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February 2023 Moms
amccurls
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Weekly Check-In Dec 5
amccurls
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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: What was the last TV show you binge watched?
Re: Weekly Check-In Dec 5
EDD / Weeks + Days: 29 weeks tomorrow
Baby is the size of a(n): banana split
Team blue/pink/green: pink
Upcoming Appointments: tomorrow!
How are you feeling?: Good now that I'm over a stomach bug. Really struggling with gaining weight the last month. It fluctuates since I started my restrictive diet, job and now stomach bug. But thankfully I gained a lot at first.
Rants/Raves: I don't remember what I was excited about ...mom brain.
Oh...now I remember! I secured a back up birth hot tub so now I will for sure have a heated tub unlike the cold one I hated and got out of for my last delivery. And it's covered through our medisharing program so we will be reimbursed!!
Questions: natm
GTKY: What was the last TV show you binge watched? Not a big TV watcher. The last show was the 90s western Young Riders earlier this year. Older moms, do you remember this show?
EDD / Weeks + Days: 30 + 5
Baby is the size of a(n): Cabbage 🥬
Team blue/pink/green: Blue
Upcoming Appointments: December 7
How are you feeling?: I’m having really bad sciatic pain. I have to pee constantly. My husband and I actually saw my belly move when the baby kicked yesterday. It was both fun and creepy. Overall, I feel like it’s getting difficult to easily move around sometimes (like rolling over in bed 😂). I hope the next 8-9 weeks go by very quickly.
Rants/Raves: Rave—I spent last week making a plan to transition my projects and team members at work. Also, I ordered some postpartum necessities so that I can begin packing my hospital bag. Rant—I haven’t washed baby clothes, cleaned out my garage, cleaned the basement, and more. I have a lot to do. Hopefully, he doesn’t plan on making his entrance too early.
Questions: Is anyone planning on drinking red raspberry tea or eating dates to help naturally induce labor? Or, have you done this before? I really want to avoid a super long hospital induction. I plan to ask my OB about this too. I hate the taste of tea, and 7 dates a day seems like a lot. But, I’m considering starting this around week 36 if I get the okay. I’ve also heard that membrane sweeps are painful and can only be done if you’re already starting to dilate, so I want to help move that along. Maybe I should just start walking more. 🤷🏻♀️
GTKY: What was the last TV show you binge watched? I just binge watched Wednesday on Netflix. I loved it and definitely recommend it.
EDD / Weeks + Days: 30 + 5
Baby is the size of a(n): bike helmet
Team blue/pink/green: 🩰
Upcoming Appointments: 2 weeks! Had one today.
How are you feeling?: Good, other than also needing to pee constantly and being very tired. See rant below.
Rants/Raves: Rant - My 4 year old has slept with me for 2 years while my husband was deployed or out of town for work a lot after that. So with him now sleeping in his own room he’s waking up at 1:30 every night and it’s wearing on me.
Rave - I have my appointments scheduled out to 36 weeks so it’s feeling very real! Also, my house officially went under contract yesterday 🙌🏼
Questions: not currently
GTKY: What was the last TV show you binge watched? I also binged Wednesday recently, so good! Also Dirty John: Betty.
EDD / Weeks + Days: 31+2
Baby is the size of a(n): jicama
Team blue/pink/green: blue
Upcoming Appointments: Dec 12 growth scan
How are you feeling?: Big. Moving is definitely getting harder, and my feet, knees, and hips are starting to protest the looser joints and heavier body combo. Also being able to feel the baby move has been reassuring this week, but I’ve started to be able to feel him specifically flipping or rolling in this way where I can feel some body part push out and around, and it makes me feel a lot like the alien from Alien is trying to burst out of my belly. Funny, but mentally and physically uncomfortable.
Rants/Raves: Rave: Testing negative for Covid! So I’m back at work, was able to reschedule our infant CPR and breastfeeding basics classes that we had to miss last week, and we’re just in general able to get back on track. As a bonus, my husband never did get it, and my boss is being generous in his assessment of the amount of work I did from home so I didn’t lose as much of my buffer as I was worried I would.
