March 2020 Moms
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Group 3 (3/17-3/24) Check-in w/o 1/6
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EDD/W+D:
Team pink/blue/green:
Baby is the size of a(n):
Cravings/Aversions:
Upcoming appts:
Rants/Raves/Questions:
GTKY: How has this pregnancy gone as you expected? How not? FTMs: what do you feel women don't talk about/enough? STM+s: how has this been different from your previous pregnancy/ies?
Team pink/blue/green:
Baby is the size of a(n):
Cravings/Aversions:
Upcoming appts:
Rants/Raves/Questions:
GTKY: How has this pregnancy gone as you expected? How not? FTMs: what do you feel women don't talk about/enough? STM+s: how has this been different from your previous pregnancy/ies?
Re: Group 3 (3/17-3/24) Check-in w/o 1/6
Team pink/blue/green: Boy #3
Baby is the size of a(n): Barbie Convertible
Cravings/Aversions: No specific aversions anymore, though I still just want all the bagels with cream cheese. I could eat them for every meal of the day. Overall I'm generally not hungry and when I'm distracted, I totally miss meal times sometimes - I assume because of baby taking up all the space in there.
Upcoming appts: Midwife checkup on Friday
Rants/Raves/Questions: I haven't checked in in a while so I figured I should! Honestly, the main rave for me right now is that my month long cold is finally going away. I caught my kids cold early December and it was almost gone by Christmas then decided to have a resurgence over the holidays - no fun! Main reason I've been mostly MIA for a while.
GTKY: How has this pregnancy gone as you expected? How not? FTMs: what do you feel women don't talk about/enough? STM+s: how has this been different from your previous pregnancy/ies? All my pregnancies, including this one, have been mostly uneventful for the majority. The main difference with this pregnancy is that I got a nasty cold this time - I didn't get any bad illnesses during my other two. There are little things, like I think my back pain started earlier with this one, a little stronger morning sickness, took a little longer to feel movements due to an anterior placenta (other two were posterior), but nothing overwhelmingly different from the others.
What I am nervous about is now that we are approaching late pregnancy, with my other two I had some weird symptoms close to my due date. I would have a traveling numbness in one arm with blurry vision, episodes would last maybe 30-60 mins then I'd be fine. It happened 2-3 times before delivery with both DS1 and DS2. My midwives had no idea what was going on, and the times I would come in for monitoring the episode would be over and they wouldn't see anything amiss with my BP or baby. They said I'd need to see a neurologist about it if it happened outside of pregnancy, but I've only ever had it happen late pregnancy. We shall see if it happens again with this one.
DS2 10/2017
DS3 due 03/2020
EDD/W+D: 3/21 / 29w2d
Team pink/blue/green: ...pink!
Baby is the size of a(n): acorn squash
Cravings/Aversions: I want all the apple juice, all the apples, and all the ice cream. I'm still avoiding spicy and garlicky foods because the tastes linger.
Upcoming appts: Tomorrow! I feel like I keep forgetting? Then another in ~3 weeks, then we go every 2, then every 1--I feel like once we start going every two weeks, everything is going to feel so real! I think I am going to try to schedule them all either tomorrow or at the 32w one--IDK when my dissertation defense date is? I haven't heard annyyttthinnggg from my dissertation director, sooo I don't want to schedule them until that's set. But like, I feel like my 32 week appointment, which I will have to schedule tomorrow, will be around when my defense is supposed to be sooooooo.
Rants/Raves/Questions: DH got home yesterday & we unpacked the car this morning and now I am SO TIRED. I have a lot to do between now and next week, as my interview is next week aaand my online classes/the semester starts, but I am REALLY trying to be good to myself & take it easy when possible. The Eagles lost yesterday =( BUT the Patriots lost Saturday
GTKY: How has this pregnancy gone as you expected? How not? FTMs: what do you feel women don't talk about/enough? STM+s: how has this been different from your previous pregnancy/ies? I suppose I didn't have many expectations going into this thing since I knew I was new at it? But I definitely am that person who had & continues to have a lot of bad symptoms--not a low of glowing, lol, more complaining. And while I didn't think being pregnant would be FUN, I am surprised people don't talk about the negative symptoms more outside of with other PG women? I'm surprised we got a lot of the "big" stuff from our registry, so that's unexpected and soooo appreciated. I am surprised how many appointments we have had and how few ultrasounds--I guess from what I know from pop culture, it seems like you'd get one every time.
