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Post by Rama on Feb 26, 2018 13:52:08 GMT -6
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Post by yianna on Feb 26, 2018 13:58:13 GMT -6
Things I wanted to do this past weekend: pack my bag.
Things I didn’t accomplish: packing my bag
Dr tells me today: so we are sending your info to Labor and Delivery now - bc we will stop labor before 37w....
Also says: if you have 6 contractions in an hour, go to LD.
This is really happening, right? I’ve been in some denial about it but I think there may really be a baby coming home with me. I won’t lie, the whole triploidy thing still has be scared... even tho they have assured me she’s totally fine... that’s normal right?
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Post by mintyblueair on Feb 26, 2018 13:59:19 GMT -6
I'm in my final week at work! So nervous to be home so much in the interim before MrRama gets to stay home with me because we have a baby. ovenrack You CD, yes? I'm trying to figure out how many newborn diapers I should have and whether I should spend my money on the "complete" diapers versus just using prefolds and covers. Any insight? Not limited to ovenrack, either, if anyone has any CD advice, I'm all ears. We still need to buy up our stash and when our new washer/dryer get delivered this weekend, I'm ready to start washing all the things. I had a mix of prefolds w/ covers, all-in-ones, and fitted diapers for my son when he was a newborn. I'll be reusing all of them for this baby. IME, prefolds and covers work just as well as the AIOs and fitteds and are a fraction of the cost, so I would recommend just sticking with those. Rumparooz are my favourite newborn covers, if you're looking for brand recommendations
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Post by mintyblueair on Feb 26, 2018 14:03:00 GMT -6
I've been so uncomfortable the past couple of days. The worst is the rib pain on my left side, I just cannot get myself into a position that relieves it. 6 more weeks feels like an eternity to me today.
This morning my mom brought over some of the newborn clothes that I wore, and I loved all of them! I have all the newborn and 0-3 month clothes washed and stacked in the dresser, and all of my newborn diapers are washed and ready to go.
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Post by katietopaz on Feb 26, 2018 14:06:39 GMT -6
Also they’re estimating he’s about 7lbs right now, they said 70th percentile. I’m only 36+4 so I hope they’re estimation is high. Lol I take their estimates with a huge grain of salt. At 36w with DS1, they estimated his weight at 6lbs even. He was born at 39+1 and weighed 5lbs 11oz. To be fair, his head was proportionally much larger, percentile-wise, than his height and weight. And I believe they use head circumference as one of their factors for weight estimation... Anyway, all that to say that there's apparently a very large margin of error with those estimates, so don't panic!
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Post by mintyblueair on Feb 26, 2018 14:09:43 GMT -6
mattsgirl2004 I'm sorry about the carpal tunnel. I hope the braces help - when I had bad carpal tunnel in college, they helped a lot. I'm at the point where sitting on the floor to play with DS, change his diaper, hang while he's in the bath, etc. is almost too uncomfortable to do. There's just nowhere for my whole belly to go. Poor guy doesn't understand, he just wants to keep his routine with me as usual. I'm at this point with my 20 month old. I'm feeling pretty guilty about not being able to play with him like I used to :/
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Post by katietopaz on Feb 26, 2018 14:11:43 GMT -6
It's a little bittersweet, but I found out that based on DS's latest evaluation, he doesn't qualify for speech therapy anymore. It's not a surprise, and I'm thrilled that he's advanced so much that he's caught up to his peers, but I LOVE his speech therapists and I'm sad that we'll be wrapping up our time with them. They're going to try to get him approved for services through the month of March (or until I go into labor) so we can do a gradual fade-out program before stopping speech therapy entirely.
We meet with the school district this Friday to start the process of potentially transitioning him to services with them, but I'm not sure he's going to qualify for anything with them either. Maybe on the ABA side, but I doubt on the speech side. This whole process hurts my brain, but I'm just so thankful for how much support there is for Early Intervention here!
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Post by Rama on Feb 26, 2018 14:13:14 GMT -6
I'm in my final week at work! So nervous to be home so much in the interim before MrRama gets to stay home with me because we have a baby. ovenrack You CD, yes? I'm trying to figure out how many newborn diapers I should have and whether I should spend my money on the "complete" diapers versus just using prefolds and covers. Any insight? Not limited to ovenrack, either, if anyone has any CD advice, I'm all ears. We still need to buy up our stash and when our new washer/dryer get delivered this weekend, I'm ready to start washing all the things. I had a mix of prefolds w/ covers, all-in-ones, and fitted diapers for my son when he was a newborn. I'll be reusing all of them for this baby. IME, prefolds and covers work just as well as the AIOs and fitteds and are a fraction of the cost, so I would recommend just sticking with those. Rumparooz are my favourite newborn covers, if you're looking for brand recommendations I will take all the recommendations! Do you have one for prefolds? I have just some random ones from freebies, but I haven't stocked yet. Any feels between Gerber and Osocozy and all those other guys?
