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April 2019 Moms
lyse01
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Week 2 Check In w/o 1/8
lyse01
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Due date:
appointments/questions:
rant/rave:
how you’re feeling:
gtky: have you talked with SO about if you’ll have any more kids? How has this pregnancy changed that discussion?
appointments/questions:
rant/rave:
how you’re feeling:
gtky: have you talked with SO about if you’ll have any more kids? How has this pregnancy changed that discussion?
Re: Week 2 Check In w/o 1/8
Due date: April 10th.
appointments/questions: Glucose/blood testing/checkup next Tuesday.
rant/rave: Leg cramps started last night for me, adding to the "reasons for waking up in the middle of the night," camp. Ugh. Rave: DS has been super cute lately, and his temper tantrums have been much better since the holidays are over.
how you’re feeling: Migraine this morning... hoping some Tylenol and tea kick it before I go into work.
gtky: have you talked with SO about if you’ll have any more kids? How has this pregnancy changed that discussion?
So it's interesting, I basically had to talk DH into a second because he was perfectly content with the status quo (and our first will be turning 5 when this one is here, so it's almost like a reset button just as he's able to do fun activities with dad). Now during my pregnancy, DH has half-jokingly said we'll have a third if I really want one (mostly because of my disappointment over not having a girl this time). I'm of the mindset that he's crazy since we haven't even had this one yet! Plus this pregnancy has been a lot rougher this go-around. So who knows what we may do in a few years, haha.
appointments/questions: Unexpected ER visit last night but all is well. No appts until 21st.
rant/rave: nothing I can think of right now
how you’re feeling: Just feeling really tired after last night. Long story short I have a large raised red area that is hot on my leg. Called the doctor and they sent me to ER to check for blood clots. All clear no clot it is just an inflamed varicose vein. I am a teacher and yesterday was the first day back with kids. So I was on my feet all day. Probably the reason! It was a little nerve wrecking but I am happy all is clear.
gtky: have you talked with SO about if you’ll have any more kids? How has this pregnancy changed that discussion? This is our bonus baby so this will be it for us. We have discussed if we should have another so they have a close in age sibling but with my age we are too scared to roll the dice again. So we are going to be happy with our semi only child!
Due date: April 11
appointments/questions: Next appointment is not until 1/21when I will be 28.5 weeks.
rant/rave: I have another cold. I literally cannot stay healthy this pregnancy despite working out and eating right. Chalking it up to having 3 kids already and working at a really intense job.
how you’re feeling: Third trimester fatigue hit a week or two early and I am back to going to bed super early.
gtky: have you talked with SO about if you’ll have any more kids? How has this pregnancy changed that discussion?
This baby was a total surprise! Our other three are 14, 12, and almost 9. So now we will be paying for daycare and college at the same time (also potentially paying for daycare and private high school as early as next September--oh boy). So, we are not at all open to being surprised with a 5th!! (especially since I am apparently still very fertile at 40). After this baby my husband is going to get a vasectomy.
Due date: April 12
appointments/questions: Monthly check up paired with my glucose test this coming Monday
rant/rave: Can't think of anything
how you’re feeling: Probably better than I have this whole pregnancy, which isn't to say I feel great! I'm not sleeping well so I'm pretty tired but that's the worst of it right now
gtky: have you talked with SO about if you’ll have any more kids? How has this pregnancy changed that discussion? When DH and I met 3 years ago, he had kids aged: 28, 24, 23, 22, and 14 (he was 16 when his first was born so he's not incredibly old lol)! So, needless to say, he wasn't planning on having anymore! But, because I had none and he wanted to be with me, he has been awesome and open minded about having this one. We did IVF because we didn't want to chance a vasectomy reversal not being successful, especially since I was already 38 at the time. And we only got 1 genetically normal embryo.....all of this to say, this will definitely be our one and only and I'm totally fine with that!
appointments/questions: glucose test this friday 😪🤞🏼
rant/rave: nothing, really
how you’re feeling: holy shit indegestion! 😭😭 i thought i got past this w/ first tri! i’m tying to look on the bright side b/c this is simply a symptom of my baby growing and pushing all my organs around, right? my first-born was a tiny guy weighing in at 5 lb 8 oz & it caused us a 5 day hospital stay & badly bruised feet on his part due to all the blood they had to take from him. i’d like to avoid that this time.
gtky: have you talked with SO about if you’ll have any more kids? How has this pregnancy changed that discussion? this pregnancy has not changed our original plan to have two kids & be done. we made sure we were on the same page w/ family planning before we got married. in fact, my husband has already been researching his options for his upcoming vasectomy.
Appointments/Questions: I found out yesterday that I had abnormal results for my 1 hour glucose test so on Friday I have the 3 hour test.
