January 2020 Moms

Weekly check-in group 1&2 (jan 1-16) w/o 7/8

Sorry for the delay ladies! I blanked out that it was Monday!

Est Due Date/Weeks + Days:

Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green:

Baby is the size of a(n):

Upcoming Appointments:

How are you feeling?:

Rants/Raves: 

Questions: 

GTKY: Who was your first celebrity crush?

Re: Weekly check-in group 1&2 (jan 1-16) w/o 7/8

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  • Est Due Date/Weeks + Days: 1/6, 14 weeks

    Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: Pink! Eek, first time typing that.

    Baby is the size of a(n): Nectarine

    Upcoming Appointments: Not for a couple of weeks

    How are you feeling?: Pretty good actually, just starting to get some stretching soreness in my belly

    Rants/Raves: Rave! 1st tri is OVER!

    Questions: 

    GTKY: Who was your first celebrity crush? @c1kc1kpol1cn1k JTT here as well! For women of a certain age that's like the only answer. 
  • @c1kc1kpol1cn1k that was going to be my answer too, he was also in now & then which i was obsessed with!

    Edd/weeks - 8 jan/13+5

    team: finding out

    babies are the size of: rubber duck or a matchbox car

    upcoming appointments: im more than likely going to have to go to a clinic on thursday to start on insulin as my fasting blood sugar readings havnt been ideal.

    how are you feeling? Physically, I thought i was getting better but was so ill on saturday evening & still a bit off. Mentally, again i thought I was getting better but the probable gd diagnosis & having to go on insulin so early has just made me feel shitty all over again.

    rants/raves: We had a weekend in our own house not having to go anywhere or do anything or pack a bag & it was glorious & relaxing & just what I needed. Its just a pity i had to cancel plans with old friends who live near my parents but I literally couldnt face it!

    questions: nothing atm

    gtky: who was your first celebrity crush? Devon sawa was so dreamy! 😍
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    @c1kc1kpol1cn1k I loved Devon Sawa in Casper. “Can I keep you?” 😍😭 right in the feels every time. 
  • @Xstatic3333 welcome to 2nd Trimester! 
    @leprechaunlady such a good movie seriously! Sorry you're feeling shitty <3
    @kbrown2385 "Can I keep you" legit gave me shivers at the time, amazing hahaha


  • Est Due Date/Weeks + Days: 14 weeks

    Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: team blue 

    Baby is the size of a(n): house mouse eek

    Upcoming Appointments: 7/16

    How are you feeling?: better than a few weeks ago

    Rants/Raves: we announced yesterday and ordered pur nursery furniture. Baby clothes are expensive

    Questions: had anyone felt movements?

    GTKY: Who was your first celebrity crush? Aaron carter 😂 followed by chad michael murray 
  • @mommystuebs nice to see you back here! I was worried something happened. I haven't felt movement but at night I do feel what MIGHT be a flutter but could very well be indigestion before bed  :D
  • @mommystuebs at the risk of epic public flaming, yes, I think I have. I do accept that I very well may be wrong but given that it's my second I don't think I am (and plus, if I am, it's hurting nobody). They're extremely faint and rare, once a day max, but differ from gas and digestion distinctly. I felt it early with my son too, around 16 weeks. 
  • EmilyE13EmilyE13 member
    edited July 2019
    @c1kc1kpol1cn1k and @leprechaunlady yeah I felt ALL the feelings when I saw him in Casper. Perhaps our Group 1 & 2 threads should be called the Devon Sawa Appreciation Society. 😜

    @mommystuebs Glad to see you back! I’ve felt a flutter here and there but then convince myself it’s too early. I had an anterior placenta with DD so I didn’t feel anything with her til pretty far along. 

    Est Due Date/Weeks + Days: Jan 15/ 12w5d

    Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: Finding out

    Baby is the size of a(n): clementine

    Upcoming Appointments: Wednesday!

    How are you feeling?: Getting more energy back and nausea has almost completely been replaced by heartburn. Yay?

    Rants/Raves: People who wait til the very last minute to send me something to review and expect immediate turnaround. “Why yes, I’ll give you a thorough legal analysis of a 90 slide presentation in an hour. Thanks for asking!”

    Questions: Do your husbands/partners generally come to all your appointments at this stage? DH is out of town Wednesday and I’m anxious about not having him there for the scan. 

    GTKY: Who was your first celebrity crush? In addition to Devon Sawa, I had a major crush on Sue Ellen’s middle brother Zach (apparently the late Chris Pettiet per Wiki) in Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead. “She was my moon goddess!” 


