Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a peach
Upcoming appointments: end of April
How are you feeling?: I’m having good days and bad days, but definitely starting to feel better overall. Bring on second tri!
Rants/Raves: my 11 month old has been teething for like 2 weeks now and she is soooo grumpy. I just want her teeth to pop! You can see them under her gums and it looks so uncomfortable, poor girl.
Questions:
GTKY: What is one of your favorite children's books? I like the Franklin books. I was super into them as a kid and now my (almost) 3-year-old is addicted to them.
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: September 13/14 weeks
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a peach. A peach that is kicking my butt.
Upcoming appointments: first appointment with my midwife is tomorrow! I probably won't have an ultrasound but I hope that I'll get to hear the heartbeat.
How are you feeling?: like complete garbage today. I think it's a combination of nausea, the time change, and the fact that I couldn't really sleep last night. My back was hurting which was wierd for me.
Rants/Raves: I am basically living on cinnamon raisin bagels right now. I don't know if that's a rant or rave.
Questions: Nope.
GTKY: What is one of your favorite children's books? I loved the Angelina Ballerina books!
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a house mouse!
Upcoming appointments: April 5th for an exam and cervical length ultrasound
How are you feeling?: moody - I was a grumpy lady yesterday.
Rants/Raves: I LOVE St Patrick’s day, and I’m sad that I’ll drink no green beer this year, but I have my corned beef ready to cook on Wednesday, made my Irish soda bread, and will be making my pregnancy announcement on St Pats!
Questions:
GTKY: What is one of your favorite children's books? Matilda, and almost any other Ronald Dahl book.
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: September 8 - 14w5d
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a naval orange
Upcoming appointments: Extra ultrasound and OB appointment coming on Wednesday, then a regular OB appointment next Tuesday
How are you feeling?: Tired. I am emotionally, physically, and mentally drained. It's been a week.
Rants/Raves: Finally got the results of my first trimester screening tests, and all came back positive! We're holding off on announcing because of some potentially bad stuff happening (hence the extra ultrasound on Wednesday), but at least the screening came back OK.
Questions:
GTKY: What is one of your favorite children's books? I love Robert Munsch books. I have a particular soft spot for Good Families Don't, because it was the first book I ever read on my own. I'm pretty sure I liked that one as a child because it had the word "fart" in it 🤷♀️
@feelingjovani omg yes to the intense weather changes! I for sure did not wear an appropriate coat to work today haha.
@emeraldduchess cinnamon raisin bagels were all I ate in the first tri, and now I’m totally over them lol
@williams-jen yay for still having fun st Patrick’s day plans!
@sawasap I’m glad your screening results were good! I’m crossing my fingers that you get more good news on Wednesday.
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 9/11 (14+2)
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a baby chick
Upcoming appointments: 16 week appointment 2 weeks from tomorrow - feels so far away
How are you feeling?: Mostly good! I’ve been so exhausted since probably Friday and I feel like I just can’t catch up on sleep. And I’ve had a very mild headache in the afternoon yesterday and today.
Rants/Raves: My birthday was this weekend! DH made me dinner on Friday (yay for being able to eat food again), and then we had a few friends over on Saturday. We got to share our news with them which was super exciting, and also spent the weekend sharing with family. Now we are trying to plan a SM announcement, which will have to be probably in the next week or 2 because I’m starting to run out of clothes to hide in at work. I’m usually in fairly form-fitting clothes so I feel like it’s suspicious to just wear the same hoodies/sweaters over and over again haha.
Questions: nope
GTKY: What is one of your favorite children's books? This is hard. I work in a pk-2 school and LOVE doing books during therapy sessions. So I love basically all children’s books. My child is going to have one million books haha. I’ll say Dragons Love Tacos because it’s pretty cute and all my kids love it. As a kid I used to love the Magic Treehouse books.
@runningoncookies I hear you on the tiredness! It’s like no matter how much I rest I’m never refreshed
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 9/6, 15 weeks 1 day
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: the little crayon boxes
Upcoming appointments: Not until April at the OB. Meeting a potential new therapist today
How are you feeling?: Alright. For the first time in a long time I feel like I can handle things
Rants/Raves: my 4 year old pile-drived my belly while I was still in bed this morning. She hit my ligament (thank God) HARD and it hurt so bad it made me cry. Raving because I called my mom and she came over to give me a break with the kids because of it
Questions:
GTKY: What is one of your favorite children's books? I loved so many as a kid, but “The Little Engine That Could” stands out. Right now my kids are really into “The World Needs More Purple People” and I think it’s really cute and well done!
