Weekly Check In 1/14

[cch]

Weeks pregnant/How old is baby:

Baby is the size of a:

FTM/STM/TTM/etc:

Team:

Appointments:

Symptoms:

Milestones:

Rants/Raves/Vents:

QOTW: What’s your favorite alcoholic beverage?

[cch]

Weeks pregnant: 35 weeks

Baby is the size of a: Pineapple! 🍍

FTM/STM/TTM/etc: STM

Team: Pink

Appointments: Had one this morning and am measuring 3 weeks ahead. 1cm dilated, 50% effaced, -2 station. Growth U/S Friday

Symptoms: Pelvic pressure, Heartburn (though not as bad as it was), lots of BH

Milestones: Installed the carseat yesterday and the diaper bag is packed!

Rants/raves/vents:

QOTW: What’s your favorite alcoholic beverage? Probably a margarita or dirty martini. Mmm can’t wait! 🍸

[dashook]

Weeks pregnant/How old is baby: little guy is 6 days old

FTM/STM/TTM/etc: TTM

Team: green turned blue 😄💙

Appointments: the older two have physicals on Thursday so baby will get a weight check then. I swear I can see him growing so I’m hoping he will have regained his birth weight and I can stop waking him to eat.

Milestones: umbilical stump fell off today 😱 seems fast to me!

Rants/Raves/Vents: we started a pacifier with him last night because without it all he wanted to do was cluster feed all night long. I’m still exhausted from frequently waking to put the stupid thing back in his mouth, but at least I got *some* sleep.

QOTW: What’s your favorite alcoholic beverage? I’m a beer drinker—IPAs are my favorite (not great for my waistline lol)

[k]

Weeks pregnant: 39

Baby is the size of a: pumpkin

FTM/STM/TTM/etc: TTM

Team: green

Appointments: friday...so far away

Symptoms: reflux-forgot to take Zantac sat night and i was miserable! Never again. BH all night long and insomnia.

Milestones: all. set

Rants/Raves/Vents: I’ve pretty much given up hope on going into labor naturally. I’m a little worried about going past my due date but I hope i can schedule an induction with a good OB if needed.

QOTW: What’s your favorite alcoholic beverage?
Wine is my drink of choice but I also like margs cch and IPAs dashook!

[dashook]

k you are soooo close!!

[thelittleredm]

Weeks pregnant/How old is baby: 34+4

Baby is the size of a: Quokka... look it up. So cute lol

FTM/STM/TTM/etc: TTM

Team: Pink

Appointments: Check up next Friday

Symptoms: BH, Insomnia, RLS, SPD. Major exhaustion that's competing with my new found nesting urges.

Milestones: Thursday marks the start of the one-handed weekly countdown!

Rants/Raves/Vents: Eh. I'm mostly tired of being tired. Time with one of my besties this weekend was a definitely improved my mood so I look forward to her visit after A arrives.

QOTW: What’s your favorite alcoholic beverage?
Hm. That's harder than I thought it would be to answer. A good margarita is always desired. Wine. Really, anything lol

[wildflowers]

Weeks pregnant/How old is baby: 36w 3d

Baby is the size of a: Celery? That doesn't seem very big!

FTM/STM/TTM/etc: TTM

Team: Blue

Appointments: Wednesday

Symptoms: No appetite. Seriously awful rib pain. Difficulty sleeping despite ridiculous fatigue. Horrible rib pain on one side. His foot is up under my ribcage and causing me so much pain.

Milestones: Growth scan last week showed baby is good to go!

Rants/Raves/Vents: I am trying so hard to be patient and I know I potentially have weeks to go, but I am so over this. I don't want to wish him too early, but I am so ready for my baby to be here.

QOTW: What’s your favorite alcoholic beverage? Red wine! I cannot wait!!!

[hrh]

Weeks pregnant/How old is baby: 34+2

Baby is the size of a: Looks like I could go with pineapple three weeks in a row, or cantaloupe, or honeydew. I can join thelittleredm with the quokka, it is cute!