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Post by leatherpants on Feb 26, 2018 14:18:46 GMT -6
Happy Monday ladies!
SO's house is still on the market and stressing me the fuck out. Anyone want to buy a house?
Work is a shit show and will be until I'm done - which is 2 weeks from now! 8 working days if anyone is counting.
I had a panic attack this morning about the fact that March starts in 2 days and I need to get my shit together, like yesterday so this weekend I have a plan of doing baby laundry and going shopping and just generally cramming all of my prep into one weekend.
Aaaand, I'm getting the cold DS had last week.
So, as always, I'm a bundle of positivity and a real joy to be around.
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Post by Rama on Feb 26, 2018 14:24:26 GMT -6
Happy Monday ladies! SO's house is still on the market and stressing me the fuck out. Anyone want to buy a house? Work is a shit show and will be until I'm done - which is 2 weeks from now! 8 working days if anyone is counting. I had a panic attack this morning about the fact that March starts in 2 days and I need to get my shit together, like yesterday so this weekend I have a plan of doing baby laundry and going shopping and just generally cramming all of my prep into one weekend. Aaaand, I'm getting the cold DS had last week. So, as always, I'm a bundle of positivity and a real joy to be around. Sans the house selling, I'm right there with you. How is March this week? I demand it be pushed forward a couple more weeks because I can't handle the stress on my heart. (which is exactly why this is my last week because lordy do I stress)
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Post by mintyblueair on Feb 26, 2018 14:24:28 GMT -6
I had a mix of prefolds w/ covers, all-in-ones, and fitted diapers for my son when he was a newborn. I'll be reusing all of them for this baby. IME, prefolds and covers work just as well as the AIOs and fitteds and are a fraction of the cost, so I would recommend just sticking with those. Rumparooz are my favourite newborn covers, if you're looking for brand recommendations I will take all the recommendations! Do you have one for prefolds? I have just some random ones from freebies, but I haven't stocked yet. Any feels between Gerber and Osocozy and all those other guys? I've only ever tried Osocozy and Grovia bamboo prefolds. In terms of absorbency, both are great! The Grovia ones are a LOT trimmer so I liked that about them. I bought the "better fit" Osocozy ones, so they're a bit shorter in the length and are designed to simply be folded in thirds and laid in the cover (as opposed to folded up around baby and pinned). They always worked perfectly fine for me, but DS was exclusively formula fed and his poops were likely never quite as runny as a breastfed baby's. I've heard that some of the fancier folds + pinning works better for babies with runny poops.
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Post by alwayscheese on Feb 26, 2018 14:27:33 GMT -6
leatherpants Rama last Monday I was freaking out to DH that MARCH IS NEXT WEEK!!?? And...ya. Still freaking out. I'm almost 38 weeks. Everything feels very unreal.
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Post by snowmoon on Feb 26, 2018 14:31:37 GMT -6
I will take all the recommendations! Do you have one for prefolds? I have just some random ones from freebies, but I haven't stocked yet. Any feels between Gerber and Osocozy and all those other guys? I've only ever tried Osocozy and Grovia bamboo prefolds. In terms of absorbency, both are great! The Grovia ones are a LOT trimmer so I liked that about them. I bought the "better fit" Osocozy ones, so they're a bit shorter in the length and are designed to simply be folded in thirds and laid in the cover (as opposed to folded up around baby and pinned). They always worked perfectly fine for me, but DS was exclusively formula fed and his poops were likely never quite as runny as a breastfed baby's. I've heard that some of the fancier folds + pinning works better for babies with runny poops. We used osocozy better fit too and folded and snappied them just fine. I started just laying them in the cover in thirds once he started solids and poop wasn't so runny. The Gerber prefolds are not very absorbent and pretty scratchy. I use them for cleaning.
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Post by ovenrack on Feb 26, 2018 15:27:01 GMT -6
🤔 none of the midwives have said anything about how big Jehoshaphat is. So I have no clue...🤷 It's like 75% nonsense anyway, IMO.
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Post by babybean on Feb 26, 2018 15:28:54 GMT -6
Rama I’d go with green mountain prefolds. They don’t ship to Canada so I sent them to a friend who mailed them to me and I’m still happy with them. I have six osocozy’s that I never used because I preferred the GMD. I also really enjoyed using flats with covers. I think I scraped by with 32 newborn diapers and six covers last time, I have a bit more now.
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Post by ovenrack on Feb 26, 2018 15:29:11 GMT -6
Just say no to gerber prefolds. Rama, start a post about your stash! We will all give you loads of opinions. Lol.
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Post by ArielMermaid on Feb 26, 2018 15:30:35 GMT -6
I’m in that weird place of being freaked right out about having a baby and also get this baby out of me. I’m only 31 weeks.
