@adirat TW I’m sorry for your previous loss. I can see how that would change your view of the HG and this pregnancy or future ones. I’m sure you will forget how bad it has been.
I do hope you are getting close to the end of the sickness and can start eating semi normal foods soon! That can make an impact on your whole outlook. In general, I have decided to eat anything as long as it does not immediately repulse me. Actually, I even tried to eat something that was repulsive the other day, but my body quickly told me I should avoid repulsive food.
@klj0228 Thanks And yes, that is definitely true. The other day I randomly really wanted an Italian sub and although I could only eat part of it, I was so happy to want to eat something normal! (And that no one at Potbelly said a word to me about eating cold cuts while pregnant haha) Then the rest of the day I only ate cucumbers lol
@adirat You've been been through so much and you're still striving. I'm in awe of you! That's awesome that you wanted a sub and could keep down some of it! Hopefully that trend continues.
Me: 34 | DH: 33 Married Aug. 2013 TTC #1 Sep. 2016 ***TW***
BFP Jan. 15, 2017; MMC Mar. 4, 2017 at 10w6d BFP Jun. 5, 2017; MMC Aug. 2, 2017 at 11w6d BFP Nov. 20, 2017; ended in CP All the tests. Everything normal except treated for ureaplasma and DH potentially has high DNAF. BFP Dec. 25, 2017; EDD Sep. 5, 2018; DD arrived Aug. 26th My chart: https://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/63f71d
I keep telling myself "next week will be so easy!" But things keep getting crazy, fingers crossed that next week is my chill week!
I am very excited that my interview today for a supervisor position at work went really well. So well that I think there's a slight chance I might get the job (my coworker is the obvious frontrunner). So now I'm waiting to hear back on two positions I interviewed for and will maybe hear something at the end of next week. I spoke to my boss at my former job to see if she would be a reference... She says she would tell them I can't get a promotion and I have to go back and work for her. I feel like that's probably a good thing to say
Me: 34 | DH: 33 Married Aug. 2013 TTC #1 Sep. 2016 ***TW***
BFP Jan. 15, 2017; MMC Mar. 4, 2017 at 10w6d BFP Jun. 5, 2017; MMC Aug. 2, 2017 at 11w6d BFP Nov. 20, 2017; ended in CP All the tests. Everything normal except treated for ureaplasma and DH potentially has high DNAF. BFP Dec. 25, 2017; EDD Sep. 5, 2018; DD arrived Aug. 26th My chart: https://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/63f71d
@EErin86 Oh, everything is delayed. It’s so annoying! The job I want is part of a bigger plan that has to be approved. I think it will happen, not for a few more months.
@EErin86 Can I come work with you??? My place has had a hiring freeze for 2 years! The higher ups are so incredibly incompetent. But, I’ve stayed because I like my work and I like my department/boss. I can’t complain because I got a good promotion in September. But, basically they are trying to “reorganize” the entire organization and it’s a nightmare. The plan is to take my current job and split it into 2 jobs. They will take all of the interesting creative stuff that I do and make that into a new position. And, then my job will take on more of the boring budgetary and supervisory work. I totally want the more creative one and not just because it will be more money. It will also be more autonomous and I will be able to get away with more working from home time!
@adirat I hope you start feeling better soon! And when you find something you can eat, even if just a little, I hope it is delicious and you love every bite of it!
Definitely random: I keep watching the home page every time I log in to see if there's a January, 2019 BMB, and it's not there! I don't know why I'm obsessed with this. I feel like I'm so much further along if I know there are people who are pregnant now who aren't due until next year.
Anyone else manage to out grow a maternity shirt yet?
No? Just me?
#shorttorsoproblems #yesI'msureit'sonlyone
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Me: 33 DH: 32 Married 7/18/15 1st born at 35+4 on 6/6/16 Team green turned BLUE! 2nd born at 38+6 on 8/30/18 Team green turned PINK! Due with #3 on 6/6/20 Team Green
@pourmeamocktail I have a few pants that are feeling a little tight if I eat too crappily, but no shirts yet! I have noticed this pregnancy I am hating tight clothing though, whereas last time I was all about the bodycon dresses and leggings. I anticipate I'll be dropping a few shirts within the next few weeks because of this!
@pourmeamocktail OMG I'm so glad you posted that today! I wore this exact shirt two weeks ago and I looked pregnant but it was still long and flowy. Today, it barely covers the bump.
