Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: baby is the length of a 3 hole punch
Team πππ: π
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Upcoming appointments: Tomorrow for my first COVID vaccine and glucose test as well as a potential growth scan, depending on my fundal height.Β
How are you feeling?: Back pain is kicking in and the fatigue is just increasing.Β
Rants/Raves: We had a wedding this past weekend which was a blast. It was so nice to see our friends and have them meet DD (we are the only ones with kids). Plus we got to take DD to Lambeau Field and see Aaron Rodgers and the Packers practice, which she loved. RANT: We are going to a lake house this weekend with DHs extended family. I bought all this stuff for boating and the lake to be told that you canβt swim in the water. Why TF did we rent a lake house if we canβt even swim in the lake? Iβm BEYOND annoyed. Plus, they are making all these plans to do things away from the house and Iβm just not up for that. I want a vacation where we can stay in one place and not race around to 15 different places just to find something to do. π
Questions: Nope
GTKY: This is how I ended my school year and how I plan to jumpstart labor! π€£
TTC History
Me: 26 DH: 27
TTC #1 | June '18-August '18 | DD | Born April 21, 2019 | Due May 10, 2019
TTC#2 | June '20-February '21 | DS | Due October 27, 2021
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a platypus π
Team πππ: π
FTM/STM/TTM+: FTM
Upcoming appointments: 8/12 for 32 week appt and TDAP!Β
How are you feeling?: Iβm honestly just fried. Iβm so tired and out of breath all of the time. Idk if height has anything to do with pregnancy lol but I feel like my abdomen is so short that baby doesnβt have much elsewhere to go. Iβm only 5β1 so I just feel like Iβm walking around with a bowling ball strapped to me every day. π₯²
Rants/Raves: Rave- got my maternity pics back and I love basically all of them! She did a great job.Β
Rant: DH and I were talking to MIL last night, showing her maternity pics, and an updated photo of the nursery. DH told her we were waiting on our adorable mobile to come in the mail for the crib and she basically went into a big speech telling us to βstop buying thingsβ. I tried to gently tell her when itβs decor that Iβd like to buy those things myself but she basically kept insisting that people will buy us things that arenβt on our registry? It was odd. Like yes, people have already bought us things not on the registry, but I literally have received zero decor items. I think itβs just kind of a thing people understand, that the parents would like to choose the decorations? Then on top of that she said βwhat Iβm trying to say is when you have two weeks left and youβre both panicking, we will buy you things.β Am I crazy orβ¦. Why would we wait until Iβm βpanickingβ??? Iβm so lost. I think sheβs under the impression that we need more help from them financially than we really do- but if sheβs wanting to gift us something, Iβm so confused on the waiting to do it until Iβm panicking statement?? Whatβs the purpose? π€·π»ββοΈ
@chindimples04 omg that lake house thing would annoy me also! I guess the views will be pretty butβ¦ with the heat lately it wouldβve been nice to get into the water!Β
@chindimples04 so many lakes in the Upper Midwest are seeing an increase in amoebas/bad algae because of the extra hot weather. Is that why? Or is it just always an unswimmable lake? Either way that blows.Β
@madiirosee is this her first grandchild? We had the first Grand on my H's side and she said/did so many nonsensical things at first. I think she wanted to be more involved than she could have been (bc its not her pregnancy) , and was also just nervous about her (grown) baby entering this new phase of his life, and didn't really know how to transition to this new phase of her parenting journey, so she was just... really weird for a good year or so... not making excuses for your MIL, but it made it easier for me to ignore her weirdness once I realized that. Hopefully your MIL chills out and realizes you guys got this.Β
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: eggplant, must be extra huge because there's no way this kid is that small.Β
Team πππ: π
FTM/STM/TTM+: TTM
Upcoming appointments: Tomorrow for.28 week check up and glocola.Β
How are you feeling?: tired huge and ready for Oct.Β
Rants/Raves: more house projects completed. We're so close to listing our house! Cross your fingers for us, Friends! Also DS (4) started tball and it was the most adorable thing.Β
@vampirina it is her first yesβ¦ but I will say i do think that because my SIL and husband who are due a month after me are not doing so well financially that she may be thinking we need more help as well? It is interesting and I agree with your point that sheβs probably just not saying the right things always since itβs her first grand baby. I definitely was quiet and non defensive when she was talking. DH did most of the responding lolΒ
@chindimples04, ugh how annoying about not being able to swim in the lake! I agree - when I go to a lake house, the main attraction is relaxing AT THE LAKE. I don't want to be driving all over for activities!