Rant/Rave: Rant: I honestly cannot believe that it's only Tuesday. I'm having a very stressful work week and it makes me think that it should be much further along in the week than it is. I actually texted one of my supervisors tonight that I hoped she has a relaxing weekend instead of night because that's where my brain is at.
Rave: Not only has DH gotten a new job that he's really excited about that puts us in a much better situation, but I have also booked a photographer for maternity and newborn photos. I was up in the air about maternity photos, but DH and I haven't had nice photos done since our wedding and it was a pretty good deal to book both maternity and newborn photos. I'm really hoping that we've found our family photographer now (the photographer that did our engagement photos moved out of the area and our wedding photographer is in another state so I've been meaning to find someone for awhile, but it didn't make sense until a baby came along).
How you’re feeling: Outside of stressed, I have managed to get a decent night's sleep for the past few nights. Last night I managed to sleep from like 10:30 to 7:30 and I think I only got up to pee once or twice and immediately fell back asleep. It has been glorious. It sort of counteracts the hip and pelvic pain (spent my entire train ride to work looking at belly support bands).
GTKY: Have you talked with SO about if you’ll have any more kids? How has this pregnancy changed that discussion?: DH always wanted one and I've always wanted two. I tease him a lot that we'll probably go for a second and end up with twins (they run in my family and every generation has someone who has twins except for mine - my mom was hoping it would be this time around). But he's really come around, especially because he's so excited to be a dad. We both come from really large families (I have 2 older siblings on my dad's side and 4 younger siblings on my mom's and DH is one of 5) so two is still pretty small in comparison, but the perfect size for us. But we really want to try to space them out - our hope is about 5 years apart.
Appointments/questions: Had my Glucose Challenge / HELLP screening on Monday, and have my regular check-up tomorrow. Hoping to have results back for that appointment, but we'll see... This month seems to be nuts, I literally have 1-2 different pregnancy appointments every week. This whole pregnancy thing is really cutting in to my "being a person" time haha.
Rant/Rave: Rant-I'm really getting sick and tired of being told how "big" I look. Seriously, I don't need to be told. I'm the one that squeezes myself into my maternity pants every damn day. Trust me... I know EXACTLY how big I am. Rave- All those "positive" symptoms that seem to happen for people in the second trimester (increased energy, libido, motivation to "nest") seem to finally be happening for me... Hopefully they just hit me late and I'm not in for only a week of 2nd trimester positivity!
How you’re feeling: Overall pretty good. I'm starting to get that pelvic pain and my sciatica is back a little. But both I seem to be able to manage with keeping my exercise up.
GTKY: Have you talked with SO about if you’ll have any more kids? How has this pregnancy changed that discussion? A little, when we first got married we planned on having exactly two kids, and I would jokingly say "I'll give you two pregnancies and if you want more kids beyond that you're going to have to figure out how to carry the damn things yourself." This pregnancy hasn't been hard per se, but definitely a lesson in that I really don't like being pregnant. I think the biggest decider won't so much be the pregnancy itself, but the birth and post-partum experience. If the birth is really traumatic, I don't know that we'll do this again; or if the post-partum period is really horrible, same. But if all goes well, we're still kind of thinking we'll have one more and stop at 2. Its also recently occurred to my husband that sometimes labour and delivery can be soimetimes dangerous, and you can't always know if you're going to be the totally routine birth or the person that has a massive hemorrhage and requires a blood transfusion and ICU visit. I think he's been looking at Dr. Google a bit and is kind of freaked. So all in all, we'll see?
I always used the 40 ish divided by 3 = 13 weeks and some days per trimester rule.
prevously helloblueeyes
Me:32 DH:33 Married:04/2012 DD:07/2014
BFP 8/14/2018 #2 due 4/18/2019
prevously helloblueeyes
Me:32 DH:33 Married:04/2012 DD:07/2014
BFP 8/14/2018 #2 due 4/18/2019
prevously helloblueeyes
Me:32 DH:33 Married:04/2012 DD:07/2014
BFP 8/14/2018 #2 due 4/18/2019
Appointments/Questions: My appointment was this morning. Failed my 1hr glucose test so I'll be back next week for the 3hr. The question I had for my doctor today was if I could use a TENS unit on my neck. Turns out, I can! He said the electrical current won't hurt the baby. I just can't use it on my lower back or stomach. Which is just fine with me! I have chronic neck issues so this is a big win for me.