FTM/STM/TTM/etc: TTM

Team: Pink

Appointments: Thursday, NST/US/OB

Symptoms: Slow and sore, some insomnia. I pushed it too hard yesterday trying to do stuff and am paying for it, horrible Charley horses when I wake up in the morning.

Milestones: Nothing major

Rants/Raves/Vents: I just cannot get ahead. Nothing baby got done this weekend by me, I'm still behind on regular laundry and only just managed to get Christmas put away. Sending the boys to my folks this weekend so hope I have enough stamina to be super productive! Also indecisive on decor stuff and need to just make some decisions and get things ordered. I feel like I'm flying by the seat of my pants and that's NOT how I do things.

QOTW: What’s your favorite alcoholic beverage? I'm pretty girly when it comes to drinking. Strawberry margaritas, malbec, white russian.

[tngrl3]

Weeks pregnant/How old is baby:35w tomorrow

Baby is the size of a: I can't keep up

FTM/STM/TTM/etc: TTM

Team: Girl

Appointments: Tomorrow and Friday. I've had a million at this point and am way over it.

Symptoms: Feet in my ribs. Tired. Slow. Everything hurts.

Milestones: Made it another week.

Rants/Raves/Vents: Stomach bug this weekend really took a toll on me. I'm still not 100% and have no appetite. I had so much I wanted to get done and none of it happened. Baby girl will be here in 3w or less and I'm stressing big time!!!!

QOTW: What’s your favorite alcoholic beverage? Sangria. Give me all the Sangria. There is a small local place near my house that makes their own and it is amazing.

[wildflowers]

tngrl3, I love sangria. That sounds amazing!

I totally hear you on the feet in the ribs problem. Miserable!

[strawberrykiki]

Weeks pregnant/How old is baby: 36 and 5

Baby is the size of a: big 🤷‍♀️

FTM/STM/TTM/etc: FTM

Team: blue

Appointments: NST today another one Thursday. Baby looked great today and they’re going to call me to set up my induction sometime in the 39th week! Eek!

Symptoms: I can’t sleep it’s awful. I can’t stand up for more than a few minutes without being exhausted and out of breath

Milestones: the end is in sight!!

Rants/Raves/Vents: my work had a surprise baby shower for me today which was really sweet! My throat is feeling sore though and I’m really hoping I don’t get sick

QOTW: What’s your favorite alcoholic beverage?
All the wine!! I can’t wait!!

[sunshiney]

Weeks pregnant/How old is baby: 33+5

Baby is the size of a: bunch of celery

FTM/STM/TTM/etc: FTM

Team: secret

Appointments: OB Monday (we weren't scheduled for a month, but at last appt she added this 2-weeker, so I guess I'm on a normal schedule now like other moms?)

Symptoms: Oh, the SPD pain! It has taken over my life. I have to lay around on one side or the other most of the day. Baby feels HUGE...skin feels painfully stretched, belly button feels bruised, ribs are in a medieval torture device. Weight jumped up fast over the holidays but it's stable now for the last week or two. Baby hiccups straight down my vagina was a freaky sensation earlier this week lol!

Milestones: Everything ready for baby except laundry, life insurance, and CPR class (scheduled).

Rants/Raves/Vents:In a tearful (for me) exchange, DH admitted that he now (like, as of the last week or two now that I'm in a lot of pain again and hard to move around) sees me with motherly beauty that he feels protective of, but not as sexy/hot/attractive...it was like a punch in the gut to hear but I am trying to see the positive of it, and he assures me it is just a phase!! He's afraid of hurting baby now if we have actual sex, I guess I'm glad he held off this long to start feeling that way but it's feeling like a long haul from now to C-section recovery....