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Post by babybean on Feb 26, 2018 15:32:09 GMT -6
I’m in that weird place of being freaked right out about having a baby and also get this baby out of me. I’m only 31 weeks. I know I’ll be fine but I feel ill equipped to have a newborn, like I’ve forgotten everything. I want baby out but I don’t want the newborn schedule at the same time lol.
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Post by ArielMermaid on Feb 26, 2018 15:33:08 GMT -6
I’m in that weird place of being freaked right out about having a baby and also get this baby out of me. I’m only 31 weeks. I know I’ll be fine but I feel ill equipped to have a newborn, like I’ve forgotten everything. I want baby out but I don’t want the newborn schedule at the same time lol. Yes! I feel like I barely survived last time and now I have a toddler too. Whose idea was it to have a second, anyway? 😂
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Post by tinyjoys on Feb 26, 2018 15:34:04 GMT -6
🤔 none of the midwives have said anything about how big Jehoshaphat is. So I have no clue...🤷 With #2, we were told on the Wednesday before her Tuesday delivery that she was 7+ pounds, a full pound plus bigger than her older brother. Girlfriend was 5 pounds 12 ounces, only 3 ounces bigger than big brother. ETA: we were told this following the last ultrasound with the MFM of her pregnancy, not just a guess by my OB. This baby is measuring above average, but we were told by the MFM that on average, they can be wrong up to 1.5 pounds in either direction & it's mostly a crapshoot.
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Post by auri on Feb 26, 2018 15:41:04 GMT -6
I know I’ll be fine but I feel ill equipped to have a newborn, like I’ve forgotten everything. I want baby out but I don’t want the newborn schedule at the same time lol. Yes! I feel like I barely survived last time and now I have a toddler too. Whose idea was it to have a second, anyway? 😂 lol I told one of my friends that I think I made a mistake with having a second kid. I think I need someone to hold me and tell me it'll be ok.
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Post by ArielMermaid on Feb 26, 2018 15:41:51 GMT -6
I think my doctor is Magic. She just massaged my belly for about 15 seconds and told me she thought DD1 would be low seven pounds and she was SPOT ON. I never had any ultrasound or anything. Just some belly touching. I am dying to see if she can nail it the second time around.
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Post by whatsit on Feb 26, 2018 15:45:08 GMT -6
Yes! I feel like I barely survived last time and now I have a toddler too. Whose idea was it to have a second, anyway? 😂 lol I told one of my friends that I think I made a mistake with having a second kid. I think I need someone to hold me and tell me it'll be ok. Oh hi. All of the above is me. We can all commiserate with how insane we are.
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Post by ovenrack on Feb 26, 2018 15:46:25 GMT -6
Yes! I feel like I barely survived last time and now I have a toddler too. Whose idea was it to have a second, anyway? 😂 lol I told one of my friends that I think I made a mistake with having a second kid. I think I need someone to hold me and tell me it'll be ok. I totally prefer having two to having one. Sure, it's super hard for awhile. But... it's better! It just is. I promise.
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Post by ovenrack on Feb 26, 2018 15:46:52 GMT -6
lol I told one of my friends that I think I made a mistake with having a second kid. I think I need someone to hold me and tell me it'll be ok. I totally prefer having two to having one. Sure, it's super hard for awhile. But... it's better! It just is. I promise. And here I am, thinking, WtheACTUALeff was I thinking adding a third?!
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Post by Rama on Feb 26, 2018 15:47:50 GMT -6
Just say no to gerber prefolds. Rama , start a post about your stash! We will all give you loads of opinions. Lol. Gerber's out. Got it! CD thread started!
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Post by Leaf 🌱 on Feb 26, 2018 15:48:20 GMT -6
lol I told one of my friends that I think I made a mistake with having a second kid. I think I need someone to hold me and tell me it'll be ok. Oh hi. All of the above is me. We can all commiserate with how insane we are. Yup. We can make t shirts or something.
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Post by whatsit on Feb 26, 2018 15:48:58 GMT -6
Oh hi. All of the above is me. We can all commiserate with how insane we are. Yup. We can make t shirts or something. “Mom of two and completely unglued”
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Post by mattsgirl2004 on Feb 26, 2018 15:53:23 GMT -6
leatherpants I hope your SO's house sells soon!! We are still car shopping. Ugh. So far, 4 vehicles we've been interested in and offered money on have fallen through (both through private sellers and dealerships). I think we're going to up our budget a bit and see if that will help in the search. I'm feeling stressed, because we need a bigger a vehicle before this baby comes and we're getting down to the wire now.
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Post by ArielMermaid on Feb 26, 2018 16:08:44 GMT -6
I’m excited for the day I can say “go play with your sister.”
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