(I know it’s Thursday, but this way it’ll be ready for tomorrow haha).
Figured from now on we can do weekly check
-ins on mondays but just to get to know all the new people, I’ll post this for the weekend.
Please feel free to create weekly posts on mondays, don’t wait for me. I think it makes it easier than a lot of one-offs.
Est Due Date / Weeks + Days:
FTM/STM/TTM+:
Upcoming Appointments:
How are you feeling?:
Rants/Raves:
Questions:
GTKY - Do you decorate for Fall/Halloween? If yes, when do you start?
Re: Weekend Check-In 10/1-10/3
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Upcoming Appointments: First appointment is October 13th. CANT WAIT.
How are you feeling?: Exhausted and bloated
Rants/Raves: My hips already hurt. That didn't happen til like 14 weeks when I was pregnant with my son
Questions:
GTKY - Do you decorate for Fall/Halloween? If yes, when do you start? I'd like to but not this year
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Upcoming Appointments: October 18th. Feels like it's so far away.
How are you feeling?: Exhausted, and backaches.
Rants/Raves: my belly is already too big for my pants. I'm already having to wear extenders.
Questions:
GTKY - Do you decorate for Fall/Halloween? If yes, when do you start? I do a little not a lot. I generally start end of September but haven't gotten around to it yet this year.
FTM/STM/TTM+: FTM
Upcoming Appointments: First ultrasound is scheduled for October 28th. Idk how we will wait that long!
How are you feeling?: Soooo tired.
Rants/Raves: I feel like I can't get comfortable at all at night.
Questions:
GTKY - Do you decorate for Fall/Halloween? If yes, when do you start? Yes! Fall and Halloween are my absolute favorite, but we are in the process of getting our house ready to sell so all of our fall decor is in our storage unit this year.
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Upcoming Appointments: 6.5 week ultrasound on oct 13th
How are you feeling?: Totally normal? I’m tired, but I have 1.5 year old twins, so I’m always tired 😂
Rants/Raves: I don’t have any food aversions yet! Which I’m not sure is a rant or a rave. Last time around there were very few things that I could stomach
Questions:
GTKY - Do you decorate for Fall/Halloween? If yes, when do you start? I LOVE fall and it’s my favorite to decorate for, but I haven’t in years. I usually start at the end of August, but just haven’t had the energy to think about it. Now we have two boys who think anything on a flat space needs to be yeeted across the room, so it doesn’t make any sense to try.
June 8th, 4weeks 2 days
FTM/STM/TTM+:
FTM
Upcoming Appointments: just had my betas tested today, waiting to hear about my follow ups / scheduling early ultrasound
How are you feeling?: tired, bloated and back is a little sore
Rants/Raves: I’ve started waking up between 3 and 4 needing to pee and can’t get back to sleep. One of my cats loves it but I am not a fan haha
Questions:
GTKY - Do you decorate for Fall/Halloween? If yes, when do you start? I usually decorate the front step a bit for Halloween but don’t normally do it until right before Halloween. Today for a treat for myself I got a cute white, pink and dark green/almost black pumpkin for the step.
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Upcoming Appointments: stupid Covid. Virtual appointment at 6 weeks in Oct 12, then first in person & ultrasound appointment not until 10-12 weeks. I’m so not happy with this.
How are you feeling?: EXHAUSTED!! Some waves of nausea here and there. Nothing unmanageable so far. And today I started feeling bloated. Even though my pants aren’t tight, still feels like buttons are painful, and my bra feels tight too. Looking at maternity bras now. Feels like it’s all so soon lol.
Rants/Raves: did I mention I’m upset at my OB’s new Covid appointment set up? How am I supposed to wait 10-12 weeks to even confirm a heartbeat! Anyway. Looks like the humidity is finally gone for good. I’m happy about that. We’ve been having those perfect sunny 70s days here. That means our veggie garden is still going.
Questions: nothing I can think of for now.
GTKY - Do you decorate for Fall/Halloween? If yes, when do you start?
FTM/STM/TTM+: FTM (sorta, my son was stillborn in 2020 plus 3 miscarriages)
Upcoming Appointments: October 13th
(6 weeks)
How are you feeling?: tired, some cramping, little bit of nausea and sensitive breasts just in the mornings. Also very anxious and nervous!!
Rants/Raves:
Questions:
GTKY - Do you decorate for Fall/Halloween? If yes, when do you start?
Whenever I can convince my husband to bring the fall decor out of the attic lol
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Upcoming Appointments: my appointment is on October 20th
How are you feeling?: overall, not bad. Very tired and achy, but can’t complain really.
Rants/Raves: being a working mom kinda sucks. With my first pregnancy, I was a graduate student and got pregnant over the summer. When I needed a nap, I could just nap. That’s not something I can do now 😞
Questions: none yet
GTKY - Do you decorate for Fall/Halloween? If yes, when do you start? We decorated a week ago. It’s our first Halloween in our new house, so we kind of went all out with the Halloween decorations!
FTM/STM/TTM+: FTM!!!
Upcoming Appointments: Tomorrow they will do a prenatal blood panel; Around the 15th we'll do a 7 week ultrasound.
How are you feeling? Excited and nervous - without any symptoms I just want to be further along so I can tell people and buy cute baby things! Also nervous about the expenses from now on.. it will be hard to suddenly be strict with spending.
Rants/Raves: We still haven't decided who will stay home with baby next year, I live in China and my husband is Chinese, so the normal thing here is to have in-laws raise the baby. We have also discussed my taking a year off teaching or him taking a year off his job. There are pros and cons to all solutions.. but none of them seem overhelmingly "right."
Questions: Anyone have a stay-at-home hubby? I would love to hear about your experience!
GTKY - We live in a 3 bedroom apartment.. besides a couple cinnamon scented candles, I'm not that into fall decorating. Maybe one day if we live in a house with a yard!