HDBD 4/11

[cornpop]

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Weeks pregnant or How old is your LO:

Baby is the size of a:

Appointments:

Symptoms:

Milestones:

Rants/Raves/Vents:

GTKY: do you have any tattoos? If so, what?

[ArielMermaid]

Weeks pregnant or How old is your LO: 38 today

Baby is the size of a: Pomeranian?? That seems large...

Appointments: Friday the 13th!

Symptoms: pressure like a mother, tired AF, all the nesting.

Milestones:

Rants/Raves/Vents: belly was measuring 33 weeks at 37 weeks. Where is this baby even hiding at?
BREAKING NEWS: The renovation is done enough we can start moving stuff in!! Now I just have to light a fire under MH to get it done. It’s all his shit he has to sort and move. I’ve cleaned out my shit and it’s all neatly in a tub in the closet already.

GTKY: do you have any tattoos? If so, what? I don’t. I’ve thought about it a little but I really am not a needle person.

Guys, I remembered to take a picture a couple days ago. Better late than never?

[yianna]

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Weeks pregnant or How old is your LO: 38+3

Baby is the size of a: Pomeranian

Appointments: yesterday - 2cm and inducing Monday so no more appointments!

Symptoms: contractions that don’t progress, tired, HOT, swollen

Milestones: baby is head down again

Rants/Raves/Vents: I just want to be done

GTKY: do you have any tattoos? If so, what - a butterfly.

[cornpop]

Weeks pregnant or How old is your LO:
2 weeks

Baby is the size of a:
She was 7lbs 11 oz on Friday

Appointments:
Next week

Rants/Raves/Vents:
Poor N still has a cold. It's stressing me out.

GTKY: do you have any tattoos? If so, what?
I do...
angel wings on my back (which I wish I could remove)
An owl on my foot
Family in Braille on my wrist
A Polaroid of two planes with the quote "nose over tail" on my bicep
A hot air balloon with the quote "it only took me one look to understand Emaline" on my ribs

[mrsmonogrammed]

Weeks pregnant or How old is your LO: 38+4- hoping for an outside baby by the end of the day!!

Baby is the size of a: fully grown human baby

Appointments: hooked up to pitocin for induction now!

Symptoms: IV site pinching😑 contractions🙌🏻

Milestones: HAVING A BABY TODAY!

Rants/Raves/Vents: none😊

GTKY: do you have any tattoos? If so, what?
No tattoos, no real plans for any🤷🏼‍♀️

Last bump pic in our family of 3!

[Leaf 🌱]

Weeks pregnant or How old is your LO: 39w5d

Baby is the size of a: baby.

Appointments: the usual.

Symptoms: prodromal labor that is pissing me off. I’m so tired and cranky.

Milestones: almost to my EDD?

Rants/Raves/Vents: chronic but inconsistent contractions that don’t progress is almost most taxing mentally than physically. It’s so much “maybe?!” and back and forth. I just want a good night’s sleep 😩

[nuggetrn]

Weeks pregnant or How old is your LO: she will be 9 weeks tomorrow!!

Baby is the size of a: I am thinking she is over 9 lbs at this point. We will find out for sure tomorrow.

Appointments: 2 month check up (and shots!!) tomorrow. I hope she does ok.

Symptoms: I am still dealing with breastfeeding pains. Need to get this stupid crack on my left nipple healed.

Milestones: We are getting so many real smiles!! And she lovessss tummy time. She is almost too long for her bassinet!! WHHAT???

Rants/Raves/Vents: She is getting lots of sleep at night pretty consistently which has been great for me!

GTKY: do you have any tattoos? If so, what? I have a tattoo on my foot. It says love conquers all with 1 Corinthians 13 on it. Heart and a cross, lots of swirls. I would very much like a couple more tattoos. DH keeps trying to get me to spend money and I am very seriously thinking about planning a new tattoo. I would like one for Baby E along with something for my lost babies.

I always forget to add a picture.

Look at my big strong baby!!

[snowmoon]

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Weeks pregnant or How old is your LO:
2.5 weeks

Baby is the size of a: She was 9lbs 11oz last week so I'm sure she's over 10 now.

Appointments: 1 month appt on the 24th

Symptoms: Reflux and maybe a dairy intolerance? I don't eat a lot of dairy but have been eating more than usual and she's had some green, mucousy poops.

Milestones: Meeting friends and family, first trip to the grocery store? Haha.

Rants/Raves/Vents: I'm still trying to get into a good routine and figure out how to leave the house with both kids.

My house is a write off. I can't keep up with the cleaning. Especially with the dirt and mud that the dogs track in.

