🐿 Week 2 (5/8 - 5/14) Check-In - w/o 10/12

ec1212 · October 2020

🐣 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: How did you meet your partner?

texas_t · October 2020

🐣 Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 10w1d - Due May 10

🙋🏽‍♀️FTM/STM/STM+: 2 boys - Caleb, 5 and Owen, 22 months

🙈 Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Sneak Peek says we're having a boy!

🍒 Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Baby is the size of a cake pop!

📅 Upcoming appointments: An ultrasound at 2:30 today! I feel like it will never come!

🐌 How are you feeling?: It depends on the moment! Always tired, sometimes pukey, bloated, etc.

🦨 Rants/Raves: After taking progesterone supplements for a few days, my level went from 10.9 to 22, so that's good!

📣 Questions: None
♥️ GTKY: How did you meet your partner? We met on MySpace, lol!

gusgus14 · October 2020

🐣 Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: May 8th/10+2

🙋🏽‍♀️FTM/STM/STM+: STM

🙈 Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Finding out (hopefully next month)!

🍒 Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: A chocolate truffle

📅 Upcoming appointments: None this week but I have one next Monday! I'll get to see the tiny bebes again since my doctor said she'll need to see which heartbeat is coming from which baby.

🐌 How are you feeling?: Like crap! I spent the entire weekend on the couch. I keep saying it but I am SO OVER this nausea. Really hoping for some relief once the second tri hits.

🦨 Rants/Raves: We were supposed to start our bathroom reno this month but now it's looking like next month at the earliest. I'm just annoyed because the longer we have to wait, the less I'll likely be able to do.

📣 Questions: Nada.
♥️ GTKY: How did you meet your partner? We went to college together. We met a few times through friends and had some classes together since we shared a major but never really talked or anything until Homecoming senior year. After that we would chat on facebook and then we started hanging out. We "officially" started dating about 5 months before we graduated. After graduation we moved in together and a couple of years later we got married. Tomorrow is our 8 year wedding anniversary!

ccmrc143 · October 2020

🐣 Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 9w6d - May 11

🙋🏽‍♀️FTM/STM/STM+: FTM

🙈 Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Team green...for now!

🍒 Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Southern Pecan haha

📅 Upcoming appointments: Waiting a million years for another appointment. We did an ultrasound Oct 1, and I’m not going in again until my first tri screen on Nov 5, when I’ll also see an MFM because of my blood clotting disorder. Looking into a private ultrasound to tide me over till then.

🐌 How are you feeling?: terrible! All food sounds bad but if don’t eat, I get even more nauseous and even start to sweat/shake. Having a lot of GI issues too. Can’t sleep past 5am and yesterday I took a 3 hour nap! Also I think I’ve cried every day for at least a week 😂

🦨 Rants/Raves: My husband has been so wonderful. Yesterday he grocery shopped and did all the meal prep for this week’s lunches and dinners while I slept away the afternoon. If meals aren’t at the ready I lose steam and sanity super easily, so I’m just grateful he’s stepping in and taking over things I used to help with.

📣 Questions: None
♥️ GTKY: How did you meet your partner? We met at work! I wouldn’t recommend dating a colleague but we were young and new to the company so HR didn’t really care

ckmb_1250 · October 2020

🐣 Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 10 weeks 1 day, due 5/9

🙋🏽‍♀️FTM/STM/STM+: STM

🙈 Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: plan to find out with the NIPT

🍒 Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: tootsie roll pop

📅 Upcoming appointments: not for a couple of weeks, but I’m so relieved to have found the heartbeat with my Doppler at home. We are waiting until we have the 12 week ultrasound photos to tell family though.

🐌 How are you feeling?: still super tired, slight waves of nausea here and there, food aversions and round ligament pain

🦨 Rants/Raves: I went to actual Target today since my husband took our daughter to gymnastics. It was the first time I’d set foot in a store since covid and the longest I’ve had by myself also 🙌🏻

📣 Questions: still wanting to hear people’s suggestions for good belly butter/belly oil!
♥️ GTKY: How did you meet your partner? At a New Years party sophomore year of college, I rubbed his head and told him I liked his hair, guess I made a good impression 😂

ec1212 · October 2020

🐣 Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: EDD 5/14, 9+3

🙋🏽‍♀️FTM/STM/STM+: FTM

🙈 Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Finding out, hopefully right around my bday (11/2)

🍒 Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a cherry!

📅 Upcoming appointments: 10/20 for 10 wk u/s and MaterniT21 genetic blood test

🐌 How are you feeling?: Still exhausted but had a couple productive days last week. Took an hour-long walk with DH yesterday. Counting down the wks til my energy comes back!

🦨 Rants/Raves: none

📣 Questions: none today
♥️ GTKY: How did you meet your partner? Out at my local bar around the corner when I went out for “just one drink” with my old roommate back in 2013. I could feel him staring at me across the bar lol. He told me he was gonna marry me after our first date. We dated briefly, were apart for years then ran back into each other and that was it.

@ckmb_1250 my bestie used burts bees mama bee for her first and didn’t get any stretch marks. She’s gonna try Mama Mio tummy oil this time cause it has great reviews (I have a tub of their lotion that I’ll try when I run out of my current stuff).

