Wednesday Ticker • EDDs 12/5, 12/12, 12/19, 12/26

echo-charlietango · May 2018

How far along are you?

Excited about your next appointment?

Rants/Raves/Questions/Dear Diary?

GTKY: Will friends or family be able to help after the baby is born?

k_m10 · May 2018

How far along are you?

7 weeks
Excited about your next appointment?
Nervous. Our first ultrasound is 5/16.

Rants/Raves/Questions/Dear Diary?

Tried unisom and B6 for the first time. I feel like I’m 90% back to my old self which is amazing.
GTKY: Will friends or family be able to help after the baby is born?
I’m not sure. ILs live near us but my family is out of state (we’re waiting to tell my family until we see them in person next month). TBH his mom means well but she can stress me out a bit, plus she doesn’t cook so I’m not sure what she’d do. Timing wise, my family may come down as EDD is while most of my family (teachers) will be on holiday break. We’ll see.

PensiveCrayon · May 2018

How far along are you? 9 weeks. Embryo has graduated to fetus, hooray!

Excited about your next appointment? It's in 4 weeks, so, not yet. Plus these early prenatal appointments are super boring.

Rants/Raves/Questions/Dear Diary? H totally killed my (small!) celebratory glass of wine after the good ultrasound on Monday with his anxiety, jerk. I told him he could have it then, and he didn't even finish it.

Today I'm sticking my kid in the CDC for four hours while I write at Panera and get groceries without him trying to escape the cart. That's all I've got for now!

GTKY: Will friends or family be able to help after the baby is born? Yes -- my mom at least is planning on coming down ahead of time to be there to monitor me while I labor pre-hospital. Not sure how long she's planning on sticking around after the birth. MIL says she'll come down whenever I want her to, but I haven't decided if I'll need her there before the birth, since I'll essentially be single-parenting the entire third trimester, or if I'll prefer her help during those first days afterward. And the logistics are making my head spin. When we were in Vegas she had rented an apartment a few floors above us, so she and my mom (and FIL) were able to stay for a long time (too long actually, argh -- I warned them I was going to go super late) without being in H's and my space.

echo-charlietango · May 2018

@katem987 Congrats on B6 bringing you back, I know exactly what you mean!

How far along are you?

Nine weeks! Feeeeeeeetuuuus!

Excited about your next appointment?

Yes, even though it's next week. Hopefully the gestational age will give us one solid age. Last ultrasound showed that I was measuring either 3-4 days younger than expected - but supports my late ovulation hypothesis.

Rants/Raves/Questions/Dear Diary?
Rave about the weather! I am SO HAPPY that it finally stopped randomly snowing each week. Seeing green everywhere honestly improves my mood like nothing else. My tulips bloomed last week and I put my (container) gerber daisies on the porch again.

GTKY: Will friends or family be able to help after the baby is born?
Maybe! We don't have family in Alabama, but we know that family will want to see us. We'll talk to them about visiting/helping when we break the news. Upside: I don't think we'll have to worry about ice storms, downside: I don't want traveling family members around a newborn immune system during flu season. I'm sure we'll make a few new friends, but I'm not going to rely on them for help beyond meals.
I might just interview a few housekeepers instead and hire one to clean the kitchen and bathrooms each week or two *shrugs shoulders*

tumbleweed-1 · May 2018

How far along are you?

7 weeks!
Excited about your next appointment?

Yes! My next appointment is my first u/s, it’s still over a week away.
Rants/Raves/Questions/Dear Diary?

I don’t “feel” pregnant. It makes me worry that there’s a problem like last time.
GTKY: Will friends or family be able to help after the baby is born?
SO’s family live nearby. His mom might help, but idk how “helpful” she’ll be. I can’t imagine her coming over & scrubbing our bathroom clean! Haha. My family lives in state, but further away. They’ll come up to see baby, but I don’t expect they’ll want to clean, cook, or do anything aside from hold baby and do fun “big city/shopping” stuff while here. I don’t anticipate much will change just because I have a kid? At least that’s how I’ve been feeling lately. We have some friends who live here (our closest ones, again, live in our old city not our current one). The friends we have here are a bit younger than us and haven’t expressed any interested in kids yet. So I’m not sure they’ll want to be around the baby. The expection is one close friend we have up here who is older than us but he absolutely doesn’t like children, so again, not much help. We are kind of dreading telling him that we’re expecting. I’m also worried about so many people around the baby during flu season too.

