Weekly Check-In w/o Oct 27

aisleofviewtwo · October 27

EDD / Weeks + Days:

FTM/STM/TTM+/it's complicated:

Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green:

Upcoming Appointments:

How are you feeling?

Rants/Raves:

Questions:

GTKY: Return of the Halloween discussion - what are you doing for spooky season? Will you dress up as anything?

thatbaintforbetty · October 27

EDD / Weeks + Days: 12-26 / 31 & 3

FTM/STM/TTM+/it's complicated: 3rd

Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: blue!

Upcoming Appointments: next OB appt on Halloween

How are you feeling? Terrible. Ugh! DH and I are sick. I know strep was going around the school so I’m hoping it’s not that but it definitely feels like it.

Still so very tired. Still being pummeled mercilessly from the inside. Also overheated and all the hot tea im trying to down isn’t helping. It’s also not helping the constant need to pee.

Rants/Raves: I think I forced my nesting to kick in on Saturday. Of course I also think I overdid it and spent all Sunday feeling even more sore/exhausted then normal (that could also be the illness starting🤷‍♀️). Also I have such a love/hate relationship with the fact this kid is so very low. Like yes I am not getting nearly as winded as I could be and since I have asthma thats great but also my hips/pelvis are absolutely killing me and he is putting so much pressure on my nerves! The frequent lightning crotch/butthole is awful.

Questions: How am I going to make it another 7 weeks?!?? (Obvs this is rhetorical, lol)

GTKY: Return of the Halloween discussion - what are you doing for spooky season? Will you dress up as anything? I am going to keep the tradition of brinner with spooky skull waffles even if I can’t eat/wont eat it. I even bought Halloween sprinkles and had grand plans to make sugar cookies(this was before I got sick so it may not happen).

DD1 is going as Wednesday Addams and DD2 is going as Red from Descendants. I want to dress up but I haven’t found anything I like that I can get in time and honestly I’m not sure what we are going to do about trick or treating because that much walking sounds like torture but I also don’t want to hold them back.

virginiaham · October 27

EDD / Weeks + Days: 37+4

FTM/STM/TTM+/it's complicated: 3rd

Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: 🎀

Upcoming Appointments: tomorrow for 38w appt, I’ll probably decline any more cervix checks until we have to go to the hospital

How are you feeling? Big, packed, childcare plan in place 🙌, ready to do thisss. All crickets so far.

Rants/Raves: It’s true that you don’t get to choose what’s going on in life when big things are already happening and oh man I have moments where I wish I could just focus on preparing for her right now. (TW terminal cancer) Starting to talk palliative care with extended family, in the last month my 8yo very suddenly developed trichotillomania (compulsive hair plucking—sigh, it’s already taken her eyelashes and maybe a third of her scalp hair) so we are navigating that plus a new adventure with play therapy. MH is falling apart about a few things (work stress, physical injury and inability to work out/lose weight), to the point he was weirdly paralyzed this weekend, like not sure what to do with his time at home. It was jarring thinking forward to how much I’m going to need him to step up -on his own- when she gets here. I love them all dearly and want to show up for it all, but I have moments of frustration that I have verrrrry little left to give toward any of this right now. /rant over.

But in other news I lost all of 5 strands hairs when I was drying/styling my hair yesterday so that was wild. 😝

Questions:

GTKY: Return of the Halloween discussion - what are you doing for spooky season? Will you dress up as anything? Trick or treating in our small neighborhood then coming home for a driveway fire pit and roasting marshmallows. We wrap up school that morning, and we’ve all agreed we’re totally fine with decorating for Christmas on Nov 1 since this girl could come at any time. I’m completely not opposed to trick or treating inducing labor.

iwantcookies · October 29

EDD / Weeks + Days: 34w 3D

FTM/STM/TTM+/it's complicated: FTM

Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: BLUE

Upcoming Appointments: Tomorrow for the BPP US.

How are you feeling? Tired. So very tired, bored annoyed. HEAVY and HOT. These heat flashes are so REAL.

Rants/Raves:
Rant: I am SOOO over work. My temper with everyone is SLIM. I keep getting put in calls where everyone wants to hash out one detail a million times AFTER we already agreed on everything. Projects are just going haywire and I have a client who can’t understand we can’t meet his absurd deadline of yesterday.

GTKY: Return of the Halloween discussion - what are you doing for spooky season? Will you dress up as anything?
We’ll be handing out candy to our neighbors. We don’t plan on dressing up as Halloween isn’t us. Plus I can’t even fathom putting in more effort to another task like a costume atm.

bridgiebee82 · October 30

EDD / Weeks + Days: 34w4d (the most pregnant I've ever been!)

FTM/STM/TTM+/it's complicated: IC

Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: Pink!

Upcoming Appointments: tomorrow a check at my OB, and weekly MFM on Monday.

