March 2021 Moms

All Due Date Check-in 10/11

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days:

FTM/STM/STM+:

Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out:

Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of:

Upcoming appointments:

How are you feeling?:

Rants/Raves:

Questions:

GTKY: tell us about your worst date!
TTC history in spoiler
Me: 31 Him: 37
Married: Oct 2015
Baby G born June 2017
TTC#2: July 2018
BFP #2: 2/6/19 MC 3/14/19
BFP#3 from IUI #2: 6/30/20 EDD 3/9/21

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Re: All Due Date Check-in 10/11

  • Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 10/17. 17+5

    FTM/STM/STM+: #3 

    Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Team green so far.. I don't want to find out but hubs does. I'm trying to be considerate even though we all know ultimately I can decide lol

    Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: thumb is size of tip of match

    Upcoming appointments: end of month for anatomy scan

    How are you feeling?: tired all the time and very fat this time around (been eating terrible to deal w nausea)

    Rants/Raves: Buckeye football starts next weekend  :#   😁

    Questions: Those who found out sex with one but not the other, tell me what you liked better and why? I'm still on the fence! We already have a boy and girl, so this one doesn't really matter!

    GTKY: tell us about your worst date! when I turned 16, for my birthday, my boyfriend at the time (first boyfriend ever) built up this huge surprise for my birthday for months and ended up taking me to the local gas station and buying me hot chocolate. Later he admitted that he forgot my birthday. :| Loser lol It makes for a great laugh now
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  • Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 18+1

    FTM/STM/STM+: STM - DS is 3
     
    Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Team blue!

    Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: sweet potato or croissant

    Upcoming appointments: Anatomy scan on 10/27

    How are you feeling?: My stomach pain came back with a vengeance last week and had me the crying in the fetal position on Thursday night.  No idea what triggered it.  I've got an appt with a gastroenterologist on Thursday.  I now also get headaches every time it rains, which sucks bc we've got lots of rain in the forecast this week.  Other than that, I feel great lol

    Rants/Raves:  Rants: my stomach and my head need to stop hurting. Raves: We had a family photo session yesterday and we had so much fun.  I can't wait to see how they turned out!

    Questions:

    GTKY: tell us about your worst date!  I actually don't have a bad date story.  I've only had 3 boyfriends, 2 serious ones and never really dated around.  
    Together 2007 | Married 2011 | Me: 36 | DH: 38
    Adopted Furbaby: 2014
    TTC#1 : 1/2016 | IUI #2 - BFP 12/24/16 -- born 9/8/17
    TTC#2: 11/2019 | Dx DOR (AMH 0.3), AMA
    IUI #2 - BFP 7/1/20 -- EDD 3/14/21
  • Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 17 + 1

    FTM/STM/STM+: Third time

    Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Blue...again! This will be our third boy.

    Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Yesterday was the height of a box of tissues

    Upcoming appointments: Anatomy scan on 11/2

    How are you feeling?: Better! Nausea is becoming rare, food aversions have lessened, and reflux is pretty well controlled!

    Rants/Raves: Rant - We saw a midwife for our 12 week appointment because we thought my pregnancy was low risk at the time. When we discovered we had a vanishing twin scenario, I was sent to see by OB at 16 weeks for a follow up ultrasound. We learned SO MUCH at this appt about our pregnancy that I'm frustrated I waited 4 weeks to find out. Apparently women with a vanishing twin are at higher risk than singleton or viable twin pregnancies of stillbirth, low birth weight, and other complications in the third trimester. This puts me on track for several additional ultrasounds, including biophysical profiles weekly starting at 36 weeks and will be induced no later than 39 weeks (given all the scans are perfect and I am able to carry him that long). I had natural births with my first two and was hoping to go that route again but am trying to come to terms with the fact that this pregnancy, labor, and delivery are going to look different than what my first two did. Bummed but reminding myself that we are just at increased risk of complications - no complications actually exist at this point. 

    Questions: Has anyone had biophysical profiles done in third tri? If so, what were they like?

    GTKY: tell us about your worst date! The only time I can think of is the time my now-husband accidentally illegally parked his truck while we were at a hockey game and we came outside in FREEZING weather to learn his truck had been towed. We then had to wait for my brother to come get us and drop us at the towing company, where we had to wait again because we beat his truck there (so it must have been towed just minutes before we walked outside). It is now a funny story but was a long, cold, expensive night at the time!
  • Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 19w1d

    FTM/STM/STM+: FTM

    Team Green/Pink/Blue Finding Out: GIRL!

    Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: I don't even know... a 19 week baby? A hot dog according to Babysizer.com

    Upcoming appointments: the 20th for our 20 week appointment. Baby girl is almost half baked!

    How are you feeling?: Pretty good. Had a freak out over the weekend and thank you to my PGAL ladies who talked me off the ledge so to speak. I hadn't felt the baby move in a few days, but after sitting still ALL day yesterday I finally felt her. I know I know, 28 weeks is the reliable time for movement but when you get used to feeling it and it doesn't happen, you freak. 

    Rants/Raves: Been working from home for the past 2 months and last week my work laptop decided to start giving me issues - it was blue screening every time a software update was loaded by IT remotely. Today I had to drive 45 minutes to the office, sit in an isolated cube for an hour, and drive 50 minutes home because I live in NH and it's leaf peeping season and it's a 3 day weekend and all the people from MA were driving back home today...at the same time...on the same highway I commute on. I wanted to poke my eye out. Meanwhile, I forgot how much I enjoy singing at the top of my lungs in a car during my commute. 

    Questions:

    GTKY: tell us about your worst date!  OMG I have so many. Hubby and I didn't meet until I was 35 and I dated a LOT of frogs. Only a few serious relationships and those guys I'm still friendly with (one even reached out to me after my last miscarriage to share that he and his wife had gone through the same thing a few months prior). Worst date... hmmm... how about the one I met online who we had been chatting for a year and always had good conversation online but when we met in person it was like pulling teeth. SO awkward. Or there's the one with a guy I'd dated for months previously and decided to try again and see if it was a mistake to end the relationship with him and he assumed we were going to "knock boots" because we had when we were dating previously and when I turned him down he came up with an excuse to leave and I never heard from him again? That works. 
  • Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 17w4d

    FTM/STM/STM+: STM (10yo DD)

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

    Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: as tall as a hersheys bar

    Upcoming appointments: 26th anatomy scan, can't wait to see him. It's been a long time lol

    How are you feeling?: my allergies have been acting up and I've got "pregnancy nose" in full effect. More headaches lately too 😑

    Rants/Raves: I repainted a little dresser that my daughter no longer uses, it will now be a changing table for baby boy. I was my weekend project and I'm quite proud of how it came out.

    Questions: ---

    GTKY: tell us about your worst date!
    My prom night was pretty awful. I went with a guy I had dated off and on since high school began and it was an abusive relationship. He isolated me from all my friends so I wasn't really allowed to interact with anyone else. So the whole night he basically glared at my friends as we sat far from everyone else. Barely danced or anything. I'm so grateful that I finally got out of that situation. 🙄
    DD1 - 2010 TTC v2.0
  • @clevans1 I never knew about the increased risk of complications for a vanishing twin pregnancy. My last pregnancy was a vanishing twin I was diagnosed with a short cervix at 30 weeks. Was on hospital bedrest for two weeks and home bed rest until I delivered at 37 weeks. I went in for non-stress tests every week after being hospitalized. DS was early but not premature and not considered low birth weight. Perhaps it was a complicated birth journey but the outcome was favourable. 
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  • Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: March 9th, 18+6

    FTM/STM/STM+: STM, our son is two!!

    Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Team Green again, we loved doing it with our son. I think it’s a boy now though!!

    Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: an artichoke, or as tall as a piece of string cheese

    Upcoming appointments: our 20 week scan was supposed to be this week, but it will be on the 23rd now because we had to self-isolate due to my in-laws testing positive for covid. We’re all negative though, thank god!!

    How are you feeling?: really good!! Happy to be feeling better. I’m getting my cervix length checked next week to assess my risk for pre-term labour though, so that’s a bit nerve wracking. 

    Rants/Raves: rave- we got our pacifier addicted two year old to finally drop the soother!! Up next is potty training. My house has also never been cleaner. Turns out we have been super productive in quarantine when we have absolutely nowhere to go haha. 

    Questions: - - -

    GTKY: tell us about your worst date! I haven’t really had one!! My husband took a call from his bank on our first date which I always tease him about. But we had been friends for months at that point so it wasn’t a huge deal. 
  • Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 18 weeks and 1 day, Due March 14th 

    FTM/STM/STM+: STM+

    Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Team Pink x2!

    Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: 2 Artichokes

    Upcoming appointments: I had one this morning with the MFM. Have our 20 week anatomy scan in 2 weeks. 

    How are you feeling?: Better, I have been sleeping at night. As well as, my acid reflux/heartburn seems to be subsiding too. Glad to finally be feeling more like myself again.

    Rants/Raves: I saw the MFM this morning and found out that Baby B is a Girl!! Now DH and I have to figure out 2 girls names which if it's anything like deciding on a name for our daughter took us months. 

    Questions: Those of you that work in a school, how has your school been with COVID precautions in the school setting? (masks, students spaced apart, lunch, etc) I go back in person on 11/2 and am very nervous about returning. 

    GTKY: tell us about your worst date! I don't really have a worst date. I only dated 1 other person other than DH during high school and we only dated for like a month. 

    Becca and DH-David-Parents to: Caleb-5/19/15, Elijah-4/3/2017, and Ilana-2/22/2019

    Twins! #4 and #5 Due: 03/14/2021

  • Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 3/15, 18+1

    FTM/STM/STM+: STM, DS is 4

    Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: team pink! 💗

    Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: artichoke, sweet potato, disposable camera

    Upcoming appointments: 10/26 anatomy scan

    How are you feeling?: heartburn is breaking through my daily Pepcid, adding tums. Occasional headache. 

    Rants/Raves: rant is I’m SO SO tired I just can’t function. Rave is I’m too tired to even think of a win this week lol. 

    Questions:

    GTKY: tell us about your worst date! I’ve had a few. I met this old dude (he was probably 45 and I was 22) at a bar but we just made out. Then we ended up going on a real date and when the date started (and I was sober) I realized he wasn’t for me but decided to drink enough to enjoy myself. Well then I got plastered and ended up back at his apt. Ended up sleeping with him eww. I woke up the next day in his bed and was so grossed out. He tried to bang again and i was like noooooope and got outta there quick. Then there was a guy who took me to cheap diner and then a shady horse race track where he bet on horse races in clouds of cigarette smoke. 
    Me: 30   DH: 29
    Together: 3/2007
    Married: 5/30/2015
    BFP #1: 9/14/2015
    EDD: 5/20/2016
  • Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 18w6d - this pregnancy suddenly feels like it is flying by!

    FTM/STM/STM+: STM

    Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: pink

    Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of:  by tomorrow, a hot dog, or a mango according to the bump

    Upcoming appointments: AS on 10/23

    How are you feeling?: I have my ups and downs, saturday was pretty great but then yesterday I had the worst heartburn and could barely keep food down.  Today hasn't been as bad, thankfully

    Rants/Raves: Our 5th anniversary was this past Saturday. I got a pedicure, which was nice, and we went out for a nice dinner while my in-laws watched our daughter.  It was a nice excuse to get all dressed up for the first time in a looong time

    Questions: 

    GTKY: tell us about your worst date!  Hmm... I dabbled in online dating (though many people got weeded out prior to actually going on a date- like the guy who kept asking me if I was real lol). One guy spent half of the date apologizing that he was heavier than his pictures because he was sick lately and wasn't exercising like he usually does.  he didn't really look that much different than his profile and I honestly didn't care anyway. But the whole date was awkward and it made me feel self-conscious about my own weight. Then he kept saying that he was going to take me dancing for our next date and then never called me. And then he added me on linked-in a year later... lol
    TTC history in spoiler
    Me: 31 Him: 37
    Married: Oct 2015
    Baby G born June 2017
    TTC#2: July 2018
    BFP #2: 2/6/19 MC 3/14/19
    BFP#3 from IUI #2: 6/30/20 EDD 3/9/21

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  • treebagel said:

    GTKY: tell us about your worst date! I’ve had a few. I met this old dude (he was probably 45 and I was 22) at a bar but we just made out. Then we ended up going on a real date and when the date started (and I was sober) I realized he wasn’t for me but decided to drink enough to enjoy myself. Well then I got plastered and ended up back at his apt. Ended up sleeping with him eww. I woke up the next day in his bed and was so grossed out. He tried to bang again and i was like noooooope and got outta there quick. Then there was a guy who took me to cheap diner and then a shady horse race track where he bet on horse races in clouds of cigarette smoke. 
    OMG that reminded me of that time my roommate decided we needed to join a dating service and we were the youngest women there and I got to chatting up a guy who looked vaguely familiar...turns out it was my high school best friend's uncle. OR there was this time I went to a singles dance with a friend and got hit on by the guy who apparently my mother dumped for my father. I do NOT miss being single.
  • Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 17 weeks today

