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Weekly check-in w/o 09.22.2025

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FTM/STM/TTM+: 

EDD / Weeks + Days: 

Team blue/pink/green:

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GTKY: Do you have any fun traditions or family routines you hope to continue (or start) with your little one?
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Re: Weekly check-in w/o 09.22.2025

  • marmalade0marmalade0 member
    FTM/STM/TTM+: STM

    EDD / Weeks + Days: Jan. 14

    Team blue/pink/green: Pink.

    Upcoming Appointments: This Thursday.

    How are you feeling?: My back has been bugging me this past week. I cracked my sacroiliac joint when I was a kid and it's been flaring like crazy 😕 Heartburn has been upping it's game, too...

    Rants/Raves: See previous.

    Questions: Can't think of anything this second.

    GTKY: Do you have any fun traditions or family routines you hope to continue (or start) with your little one?

    We make monkey bread for breakfast on family birthdays and holidays. And it is almost time for apple and pumpkin picking with my cousins and their little ones!
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  • ahume131ahume131 member
    FTM/STM/TTM+: FTM

    EDD / Weeks + Days: Jan. 14/24w

    Team blue/pink/green: Blue

    Upcoming Appointments: Just had my 24-week OB appt and have a follow-up US this afternoon

    How are you feeling?: Not too bad other than some increased fatigue the past day or two. Baby boy continues to be very active and I'm feeling him a lot throughout the day. I've had some increased swelling in my hands and feet - talked to my OB about that today and luckily, my blood pressure and other tests for pre-eclampsia today were fine, so looking like this may just be something annoying, not problematic necessarily. Going to continue to keep an eye on it. I had a strange new symptom this morning of shooting pain in my elbow. It so far has been happening intermittently throughout the day, but I'm hoping maybe I just slept on it weird and this isn't some fun new symptom to manage.

    Rants/Raves: One of my friends gave me a little countdown calendar for baby, and I'm loving getting to switch the number over each week and see the numbers going down. There's still a long way to go, but it's starting to feel significantly past the halfway point. Can't believe there's only a few more weeks of the second trimester.

    Questions: Can't think of any today

    GTKY: Do you have any fun traditions or family routines you hope to continue (or start) with your little one?

    I'm part Italian and even the non-Italian part of the family is obsessed with food, so we have a lot of food-related traditions. Things like making my grandmother's cheeseburger casserole every Christmas Eve or going for ice cream almost every Sunday night in the summers. My dad almost always makes a huge batch of his mom's spaghetti sauce and meatballs recipe the day after Thanksgiving and freezes it in meal-size portions for the year. Definitely looking to continue those types of traditions with our son, as well as start some new ones.
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  • ahume131ahume131 member
    @marmalade0 mmmm monkey bread. Surprisingly, that was never one of the many food-related traditions in my family, but I know some friends who always made monkey bread for certain holidays. I might have to find a good recipe!
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  • emeraldmaybythebayemeraldmaybythebay member
    FTM/STM/TTM+: 6th

    EDD / Weeks + Days: 1/22

    Team blue/pink/green: 💙

    Upcoming Appointments: US on 6th and 1st OB on the 12th

    How are you feeling?: I napped for 4 hours today! 🤌 I feel like a new woman. I have not napped but maybe once this entire pregnancy. Oh did I enjoy it. 

    Rants/Raves: well as I said above I napped, because I went in the field yesterday and my husband stayed home, he does very little homeschool on his days home and I still handle the office side so he just has kids and meals essentially. I came home to a destroyed home, my husband was a melted puddle. A kid broke his phone that has our banking on it and he spent most of the day trying to put out that fire. He got take out twice (i made breakfast) he didn't get any chores done. He felt awful. But also he was so appreciative of me and what I do on the daily praising me saying I was a saint and they'd be in public school if it was him it landed on. Lol my back hurt from the truck and doing the 7 houses I went to. He sets me up with the easy days when I go out and I was beat. It's so good for us to see and appreciate what the other does. Anyway I got a nap and he took the day to run errands and help me play catch up from his rough day. It was a great day! The heartburn is still very real though 🤨

    Questions: espresso machine recommendations? I am getting one for Christmas so I can be espressogized when sleep deprived with a newborn 😁

    GTKY: Do you have any fun traditions or family routines you hope to continue (or start) with your little one?