Questions: natm
GTKY: What was the last TV show you binge watched? M*A*S*H was my background noise of choice last week, but I did break it up with some Love is Blind and Arrested Development mini-binges, too. Usually I don’t watch that much TV, but spending so much time confined to my bedroom meant pure trash and comfort TV binging 😂
EDD / Weeks + Days: 30w 1d
Baby is the size of a(n): zucchini
Team blue/pink/green: blue 💙
Upcoming Appointments: 4D ultrasound on Thursday!! 🥳
How are you feeling?: feeling good! Random butt cheek/hip pain but I scheduled a massage for today so hopefully that will help.
Rants/Raves: rave: my husband and I bought some decor for our little buddy’s room. Our daughter loved helping too. It’ll be nice to get things set up.
Questions: natm
GTKY: What was the last TV show you binge watched?
Parks & Rec.
@karbaud Other activities and options to help induce labor when closer to the date that I learned from hypnobirthing class: nipple stimulation, acupuncture, primrose oil (oral or vaginal), induction massage, and relaxation (she recommended taking a week off before the due date)
@amccurls Congrats on getting your home under contract! I hope the process and transition goes smoothly!
EDD / Weeks + Days: 28w 4d - yay! Finally in the 3rd trimester!
Baby is the size of a(n): 🍆
Team blue/pink/green: 💚
Upcoming Appointments: Tomorrow with my midwife
How are you feeling?: Overall pretty good. I’m staying active with tennis, Pilates, yoga, and walking. A little ache and discomfort here and there but nothing I can’t manage or find ways to resolve.
Rants/Raves: Just like @itsjess627, We are in full nesting mode. I’m loving the new elevated versions of some of our rooms. The guest room where my parents will be staying is coming together with a new curtain, bedding, and bedside furniture. We rearranged our craft room and hobby area to support our needs better and are waiting for some furniture parts from IKEA to help store and organize all of our creative interests. We’ve rearranged our office to fit both of us. My husband and a friend hung up my new glass whiteboard this weekend to use and it looks soooo good! I feel like a CEO 😂 I’m looking forward to fully moving into my new office space since my current office space is the room that will be the nursery. Once I move my current office space into the new office space, I can fully focus on rearranging, organizing, and preparing the nursery/ kid’s room. I’ve already purchased the curtains and cute woodland vinyl decals to stick on the walls. We have a bunch of baby stuff that arrived after our shopping spree from Black Friday that requires to be sorted and organized. Last week I laundered and put away the new baby clothes I purchased and the reality of entering motherhood just became even MORE real for me. 😳
Questions: natm
GTKY: What was the last TV show you binge watched? My recent guilty pleasure is “Love at First Sight”- I’m at the tail end of the 13th season. @fertile-turtle I’ve seen the 1st and 2nd seasons of Love at First sight but could not bring myself to watch the 3rd. I got so annoyed with the cast of the 2nd season.
EDD / Weeks + Days: 30 wks today
Baby is the size of a(n): summer cantaloupe
Team blue/pink/green: green!
Upcoming Appointments: the 19th. Every two weeks until mid January and then every week and I’m scheduled through Feb 7
How are you feeling?: miserable. My doc convinced me to take something instead of suffering with this heartburn so hopefully it helps. I am hardly eating because I feel like crap when I eat.
Rants/Raves: rave is getting to do fun holiday things with my family. Rant is how I’m feeling and my son has a cold so isn’t sleeping and even though it is hard for me to get out of bed my husband insists that my son only wants me because I do better with him when he’s sick. Last night he threw his pacifier and I had to crawl under his crib to get it 😫
Questions: nope
GTKY: What was the last TV show you binge watched? I don’t really get much time to watch TV. The last series we watched was the great British bake off actually which is funny because I’m not a baker at all but I love that show.
EDD / Weeks + Days: 29+1, omg!
EDD / Weeks + Days: 28+2
Baby is the size of a(n): coconut
Team blue/pink/green: blue
Upcoming Appointments: Friday when I'll get my GD test.
How are you feeling?: COVID. I don't have it too badly, but just the added stress of having our 5yo at work has been hard. I'm just exhausted
Rants/Raves: same as above
Questions:
GTKY: What was the last TV show you binge watched? We binged the first few episodes of Fleischman is in trouble. It's pretty good!!
@justkp As for tennis, I’m just playing with the beginners, non competitively, and only doubles. Nothing too intense. I just need something to keep me moving and the gestational diabetes controlled.