@madiirosee, ugh sorry about the MIL. My MIL was weirdly annoyed with us buying stuff for our first too. I would mention something random, like "oh, we booked maternity photos!" And my MIL would legitimately be annoyed with me and scoff and say, "oh, I wanted to buy those for you." Umm ok. But you never said so and I can't read minds?!?!? I think, like @vampirina said, it's just MIL's way of trying to be involved. Even though it's super annoying.Β
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: Oct 29 // 27w3d
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a bottle of SrirachaΒ
Team πππ: π!!!
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Upcoming appointments: next week for blood typing (because the 64826 times my blood has been typed already don't count) and the rhogam shot. Yayyyyy π
How are you feeling?: Anxious. Between DD getting (probable) RSV and reading/obsessing about the covid delta variant, my anxiety is out of control
Rants/Raves:Β
Rant: we are STILL SICK. I'm over my food poisoning, thank goodness, as it was super miserable. But poor DD has been knocked on her butt by RSV, and I think I caught it too because I have a nasty cough. I'm physically and emotionally drained and I just want to feel better. π Also it's my 6th day missing work which has me on edge. I'm going to be so behind when I go back!
Rave: 3rd trimester, baby!!!!!Β
Questions: where is everyone with name discussions? We still aren't 100% and it's adding to my anxiety. We are about 80% solid on a boys name. I thought we had a girls name good to go, but H and I both suddenly have doubts about it. I'd say I'm split between two girls names and possibly neither. Yikes!!
@galentine I thought we'd decided on a name. Ordered a onesie with her name on it, immediately panicked that I hated the middle name and cancelled the order. Now I'm worried we have to start from scratch because we don't agree on any other middle options π
@galentine we definitely do not have names and I'm weird not stressed about it but I probably should be? I'm more stressed about the house so I don't have time or energy to be stressed about the name. Maybe we'll get a nice nurse/doctor/ anesthesialogist/janitor at the hospital with a cool name we can borrow.Β
@chindimples04 I was not good at four square as a kid, but maybe now I could beat some elementary schoolers π
@madiirosee I think a perfectly reasonable response would be, "We are buying things now because we do not want to be panicking two weeks out. May we reserve anything for you specifically?" But really, just keep doing what you're doing and let your husband handle her goofiness
@galentine We're pretty set on a name because we really didn't like any alternatives. And now we've got some personalized stuff, so we're going with that! It feels very weird to bestow a name on another real, live person that you've never met before
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: Oct. 12, 29+6
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: A giant banana split. I dunno, some of these baby size lists are getting a little strange. How giant are we talking here?
Team πππ: π
FTM/STM/TTM+: FTM
Upcoming appointments: Friday. I'm reading on The Bump that sometimes they do an NST at 30 weeks? That wasn't mentioned, so hopefully we're not doing that, because I don't want to be stuck there that long if I haven't planned for it.
How are you feeling?: I mean, okay I guess? I remarked to my husband the other day that people must only ask how women in the third trimester are feeling because they like to watch us circle the drain. It's not like I'm going to start feeling better! Also, I'm getting blisters in the corners of my lips (not cold sores). What in the world is going on here?
Rants/Raves: Rant -- I tried to keep it up, but I think I'm going to have to throw in the towel on my regular running routine. It feels okay while I'm doing it, but just a couple miles means I have trouble getting off the couch or out of my car for two days afterward. That makes me sad, but hopefully I can get something out of walking or the elliptical. Rave -- DH and I went to a minor league baseball game on Saturday. The weather was great, and since I couldn't drink beer, I consoled myself with a giant brownie with two scoops of ice cream, chocolate syrup, and whipped cream. I absolutely could not finish it, but it was delicious.
Questions: Has anyone's provider or hospital started to tighten COVID restrictions again? Mine is holding steady for now, but since they cancelled in-person classes, I'm wondering where we're headed between now and October.
GTKY: Share a meme about your job!
Ah, the mad scramble to deal with problems caused by a change someone else introduced to the network
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Gizmo from Gremlins
Team πππ: π
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Upcoming appointments: Thursday
How are you feeling?: Overdid it hiking this past weekend on my girls trip, so my back is killing me, but being back at work with my lumbar support thing on my chair and taking small walks around the plant will help. Also exhausted because I stayed up way past my bedtime the whole weekend.