Team pink/blue/green: Pink💗
Baby is the size of a(n): Acorn Squash
Cravings/Aversions: Nothing. Kind of boring at the moment. Haha!
Upcoming appts: Today. OB check up. I'm every 2 weeks now😲
Rants/Raves/Questions: RAVE: My friends are throwing me a sprinkle next month which was totally unexpected. I'm excited for a very laid back version of my baby shower 3 years ago. Haha! We're just going to brunch. My 2nd RAVE is that setting up for baby #2 is much easier. We have everything we need and it's already set up and ready to go. Now we just wait! RANT: My DS caught a chest cold so I'm keeping my FX it skips me this round. I had a bad chest cold over Thanksgiving. Blah.
GTKY: How has this pregnancy gone as you expected? How not? FTMs: what do you feel women don't talk about/enough? STM+s: how has this been different from your previous pregnancy/ies? I was actually just talking about this earlier with a friend! I have noticed some differences between my 1st pregnancy and my 2nd pregnancy. I'm not sure if it's because my first was a boy and this time it's a girl? With my DS, my pregnancy was so easy from the moment I POAS to the moment I went into labor. This time around not so much. I had all day nausea and dry heaving from weeks 5-15, followed by 2 nasty colds, followed by a bought of tonsil stones (DO NOT GOOGLE), followed by a nasty rash, followed by feeling extra stretched by 25 weeks and most recently I have noticed the start of a varicose vein 😭. I had anterior placenta with my DS, but posterior with this pregnancy. I'm still working out daily and overall it has been an uneventful pregnancy even with being 3 years older. But, this will definitely be my last baby.
**TW**
IF DX January 2016- Me: Right sided hydrosalpinx
Right tube removed: February 2016
Acupuncture + TCM: March 2016
BFP: July 4, 2016 | DS: March 2017 (39w 2d)
TTC #2: April 2019
BFP #2: April 2019 | CP: April 30, 2019 (4w 2d)
BFP #3: July 15, 2019
EDD: March 23, 2020
I'm sorry this pregnancy has been harder on you than you imagined @kagesstarshroom. This pregnancy is definitely different for me as well. My first was a breeze, but this one not so much. Haha! Hang in there. She will be here before you know it 😊
**TW**
IF DX January 2016- Me: Right sided hydrosalpinx
Right tube removed: February 2016
Acupuncture + TCM: March 2016
BFP: July 4, 2016 | DS: March 2017 (39w 2d)
TTC #2: April 2019
BFP #2: April 2019 | CP: April 30, 2019 (4w 2d)
BFP #3: July 15, 2019
EDD: March 23, 2020
@puppylove8910 I've had tonsil stones before and they are so gross. FX that you don't catch the cold! I've been saying the same thing about people who ask if I'm disappointed that #3 is another boy - we have so little to do to get ready! Basically just buy some tiny diapers and bring out the itty bitty clothes from storage. Going from DS1 to DS2 was more work because we prepped a second kid's room, but we only have 3 bedrooms so now that both of the extra rooms are kid's rooms, we just need to shift DS2 into DS1's room with him.
DS2 10/2017
DS3 due 03/2020
Team pink/blue/green: pink (girl #2)
Baby is the size of a(n): acorn squash
Cravings/Aversions: carbs. Sweets. Beer, weirdly (I have been drinking non-alcoholic beer once in a while).
Upcoming appts: Next Tuesday
Rants/Raves/Questions: Just a little sad to be back at work, but 9 weeks until spring break! If I go into labor a few days early, like I did with DD, I may not have to go back after March 6! Woohoo! Also I’m getting the nesting bug pretty hard. I’m going to wait until after MLK weekend to paint the nursery and sort through baby clothes, because I have friends visiting that weekend (yay!).
GTKY: How has this pregnancy gone as you expected? How not? FTMs: what do you feel women don't talk about/enough? STM+s: how has this been different from your previous pregnancy/ies?
