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February 2024 Moms
dinomeetsjedi
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Weekly Check in, Week of 7/17
dinomeetsjedi
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EDD / Weeks + Days:
FTM/STM/TTM+:
Baby is the size of a(n):
Team blue/pink/green:
Upcoming Appointments:
How are you feeling?:
Rants/Raves:
Questions:
GTKY: Since we're all hopefully more on the tail end of nausea, what foods are you craving?
Re: Weekly Check in, Week of 7/17
> FTM/STM/TTM+: 4th child
> Baby is the size of a(n): kumquat
> Team blue/pink/green: Green
> Upcoming Appointments: 8/4 - OB, Labs, Ultrasound
> How are you feeling?: occasional nausea but has gotten better, tired.
> Rants/Raves: obvious that I am pregnant especially since it’s #4 and I started more overweight this time.
> Questions: None
> GTKY: Since we're all hopefully more on the tail end of nausea, what foods are you craving? Cheese is always a pregnancy craving for me… live chunk cheese… and coke slushees are my daily go to usually for nausea.
EDD: 2/29/24(but doctor says a week earlier more than likely due to previous complications with my first child)
I am 7wk, 5d
STM
Blueberry
Aug 8th we have another sono to ensure baby is growing strong and healthy, as well as *surprise* more bloodwork. Yuck!
Always exhausted, some achy back pain, and always nausea reminding me it's there, lol
Everyone seems so obsessed with LMP measuring baby's size. I clearly have irregular periods and ovulate all wonky. First sono baby was supposed to measure 8wk, but measured 6wk4d with 118 heartbeat, and the sonographer scared the hell out me. Went to OB a few days later, again baby was supposed to measure 8wk4d at that point and baby measured 7wk exactly with 132hb(this was last week) OB said not to worry. We did a bunch of bloodwork, everything came back within normal ranges.
Still, thanks that early jump scare I'm overly paranoid. Anyone else feel like you're just overly anxious and worrying, but no big concerns as to why you should?
Nope!
My nausea has been consistent, but not really enough to warrant actual vomiting(which again worried the crap out of me continuously) It's always just enough to let me know it's there any time I feel *too* good, haha. I still have a lot of food aversions, and meat is hard to stomach, but holy crap I love mac and cheese! I don't usually like anything too cheesy, but lately all I crave is mac and cheese and spicy food! xD
@ginsukoneko I don't feel overly anxious, I think I am much less anxious than I was last pregnancy but I was oddly resigned to believing there wouldn't be a heartbeat at my first ultrasound. It ended up being fine, but I think it's normal to be anxious and worrying for no reason in pregnancy, especially early pregnancy and especially if you had a scare like you did! The internet is good for a lot of things and I think we learn a lot of helpful things about pregnancy but it also makes the 1 in 4 miscarriage rate really real when you see lots of people posting about terrible things happening to them and its easy to get worried. I'm glad everything turned out okay for you, but it must be hard to not be as far along as you thought you were.
> FTM/STM/TTM+: FTM!
> Baby is the size of a(n): brussel sprout 🥹
> Team blue/pink/green: Finding out with NIPT testing! Partner thinks it’s a boy. I’m good either way!
> Upcoming Appointments: 7/21 NIPT testing and hopefully doppler
> How are you feeling?: nauseous every night at 6pm til I go to bed. My throat and eyes are so dry! I’m in Michigan and it’s humid here, so it doesn’t make sense. I’ve also noticed some general malaise at the end of the day.
> Rants/Raves: I’m too big for normal clothes but not far along enough where I feel like I should wear maternity clothes.
> Questions: None
> GTKY: Have any of your pets noticed you’re pregnant?? I have three dogs and a cat, and they’re completely oblivious!
FTM/STM/TTM+: STM
Baby is the size of a(n): strawberry (my number one craving so far!!)
Team blue/pink/green: team healthy baby! Big brother (7) is team girl! “It will be nice to have a girl since I’m a boy, but a brother is okay too!” 🥰
Upcoming Appointments: 7/28
How are you feeling?: nausea is starting to subside, but still there. Had my first day of full (healthy and balanced of course) meals yesterday!
Rants/Raves: being plus sized already (I call it “baby weight” from my first, though I guess I shouldn’t anymore😂), I’m concerned about health risks involved with a higher BMI and difficulty delivering, and weight gain.
Questions: though we may be far off, is anybody planning a fun gender reveal? How are you revealing your pregnancies to work/family/friends (aka dropping the social media bomb)?
GTKY: Since we're all hopefully more on the tail end of nausea, what foods are you craving?
Fruit fruit fruit! I’m surprised to see this is common amongst the group! With my first I craved chocolate.
For me, reading the book "Expecting Better" by Emily Oster that gives you actual statistics on things that people tell you to worry about helped me out. I have heard a lot of people recommend a mantra like "today I am pregnant" to help relieve some of the anxiety. Just trying to enjoy their pregnancies day to day. A short meditation can also help, there are lots of 5 minute meditations on youtube and there are lots specific for pregnancy. Hopefully seeing your baby next week will help too! The anxiety is hard.
@amf8000 Go for the maternity clothes, they're so much more comfortable! Who cares how far along you are
@knottie Please change your username so we can tag you too! I just let my partner tell everyone because he gets really excited and loves telling everyone and I hate the attention
@cmill828 Those cramps sound scary. It definitely could be the combination of pants/heat/exercise possibly some dehydration. I know later with braxton hicks they can get a lot worse when you exercise or don't drink enough water. Maybe it is something similar.