Rants/Raves: Rave, I had a really great time on my trip. The indoor pool was magical. I got the longest hug from DS when I picked him up yesterday after not seeing him for a few days. Rant, I'm back at work and should've taken the day off to do laundry and sleep.
Questions:
GTKY: Share a meme about your job!
Feels very accurate for HR today since I was out yesterday
@gingermama46, I'm glad you were able to enjoy your girls weekend. Rookie mistake not taking an extra day off, though π Always always take an extra day. My coworkers call it the "re-entry" day, as in, you need a day to re-enter the real world!
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: cauliflower
Team πππ: π
FTM/STM/TTM+: stm
Upcoming appointments: Thursday!
How are you feeling?: Really, really tired. I've taken a nap twice this week, and I've started having trouble sleeping through the night. Vicious cycle, I guess!
Rants/Raves: had a family day at the zoo! It@noprobalo a lot of fun. My daughter spent most of the time being sad she couldn't swim in the water with the sea lions and alligators, lol.
Questions: π€·πΌββοΈ @noprobalo I was actually planning to ask my doctor this week about covid precautions...like, what do I need to plan for, should we self-quarantine before the birth, I don't even know what else. So many things to think about this time around, especially with the recent uptick in cases in my area π
GTKY: Share a meme about your job!
I think most of us can relate to this meme after the past year and a half of shut downs and work from home policies! Lol.
@cait32 I've only ever had AMA pregnancies, so I don't really know any different. I've had growth scans every month, but that could also be related to my weird uterus and history of IUGR. I passed on the amniocentesis π€·πΌββοΈ
@cait32, it took me a long time to really buy-in to being Team π. I really did it for my husband. But now that I've likely had my last ultrasound (barring unforseen complications) and have had my final chance to find out, I'm feeling SO EXCITED! I cannot wait to find out if my DD is getting a brother or sister! The delivery room surprise will be so amazing!
@cait32 I got absolutely nothing done extra. I've never had an NST. I didnt have growth scans (my 4 year old was born when I was 35). Nobody has said anything about needing them now at 39.Β
@cait32 I don't think much will be different for me this time around. They had me do an extra genetic screen early on and I have a quick u/s at every appointment. It hasn't been discussed, but I'm assuming I'll have NSTs starting around 37-38 weeks like I did with DS. With COVID and my frequent u/s's though, I wouldn't be surprised if they let me skip those or push them back until later.
@noprobalo Your question got me looking into my hospital. So far our guidance was updated at the end of June to allow one extra support person/visitor (now 2 people). I wouldn't be surprised if they back-tracked that, but I'm OK as long as I have DH. I will try to remember to ask about this at my next appointment though.Β
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 30+3
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Platypus to which DS said "a platypus would not make a good pet because it is poisonous and could kill you." Technically, they're venemous, ya little know-it-all π€£
Team πππ: π
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Upcoming appointments: Aug 20th (should have had one this week, but my doc is letting me skip it since I am apparently the least high risk that a high risk patient can be)
How are you feeling?: bigger than I look and super underprepared. The second one will just raise himself, right? Or my 5 1/2 yo will?Β
Rants/Raves: DS did a whole year of in person preschool and no one in the entire school got COVID. He's been in Kindergarten for a week and a half and I just found out one of his classmates tested positive. Thankfully his rapid results test came back negative. This is just triggering all sorts of anxiety in me.Β
@aztecash He knows more than me, because I had no idea they were anything more than dangerously cute??
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 10/15 - 29+5
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Weighs as much as a trumpet
Team πππ: π
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Upcoming appointments: Friday the 6th
How are you feeling?: Huge, I just don't understand how I still have 2 months to go??Β
Rants/Raves: Today is the big Great Wolf Lodge $84 sale and they don't have any dates that will work for me. Unless I want to bring a 3 day old. Boohoo
Rave: My son started his new daycare yesterday! And good thing since all of a sudden they aren't sure what school opening will look like!!! ARGGGGG
Questions: I'm still thinking about how I had "great fluid" at my 3d ultrasound despite not EXACTLY following their instructions. I wonder if it's too high? My OB didn't measure me last time.Β
GTKY: Share a meme about your job!