    We have a lot of food related ones as well. We do bierocks and Stromboli in the fall and again toward the end of winter. We have a treat day around Christmas where we make pounds of delicious cookies, fudges, breads, etc. I make vanilla to give to friends and family for winter gifts. We do an apothecary night too where we get together and make tinctures for the year. 
    The kids buy their siblings gifts and that's is always fun to take them out to do that for holidays and birthdays. We go berry, apple, pumpkin, peach, corn, etc picking throughout the year. We have a jam day. We can and garden. We do meat week, round ups, etc. Wood chopping and bonfires. We cut our own Christmas tree off the land. 

    I'm realizing how very work based our traditions are while typing this. Haha I'll have to try to add more fun ones. Hard to undo how you're raised I suppose.  
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  • emeraldmaybythebayemeraldmaybythebay member
    edited September 25
    @marmalade0 oh monkey bread is sooo good! I love that idea! 

    @ahume131 weekly ice cream is such a treat, I love that idea too. My gran used to make homemade peach ice cream every summer when we would visit. Ruined any peach ice cream I find, it's just never as good. Lol 
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  • ahume131ahume131 member
    @emeraldmaybythebay you just reminded me - a couple times when I was a kid, my parents would make homemade ice cream out on the deck in one of those old pine bucket ice cream makers with the rock salt and the ice and the crank. I think we only ever made vanilla ice cream, but I remember it being really good. Might have to look into doing something similar with our kid once he gets a little older!

    I also love the tradition of cutting down a Christmas tree. We did that my whole childhood, and it's only in the past few years that my husband and I switched to a prelit artificial tree for the sake of convenience. We live in suburbia so we're a little ways away from any of the Christmas tree farms. There's nothing like tromping through the trees to find the perfect one, or the smell and feel of a fresh cut tree, though. The Christmas tree farm we used to go to always had hot chocolate, a petting zoo and a little shop with ornaments and other odds and ends. It was such a nice thing to do. Might have to revive that tradition when baby gets a little older, too.

    As for an espresso machine, we have a Nespresso and really like it. We've probably had it for 5 years now and it's still going strong. I don't love how wasteful the pods are, but it's so easy to make a good cup of coffee and it is possible, if inconvenient, to recycle the pods.
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  • kbmtkbmt member
    FTM/STM/TTM+: STM

    EDD / Weeks + Days: 1/14 , 24w +1d

    Team blue/pink/green: Blue

    Upcoming Appointments: 10/8 (check-up, glucose test, iron blood work)

    How are you feeling?: I’ve started vomiting again, so not great! I’ve had difficulty sleeping recently too. 

    Rants/Raves: My toddler has been so difficult recently! Lots of screaming, hitting, and throwing. I’ve tried so many things to help, but nothing works. 

    Questions: I know I had one the other day, and now I forget!

    GTKY: Do you have any fun traditions or family routines you hope to continue (or start) with your little one?

    We go big celebrating Christmas! Not sure of specific traditions. We always have pork and sauerkraut every New Year’s. We will probably start a family game night each week when the kids are older. This year, I started “one experience per month”. We’ve gone to museums, the zoo, a butterfly pavilion, Dinosaur Quest, and more. I’d like to keep that up.
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  • emeraldmaybythebayemeraldmaybythebay member
    @ahume131 ill have to look into Nespresso. Thanks for the recommend. 
    YES! Always out on the deck. My Grandad would have us watching for critters as Dusk fell. My night vision was so good I'd hit armadillos that were getting into his garden. Haha we'd play cards late into the night. As adults we'd drink and gril oh man I miss that old man! 

    @kbmt yes! The Christmas tree farms were so festive. I am a sucker for tack 90s Christmas decor. Haha oh take me back! And saurkraut and pork sounds lovely. We canned with my other Grandad every year. Oh I can smell it now! I may steal that tradition. 
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