@klj0228 I feel like I'm starting to get that -- for a few weeks I've been getting winded more easily but now it's like I can't catch my breath just standing up from the sofa! I don't know how I'm going to manage ten more weeks!
@klj0228 Yep - me too! I’ve started to get dizzy from standing and talking to long. I have to sit down and force some deep, slow breaths. And then sitting and leaning forward at all, I have trouble breathing. A short walk is getting me out of breath too.
+1 to feeling like I can’t breathe. @DanyTargaryen I’ve been starting on my back at night too. If I go to my side too quickly I feel “full” too, or I’ll get heartburn. I remember at this point with my son I was exclusively sleeping in a recliner.
@magnolia209 Have you had your placenta check yet? I just had mine yesterday and it has completely moved up, woohoo! I have been so nervous about being resigned to a c-section (I know you've been worried too) so I hope things have moved for you too!
@magnolia209 That's wonderful news! I'm so glad yours moved too!
Since I found out yesterday that it had moved, I picked up Ina May's childbirth book at the library and I'm going to read it this weekend to start thinking about a birth plan.
nackie My first I could wear my rings the whole time but this time I couldn't wear them by 2 months. I think I will have to get them resized because after DD1, they never fit the same again. I miss my rings!!!
Car0liiine I got a support belt and been seeing a PT about my SPD and it is not helping as much as I would like. Rolling over in bed is the absolute WORST.
starla I am also getting small skin tags in my armpits. I got one in my thigh and it grew really fast and was very painful when I walked. I got my GP to freeze it off.
ashh2018 I have been taking Tylenol a lot lately. Sorry you are in pain. I have wrist braces that I sleep in, hope they help you.
@mrsman2018 I just got a referral to PT and ordered a different spd specific belt and am waiting for it to get here. I'm so pessimistic that it's not going to help but I'm getting desperate and am willing to try all the things. Rolling over in bed is TORTURE!!! It's so, so bad. So much grunting, groaning, cursing and crying. Ugh. This sucks so much! I had pain last pregnancy too but it was when I'd be standing or walking. Sitting and being in bed was fine. It seems just so mean and wrong to still have pain when lying down
I'm doing 1-2 nights with Tylenol and then trying to go 2-3 nights without. I know it's safe to take during pregnancy, so I'm not worried about that, but I worry about getting rebound headaches if I take it too long and then stop and I figure it's probably not a good idea to take it every day for the next 12 weeks. But I wanna. I want to take it all day, every day.
I swept up my kid's room the other day and then realized that I would have to squat down to sweep the pile of dirt into the dustpan. I just stood there forever, staring at that stupid pile of dirt trying to figure out how to get it up without squatting and seriously considered just sweeping it under his dresser or leaving it for my husband. I finally managed to awkwardly lean mostly straight over from the waist (not that I have a waist anymore) and get most of it into the dustpan but it was hard. I just wasn't willing to squat for anything cause it feels like my pelvis is ripping in half when I do. It's so frustrating to not be able to do normal simple tasks.
@stothi and @mrsman2018 I’m right there with you. I’m constantly yelling out and even brought to tears. I’ve had the soreness since week 14 but this week the pain became unreal. Tylenol is a waste for the most part. I just keep the time to baby countdown in my head whenever I roll over in bed or get up from standing.
stothi I had pain with my first too, but never getting out of bed like this time. I seriously wake up DH a few times a night because I am so loud with the grunting and sighing. I can't even explain the pain to anyone because they don't understand. I am trying to stay away from Tylenol too even though I also want to take it all day every day - I think I am on day 3 with none. But even laying down in bed, doing nothing, I still get a dull throbbing pain in my groin. Ugh, is it September yet? How often do you plan on wearing the belt? All day? Only at work? At night? Also, DD was playing with a pack of drinks we just got from Costco just left them on the floor. Getting down and cleaning it seemed too hard, so I walked around it for 2 days. So did DH until I guess he finally decided to pick them up. Ha.
@mrsman2018 my midwife said to wear a support belt all the time, every day, because the effects of the pressure from the belly are cumulative. I don't think this particular midwife had been pregnant before based on a few assumptions I'm making but also largely on that comment. Everyone pregnant woman I've talked to (feel free anyone to jump in and correct me) finds wearing the support belts intolerable at some point. That you wear it cause you have to, but you can't wait to take the dang thing off. When the new belt gets here if it doesn't put pressure on my ute and bladder like my others do and really is just more on the hips, I'm going to try to wear it everyday. I'm a sahm so I'm at work everyday. Thankfully my coworker it's covering for me a lot so I can slack and sit and rest as much as possible. Hubby (my coworker) doesn't cook and there aren't enough hours in the day for him to work full time and do the necessary housework though, so I can't not do a certain amount of things. I'm struggling hard though to get through standing long enough to cook a meal and I have to plan breaks carefully cause I can't do the dishes and then go straight to cooking. I have to take a long ass break between anything that involves walking or standing so it takes all damn day to do like 3 or 4 things. Excuse me while I go have a pity party and cry for a minute...
