Upcoming Appointments: 28 week appointment, and 3rd trimester labs + glucose test whenever I get around to it
How are you feeling?: Good physically, been rough mentally
Rants/Raves: DH is sinking further into depression despite being on medication. I just wish things would get better with his family.
Questions:
GTKY: If you won the lottery (I think last one was 2Bil!) What would you do with the $$? Pay off house/car, set up savings accounts for each of the kids, invest the rest? I'd have to look up charities I'd want to give too as well.
@marebear15 I'm so sorry about your husband. I hope that his physicians are able to find something that works for him and he's starts to feel better. That can't be easy ❤️
EDD / Weeks + Days: March 19 22w1d
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Baby is the size of a(n): Coconut
Team blue/pink/green: Girl!
Upcoming Appointments: MW appointment in 2 weeks.
How are you feeling?: pretty good mostly. My hips are in so much pain.
Rants/Raves: Rave1: started potty training my 2 year old and it went really well! Rave2: I got to go to prenatal yoga yesterday and it was amazing! I haven't done yoga in about a year because of pain in my wrists. I also haven't done an in-person fitness class since prenatal yoga during my first pregnancy. It was nice to get out. Rant: I had one but now I can't remember lol. I guess my rant it fricken baby/mom brain. 😅
Questions: none
GTKY: If you won the lottery (I think last one was 2Bil!) What would you do with the $$ Invest, buy a camping van, build our house which were already planning on doing anyway but that would allow us to take it up a notch. Go on a trip.
Upcoming Appointments: glucose test and 24 week appointment first week of December
How are you feeling?: Good!
Rants/Raves: rave: my boss stopped me at the front door to tell me how she thinks I'm doing really well and it was a nice surprise. 🙂 Rant: it's cold and we have to keep all the windows open and air purifiers on. Heaters would just blow heat out the window. Brrr!
Questions: natm
GTKY: If you won the lottery (I think last one was 2Bil!) What would you do with the $$
Hmm. I am grateful for where I live, but maybe an even bigger house, electric car, solar panels, more vacations...
How are you feeling?: just still trying to kill congestion from a cold a couple of weeks ago. Other than that just lots of joint and side soreness.
Rants/Raves: Just raves this week - since neither of us were feeling well this weekend we stayed home all weekend and just rested - very few chores, very few emails, lots of movies and home cooking. It was nice. Also I started telling our clients that we’re having a baby in March (in the middle of tax season) and we have gotten really positive feedback and no one has been angry yet. Very surprised but very happy. Also doing a birth class online this week for a preview so super excited.
Questions:
GTKY: If you won the lottery (I think last one was 2Bil!) What would you do with the $$ I would immediately sell our business - like day one. And we’d get the heck out of our condo complex that we hate and buy something nice in the next town over. Investing, setting our parents up for retirement, and I’d finally write my sci fi book with all the free time - I never get time to write!
Upcoming Appointments: glucose test tomorrow, alongside my midwife appt.
How are you feeling?: we all got sick AGAIN today. I am very over it.
Rants/Raves: rant: illness forever. Rave: I was stressing about a meeting at our church that I was presenting at - it went super well with no blowback so I’m very happy and relieved!
Questions:
GTKY: If you won the lottery (I think last one was 2Bil!) What would you do with the $$: pay off the house as #1, then take a year off with the full family while the kids are still young to travel and do whatever together. Invest the rest?
Baby is the size of a(n): the length of a chips ahoy cookie tray 🍪🤣
Team blue/pink/green: blue
Upcoming Appointments: next Wednesday for glucose test/routine prenatal
How are you feeling?: my pelvis hurts on the left side
Rants/Raves: my students would NOT listen or stop talking all day long and the heat in my classroom wasn’t working. But my family was here to watch DS today while daycare was closed and he loved every minute of it.
Questions: none
GTKY: If you won the lottery (I think last one was 2Bil!) What would you do with the $$
haha DH and I had this discussion both nights we bought tickets for the billion dollar lotteries. We would pay off our current house and purchase a lot or acreage to build our new home. We’d also purchase a condo in Gulf Shores right on the beach. We’d travel all over, pay for both our sons’ college, and do some good in our community. Also invest the rest lol
Upcoming Appointments: US and possibly Glucose test on the 23rd.
