March 2023 Moms
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Weekly Check In 8/1
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EDD / Weeks + Days:
Baby is the size of a(n):
Team blue/pink/green:
Upcoming Appointments:
How are you feeling?:
Rants/Raves:
Questions:
GTKY: If you could live anywhere besides your current location, where would you choose?
Re: Weekly Check In 8/1
Rave: fully moved into our new house rental. The weekend was stressful but worth it.
Maybe Finland or Germany.
Baby is the size of a(n): cherry
Team blue/pink/green: Green
Upcoming Appointments: Wednesday is my first!
How are you feeling?: Nauseated, vomiting, exhausted
Rants/Raves: Work has been ridiculous this past week. I'm hoping this week will be somewhat slower.
However, I'm glad I have so much family around the area to help with the kids and the house while I'm useless.
Questions: Nothing besides WHEN WILL THIS END?
GTKY: If you could live anywhere besides your current location, where would you choose? Probably Germany. I have a friend who moved out there a few years ago, and it's a beautiful country.
Not sure, we love Canada so maybe there?
@marebear15 I am so useless as well. H has been awesome about letting me rest. Yesterday I took a nap at 1045. Yes. Already napping in the morning!
, 💙💙💙💙💙💙
Rant: I thought my DH was going to have more time off for parental leave because we live in MA, but since he’s a public school teacher he doesn’t qualify for the MA parental leave policy 😭😭. He may only end up taking two weeks off.
@heytallmama - Clippy is such a cute nickname! And yes, I loved "talking" to Clippy in old Microsoft Word.
@TortugaAzul - That's got to be so rough to have Covid on top of a pregnancy. How are you hanging in there?
Rave: My husband is being the sweetest.
Scotland, or New England to be closer to our families. Unfortunately, neither of those are an option because of our work.
Raves: We do Monday dinners with my husband’s parents since they live 5 mins from us. We host every other time. They don’t know we are pregnant yet. I’m proud that I was able to clean the house (just enough for company) and cook dinner (had to sit down with some deep breathing quite a few times, but I got through it). We have a weekend trip with them and some of his other family this weekend. I don’t think I’ll be able to hide how I feel for a whole weekend while sharing a room with his sister and her husband! Just accepting that they will all probably know by Sunday lol.
@novamama2023 I’m trying to figure out if I could take about 6 months with a combo maternity leave, FMLA, annual/sick leave, and unpaid leave… Then maybe be part time after. I work 100% remote so I’m hoping my husband and I can figure out a way that I can my a mostly stay at home mom. But we have health insurance through my work and I make more than him right now. So it will be a hard choice.
EDD / Weeks + Days: 3/2, 9w5d
Baby is the size of a(n): cherry
Team blue/pink/green: we’re both feeling pink, but happy with healthy first and foremost. Will be finding out with the nips test!
Upcoming Appointments: 8/17 for 12 week US
How are you feeling?: starting to turn a corner, but every day feels different… some days I’m exhausted, nauseous and feeling pretty off and other days I’m ok. Ready for the second trimester though.
Rants/Raves: it has been so hard getting anything done on he days I feel like crap. I work from home and I have no clue how I’d do it if I had to work in-person 😳 which then of course makes me feel guilty 🙄
Smoothies and fruit have been my best friend lately… I swear they taste better than ever before haha
Questions: curious how you know if you’re starting to show or if it’s just bloating. Lately me stomach has been feeling a bit “harder” than bloating but I still can’t tell as it’s my first time.
GTKY: If you could live anywhere besides your current location, where would you choose? The U.S. had not been looking great lately, so I’ve been actively thinking about this. I’ve always wanted to buy a home somewhere along the Mediterranean with a small garden and flowers everywhere. It sounds dreamy.
Baby is the size of: some kind of seed
Team: wanting to know ASAP.
Upcoming appointments: I wish. I tried to schedule my initial OB intake yesterday but my doc didn't put in a referral, so I have to track that down today.
Rants/Raves: Rant - Still having all the feelings about losing my job on the ship this week due to pregnancy. The transfer to the other ship happens on Thursday. Rave - hubby has been super great about watching our toddler and letting me go to bed early every night.
How are you feeling: Nauseous and exhausted. Also hot. We've been having a heat wave. Fortunately it appears to have broken and today will be cloudy with a high of 77.
Gtky: Probably rural VA/WV since that's where both of our families are. We really like the PNW, though, so we're pretty happy where we currently live.
@lola-bean-11 I went back through my first pregnancy photos... I didn't really start to have a bump until about 15/16 weeks. But everyone's body is different. My bump really popped out and was noticable around 19 weeks.
Raves: My husband is super great and has been doing amazing.
On a farm by the mountains with a view!
@novamama2023 - I usually only take about 6-7 weeks. My work doesn't cover any maternity leave, so it's completely unpaid. We do have (free!) daycare on campus, and I can go over and breastfeed on demand, so it's really not as bad as it sounds.
@syfyhiker - My fridge smells gross too! I can't even figure out what it is.
@lola-bean-11 - If I lay down on my back and palpitate my lower belly between my hips, I can feel the top of my uterus. However, this is my 4th baby, so I know how the fundus feels.
ooh! My fiancé and I talk about this all the time, somewhere with universal healthcare and has an overall sense of safety. I would love to go to Finland or Norway, but at this point I would love to live somewhere where it doesn’t feel like an oven whenever I step outside. These 104 days in Texas are exhausting.
@shorty-sar I’m with you, I’m so over this heat! It’s miserable. Give me all the fall please 😭
Orange Beach, AL. My absolute favorite place.
I recommend the birth hour for a podcast