How are you feeling? Tired, overwhelmed, cranky, anxious, waddle-y

Rants/Raves: still working almost 30 hours a week, plus parenting, and running a household is absolutely exhausting. We are prepping for baby girl and when DH was bringing the crib downstairs from storage, he just shoved it through a doorway and he broke it. It was an accident, but he is never careful with anything that isn't his very own personal belongings. I'm really frustrated. We can try to fix it, but that's just one more thing to do. And he is at a concert tonight I stead of helping me prep. Thankfully my sister and brother came over to help me for almost 2 hours today. Also super anxious about being this pregnant because I had to have an emergency c-section at 34w1d last time. Any time I have an inkling of baby girl not moving, I freak out.

Questions:

GTKY: Return of the Halloween discussion - what are you doing for spooky season? Will you dress up as anything? We will go trick-or-treating in our neighborhood and around my dad's house. We will also probably go to one street that is really well known for its fun Halloween vibes! But I will also be handing out candy because we will not be *that* house on Halloween lol I'm not sure what I will dress up as. Probably a cranky pregnant lady. But it's supposed to be something you're not so.... 🤷🏻‍♀️

thatbaintforbetty · October 30

@bridgiebee82 yay for being more pregnant-er (🤣) than ever before!

Also I feel you on the waddle. Another reason I have a love/hate for such a super low baby.

brookejay06 · October 30

EDD / Weeks + Days: 35+3

FTM/STM/TTM+/it's complicated: 3

Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: boy

Upcoming Appointments: Monday. And then every Monday till he’s here!

How are you feeling? I feel okay, definitely could be worse. My hormones seem to have leveled and I’m not crying as much this week. I basically need 10 pillows to fortress my body any time I sit or lay. Last night I had lots of BH back to back and they were uncomfortable.

Rants/Raves:

Questions:

GTKY: Return of the Halloween discussion - what are you doing for spooky season? Will you dress up as anything?
We will trick or treat. Kids are dressing up as a black cat and a dinosaur. I wasn’t planning to dress up but I have this red matching set and I realized with my belly I look exactly like Tim Allen in the Santa Clause movie. Add a Santa hat and there you go.

rebecksah · October 30

EDD / Weeks + Days: 35 😮‍💨

FTM/STM/TTM+/it's complicated: 3rd

Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: 💚

Upcoming Appointments: none

How are you feeling? starting to have some aches and pains in the lower abdomen. they aren't consistent or constant so I'm gonna guess not real contractions. I wouldn't know cuz I've never been in labour LOL but right now as I type, a pain in the back of my left hip that won't go away.

Rants/Raves: my surgeon suggested 39 weeks for my c-section, but I've since had an ultrasound. was told my baby is a full 1.5lbs heavier than they should be and is in the 79th percentile.......... so my dr fwd'd those results and said "maybe 38 weeks is better?" so 🤞🏻

Questions:

GTKY: Return of the Halloween discussion - what are you doing for spooky season? Will you dress up as anything?

I typically don't ever dress up. Halloween is not my bag lol I love spooky season but not dressing up. My oldest son is going to be Ash from Pokemon, and his little brother is gonna dress as Pikachu, which I can't wait for. Hoping I can be able to trick or treat with them. Depends on the weather here mostly but I'll do my best to get out there with them.

caffeinatedandtired · October 30

EDD / Weeks + Days: 33w

FTM/STM/TTM+/it's complicated: FTM

Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: 🩷

Upcoming Appointments: Next week for growth scan

How are you feeling? Large, tired, sweaty and swollen 😅

Rants/Raves: I just want to stay home and relax with my feet up every day now. Really thankful to my mom for helping me unpack / organize the nursery, now I don’t get anxiety every time I walk past the room.

Questions:

GTKY: Return of the Halloween discussion - what are you doing for spooky season? Will you dress up as anything? Mostly passing out candy to neighborhood kiddos! Will going over to our friends house afterwards. Going for a very low effort costume of construction workers with a “bump ahead” sign - my husband already had multiple hard hats from other costumes

jta41 · October 31

EDD / Weeks + Days: 12-20 / 32 + 6

FTM/STM/TTM+/it's complicated: FTM

Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: 🟢

Upcoming Appointments: OB check up next week

How are you feeling? Heavier

Rants/Raves:

Rants - days are long, pelvis is aching and sleep is fleeting. Why are we okay with women working up until birth?

Raves - not that much longer to go until meeting the one tumbling around in my belly! 🤩🫠

Questions:

Having little family around while pregnant for the first time is tough but doable. Did you have a baby shower with just friends where it was just a brunch get together? Or did it spiral into a big deal given others planned it for you? Did you enjoy it!

Also - I was very good about taking my prenatals and baby aspirin but now seeming to forget to take them more and more. How do you cope in late pregnancy with remembering to do all of the things?

