Weekly Check In 1/16

[bonzo]

Week/EDD:

Baby is the size of:

FTM, Etc:

Team:

Appointments:

Milestones:

Symptoms:

Rants:

Raves:

[bonzo]

Week/EDD: 19w6d, due 6/6/19

Baby is the size of: mango

FTM, Etc: FTM

Team: blue 💙

Appointments: anatomy scan on Monday!

Milestones: halfway there tomorrow!

Symptoms: tired, lower back pain, gas, heartburn

Rants: I’m feeling my usual beginning of the semester anxiety, but I know that will go away once I get everything done for the first week of class next week. I have two new classes this semester, and since I adjunct at two different schools, naturally they use different systems for accessing course info online. So not only do I have to do normal professor prep, I need to learn a new online system. Ugh. No time for naps this week, so I ended up passing out at 8:30 last night!

Raves: we got the nursery fully painted over the weekend! My parents came out to help, and it looks great! Now we can start getting furniture and decorating!

[mamabear02]

Week/EDD: 17w 6d / June 20th

Baby is the size of: pomegranate

FTM, Etc: stm

Team: find out Jan 29th

Appointments: Jan 29th is our AS

Milestones: Feeling baby move more.

Symptoms: Emotional is currently all thank goodness!

Rants: I’m still stressed about where we will be living. After deciding to stay where we are, our landlord is now considering selling the house. Our lease is up Feb 28th, so we’re cutting it all close. I also have a cold that keeps holding on and in the last week my whole family has had a stomach bug—currently it is H who is trying to work while dealing with it and I feel so bad for him. At least when I had it we were at my in-laws and I could really just rest.

Raves: I have energy again and I have been really enjoying DS again (3 has been tough ya’ll).

[bearfootzcontinued]

Week/EDD: 16 weeks (tomorrow)

Baby is the size of: orange

FTM, Etc: TTM, 9 yo twins

Team: Green

Appointments: OB check on Friday

Milestones: I think I'm feeling movement - but I'm still not 100% sure

Symptoms: random nausea and sensitive to smells; mood swings, intestinal issues, cramping, and what I'm thinking is round ligament pain

Rants: I had some blood in the urine again on Friday and have had cramping off and on - though to be honest I can't always tell if it's cramps, intestinal issues or round ligament pains. I was told that if pain gets worse to go to ER, otherwise drink lots of water, no caffeine, and remain on pelvic rest. I am disappointed that I couldn't move up Friday's OB appointment just for peace of mind.

Raves: As I said before, I think that I'm feeling movement, but am not 100% sure.
In other news - I had mentioned earlier this month that my sister was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She found out this week that it's a small neuroendocrine tumor that while malignant is not as aggressive and is slow growing. She shouldn't need chemo/radiation and for now they are going to monitor the tumor every three months. While she'll likely eventually need part of her pancreas/spleen removed, she's lucky that it was found this early and the prognosis is good.

[bearfootzcontinued]

mamabear02, I'm sorry you have the stress of moving on top of everything else.

And yes, 3 is tough...to put it nicely

[bonzo]

bearfootzcontinued, I’m glad your sister got good news!

[midnight]

Week/EDD: 20w1d, June 4th

Baby is the size of: an endive?

FTM, Etc: TTM

Team: Blue!

Appointments: in the waiting room for my AS right now!!

Milestones: 20 weeks, baby!!

Symptoms: tired, tired, tired

Rants: not much, loads of people at work are pissing me off with their attitude. Of course I dont know how much is them and how much is hormones lol.

Raves:excited to be at the halfway point, feeling a lot more movement!

[sunny75]

Week/Edd: 24 weeks tomorrow! Edd may 9

Baby is the size of: a bunch of grapes

STM

Team: green

Appointments: first appointment with MFM on Monday

Milestones: viability tomorrow

Symptoms: Feeling like death after my work shifts but other than that I feel ok

Rants: Time is just crawling by until my MFM appointment. I'm so nervous and hoping my placenta has moved. It took us so long to get pregnant and I just want to enjoy the rest of the pregnancy. However I'm very glad that either way any complications shouldn't really cause any problems for the baby!

Raves: I've been doing so much organizing and cleaning and I'm beginning to feel ready to start preparing for this new baby. I've recently started folding clothes using the Kon Mari method and I've been amazed how much more room I have in my dressers. I should be able to fit all DDs clothes and the new baby's in the same dresser which is a relief. We definitely don't have room for another dresser!

