@catftm2018 I sometimes wonder how I am going to make it at work for another month too. Some days you are just in survival mode. I have gone into work a little late or left early to at least get some things done but still take it a little easy. Good luck!
@catftm2018 so much yes. I got that same wake-up charlie horse feeling yesterday - I had been on my feet more Sat than lately but I think it could have also been slight dehydration due to the 90 deg heat wave. Today we're a wet and cold 50's and my sinus/chest do not approve. The whole movie was fairly upbeat until THAT moment and then it kind of ended not long after... I mean yea his dad was kind of a dick but it was sweet that they had this imaginative world to run to and boo bullies but they had each other... then BAM! DH and I were both crying, I'm sitting on the couch bawling and DD comes over to give me a hug and wipe my tears away.
Yesterday we spent the day at the water park/pool. I actually felt great and just swam around and lounged in the water with DH, DD and some friends. Nothing physically challenging. Towards the end of the day I started getting these weird pains under my left rib. They came and went for like an hour and kind of made me gasp for air when they happened. I wasn't dehydrated or anything and I don't think it was BH, it was strange.
Then, we were starving by dinner time so I made some home made pizza for dinner and ate too much. I was up every 30 minutes all night long feeling like my throat was on fire. The only thing that helped was water so it was wake up to burning throat, chug water, try to sleep, wake up to pee all night long. I am seriously hating food and eating so much right now.
I'm so tired. Also the baby is kicking or pushing way out way on my right side. It startles me and makes me gasp every time.
I think I might be going completely crazy....for the past month or two I have been having intense cravings for ice and the smell of chemicals (bleach, Clorox, Windex, gasoline, etc.) and it's just getting worse and worse. I've googled it and it seems like I could be iron deficient. I'm going to bring it up to my doctor when I go on Wednesday but OMG ladies...the cravings are more intense than anything I've ever experienced. I literally had to walk outside yesterday to keep myself from cleaning the bathtub just so I could smell the bleach.
I know I sound like a crazy person...I promise I'm not
When I bend over I hear gurgling or bubbling in my tummy...so weird.
TTC History:
Me: 36 H: 40 Married 2015. Together since 2010. TTC: Sept 2016-Oct 2017 BFP Oct 2017. DD born July 2018. TTC: March 2020. BFP March 2020 Due date was Nov 2020 DS born Sept 2020. DS passed away Nov 2020 due to prematurity and birth trauma. TTC: March 2021 IUI #1 Nov 2021, BFN IUI #2 Dec 2021 BFP. MC Jan 2022 IUI #3 Aug 2022 BFN IUI #4 Sept 2022 BFN AMH test came back at .081. Was going to move on to IVF with DE, but have decided not to. Will be leaving it up to the universe now.
@hillbillywife@zombiehoohaa FU on the hormone front. I asked my OB out of curiosity today if there was a shift in hormones at this stage and she told me that hormones should be at a plateau, but that all the related symptoms would also fit into a prolonged stretch of less than enough sleep. I've been averaging my 5.5-6 hours/ day, which isn't too terrible, but I guess still makes sense. She told me to shoot for 7 at least. Anyways, I found it interesting and thought I'd share in case it was the same on your end.
@d_marie_23 I read FU as Fuck You... goodness! lol Then re-read as Follow up...I'm losing my mind! Thank you for the info!!! That makes sense. Although, how do they expect us to get a good solid 7+ hours of sleep when we have these bowling balls for stomachs, have to pee every 1-2 hours, and all around discomfort? Asking for a friend.
@catftm2018 I so feel you about work. I’m not planning to be on maternity leave until July 16th but have no idea how I can make it that far. My commute has been getting worse for some reason and although I’ve been coming in a little later and leaving a little earlier, the drive alone just wipes me out. It’s been taking me 1-1 1/2 hours one way and I want to cry. By the time I get to my desk my back is hurting and I have a headache. Ugh!
@rachelsogo I totally noticed that as well! It’s really weird lol
Pretty sure I have a yeast infection, going to call tomorrow to see what they want me to do about it. Seems late to use Monistat right? Not even sure if I could get the cream down there at this point
Add me to Club Irritable. I have two states these days, apathetic or annoyed. There is no in between, generally no other emotions. I'm sure I should be "happy" that I'm not a crying wreck, but again, apathy. Kinda thinking it's my hormones and my anxiety meds not playing well together. I have an appointment Friday, so I'll ask then.