QOTW: What’s your favorite alcoholic beverage? Oh, cch, such a cruel question!! I'm going with white wine. Or any kind of yummy, tart cocktail. Or the bottle New Jersey peach wine waiting for me, from my sister's now-ex-bf. Totally turned my nose up at it until I tried it the first time with brunch. Heaven.

[notagoddess]

Weeks pregnant/How old is baby: 34w3d

Baby is the size of a: Cantaloupe? 

FTM/STM/TTM/etc: STM

Team: Pink

Appointments: OB belly check on Thursday

Symptoms: Tired, heartburn, peeing all the time, swollen, pain at night

Milestones: I finally made progress on getting ready for this baby!

Rants/Raves/Vents: I am so checked out at work. I can't get myself to do more than the bare minimum. 

QOTW: What’s your favorite alcoholic beverage? I like many different ones but lately I've been craving a delicious red blend wine. Sigh.

[notagoddess]

sunshiney, it's so hard but it passes. It's a phase of life. Hopefully the c-section will make your recovery shorter than a vaginal birth, too. I was so upset at the many months it took to get back to having normal, non-painful sex, but eventually things went back to normal. And now the only sex I'll be having is get-this-baby-out sex. I am too uncomfortable for regular sex, and with the baby moving everywhere and me being huge it's a big distraction for H.

[sunshiney]

notagoddess thank you, that is so encouraging and makes me feel normal!

[thelittleredm]

sunshiney, Hiccups are the worst in my opinion. Lol Thinking about them, I'm like "how cute!" but the constant feeling drives me crazy. As far as the sexy thing goes, it's a role reversal here. H is super turned on the bigger this belly gets and I'm more turned off by sex. Like, I swear, I find him and men in general more unattractive the closer my due date gets. Maybe it's me being resentful of the aches and pains and I'm secretly blaming him Lol I don't know. Poor guy. Last time we had sex was....a month ago, actually. I got my shit together for our anniversary weekend but basically told him that's it until I'm all recovered post baby.

[Foxy]

Weeks pregnant/How old is baby: 3 weeks today

Baby is the size of a: baby!

FTM/STM/TTM/etc: FTM

Team: blue

Appointments: we go for his 1 month appointment at the end of the month. He had his circumcision on Tuesday.

Symptoms: tired! So so tired

Milestones: Ive been getting longer stretches of sleep and I've been able to pump and get a few ozs of milk so my H is able to help.

Rants/Raves/Vents: see above I guess. I can't believe we're already at 3 weeks. Next week he'll be a month old! It seems crazy to me.

QOTW: What’s your favorite alcoholic beverage?
Anything! I love a good fancy cocktail, but I really enjoy sour beers as well. You can hand me a glass of red wine and I'd be pleased to drink that too!

[thelittleredm]

He is so cute Foxy! Can't believe it's almost been a month.

[k]

How is nursing going Foxy?

[cch]

Foxy what a super cute picture! Such a handsome little guy!

[Foxy]

Jan 19, 2019 7:17:29 GMT -6 k said:

How is nursing going Foxy?

It's actually going really well! Ive even been able to pump a little! Getting his tongue tie fixed really really helped! He's still cluster feeding but he gives us 5 hour stretches at night. 🙌

[notagoddess]

Foxy he’s perfect! Makes me want my own baby out ASAP!

[CharlieB]

Foxy Squee! He is so so adorable!

[Foxy]

You guys are so sweet! I keep checking back in for baby updates! I can't wait to see everyone's LOs!

[Foxy]

dashook how is everything going with baby boy? I'm so tired 😴

[dashook]

Jan 20, 2019 13:04:08 GMT -6 Foxy said:

dashook how is everything going with baby boy? I'm so tired 😴

Same! I’m sleeping like 5-6 hours a day, broken up into 1-1.5 hour chunks. I’m really looking forward to when he gets on more of a schedule. It’s still really early but he still is really mixing up his days and nights. Today (day 12) he has been much more awake all of a sudden though so maybe tonight is the night??

How are you guys doing? Besides tired I hope you’re feeling good physically!