PensiveCrayon · May 2018

@tumbleweed-1 and @katem987 I guess I lucked out...MIL is Suzie Homemaker

To the point that before we had A she was super annoying about always wanting to clean and do my laundry for me "because it was what her mom's mother used to do for her". It just felt like a passive-aggressive way of telling me that I wasn't good enough at housekeeping.

Now? Psh. Please clean my showers, woman. Goodness knows they need it. Laundry? Yes please. It's alarming how much laundry a family of three can produce in a week.

AGK2015 · May 2018

How far along are you? 10 weeks today! Quarter of the way there, what what!

Excited about your next appointment? Hahahaha no. Going in for labs (first tri bloodwork and NIPT) at some point this week and I'm already a needlephobe, but the last couple of times these guys have drawn blood my arm ends up bruised because they're not gentle about it.

Rants/Raves/Questions/Dear Diary? Headed to Montreal next week for work; first night away from Nugget

Looking forward to getting all the sleep!

GTKY: Will friends or family be able to help after the baby is born? No. Not because they're not available or willing, but because we most likely won't let them. One of the best things we did for ourselves last time was to not tell our families when the baby was coming (I even had a scheduled induction date that I didn't make it to that we didn't disclose) until after she was out and I got to hold her. Delivery was already so stressful, I didn't want the added pressure of feeling like the moms were waiting on me. We let everybody visit in the hospital after she was born (my SIL lived practically around the corner and was there with good coffee and donuts and a camera for newborn pictures and just general awesomeness the whole time, but in a super non-intrusive way), but we waited a while to let folks see us at home. My mom and MIL are both great, but I'm an introvert by nature and having extra people around isn't going to help me adjust to life with two, it's just going to add extra stress. We really appreciated the time we had to adjust by ourselves as new parents and a new family before we started entertaining visitors (and their advice

)

The only thing that might change that is if I end up with a scheduled c-section, in which case we might ask my mom to come up and take care of Nugget while I'm delivering. We'll see; I'm not sure how that's going to work out, honestly.

CecilB93 · May 2018

How far along are you?

9 weeks! Which makes me happy since today is May 9th lol

Excited about your next appointment?

Yes and no. I'm always excited for baby appointments lol. But, I'll likely go on medication for my GD at my next appointment, so that sucks. It's next Monday, May 14th.

Rants/Raves/Questions/Dear Diary?

Joining in on the Rave about weather! It's supposed to hit 90 here this weekend, which is going to be HOT because of all the damn humidity we have, ugh. But, DS can play in the water, which he loves!!

GTKY: Will friends or family be able to help after the baby is born?
Not sure. I know my MIL will be over every day if I let her, but idk that I want that lol. My mom lives out of state, so she'll plan to visit at some point, not sure if she's planning around birth time (as I likely be a scheduled induction) or just waiting until Christmas, but she will visit and would definitely help if I ask her to.

mamajudec2018 · May 2018

How far along are you?

I'm 9 weeks!!

Excited about your next appointment?

Yes! I just had one yesterday! We got to see the baby's brain, heart, spinal chord, and stomach! We also got to hear the heartbeat! My next appointment is on the 15th and it's my first one at my normal OB! This is an FET baby so I've been going to my fertikfer doctor.

Rants/Raves/Questions/Dear Diary?

My husband and I know the gender. No one else does. Everyone is pushing so hard about the gender and what they think it is that it's getting incredibly frustrating. My boy keeps getting called a girl and princess and a girl name. I've been through A LOT to get pregnant and I just wanted to be able to have some normalcy and do a gender reveal but I'm getting incredibly frustrated.

GTKY: Will friends or family be able to help after the baby is born?
Will it be helpful? That's the question... Everyone will be around a ton and some will be in from out of town which is more stressful than helpful. I think it's going to be overwhelming, starting in the hospital honestly. Don't get me wrong I am so excited that everyone is so excited but it will just be a lot.

gordj87 · May 2018

How far along are you?

9 weeks 4 days!

Excited about your next appointment?

I had a boring 8 week appointment, so I will have an ultrasound on 5/31 for a genetic screening. I am excited to just know if everything’s looking okay.

Rants/Raves/Questions/Dear Diary?

I’m still sooo nervous that I am going to miscarry.

GTKY: Will friends or family be able to help after the baby is born?

I don’t want help regularly... I prefer to be alone. Too many people freak me out. My mom and in-laws will be available for visits, and my husband will have some paternity leave. I’ll ask for the help when I want it.

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