How are you feeling?: Bloated and tired but other than that, no other symptoms (which of course is freaking me out).
Rants/Raves: My rant is that I hate there there is so much mixed information out there about what to eat and what not to eat during pregnancy. Every source says something different!
Questions: Does anyone know if you can eat brats or Italian sausages?
GTKY: If you could live anywhere besides your current location, where would you choose? I would love to live in Alaska in the summer….. not so much in the winter though.
@thehunterswife I think sausages are ok as long as fully cooked. I eat almost anything while pregnant except raw fish and alcohol. A lot of the “rules” are pretty antiquated. During my prior pregnancies there were listeria outbreaks in melons and ice cream, and never in the “forbidden” cold deli meat. I do limit my seafood to a reasonable level, too.
@thehunterswife - like @Wishilivedinflorida said - I would also eat brats/sausages as song as I know they are cooked all the way through. It’s also about moderation - am I going to eat a sausage product every day? Probably not - but as part of a meal once in a while? Sure!
Upcoming Appointments: August 17th but I'm calling on Monday to see if they can bump my appointment up since DH starts a new job on the 17th
How are you feeling?: Queasy and tired
Rants/Raves: Okay this is a weird one. We just went on a week long trip to visit all our out of state friends and family and while we were there, I announced my pregnancy to all of them. My older sister has been excitedly waiting for me to get pregnant so I was most excited to tell her. This sister has literally predicted every baby born in our family in the form of a dream since she was 15. She even sees the gender and has been right 100% of the time. She even told me to take a test when I was first pregnant with my first when I had no reason to think I was pregnant because I was on BC and had no symptoms. Anyway, the morning of the day I'm announcing my pregnancy to her, she messages me while I'm still in the Airbnb to tell me she had just woken up crying because she dreamed that I had a baby, didn't find out the gender while I was pregnant, and had a baby boy. We haven't told ANYONE that we're not planning on finding out the gender this time so I already had chills. Then after I told her I was pregnant, I asked her to tell me her dream in detail because I had a baby dream a few nights before and wanted to compare. I made her tell me hers before I told her mine. She said she had a dream she went to our baby's first birthday and he had white blonde hair like my brother and big blue eyes and that my daughter called him Finn. That was literally the EXACT same dream I had 🤯 She said she had the dream twice and the date she had it the first time was the day I found out I was pregnant. She's done this so many times but it freaks me out every damn time lol
So I guess my rave is having a psychic sister is kinda cool?
GTKY: If you could live anywhere besides your current location, where would you choose? I really enjoyed camping by Lake Huron this week and I'd love to do it again
Ladybug - April 2013 Dandelion - October 2018 Angel "Aurora" - July 2020 Angel "Sawyer" - May 2021 Angel "Maxine" - January 2022 Angel "Violet" - March 2022 Baby Dove due March 2023
@mytrueloves Sounds like you're having a blonde baby boy! 🤣🤣
My mom had a similar dream when she was pregnant with me. She was *convinced* that she was having a blonde baby girl. Then, while in labor (with only my head out) she could see I had dark hair and she screamed "that's not my baby, my baby is blonde!" Calm as you please, her OB just asked her who's baby it was and she snapped out of it. But by 6 months old my beautiful auburn hair had changed to blonde. She got her wish until I became a teenager and it darkened again. Lol.
@novamama2023 I was born with white blonde hair and it all fell out when I got chicken pox at 2 years old! Both of my older kiddos are blonde too so I wouldn't be surprised 😅
Ladybug - April 2013 Dandelion - October 2018 Angel "Aurora" - July 2020 Angel "Sawyer" - May 2021 Angel "Maxine" - January 2022 Angel "Violet" - March 2022 Baby Dove due March 2023
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once in a while? Sure!
Okay this is a weird one. We just went on a week long trip to visit all our out of state friends and family and while we were there, I announced my pregnancy to all of them. My older sister has been excitedly waiting for me to get pregnant so I was most excited to tell her.
This sister has literally predicted every baby born in our family in the form of a dream since she was 15. She even sees the gender and has been right 100% of the time. She even told me to take a test when I was first pregnant with my first when I had no reason to think I was pregnant because I was on BC and had no symptoms.
Anyway, the morning of the day I'm announcing my pregnancy to her, she messages me while I'm still in the Airbnb to tell me she had just woken up crying because she dreamed that I had a baby, didn't find out the gender while I was pregnant, and had a baby boy. We haven't told ANYONE that we're not planning on finding out the gender this time so I already had chills.
Then after I told her I was pregnant, I asked her to tell me her dream in detail because I had a baby dream a few nights before and wanted to compare. I made her tell me hers before I told her mine.
She said she had a dream she went to our baby's first birthday and he had white blonde hair like my brother and big blue eyes and that my daughter called him Finn.
That was literally the EXACT same dream I had 🤯
She said she had the dream twice and the date she had it the first time was the day I found out I was pregnant.
She's done this so many times but it freaks me out every damn time lol
So I guess my rave is having a psychic sister is kinda cool?
Dandelion - October 2018
Angel "Aurora" - July 2020
Angel "Sawyer" - May 2021
Angel "Maxine" - January 2022
Angel "Violet" - March 2022
Baby Dove due March 2023
My mom had a similar dream when she was pregnant with me. She was *convinced* that she was having a blonde baby girl. Then, while in labor (with only my head out) she could see I had dark hair and she screamed "that's not my baby, my baby is blonde!" Calm as you please, her OB just asked her who's baby it was and she snapped out of it. But by 6 months old my beautiful auburn hair had changed to blonde. She got her wish until I became a teenager and it darkened again. Lol.
Dandelion - October 2018
Angel "Aurora" - July 2020
Angel "Sawyer" - May 2021
Angel "Maxine" - January 2022
Angel "Violet" - March 2022
Baby Dove due March 2023