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FFFC 10/9

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  • goldpolkadotgoldpolkadot member
    @aisukurimsarang yours made me think of one! I’ve totally been letting my 1 year old play with my phone at playgrounds or anywhere I need to distract her because she’s not walking and so can’t go keep up with the big kids and I’m constantly forgetting to bring a toy or something to keep her entertained. I’ve always made sure expensive electronics were off limits for our other babies haha and now I’m like hey kid, here’s my phone!!
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  • riff323riff323 member
    @bbrahmbhatt your confession made me think of a similar one I have: I totally fart at work all the time. I'm in retail and there's a fan that blows on me, so I just let it blow my stinky farts away. I was telling my SIL about it and she made a good point when she said, "Well, if someone can smell your farts, they're not socially distanced!"  :D No shame in our game!
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  • cagncoo12cagncoo12 member
    haha you guys are the best. These made me so happy to read today. 
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  • SerenamarrSerenamarr member
    edited October 2020
    I’m secretly a little relieved my dad and stepmom cancelled their trip to come visit this week. It’s the 3rd time they have postponed. 😢 While I really wanted to see them (haven’t since January when DD was only 1mo, she’s now 10mo), my stepmom is a nurse who works with covid patients and I just wasn’t totally comfortable with the risk. 
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  • aisukurimsarangaisukurimsarang member
    Second confession.. I'm stalking my test results web page for updates hoping my NIPT results are on, knowing full well they onky processed the sample Thursday 
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  • juliebird6juliebird6 member
    @aisukurimsarang oh, me too. Mine were sent out on Friday, 10/2 and I’ve been hawking all my health portals the last few days. 
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  • LexibizzelLexibizzel member
    @aisukurimsarang @juliebird6 I got my blood drawn on Friday (10/9). It says to wait 72 hours to log on. I'm ok waiting, but my fear is learning the sex of the baby. I was told I can indicate I don't want to know when I log on. Do either of you recall anything about this? I used natera.
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  • theblondebumptheblondebump member
    @Lexibizzel my doctors told me definitely not to look at the NIPT bloodwork results because I would def learn the sex of the baby!
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  • juliebird6juliebird6 member
    @Lexibizzel I've never done NIPT or any genetic screening with my other children so I have no clue. I've been wondering how it would look in my lab portal! It seems so anticlimactic to just see sex: M/F or something like that but that's exactly what I'm picturing.
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  • aisukurimsarangaisukurimsarang member
    @Lexibizzel, yes. We were asked the same thing by each staff member involved: MFM, lab tech, admin, and the medical assistant who took my vitals. It's for when they call you with the results. The entry on the portal will be an electronic copy of the results. So, the sex will definitely be there.

    I honestly don't know how you ladies can stand it.  With DD, I didn't have a choice. The base policy in 1996 was not to tell the parents. While I loved the surprise at the end, the suspense was KILLER!! 
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  • kadeephdkadeephd member
    @goldpolkadot We use videos on our phones to get my son (22 months) to lay down for diaper changes, or to sit still while his nails are clipped or his hair cut.  I honestly can't wait til he can play games on an iPad to make car trips easier!

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  • LexibizzelLexibizzel member
    I learned the sex of my first child by looking around at my ob office's patient portal when I was 6 months pregnant and that did not make me happy. I probably should have know better. Even though every person I talked to this time concerning the NIPT says I have a choice in finding out, I'm not going to look. But I am very interested in the rest of the results. My poor OB office will be getting daily calls by me, haha.

    I really didn't know the sex of my second until he was born and that was the best.
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  • aisukurimsarangaisukurimsarang member
    It's currently 0018, and I'm lying in bed, watching Bones, and satisfying an Artichoke heart craving. There are worse cravings than artichoke hearts marinated in olive oil....right?
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  • goldpolkadotgoldpolkadot member
    @aisukurimsarang those totally sound like a vegetable to me! I’ve been snacking on olives and cornichons 😆 
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  • SerenamarrSerenamarr member
    This probably sounds crazy but being this is my 3rd child, and owning a fetal Doppler, as well as having urinalysis strips at home, I ABSOLUTELY HATE GOING FOR POINTLESS MONTHLIES. I literally just drive 40 mins to my midwifes office just to have usually a student not even the midwife take my temperature, write down my weight, do the same urinalysis and fetal Doppler that I do (which takes them twice as long as it takes me to hear because they don’t know where baby is), ask me questions to which the answers are always no, and that’s it. Then I get billed hundred plus dollars for that. I’d so rather only go when I actually need to. 
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  • aisukurimsarangaisukurimsarang member
    @Serenamarr, I'm actually with you on this one. We recently moved from the city to the country, and I'm now an hour from my OB. It's a waste of gas and time to drive 50 miles, step on a scale, pee in a cup, and then have the NP check baby's heartbeat (I also have a fetal doppler) and send me on my way. When I have to go weekly AND go see the MFM, it's going to suck. Thursdays are just going to be such a total bust, I might as well just work 4 10 hour days. 