I've started touring preschools this week. It's not super overwhelming because I worked in childcare for so long but I forgot how expensive it is. We found one I love that I'll take H to before putting in the application to hold our spot. BUT my BFF just told me she's 9 weeks pregnant so once she's out of first trimester I want to see if she'd be interested in a nanny share. If she was, it'd be great because we both just need 3 days a week and live just a couple miles from each other. Anyone else starting this process yet?
@SkilledSailor I put down the deposit a month or so ago for this little one at the daycare DD is already at. Even if I contacted them the day we found out we were pregnant, we still wouldn't have care available until March 2019. I don't mind since my parents agreed to watch kiddo until we have daycare available (which gets us through cold and flu season), but we'd severely struggle if it weren't for my parents. A nanny share sounds awesome - I hope she has a sticky baby and agrees to it!
@SkilledSailor we put our deposit down for daycare for this LO when I was 15 weeks. He’s going to the same place as DS, so it was an easy decision, but the wait list is still super long. Siblings get preference though, so we should be good.
@Patience7150 That was my worry! Even with the 8 months notice, I've had a few schools tell me they won't have openings until April of next year. We don't need care to start until January at the earliest, which is really nice. But my friend waited until her child was born to start looking and they're in a real pinch now.
ETA Thank you @Patience7150@nackie for making me feel less crazy to be going on these tours so "early". Most of my friends who have had LOs so far ended up using family or became SAHMs so I didn't know what the typical timeframe was for this.
We're also planning to use DD's daycare for this one; but we gave the info and put down the deposit in early March for a January 2019 start date; siblings get priority so it won't be an issue.
With DD, even though we started looking the beginning of the 2nd trimester, there was still a lot of doubt we'd have a spot! For multiple reasons we went with a big chain company that has a lot of centers, and paid registration fees to register for multiple centers...once you're into one you get to be top of the list if you want to transfer to another center, so we were at least confident we'd get into one and then just have to wait to transfer to a more convenient one! (As it turns out we got into the one we wanted, but had to decline because my job changed locations, and went to one near my husband's job instead that we also luckily got into...at about 5 months old we transferred to a different center more convenient to both of our jobs (i.e. closer to home)).
@SkilledSailor you aren’t crazy. I got on lists at our top three at 8-12 weeks and still didn’t have a spot guaranteed until DS would have been 6 months old. Luckily, a spot magically opened for him when we needed it, but that wasn’t until I was two weeks from returning to work. With this LO, I told the daycare after my 8 week ultrasound and will have a spot, but not sure the exact dates compared to return from mat leave.
@SkilledSailor if you are in a busy area and like the place I'd say get DH over there as soon as possible. You just never know, unless they told you, how many spots they have and when one will open up again once they are taken. I know it sounds crazy but DD's daycare center was the third person(s) I told I was pregnant. I was not going to risk having two different daycares. I was lucky, they had one spot left. Someone else called that day about availability but because of DD already being a student we get priority. So, little one should have a spot late December 2018/early January 2019.
I just started school touring now too! I’m seeing one on Saturday, she assured me I’d have no problem getting in in December. I’m so baffled that some of them have waiting lists that are longer than a year. One woman told me that on the phone and I was thinking “But...babies only take nine...uh never mind” lol. Also eek at the price. It’s going to be about 12% of our income.
@ashh2018 at our daycare the infant class is newborn through 15 months at least, so if the class if full of 3-month-olds then no spots will be available for at least a year. (And if there are some older kids, then there is already a waiting list to fill their spots when they move up).
Ugh the daycare search and cost is such a headache! I also told my DCP like right after finding out in order to secure a spot. Currently I'm missing her like crazy since she's on vacation and DS has his routine all messed up. My mom is proving to not be a great back up plan so I may be on the search for a last minute babysitter for two kids later on.
@ashh2018 at our daycare the infant class is newborn through 15 months at least, so if the class if full of 3-month-olds then no spots will be available for at least a year. (And if there are some older kids, then there is already a waiting list to fill their spots when they move up).
Same with ours. And they won’t give a time estimate on when a spot will open up since they have no way of knowing if kids will be withdrawn/switch providers or how many on the waitlist will actually want the spot when it’s their turn. When we registered DS, they just told us the average wait is a year. This time they told us since it’s a sibling, he’d go to the top of the wait list and would definitely get a spot around when we need one.
How is today not Thursday? I'm dying over here thinking I've still got 2 days left until the weekend. Lack of sleep for the win! Only 5 more sleeps until anatomy scan, woohoo!
I’m asking my H to get me a professional prenatal massage for my birthday in June.