@acunamatada ugh, yuck, sorry to hear that! Yay for adding another uncomfortable thing on top of generally being uncomfortable.
@gingerbride26 we haven't shown toy story 3 to our kids . It's too emotional!
@wildtot I feel you on the largeness feeling. Me too. Except in your HDBD pictures you still look small framed on top! My boobs and shoulders have expanded, especially my boobs, and I just look that much larger overall. It sucks. I am used to being on the athletic build of average and used to wear small/medium but clearly not when pregnant. Now I am a large or x-large.
@SmashJam what did you wear to your interview last week? I will have one coming up soon and I need to find something more professional to wear for it.
@flockofmoosen3 thank you for your kind words. My boobs are actually like twice the size of pre preg and going from an xs to a medium pretty much. I get pretty self conscious with pictures in general. Looking forward to not having a body roommate soon lol
+1 emotional and extra hormone-y, I've been crying about everything. +1 anxiety over messy house +1 waddling
People keep saying I've dropped and I'm looking low, but baby is in breech (even though I've been trying every trick in the book you ladies shared...flashlights, frozen veggies, crazy positions). Can these LOs drop if they are in breech? There are so many things I don't know!
What the actual Eff. I didn't over do it today except if you count standing at various points but I cannot walk tonight without wanting to cry. I don't remember what it was like anymore to not feel like my crotch was bruised and beaten.
Why is it SO hot??? It’s not even warm out at all but I have the windows closed and ac on due to really baddd pollen right now, and the house is at 72, and I’m literally lying awake in bed at 2am unable to sleep, sweating, completely stripped down to my undies, and my H is next to me covered in a heavy winter blanket. Trying to resist the urge to go turn the thermostat down....
@flockofmoosen3 I wore a short sleeve business casual dress from Gap that was lightweight, and tied above the bump behind my back. I just wore flip flops because I was interviewing for a library and they were cool with that, but I could have dressed it up more with nicer shoes.
@zande2016 the pollen doesn't get to me often (although it certainly did yesterday) but DH hates yellow stuff coating the house (legit) so we keep our windows closed this time of year too, and our house is so hot. I've spent many a night in a bra and undies (can't go full nude, the boob sweat) on top of the sheets with a fan on me. The fan saves me. We don't have air conditioning!
+1 for not sleeping, bring irritable, and just generally uncomfortable. I am getting really close to the "get this baby outta me" stage.
@runsomewhere I am having the same thing with baby on my right side, and am also experiencing the weird pains in my right rib that hurt when I take a deep breath. I wonder if it has something to do with their positioning.
Meagan Married 6.12.10 DS 11.8.12 Baby GIRL! due 7.4.18
I am with all of you on continuing to go to work. I am having pains in my hips every day and by the end of the day my feet are done. I was going to try and also make it to July 16th, but I'm starting to think that after July 4th will be my cutoff to start working from home.
Heartburn/reflux is so miserable right now! Before being pregnant I never had it a day in my life and now I walk around with a full sized bottle of tums in my purse!
My my husband has always had reflux bad and I think he’s getting a kick out of me experiencing it along with him right now
@ashbub714 I'm sorry it's so bad! I had a big bout of it weeks 30-33 but now it's gone. I occasionally get a very slight acid reflux but that's it. Praying it stays that way! I also never had it in my life before.
Ugh wtaf. Almost fainted at the tail end of gc interview this morning... full on blacking out with sparkler flashes. Hr spiked to 125 SITTING complete cold sweat and I ended up laying on the floor for 15 min panting. Still vaguely woozy with headache hour+ late. Thankfully DH stayed home for the gc and rubbed my back and got ice and phone and called nurse line. He and boss man are still flipping out worried and office wants to see me. So much for going into the office today...
@MrsMiller8588 could be carpal tunnel. I had it BAD last pregnancy, and it hurt really bad to bend my fingers. Especially when I first woke up in the morning.
