Upcoming Appointments: July 1st A/S and July 2nd with OB
Rant/Rave: I started working from home again today... unproductive 🤪. My new coworkers and their bones stink! 🤮 But it is nice to have the little furballs around.
GTKY: What is your favorite dessert/sweet treat? Homemade Nieman Marcus Cookies... a great substitute is the oatmeal chocolate cookies from Potbelly Sandwich Shops! And definitely rice crispies!!
Upcoming Appointments: Had a follow up ultrasound today since baby was refusing to let their entire spine be imaged last time. Everything checked out. I'm going back home this July so I'm skipping the 24 week appointment, so don't have another one until mid-August.
Rant/Rave: I'm glad the ultrasound today went well, and I'm extra glad that I don't have to go back again. It's been quite an ordeal trying to schedule appointments when DH can come home from work to watch DS since I can't take him in with me.
GTKY: What is your favorite dessert/sweet treat? Cookie dough. No need to cook it.
Upcoming Appointments: July 8th OB and July 10th follow up to the AS to get better pics of baby's cardio outflow tract and to check my placenta... Apparently it looks like I have a low lying placenta and they need to confirm?
Rant/Rave: Had our AS last Friday and everything looked good. Was pretty nervous leading up to it, so it's a huge relief. And also starting to finally feel what I think are baby kicks... So really starting to feel real!
GTKY: What is your favorite dessert/sweet treat? Mint chip ice cream or pretty much any type of chocolate mmmmmmmm
Baby is the size of: an Axolotl (Funny looking Mexican amphibian) 🤣
Upcoming Appointments: PT video appt in 30 minutes for pelvic floor and core strengthening follow up; July 13 for AS u/s follow up. @mia80 it sounds like our babies think alike - I have to follow up for outflow tracts too and then for better pics of the hands.
Rant/Rave: I’m trying to figure out how to do a baby shower...part of me wants to fly back to Oklahoma to be with some family and friends in person, but I don’t know if I want to risk that. The other part of me thinks just doing a virtual shower might be enough considering everything. I hate how impersonal virtual would feel though!
GTKY: What is your favorite dessert/sweet treat?: It’s too hard to choose just one. I like them all! Maybe I can narrow it down to Half Baked Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, brownies, and funfetti cake/cupcakes!
Me: 27 DH: 30 Started dating: 10/2010 ;; Married 10/2017 Started TTC: 10/2019 BFP: 12/20/19 ;; MC: 12/24/19 BFP: 3/5/20 ;; EDD: 11/11/20
Baby is the size of: Endive(whatever that is! 😅) ways the same as a can of soda today.
Upcoming Appointments: 8/5 checkup
Rant/Rave: yesterday I was running my bump and found an extra little bump sticking out a bit (I can only assume is was some part of baby) and then later I felt something solid hit my bladder and then kicking near the top of my uterus...i think this little girl was doing flips and did a head dive into my bladder. I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around the fact that she's actually kind of big now and not just the size of a cherry tomato anymore!😅
GTKY: What is your favorite dessert/sweet treat? Why are we talking about deserts? Now I want them all!!!😁 rice crispies, cookie dough, ice cream...yumm! Sadly, I feel sick when I eat too much sugar so nowadays my favorite desert is watermelon. I don't know if it counts though because I eat it all day long!
Baby is the size of: Endive? Must be a giant endive...
Upcoming Appointments: Meeting with the midwife in a few weeks.
Rant/Rave: Had the anatomy scan last week and everything looked good. Also found an amazing doula, and I’m SO excited to have her support.
GTKY: What is your favorite dessert/sweet treat? Typically it’s cheesecake (chocolate marbled when possible), but these days I’m really loving chocolate croissants. My guilty pleasure sweet - the one I tend to get when DH is traveling for work - are those thick, soft sugar cookies they sell in grocery stores and Target with the bright frosting and the sprinkles. I think Lofthouse is one of the brands that makes them... 🤤
@auburnvelvet86 I make no egg cookie dough bites for different holidays(...and maybe tuesdays 🤷🏻♀️) but they are fantastic! It’s just butter, flour, brown sugar, vanilla and mini chocolate chips. 😋
@mia80 a local ice cream shop has mint moose tracks and it is hands down the best ice cream I have ever had!
Upcoming Appointments: follow-up AS July 2nd to check on baby's aorta. They said they didn't have a good view but that it looked like the aorta might have a narrowing. She said that depending on what the next ultrasound reveals that we might have to see a cardiologist. So 🤞 for Thursday
Rant/Rave: Rant:I been having regular low intensity contractions for two weeks now (about 4-6/hour). I'm over it. Lots of resting and drinking water. I had this the last 3.5 weeks with DS and I'm hoping it doesn't continue the rest of this pregnancy. My midwife checked - no amniotic fluid leaking and my cervix is closed. Rave: pretty sure I've felt baby boy moving a few times.
GTKY: What is your favorite dessert/sweet treat? Apple pie is my favorite! Especially, the way my mom made it growing up with extra cinnamon and no nutmeg. It's hard for me to pass up any fruit pies, fruit cobblers, fruit crisps, or fruit custards.