This one is a little harder and more uncomfortable. First tri was actually easier. I felt sick but never threw up this time. But second tri hit me hard. I have gained more weight, got sore hips/back much earlier, and I’m sleeping worse.
**TW**
IF DX January 2016- Me: Right sided hydrosalpinx
Right tube removed: February 2016
Acupuncture + TCM: March 2016
BFP: July 4, 2016 | DS: March 2017 (39w 2d)
TTC #2: April 2019
BFP #2: April 2019 | CP: April 30, 2019 (4w 2d)
BFP #3: July 15, 2019
EDD: March 23, 2020
@kagesstarshroom Good luck with your dissertation defense! I know that will feel sooooo good once it’s over with!! I think people don’t talk about the negatives with non-preggos because they are afraid they will look ungrateful or like they aren’t being a good future mom. Oooorrrr maybe it’s just evolutions way of making sure women continue to make babies lol!!
@puppylove8910 Thanks for the heads up to not google tonsil stones bc I definitely would have ha! I guess you got lucky that this pregnancy is harder than your first, bc if it was the other way maybe you would have gotten over having a second lol
@kantobean I was just telling my friend yesterday how annoying being pregnant for the first time is because you don’t know what’s normal and what to expect! It’s all very anxiety provoking and I would imagine there’s still some anxiety the second time around but not as much since you’ve gone through it before! Very interesting that you and @puppylove8910 are excited for labor though, I’m pretty much just trying not to think about it so I don’t scare myself even more than I already am lol
EDD/W+D: 3/24, 29 weeks
Team pink/blue/green: queen 👸🏽
Baby is the size of a(n): giving up on this one
Cravings/Aversions: sweets all the time.
Upcoming appts: Monday. I’m surprised so many of you have every 2 week appts, mine doesn’t do that at all.
Rants/Raves/Questions: I’ve been wheezing when I lay down since the beginning of the pregnancy. Not an intense wheeze, just a little whistle. OB had me start Pepcid daily to rule out if it was caused by acid reflux which didn’t stop it, so now I’m suppose to start using a steroid inhaler thing for asthma. I’m testing it out with Albuterol inhaler first and then I might do the steroid inhaler after I talk to an allergist this week. I do have a really hard time breathing in the middle of the night and have a quick gasp for air or
sometimes just breath really deep, but I never had asthma in my life so I’m like r u sure this isn’t all normal?!? Do I really have to put all these dang meds in my baby?! But she says wheezing isn’t normal and I haven’t heard anyone on here mention wheezing either. So then if it isn’t asthma then it could be a heart problem which is even scarier. It all sucks lol
GTKY: How has this pregnancy gone as you expected? How not? FTMs: what do you feel women don't talk about/enough? STM+s: how has this been different from your previous pregnancy/ies?
FTM here. The things I thought would happen for me, like bad acid reflux since I already struggle with GERD pre pregnancy and hemmoroids since I already have one pre pregnancy, haven’t really bothered me much (yet). I’ve actually had unexpected stuff happen like having to take an antibiotic for a possible toe nail infection and the wheezing fiasco. Overall tho, I know this pregnancy could have been harder and I’m thankful I’ve had an easy second trimester. Let’s see what happens this third trimester though...lol. And definitely scared for delivery.
OH! One thing people don’t talk about. Lack of sleep during pregnancy! People talk about the few final weeks being difficult to sleep - but I’ve had issues with sleep since first tri!! And also FOOD AVERSIONS...everyone talks about cravings (which I really haven’t experienced what you see in the movies lol) but nobody talks about the FOOD AVERSIONS. I think food aversions was even more annoying than the morning sickness for me!
Married: 10.15.16
DS BD: 8.20.17
TTC #2 1.1.19
BFP #2 7.3.19
EDD #2 3.13.20
@mrsc918 Um, yes re: aversions are talked about more over cravings! I was excited for cravings! But all I got was aversions with an OCCASIONAL craving, and not many of them memorable? Like, when DH made me the soft pretzels from scratch in first tri, that was memorable bc 1) I got them and 2) he MADE them. I craved water ice forever, but there's none in Louisiana, soooo I never even got to fulfill one of the strongest cravings I had. Sigh.