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September 2022 Moms
kboydbowman
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PGAL Check-in 3/17
kboydbowman
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As we enter/approach the second trimester, how are you doing?
Due Date/Weeks:
Upcoming Appointments:
Doom Thoughts:
Hopeful Thoughts:
Questions/Concerns:
How's Your Support System? Do You Need Anything from the Board Members?
Due Date/Weeks:
Upcoming Appointments:
Doom Thoughts:
Hopeful Thoughts:
Questions/Concerns:
How's Your Support System? Do You Need Anything from the Board Members?
Current pregnancy -
First BFP on 1/4/22. Due date 9/13/22.
First BFP on 1/4/22. Due date 9/13/22.
Four prior losses, no living children - 1 first trimester miscarriage, 1 blighted ovum, 1 chemical, and one extreme premature live birth daughter who died at 15 days old.
Re: PGAL Check-in 3/17
Upcoming Appointments: Going to an ultrasound boutique this weekend so DD can see baby (which is actually just my excuse to see baby for myself). Then 16-week checkup next Wednesday morning.
Doom Thoughts: Well, the pants I'm wearing today are too tight, which are making the bottom of my stomach uncomfortable, which of course makes me think something is wrong.... when actually I just need to buy more pants.
Hopeful Thoughts: Excited to see baby this weekend. Really wish my husband would get serious about a name so I can start calling the baby by his name.
Questions/Concerns: TTM - Does your milk come in earlier with baby #2? I remember mine not coming in until a few days after I had her. I also didn't actively breastfeed so that could have something to do with it.
How's Your Support System? Do You Need Anything from the Board Members? Everyone seems to be good! Not really my support system but I went to an interview today and I was just honest with them about being pregnant and the hiring manager was like "congratulations! that's so exciting" and didn't even care about the fact I was telling him I'd need time off come September....which was refreshing.
I keep calling mine Cletus the Fetus, which drives the boy person insane. I told him that if he wants to sit down with the name list this weekend so I have an actual name to use, he can solve the problem. Hopefully it's a compelling force.
First BFP on 1/4/22. Due date 9/13/22.
@whitta1015 I stopped bfing #1 10 weeks before I had #2 my milk I think came in faster. Much less nipple pain. My second was actually spitting up colostrum in the hospital, not sure if that was her reflux or an overabundance on my part. I had never seen a baby spit up colostrum.
Upcoming Appointments: March 28th.
Doom Thoughts: Same as @jhysmath. I feel like every time I tell someone that something bad will happen, which is why I'm using my doppler quite a bit.
Hopeful Thoughts: Closer to feeling movement and getting further along, which means closer to meeting baby.
Questions/Concerns: For those that have an at-home doppler, how often are you using it? My doctor gave me the green light to use it every day if I really needed reassurance. I'm not using it every day, but multiple times a week.... but I feel like even that is too much?
How's Your Support System? Do You Need Anything from the Board Members?: My friends and my husband have been really crucial to me staying ok in the early part of this pregnancy. However, I feel like the thoughts/worries don't really go away and I don't want to come across as a whiny person. I dunno, I'm probably just overthinking it.
Upcoming Appointments: Had 16 week doctor today! Anatomy ultrasound Mid April
Doom Thoughts: Not as many from me, but my husband. He was freaking out before my appointment today that they wouldn’t find a heartbeat. He said it’s so hard for him that the joy and excitement gets clouded by anxiety. So… the men feel it too.
Hopeful Thoughts: Baby had a healthy heartbeat and I might be starting to feel movements !!! I can’t wait for that, so we can be less anxious.
Questions/Concerns:none
How's Your Support System? Do You Need Anything from the Board Members?
support system is good.
Ladies, I felt terrified to tell everyone too. And sometimes still so weird when people talk to me about it. But it’s helping to turn my fear into excitement. For so many, babies are little symbols of hope and it’s been really helpful to see that radiating from family and friends. It’s helped my mindset a lot.