    FTM/STM/STM+: FTM

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

    Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: A pomegranate 

    Upcoming appointments: Oct. 26

    How are you feeling?: Probably the best I’ve felt this whole pregnancy. I feel more like my usual self, the one thing I’m dealing with is hip pain, especially at night. I talked to my doctor about it at my appointment yesterday though, and he said I can sleep in any position I want to still. I don’t have to worry about sleeping just on my side until later. So that’s a major relief, and I slept a lot better last night because I wasn’t waking up constantly worried about having rolled onto my back or something. And being able to change positions made sleep much less painful.

    Rants/Raves: So excited to be almost half way through this pregnancy already! And my friend surprised me with a whole bunch of onesies for baby girl yesterday. It was so sweet, and it’s so fun to finally have little baby clothes in my house now haha

    Questions: Have you previously, or are you planning to, take a childbirth class? Which one and when do you plan to start (or when did you start before if this isn’t your first)? I’m trying to start looking into them now so that way if costs aren’t covered by insurance we can start planning financially for it. 

    GTKY: tell us about your worst date! When I was 16, I was dating a guy who was basically just awful. I invited him over to cook him dinner, and he asked to use my computer. So as I was cooking for him, it turned out he was messaging another girl on MySpace telling her she was the only one for him, and he loved her and all that. Found out later that he was cheating on me with multiple girls our entire relationship. So...he was a winner. 🙄
  • Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 17 Weeks

    FTM/STM/STM+: STM

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

    Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Size of a large onion  

    Upcoming appointments: November 5th for my anatomy scan! 

    How are you feeling?: Good! No real complaints. 

    Rants/Raves: I'm not sure where all my time has been going each week. Time is just flying by for me at the moment. I have been spending all of my extra time getting ready for a consignment event that is coming up and I have finally finished tagging everything that I plan to sell. I really hope I make a decent amount of money so all this time and effort is actually worth it. I also got some interesting news at work this past week which I'm strewing in a bit. It's a mixed bag of good and bad so only time will tell how it all pans out. 

    Questions: 

    GTKY: tell us about your worst date! Oh man... I went on a lot of bad dates but there is one that stands out in my mind because it was just so weird. I went out to dinner with a guy I met online and he was extremely awkward. IDK why but he was really fixated on finding the server as soon as possible when we were ready to order and or when we needed something, ect. At one point he actually got up from the table to go find the server! I don't remember the service actually being bad by any means either. It's not like we had been sitting there forever waiting. He was just really impatient and almost obsessive. It was generally hard to engage with the guy during our meal too so I have always wondered if he may be on the spectrum. Either way I didn't go on a second date.  
  • @manillabar Your story reminds me of a guy that I went out with who also added me on linkedin. We had such a wonderful date and I was really on cloud 9 after we went out. I thought for sure we would go out again but he totally ghosted me and I was so sad! Then the dude randomly adds me on Linked in MONTHS later. Like WTF?? He had to have gone out of his way to look me up which is so weird. 

    @annanbby I took a birthing class and breastfeeding class through the hospital I delivered at. Not sure how they are handling that now with COVID though. 
  • xvividashxvividash member
    edited October 2020
    Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 3/22 and I'm 17w1d

    FTM/STM/STM+: FTM

    Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Blue 

    Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: iPhone 6 haha

    Upcoming appointments: 11/3 for anatomy scan.

    How are you feeling?: I'm feeling really good!

    Rants/Raves: I found out I have an anterior placenta, but I believe I felt baby again today! Excited about that. A little annoyed about the fact my boyfriend forgot the name we "agreed" on... I thought everything was settled and he was happy. Now he's like, "What did we say? Harris?"... LOL no not even CLOSE dude! :D Now it might be back in the air and I had my heart set. Ugh.  :|

    Questions: Can't think of any this week...

