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February 2018 Moms
alice0218
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Weekend Ticker Change 10/7 & 10/8
alice0218
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If your EDD is 2/3, 2/4, 2/10, 2/11, 2/17, 2/18, 2/24, or 2/25 post here!
1) How far along are you? How big is/are baby/babies?
2) How are you feeling?
3) Any appointments this week?
4) Rants/Raves/Questions?
5) GTKY: What are your plans for after the baby/babies? For example: do you get maternity leave? are you taking it? is your partner taking any time off? are you going back to an outside-the-home job? using daycare or parents? doing a SAH mom or dad? working from home? etc.
5) GTKY: What are your plans for after the baby/babies? For example: do you get maternity leave? are you taking it? is your partner taking any time off? are you going back to an outside-the-home job? using daycare or parents? doing a SAH mom or dad? working from home? etc.
Re: Weekend Ticker Change 10/7 & 10/8
2) Physically feeling pretty ok. Heartburn is definitely always an issue. Probably will be for the rest of pregnancy. Mentally been feeling exhausted and emotional over stuff I’ll say in #4.
3) yes. A doctor appointment on Thursday. Idk if there’s anything interesting coming up in it though. First ultrasound is a week from Monday.
4) Rant: I posted about this at length and in detail in the March bmb in their ‘paying for it’ thread. Just ugh, we received about $750 worth of bills for my first two appointments in the mail on Thursday. It was all for bloodwork and urine testing, all normal prenatal stuff that wasn’t elective or abnormal or high-risk or anything. I spent half of Friday trying to figure it out on the phone bouncing around between departments of the hospital and insurance, not getting straight answers or everyone literally saying they can’t help you, the department you just got off the phone with who told you “they can’t help you, call us”, can help you.
5) I am planning to work from home, as I do now. I left my job in May to start my own business and while I don’t have clients and income yet (which makes #4 extra stressful) it is the best career decision I’ve ever made. I hated my job and I’m good at what I do and I love what I’m doing now. I will just keep working when I feel good and up to it. Probably take at least a month or two or whatever is needed of just figuring out how babies work and recovering so that’s maternity leave when you work for yourself. We did save aggressively before I left my old job so it was a very calculated move but those bills are still mad stressful, especially because I think it’s stuff that should be covered. DH will take 2 weeks off, and try to do 4 day work weeks for 2 weeks after that. He doesn’t have actual leave but is just using vacation days. I didn’t have maternity leave or short-term disability at my old job anyway, and worse insurance, and I was miserable so we are definitely better off.
2. Still tired, not hungry except sweets which make me sick
3. Appointment tomorrow to follow up on my cerclage that got placed Wednesday so fingers crossed it goes well
4. No rants really
5. Will take 6 weeks off because thats all the vacation time I have. Hopefully I will be working from home by then, my manager told me in January I would be the next one to start but there has been multiple excuses to why that hasn't happened yet. Working from home is the only reason I have stayed with my job
@alice0218 Just wanted to say that I feel your frustrations with the insurance crap. I ended up foregoing my NT scan because I spent two weeks going back and forth between people who could not give me a straight answer about whether it was going to be covered. Insurance sucks
22 weeks! Size of a coconut!
Fine, although I wanted to work out again today and my hip is really bothering me. I've been fortunate enough to be able to keep running (with walking intervals) but my hip has been bothering me this week and I don't think it's from the running but maybe sleeping wrong/extra weight catching up?!
Nope! Not until 2 weeks.
We found out we're having a girl!!! I'm shocked. I was 100% sure I was having a boy. But we are super excited and happy!
5) GTKY: What are your plans for after the baby/babies? For example: do you get maternity leave? are you taking it? is your partner taking any time off? are you going back to an outside-the-home job? using daycare or parents? doing a SAH mom or dad? working from home?
I plan on taking 12 weeks. I have to supplement half of it with a combo of carryover time and sick etc, and maybe unpaid or reduced pay for 2 weeks. But I def plan on going back, and we've started looking at local day care centers as well.
@stephbp2007 Congratulations on finding out it's a girl! I'm happy for you! that is an exciting moment. I'm looking forward to it!
This is my first 'ticker change' post so hello everyone! :-)
I took the long weekend 'off' from the Bump...so as of Sunday it was 22 weeks. Today...22 weeks and 3 days. I think the fruit of the week was a coconut.