@Patience7150 Is yours all the way out already? Mine is getting shallower and shallower! I’m totally terrified of when it’s going to pop out! Will it show through all of my clothes?
@Patience7150 your comment fit really well into the Randoms category. I actually feel like mine is getting deeper or doesn’t really look like it’s getting pushed outward yet.
So tonight H and I ran to Lowes to get something and we had the greatest/sweetest conversation on the way home. We were talking about how he is going to quit his job right before the baby comes because it’s really important to us that we are really active in our child’s life and his work would not allow that. We have worked hard to set ourselves up for this before we ever started trying to get pregnant. My FIL worries because he had to work very hard to provide for my H growing up and I think he also worries a little because he raised my H after he and his mom split. So I am voicing this to my H and he said, you are probably right, but I am confident we will be married the rest of our lives. You are my wife, but you are my partner, my teammate and my friend. We built our relationship and made sure it was strong before having a child and this makes me sure we have a good foundation for the future. If I was not confident we would make it we would not be having a baby, and I know that no matter how difficult things get we have a strong foundation to fall back on.
Sorry, quite the long story, but I thought it was so sweet. We both come from divorced homes and it was important to us to have a really strong marriage before having a baby so we hopefully don’t do that to our family. That is not to say any other way is wrong, it is just the way that worked for us and hearing those affirming words from him were just what I needed. I am struggling with the changes my body is going through and to know he is by me through it all is so nice.
I slept until 4:40 today!!! The past five or six mornings have been 3-3:30 wake ups (thanks pregnancy insomnia. I did not miss you at all). DH comes home tonight and I’m taking a diclegis to hopefully sleep 8ish hours. Also, I think it was in the Monday moans that we discussed that my only goals were to have clean sheets and towels for MiL visit. There are sheets. Still haven’t found the towels yet. Oh well. I’ll look again tonight or wash the ones we’ve been using and we can use the two hand towels I have out. Details. Eta: the hand towels we have out in our master bathroom. I wouldn’t use hand towels on the unmentionables and then return them to where someone unsuspecting might use them for their hands.
@magnolia209 not out all the way yet! I get like...5-6 weeks where I finally don't get a flat spot in the front of my shirt, and then it does start ultimately showing through. I had a winter pregnancy last time so over the bump pants helped smooth it out when it did pop. Not sure what I'll do this time!
Baby hiccups?!?! Is 18+ 3 too soon for baby hiccups? I do not remember feeling this w DD... but I also remember not really thinking she had ever truly gotten hiccups in utero.
bfp#1-10/29/12,EDD: 7/3/13. nothing found @ 1st u/s, natural mc 12/10/12. "Bean"
bfp#2-5/10/13! EDD: 1/18/14. "Peanut" Arrived 1/13/14. Diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis
bfp#3- 9/26/14. EDD: 5/7/15. no heartbeat found @ 1st u/s, natural mc 10/23/14. "Little Bug"
Baby hiccups?!?! Is 18+ 3 too soon for baby hiccups? I do not remember feeling this w DD... but I also remember not really thinking she had ever truly gotten hiccups in utero.
Not too early. My kiddo totally had the hiccups in utero all the time and was head down and it was super weird feeling hiccups by my cervix (or at least that's what it felt like to me.)
Re: Randoms w/o April 23rd
I do hope you are getting close to the end of the sickness and can start eating semi normal foods soon! That can make an impact on your whole outlook. In general, I have decided to eat anything as long as it does not immediately repulse me. Actually, I even tried to eat something that was repulsive the other day, but my body quickly told me I should avoid repulsive food.
Married Aug. 2013
TTC #1 Sep. 2016
***TW***
BFP Jun. 5, 2017; MMC Aug. 2, 2017 at 11w6d
BFP Nov. 20, 2017; ended in CP
All the tests. Everything normal except treated for ureaplasma and DH potentially has high DNAF.
BFP Dec. 25, 2017; EDD Sep. 5, 2018; DD arrived Aug. 26th
My chart: https://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/63f71d
I am very excited that my interview today for a supervisor position at work went really well. So well that I think there's a slight chance I might get the job (my coworker is the obvious frontrunner). So now I'm waiting to hear back on two positions I interviewed for and will maybe hear something at the end of next week. I spoke to my boss at my former job to see if she would be a reference... She says she would tell them I can't get a promotion and I have to go back and work for her. I feel like that's probably a good thing to say
Married Aug. 2013
TTC #1 Sep. 2016
***TW***
BFP Jun. 5, 2017; MMC Aug. 2, 2017 at 11w6d
BFP Nov. 20, 2017; ended in CP
All the tests. Everything normal except treated for ureaplasma and DH potentially has high DNAF.