[sunny75]

bearfootzcontinued, I'm glad your sister got good news!

mamabear02, I hope you figure out where you'll be living soon. And have time to move in before you're getting close to when the baby gets here!

[quinstar]

bearfootzcontinued , That's such good news for your sister! I hope this week goes quickly for you, so you can get some peace of mind from your appointment.

mamabear02 , I hope the living situation settles for you soon! Such a roller coaster.

sunny75 , I hate waiting for appointments, it's so hard. I hope it goes quickly for you, and everything goes well!

[quinstar]

Week/EDD: 21w 3d

Baby is the size of:

FTM, Etc: STM, DS1 is 2 in March

Team: Blue

Appointments: The 24th I think, with the MFM to check on the heart again, just to make sure everything is clear.

Milestones: I get to see kicks now, he does not like to be squished. He gets very squiggly if I have to squat, or bend for some reason. I'm also trying to remember to take bump pictures too.

Symptoms: Starting to feel large.

Rants: Just chasing a toddler

Raves: It's been more exciting the second time around, in a way. With DS1, I didn't have that 'love my baby even in the womb' feeling, I didn't really know what we were in for, what it would be like having my own child. This time, I love him, I'm excited to meet him, and watch him grow into a little personality.

[mamabear02]

quinstar, I have been the opposite this time around- I don’t feel as excited or “bonded” I guess partially bc I haven’t had as much time to really awe at what is happening like I did with ds and also bc I know how hard parenting is now and I’m a little scared. I feel like I just “found” myself again after 2.5-3yrs with DS and now we’re doing it again. Hopefully I’ve learned how be a parent now and this won’t be as hard as I’m fearing but I’m also nervous about not having as much time or energy to devote to DS.

[quinstar]

Jan 16, 2019 17:44:31 GMT -6 mamabear02 said:

quinstar , I have been the opposite this time around- I don’t feel as excited or “bonded” I guess partially bc I haven’t had as much time to really awe at what is happening like I did with ds and also bc I know how hard parenting is now and I’m a little scared. I feel like I just “found” myself again after 2.5-3yrs with DS and now we’re doing it again. Hopefully I’ve learned how be a parent now and this won’t be as hard as I’m fearing but I’m also nervous about not having as much time or energy to devote to DS.

That makes a lot of sense, I totally understand how the first time you don't know what it'll be like, you just sort of assume you will figure it out. Knowing what is in store is different, you know it's really hard. I'm pretty nervous about a lot of the same things, but now it's like I know how hard it'll be, but I also know how wonderful it'll be. Now with two, it is a whole new world of difficulties, but I'm sure a bunch of new wonderfulness. But that's something I don't know yet, so I'm just enjoying knowing all the good stuff I didn't know with DS1 in advance.

But, I'm a procrastinator worrier. I don't seem to get worried until right before it happens, lol. And then I panic big time. 

[mamabear02]

@starzia, I feel you on this pregnancy being harder than my first. I don’t remember all these pains and random annoyances from my first... although H insists they were there. I thought it might actually be easier because I started 20lbs lighter than I was with my first.

Also, I’m sick of sleeping on my side too.

[bonzo]

@starzia, I keep waking up on my back too. At least with the pregnancy pillow, I’m not ever flat on my back. It’s been hard to adjust, since I’m normally a stomach sleeper, but that got super uncomfortable really quickly!

[quinstar]

Ugh, the sleeping on your side... With my pregnancy pillow I don't end up on my back at all, but I also don't move all night but maybe twice. The pain from sleeping in the same spot for so long wakes me up, like I'm getting a hot spot on my hip. I don't remember it being that bad last time.

[courtniko]

Week/EDD: 24 today! 5/10

Baby is the size of: eggplant

FTM, Etc: TTM, 2yo DS, 4yo DD

Team: green

Appointments: had my glucose test yesterday, waiting on results, fingers crossed for no GD

Milestones: baby is viable!

Symptoms: tired, out of breath easily, some heartburn

Rants: I have a cold, and am still furloughed

Raves: I love feeling baby move so much!
DH took the day off work (though he will work the weekend to make up for it) and took the kids to the zoo so i can relax and work on getting over this cold.