August 2021 Moms
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Weeks 3-4 (8/15-8/31) Check-in 3/28
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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: Growing up, what was your dream job?
Re: Weeks 3-4 (8/15-8/31) Check-in 3/28
EDD/W + D: August 26, 18w3d
Team: Finding out
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: 🥐 baby can now hiccup and yawn—I’ve definitely felt the hiccuping!
Upcoming appointments: nothing this week.
How are you feeling?: A little foggy. Not sure if it’s pregnancy, allergies or a cold. Still on diclectin...
Rants/Raves: Not really a rant or a rave, but we are getting a cat at the end of April. MH has wanted a cat since we started dating 12 years ago; he finally wore me down 😆 I’m now researching vacuum cleaners...
The car seat we ordered is arriving this week. It is the first (and probably only) big purchase for this baby and is kind of exciting.
Questions: NATM
GTKY: I wanted to be a journalist/documentary filmmaker. I also went through a phase of wanting to be a diplomat like my Dad.
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 17+5 (Aug 31)
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: pink
Upcoming appointments: AS in about 2 weeks but nothing til then
How are you feeling?: i was doing ok for once and now the whole family is sick with some URI type thing because some irresponsible mother felt the need to take her sick toddler to swim class last monday, coughing and sneezing all over the place... are you f-ing kidding me? makes me happy i finished the covid vaccines.
Rants/Raves: i have two weeks off of work, and dh only has to work like 10 of those 14 days, and all of the shifts are evenings. he made his schedule such that on the other 4 days he has hockey, so on what are supposed to be our 4 days off together in this 4 week stretch, i still have to put the kids to bed and get up with them and basically still handle everything around the house. I mean, not the end of the world, but its irritating.
Questions: not feeling a ton of movement yet, just very occasionally. no idea where placenta is yet. is everyone feeling a lot?
GTKY: Growing up, what was your dream job? gosh i have no idea. i'm so old i can't remember anything.
@pickle-chips i love our cat. and she really doesn't create any extra work (the big dog is much messier). we have one of those litter robot things and the other litter box is pellets so we don't even have to do that stuff very often. but if you do find a good vacuum, do share! we go thru those things pretty quickly (have the lightweight shark ones).
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 19 weeks today! 8/22
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: 💙
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: mango
Upcoming appointments: AS on April 7th
How are you feeling?: pretty good. Multiple BH contractions throughout the day though. Make me feel like the wind is knocked out of me.
Rants/Raves: cannot believe I’m halfway there!!
Questions:
GTKY: Growing up, what was your dream job? Being a chef.
@litzi-2 just feeling sporadic movement. I definitely have to be laying still to feel anything. I have an anterior placenta so that could be muffling some of it.
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 19+ 2, 8/28
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: 💖
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: artichoke
Upcoming appointments: 4/5 for AS
How are you feeling?: better
Rants/Raves:I’ve definitely hit the “showing” stage of pregnancy. This week is a short week, since I took a couple days off for spring break. We are going to an indoor water park a couple hours away and staying a few days. I’m ready for a much-needed break!!
Questions:
GTKY: Growing up, what was your dream job? teacher
I wanted to be a pediatric nurse but I ended up with crippling anxiety in my senior year of high school so that never happened 🤷🏻♀️
@litzi-2, I have just started feeling really consistent movement, but like @emily1052, I have an anterior placenta. Have you asked your OB about your placenta placement?
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 20+1...but measuring a full week ahead. Due date is 8/15.
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Team green! Had my AS last week and stayed strong.
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: A banana? An endive? Somewhere in there!
Upcoming appointments: Had my AS last week. Baby is perfect. I have a tele-health appointment with my OB on the 4th.
How are you feeling?: Good. Heartburn is ramping up though!
Rants/Raves: I've been MIA. It has been Spring Break, and I realize that I do most of my "Bumping" at work, so when I'm not working...it doesn't happen! So, my rant is that I get to catch up on Bump stuff!
Questions: NATM
GTKY: Growing up, what was your dream job? I have wanted to be a teacher since I was 8, and haven't deviated from that path! I love being a teacher!!
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: babygirl
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a hedgehog!
