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Weekly Check In 10/28

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in May 2025 Babies
DD / Weeks + Days: 

FTM/STM/TTM+: 

Baby is the size of a (an): 

Team blue/pink/green: 

Upcoming Appointments: 

How are you feeling?: 

Rants/Raves: 

Questions: 

GTKY: Favorite ice cream flavor!
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Re: Weekly Check In 10/28

  • godsplan716godsplan716 member
    10 weeks 2 days 

    TTM 

    team green 

    I just want the headache to go away 😭 it leaves when I eat something but comes right back. This is like day 3
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  • mcmanda4321mcmanda4321 member
    DD / Weeks + Days: May 4th; 13w1d

    FTM/STM/TTM+: STM 

    Baby is the size of a (an): lemon

    Team blue/pink/green: 🩷

    Upcoming Appointments: need to schedule my 16 week appointment but hoping it'll be the 20th!

    How are you feeling?: still getting waves of nausea and feeling fatigued. Hopefully that's almost over now that I'm almost to the second trimester🤞

    Rants/Raves: my husband got rear ended on Saturday and the insurance company is saying they're only going to give us 80% of what our car seat is worth because it's two years old. Sure annoyed about that because I think they should cover the whole thing? That's it really lol 

    Questions: in previous pregnancies when was the earliest you felt your little one moving around?

    GTKY: Favorite ice cream flavor! Mint chocolate chip😋🤤
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  • brown169brown169 member
    DD / Weeks + Days:  9 weeks, 5 days

    FTM/STM/TTM+:  FTM

    Baby is the size of a (an): cherry

    Team blue/pink/green: 💙

    Upcoming Appointments: I have a 10-week (and 1 day) ultrasound on Halloween. I'm basically going to have a ton of ultrasound photos by the time the baby is born! This is going to be my fourth time seeing him and I can't have enough!

    How are you feeling?: Good! I don't feel pregnant sometimes and I just wonder when I finally will?

    Rants/Raves: I'm excited. This week, after my 10 week ultrasound, I'm going to tell some close friends about my pregnancy. It'll finally get real!

    GTKY: Favorite ice cream flavor!  I just had an ice cream called "Trouble with the Snap" from the Michigan State University Dairy Store this weekend. It was delicious  ... vanilla ice cream, caramel swirl, chocolate covered caramels, and chocolate covered pretzels!
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  • cuveema12-23cuveema12-23 member
    DD / Weeks + Days: May 1st, 13w4d

    FTM/STM/TTM+: STM

    Baby is the size of a (an): Lemon

    Team blue/pink/green: unknown, did unity test last week 🤞🏻

    Upcoming Appointments: 11/21 for 16w appt

    How are you feeling?:  Still so tired. I want to workout because it relieves some of my nesting/planning instincts but I can barely stay awake at work or play with my son as it is

    Rants/Raves: got sick from visiting my family this past weekend and hate that you can’t take basically anything for congestion 

    Questions: none at this time! 

    GTKY: Favorite ice cream flavor! 
    Also a mint chocolate chip girl all the way!
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  • brown169brown169 member
    Ugh, I'm sorry you're sick. I went to a family birthday celebration two weeks ago and my husband's cousin came with a cold and sat next to me. I'm finally almost over it. Something that helped (but I've used it for years) is the Navage. I say that it's like the Neti Pot on steroids (you may want to Google it). It's a bit pricey but it does a good job flushing out your sinuses.
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  • britters314britters314 member
    edited October 2024
    *lurking from June 2025*

    @cuveema12-23 Someone told me recently about a natural cold remedy that I’ve found has worked pretty well. You just put garlic cloves in honey in a mason jar. You can have it sit on your counter all during the cold season because the honey keeps it preserved. If you feel a cold or something coming on, eat one of the garlic cloves. 
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  • hunnymachunnymac member
    edited October 2024
    DD / Weeks + Days: 11 weeks tomorrow!

    FTM/STM/TTM+: FTM

    Baby is the size of a (an): Fig

    Team blue/pink/green: pink 🩷

    Upcoming Appointments: 11/11

    How are you feeling?: pretty good! It bugs me that there are days I don’t feel pregnant at all. 

    Rants/Raves: the constipation has been AWFUL. 