And yes, my groin feels like hell too! Did I already mention that? It constantly feels like I wrecked myself in dance class and tried to do the splits without warming up, combined with a feeling like someone kicked me between my legs and somehow got everything from my tailbone to my pubic bone.
I'll start a new symptoms thread in a minute, but first I need to complain. My IT band pain has returned and it sucks! I had it earlier during who knows what trimester and it has shown it's ugly face again. So stupid to literally be doing nothing while you're sleeping on your side and have pain radiating down from your hips.
@magnolia209 That's wonderful news! I'm so glad yours moved too!
Since I found out yesterday that it had moved, I picked up Ina May's childbirth book at the library and I'm going to read it this weekend to start thinking about a birth plan.
I have that book and the birth stories in the first half made me feel like I could basically do anything. Unfortunately I never got around to reading the second half which is supposed to be the tips and tricks for your own labor so I ended up with an epidural thanks to back labor. I need to pull the book back out and actually read the second half this time!!
_______________________________________________________________________________________________ MMC 8/5/15 at 8 weeks DS born 9/13/16 BFP 1/13/18 - EDD 9/20/18 - It's a boy!
@danytargaryen I skimmed it and got the same feeling! The other library book I picked up was Cynthia Gabriel's Natural Hospital Birth and I've started reading that one first. It's a little crunchy but the sample birth plans are super helpful and even got my husband to help think about what he wants. For instance, I asked him if he wants to cut the cord and he said he was too scared he'd screw it up
I had to ask my husband. I was so out of it that there's a lot of stuff that I don't remember. He says that yes, he did.
At my appts they keep asking how much my son weighed when he was born. Made me realize that I don't know. I know it was 7 pounds and something, but I didn't know the something. That made me feel like a bad mom cause I swear all my mom friends know all their kid's birth measurements, exact time of birth, which way the wind was blowing, what color the nurses scrubs were... I'm all, "there were people there... Doing things... The baby came out and I held him... He was like this ish big?" Btw- finally found where I had written his weight down. 7 pounds 2 ounces. Am I a good mom now?
@stothi I remember very little about the immediate time after birth (including the exact time). I remember his birth weight though since he had so much trouble gaining weight after he was born and the pediatricians were not happy about it. It was a big deal when he finally did get back up to his birth weight, but we were constantly talking about his weight for the first 6 weeks.
I had to ask my husband. I was so out of it that there's a lot of stuff that I don't remember. He says that yes, he did.
At my appts they keep asking how much my son weighed when he was born. Made me realize that I don't know. I know it was 7 pounds and something, but I didn't know the something. That made me feel like a bad mom cause I swear all my mom friends know all their kid's birth measurements, exact time of birth, which way the wind was blowing, what color the nurses scrubs were... I'm all, "there were people there... Doing things... The baby came out and I held him... He was like this ish big?" Btw- finally found where I had written his weight down. 7 pounds 2 ounces. Am I a good mom now?
I happen to remember it all, but do I think any less of someone who can't? Hell no! I think that stuff is just easier for some people to remember. Like how some people are good with names and others aren't.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________ MMC 8/5/15 at 8 weeks DS born 9/13/16 BFP 1/13/18 - EDD 9/20/18 - It's a boy!
For how unprepared I feel we are, H and I have already discussed cord cutting with each other. I love him and worry about his comfort so I told him not to feel pressure to do that. I really don't want him to pass out! He reminded me he was a solder and trained as a parametic and totally is up for anything that he needs to do during childbirth - including cutting the cord. Oh yeah...I forgot. We both had lives before getting together 5 years ago.
DH is super SUPER squeamish and still in the thrill of the moment when asked absolutely was excited to cut the cord. He went into it thinking he wouldnt be able to. I say not having a plan is fine. Things may change in the moment.
MH was ambivalent about cutting the cord but leaning towards no. When the MW asked him to do it, though, he did. It’s not a fond memory, but it wasn’t something he hated. Just a “meh,” or something that needed to be done. Everyone seems to feel differently!
2/13 Blighted ovum, D&C -- 6/13 MC -- 8/14 DD born -- 3/17 MC -- 9/18 DD2 born Expecting again -- EDD 7/27/20
With my second (first vaginal birth) they asked my husband if he wanted to cut the cord. We hadn't talked about it or anything. He was like sure, why not. It must not have been too bad though because I think he cut the cord with my third as well.
Daughter #1 - Feb 2012 Daughter #2 - Oct 2014 Daughter #3 - Nov 2016 Baby #4 - Sept 2018
@stothi I remember next to nothing about being in labor or the immediate aftermath. There are a few details that stand out because I mentally went into survival mode and the midwife REALLY pissed me off. Like, she is lucky I had an epidural and couldn't launch myself from the bed
Y'all reminded me that I need to ask DH if he wants to cut the cord.