@auburnvelvet86 there is an amazing cookie dough shop near my house. It's like an ice cream shop but cookie dough. They make it with treated flour and no eggs. And they have soft serve vanilla ice cream you can get with it. It's amazing 😋
Rant/Rave: I have already started getting BH in the evening. 😩 I don’t remember ever getting them before the 3rd trimester with my previous pregnancies. They can get quite intense and frequent too, it actually scared me on Saturday night and I went to L&D to make sure it wasn’t preterm labor. I had about 20 in a 2 hour period! They think it might be from going back to work recently after mostly sitting at home for 3 months. They make me nervous and I don’t like them. They never bothered me when I was having them with full-term babies but this just seems so early. Hopefully it is just my body adjusting to being on my feet all day again and they will settle down.
GTKY: What is your favorite dessert/sweet treat? Chocolate cheesecake! 🤤 I’m typically not much of a sweets person but right now give me ALLLLL the desserts
@mia80 it is mint ice cream with thick fudge ‘walls’ as I call them because they are so much more than swirls and chunks. Then they add mini mint cream filled chocolate cups. I am convinced, it will be served in Heaven. 🙌🏻😂
@kelk5 That sounds amazing! I once found a food truck parked outside a local brewery DH and I were at that served cookie dough as their main thing, all types and flavors. But like all great food trucks, it then disappeared into the night and I've never been able to find it again.
@kelk5 they are on and off all the time, but I do get breaks from them. I seem to get them mostly when I’m sitting down, which is so frustrating because I’m on my feet all day and it’s like as soon as I try to sit down and rest I get them.
@kitkatz1990 oh no, that's awful that they're happening when you sit down. Mine are regardless of what I'm doing but they usually are lighter when I'm sitting/laying down.
Upcoming Appointments: End of July with a new Dr. midwife at the office.
Rant/Rave: @lovelee3 same! I'm thinking of doing 1/2 virtual & 1/2 in-person. We have family out of state and older family members in state who may not attend an in-person event. I virtually attended a bridal shower last month and I enjoyed watching from my house and I usually hate showers!
GTKY: What is your favorite dessert/sweet treat? I love all sweets but I've been obsessed with Oreo's with milk and Capt'n Crunch with Berries right now. And I found Christmas cookies in my freezer last week....score!!
@lovelee3@mwagensomer I'm trying to decide what to do for a baby shower too. I'd always kinda planned to do one when baby was here so everyone could meet him, but with covid I don't know if I want a lot of people around nugget. And even beforehand I don't want that many people around!! Might just skip the whole thing...
For baby showers, my cousin did several different virtual baby showers. They kept it to groups who knew each other so that everyone was comfortable talking and most people mailed gifts ahead of time. DH's friend did a drive-by baby shower where people pulled up 6-10 feet from the couple and visited for 5-10 mins each. I think they had a family member collect any gifts that were brought. We are not planning to do one but DH's co-workers may do a virtual one at work.
Re: Week 2 (11/08 – 11/14) – Check In Week 6/29/2020
Week of pregnancy: 20w 4D
Baby is the size of: Microphone 🎤
Upcoming Appointments: July 1st A/S and July 2nd with OB
Rant/Rave: I started working from home again today... unproductive 🤪. My new coworkers and their bones stink! 🤮 But it is nice to have the little furballs around.
GTKY: What is your favorite dessert/sweet treat? Homemade Nieman Marcus Cookies... a great substitute is the oatmeal chocolate cookies from Potbelly Sandwich Shops! And definitely rice crispies!!
Week of pregnancy: 20w2d
Baby is the size of: large banana
Upcoming Appointments: Had a follow up ultrasound today since baby was refusing to let their entire spine be imaged last time. Everything checked out. I'm going back home this July so I'm skipping the 24 week appointment, so don't have another one until mid-August.
Rant/Rave: I'm glad the ultrasound today went well, and I'm extra glad that I don't have to go back again. It's been quite an ordeal trying to schedule appointments when DH can come home from work to watch DS since I can't take him in with me.
GTKY: What is your favorite dessert/sweet treat? Cookie dough. No need to cook it.
Week of pregnancy: 21+6
Baby is the size of: an Axolotl (Funny looking Mexican amphibian) 🤣
Upcoming Appointments: PT video appt in 30 minutes for pelvic floor and core strengthening follow up; July 13 for AS u/s follow up. @mia80 it sounds like our babies think alike - I have to follow up for outflow tracts too and then for better pics of the hands.
Rant/Rave: I’m trying to figure out how to do a baby shower...part of me wants to fly back to Oklahoma to be with some family and friends in person, but I don’t know if I want to risk that. The other part of me thinks just doing a virtual shower might be enough considering everything. I hate how impersonal virtual would feel though!
GTKY: What is your favorite dessert/sweet treat?: It’s too hard to choose just one. I like them all! Maybe I can narrow it down to Half Baked Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, brownies, and funfetti cake/cupcakes!