Upcoming appointments: anatomy scan tomorrow, I’m SO NERVOUS to see how my fibroids are doing, hopefully they’ve shrunk and all is good with baby
How are you feeling?: nervous and tired, insomnia has been bad this week but physically I feel much much better now that I’ve started going to the chiropractor regularly
Rants/Raves: I just wish I could enjoy my bump and pregnancy without worrying about my uterus drama
Questions: not for now, I’m also not feeling tons of movement, her heartbeat is strong on the Doppler and I felt her do a crazy roll yesterday which was cool, but I’m in the middle of “this is going so fast omg I’m not ready” and wanting to hit fast forward to when she’s at least term
GTKY: Growing up, what was your dream job? Journalist when I was in high school, when I was a kid I wanted to be a massage therapist, I liked helping people feel better. That was discouraged and I ended up in bodywork anyway!
team: Green! we weren’t sure if we would find out at AS but pretty sure now we’re going to hold out and keep it a surprise
upcoming appts: anatomy scan on April 8. I had a scan last week to confirm no neural tube defects. Baby is doing fine, although starting to measure a bit small (I’m very concerned w growth restriction due to my issues, so this freaks me out, but I’m trying to remind myself he/she could just be a tiny little peanut)
how are you feeling? Anxious but fine, enjoying feeling movement but it’s still sporadic for me
rants/raves: echoing @cocoliso13 about wishing I could enjoy pregnancy. Until I got the bad result on the maternal serum alpha protein test, I was holding out a sliver of hope i would have a normal pregnancy this time. But all signs point to another one with placental issues so just really hoping and praying this baby makes it too.
GTKY: Dream job? maybe an author. I don’t actually know. That’s probably how I ended up a lawyer.. bc I had no clue what I wanted to do!!
Team Blue
Baby is the size of an artichoke
Upcoming Appts: April 15 Anatomy Scan (A much needed chiropractor appointment tomorrow? Does that also count?)
Feeling? I feel fine. I have my tired days but it’s still not as bad as first tri so I’ll take it. I haven’t really felt any movement I don’t think. Sometimes I get spots that tighten and I thought they were BH but maybe it’s movement? I had an anterior placenta with DD, and I don’t remember feeling much.
GTKY: My first dream job growing up was to be a gymnast until I read an article with Kim Zmeskal saying she only ate one candy bar a month. 🤣 Then it was a vet until we got a new dog and I was old enough to be involved with her recovery from our dog spayed. It hurt me to look at the stitches.
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: August 27/18 + 4
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: Pink
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: An Artichoke
Upcoming appointments: Had a check-up this morning and I have an anatomy scan in mid-April.
How are you feeling?: Good but acid reflux is ramping up. Any suggestions for minimizing that are welcome!
Rants/Raves: I very abruptly got sent back to working full-time in the office this week, and I am not happy about it at all. Literally the only upside is this has definitely resolved any hesitancy I was feeling about staying home after the baby comes, because if I'm this upset to leave my house now I can only imagine it'd be much worse for me then.
Questions: So, my doctor talked to me a little today about how my history of high blood pressure means they are going to want to induce me early, and I'm wondering if anyone else has been in this boat. I was diagnosed with high BP with no apparent cause (no lifestyle factors, genetic history etc.) about four years ago, and after some initial resistance to medications it's been well-controlled since then (even when I haven't always been super diligent about staying on top of my meds, tbh). It's been excellent this entire pregnancy and I'm just really bummed that it seems like merely having that history seems to mean I'm automatically going to need an induction, no matter what the actual state of my BP is when the time comes. My doctor basically said they aren't going to let me go past 39 weeks even if my numbers are fine at that point- does anyone with knowledge of this kind of thing think that's something I can/should push back on? Obviously at the first sign my BP is getting high I would happily be induced, but I also feel like if I don't need that I don't want it.
GTKY: When I was really small (like preschool age) I wanted to be an archaeologist. Never really had a dream job since then... I decided I was a work-to-live rather than live-to-work kind of person pretty early, haha.
@pickle-chips that's so exciting about the cat! I have a Dyson (v11, I think?) and they are expensive but I love mine- I have two long-haired cats and a very big dog, so it's worth it.
@litzi-2 I'm definitely feeling her daily but it's not all day- more like I usually get a few flutters when I'm lying down in bed every night. I'm pretty sure my placenta is in a position that's more conducive to feeling the baby kick (I always get the terms mixed up).
@emily1052 being a chef would be so fun! I'm not nearly creative enough but I love all things cooking and food... maybe I should have dreamed of being a sous chef, haha.
@emmylou78 enjoy your trip! We have an indoor water park here in town and I've never been, I've always meant to check it out.
@grogu sorry you're still dealing with not feeling so good, what a pain. Has that continued your entire pregnancy in the past?
@cyanope that's so cool that you've been consistent in what you've wanted to do for so long (and even cooler that you still love it... it'd really suck if you wanted to do something since childhood and then were like "ugh this actually isn't for me," haha).
@cocoliso13 aww, I hope you're able to enjoy your pregnancy more as it goes on, definitely easier said than done though. Fingers crossed for good news today!
@obsessedwithoranges that's so tough, I really hope things go more smoothly for you this time! Sending good thoughts.
@loloyoyo26 bahaha, I like the process-of-elimination approach to dream jobs... makes a lot of sense actually!
