your next appointment is and what for. If I'm missing anyone from this list, or you are new to the 2nd tri, please let me know and I will add you.

Please let us know when you have graduated to 3rd trimester so that I can update our list!

Mommies to be:

@PoeMasque EDD 12/8 with 1 boy!

@clovelyone EDD 12/16 with boy/girl twins!

@stella_700 EDD 12/17 with 1 boy and 1 girl!

@wabash15 EDD 12/25 with 1 bean!

@takethelongway EDD 12/28 with TWIN girls!

@mountainlady-2 EDD 12/8 with 1 girl!

@klake42 EDD 1/2 with TWINS!!

@ryannenikole EDD 1/8 with 1 boy!!

@caseyw8784 EDD 1/25 with 1 boy and 1 girl!

@thucks EDD 2/24

@kaseycoco EDD 2/27

QOTW: What is the worst storm you've been through?

caseyw8784 · September 2017

Sorry I've been MIA for a few weeks...things have been kind of crazy here, and whenever I remembered to post, I would get distracted and forget!

Anyways, I'm 21w4d with b/g twins, due date is 1/25/18. Next appointment is 9/18 for an ultrasound. The twins were not cooperating at the anatomy scan, so they didn't get all the images/info that they wanted. I'm also starting monthly ultrasounds, so this is the first of that also.

QOTW: Hurricane Katrina. I was a student at Tulane then. I was able to get out of the city a few days ahead of time, so I wasn't there physically, but we were back for the spring semester that January, and it was so surreal to basically be the only people in the city, along with the city officials and National Guard/Army. The image of tanks rolling down the streets...so weird. I lost everything I had down there. I know that I was so lucky to not be affected like so many others, but the whole experience has left me with a decent of anxiety about storms now. With Irma especially; my parents moved to just north of Miami a couple years ago. Even though they're still up in New England (stereotypical snowbirds!) and weren't in any danger, I was freaking out about their condo and local damage. My dad had to call up DH and tell him to not let me watch CNN/Weather Channel anymore!

PoeMasque · September 2017

Yikes @caseyw8784 glad you got out before Katrina hit, but what an experience to be there after.

This is is my last week in the second trimester. I can hardly believe it....i keep flipping between being terrified and impatient. Can't wait to have this little guy in our arms, but so scared of all the changes it will bring! I ended up calling the hospital to see if they can remove me from the schedule starting this month (I've been working short shifts once a week there on top of my regular full time job). I feel bad about not pushing through for a few more weeks, but I am also so tired that it's probably not safe for me or patients to have me working there at this point. I have to remind myself that I'm 37 and not 25....I knew this would be harder as an AMA mom, it's just hard to BE that AMA Mom who's body wants to hurt in weird places and nap all day.

QOTW: last December we had a crazy ice and snow storm that lasted several weeks. We had to sleep in the living room because our neighbors trees were dropping branches on the roof above our bedroom and if one had fallen completely we would have been squashed. Trees were literally falling all around us due to the weight of the ice. It sounded like thunder, followed by glass breaking. We live on a hill and couldn't make it to work for a week due to the hill being an ice rink. We live in southern Oregon and actually had to shovel snow to get our cars out of the driveway, not just once, but multiple days.....something I have never had to do in 35 years of living here. Thankfully my fiancé is from Wisconsin, so he did most of the shoveling

mountainlady · September 2017

@caseyw8784 I hear you on the forgetful/distractedness!

So stoked to be on the edge of the 3rd tri - halfway through week 27 too! We go on a 3 week vacation starting Thursday, so I have a little sample of early mat leave... but then will be back to full time in October. I am so impressed you be kept going as long as you have @PoeMasque at that level... good choice to dial down!

The QOTW has made me stop to appreciate how lucky I am... I can't think of a single storm incident that has been scary in my life. I grew up on the west coast of England, but all our storms were the tail ends - we just used to be excited to go wave jumping at the beach the next day. And now I live in a ski town, with lots of snowstorms but everything is built for It - we tend to be even more excited that we can go ski the next day. On the flipside I have to shovel SO much snow every winter - sometimes it takes me 2hrs a day to get it cleared at work!

The wildfires have been a bit scary this year.

Hoping all of you ladies are OK out there!

wabash15 · September 2017

@PoeMasque being AMA is harder... Hell I had the twins 2.5 years ago and was technically AMA then too but damn this pregnancy is so much harder.. I feel OLD.
@mountainlady have fun on your vacation!
@caseyw8784 glad the twins are doing well. My were notoriously uncooperative during scans...

AFM: 25+1 with a singleton. all looks good and we are plugging along. I have not made any more progress on the nursery but maybe one of these weeks the nesting instinct will kick back in and I will get some stuff done.
I've been near hurricanes and tornadoes and mini earthquakes but I think growing up we had a nasty ice storm that knocked out power for more than a week. We also had 8 feet of snow on the ground so getting around was tough... we would rotate between neighbors houses for those that had gas heat or a gas stove.... it was crazy but it was also beautiful at the same time.

stella_700 · September 2017

I'm 26+2 with twins. Appt with MFM doctor is tomorrow. I'm hoping for a good scan finally. Baby A measures normal but they didn't get everything they wanted from baby B. I'm also hoping to nail down the sexes in one appointment. So far its been a confirmation of a girl at the OB and confirmation of at least one boy at the MFM.

I'm so tired, I nod off like a toddler right now. Naps at about 10:30 and again around 3 would be perfect. I'm going to up my food and see if that helps. We had the first half of our multiples class on Sunday. Mostly twins with one couple expecting triplets and one couple with quads. I'm trying to think of them while dealing with my discomfort lately. Mostly sleep issues and peeing. I hate pregnant dreaming, how do you turn that stuff off.

