PGAL Check In 01/08

Re: PGAL Check In 01/08

• ngolimento member

  January 2018

  I'll go first to bump the post
  
  

  How far along are you? 26 weeks 5 days
  

  
  
  Any appointments coming up? Not until Monday, which will be a sucky appt with 1 blood draw and two shots.  My everything will be sore.
  
  
  Questions?  Newp
  
  
  How are you doing? (Dear diary posts and venting are welcome and encouraged here)
  I'm ok emotionally.  Now that I am hitting 27 weeks, and high viability, I am starting to have "oh shit, this is really happening!" moments.  Physically I am currently sick from daycare plague, and pretty pissed at my local store for only carrying "multisymptom" drugs.  So I just decided to not go to work today, and am currently bored out of my gourd.
  
  GTKY: Is anyone other than you going to be watching the baby/ helping you during the newborn stage?  (Nurse, hubby taking paternity leave, MIL, mother, etc?) I am taking 12 weeks of leave, then after that my husband is taking 4 weeks of paternity leave.  Last time with my DD1, I only had 6 weeks, and I had my MIL watch her for a few weeks, but she is in pretty poor health, and I worry about her capacity to react well to an emergency situation (she isn't allowed to watch my DD1 alone because she falls over if she even tries to pick her up.  Not the response that is helpful in an emergency).

  

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• mikkimikey member

  January 2018

  How far along are you?
  

  26 weeks tomorrow!
  
  Any appointments coming up?
  I’m not sure. I was supposed to have one yesterday, but ended up being in the hospital instead with contractions. Good times...
  
  Questions?
  none that I can think of!
  
  How are you doing? (Dear diary posts and venting are welcome and encouraged here)
  this little girl inside me scared the crap out of me this weekend. My contractions were 2-3 minutes apart and not stopping for HOURS. So I ended up in labor and delivery and had to stay there until yesterday night for monitoring. I got the terbutaline shot on Saturday, and that helped a lot, but she was still going on and off throughout Sunday, too. 
  
  I’m so glad she is ok and stayed put!
  
  
  GTKY: Is anyone other than you going to be watching the baby/ helping you during the newborn stage?  (Nurse, hubby taking paternity leave, MIL, mother, etc?)
  My husband and my mom are going to be there for a week afterwards, and then I’m not honestly sure. It was always my mom being there before, but starting 9 days after my DD, she and my dad are going on a MONTH LONG cruise (must be nice!) of course that was planned for over a year, and my pregnancy was a surprise. 
  
  she asked me if i wanted her to cancel it!!! I told her to hush and to stop talking like a crazy person! Lol
  

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• mikkimikey member

  January 2018

  @ngolimento yeah that would scare me too about your MIL! Hopefully you won’t “need” her in any kind of one-on-one situation 

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• ngolimento member

  January 2018

  @mikkimikey that would have scared the crud out of me too!  I am glad the shot worked so well.  Where are your parents going on their cruise?   Transatlantic?

  

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• mikkimikey member

  January 2018

  ngolimento said:

  @mikkimikey that would have scared the crud out of me too!  I am glad the shot worked so well.  Where are your parents going on their cruise?   Transatlantic?

  Yes!! Don’t ask me WHERE because I’ve already forgotten. But they end up in Australia!!! I’m so jealous!

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• linds0503 member

  January 2018

  @mikkimikey how scary! Sounds like you definitely did the right thing about going to the hospital. Fx those are the last patterned contractions you see for over ten more weeks.

  

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