How are you feeling?: Large! Sleeping is starting to feel uncomfortable and belly is feeling heavy every day. Heartburn also started to appear 😅
Rants/Raves:
Rant- We ordered a new manufactured house last March, and was recently told it will be here by late January or early February. I learned last week that it will take 2ish weeks to get the house installed, so we should be able to move in right before the baby is born 😅
Also, my part of the state skipped fall and went right into winter 🥲
Questions: N/A
GTKY: If you won the lottery (I think last one was 2Bil!) What would you do with the $$
Buy a new car, upgrade our pasture/shoot fencing, buy a horse or two, maybe buy a cabin in the woods, then save the rest
Upcoming Appointments: phone call appointment to go over glucose numbers in about a week.
How are you feeling?: Well I have GDM again so I’m kinda sad. My BP has also been high so I’m monitoring all the blood sugars and levels at home and it’s stressful.
Rants/Raves: My husband is gone at a work conference. I don’t like when he travels and I’m trying to be happy he’s on a more fun trip this time than past trips and it’s a shorter one. My kids are just getting over a cold though and I think I’m coming down with it on top of everything else. Just gotta make it through this week..
Questions: anyone else with Gestational diabetes now or in the past?
GTKY: If you won the lottery (I think last one was 2Bil!) What would you do with the $$
Definitely buy a house. I’m thankful for where we live but I want my own house so badly. I don’t even want a big one. Just average and somewhere that is mine. And the rest can go into savings or helping out other people.
How are you feeling?: feet and calf swelling as started which is a new for me thing!
Rants/Raves: rant: I’m getting sick 😫 rave: finally found a candidate for a position I’m hiring for! AND we’ve sold the two big pieces of furniture in my former office so we can finally start building the dresser and crib!
Questions:
GTKY: If you won the lottery (I think last one was 2Bil!) What would you do with the $$? Ohhh I would do the home reno we’ve been wanting to do. Pay off cars, prep college funds for our girls. Donate, invest…
Upcoming Appointments: 11/30 for my 18 week appt. My OB is really hard to schedule with, so we've gotten a bit behind.
How are you feeling?: Really bad gas pains have been fueling my pregnancy insomnia the past couple nights.
Rants/Raves: Rave - My brother and SIL came to see us for several days. We haven't seen them in almost 2 years. It was so great watching them interact with DD and playing board games after she went to sleep.
Questions:
GTKY: If you won the lottery (I think last one was 2Bil!) What would you do with the $$? Buy out the rest of my contract with the Navy. Move to VA to be closer to family. Get a normal job. Pay for day care so hubby can also go back to work. Invest the rest.
Updated rant: I am getting sick- super sore throat, chest cough, lethargic…plus all the other fun pregnancy symptoms. In spite of whining here, I’m keeping this as low key as possible because, well, not much I can do bedsides water, fea, and rest.
Husband (against the advice of like, everyone) decided to get his flu shot and Covid booster at the same time today. He is of course feeling rough and grunting and moaning with Man Flu type symptoms. I have no sympathy and am annoyed af. Told you to get them separately. (Nope)Told you to push fluids. (Nope) Take your fucking ibuprofen and hush.
@heytallmama I hope you feel better soon! I have like exactly the same thing right now and husband just started feeling really sick today (of course 50x worse than I have been the last week - at least that’s how it sounds). Man flu. I love it. They’re so dramatic.
@heytallmama Ugh that's frustrating. I never understand how they get so sick 😛. My husband will sleep all fricken day when "he feels his throat". While I'm there powering through being really sick. I hope you feel better soon.
Upcoming Appointments: tomorrow a GP checkup and will find out if I passed the first GD test
How are you feeling?: Good today! Still very tired and my night sweats are crazy right now. But I think I'm in a bit of a sweet spot with how I'm feeling.