As for right this second, that freaking varicose vein. Fuck this vein.
The only reason I remember that DH cut the cord is because he’s still very proud about it lol. We’re very “meh” about pregnancy, so it was essentially his first dad moment.
I have the worst taste in my mouth. Like so gross. It’s not metallic, it’s just...gross. I can’t have mint bc of my tummy (acid) and fruity tic tacs and gum are not cutting it. Is this normal? lol
@ashh2018 This may not be reassuring but I've had a gross sour taste in my mouth since like 4 weeks pregnant...my doctor said weird tastes are all normal.
@ashh2018 I know I find it really unpleasant and it has totally stopped me from eating some things, especially desserts and flavored coffees, which taste especially horrible!
Re: Symptoms & Questions | Week of June 25th
Since I found out yesterday that it had moved, I picked up Ina May's childbirth book at the library and I'm going to read it this weekend to start thinking about a birth plan.
Also, skin tags ... why are they a thing? Ugh.
starla I am also getting small skin tags in my armpits. I got one in my thigh and it grew really fast and was very painful when I walked. I got my GP to freeze it off.
ashh2018 I have been taking Tylenol a lot lately. Sorry you are in pain. I have wrist braces that I sleep in, hope they help you.
I'm doing 1-2 nights with Tylenol and then trying to go 2-3 nights without. I know it's safe to take during pregnancy, so I'm not worried about that, but I worry about getting rebound headaches if I take it too long and then stop and I figure it's probably not a good idea to take it every day for the next 12 weeks. But I wanna. I want to take it all day, every day.
I swept up my kid's room the other day and then realized that I would have to squat down to sweep the pile of dirt into the dustpan. I just stood there forever, staring at that stupid pile of dirt trying to figure out how to get it up without squatting and seriously considered just sweeping it under his dresser or leaving it for my husband. I finally managed to awkwardly lean mostly straight over from the waist (not that I have a waist anymore) and get most of it into the dustpan but it was hard. I just wasn't willing to squat for anything cause it feels like my pelvis is ripping in half when I do. It's so frustrating to not be able to do normal simple tasks.
How often do you plan on wearing the belt? All day? Only at work? At night?
Also, DD was playing with a pack of drinks we just got from Costco just left them on the floor. Getting down and cleaning it seemed too hard, so I walked around it for 2 days. So did DH until I guess he finally decided to pick them up. Ha.
When the new belt gets here if it doesn't put pressure on my ute and bladder like my others do and really is just more on the hips, I'm going to try to wear it everyday. I'm a sahm so I'm at work everyday. Thankfully my coworker it's covering for me a lot so I can slack and sit and rest as much as possible. Hubby (my coworker) doesn't cook and there aren't enough hours in the day for him to work full time and do the necessary housework though, so I can't not do a certain amount of things. I'm struggling hard though to get through standing long enough to cook a meal and I have to plan breaks carefully cause I can't do the dishes and then go straight to cooking. I have to take a long ass break between anything that involves walking or standing so it takes all damn day to do like 3 or 4 things. Excuse me while I go have a pity party and cry for a minute...
And yes, my groin feels like hell too! Did I already mention that? It constantly feels like I wrecked myself in dance class and tried to do the splits without warming up, combined with a feeling like someone kicked me between my legs and somehow got everything from my tailbone to my pubic bone.
MMC 8/5/15 at 8 weeks
DS born 9/13/16
BFP 1/13/18 - EDD 9/20/18 - It's a boy!
MMC 8/5/15 at 8 weeks
DS born 9/13/16
BFP 1/13/18 - EDD 9/20/18 - It's a boy!
At my appts they keep asking how much my son weighed when he was born. Made me realize that I don't know. I know it was 7 pounds and something, but I didn't know the something. That made me feel like a bad mom cause I swear all my mom friends know all their kid's birth measurements, exact time of birth, which way the wind was blowing, what color the nurses scrubs were... I'm all, "there were people there... Doing things... The baby came out and I held him... He was like this ish big?"
Btw- finally found where I had written his weight down. 7 pounds 2 ounces. Am I a good mom now?
MMC 8/5/15 at 8 weeks
DS born 9/13/16
BFP 1/13/18 - EDD 9/20/18 - It's a boy!
DH is super SUPER squeamish and still in the thrill of the moment when asked absolutely was excited to cut the cord. He went into it thinking he wouldnt be able to. I say not having a plan is fine. Things may change in the moment.
Expecting again -- EDD 7/27/20
MMC 8/5/15 at 8 weeks
DS born 9/13/16
BFP 1/13/18 - EDD 9/20/18 - It's a boy!
Daughter #2 - Oct 2014
Daughter #3 - Nov 2016
Baby #4 - Sept 2018
Y'all reminded me that I need to ask DH if he wants to cut the cord.
As for right this second, that freaking varicose vein. Fuck this vein.