    Questions: none for now! 

    My fav ice cream is anything with raspberry and chocolate!
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  • rlindqui16rlindqui16 member
    DD / Weeks + Days: 13 weeks

    FTM/STM/TTM+: STM

    Baby is the size of a (an): Lemon

    Team blue/pink/green: green

    Upcoming Appointments: 16 week appointment  on 11/21

    How are you feeling?: still rather tired, I feel like I never can get enough sleep at night but I’m not that great at napping so I just feel tired.

    Rants/Raves: My 2-year-old figured out how to get out of her crib so we transitioned her to a big girl bed and she stayed in it all night last night with no issues! Really looking forward to not having to deal with laying her down in her crib while very pregnant later on.

    Questions: None right now.

    GTKY: Favorite ice cream flavor! Vanilla!
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  • youcanhavemanhattanyoucanhavemanhattan member
    DD / Weeks + Days: 12 weeks 4 days - May 9th

    FTM/STM/TTM+:  STM, already have a 19 month old boy

    Baby is the size of a (an):  apricot

    Team blue/pink/green:  PINK! we got our NIPT test results back over the weekend and things are low risk, and it is a girl! 

    Upcoming Appointments: Next Dr appointment isn't until November 22, but I have to get some more labs done for my subclinical hypothyroidism 

    How are you feeling?: Still pretty nauseated and tired. Also relieved because I got to hear the heartbeat at my appointment last Friday 

    Rants/Raves: rave, I get to make my toddler trick or treating for the first time later this week!

    Questions: Natm

    GTKY: Favorite ice cream flavor! Cookie dough FOR SURE
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  • ajeff1121ajeff1121 member
    DD / Weeks + Days: 5/13/25 12w

    FTM/STM/TTM+: FTM

    Baby is the size of a (an): lime!

    Team blue/pink/green: green- surprise!

    Upcoming Appointments: first trimester testing and ultrasound tomorrow!! Halloween- 12 week ob appt

    How are you feeling?: I’m feeling like there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, hopefully at the end of the yucky first trimester 

    Rants/Raves: having a cold is the worst!

    Questions: none today

    GTKY: Favorite ice cream flavor! Hmm vanilla, mint chocolate chip, cookie dough
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  • gravcassgravcass member
    I post em but always forget to fill mine out 🤣

    DD / Weeks + Days: May 2nd 13 +5

    FTM/STM/TTM+: TTM

    Baby is the size of a (an): pot sticker 

    Team blue/pink/green: Blue 💙

    Upcoming Appointments: This Friday! Excited to see Lil man again

    How are you feeling?: a bit better overall physically. My emotions are all over the place though. It's odd for me, cause usually I level out mentally while pregnant. 

    Rants/Raves: excited for Halloween and to see my little ones all dressed up!

    Questions: Trying to find a midwife in my area is getting tricky. Anyone else have resources to help find one?

    GTKY: Favorite ice cream flavor!
    Anything coffee/mocha/java flavored!
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  • mcmanda4321mcmanda4321 member
    gravcass said:
    Trying to find a midwife in my area is getting tricky. Anyone else have resources to help find one?
    I lean hard on local Facebook mom groups if you're part of one of those? I always get good recommendations from local moms. 
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  • mrs.mermaid12mrs.mermaid12 member
    DD / Weeks + Days: 11w 6d

    FTM/STM/TTM+: FTM

    Baby is the size of a (an): Lime

    Team blue/pink/green: Green!

    Upcoming Appointments: Tomorrow (Oct 31st)! I have my first ultrasound appointment!

    How are you feeling?: Still getting tired super easily, also I am burping all the time

    Rants/Raves: I went to a local baby show in my area this past weekend and ended up winning a draw prize from one of the booths! The prize is a session with a photographer and it's our choice on how we'd like to use it. Currently thinking I'll save it for a newborn session

    Questions: I am going to ask my midwife when I have my next appointment, but a friend recently said that if you plan on breastfeeding, now until you stop you can't use toothpastes with fluoride in them. I've only done a very brief google search but was curious if anyone else had been told this by a HC professional.