I'm feeling like many of us are moving at warp speed to the finish line at this point. So exciting and feeling a lot more real, I told DH that we should start thinking of what to pack in the hospital bag. We looked at each other like

Lots of movement from the babies at this point, its just flat out so cool. I got out all the invites for the baby shower this past weekend also. Huge accomplishment points for me (with MIL fabulous help)!!!

QOTW: While I am in tornado country now we haven't been hit badly lately. The worst storm I lived through was while we were stationed in the upper peninsula of Michigan. Wicked winter storm followed by plummeting temperatures, I think we missed at least a week and a half of school. Couldn't really even get out of the house, wind chill temps in the -65 to -70F or something ridiculous like that.

wabash15 · September 2017

@stella_700 its totally normal to want naps. growing 2 babies is hard work. It is so much fun to feel twins move. I used to love their "cage matches" when they were just rolling and kicking all over the place, it was so weird and cool at the same time. I had a hard time with the hospital bag because there were so many eventualities to plan for... premie cloths, new born cloths... stuff to labor with or is it going to be a c-section? stuff for DH... I WAY over packed.

thucks · September 2017

@mountainlady Ooo a vacation that's great.
@caseyw8784 I do miss all those extra ultrasounds that I got with the twins.

AFM- I had a check up with the OB today and got my bubble a little popped today but I can deal with it. I was really hoping that he can do a hysterectomy at the same time as a c-section when delivering this baby and he said no. It doesn't work right it all just gives me issues and I have a high chance of cervical and overian cancer so I was hoping to just get rid of it all I'm done having kidos. He didn't show my what the heart beat was but he said he has a big hunch that this is a boy and he was right with the twins. Our goal is to hit the 28 week mark and then the next big goal is 36weeks. We only made it 35 with the twins. Since it's been 4 yrs since I've had the girls he wants me to consider going naturally and doing a vbac. That was never in our plan so know I don't know what to do. @wabash15 Are you doing a c-section or going natural?

We have also moved my due date when I went in I was 16w3d and now I'm 17w3d lol so my question is... on my app do I skip a week in pictures and stuff? Seems weird to adjust and for only a week.

QOTW I've never been directly effected by any natural disaster kid of things. Living in Tucson AZ we had alot of the fires in the mountains where we got alot of the ash but that was it.

wabash15 · September 2017

@thucks sorry he won't spay you but it sounds like there is good rational for it. I had hoped to go vaginal with the twins and MFM was game but in the end baby B was measuring bigger and was breech. We had a lot of conversations about doing a version to spin her but MFM was super concerned with her measuring larger there was an increased risk for complications and a double whammy. So elective c-section it was at 37+2. This time with just one I am really hoping for a VBAC. so far the midwife thinks I'm a good candidate, I meet with an OB at my next check to confirm and go through the risks. For me the idea of a faster recovery especially when the twins are running around is huge, plus I have always had this vision of laboring in a tub and was sad I didn't have the opportunity last time. (i'm not sure why this idea is so important but it is...). You have time to decide. As for the app, yah I would probably just skip ahead a week.

mountainlady · September 2017

@wabash15 hahaha

@stella_700 embrace the naps!

kaseycoco · September 2017

Hi ladies! I missed a week last week because I'm a teacher and last week was my first week back at school. I've also been wanting naps like a toddler as I get back into the routine.
So much going on here! Congrats to those of you who are in your last week of the second trimester, I can imagine the mixed feelings with hitting that big milestone. I'm envious of you ladies who feel the movement, I can't wait to feel it myself

Glad to hear all is well with the current storms for you all. AFM, I'm 16 weeks with my first, and it's one boy. I've been feeling pretty good aside from needing some extra sleep. My next appointment isn't until the end of the month. I'm finally starting to show, but sometimes am still in disbelief that there's actually a baby growing in there

QOTW- The worst storm for me was hurricane Sandy. I was living in NYC and in a part of the city that experienced flooding. The power went out in my building and I was able to hunker down at my DH-boyfriend at the time's place. It wasn't nearly as scary as other storms, but was still an experience.

momma6angels11 · September 2017

@Wabash15 please add me!

Im moving up from the first trimester board. Due date March 9th 2018 pregnant with twins from a FET. They are boy/girl.
My next appointment is with my ob on the 21st (next week) for an Ultrasound to check cervical length and to see ob.
Just had my first MFM appointment yesterday and both babies already weigh 4oz each. I have placenta previa and we have to watch baby b because she only has a 1 artery cord. Anyone have any experience with either of these?

As for storms, ive been through an ice storm where we lost power for a week. 2015 i was in the hundred year flood..we were stuck on our road and couldn't go anywhere for a week and a half and had no power. Then hurricane Matthew last year damaged our roof among other things..power loss but not as long and more flooding. I think the worst was the 100 year flood.

wabash15 · September 2017

@momma6angels11 welcome! congrats on the twins!! I have 2yr old B/G twins. I have not had placenta previa or a 2VC but know several moms that have. My understanding is there is plenty of time for the placenta to move for a more desirable position and they often do but you may need pelvic rest depending on how complete the previa is. as for the 2VC most babies will do ok but there are some increased risks for slower growth or complications closer to term but with twins they will already be watching you closely so it hopefully wont be an issue.

momma6angels11 · September 2017

@wabash15 thank you for the information! That made me feel much better..as for the placenta previa, its complete and ive been on pelvic rest since 9 weeks with my first bleed..im praying it starts moving off the cervix soon..the bleeding is scary.

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