GTKY: do you have any tattoos? If so, what?
I have a gold finch on my foot and he'll be getting a touch up this summer. A honey bee on my inner bicep and an asian style peony on the back of my neck. I'm planning for somethig on my other foot in the next year but I don't know what.

*poof*

[whatsit]

Weeks pregnant or How old is your LO: 5 weeks

Baby is the size of a: she was 9lb 12oz last week.

Appointments: 1 month appt later this morning (I booked it late. Oops)

Milestones: we have smiles!

Rants/Raves/Vents: TW: sleep. She has pretty consistently been having a 6 hour stretch. Last night she did 7. Of course I was up till 2 getting things ready for our trip today but it was nice none the less.

GTKY: do you have any tattoos? If so, what?
I don’t, and go back and forth a lot on if I want to. If so I’d get sweet peas for my mom.

A blooper from our one month pictures.

[calendula]

Weeks pregnant or How old is your LO: two weeks today

Baby is the size of a: 9 pound baby

Appointments: weight check again next week

Symptoms: getting treated for thrush, hoping it improves

Milestones: DD is starting to stay awake longer during the day which is fun. Today is our first day home alone!!

Rants/Raves/Vents: I'm getting all my tax stuff together for an appointment with our accountant tomorrow. Annoying to have to deal with this now but it didn't get done before baby so here I am. Womp.

GTKY: do you have any tattoos? If so, what? Nope!

[clementine]

Weeks pregnant or How old is your LO: 7 weeks tomorrow

Baby is the size of a: not sure, I’m going to guess somewhere around 10.5 lb

Appointments: 8 week appt the week after next

Symptoms: all those related to sleep deprivation

Milestones: more smiles, better head control

Rants/Raves/Vents: Still trying to figure out this whole sleeping business. L is such a noisy sleeper and is constantly grunting and wiggling himself awake. He will sometimes fall right back asleep, but not often, and you have to pick him up and hold/rock/bounce him for a while to get him back to sleep. Then somehow manage to get yourself back to sleep before he wakes up again in 45 min. Preaching to the choir here, I know.

Also, I’ve worked out a couple times now, so why don’t I have my pre-baby body back yet?! Is that not how it works?

GTKY: do you have any tattoos? If so, what?
Nope!

Poof

[sweetc129]

Weeks pregnant or How old is your LO: 5 weeks

Milestones: J is finally starting to make eye contact. Not sure if it was because he was 3w early but he hasn’t been and as much as I know that’s normal everybody has been commenting on it where nobody had with my first two.

Rants/Raves/Vents: I’m really looking forward to getting decent sleep, I’ll take a 4 hour stretch even. I get one 2-3 hour stretch then 45min-1hr the rest of the night.

GTKY: do you have any tattoos? If so, what? One on my lower back, it’s not across the bottom so it isn’t technically a tramp stamp, but DH calls it one. It’s just a design with a heart in the middle. It’s just a bad decision kind of thing 20 years ago. I would like to get a nice tattoo or maybe that one redone into something nicer and meaningful. At least I had the know how to get it somewhere that is covered by a one piece bathing suit.

[kayladawn91]

Weeks pregnant or How old is your LO: 3 weeks tomorrow!

Baby is the size of a: I bought a baby scale on Amazon. He was 8lb 12oz when I weighed him on Monday!

Appointments: 1 month pedi appt on the 24th

Milestones: He graduated newborn footed sleepers! Kid is tall I guess!

Rants/Raves/Vents: I’m so happy to have a good sleeper! He is such a good baby and I hope it continues!

GTKY: do you have any tattoos? If so, what? I do not!

He’s so strong already!!

[sunshinedaisies]

Weeks pregnant or How old is your LO: 5 weeks

Baby is the size of a: he was 8 lbs 12 oz last Thursday so hopefully over 9 lbs now

Appointments: my pediatrician told us to not come back until 2 months but everyone else seems to have a 1 month appointment so I’m confused. I have my 6 week check up next week.

Symptoms: he’s been a completely different baby since we started the reflux meds. He is much happier most of the time. Mornings are hard because he is awake for about 5-6 hours straight and won’t nap. Then he sleeps all afternoon.

Milestones: 1 month! I can’t believe he’s been here for a month already.

Rants/Raves/Vents: for my maternity leave, a portion of my pay is paid by the state for the first half. I just learned they don’t take taxes out. I’m frustrated because the way we do our withholdings has always guaranteed us a pretty decent tax refund but now that won’t happen next year and we will owe quite a bit bc of this. So I now have to keep track and put aside money for taxes.

GTKY: do you have any tattoos? If so, what?
I have two, one of which I still like (constellation on my foot) and one of which I wish I didn’t have but it’s at least somewhere where I never see it. I do want one more - something to commemorate my IVF rounds and my losses, plus my two kids.