BFP Dec. 25, 2017; EDD Sep. 5, 2018; DD arrived Aug. 26th
My chart: https://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/63f71d
@adirat I hope you start feeling better soon! And when you find something you can eat, even if just a little, I hope it is delicious and you love every bite of it!
MMC 8/5/15 at 8 weeks
DS born 9/13/16
BFP 1/13/18 - EDD 9/20/18 - It's a boy!
No? Just me?
#shorttorsoproblems #yesI'msureit'sonlyone
DH: 32
Married 7/18/15
1st born at 35+4 on 6/6/16
Team green turned BLUE!
2nd born at 38+6 on 8/30/18
Team green turned PINK!
Due with #3 on 6/6/20 Team Green
@pourmeamocktail I have a few pants that are feeling a little tight if I eat too crappily, but no shirts yet! I have noticed this pregnancy I am hating tight clothing though, whereas last time I was all about the bodycon dresses and leggings. I anticipate I'll be dropping a few shirts within the next few weeks because of this!
I've started touring preschools this week. It's not super overwhelming because I worked in childcare for so long but I forgot how expensive it is. We found one I love that I'll take H to before putting in the application to hold our spot. BUT my BFF just told me she's 9 weeks pregnant so once she's out of first trimester I want to see if she'd be interested in a nanny share. If she was, it'd be great because we both just need 3 days a week and live just a couple miles from each other. Anyone else starting this process yet?
ETA Thank you @Patience7150 @nackie for making me feel less crazy to be going on these tours so "early". Most of my friends who have had LOs so far ended up using family or became SAHMs so I didn't know what the typical timeframe was for this.
With DD, even though we started looking the beginning of the 2nd trimester, there was still a lot of doubt we'd have a spot! For multiple reasons we went with a big chain company that has a lot of centers, and paid registration fees to register for multiple centers...once you're into one you get to be top of the list if you want to transfer to another center, so we were at least confident we'd get into one and then just have to wait to transfer to a more convenient one! (As it turns out we got into the one we wanted, but had to decline because my job changed locations, and went to one near my husband's job instead that we also luckily got into...at about 5 months old we transferred to a different center more convenient to both of our jobs (i.e. closer to home)).
I know it sounds crazy but DD's daycare center was the third person(s) I told I was pregnant. I was not going to risk having two different daycares. I was lucky, they had one spot left. Someone else called that day about availability but because of DD already being a student we get priority. So, little one should have a spot late December 2018/early January 2019.
I’m asking my H to get me a professional prenatal massage for my birthday in June.
@Patience7150 Is yours all the way out already? Mine is getting shallower and shallower! I’m totally terrified of when it’s going to pop out! Will it show through all of my clothes?
So tonight H and I ran to Lowes to get something and we had the greatest/sweetest conversation on the way home. We were talking about how he is going to quit his job right before the baby comes because it’s really important to us that we are really active in our child’s life and his work would not allow that. We have worked hard to set ourselves up for this before we ever started trying to get pregnant. My FIL worries because he had to work very hard to provide for my H growing up and I think he also worries a little because he raised my H after he and his mom split. So I am voicing this to my H and he said, you are probably right, but I am confident we will be married the rest of our lives. You are my wife, but you are my partner, my teammate and my friend. We built our relationship and made sure it was strong before having a child and this makes me sure we have a good foundation for the future. If I was not confident we would make it we would not be having a baby, and I know that no matter how difficult things get we have a strong foundation to fall back on.
Sorry, quite the long story, but I thought it was so sweet. We both come from divorced homes and it was important to us to have a really strong marriage before having a baby so we hopefully don’t do that to our family. That is not to say any other way is wrong, it is just the way that worked for us and hearing those affirming words from him were just what I needed. I am struggling with the changes my body is going through and to know he is by me through it all is so nice.
It is!! Pregnancy is weird.
Eta: the hand towels we have out in our master bathroom. I wouldn’t use hand towels on the unmentionables and then return them to where someone unsuspecting might use them for their hands.
bfp#1-10/29/12,EDD: 7/3/13. nothing found @ 1st u/s, natural mc 12/10/12. "Bean"
bfp#2-5/10/13! EDD: 1/18/14. "Peanut" Arrived 1/13/14. Diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis
bfp#3- 9/26/14. EDD: 5/7/15. no heartbeat found @ 1st u/s, natural mc 10/23/14. "Little Bug"
**Psalm 139:16**