Weekly Check In w/o 4.15

LJMoon6 · April 2019

Ugh, the exhaustion train has hit me hard this week ladies. Sorry for my lack of replies. I can barely keep my eyes open and my brain can’t put 2 thoughts together.

Est Due Date/ Weeks + Days: 16w2d

FTM/STM/STM+: FTM

Team Green/Pink/Blue: Blue

Interesting Baby Fact / Baby is size of ...:

Upcoming Appointments: 16w appointment on Friday. I’m worried about this itchy, bruised looking spot on my boob (whatever you do, do not google that). It was there at the last appointment and my OB just brushed it off saying it was likely a stretch mark from my boobs growing. But my boobs hadn’t grown at all at that point… So I’m going to push for her to look into it more. Hopefully it’s nothing and I’m just being a hypochondriac.

How are you feeling?: I’ve never had heartburn this bad before. Holy yikes! Otherwise I’m good. Just tired… all the time.

Rants/Raves: We really liked the daycare we looked at last Fri. We put our name down that same day. MH and I had our first baby related fight. It had to do with scheduling for daycare. He has a weird schedule (basically he works 1 week of days, then 1 week of afternoons, then 1 week of midnights, then 1 week off). I was trying to explain to him that I should still be able to work 10 hour days, that way we only need 4 days of daycare, saving us money. I told him on the weeks he works afternoons I will be pushing it to get to the daycare on time before they close (since he can pick him up all the other weeks), but since he can watch LO in the morning and I don’t have to drop him off, I can get to work early and then leave early, no problem. He threw a fit about that, saying shift work is hard and he needs to sleep and I should just bring LO in when I leave for work every day… um, hell no. Don’t get me wrong, I know that shift work is VERY hard. But for him to think that he’s going to be getting his normal amount of sleep is ridiculous! And to leave LO in daycare for 12 hours. Nope. It made me feel like I’m going to be a single parent and he’s going to be the cool uncle. I don’t think he realizes how many sacrifices we’re both going to have to make. Don’t get me wrong, he’s going to be an excellent father, there’s no doubt in my mind about that. I’m just worried how the sharing of responsibilities is going to go. Whatever. We’re really good at working out our problems but we’re both really stubborn, hot heads lol. While we were at the daycare she made the comment that they don’t like children being there for longer than 10 hours (we would have had him in there for 12 hours if MH had it his way) so that ended our fight and he knows he has to step it up. But the lingering feeling of how this is going to go is still there.

Questions:

GTKY: What is your favorite flower? I love them all, I don’t think I could pick just one.

mamaber2204 · April 2019

@LJMoon6 MH had a very similar preconception about daycare hours. He thought that because ours was open 6-6:30 that is was perfectly acceptable for DS to go that whole time. I was really stressed about his feelings on the subject and we had some talks about it before DS was born. Once DS was born it was a non-issue and he agrees that DS needs to be with us as much as is possible. Hopefully you have a similar progression.

zuuls_mom · April 2019

Agree with @mamaber2204. Once the baby is here, he will realize that 12 hours in daycare is bananas and you'll want that LO home with you as much as possible. I went through a similar fight with MH and everything I was trying to say became crystal clear to him when DS was born. We still have our smaller issues to work out, but overall things have gone really well and we are sharing the load when it comes to daycare drop off/pick up.

calliah · April 2019

Whew, I’ve been busy the last few days and missed a lot!

@themadcamel yes, his problem is he will do it every couple of days and then complain that it’s too full. It would take 3 minutes every morning!

@sparkles5275 I’ve started walking, I can’t say consistently lol, but it does have me feeling better.

@kaceyallan I second the netipot rec. weird but works

nda_roxybabe · April 2019

Est Due Date/ Weeks + Days: 17w 6d Due 9-19-19

FTM/STM/STM+: 2nd timer

Team Green/Pink/Blue: Team Green!

Interesting Baby Fact / Baby is size of ...: Creme Brulee

Upcoming Appointments: Next Monday

How are you feeling?: Feeling good! Having some insecurities about my bump, which is odd. I'm naturally thin and last pregnany I got a very large, round, high belly. All belly. Photo in spoiler above.

I got lots of comments and people pointing me out and I didn't exactly mind it, but it was annoying to hear "Oh wow, you must be due any day!" only to have to say nope, 2 more months to go. Well, this time I've not gained any weight, but my belly has grown (duh! and yay!). I can't help but just feel fat though. I am paranoid of being big and around again, even though it was adorable and I loved it in most ways. IDK, it doesn't make sense...hormones.

Rants/Raves: see above, lol

Questions: Nah

GTKY: What is your favorite flower? Peonies and Anemones

zuuls_mom · April 2019

@nda_roxybabe Anemones are my other favorite! So pretty!!

mamaber2204 · April 2019

@nda_roxybabe I looked at the photo before I read your post and I was like, what, how are you already showing that much?!?! Now it makes sense.

nda_roxybabe · April 2019

@mamaber2204 Oh my goodness, can you imagine?! Thankfully, no! That pic was my due date last time, I went 1 week past.

MsBeachNJ · April 2019

mamaber2204 said:

@nda_roxybabe I looked at the photo before I read your post and I was like, what, how are you already showing that much?!?! Now it makes sense.

I thought the same thing!!!

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