August 2021 Moms
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Weeks 3-4 (8/15-8/31) Check-in 3/21
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Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days:
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out:
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of:
Upcoming appointments:
How are you feeling?:
Rants/Raves:
Questions:
GTKY: What do you like about springtime?
Re: Weeks 3-4 (8/15-8/31) Check-in 3/21
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: August 27/17 + 2
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Team Pink
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: A Pomegranate
Upcoming appointments: Checkup Next Week
How are you feeling?: Great! Planning to take advantage of feeling good + warmer weather to start getting more active this week.
Rants/Raves: Rave is I love being able to easily find baby’s heartbeat on my home doppler, it’s still such a thrill to listen to. Rant is I’m starting to get “you don’t look pregnant yet” comments and that definitely bums me out.
Questions: None this week
GTKY: Basically everything! I’m lucky to not have much in the way of seasonal allergies, so there’s not a lot of downside to this season for me. Beyond the obvious joy of being able to spend more time outside, I’d say my favorite aspect of spring is getting to have lots of fresh-cut flowers in the house throughout this time of year.
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 16+5
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: pink
Upcoming appointments: regular OB visit this week
How are you feeling?: physically mostly better. waiting for energy to come back. emotionally i've been having some hard days. i really want to find some support to make life easier. We finally had it figured out ok before COVID, and now I don't know what to do. Family is zero help. I feel like I have no friends since covid, because we actually took restrictions seriously. And we don't have things like the fitness center to destress and drop the kids off for an hour or two. What have you guys figured out?
Rants/Raves: Excited to start working on renovations and decorating the house again (and dreading it at the same time, its so much work!)
Questions: just under the "how are you feeling"
GTKY: What do you like about springtime? Finally getting outside for more time. It'll still be some time before plants come up around here and trees get leaves, but I can't wait. We live by a small pond and the ducks are back (despite the pond still being mostly frozen), the kids love to feed them!
@the_most_happy totally agree on the fresh cut flowers!! it makes such a big difference to have them inside, it makes me happy each time i walk by them!
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: green
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: pomegranate
Upcoming appointments: not until 15th
How are you feeling?: Still nauseous and vomiting about once a day. Better than I was with ds, so I've gone without meds.
Rants/Raves: snow here is still melting. Can't wait for spring. DS wants to be outside no matter the weather. Rave DS has been sleeping basically through the night for a good majority of the week! 8 pm-7/7:30am is glorious.
Questions: natm
GTKY: What do you like about springtime? The smell of freshly cut grass. My next door neighbor mows every week. I love the ability to be outside more since that's my son's happy place.
@litzi-2 I am sorry to hear that you are having hard days. What is the COVID situation like in your area? Would you be comfortable finding a trusted babysitter or mother's helper to provide you with some support? What kind of renos do you have planned?? That does sound fun and exciting—I hope it helps provide a bit of an outlet for you.
@Kenneylynn3 Hooray for 8pm to 7/7:30am of sleep!! You must feel like a whole new person.
EDD/Weeks + Days: August 26th, 17w4d
Team: Finding out. The anatomy scan has been set for April 12th! We are keeping it to ourselves though.
Baby is the size of: Chipmunk
Upcoming appointments: I have a mental health check-in with my doctor tomorrow. I don't have an in-person appointment until April.
How are you feeling?: I definitely have more energy during the day and I just want to clean all the things. Combination of spring cleaning/nesting urges. However, I am usually wiped after the chaos that is bath time/bedtime. Still taking Diclectin to help with the nausea.
Rants/Raves:
Questions: NATM
GTKY: Longer, sunnier, warmer days! The smell of the spring air and being able to open up all the windows. Going outside without winter gear. Crocuses and daffodils. The birdsong in the morning. I'm so happy it is finally spring. Sure we might get some more snow (we've had snowstorms at the end of April in recent years), BUT for all intents and purposes it is spring! I feel like a new person.
stimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 17+2
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: pink
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: pomegranate
Upcoming appointments: 4/5 with MFM for AS
How are you feeling?: way better!
Rants/Raves: I got so much done this weekend and my house is actually clean. I almost feel vindicated because I was so out of it the past few months. It’s like proving myself— to myself— that I wasn’t just being lazy and no motivation... it was totally pregnancy related 😂
Questions:
GTKY: What do you like about springtime? Warmer weather! We played outside with DD this weekend. It’s been awful being stuck in the house and I hate the cold. DD started soccer this weekend, so it will be great for her to be able to be active and outside again.
I have no idea about stickers, but now that I type that, maybe it’s an app like pic stitch. I use it to do side by side comparison photos when I’ve lost weight, turning in DDs virtual HW written assignments, or to compare DDs growth but it most likely has way more features than what I use it for.
Photofy might be a good free option?
Not that it helps with doing things together, but MH and I trade naps on the weekends. So on Saturday, when our youngest is napping from 12-3, he will hangout with our oldest and I am free to do what I want. Most of the time I nap, but sometimes I will go out and run a few errands or meet up with a friend or go for a walk. Then on Sunday, MH takes 12-3 to do whatever (he almost always naps).
@Kenneylynn3 thanks for asking that because I didn’t know either! I’ve taken zero bump pics and this is baby #1 for me, so I really have no excuse lol.
@pickle-chips right there with you on the cleaning/nesting! I’m going room by room and organizing every drawer/shelf/cabinet etc. Very satisfying!
@emmylou78 I had that same thought of “am I just using pregnancy as an excuse to be lazy?” Especially because I had so few “concrete” symptoms in first trimester, I really didn’t realize I was legitimately feeling off until it passed. Glad to be through that period, even if I got lucky overall!
Team blue
Baby is the size of a pomegranate
upcoming appointments: second covid vaccine 4/6; A/S on 4/15
I'm feeling good, my energy is up, though my memory isn’t getting bad.
Questions: is anyone working out or have a rec for a good sports bra? All of mine are now allowing too much bounce. *Edited to include my other thoughts behind this: I’m thinking I might as well shift to a nursing sports bra so I can use it postpartum. I hated the ones I had with DD.*
Nausea little better and I can drink coffee again!!! But just have general lack of appetite... nothing sounds good.