@MrsMiller8588 me too! for the last few weeks. I asked my dr and she said it's just the swelling making it hard/painful to bend the fingers. My thumbs have always been a little dis-jointed, and this is making it horrible..middle of the night they lock up and I can't bend them at all...then every morning it's like slowly working all my finger joints to loosen then up.
TTC History:
Me: 36 H: 40 Married 2015. Together since 2010. TTC: Sept 2016-Oct 2017 BFP Oct 2017. DD born July 2018. TTC: March 2020. BFP March 2020 Due date was Nov 2020 DS born Sept 2020. DS passed away Nov 2020 due to prematurity and birth trauma. TTC: March 2021 IUI #1 Nov 2021, BFN IUI #2 Dec 2021 BFP. MC Jan 2022 IUI #3 Aug 2022 BFN IUI #4 Sept 2022 BFN AMH test came back at .081. Was going to move on to IVF with DE, but have decided not to. Will be leaving it up to the universe now.
@zande2016 Oh man. I wasnt even thinking carpal tunnel because it just feels like my knuckles! But I have been waking up with tingly hands so maybe that's what it is... I feel like I have arthritis
Me: 31 DH: 34 Married: April 2016 TTC December 2016 BFP 2/28/17 // CP 3/1/17 MFI Diagnosis: Aug 2017 BFP 11/1/17 // DS born 6/18 TTC January 2019 BFP 3/21/19 // D&C (MMC) 5/8/19
@MrsMiller8588 bending my fingers doesn't HURT but due to carpal tunnel there have been times I have actually NOT been able to bend them at all. It's been awhile, but its happened all three pregnancies. So weird.
Having yet another bout of, "Do I have to poop, or is it contractions?" I think its just gas, things are starting to calm down, but for awhile there it felt like LO had lodged himself transversely into my pelvis and just started kicking his hands and feet, plus odd contraction like crampy pain. Glorious.
Foot stuck in my ribs. Been 2 days, lol. Definitely feeling a bit bruised and wish he wouldn't love that spot so much but God knows I want him to stay head down lol
krystlerr ditto
on the commute. Yesterday I was driving
home and literally had to pull over because baby was kicking me so low it
actually hurt. I’m not on leave until
July 20 (EDD July 23) so it seems like foreverrrrrr but Id rather have time off
with the baby then without the baby.
Ps the pollen this weekend was ridiculous!
Been seeing “floaters” a lot (the little spots your eyes see
if you get dizzy or light headed- at least that’s what my doc calls them) I havnt been eating great and have definitely
been pushing myself with the bathroom renovation and getting ready for baby and
for my shower Sunday- think I need to slow down. How do you know when too much is too much for
pushing yourself? Lol
Andddd woke up this morning and both hands were completely
numb- so weird!
@canucklehead123 Not gonna lie I've been googling "Bed Laptop Trays" so that I can work from bed when I start working from home. Will say the dining room chairs aren't exactly comfortable for a long day.
@babygagnon2018 I think if you're seeing floaters rest is in order when you see them and hydrating. Other than that, for me I keep doing what I'm doing unless I have bleeding/contractions/swelling/really bad shortness of breath or I won't do the activity as hard again if I am hurting the next day.
Back at work this week and feeling dead all over again. So incredibly tired, and no motivation at all during the day. Pregnancy insomnia is hitting hard. Not to mention my hips and pelvis are killing me lately, and im feeling very big and pregnant at this point. My legs seriously hurt carrying the additional weight my body is just not used to. And this heat so miserable. One more month mamas!!
@nimmle fair enough - treat yo'self! I'm extremely fortunate to be able to just stop working because we have a pretty decent maternity leave here in Canada - so I don't have to deal with working from home (or as I like to call it, pretending to work while really just binge-ing Netflix and responding to emails). My plan is to head to the pool every day and just bob around until this baby is born...embracing my new whale-like features.
Kind of funny...kind of random....I was just rubbing my belly because it suddenly feels ginormous and like the baby is going to bust out of it, and then I noticed this weird discharge coming out of my belly button. I freaked out and came here to post about this strange new symptom, and then realized it’s just the ultrasound/NST gel from this morning that clearly got left behind in what’s left of my belly button.
Re: June Symptoms
I know I sound like a crazy person...I promise I'm not
TTC: Sept 2016-Oct 2017
BFP Oct 2017. DD born July 2018.
