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October 2020 Moms
kboydbowman
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Weekly Check-in, Week 3 (10/15-10/21) - 4/27
kboydbowman
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Estimated due date (EDD):
Week of pregnancy:
Upcoming Appointments:
Rant/Rave:
GTKY: What are your talents?
Week of pregnancy:
Upcoming Appointments:
Rant/Rave:
GTKY: What are your talents?
Current pregnancy -
First BFP on 1/4/22. Due date 9/13/22.
First BFP on 1/4/22. Due date 9/13/22.
Four prior losses, no living children - 1 first trimester miscarriage, 1 blighted ovum, 1 chemical, and one extreme premature live birth daughter who died at 15 days old.
Re: Weekly Check-in, Week 3 (10/15-10/21) - 4/27
Week of pregnancy: 15 weeks
Upcoming Appointments: next Tuesday! It’s been a long time coming since they cancelled my 12 week!
Rant/Rave:
Rave: I got lots of gardening and landscaping done yesterday (with the backache today to prove it 😂)! I have to go back and get mulch today to finish up. But we still have the whole south side of our house to finish too with landscaping. I’m also on my last week of my Master’s course! Done until the fall! Hopefully baby will come after the class finishes in October 😬
GTKY: What are your talents?
Week of pregnancy: 15+1 today
Upcoming Appointments: Wednesday the 29th (routine OB)
Rant/Rave: Rave - We got a lot done around the house this weekend, and the dumpster we rented is already over half full! Mostly stuff from the garage that needed purging. We have to much room in the garage now, which is good because that doubles as MH's woodworking shop until we finally settle on getting a shed set up in the backyard for him. There's still a few things he needs to get sorted and stowed away, though, but it's difficult getting him to focus on unpleasant tasks like that since he has ADD. I have to constantly set him back on course and remind him that we're not done yet.
Rant - These pregnancy mood swings are f'cking killing me. Saturday was awful; I was in a horrid mood all day. Yesterday was pleasant, I had energy, was dancing in the kitchen while cooking dinner even. Then today, back to megabitch mood again. I think part of it is that MH is on a new diet (high protein, low carb) because he's about 50lbs overweight, whereas I am actually underweight and trying to gain some, so cooking (especially dinners) is proving to be an enormous challenge now that our goals are polar opposites. Couple that with my mood swings and it hasn't been pretty.
GTKY: What are your talents? I can look at something (drawing, painting) and replicate it with pretty good accuracy. I can't draw or paint just from my own mind, but if I have an example in front of me and I set my mind to it, then I'm good to go. My brother is the same way with comic book drawing, so maybe it runs in the family. MH and I have a custom rustic tavern sign business on Etsy, and one of the product lines we offer is horror movie-inspired signs. Our biggest seller has been Camp Crystal Lake from the Friday the 13th movies/video games. The first one is the original, and the second one is what I painted (we've sold almost a dozen of these in the past year).
(Sorry if the pics are huge.)
Due with baby #2: Feb 2022
@babyodo I want to do a junk purge so badly but feel like quarantine has delayed me since I've had the toddler 24/7 and I need to take a bunch of stuff to Goodwill which is closed.
Estimated due date: 10/21
Week of pregnancy: 14+5
Appointments: skipping until anatomy scan on 6/8
Rant/Rave: I guess rave: I send DD back to daycare today. I hit my breaking point this weekend and DH convinced me. We needed it. Working from home for the last 5 weeks with a toddler was a challenge I never expected. I thought I would feel anxious sending her back but I'm honestly just so relieved.
No real rants here for once. Think I'm floating on air with my first day to myself in a long time. Also, starting to feel so much better here in 2nd tri both in nausea and energy. Legs, feet, and hips are starting to hurt a lot though. Started using my compression socks yesterday because they helped me last time. I never visibly swelled much but had a lot of foot and leg pain. I've been walking a lot but don't plan on stopping that and wear good supportive shoes, so I think this is just a part of pregnancy for me.
GTKY: what are your talents?
I did a lot of ceramic art in college. Haven't done it in a while but hope to get back to it eventually. I also sew and knit. Excited to start my quilt for this baby soon.
The majority of my time is spent in my job though, which I think is a talent too. I'm pretty good at it.
Week of pregnancy: 15
Upcoming Appointments: May 11 for some tests
Rant/Rave: Rave: I feel so grateful for my work culture. My boss is super understanding, and my coworker and I work closely together and always have each other's backs. With the tough time I've been having, I can't imagine having to stick to 9 to 5 and pretend to be ok.
Week of pregnancy: 15
Upcoming Appointments: Wed with MFM, Mon with OB (both virtual)
Rant/Rave: I’m waking up like 2x a night to pee already
GTKY: What are your talents? I have a fantastic memory when it comes to my job (nurse). I can tell you pretty much anything about my patients history, recall labs, imaging, etc without having to look again.
10/18
Week of pregnancy:
15
Upcoming Appointments:
My appointment for tomorrow is cancelled now so I'm not sure when it will be rescheduled for.
Rant/Rave:
I'm so angry. My clinic/BC changed their stupid policy on a Sunday night and sent me a shitty text about it. Our masks haven't arrived yet because tleverything is stuck in pre-order and delayed shipments, so of course I don't have a mask and I can't get one between late Sunday night and Tuesday to even make it to my appointment. They say no visitors at appointments and then changed it today and said well yes, actually, partners are allowed to appointments but no allowed in the ultrasound room. What kind of sense does that make? Absolutely none. If my partner is in the building interacting with the midwives and breathing into a mask already, what difference does it make if he's in one more freaking room?