I don't think there are any memes about my actual job.Β
Re: Weekly Check In w/o 8.2
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: baby is the length of a 3 hole punch
Team πππ: π
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Upcoming appointments: Tomorrow for my first COVID vaccine and glucose test as well as a potential growth scan, depending on my fundal height.Β
How are you feeling?: Back pain is kicking in and the fatigue is just increasing.Β
Rants/Raves: We had a wedding this past weekend which was a blast. It was so nice to see our friends and have them meet DD (we are the only ones with kids). Plus we got to take DD to Lambeau Field and see Aaron Rodgers and the Packers practice, which she loved. RANT: We are going to a lake house this weekend with DHs extended family. I bought all this stuff for boating and the lake to be told that you canβt swim in the water. Why TF did we rent a lake house if we canβt even swim in the lake? Iβm BEYOND annoyed. Plus, they are making all these plans to do things away from the house and Iβm just not up for that. I want a vacation where we can stay in one place and not race around to 15 different places just to find something to do. π
Questions: Nope
GTKY: This is how I ended my school year and how I plan to jumpstart labor! π€£
Me: 26 DH: 27
TTC #1 | June '18-August '18 | DD | Born April 21, 2019 | Due May 10, 2019
TTC#2 | June '20-February '21 | DS | Due October 27, 2021
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a platypus π
Team πππ: π
FTM/STM/TTM+: FTM
Upcoming appointments: 8/12 for 32 week appt and TDAP!Β
How are you feeling?: Iβm honestly just fried. Iβm so tired and out of breath all of the time. Idk if height has anything to do with pregnancy lol but I feel like my abdomen is so short that baby doesnβt have much elsewhere to go. Iβm only 5β1 so I just feel like Iβm walking around with a bowling ball strapped to me every day. π₯²
Rants/Raves: Rave- got my maternity pics back and I love basically all of them! She did a great job.Β
Rant: DH and I were talking to MIL last night, showing her maternity pics, and an updated photo of the nursery. DH told her we were waiting on our adorable mobile to come in the mail for the crib and she basically went into a big speech telling us to βstop buying thingsβ. I tried to gently tell her when itβs decor that Iβd like to buy those things myself but she basically kept insisting that people will buy us things that arenβt on our registry? It was odd. Like yes, people have already bought us things not on the registry, but I literally have received zero decor items. I think itβs just kind of a thing people understand, that the parents would like to choose the decorations? Then on top of that she said βwhat Iβm trying to say is when you have two weeks left and youβre both panicking, we will buy you things.β Am I crazy orβ¦. Why would we wait until Iβm βpanickingβ??? Iβm so lost. I think sheβs under the impression that we need more help from them financially than we really do- but if sheβs wanting to gift us something, Iβm so confused on the waiting to do it until Iβm panicking statement?? Whatβs the purpose? π€·π»ββοΈ
Questions:
GTKY: Share a meme about your job!
@madiirosee is this her first grandchild? We had the first Grand on my H's side and she said/did so many nonsensical things at first. I think she wanted to be more involved than she could have been (bc its not her pregnancy) , and was also just nervous about her (grown) baby entering this new phase of his life, and didn't really know how to transition to this new phase of her parenting journey, so she was just... really weird for a good year or so... not making excuses for your MIL, but it made it easier for me to ignore her weirdness once I realized that. Hopefully your MIL chills out and realizes you guys got this.Β
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: eggplant, must be extra huge because there's no way this kid is that small.Β
Team πππ: π
FTM/STM/TTM+: TTM
Upcoming appointments: Tomorrow for.28 week check up and glocola.Β
How are you feeling?: tired huge and ready for Oct.Β
Rants/Raves: more house projects completed. We're so close to listing our house! Cross your fingers for us, Friends! Also DS (4) started tball and it was the most adorable thing.Β
Questions:
GTKY: Share a meme about your job!
@madiirosee, ugh sorry about the MIL. My MIL was weirdly annoyed with us buying stuff for our first too. I would mention something random, like "oh, we booked maternity photos!" And my MIL would legitimately be annoyed with me and scoff and say, "oh, I wanted to buy those for you." Umm ok. But you never said so and I can't read minds?!?!? I think, like @vampirina said, it's just MIL's way of trying to be involved. Even though it's super annoying.Β
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: Oct 29 // 27w3d
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a bottle of SrirachaΒ
Team πππ: π!!!
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Upcoming appointments: next week for blood typing (because the 64826 times my blood has been typed already don't count) and the rhogam shot. Yayyyyy π
How are you feeling?: Anxious. Between DD getting (probable) RSV and reading/obsessing about the covid delta variant, my anxiety is out of control
Rants/Raves:Β
Rant: we are STILL SICK. I'm over my food poisoning, thank goodness, as it was super miserable. But poor DD has been knocked on her butt by RSV, and I think I caught it too because I have a nasty cough. I'm physically and emotionally drained and I just want to feel better. π Also it's my 6th day missing work which has me on edge. I'm going to be so behind when I go back!