Mostly okay. I have had this horrendous cough for basically 22 weeks. There isn't much the doctor can/is willing to do about it so I'm kind of just suffering through. The biggest problem with the cough is that it's kinda junky and causes me to throw up occasionally. I have an appointment with both my OB and my PCP next week...so I want to ask again...aside from cough drops, steam in the shower, Claritin and hot tea is there is anything else I can/should be doing or if it's progressed to the point where antibiotics might be something to consider. I really hope it's just allergies with the insane ragweed levels but the longer it goes on the more nervous I get.
Nothing until next Wednesday/Thursday. I'm hoping that it'll be one more appt after this before the dreaded Glucose challenge screening is discussed and scheduled. I didn't have the test during my last pregnancy until week 28 and passed no problem so I'm hoping for a repeat there. Fingers crossed.
Not too much to rant or rave about this week. Maybe a rave here but...I've been trying to get in more exercise, at least a half hour a day and that that seems to be making me feel a bit better. I'm a freelance writer so I do a lot of sitting and I've noticed my lower back has been starting to bother me at times so taking a 30-45 minute walk every has improved that problem as well as my mood
5) GTKY: What are your plans for after the baby/babies? For example: do you get maternity leave? are you taking it? is your partner taking any time off? are you going back to an outside-the-home job? using daycare or parents? doing a SAH mom or dad? working from home? etc.
With my first child, my husband took 3 weeks off. I think he'll likely do the same this time. Especially if I have a repeat C-section. He has the ability to work from home at his job so he may also work from home for an additional 5-6 weeks.
Not sure if this actually needs a TW but medical things and violence may be a trigger for some... so *TW*
With DS #1 I took 15 months off work. I was teaching middle school at the time and during my first pregnancy at 8 weeks I had gallstones that blocked my small intestine and needed an operation called an ERCP to remove the stones. They put me on a restricted diet which was the WORST and unfortunately 10 weeks later my gallbladder was so inflamed/infected/yucky it was on the verge of bursting. It required an emergent procedure to remove it. I was working at an inner city middle school at the time and they gave me a really hard time about returning to work way before I was healed. They made it a union issue...something about only being allowed to be out 8 days blah blah blah. In any case, I went back to work a week after surgery, while still healing and on pain killers/restrictions. This appeared to make the powers that be angry that they needed to walk my classes up the 4 flights of stairs to and from lunch. During one of my afternoon classes, two students who I found out were members of rival gangs (admin knew this and no one told me AND they put them in the same class) got into a fight in my classroom. I ended up kicked in the incision/steri strips trying to de-escalate the altercation. I called admin and nobody came to assist for a half hour and a class change. I resigned that day. **END TW**
When my son was 15 months old, I took a job in a different school district at an alternative high school. It was an amazing experience and for the most part I loved my job. At the end of the year, I was bumped out of the position by a teacher with more seniority. This has happened to me multiple times over the course of my teaching career and it sucks so bad. I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with the idea of unions because of it. I decided, since I knew I was pregnant that maybe it would be better not to try for another teaching position and to pursue my true passion of being a writer. I'm presently working on finishing a novel and freelancing to try to make enough money to have this project looked over by a developmental editor for polishing.
When DS #2 arrives, I think I'll likely take some time off from freelancing/writing to be a SAHM full time. We are intending on putting #2 in daycare about the same time we did with #1. Maybe then, I'll continue my freelance writing biz...or maybe I'll even start blogging in the near future. My husband works in the tech industry and found a domain name that is available... I'm a fairly anxious person so the domain was something like anxious mom. The more I think about it the more it seems like a good idea. So who knows, maybe instead of writing SEO content for product placement in blogs for little to no money...I'll start my own blog!
5) GTKY: What are your plans for after the baby/babies? For example: do you get maternity leave? are you taking it? is your partner taking any time off? are you going back to an outside-the-home job? using daycare or parents? doing a SAH mom or dad? working from home? etc. I am a SAHM, so no leave for me. My husband is lucky enough to work for a company that has great paternity leave. He can get 4 weeks paid and an additional 12 weeks unpaid and 5 weeks vacation. He is not sure how much he is going to take yet, but his director is really starting to get on his nerves and make his job less enjoyable so he is contemplating taking it all but the vacation days and saving those for the rest of the year. With our first, he only took off a few days, maybe a week, and he regretted not taking more (same company, but they did not have paid paternity leave then and had to take it as vacation).
I was not critizing the starting of the thread. I am not on much over the weekend. I think that happens for a lot of us. Then come Monday, it is buried and I don't think to go searching for it. I am glad it gets posted and I will try to remember to go seek it out on Mondays.