[auri]

Weeks pregnant or How old is your LO: 9 days old

Baby is the size of a: 7 lb 4 oz baby

Appointments: next appointment is 5/1 for 1 month

Symptoms: a little constipated, my incision is still a little sore, crying off and on for no reason

Milestones: Don't have to wake him up in the middle of the night to feed him anymore.

Rants/Raves/Vents: I'm glad J seems to be a good sleeper. Makes me feel like he's trying to apologize for my being constantly sick for 9 months.

GTKY: do you have any tattoos? If so, what? Nope

[tinyjoys]

Weeks pregnant: 36+4

Baby is the size of a: papaya.

Appointments: NST & normal OB tomorrow.

Symptoms: I had a couple contractions last night, but they stopped when I laid down to time them. Still nauseous & occasional vomiting. So much heartburn/reflux. Exhausted.

Milestones: n/a

Rants/Raves/Vents: H needed to renew his license & decided to do the extended instead of the new Real ID, since it’ll work the same & we can drive to Canada with it. Awesome. Except somehow his birch certificate wasn’t in the safe. So we had to run a half hour away to get him a new one this morning, then he wanted a hair cut that took over an hour & now we’ve been sitting at Secretary of State for an hour & a half with at least another half hour to go. All his paperwork is filled out & they said he has everything needed. They literally need to take his picture & our money. I’m so bored. We’ve been in the car for Five freaking hours.

GTKY: yep. My grandpa passed away really unexpectedly in March of last year. He’d been in the hospital for about two weeks, but we were discussing his release that morning with his doctors for the following day & then that evening he coded. It was we took him off the vents the following day, the day he was supposed to come home.

A couple years ago, my sister had him sit & write love a couple times on a sheet of paper for a tattoo she had thought up. So, two days after his funeral, my mom, sister, a cousin & I went & each got his “love” tattooed on us.

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top with the lighthouse is mine, top just love is my mom’s. The bottom with the lighthouse “charm” is my cousins’s. She plans on doing a while “charm bracelet” with her other three grandparents’ writing of other words. The cardinal is my sister’s & the one the idea that started it all. She wants to add a female cardinal for our grandma this summer.

I have a shoulder piece planned & had an appointment to get it done in August/September, but I got a BFP instead. It will happen now in June for my 30th instead. I should probably make that appointment.

[cp3]

sunshinedaisies we don't have an appointment until two months either. I thought it was odd and checked and we had a one month appt for DD1. It's the same doctor so I'm not sure when things changed.

[cp3]

Weeks pregnant or How old is your LO: 3 weeks

Baby is the size of a: probably just over 7 lbs now

Appointments: not until May for her two months checkup

Symptoms: reflux and gassiness

Milestones: L is being more alert during the day and starting to focus her eyes on us more.

Rants/Raves/Vents: DD1 never was really gassy or spit up much so it's something we are learning to deal with.

GTKY: do you have any tattoos? If so, what?

No and I was told I shouldn't get any. I get keloid scars and had to let my ear piercings close up and had surgery to remove the scars on my ears because they got really bad. I was told if I were to get a tattoo it would scar really bad. I'm tempted to get a small one to see.

[katietopaz]

Weeks pregnant or How old is your LO: 13 days (what?!)

Baby is the size of a: I’m guessing around 8 lbs

Appointments: 2-week checkup tomorrow

Symptoms: painful gas, stitches pulling

Milestones: Survived the first night without nurses or my mom. First (brief) outing as a family of four

Rants/Raves/Vents: I know it can and probably will change at any moment, but I can’t believe how much lower maintenance this baby is than DS1. DS1 cried...all the time, just short of colic. DS2 is just generally a happier and more chill baby. I’ll take it and be very thankful for it, for as long as it lasts. It’s also kind of validating that I wasn’t just a bad mom, when I saw how much easier many of my friends’ babies were than DS1.

GTKY: do you have any tattoos? If so, what? I don’t, but I’ve kicked around a couple possibilities on and off for years. Maybe someday.

Our newborn photog just sent a sneak peek from our session, and I’m so excited to see the rest!!

[sunshinedaisies]

Apr 11, 2018 12:22:05 GMT -6 cp3 said:

sunshinedaisies we don't have an appointment until two months either. I thought it was odd and checked and we had a one month appt for DD1. It's the same doctor so I'm not sure when things changed.

At least it’s not just me! DS1 had a one month appointment and got shots so I was already confused before everybody here said they still had one. I do have a different doctor now so i guess they just do everything different.

[woodenshoes]

Weeks pregnant or How old is your LO: 5 weeks

Baby is the size of a: I think he is about 10.5 pounds. He doesn’t get weighed again on a baby scale until May 3.

Appointments: Monday I have my pp OB appointment.