    ETA: I can’t math. 
  • @c1kc1kpol1cn1k @EmilyE13 thank you, i was so stressed it was hard for me to enjoy being here for a little bit. Getting my nipt results helped alot.

    I'm glad im not the only one who thinks theu may have felt movement. I havent felt kicks but a weird pressury feeling similiar to gas but different like 3 times. Think maybe it was the baby rolling ? 
  • @mommystuebs I think I've felt movement similar to what you're describing.  A weird pressury feeling similar to gas but like a rolling.  I've only noticed it when I'm still...sitting or layingin bed.  I'm chalking it up to baby.

    @EmilyE13 the only appointment my husband has ever attended was the 20 week anatomy scan with our first.  This time will probably be the same with him only attending the anatomy scan. 
  • valerie4786valerie4786 member
    edited July 2019
    Est Due Date/Weeks + Days:  13w5d/Jan 9th

    Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: finding out...I'm so antsy now that people are starting to find out!  I feel like our A/S is so far away!  I may end up doing an early ultrasound at a US studio in town but I'm struggling to justify the unnecessary expense. 

    Baby is the size of a(n): lemon or potstickers according to the bump's fact of the day

    Upcoming Appointments: July 25th...so far!

    How are you feeling?:  good overall, some fatigue and lots of heartburn 🙄

    Rants/Raves:
    rant: heartburn 
    rave: my husband just brought me home dairy queen 🙌

    Questions: Anyone thinking about maternity leave yet?  I have a potential job opportunity that's I'm on the fence about..

    GTKY: Who was your first celebrity crush?  Leonardo DiCaprio...my walls were plastered with his face from teeny bopper magazines 😂😂

    ETA: EDD 
  • @EmilyE13 generally my husband doesnt come to a lot of my appointments as he cant get the time off work for every single one. He came to the booking scan (12 weeks) & will come to the anatomy scan, both of which he had to book leave for & has enough notice. But I have a lot of appointments with having (not quite confirmed yet) gd & twins. At my last appointment the sonographer was very taken aback that it was just me on my own at my appointment but it doesnt bother me 🤷🏻‍♀️

    @valerie4786 I have been thinking a bit about mat leave, we get a lot longer here than in the states though. So im thinking I’ll take about 9/10 months this time though I took a full year with dd. My inital thoughts were id finish at christmas & go back in september/october time but now with twins & them probably being delivered before christmas, im thinking I’ll finish end of nov & go back september time but can review that depending how massive im feeling as I progress.
  • @EmilyE13 my H also just comes to the viability and anatomy scans. He might have come to the NT but he had a crazy work thing going on. 

    @valerie4786 like every day! Can’t wait! I know not everyone does but I freaking loved my maternity leave with #1. It was my glory days. I only get 12 weeks, not fully paid so that part is hard, especially now with DS in daycare (and if we pull him we lose his spot 😫) but I’ll love every rice and beans eating, penny pinching day. 
  • @valerie4786 Yes! My company recently increased their parental leave benefit to 12 weeks paid for everyone (adoptive parents, fathers, etc) and 18 weeks paid for mothers who’ve given birth. Plus there is an additional 6 weeks unpaid you can take anytime in the first year. I’m definitely taking the 18. I’ll see how I feel about the additional 6. I’m looking forward to it!
  • @EmilyE13 . I am so jealous of your leave.  I am a public school teacher and I do not get any paid time off and have to pay double the insurance cost per month (~$900).  I wish my state could just get it together.  

    Est Due Date/Weeks + Days: 13w1

    Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: Green!

    Baby is the size of a(n): Meyer lemon

    Upcoming Appointments:  End of July I believe.  Just taking every day as it comes. 

    How are you feeling?:  Eh.  Still have afternoon morning sickness.  

    Rants/Raves: My sister is coming to town!

    Questions: Not now.

    GTKY: Who was your first celebrity crush?  Jimmy Stewart.
  • Est Due Date/Weeks + Days: EDD 1/3, 14W5D

    Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: Green 

    Baby is the size of a(n): peach 

    Upcoming Appointments: Friday, 7/12.   They started me on bedtime insulin so going to be reviewing my sugars 

    How are you feeling?:  Mostly just tired 

    Rants/Raves: It’s too early for this much heartburn!

    Questions: none this week 

    GTKY: Who was your first celebrity crush? JTT until Justin Timberlake entered the scene.   It will be Justin forever and ever now. 
  • EDD 1/3, 14W6D
    Team Finding Out
    Baby is the size of a 🍩

    Upcoming Appointments: 7/25 checkup. But really looking forward to the anatomy scan 8/19!!

    How are you feeling?:  Exhaustion has seemed to have passed.. But don't want to jinx it. So I haven't exercised since last week. I'll probably go for a hike this weekend though.
    Belly is expanding fast! My abs seen to be fighting it.