    The upside is I really love my OB and NP, and I can see my mom, as well as get some city shopping done. 
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  • kadeephdkadeephd member
    edited October 2020
    @aisukurimsarang @Serenamarr Are your offices not offering telemedicine appointments?  I went in for my confirmation of pregnancy appointment and NT scan, but I don't think I have to go back until my anatomy scan unless I fail the glucose test I took at the last appointment.  I'll have had 2 telemedicine appointments by the time I'm 20 weeks.

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  • aisukurimsarangaisukurimsarang member
    @kadeephd, I'm high risk, so even if they were, it wouldn't be an option for me. 
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  • kadeephdkadeephd member
    @aisukurimsarang ahh I see, that's a bummer.  That is so much driving!

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  • SerenamarrSerenamarr member
    @kadeephd no I’m in Texas where people like to pretend we’re not in a pandemic. But it’s a very small birth center so even if it was custom to do telemedicine here i don’t think they’d be equipped. 
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  • aisukurimsarangaisukurimsarang member
    @Serenamarr, I'm also in Texas, though we're so blue the pandemic has been taken (almost too) seriously from the get go. 
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  • theblondebumptheblondebump member
    Wow never thought about this! We're like 7 minutes from our OB office. We have to call and tell them we're in the parking lot and then answer covid screening questions and then they call back when it's time to actually come in (to avoid people sitting in the waiting room) and they are usually a little bit behind, so I've started just calling when I'm leaving the house, instead of getting to the parking lot 10 minutes early. Didn't even think about people living in more remote locations being an hour away from their doctors! 

    Are you that far from your hospitals as well? 
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  • SerenamarrSerenamarr member
    edited October 2020
    @theblondebump as of now I’m delivering at home. The nearest hospital is less than 5 minutes away, and it’s a really good women and children’s hospital. It’s part of the reason I feel comfortable going for it at home. I’m not in a rural area, unfortunately the choices for midwives covered by my insurance were slim resulting in the distance. 

    @aisukurimsarang What part of Texas? I’m north of Dallas and I’ve been shocked by how business as usual people are acting. Masks are rare in stores even for employees, I see huge groups of kids unmasked going in and out of school everyday, events are still happening. Poll workers for voting aren’t even masked. 
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  • goldpolkadotgoldpolkadot member
    @Serenamarr we’re east of Dallas (not Dallas county) & our town is soooo not following Covid rules haha! It’s kind of wild how each city follows the guidelines so differently. 

    @theblondebump we’re about 30-45 mins from our hospital. We used to live literally down the street from a fantastic one when we lived in downtown Dallas but we just moved further out after #2. I don’t want to deal with finding a new hospital for this baby (plus I feel like all the ones out by us are sub-par haha), so we’ll be driving in again like we did with #3. For #3 my water broke at 6am and we were on the road in 7am Monday morning rush hour traffic to get in to downtown 🤪 We made it tho (& she was born right around 9a!). 

    @aisukurimsarang @Serenamarr I’m totally with yall. I used to work right by my OB so I’d just make appts at the end of my work day on my way home, but now the office is 45ish mins from our house, AND now I’m a SAHM soooo appointments have turned into a bigger ordeal. I’ve tried to look on the bright side tho and on appointment days the hubs just works from home and I try make it a mini getaway for myself 😆 All that to say, I DO feel like these early monthlies are pointless too!!!!
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  • SerenamarrSerenamarr member
    @goldpolkadot my husbands work territory is east Texas and part of Dallas. Meetings have obviously been less frequent but when he does take meetings in Tyler he’s always the only one masked in the room and everyone still tries to shake his hand 🤦🏼‍♀️
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  • goldpolkadotgoldpolkadot member
    @Serenamarr 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️
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  • aisukurimsarangaisukurimsarang member
    edited October 2020
    @Serenamarr, @goldpolkadot We moved from Far West San Antonio to small town east of SA and the change has been such a culture shock. While they follow COVID rules pretty solidly, other things are very, very different. Who would have thought 50 miles would be that drastic. I lived in North Dallas (Off the toll way and George Bush Turn Pike) until 2009, although SO and I both grew up in SA.
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