Started dating: 10/2010 ;; Married 10/2017
Started TTC: 10/2019
BFP: 12/20/19 ;; MC: 12/24/19
BFP: 3/5/20 ;; EDD: 11/11/20
Week of pregnancy: 21+1
Baby is the size of: Endive(whatever that is! 😅) ways the same as a can of soda today.
Upcoming Appointments: 8/5 checkup
Rant/Rave: yesterday I was running my bump and found an extra little bump sticking out a bit (I can only assume is was some part of baby) and then later I felt something solid hit my bladder and then kicking near the top of my uterus...i think this little girl was doing flips and did a head dive into my bladder. I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around the fact that she's actually kind of big now and not just the size of a cherry tomato anymore!😅
GTKY: What is your favorite dessert/sweet treat? Why are we talking about deserts? Now I want them all!!!😁 rice crispies, cookie dough, ice cream...yumm! Sadly, I feel sick when I eat too much sugar so nowadays my favorite desert is watermelon. I don't know if it counts though because I eat it all day long!
Week of pregnancy: 21 holy moly!
Baby is the size of: Endive? Must be a giant endive...
Upcoming Appointments: Meeting with the midwife in a few weeks.
Rant/Rave: Had the anatomy scan last week and everything looked good. Also found an amazing doula, and I’m SO excited to have her support.
GTKY: What is your favorite dessert/sweet treat? Typically it’s cheesecake (chocolate marbled when possible), but these days I’m really loving chocolate croissants. My guilty pleasure sweet - the one I tend to get when DH is traveling for work - are those thick, soft sugar cookies they sell in grocery stores and Target with the bright frosting and the sprinkles. I think Lofthouse is one of the brands that makes them... 🤤
Week of pregnancy: 21 today! 🥳
Baby is the size of: a maltese puppy 🐶
Upcoming Appointments: July 16 for routine
Rant/Rave: My hormones make me mean and it’s not nice. 😑
GTKY: What is your favorite dessert/sweet treat? Anything lemon! My mom makes a hershey bar cake too that is out of this world. 🥰
@mia80 a local ice cream shop has mint moose tracks and it is hands down the best ice cream I have ever had!
Week of pregnancy: 20 weeks
Baby is the size of: a banana
Upcoming Appointments: follow-up AS July 2nd to check on baby's aorta. They said they didn't have a good view but that it looked like the aorta might have a narrowing. She said that depending on what the next ultrasound reveals that we might have to see a cardiologist. So 🤞 for Thursday
Rant/Rave:
Rant:I been having regular low intensity contractions for two weeks now (about 4-6/hour). I'm over it. Lots of resting and drinking water. I had this the last 3.5 weeks with DS and I'm hoping it doesn't continue the rest of this pregnancy. My midwife checked - no amniotic fluid leaking and my cervix is closed.
Rave: pretty sure I've felt baby boy moving a few times.
GTKY: What is your favorite dessert/sweet treat? Apple pie is my favorite! Especially, the way my mom made it growing up with extra cinnamon and no nutmeg. It's hard for me to pass up any fruit pies, fruit cobblers, fruit crisps, or fruit custards.
I think I want every dessert now... Lemon squares, cookie dough, cupcakes and tiramisu! Mmmmm
Week of pregnancy: 21w tomorrow
Baby is the size of: Cantaloupe 😱
Upcoming Appointments: Next Tues for anatomy scan
Rant/Rave: I have already started getting BH in the evening. 😩 I don’t remember ever getting them before the 3rd trimester with my previous pregnancies. They can get quite intense and frequent too, it actually scared me on Saturday night and I went to L&D to make sure it wasn’t preterm labor. I had about 20 in a 2 hour period! They think it might be from going back to work recently after mostly sitting at home for 3 months. They make me nervous and I don’t like them. They never bothered me when I was having them with full-term babies but this just seems so early. Hopefully it is just my body adjusting to being on my feet all day again and they will settle down.
GTKY: What is your favorite dessert/sweet treat? Chocolate cheesecake! 🤤 I’m typically not much of a sweets person but right now give me ALLLLL the desserts
Started dating: 10/2010 ;; Married 10/2017
Started TTC: 10/2019
BFP: 12/20/19 ;; MC: 12/24/19
BFP: 3/5/20 ;; EDD: 11/11/20
mostly when I’m sitting down, which is so frustrating because I’m on my feet all day and it’s like as soon as I try to sit down and rest I get them.
Week of pregnancy: 21 +2 days
Baby is the size of: Endive
Upcoming Appointments: End of July with a new Dr. midwife at the office.
Rant/Rave: @lovelee3 same! I'm thinking of doing 1/2 virtual & 1/2 in-person. We have family out of state and older family members in state who may not attend an in-person event. I virtually attended a bridal shower last month and I enjoyed watching from my house and I usually hate showers!
GTKY: What is your favorite dessert/sweet treat? I love all sweets but I've been obsessed with Oreo's with milk and Capt'n Crunch with Berries right now. And I found Christmas cookies in my freezer last week....score!!