    GTKY: tell us about your worst date! Thankfully I never had a bad one. Aside from one long distance relationship, I've only dated two guys in person. They were both awesome and not crazy while dating haha. Married and divorced the first. Planning to marry the second one who is also the father of my little one that's currently baking haha. : )  
  • @jenotontx I think that would be my preference is taking the classes through the hospital, if offered. I have a feeling if they do offer them, they’re probably going to be online.

    @xvividash I had a similar name issue with my husband. We had “agreed” on the girl name we both liked and then we found out we were having a girl and now he’s not sure. 😂 at least we have some time to figure it out I guess lol
  • @annanbby Yes, that’s true!! Thank goodness we still have time! 😂
  • @annanbby Last time, I took our childbirth class and breastfeeding class through my hospital.  I just checked online and looks like all classes are being done virtually at our hospital.  I honestly don't think being in person was necessary for this class, there wasn't anything hands-on.  
    Together 2007 | Married 2011 | Me: 36 | DH: 38
    Adopted Furbaby: 2014
    TTC#1 : 1/2016 | IUI #2 - BFP 12/24/16 -- born 9/8/17
    TTC#2: 11/2019 | Dx DOR (AMH 0.3), AMA
    IUI #2 - BFP 7/1/20 -- EDD 3/14/21
  • Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: March 9, 19w1d

    FTM/STM/STM+: FTM

    Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Girl

    Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: A hot dog

    Upcoming appointments: Anatomy scan next week (at last!)

    How are you feeling?: Physically pretty good, just the occasional tiredness, headache, and stomach sitting not quite right. Psychologically kinda overwhelmed, both with baby stuff and world stuff.

    Rants/Raves: Rant - I hit a large tire shred on my way home from work yesterday and screwed up my front bumper. The collision was unavoidable - a semi must've blown a tire minutes before and the shreds were flying at me as I crested a hill. I was going 80 (on a 75 mph interstate) so not much opportunity for evasive maneuvers. Anyway, I am very glad I am okay, but it's definitely a financial hit at a really uncertain time :/ Rave - I am okay, baby seems to be okay. I think I could feel her squirming around this morning.

    GTKY: tell us about your worst date! I also didn't date very much. But I did go out for a while with a guy I met online, and he mentioned that he thought the moon landing was a hoax. I def knew at that point it was not going to work out long-term (and I already wasn't sure I was feeling it), but I let things linger for months after that before amicably breaking it off.
  • @cmortmain omg that must've been so scary! I'm glad you're ok!!
    Together 2007 | Married 2011 | Me: 36 | DH: 38
    Adopted Furbaby: 2014
    TTC#1 : 1/2016 | IUI #2 - BFP 12/24/16 -- born 9/8/17
    TTC#2: 11/2019 | Dx DOR (AMH 0.3), AMA
    IUI #2 - BFP 7/1/20 -- EDD 3/14/21
  • @juliebeannn Thank you! I took my car in to the auto body shop yesterday and they did a quick fix and made sure it was safe to drive, free of charge! I am very grateful for that kindness.
  • @cmortmain Glad they were able to do a quick fix! Does that mean at some point you'll have to take it back for something more elaborate?

    @jenotontx lol it really is weird because why linked-in of all the possible social media sites? and then he never messaged me or anything... weirdos

    @annanbby I also took a class through the hospital where I delivered. At that time it came with a tour as well. I think they're also doing virtual now, which probably doesn't make much of a difference. I thought the information was good to know, and they covered all types of births and available pain control methods (at the hospital). I knew most of the info already but it's always different when it's about your own baby and delivery, plus my husband learned a lot too.
    TTC history in spoiler
    Me: 31 Him: 37
    Married: Oct 2015
    Baby G born June 2017
    TTC#2: July 2018
    BFP #2: 2/6/19 MC 3/14/19
    BFP#3 from IUI #2: 6/30/20 EDD 3/9/21

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  • Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: Feb. 2nd / 20+2
    FTM/STM/STM+: Fourth
    Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Double team pink!
    Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of:  Baby girls are the size of bananas
    Upcoming appointments: OB 10/21
    How are you feeling?: I'm feeling good!  5 days without Zofran!  Normal pregnancy discomfort especially sleeping at night but not too bad!
    Rants/Raves: I should have become a mechanic...I would save so much money fixing my own cars!  My mini van broke down and I'm pretty sure it might need a new transmission.
    Questions:  None
    GTKY: tell us about your worst date!  I had someone that I liked (guy friend) set me up with another person for a blind date.  It was just awkward.
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