TTC: March 2020. BFP March 2020
Due date was Nov 2020
DS born Sept 2020. DS passed away Nov 2020 due to prematurity and birth trauma.
TTC: March 2021
IUI #1 Nov 2021, BFN
IUI #2 Dec 2021 BFP. MC Jan 2022
IUI #3 Aug 2022 BFN
IUI #4 Sept 2022 BFN
AMH test came back at .081. Was going to move on to IVF with DE, but have decided not to. Will be leaving it up to the universe now.
Just got a prescription called in for my GERD. It'll be ready in two hours.
@rachelsogo I totally noticed that as well! It’s really weird lol
@wildtot I feel you on the largeness feeling. Me too. Except in your HDBD pictures you still look small framed on top! My boobs and shoulders have expanded, especially my boobs, and I just look that much larger overall. It sucks. I am used to being on the athletic build of average and used to wear small/medium but clearly not when pregnant. Now I am a large or x-large.
@SmashJam what did you wear to your interview last week? I will have one coming up soon and I need to find something more professional to wear for it.
+1 anxiety over messy house
+1 waddling
People keep saying I've dropped and I'm looking low, but baby is in breech (even though I've been trying every trick in the book you ladies shared...flashlights, frozen veggies, crazy positions). Can these LOs drop if they are in breech? There are so many things I don't know!
not feel like my crotch was bruised and beaten.
@zande2016 the pollen doesn't get to me often (although it certainly did yesterday) but DH hates yellow stuff coating the house (legit) so we keep our windows closed this time of year too, and our house is so hot. I've spent many a night in a bra and undies (can't go full nude, the boob sweat) on top of the sheets with a fan on me. The fan saves me. We don't have air conditioning!
@runsomewhere I am having the same thing with baby on my right side, and am also experiencing the weird pains in my right rib that hurt when I take a deep breath. I wonder if it has something to do with their positioning.
DS 11.8.12
Baby GIRL! due 7.4.18
~~Wife to one amazing man~~
~~Mama to 3 crazy boys~~
~~Wrangler of 2 cats~~
My my husband has always had reflux bad and I think he’s getting a kick out of me experiencing it along with him right now
TTC December 2016
BFP 2/28/17 // CP 3/1/17
MFI Diagnosis: Aug 2017
BFP 11/1/17 // DS born 6/18
TTC January 2019
BFP 3/21/19 // D&C (MMC) 5/8/19
TTC: Sept 2016-Oct 2017
BFP Oct 2017. DD born July 2018.
TTC: March 2020. BFP March 2020
Due date was Nov 2020
DS born Sept 2020. DS passed away Nov 2020 due to prematurity and birth trauma.
TTC: March 2021
IUI #1 Nov 2021, BFN
IUI #2 Dec 2021 BFP. MC Jan 2022
IUI #3 Aug 2022 BFN
IUI #4 Sept 2022 BFN
AMH test came back at .081. Was going to move on to IVF with DE, but have decided not to. Will be leaving it up to the universe now.
TTC December 2016
BFP 2/28/17 // CP 3/1/17
MFI Diagnosis: Aug 2017
BFP 11/1/17 // DS born 6/18
TTC January 2019
BFP 3/21/19 // D&C (MMC) 5/8/19
Having yet another bout of, "Do I have to poop, or is it contractions?" I think its just gas, things are starting to calm down, but for awhile there it felt like LO had lodged himself transversely into my pelvis and just started kicking his hands and feet, plus odd contraction like crampy pain. Glorious.
krystlerr ditto on the commute. Yesterday I was driving home and literally had to pull over because baby was kicking me so low it actually hurt. I’m not on leave until July 20 (EDD July 23) so it seems like foreverrrrrr but Id rather have time off with the baby then without the baby.
Ps the pollen this weekend was ridiculous!
Been seeing “floaters” a lot (the little spots your eyes see if you get dizzy or light headed- at least that’s what my doc calls them) I havnt been eating great and have definitely been pushing myself with the bathroom renovation and getting ready for baby and for my shower Sunday- think I need to slow down. How do you know when too much is too much for pushing yourself? Lol
Andddd woke up this morning and both hands were completely numb- so weird!