Symptoms: sleep deprivation

Milestones: nothing big, but I think we are getting close to smiling. Also he had a four stretch of sleep last night.

Rants/Raves/Vents: DH didn’t leave for work until an hour and a half later than usual since he had a conference to go to. He didn’t tell me this and should’ve helped with 1 of the MOTN feeds. He still would’ve got more than enough sleep. A positive is that L is getting better at sleeping in other places than our arms.

GTKY: do you have any tattoos? If so, what? I have a cross tattoo on my foot.

[mintyblueair]

Weeks pregnant or How old is your LO: 1 week today

Baby is the size of a: I'm not sure. She was 9lb 2oz at birth and 8lb 12oz when we left the hospital last Friday.

Appointments: she'll have her first check-up tomorrow!

Symptoms:

Milestones:

Rants/Raves/Vents: Naomi has been a very content baby so far, but she takes a lot longer to fall into a deep sleep than I remember my son taking. I feel like I'm rocking her forever and then I have to be soooo careful transferring her to the bassinet. Thank God my mom can come over every day to play with DS or take a turn putting N to sleep. I really don't know how I would manage without her help!

GTKY: do you have any tattoos? If so, what?

None, and no plans for one.

[nuggetrn]

Apr 11, 2018 14:33:11 GMT -6 sunshinedaisies said:

Apr 11, 2018 12:22:05 GMT -6 cp3 said:

sunshinedaisies we don't have an appointment until two months either. I thought it was odd and checked and we had a one month appt for DD1. It's the same doctor so I'm not sure when things changed.

At least it’s not just me! DS1 had a one month appointment and got shots so I was already confused before everybody here said they still had one. I do have a different doctor now so i guess they just do everything different.

I did not have a one month appt either!

[cooperation]

Weeks pregnant or How old is your LO: 37w6d

Baby is the size of a: not sure, but this kid feels like she’s fully grown!

Appointments: Monday for BPP and midwife

Symptoms: Sane old, same old

Milestones: is this full term? Near term? 15 days til my due date, regardless

Rants/Raves/Vents: is this where I list all the things I still need to do in order to be ready??? We still haven’t even discussed names beyond sharing our top choice.... guess what? they didn’t match. 😬

GTKY: do you have any tattoos? If so, what? I am not a needle person, so no.

Here’s my first-ever bump pic post. Apparently I’m all boobs and belly!

[Rama]

How old is your LO: 4 weeks on Friday

Baby is the size of a: I'm gonna guess 8.5lbs?

Appointments: I have one in two weeks with OB, guess we'll make the two month appt for Lyra then, too.

Milestones: I think she's starting her first leap a little early. She's been nigh inconsolable unless held or having a boob shoved in her face. I can't wait to see real smiles instead of the practice ones!

Rants/Raves/Vents: Just oof on the lack of sleep at night and double oof on how much my boobs are in demand today.

GTKY: do you have any tattoos? Nope, but I've considered it. Haven't decided on anything I want permanently on my skin yet.


Y'all get a nursing pic today because this is my life.

[mattsgirl2004]

Weeks pregnant or How old is your LO: 1 week today

Baby is the size of a: Around 8 pounds

Appointments: Weight check on Monday

Symptoms:

Milestones: He sleeps a lot and is pretty mellow

Rants/Raves/Vents: I'm pretty content and overall happy right now. Enjoying my family time.

GTKY: do you have any tattoos? If so, what?
Yep. I have a flower design on the top of my foot and a heart design between my shoulder blades on my back. I plan on getting a memorial tat this summer to remember our 7 angels.

[leatherpants]

ArielMermaid I’m so happy and not at all jealous that your Reno is done!!

[leatherpants]

Also shit I have lost all track of time. I didn’t realize it was Weds!

[leatherpants]

Bonus points for bump pics😊 EXTRA BONUS POINTS FOR BABY PICTURES!!!!

Weeks pregnant or How old is your LO: 5 week’s? I’ve already started to lose track. 😬 ETA: whatsit says 5 weeks, it’s 5 weeks!

Baby is the size of a: I’m guessing we are getting close to 8lbs

Appointments: next week is the Pedi appt and I am so excited

Symptoms: more reflux. More gas. More screaming

Milestones: he’s wearing a 0-3 onesie today and not a nb one.

Rants/Raves/Vents: just the reg. Reflux. Gas. No sleep.

GTKY: do you have any tattoos? If so, what? I have three. One on my ankle from my youth, a wave on my wrist (my favourite) and DS1’s name on my foot. Which means I’ll have to get B’s name somewhere.

I posted this in the drinking thread last night but my baby is getting some chub

[leatherpants]

tinyjoys, I love that you all got something for your grandpa. That’s beautiful.