    Rants/Raves: DH lightly patted my belly a bunch tonight. So nice.

    Questions: What are you all doing to relax?
  • @jitterbug1419 have you noticed a difference in your numbers since starting insulin? Im just sitting waiting to go into the hospital to get started on slow release insulin. My post prandial numbers have been fine generally so far (bar the odd poor food choice) but fasting is way out 😕
  • Est Due Date/Weeks + Days: 15w+1

    Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: finding out

    Baby is the size of a(n): eggo waffle

    Upcoming Appointments:
    17th of July is my first apt with my OB

    How are you feeling?:
    I got my first headache since finding out and it lasted a few days. I tried Tylenol and it did nothing. Solution: coffee, a cool cloth on my forehead, diffusing peppermint.

    Rants/Raves: I just started setting up the nursery. I will be be buying paint this week. Waiting for job postings with my school board. Looks like I will be visibly pregnant in my interviews...

    Questions: none

    GTKY: Who was your first celebrity crush?
    Aaron Carter, Usher, then Chad Michael Murray
  • @leprechaunlady - my after meal numbers were typically where they wanted them.  Like you, my fasting numbers were what were so high.   I started 16units of a long acting insulin at bedtime on Monday and this morning (Thursday) was the first day I had a fasting number under 100 (96).   I’ve been struggling with my morning glucose for a few years, and 96 is the lowest I’ve seen it in awhile so I think it might be working, but I’m worried they will have to keep increasing my dose throughout the pregnancy.
  • Est Due Date/Weeks + Days:1/6 14w3d

    Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: finding out!

    Baby is the size of a(n): lemon

    Upcoming Appointments: 7/15

    How are you feeling?: better every day, but heartburn already on the increase 🙄

    Rants/Raves: been feeling baby some and even got to hear the heartbeat at home with an old Doppler my husband brought home from the hospital where he works (it was getting tossed so he just took it). That was a surprise because it’s a crappy old one and we didn’t think it would work, but it did! 

    Questions: Anyone with an early due date been hoping they have baby in Dec simply because of the fact that most heath insurance premiums renew Jan 1? 😂😜

    GTKY: Who was your first celebrity crush? I totally forgot about JTT until I read some others put that! So him or Taylor Hanson! 🤔
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  • @lindseyjane03 ha! 😂 I’m due Jan 1 and we keep telling everyone we hope the baby comes early so we get the child tax deduction in 2019! Even our dr mentioned it! 


  • @jitterbug1419 our readings are different here, they are mmol/L so my fasting need to between 3.5-5.5 & then below 8 an hour after eating. 
    Ive only started on a very low dose yesterday, 2 units before bed & i was at 5.4 this morning. They also suggested I take 1 unit of fast acting at breakfast but that brought me down to 5.7. 
    My husband is a doctor so ive talked it over with him & am thinking that i drop the fast acting for now but up my slow release by a unit or 2 if im getting similar results after a few more days. Today & monday are public holidays here so I’ll phone in on tuesday to discuss it a bit more with the specialist nurses.
  • @leprechaunlady 😂😂 I’m right there with you for wife of the year 🤷🏼‍♀️ #sorrynotsorry
  • @mommystuebs I also have felt movement, just flutters.   Very sporadic and only at the most obvious times, like when I have had something sugary to drink and then been sitting still.  I also felt movement very early with my dd.  
  • Est Due Date/Weeks + Days: 14 weeks tomorrow 

    Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green:finding out 

    Baby is the size of a(n): peach

    Upcoming Appointments: was July 29 to find out gender but got pushed to August 5th 😢 

    How are you feeling?: still tired 

    Rants/Raves: I don’t know if I’ve been bloated for two weeks or started showing 

    Questions: none

    GTKY: Who was your first celebrity crush? Jesse McCartney 🤦‍♀️ 😂 
  • mama_stef said:
    @lindseyjane03 ha! 😂 I’m due Jan 1 and we keep telling everyone we hope the baby comes early so we get the child tax deduction in 2019! Even our dr mentioned it! 


    LOL! Yes!  My dr said she offers induction to everyone at 39 weeks so we could definitely make it happen.  I'm hoping to go on my own early though.  I know every single pregnancy is different, but my 1st was 8 days early, 2nd was 12 days early, and 3rd was 10 days early.  Fingers crossed we don't have to go the induction route, but glad we can if we need to.  :)
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  • @mama_stef I totally wouldn't mind that 2019 tax deduction! But if it doesn't work out, having a birthday in year 2020 sounds pretty cool too 😁
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