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March 2025 Babies
ksd20
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Weekly Check-in 12/15
ksd20
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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: what are some non-pregnancy specific products that have helped you this pregnancy?
Re: Weekly Check-in 12/15
FTM/STM/TTM+: TTM
Baby is the size of a (an): Romaine lettuce
Team blue/pink/green: green
Upcoming Appointments: Regular OB 12/20 and i need to go do my 1hr glucose sometime
How are you feeling?: I kinda feel dumb for this but I just realized the other night I've been having Braxton hicks contractions for a couple of weeks. It started out as a stretching across my belly which really felt like baby was transverse and just pushing out across my lower abdomen. Well Thursday I was more active than I have been and that evening I was having more BH and it finally dawned on me. So strange how much different this pregnancy has been compared to my first 2
Rants/Raves: DS1 (almost 6yo) just outgrew his carseat and now i have to figure out what kinda carseat shuffle I want to do. He's fine in our main car (van) but DH has an acura rdx and fitting 3 across will be tight/impossible
Questions: i know lots of us have been in and out over the course of this pregnancy. Any thoughts on moving to a private board before a switch to a private fb group?
GTKY: what are some non-pregnancy specific products that have helped you this pregnancy?
I love my wooden shower bench. For shaving my legs, washing my hair or just sitting under the shower spray after a long day. Also the squatty potty for more practical use lol
Shea butter is a life saver and great moisturizer. Love using it more than lotion. Helps keep the belly moisturized, helps with stretch marks, and it also relieves aches.
4th pregnancy
@ksd20 I choose to not have Facebook but am on-board for a private group if that's available for me as well. (I'm pretty new here)
Shower bench sounds great.I sit to do many things now, as is normal for me at the end of pregnancy. Folding laundry, showering, brushing my and my children's hair, pretty much anything I don't have to reach far for.
@ttbird29 I had a great pediatrician for my first baby. Second baby, I switched and it was a nightmare. I went back to the first pediatrician and after I had my third baby I only brought her there 1 time. This time I want to ask a functional wellness doctor if she can be our newborn's pediatrician. I have all my children see her for yearly checkups, but I don't know if she's cool with doing the newborn thing. I interviewed pediatricians in our area to find that 1st one that I liked. And the next ones I mentioned were recommended to me by other people. I just have the most values and beliefs in common with the functional wellness provider. The second one that I said was a nightmare, was convinced I was lying about feeding my children because of how small in height and weight they are. So I had my oldest do a lot of bloodwork with an endocrinologist and we discovered my children's weight and height were inaccurately recorded, and all the endocrinologist tests came back that my child is in good health. And his opinion is that my children will be petite like our family, and likely won't rise above 4"10-4'11". We were surprised, but definitely felt frustrated from all the grief from the pediatrician. And that pediatrician did not give records even though me and the nect doctor even went in person to retrieve them. I think they knew they had messed up. But I agree with Paige, don't get too consumed in it. If the relationship isn't what you want or something seems off at any point, you can switch and you should never feel bad or guilty for choosing to explore your options even after deciding on one.
@paigemm23 I'm pretty well prepared. We hope to get the infant carseat at the baby shower, but if not that's alright. We have one, it's just worn from years of use. My baby is due March 29. My children were born Feb 24, March 13, and March 23 so we have all the clothes we need for the correct seasons/sizes and will get diapers after the baby shower if needed.
body oil on damp skin after the shower. My theragun!
@eclaire90 my leave is the same just 12 weeks and it sucks! I work for a European company too so I know all the moms at HQ get a way better deal! I’m planning on using PTO on top of it but stacking it at the end. I don’t know if it’s truly possible to be mentally ready for the birth of your first baby if that makes you feel better haha! I don’t think I’m mentally ready for my second - I had a Charley horse in my leg the other night and it made me want to cry and then I just thought about how I’m going to get through another labor 😂 you still have time to get everything together, but I would prioritize getting ready before baby comes. Everything was a blur for a month or two for me but I was in the baby bubble 🤍 I didn’t want to do anything other than stare at her all day!
@paigemm23 I'm due 3/15 but both other kids came 2 weeks early so I'm hoping this is a March baby and not a February baby. That being said we got the big kids moved over to their new room and the nursery set back up with the crib, glider, and dresser with changing pad. The bassinet is in there too until baby is born and will be in our room for probably 6ish months. We're lucky in that we don't *need* any new baby gear or clothes. I do need to get a booster seat for DS1 as he's outgrown his Extend2Fit and we're planning on using that for baby instead of buying a new infant bucket car seat (ours expired, so any STM+ here's your friendly reminder to check carseat expirations)
@eclaire90 so i work parttime for a school intermediate unit (basically a company that supports several districts/counties) and don't have vacation or company leave. I'm taking 12 weeks unpaid FMLA with a short term disability paying for 6 weeks of that. But because we have a funny work schedule I basically get 4 months off and will go back to work in July (then have Aug off until school starts again). With my first 2 I don't think I ever felt ready to go back but once getting back to work there were aspects I appreciated (adult conversation, warm lunch, peeing by myself lol)
I'll look into creating a private bump group. Maybe try to transition there in the new year?? Then we can look to share more pics of nurseries, bumps, our families, and talk birth stories. I know I've become much more wary of oversharing in public forums (which this is and there's no way to know who's lurking 👀)