September 2021 Moms
whatabout2ndbreakfast
member
Weekly Check-In 3/1, 9/16-9/30
whatabout2ndbreakfast
member
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days:
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of:
Upcoming appointments:
How are you feeling?:
Rants/Raves:
Questions:
GTKY: What’s your #1 bucket list item? (Completed or not!)
Re: Weekly Check-In 3/1, 9/16-9/30
How are you feeling?: pretty good! I feel like the exhaustion is waning..I'm still going to bed before 8pm, but at least I am managing better in the evenings
Rants/Raves: tomorrow we have parent teacher conferences until 8:30pm and I'm DREADING it! Not only does it suck to be at work for over 12 hours...but I also don't get to see the kiddos, have to pump extra times, and spring parent teacher conferences generally have super low attendance (especially with upper class-men which I only teach) so it's just so much wasted time! Also..the parents I really need to talk to are never the parents that actually show up...instead it's a lot of "you're kids is awesome" conversations.
Questions: Is anyone planning any fun summer trips before baby comes?? We have 3 trips planned so far.. - trip to the Great Sand Dunes in June, Camping at Yellowstone for a week in July, and a big extended family trip to a cabin in the middle of nowhere Texas in August. They are all family trips and I'd like to get maybe a quick getaway with just DH and I planned since we haven't had any alone trips in over 2 years (in fact our last trip we went on alone we had just decided to start trying to baby #2!)
@chewie5990 We've rescheduled a family trip to DC several times in the past year, and now it's planned for June. I really hope we can go! We'll also be doing lots of weekend trips to my parents' lakehouse over the summer, but those are much more casual and sometimes last-minute.
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 11w
@sleepydaze I had DS2 in May at the height of COVID craziness and DH was the only person allowed at the hospital (also c-section so we were there for 3 days) and DH wasn't allowed to leave or he wouldn't be allowed back. At first I was kinda upset about it, but it ended up being great! And honestly...after chasing around a little all day everyday during quarantine..the hospital stay with just the 2 of us and a brand new little baby that mostly just slept was..I hate to say it..relaxing.
@chewie5990 we’re supposed to head back up to the fingerlakes in NY this summer and have our annual beach trip!
@sleepydaze I also try to have daily outside time, the kids go nuts if they don’t play outside. Yesterday we didn’t make them go out in the rain and it was too much inside, they were bouncing off the walls.
@arrowmama have fun!! I want to take the kiddos down there sometime!
@kissyfir1586 I have sporadic hours when I feel fine nausea wise, some days are better than others! Still really tired. But funny you mentioned sweats because I woke up the other night all cold and sweaty, I just remember that happening post partum and not during last time
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 9-19 / 11 +2
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a profiterole (my grammy loves profiteroles so this comparison makes me really happy)
Upcoming appointments: Next Tuesday for NIPT with MFM, and next Thursday for first monthly with OB
How are you feeling?: Starting to feel like my old self. Nausea is much less often, mostly when I haven’t been eating. And the last two days I’ve actually had energy
Rants/Raves: I ordered a custom cake for my son’s Birthday and they just sent an email saying I haven’t paid the 50% deposit to secure the cake so they are going to cancel if I don’t pay by end of day. I sent them an email Friday saying I hadn’t gotten the invoice for the deposit yet and I have yet to hear back on that, today’s email was not on our original email chain and was on its own. I have a meeting in 10 minutes, but will definitely be calling afterwards to get this squared away. It wouldn’t bother me so much but I followed up Friday because something seemed off. Grrr.
Questions: NATM
GTKY: What’s your #1 bucket list item? (Completed or not!) There’s tons of vacations and things that I would like to do, but my big bucket list dream is to buy back my childhood home to let my dad live there. We bought that house when the development was going up, and it was my dad’s baby. When my brother was going through a tough divorce my dad sold the house to help my brother pay for attorney fees. Now my dad rents an apartment with his wife and always talks about how much he misses that house. It’s my one dream to buy that house back for him.
@chewie5990 we don’t have any big trips planed, but we’ll probably go camping a few times before summer’s out.
@Aerialmrs I hope you’re able to convince your husband to give the mattress a bit more of a try. Sometimes uncomfortable the first few days is just your body adjusting to being better supported when sleeping.
@sleepydaze Glad telling your family went well! I completely feel you on no outside time causing crazy kids. Mine’s almost 9 and runs with me often, so on the gross days when I don’t want to be the mean mom forcing him outside he takes some time to run on the treadmill and get his energy out. If he’s not in the mood for treadmill I have him do Cosmic Kids yoga a few times during the day to help. The yoga is never as good as just outside, but its definitely better than if he was just cooped up inside without purposefully moving his body.
@arrowmama I will be equally as impatient when awaiting results. In this world where we get so many answers instantly waiting has become a real struggle. Also, jealous of your DW trip! We go every few years, even with protocols in place I hear it is still magical!
@runningonindie that sounds like a great getaway! I like your diligence in checking on the hotel’s precautions as well.
@kissyfir1586 I feel like we’re on the same page for feeling better and energy. Yesterday was the first day I’ve been able to work out since mid-January, and the last three days I haven’t been getting tired until its around 7 or 8 which seems reasonable (though still early for me). I’ve gotten a few hot flashes but mostly later in the day as im thinking about heading to bed. Not sure if there’s a correlation with that.
@whatabout2ndbreakfast I’ve had a few instances where I go “was that just RLP” but then I shake my head and tell myself I must be crazy.
@mybigfatgreekfetus I had shitty circumstances surrounding my last pregnancy so I definitely had more anxiety then. However, I definitely have pregnancy anxiety this time around too. I think a decent amount of it has to do with COVID.
@chewie5990 thanks for the headsup! I love DH dearly and he's a great hubby and dad, but seriously he is not helpful in any nursing situations (ironically he's great at first aid though). For babies 1 and 2 he switched out with my mom after 1 day in the hospital, which we all were happy about.
ETA: I wanted to kick him out early so he could go home and help with the kids but just realized I need help getting the baby in the car seat from the mat ward to the car. Darn.
@sleepydaze I am loving our warmer weather! We are going to be in the 50’s this weekend- literally a 70 degree temperature increase from 2 weeks ago!