    GTKY: Favorite ice cream flavor! Mint Chocolate Chip!
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  • rlindqui16rlindqui16 member
    mrs.mermaid12 said:
    Questions: I am going to ask my midwife when I have my next appointment, but a friend recently said that if you plan on breastfeeding, now until you stop you can't use toothpastes with fluoride in them. I've only done a very brief google search but was curious if anyone else had been told this by a HC professional.
    Definitely ask your midwife, but I breastfed my first for 14 months and was never told to avoid fluoride toothpaste. My dentist did have me skip the applied fluoride at my dentist appointments while pregnant and breastfeeding but that was because it was a way bigger ‘dose’ than you would get while brushing your teeth. 
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  • ilovecj29ilovecj29 member
    DD/Weeks + Days: May 16th/ 11weeks+ 6 days 

    FTM/STM/TTM+: FTM

    Baby is the size of a (an): Lime

    Team blue/pink/green: will find out tonight!

    Upcoming Appointments: had NT ultrasound today! 

    How are you feeling?: grateful that baby is looking good and NIPT tests came back low risk. Physically I feel icky :/

    Rants/Raves: I leave on sunday for a 2 week trip in europe. Really hoping some of these first trimester symptoms start to subside because it is going to be tough traveling and working when I am having a hard time keeping food down. On the plus side my husband and I are doing a little gender reveal tonight, this has to be my favorite halloween yet🩷

    Questions: Is anyone else having trouble with nausea? any advice? my dr. prescribed me zofran but i’m trying to avoid taking it, i think i’m just paranoid about anything negatively effecting the baby 

    GTKY: Favorite ice cream flavor! Usually it’s anything chocolate but right bow the thought of ice cream makes me feel sick! 
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  • youcanhavemanhattanyoucanhavemanhattan member
    @mrs.mermaid12 I'm also on baby #2 and breastfed (and bottle fed pumped milk) and have never heard of the toothpaste fluoride thing before. Let us know what your midwife says?
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  • mrs.mermaid12mrs.mermaid12 member
    rlindqui16 said:
    mrs.mermaid12 said:
    Questions: I am going to ask my midwife when I have my next appointment, but a friend recently said that if you plan on breastfeeding, now until you stop you can't use toothpastes with fluoride in them. I've only done a very brief google search but was curious if anyone else had been told this by a HC professional.
    Definitely ask your midwife, but I breastfed my first for 14 months and was never told to avoid fluoride toothpaste. My dentist did have me skip the applied fluoride at my dentist appointments while pregnant and breastfeeding but that was because it was a way bigger ‘dose’ than you would get while brushing your teeth. 
    youcanhavemanhattan said:
    @mrs.mermaid12 I'm also on baby #2 and breastfed (and bottle fed pumped milk) and have never heard of the toothpaste fluoride thing before. Let us know what your midwife says?
    I spoke with my Midwife today about this at my appointment and she had never heard of this before. She did some quick searching in an online medical database (not sure what she used, assuming it was something she has access to with her credentials) and found nothing. Said if there had been actual correlation between using toothpastes with fluoride and pregnancy issues, it would be more widely published (on places like The Bump for example). I mentioned about the fluoride "wash" at the dentist and she said the dentist themselves would be able to make that call but she could see skipping that making sense because of the larger dose and the possibility of accidentally swallowing some with how it is applied.

    So personally, I'll be continuing with my current toothpaste that has fluoride and at my next dentist appointment I'll probably question the "wash" aspect as a precaution. 
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  • rlindqui16rlindqui16 member
    @mrs.mermaid12 Thanks for the update! My dentist had also mentioned there were no trials or studies on the applied fluoride during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Since he didn’t have evidence to say if it was safe/not safe for baby during pregnancy or if it could get passed through breast milk with the higher dose, it was recommended to just skip and wait till after pregnancy/breastfeeding. 
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  • mrs.mermaid12mrs.mermaid12 member
    @rlindqui16 my midwife spoke briefly about trials and studies too. Pretty much said currently it wouldn't be ethical to run a test where 100 pregnant people drank large amounts of fluoride and then have 100 pregnant people not use any, to pinpoint if there were issues around fluoride. A lot more things would have to happen first to convince someone to do that study and to even be able to get participants. Also with it being something that naturally is in the majority of water supplies to some degree, trying to make sure we never consumed any while pregnant would be next to impossible. 
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