Weekly Check In Christmas Eve!

[cch]

Weeks pregnant:

Baby is the size of a:

FTM/STM/TTM/etc:

Team:

Appointments:

Symptoms:

Milestones:

Rants/Raves/Vents:

QOTW: What are your Christmas Eve/Christmas plans? What are you looking forward to most?

[cch]

Weeks pregnant: 32

Baby is the size of a: Squash... again 🤷🏼‍♀️

FTM/STM/TTM/etc: STM

Team: Girl

Appointments: Dec 27th

Symptoms: insomnia is a new one for me, lots of BH, peeing all the time

Milestones: Another week down!

Rants/Raves/Vents:

QOTW: What are your Christmas Eve/Christmas plans? What are you looking forward to most? Heading to spend time with my family now. Then coming home this evening. It’s a 2 hour drive there and back. Tomorrow we’ll wake up and do Christmas at our house then head to my ILs around 11. I’m most looking forward to seeing DD open all of her gifts! She’s 3.5 and I think she’s really going to have fun opening this year. My family also has all the grandkids sing a song before opening gifts (we’ve done this for 15+ years now) so I’m excited to hear DD sing Santa Clause is coming to town. So cute!

[sunshiney]

Weeks pregnant: 30+4

Baby is the size of a: apparently a zucchini lol. A massive, 4 lb, 16+ inch zucchini. My brother declared that baby must be the size of an award winning zucchini.

FTM/STM/TTM/etc: FTM

Team: secret

Appointments: Growth scan next week

Symptoms: Nausea, insomnia, aches and pains, sore stretching and heavy abdomen, immobility is how DH put it.

Milestones: We're in the 30s for weeks now! Crazy!

Rants/Raves/Vents: Whelp, I think we had sex for the last time this pregnancy. Ouch! My whole vulva is so swollen/veiny and irritated, even pantiliners were making my skin chafe painfully...had to stop using them and now I just feel soaked and uncomfortable from constant leukorrhea. It's really gross and frustrating and I am now so anxious to know when things will get back to normal after C section!

QOTW: What are your Christmas Eve/Christmas plans? What are you looking forward to most? Church this afternoon, that will be beautiful. Dinner with family tomorrow. We did Xmas early when my sister was home so we're not doing much now, but it's nice that DH is off for a long weekend. We'll work on the nursery, getting baby's library up!

cch That singing idea is so sweet! Have fun!

[k]

[Weeks pregnant: 36

Baby is the size of a: papaya

FTM/STM/TTM/etc: TTM

Team: green

Appointments: wed! I’m weirdly excited for my cervical check 🤪

Symptoms: reflux, fatigue

Milestones: packed the hospital bag!

Rants/Raves/Vents: I really want a large glass of wine.

QOTW: What are your Christmas Eve/Christmas plans? What are you looking forward to most?

We are on the way to my uncle’s house right now. We will be back home later tonight and do our family Christmas in the morning. Tomorrow afternoon we will celebrate with my dad’s side. And then Wednesday we are having my parents and brother over. My introverted self is tired already 😴. I’m looking forward to seeing the boys’ faces in the morning. But I’m also kind of dreading all the news toys. 😬

[thelittleredm]

Weeks pregnant: 31+4

Baby is the size of a: Small-clawed otter

FTM/STM/TTM/etc: TTM

Team: Pink

Appointments: Friday

Symptoms: So achy and heavy this weekend. I think last week I mentioned that I felt about where I felt with DS1 at this point and that's a lie. I feel like I've rapidly gone downhill in the feel good department and I'm tracking like I did with DS2. BH suck more every day, as does the SPD. But as long as I sleep with my Snoogle curled up like a donut, at least it doesn't hurt too much when rolling over or out of bed.

Milestones: nada

Rants/Raves/Vents: Hm. I don't really have any today, actually.

QOTW: What are your Christmas Eve/Christmas plans? What are you looking forward to most?
We relaxed this morning and had my family over for an afternoon of over eating and gifts. We opened our family presents when everyone left and played DS1's new game and are currently waiting for my parents to pick us up to go look at Christmas lights. Tomorrow, we'll go to my ILs for breakfast and gifts and then come home for a nap before going back for the extended family dinner.
I just love watching my kids open gifts, really.