GTKY: Return of the Halloween discussion - what are you doing for spooky season? Will you dress up as anything? Not dressing up as I am going to work for Halloween dressed as a pregnant working professional. 😅

jta41 · October 31

@iwantcookies right with you on patience at work is SLIM and being put on calls + emails where things were already agreed upon. Sigh 🙄

Hanging in there!

virginiaham · October 31

@jta41 we are military stationed away from family and I just did a brunch get together with local friends! This is our third and I asked for no gifts (of course several people still brought gifts) but literally just wanted to be able to brunch sans kids and hang with the girls when our schedules and family lives are all busy. We even found a brunch spot where we could reserve a private room there so it was super low effort, no decorations or anything. My friend who was planning it kept it so simple at my request, communicated it well to the guests and it ended up being absolutely lovely.

iwantcookies · October 31

@jta41 I have a calendar on my fridge that I started to mark on days I remember to take my prenatal and my iron. This week I severely lacked. But it’s a secondary method to help keep track

thatbaintforbetty · October 31

@jta41 phone alarms. lol. I have a nightly one from pre pregnancy to remind me to take my meds and I would probably forget more often than not without it. I rely heavily on them right now since with the diabetes I have to test an hour after eating or remember when to have my snacks. (Although even that I sometimes am busy and silence them, but on the whole super helpful).

jta41 · October 31

@virginiaham My dream!!!!🤩

aisleofviewtwo · November 1

Happy Halloween, everyone! 🎃

EDD / Weeks + Days: Dec 24, 32w2d

FTM/STM/TTM+/it's complicated: FTM

Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: 💚

Upcoming Appointments: 34-wk with OB on 11/14, then weekly appointments with US starting 11/25

How are you feeling? Pretty ok! 32-wk check-up yesterday was uneventful. Didn’t love the doc I got (she was a little dismissive of my questions about breech babies, didn’t want to talk about the possibility before 36 weeks) but all the measurements were good and that’s always a relief. Really run down by work the past two weeks but I think that’s finally turning a corner. Honestly the biggest gripe I have right now is that it’s getting cold and my cats are snuggling up on either side of me at night, which is nice at first but then I wake up hours later with my hips aching because they’ve prevented me from moving for too long. Still love them tho!

Rants/Raves: I need to be careful I don’t manifest preterm labor, but I’ve been so fed up with work this week (honestly it feels like I’ve spent most of the year cleaning up other peoples’ messes, just finally losing my patience) that multiple times I’ve declared I’d love to just go out on leave now 😬 I dont actually want that for me or baby, but I’m definitely looking forward to getting enough distance from work that I can start to miss it again.

Questions:

GTKY: Return of the Halloween discussion - what are you doing for spooky season? Will you dress up as anything? I had big ideas for dressing up that slowly dwindled to nothing. We don’t typically get trick-or-treaters so we buy one bag of candy we both like to have on hand just in case and just enjoy a night in.

aisleofviewtwo · November 1

@virginiaham I'm so sorry to hear about all the life stuff you've got going on right now. That sounds really hard. I totally get feeling like you just want to be able to focus on baby girl. But I also choose to believe that the people we show up for--which you've been doing so much of!--will also show up for us when we need it most. Also, baby girl may be arriving into a moment where your attention is divided, but she's also being born into a family that clearly cares for and takes care of each other, and that will be a beautiful gift she'll get to keep with her for life. Hang in there.

@jta41 Like @thatbaintforbetty I have a nightly alarm set to take all of my medications and supplements. I try to time it to where it's late enough that I know I'll be home and able to stop what I'm doing to take them, but not so late that I've already crawled in bed for the night.

@brookejay06 Omggg dressing up as Tim Allen from The Santa Claus is quite possibly the best use of a pregnant belly for a Halloween costume that I've ever heard of. I love it so much!!!

@thatbaintforbetty Ugh, strep. Yuck. Hope you're on the mend by now!

virginiaham · November 1

@aisleofviewtwo thank you friend, your words are so kind and thoughtful ❤️

dogmom5 · November 1

DD / Weeks + Days: 33weeks

FTM/STM/TTM+/it's complicated:6TM

Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green:💚

Upcoming Appointments:2 weeks

How are you feeling? Good! Tired and sore at times but good!

Rants/Raves: I have had a lingering cough for weeks now. It’s just so annoying

Questions: NATM

GTKY: Return of the Halloween discussion - what are you doing for spooky season? Will you dress up as anything?

we just walked around town for the trick or treated time last night. I didn’t dress up as anything, I thought about it but didn’t. Work had a Halloween dress up contest but I just hate participating in that stuff so I didn’t lol

californiacherry · November 1

I have a pill box I fill every am! @jta41

californiacherry · November 1

EDD / Weeks + Days: 34w 3d

FTM/STM/TTM+/it's complicated: ftm

Team Finding Out/Blue/Pink/Green: blue

Upcoming Appointments: Nov 14

How are you feeling? sick and pelvis feels bruised lol

Rants/Raves: hg is picking back up so I’ve been throwing up multiple times a day. Logically, I kno I’ll feel better after birth but rn I’m feeling like I’ll be nauseous 247 w digestion/stomach issues forever 🥴😩

Questions: nursery chair…. Swear by a firm glider/rocker + live in it? Got one and never used it? Never bothered and just use couch or other chairs in home? We are in a big city, small apt, so trying to prioritize.

GTKY: Return of the Halloween discussion - what are you doing for spooky season? Will you dress up as anything? No im hella sick so I went to bed at 830. I love Halloween though. But now… now it is November and it is Christmas szn, so my tree is going up this weekend lol

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