I didn't need to go this appointment anyways so it's fine if I miss it, but I really wanted to hear the heartbeat because I can't use my fetoscope until 20 weeks. I'm heartbroken and angry thinking of being forced to go through an anatomy scan after my history completely alone because of a bullshit policy. Will restrictions be lifted by the end of May? Will anything ever be normal again?
Just so angry I could explode.
I haven't gone anywhere or interacted with a single person since February aside from my 12 week appointment a literal month ago, so just let me go to my appointment and let my partner in the ultrasound room and leave us alone because we aren't sick or spreading anything.
GTKY: What are your talents?
Cooking according to my partner lol
I don't know if it's technically a talent, but I have mad analytical skills,
I wish I had gone to college because I'd love to learn strategies for troubleshooting and product management. But I decided to be a farmer instead 😂
@babyodo I'm so in love with your business, that's genius and you're really talented!!
And re: your partner in the US room for the anatomy scan - I'm not sure if it's just because I'm military so the rules may be different, but the Radiology department has always made me go in by myself. The tech always tells me I'm not allowed to ask questions because they can't answer them and I have to save my questions for my follow-up with the OB, and they point even point the screen away. Granted, this is based on my experiences post-miscarriage, so it may be different for an anatomy scan, but they told me the same rules apply for my upcoming anatomy scan in May.
Due with baby #2: Feb 2022
@coldbrew girl I feel you! I never ever wake up to pee when not pregnant. But the last week or so has really made me pee so much more and I’m up at night!
@kalesix3 maybe you can record the heartbeat for him on your phone at your next visit? I'm skipping my 16 week though, so I get it if you decide to. As far as anatomy scan goes, I do think it's weird that they would make a distinction on what rooms he is allowed in. My practice is currently not allowing anyone but the patient, but that includes waiting room, office, etc. I think it's too early to predict what things will be like in a month though.
Estimated due date (EDD): 10/16
Week of pregnancy: 15 + 4
Upcoming Appointments: end of May (but it’s almost may!)
Rant/Rave:
rave: my hives finally seem to be on the mend. It’s been a really rough allergy season for me so I’m ready for a break. Most of my nausea has subsided with just random things making me a little queasy. I’m still exhausted but I’ve also had a hard time sleeping with all the ear aches and itchy hives. Hoping once this passes I can sleep and get some energy back.
GTKY: What are your talents?
i can sew and crochet. Not sure if those really count as talents.
@babyodo The pregnancy mood swings are real! I have been trying so hard not to be a complete b**** lately.
@knottie801d61d74f78b107 I feel like every pregnancy is different. When I was pregnant with my son, my symptoms from first trimester never went away, and then I added new symptoms as the pregnancy progressed. I felt like I might have had two weeks when I felt OK. My nausea never fully went away, but my appetite did increase. It is uncommon to have nausea for the entire pregnancy. However, my current pregnancy has been so much easier and the nausea has significantly improved within the last couple of weeks. For most women, second trimester is supposed to be the honeymoon phase because most of the unpleasant first trimester symptoms tend to improve. I hope that your nausea starts improving soon.
@carrotsandpeas3 I love my compression socks! I felt like such an old lady when I started wearing them during my first pregnancy, but they do make a difference.
@coldbrew I'm so tired of having to pee all the time!
@kalesix3 Would the office allow you to at least FaceTime during the anatomy scan if he can't be in the room? I'm also hoping policies might start to change over the next month.
@babycakesday I'm glad that your hives are getting better!
Estimated due date (EDD): 10/16
Week of pregnancy: 15 weeks 4 days
Upcoming Appointments: June 2nd (anatomy scan)
Rant/Rave: I feel like I am in the honeymoon phase of pregnancy which didn't exist at all with my other pregnancy. I still have some pregnancy symptoms/issues, but they seem so minor right now.
GTKY: What are your talents? As a hobby, I paint with acrylic on canvas. My paintings actually look like someone who knew what they were doing painted them. When I was younger, I always thought that I would become an artist, but I went into medicine instead.
They did tell me I could FaceTime with my partner,
and I am trying to be thankful for that, but that's not what I'm upset over, I don't want to video it, I want him there with me so if I have to get terrible news I'm not alone. My clinic is tiny, only one person is allowed in the building at one time and we have to pass through 2 covid checkpoints before we can go in, they sanitize after each visit too so none of us are mingling with any other patients and if we're already in the room with our masks on, it makes zero difference if one of us walks down the hall to the ultrasound room instead of both of us... I'm all for safety and reasonable restrictions and this isn't reasonable.
I'm just.. holding onto hope that if I push my scan back far enough, the restrictions will be dropped and we can just have a normal ultrasound which is a really big deal to us after our stillbirth, for a normal anatomy scan I probably wouldn't care so much but with my personal situation it's devastating and I think it's so unprofessional to do this to clients AFTER our peak for covid cases.
I think this whole quarantine thing is starting to wear on us. We're just in each others' faces too much, even though we work from home in separates spaces. It's just getting to be too much, so we're picking at each other for the smallest things. This is why I enjoy my afternoon walks by myself around our neighborhood. It just sucks when he have rain for days on end, so I'm stuck inside.
Due with baby #2: Feb 2022