Due: 6 Nov 2021
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November 2021 Moms
jackie_dunny
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Weekly Check-in “5/2”
jackie_dunny
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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 the best way to start the day?
Me: 29 | DH: 28
Due: 6 Nov 2021
Due: 6 Nov 2021
Re: Weekly Check-in “5/2”
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a strawberry, a sushi roll, or some kind of tiny fish, depends on the app I use lol
Upcoming appointments: 5/6 is my first OB appt, I'm feeling more relaxed as I saw the babe last week and have been checking every few days for fht on doppler. The doctor said the most chance for miscarriage is right before or during surgery, but after two losses, I can't help but check and reassure myself.
How are you feeling?: Sore, nauseous, constipated. The whole situation was a little bit of a mind-f and I'm still trying to wrap my brain around it.
Rants/Raves: FINALLY stopped my meds this weekend! I was little worried about it, but so far no spotting or symptoms, so I guess my doctor was right hehe.
Questions: When did everyone tell their job? I ended up telling my manager and the lead physican today because of all the stuff with my surgery, but I wasn't planning on it until I was 13 weeks. I also just started this job in March and had to tell them I was going to be out at the end of the year, so I was a little worried about that.
GTKY: what’s the best way to start the day?
Before pregnancy fatigue, I used to get up and go for a 30 min walk through the woods next to our house, have a cup of coffee and do some meditation with the headspace app (highly recommend for those interested in meditation). It was a great start to the day. Hopefully I can get back in to that soon, when the fatigue and insomnia subside.
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a lemon
Upcoming appointments: May 27th
How are you feeling?: achy back and really bad anxiety. I forgot to mention this in the symptoms thread. I knew there was something else (add pregnancy brain to the list 😂). I had a really bad panic attack last night for no reason.
Rants/Raves: eh nothing much really happening this week for me.
Questions:
GTKY: what’s the best way to start the day? A cup of tea ideally with a view but if not, in bed with hubby just snuggling with the pooch. Making a nice breakfast together and just taking our time. Definitely my favourite way to start the day
Due: 6 Nov 2021
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 13+0
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a peach!
Upcoming appointments: June 1
How are you feeling?: Tired but otherwise can't really complain
Rants/Raves: I had a prenatal massage scheduled yesterday that was a pain in the butt to schedule (the scheduler messed up and I had to reschedule because she scheduled me with someone who was not certified to do prenatal massages) and I had taken a half day off work so I could go to my OB appointment in the morning (which I woke up early for so I could fit it in before the massage appointment). When I got there, I was turned away because their policy is not to do massages in the first trimester (annnd I was 12+6 yesterday). I've had a membership with this place for 4 years and the best they could offer me was another rescheduled appointment, an "I'm sorry" and a free add-on (roughly a $15 value and because I'm pregnant, my options there are limited too) (and I had to really dig before the free add-on was offered up to me, which it ought to have been automatically included with their apology). So bummed, I was really looking forward to that massage! And the no-massages-in-first-tri policy is totally just to cover their own butts from a lawsuit in the event of a miscarriage. The American Pregnancy Organization says it's safe in all trimesters provided the person is prenatal certified). Clearly I'm still feeling a bit salty about it.
Questions:
GTKY: what’s the best way to start the day? Waking up on my own (not to the alarm of my phone, cat, or child) and feeling well rested.
@mayoduck noooooo that it the worst! I would have been so mad. But you remind me that I want to schedule a prenatal massage.
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 13+5
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a lemon
Upcoming appointments: Monthly appointment next week, although I've basically been in every week lol (yesterday to diagnose the UTI). At least I get to hear the baby on the doppler!
How are you feeling?: Definitely better in terms of first tri symptoms subsiding. I still need to eat all of the time and I'm very tired. You know, the usual.
Rants/Raves: I guess I'm glad I didn't get a UTI while I was peak queasy? But damn, I was just starting to enjoy feeling semi-normal again!
Questions: none rn
GTKY: what’s the best way to start the day? A cup of tea with a view as @jac@jackie_dunny says is pretty much my dream, but if I can't do that then a quiet cup of tea in the kitchen before anyone else wakes up.
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: the length of a bobby pin
Upcoming appointments: 5/20
How are you feeling?: exhausted, grumpy, borderline depressed lol
Rants/Raves: rant: when my husband told me he was offered a job 1000 miles away why was I so supportive?? Moving sucks Rave: my kids are so sweet and silly
GTKY: what’s the best way to start the day? Waking up to a clean house, a caramel mocha, and an ASIAGO BAGEL @eggsandwich2019 😂
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: lemon
Upcoming appointments: end of may
How are you feeling?: very gross and blegh today, but felt great over the weekend so I was due for a shitty day or two lol
Rants/Raves: just generally hate being pregnant, but DS has been extra sweet and helpful lately so he cheers me up a lot.
Questions:
GTKY: what’s the best way to start the day? Not nauseated with coffee or tea while my child plays quietly by himself for at least an hour
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Bee Hummingbird, pretty cute!
Upcoming appointments: 17th May, ultrasound
How are you feeling?: Depressed, bored, sick, body aches and tired - I feel like somedays I have the flu and others I feel like I am on the mend. I really can't predict anything!
Rants/Raves: Rant ~ trying to tell my non-baby friends about my upcoming arrival is giving me so much anxiety that I am dreaming about it often. Raves ~ Cleaner came today so the house is looking good!
GTKY: what’s the best way to start the day? Not feeling sick
but seriously I love walking to the local coffee shop and getting a mocha and sitting in the sun, enjoying it, before I have to get back to real life. Obviously that is when I am feeling good, threw up quite a bit last night so today isn't the best 
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: lemon
Upcoming appointments: end of June
How are you feeling?: Good...I just got my second covid vaccine today so hopefully I stay that way.
Rants/Raves:
Questions:
GTKY: what’s the best way to start the day? no chores to do and caramel apple crepes for breakfast! oh and tea!
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: playing card or an original 1977 Star Wars figurine 🤷🏽♀️
Upcoming appointments: Friday with the midwives. Can’t wait.
How are you feeling?: SUPER sleepy. Everything else is not as bad as before. Still Achy, sore, lower back pain. Heartburn this week isn’t as bad and other than that can’t wait to be off these HG meds and see how my body holds up. 🤞🏽
Rants/Raves: We were able to get an earlier appointment with the pediatric surgeon for my daughter and have a better idea of next steps. I’m relieved we’re addressing the issue sooner rather than later and of course still heartbroken and anxious that she has to go through any of this.
Questions:
GTKY: what’s the best way to start the day? Well now that @RoseShadow873 mentioned crepes that’s all I can think about (yum 🤤). I’d wake up on my own at a reasonable hour (not woken up by my toddler or DH grinding his coffee), there would be warm crepes and a delicious cup of lavender earl gray tea and I’d get to enjoy those few moments of solitude and quiet looking out the window, lost in thought or reading a few pages of a book before anyone else woke up.