Rants/Raves: Rave - I bought a jacket extender for my rain coat and shorter winter coat that seems like it's going to work. Thank goodness because none of my coats do up right now. Also! I LOVE the prenatal yoga class I joined a couple of weeks ago. Haven't made any mom friends in the group but the class is great.
Questions: I actually have 2! Anyone else getting a rhoGAM injection soon?
And also for those who have had a baby before... I told my husband I want to get a bidet. I've wanted one for a while, but now with a baby coming and post partum things, in my mind it's actually an amazing idea. Am I right? Is it something that is helpful if it's gentle enough?
GTKY: If you won the lottery (I think last one was 2Bil!) What would you do with the $$: oh, definitely buy a house, and then pay off the mortgages of our parents' places. And then gift a lot, as there's some health and arts organizations that mean a lot to us and I wish I could shower them with that!
Upcoming Appointments: Midwife on Wednesday. Glucose in two weeks.
How are you feeling?: Exhausted and my back/hips hurt.
Rants/Raves: I have to do double pirouettes for a show this weekend and I haven’t been turning much since my pregnancy, so I spent some time working on them yesterday and I felt so sick. Right after I took the train home and almost threw up. It was terrible.
Questions: N/A
GTKY: If you won the lottery (I think last one was 2Bil!) What would you do with the $$ Pay off my student loans and buy farm.
Re: Weekly Check In 11/14
FTM/STM/TTM+: 4TM
Baby is the size of a(n): Toy soldier
Team blue/pink/green: Green
Upcoming Appointments: 28 week appointment, and 3rd trimester labs + glucose test whenever I get around to it
How are you feeling?: Good physically, been rough mentally
Rants/Raves: DH is sinking further into depression despite being on medication. I just wish things would get better with his family.
Questions:
GTKY: If you won the lottery (I think last one was 2Bil!) What would you do with the $$?
Pay off house/car, set up savings accounts for each of the kids, invest the rest? I'd have to look up charities I'd want to give too as well.
EDD / Weeks + Days: March 19 22w1d
Rave2: I got to go to prenatal yoga yesterday and it was amazing! I haven't done yoga in about a year because of pain in my wrists. I also haven't done an in-person fitness class since prenatal yoga during my first pregnancy. It was nice to get out.
Rant: I had one but now I can't remember lol. I guess my rant it fricken baby/mom brain. 😅
Invest, buy a camping van, build our house which were already planning on doing anyway but that would allow us to take it up a notch. Go on a trip.
Hmm. I am grateful for where I live, but maybe an even bigger house, electric car, solar panels, more vacations...
I would immediately sell our business - like day one. And we’d get the heck out of our condo complex that we hate and buy something nice in the next town over. Investing, setting our parents up for retirement, and I’d finally write my sci fi book with all the free time - I never get time to write!
haha DH and I had this discussion both nights we bought tickets for the billion dollar lotteries. We would pay off our current house and purchase a lot or acreage to build our new home. We’d also purchase a condo in Gulf Shores right on the beach. We’d travel all over, pay for both our sons’ college, and do some good in our community. Also invest the rest lol
Rant- We ordered a new manufactured house last March, and was recently told it will be here by late January or early February. I learned last week that it will take 2ish weeks to get the house installed, so we should be able to move in right before the baby is born 😅
Also, my part of the state skipped fall and went right into winter 🥲
Buy a new car, upgrade our pasture/shoot fencing, buy a horse or two, maybe buy a cabin in the woods, then save the rest
Definitely buy a house. I’m thankful for where we live but I want my own house so badly. I don’t even want a big one. Just average and somewhere that is mine. And the rest can go into savings or helping out other people.
I am getting sick- super sore throat, chest cough, lethargic…plus all the other fun pregnancy symptoms. In spite of whining here, I’m keeping this as low key as possible because, well, not much I can do bedsides water, fea, and rest.
And also for those who have had a baby before... I told my husband I want to get a bidet. I've wanted one for a while, but now with a baby coming and post partum things, in my mind it's actually an amazing idea. Am I right? Is it something that is helpful if it's gentle enough?