Rave: 3rd trimester, baby!!!!!Β
Questions: where is everyone with name discussions? We still aren't 100% and it's adding to my anxiety. We are about 80% solid on a boys name. I thought we had a girls name good to go, but H and I both suddenly have doubts about it. I'd say I'm split between two girls names and possibly neither. Yikes!!
GTKY: Share a meme about your job!
This is eerily accurate π
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Barbie convertible
Team πππ: π
FTM/STM/TTM+:4tm
Upcoming appointments: 32 week scan and ob
How are you feeling?: Good but huge and sweaty
Rants/Raves: entering the 30s weeks is getting me all sorts or excited and anxious!!
GTKY: Share a meme about your job!
#sahm π
@madiirosee I think a perfectly reasonable response would be, "We are buying things now because we do not want to be panicking two weeks out. May we reserve anything for you specifically?" But really, just keep doing what you're doing and let your husband handle her goofiness
@galentine We're pretty set on a name because we really didn't like any alternatives. And now we've got some personalized stuff, so we're going with that! It feels very weird to bestow a name on another real, live person that you've never met before
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: Oct. 12, 29+6
Rave -- DH and I went to a minor league baseball game on Saturday. The weather was great, and since I couldn't drink beer, I consoled myself with a giant brownie with two scoops of ice cream, chocolate syrup, and whipped cream. I absolutely could not finish it, but it was delicious.
Ah, the mad scramble to deal with problems caused by a change someone else introduced to the network
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Gizmo from Gremlins
Team πππ: π
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Upcoming appointments: Thursday
How are you feeling?: Overdid it hiking this past weekend on my girls trip, so my back is killing me, but being back at work with my lumbar support thing on my chair and taking small walks around the plant will help. Also exhausted because I stayed up way past my bedtime the whole weekend.
Rants/Raves: Rave, I had a really great time on my trip. The indoor pool was magical. I got the longest hug from DS when I picked him up yesterday after not seeing him for a few days. Rant, I'm back at work and should've taken the day off to do laundry and sleep.
Questions:
GTKY: Share a meme about your job!
Feels very accurate for HR today since I was out yesterday
Also the fact that you love Parks and Rec and Leslie Knope and are a government worker like her is just great, i love itΒ
I think most of us can relate to this meme after the past year and a half of shut downs and work from home policies! Lol.
@noprobalo Your question got me looking into my hospital. So far our guidance was updated at the end of June to allow one extra support person/visitor (now 2 people). I wouldn't be surprised if they back-tracked that, but I'm OK as long as I have DH. I will try to remember to ask about this at my next appointment though.Β
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 30+3
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Platypus to which DS said "a platypus would not make a good pet because it is poisonous and could kill you." Technically, they're venemous, ya little know-it-all π€£
Team πππ: π
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Upcoming appointments: Aug 20th (should have had one this week, but my doc is letting me skip it since I am apparently the least high risk that a high risk patient can be)
How are you feeling?: bigger than I look and super underprepared. The second one will just raise himself, right? Or my 5 1/2 yo will?Β
Rants/Raves: DS did a whole year of in person preschool and no one in the entire school got COVID. He's been in Kindergarten for a week and a half and I just found out one of his classmates tested positive. Thankfully his rapid results test came back negative. This is just triggering all sorts of anxiety in me.Β
Questions:
GTKY: Share a meme about your job!
ETA - confession time for those who know Parks and Rec. I'm really Ben Wyatt and not Leslie Knope!! π
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 10/15 - 29+5
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Weighs as much as a trumpet
Team πππ: π
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Upcoming appointments: Friday the 6th
How are you feeling?: Huge, I just don't understand how I still have 2 months to go??Β
Rants/Raves: Today is the big Great Wolf Lodge $84 sale and they don't have any dates that will work for me. Unless I want to bring a 3 day old. Boohoo
Rave: My son started his new daycare yesterday! And good thing since all of a sudden they aren't sure what school opening will look like!!! ARGGGGG
Questions: I'm still thinking about how I had "great fluid" at my 3d ultrasound despite not EXACTLY following their instructions. I wonder if it's too high? My OB didn't measure me last time.Β
GTKY: Share a meme about your job!
I don't think there are any memes about my actual job.Β