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: as tall as a newborn baby bottle!
Upcoming appointments: Next Thursday 16wk appt with OB and anatomy scanned booked for April 12th! I'm so excited to find out the sex, this is baby #3 and first time we are finding out.
How are you feeling?: Feeling pretty good lately, can't complain. Frequent headaches though..
Rants/Raves: this week is so flipping busy, i am putting in so much overtime and just need it to be Friday already.
Questions: NATM
GTKY: What is one of your favorite children's books? Also a big Robert Munch fan! My favourite was always Love You Forever.
@emeraldduchess im sorry you're feeling like crap. This week my sleep has been horrible too, I wake up to pee and then I'm tossing and turning for 2 hrs..
@williams-jen I am also bummed about no greed beer this year! Will be making irish stew with Guiness though LOL so that kinda counts?
@deziraywatt OMG no no no. My Dad also posted an announcement and I immediately told him to take it down. What is with parents? If I have not announced it, you can't!
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a peach
Upcoming appointments: Friday for my 14 week appointment
How are you feeling?: Great. I have energy again and vegetables taste good. I ate an entire jar of dill pickles in 2 days. 🙄
Rants/Raves: I found out last Friday that we are having a girl! We already have 1 girl and 1 boy. I bought some cute shirts on Amazon to tell the kids (6 and 4 year olds). They say “Big Sister” and “Big Brother” and a onesie that says “Little Sister”. I’ll probably wait until Saturday to tell them until after my ultrasound. Then I have to go on a 10 day business trip. Not looking forward to it.
Questions: Nope.
GTKY: What is one of your favorite children's books? Berenstain Bears and Boxcar Children
M14 January Siggy Challenge: Resolution I have no intention of keeping...SHOPPING LESS!
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a daisy
Upcoming appointments: I believe not until 18 weeks for the MW.
How are you feeling?: My kids so kindly gave me their cold. It lasted like one day for them, two tops, and one had it for almost a week and it's a full blown head cold. Luckily I'm on the tail end of it, so feeling better than I have been. I also feel like I've got more energy these days despite sleeping terribly.
Rants/Raves: I look at my weekly belly photos and I can see a bump but I can't help but just feel fat all of the time. Luckily it's still chilly here so I can get away with wearing baggy hoodies/sweaters all the time, and hopefully by the time spring decides to show up I'll have a cute little obviously pregnant and not full of burritos bump haha
Questions: Not at the moment.
GTKY: What is one of your favorite children's books? I can't really think of any actual childrens books that were my favourite right now, but I remember one year my parents ordered me one of those personalized Disney books. It was Aladdin and it was a story about me going on an adventure with them. It was my favourite book and I still love it. It's on my daughters shelf over her desk for her to read when she wants to.
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: an orange
Upcoming appointments: next Thursday for a 16w anatomy scan that my husband can attend too
How are you feeling?: always a little better than before but never great. Recently laying on my back makes me want to hurl so that’s a fun surprise.
Rants/Raves: I still feel a bit disconnected from this pregnancy. I’m hoping once we start feeling real movement and we’ve announced that it will feel more real. My two kids are already kicking my ass so it’s hard to imagine a third in the chaos. I’m ready to be more excited.
Questions: WHY AM I BOTH SO TIRED AND STRUGGLE TO SLEEP? Whose idea was this?
GTKY: What is one of your favorite children's books? I love Shel Silverstein, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Roald Dahl, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Mighty Mighty Construction Site, Dragons Love Tacos. So many good ones! A few already mentioned.
Re: Weekly Check-in 3/15 - 9/1-9/15
September 13/14 weeks
Rants/Raves: Finally got the results of my first trimester screening tests, and all came back positive! We're holding off on announcing because of some potentially bad stuff happening (hence the extra ultrasound on Wednesday), but at least the screening came back OK.
Questions:
@williams-jen yay for still having fun st Patrick’s day plans!
@sawasap hoping for a good follow up tomorrow!
@runningoncookies I hear you on the tiredness! It’s like no matter how much I rest I’m never refreshed
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 9/6, 15 weeks 1 day
@williams-jen I am also bummed about no greed beer this year! Will be making irish stew with Guiness though LOL so that kinda counts?
@sawasap yay for good results!
@runningoncookies Happy Belated Birthday!!!
@deziraywatt OMG no no no. My Dad also posted an announcement and I immediately told him to take it down. What is with parents? If I have not announced it, you can't!
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 15w today!