[strawberrykiki]

Weeks pregnant: 33w6d

Baby is the size of a: celery bunch apparently

FTM/STM/TTM/etc: FTM

Team: blue

Appointments: tomorrow for my 34 week

Symptoms: heartburn, lots of peeing, generally feeling big and uncomfortable, short of breath easily

Milestones: nothing really

Rants/Raves/Vents: having GD sucks. I have an appointment tomorrow and all my morning numbers are going over so I’m worried I’ll be put on medicine which means tons more monitoring and interventions

QOTW: What are your Christmas Eve/Christmas plans? What are you looking forward to most?
We won’t live near family so just MH and the 3 pups and me. We saw Mary Poppins last night for Christmas Eve and today we are relaxing together. Hopefully taking a nap!

[Foxy]

Weeks pregnant: 38+3

Baby is the size of a: pomeranian

FTM/STM/TTM/etc: FTM

Team: blue

Appointments: tomorrow afternoon

Symptoms: peeing all the time, barely can roll my ass out of bed to get up to pee in the middle of the night. I feel like a turtle on my back trying to get off the couch. All those 100 years pregnant symptoms.

Milestones: made it past Christmas, which I consider a personal milestone. I should knock on wood but I think we've made it.

Rants/Raves/Vents: just enjoying Christmas 😊

QOTW: What are your Christmas Eve/Christmas plans? What are you looking forward to most?
I went to my dad's last night for a big Italian dinner and today we had brunch at my mom's. Some people went to a movie and then were having Chinese food. I just didn't want to go this year with needing a bathroom so frequently. The tradition started 7 or 8 years ago with just my mom, step dad, step sister and I. Everyone would leave and it would be the 4 of us. It's now become a tradition which I love, with anyone that can make it.

[dashook]

Weeks pregnant: 35+6

Baby is the size of a: pineapple/rabbit/bunch of carrots

FTM/STM/TTM/etc: TTM

Team: green

Appointments: NST and OB visit on Monday. I got to skip my appointment this week because my BP has been holding steady!

Symptoms: ugh. BH contractions, large painful baby movements, lower back pain, hip pain (by the end of the day I’m hobbling for several steps every time I get up from a seated position), nesting, crappy sleep, heartburn all. the. time. I’m so sick of the taste of Tums!

Milestones: I think I’m done with freezer cooking—didn’t do a *ton* but definitely have a good selection, and after tonight I officially will be done setting up the nursery! I did a ton of laundry today, including playmats, etc. and organized the drawers. If this baby came tomorrow we’d be ready!

Rants/Raves/Vents: I am excited that my BP is good and secretly hoping it holds out til 40 weeks. This is mainly spiteful of me because my mom and FIL are annoying me with their attitudes toward when I will deliver. FIL is betting me money that my doctor will induce me (like, next week) and my mom has scheduled a Florida vacation for her and my dad the week I’m due.

I wouldn’t even care that much about their vacation except that earlier this year, my mom refused to come up to help me out of a tough childcare spot because I needed her 6 days before my brother’s kid was due and she was afraid to miss the birth (baby didn’t show up for another week and a half, btw). I know this is my third kid but still, with all the health issues I have had, I am salty over her not giving a shit about being here for us when baby arrives.

QOTW: What are your Christmas Eve/Christmas plans? What are you looking forward to most?
We had a wonderful Christmas despite a mild stomach bug passing through the house. The kids are at such an adorable age for Christmas. My favorite part was DS coming downstairs Christmas morning, seeing the tree, and yelling, “Santa DID came!!” 💙

[dashook]

So I’ve been really itchy the past couple days, mostly on my bellu but yesterday it was the bottoms of my feet too. It’s better today but I still put a call in to the nurse’s line just in case they want to check for cholestasis. That really would be the cherry on top of this effed up pregnancy, wouldn’t it?

[thelittleredm]

dashook, Oh, I'd be livid if my mom did that sort of scheduling if I was in your shoes. Also, FX it's just normal dry skin and nothing worse! My ankles and tops of my feet have been getting awful dry spots and are so itchy by bedtime.