Rant: I'm beginning to feel pretty overwhelmed. Before getting pregnant, life was already pretty stressful. My family can keep me very busy. I live in my 91 year old grandmothers home (since I'm her caregiver) with my boyfriend, mom and 10 year old niece. I swear no one knows how to problem solve without me if anything goes wrong. And people have a tendency of creating problems for themselves. My mother injured herself Thursday night pretty badly (drunken accident that led to 11 stitches, so my sympathy levels are pretty low) so now I have a house full of people that I have to care for. I do have aunts and uncles that claim to want to help but that seems more like empty words and promises. As I approach the third trimester I'm starting to really worry about who is going to fill my place while I'm unable to care for my grandma or things around the house. Caring for everyone is starting to really wear me out and make me pretty irritable. I hope people can tolerate me when I'm bitchy.d
Rave: I had a sonogram this morning. My friends and family know that I absolutely hate feet. I think they are gross and I freak the hell out if someone touches my feet. Its something that they all love to torment me with. Today, during the sonogram, we caught a glimpse of the little feet that we created and the impossible happened, my grinch of a heart melted at the sight of my daughters tiny toes. It was a moment I didn't expect to have that still brings a smile to my face.
how you’re feeling: Stressed and tired but other than that, I'm doing well. Just trying to figure out how to express myself to my loved ones without letting my raging hormones do the talking.
GTKY: have you talked with SO about if you’ll have any more kids? How has this pregnancy changed that discussion?
If this baby had been a boy, we would have seriously considered stopping at one. We are going to look into birth control options 6 weeks post-delivery to make sure we don't have a second till we are absolutely ready. My big thing, and my bf agrees, is that Addy is out of diapers before we consider giving her a sibling. I don't see our living situation changing until I'm no longer needed to care for my grandmother so for now, the baby will share a room with us. A second baby in that space just wouldn't work.
I highly encourage you to not let the aunts/uncles off the hook but rather give them a specific task that would be helpful. It could be grocery shopping and meals (especially if they are local and you are nursing a newborn), or it could be that you need them to take grandma to a blood draw/speech appt/some other appt that doesn’t require you to communicate updates to the doctor. It could be that they need to come once a week to catch up on household laundry or handyman tasks and keep grandma company while you go to caretaker and/or lactation support group. It could be that they need to take niece home from after-school activities while baby naps. It could be that they get to sit on hold with doctors’ offices resubmitting claims to insurance. You need to be able to take some things off your plate to be able to function in this role long term, and that 100% means finding time for yourself and your new little family. Easier said than done, obviously, but you might be able to convince some of those relatives to start now, in order to iron out issues before baby complicates things. Good luck!
appointments/questions: glucose test next week!
rant/rave: excited and nervous for the third trimester!
how you’re feeling: pretty good. Baby is sitting real low so my back and pelvis are still dying lol
gtky: have you talked with SO about if you’ll have any more kids? How has this pregnancy changed that discussion? Since we are having our two boys so close together, this may be enough for us to handle lol I always wanted 3 or more but now that I'm pregnant again, I feel too old for this even though I'm 29 lol.
@kangstadt my H totally talked me into having a third, I was completely content with only having 2. I would go back and forth about my decision while TTC, but once that BFP popped up I was thrilled.
@catherineclaire78 I've been non stop sick as well, its been absolutely awful. I have one child in school/daycare and one in daycare FT. Everyone in my office has school age children so Im pretty sure I live in a giant germ infested bubble.
Due date: 4/14
appointments/questions: GD test 1/18 and monthly appointment 2/1.
rant/rave: Rant, I'm pretty sure I've had some sort of sickness this entire pregnancy.
Also, I can't get comfortable at night to save my life, I even purchased a pregnancy pillow and it barely helps.
how you’re feeling: See above.
gtky: have you talked with SO about if you’ll have any more kids? How has this pregnancy changed that discussion?
We are done after this, we agreed to only have 3. I plan on speaking to my doctor at my next appointment about tubal litigation. I'm thankful everyday for this pregnancy. I believe I would have regretted not having a third, however, I am 100% sure I'm done.
Would it help give some comfort if you went to sleep with a heating pad on your back? I made one with rice and an old sock, took me under five minutes and it's the perfect shape to lay under my lumbar.
appointments/questions: first third trimester appointment on 1/17! I’m definitely going to ask them about an off/on pain I’ve had in my ribs. It’s only in my right ribs, right below my boob, and when it hurts, it REALLY hurts. Anyone else having this issue?
rant/rave: I already ranted and raved in several other places, haha. So I’ll just say this: raving about our mini baby moon & our upcoming trip to ikea for baby furniture. Ranting about sad, evil stories from the news.
how you’re feeling: right now, great. I’ve never felt so well rested after a trip, but that’s probably because I slept in the back seat the entire way home while curled up with my snoogle, and I also took another 3 hour nap after we got home.
gtky: have you talked with SO about if you’ll have any more kids? How has this pregnancy changed that discussion? This is our first, so that conversation is off the table and honestly irrelevant until this baby is at least one. Can’t really plan when we don’t know what raising a child is actually like! Though I’ve made it known that I definitely don’t want more than 3, if I have a choice in the matter.