I’m predisposed to stretch marks (already have them in various places from puberty) so I’m throwing everything at this ... I got a big pump bottle of hyaluronic acid, I’m using Palmer’s cocoa butter anti-stretch mark lotion on top of that and then applying a body oil on last. I do that after my morning shower and then just use the lotion again at night. 😬🤞🏽

ckmb_1250 · October 2020

@ec1212 thanks! I will look into those. I also thought I was pre disposed to stretch marks because I have them from puberty, but didn’t end up with any new ones last pregnancy! 🤞🏻I’m gonna oil/lotion up again and I also used collagen protein powder last time - whether any of that made any difference, I’ll never know!

ec1212 · October 2020

@ckmb_1250 I read great things about Bio-Oil too, but a lot of the Amazon reviews said they received a counterfeit product so I’m sticking with the oils I already have at home. I use collagen protein powder as well (used for years in bulletproof coffee but currently adding it to oatmeal or whatever else I can sneak it into. Mainly because I’m trying to get more protein into my pregnant self while I’m off meat).

sienna221 · October 2020

🐣 Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: May 12/9w+5d

🙋🏽‍♀️FTM/STM/STM+: FTM

🙈 Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Finding out end of month hopefully!

🍒 Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Hershey’s kiss!

📅 Upcoming appointments: 2nd US on 10/22

🐌 How are you feeling?: Pretty good! A little tired. Nauseous if I don’t eat. Indigestion most nights.

🦨 Rants/Raves: Weather has been beautiful and I feel really lucky I’ve felt ok and have felt okay working out. My scale broke so that’s annoying...but maybe a blessing in disguise

📣 Questions: What genetic testing have people done/do you plan to do? Still feeling overwhelmed by some of that!
♥️ GTKY: How did you meet your partner? We were both working in a resort ski town for a winter at a bar.

@ckmb_1250 I’ve heard the same as @ec1212... Mama Mio products. Also Mutha Body Butter but it’s pretty pricey.

grogu · October 2020

🐣 Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 9w3d /May 14th

🙋🏽‍♀️FTM/STM/STM+: STM

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

🍒 Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: pecan

📅 Upcoming appointments: Oct 29? I think with bloodwork before that

🐌 How are you feeling?: Like a pile of poop. Hoping to feel better soon

🦨 Rants/Raves: I'm tired of throwing up. That is all.

📣 Questions: none

♥️ GTKY: How did you meet your partner? I met him shortly after leaving my ex. I was staying with a friend and he was her roommate.

alyj2020 · October 2020

Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: May 14th, 9 weeks 3 days

🙋🏽‍♀️FTM/STM/STM+: STM+

🙈 Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: We were team green the last two times but I think we might find out this time.

📅 Upcoming appointments: 11/11, just had one today

🐌 How are you feeling?: Tired but pretty good

🦨 Rants/Raves: rave - got to see the baby today.

📣 Questions: none
♥️ GTKY: How did you meet your partner? We worked together and "secretly" dated for years before the boss found out after we left haha - but I feel I should state we were at the same level in the company.

ec1212 · October 2020

@sienna221 -- I'm happy to post my notes from my virtual session with the genetic counselor from my OB's practice last week.

@ other more veteran members -- I don't know if that violates anything in TOU? I tried reviewing the terms and couldn't find anything that says I can't.

If it's not kosher to post the notes publicly here, I'm happy to DM them.

samd6 · October 2020

🐣 Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 10+1

🙋🏽‍♀️FTM/STM/STM+: STM

🙈 Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Team Greeeeeeeeen

🍒 Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: strawberry 🍓 (boring)

📅 Upcoming appointments: Oct 26th and I think we are trying to get an elective ultrasound, see rants 😂

🐌 How are you feeling?: nauseous, but less than last week. Still no appetite really.

🦨 Rants/Raves: rant: I won’t see my doctor for another 2 weeks so I decided to try to get an elective ultrasound at a local place. It’s about $50 🤷🏻‍♀️ we will see how I am feeling about it later lol

📣 Questions: home dopplers, yay or nay?
♥️ GTKY: How did you meet your partner? Believe it or not, we met at a bar (17 years ago)! The old fashioned way 🥰 We’ve been together for 16 years, married for 12. 2 cross country moves. Countless dogs. Boom.

texas_t · October 2020

Are any of y'all planning on not doing genetic testing? I've not done it with the previous 2 pregnancies and I'm just curious.

gusgus14 · October 2020

@texas_t the only thing we're doing is an NT scan and that's only because MFM automatically does them for twin pregnancies. We didn't do any extra testing with our first.

ec1212 · October 2020

I’m doing NIPT/MaterniT21 (my OB uses them in tandem) & NT, but still not planning on doing any invasive testing.

sienna221 · October 2020

@ec1212 I would love to see any notes you have! Expecting Better’s chapter on testing helped as well.

I also wasn’t sure about violations against the TOU. I was nervous that even asking was a possible violation. 😬

ec1212 · October 2020

@sienna221 Just DMed them to you!

mkc3888 · October 2020

@texas_t lurking, but I don't plan to have any genetic testing done. My reasoning for this is that it wouldn't change anything for me. If anything it would make me more anxious about something I'd feel I didn't have any control over. My MIL did it and had markers for downs show up and her baby ended up not having downs. Granted this was 16 years ago, but for me it wouldn't be worth the anxiety it would cause me. I'd rather be blissfully ignorant in this case.

texas_t · October 2020

@mkc3888 If it was an actual diagnostic test, I'd be inclined to do it, but since it's only a screening, I feel like it's setting me up for anxiety, like you said. We're obviously going to do the anatomy scan so if there are any soft markers or hard markers, we'll go from there.

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