I would push back on the induction. Get a blood pressure monitor for home and just keep a close eye on it. They work for you and cannot make you do anything. It isn't like they will show up at your house and drag you to L&D
@obsessedwithoranges I hope baby stays put and things go smoothly until delivery!
This is what I found when I did a quick search: ACOG suggested the following approach for delivery of women with chronic hypertension:
•≥38+0 to 39+6 weeks of gestation for women not requiring medication
•≥37+0 to 39+0 weeks for women with hypertension controlled with medication
•34+0 to 36+6 weeks for women with severe hypertension that is difficult to control
I'm probably going to induce at about 39 weeks just for precipitous labor so I hopefully dont have the baby at home/ parking lot/ etc. If anything else comes up I would induce sooner. I figure pregnancy isn't perfect and I'd rather have more interventions (that may not be necessary, but its impossible to know) than put myself/ baby at risk. Pregnancy is hard and there isn't always a "right" decision for a lot of things.
@litzi-2 yeah, I'm definitely in the "controlled with medication" category so I do understand why my doctor is pushing this- it's best practices based on the average patient in my position. But I guess I'm kind of like... I'm not an average, I'm an individual, you know? It's totally true that the statistical likelihood is that I, as a woman with a history of hypertension, will experience preeclampsia by the end of my pregnancy and therefore the general recommendation is to induce early. And if I do experience that at all, I will totally be on board with taking action! But I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around the necessity of intervening in the (admittedly unlikely!) case that I show up to the doctor at 39 weeks and my BP is 120/80. I guess I just have to decide how much I want to fight if it does come to that.
EDD: Aug 22nd/19 +2
Team Blue
I have an appointment on Friday to get my covid vaccine and the anatomy scan is April 6th.
I'm feeling pretty crappy because my doctor thinks I have either a kidney stone or UTI and I am waiting for the results of the urine culture. Also I feel really fat and don't feel like leaving the house.
My dream job growing up was to be a traveling archeologist like Indiana Jones and to be an interpreter who speaks 5 languages lol
I keep thinking I actually answered the post...
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 18+1?
Team Green/Pink/Blue/Finding Out: ..
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Avocado? Or was that last week? This poor 2nd child.
Upcoming appointments: AS and OB visit on 4/16
How are you feeling?: better! I'm no longer passing out at 8pm and waking up at 4am. Dreams are weird and vivid. Still no appetite/craving but eating ok.
Rants/Raves: mmmmmmmm not much interesting things. We've got full on bedtime boycott going on so lots of tears at nights. Will probably transition to toddler bed so worried about that.
Questions: oh I guess maybe any recs on toddler bed transition?
GTKY: Growing up, what was your dream job
Wanted to be a doctor (or an archeologist like @air_in_april).
@hannelorre yeah definitely, I'm hesitant to push on this because I'm going to feel so silly about making a big deal of it now if I either 1) end up with issues that make induction clearly necessary or 2) just don't feel as strongly about it by the time we get to the end. That's comforting to know about the ARRIVE data too!
When I did transition DD, we just hyped the HECK out of it. Made it seem like the most exciting thing in the world. I showed her the beds I liked and let her make the final decision. Same thing with the bedding. We never had any issues. Mainly (I think) because she was so "old." She understood that she needed to stay in her bed and we never had the issue of her getting out over and over again.
I also highly recommend foam bumpers/bed rails. I'm not a big fan of the giant ones with a bunch of pieces that slip under the mattress, but that's just my opinion. The foam ones just go under the fitted mattress and work just as well.
Once he was in the toddler bed set up, he would rattle around the room until eventually falling asleep, sometimes in his chair and sometimes just on the floor, but he’d often find his way back to bed.
We moved all the excess books, shelf decorations basically everything from his room to try to reduce distraction. He then just emptied his dresser drawers, and I’ve mentioned the 💩 debacle before. Now at 4 he has a couple of little toys in there, he still rattles around his room before eventually putting himself to bed.
He dropped his nap by the time he was about 2.5, BUT he has always been on the low end of the sleep spectrum. He just doesn’t need as much sleep, RUDE. I’m not sure how much that had to do with the toddler bed or the fact that he’s a vampire who just doesn’t sleep.
That being said, our 2yo is still in a crib setup and I’m keeping him in there, because overall I hated having a toddler on the loose (mind you, our oldest is just generally the more adventurous, energetic, boundary pushing child).
@pickle-chips
We did just potty train! We haven't told her specifically about the new baby but she has been more clingy with me. It may be a sleep regression and we will probably wait another week (that will make about a mont of on and off struggle). She's generally been a good sleeper though she did go to one nap on the early side like 13 or 14 mo. I wouldn't mind if she would be able to do some quiet time on her own instead of napping. Right now it's just a lot of yelling and crying 😢 and everyone is tired.