PgAL check-in July 24

[muscari]

How far along are you? EDD?

How are you feeling physically and emotionally?

Any upcoming appointments or milestones?

Any other word vomit to share?

[muscari]

How far along are you? EDD?
36w4d / August 17

How are you feeling physically and emotionally?
Physically bone tired, somewhat large (both cause of the evergrowing bump as fluid retention in my feet and hands) and baby keeps pushing on my stomach and blatter. But I have to admit I'm really loving feeling (and seeing) her movements, and I know I'm gonne miss that so badly once she's an outside baby. Good thing it'll be replaced by real life cuddles then!
Emotionally I'm a mess. With my mum being admitted to the hospital due to heart issues during her last days on vacation in Switzerland, I've just been really worried and stressed and it's a smidge to much after all I've had to deal with those past couple of months myself already I guess - especially with all those hormones raging. So I had a lot of apperent random breakdowns this weekend with lots of crying. The one thing I'm currently not too worried about is our babygirl - as she keeps reminding me she's there often:) and I think the weekly appointments also help easing my anxiety.

Any upcoming appointments or milestones?
MFM appointment tomorrow morning. MH's work F-ed up his schedule so he can't come with which sucks cause we were supposed to finalize our birthplan and discuss some other important bits. So instead mum was supposed to come with me but now that she's in the hospital herself that ain't happening obviously (and the rest of my family is also in Switzerland still). I ended up asking my aunt (who I'm really close with) to come with me, cause a) I can't drive myself yet, stupid ankle and b) I'm just a ditz and don't like doing these kind of appointments on my own. Guess in the background I'm always worried for bad news or something unexpected and I don't like having to deal with such on my own then I guess.


Any other word vomit to share?
I'm thoroughly overwhelmed and feeling all the stress and anxiety over the nursery and getting the house in order for baby again. I kept thinking these past couple weeks "it'll come together" but everytime we plan on doing something something else (work, family stuff, baby worries, my health, heatwaves) comes up and delays things. So we're still far from finishing the nursery. Which in itself isn't the worst, but the rest of the house is a mess too.. a true proper pigsty mess and I just can't see through it and how on earth it's going to be tidy before baby arrives. I will hire a professional cleaner in a week or 2 to clean (as I just can't do it myself no more, and MH has to work 12day shifts just prior to my duedate, and I can't ask anyone else to help either) but before that things need to be more or less tidy! I'm tempted to just have someone drag ALL I don't want in my view up 2 flights of stairs and dump it in the attic...... MH keeps telling me when he has a day off "tomorrow I'll do such n so" but then the day comes and he'll sleep in till like 11am, takes 3 hours to wake up and relax, and for some reason hardly anything gets done. It's starting to grate on me!

[sarahh]

How far along are you? EDD? 17 weeks tomorrow January 2

How are you feeling physically and emotionally? Emotionally - I had a breakdown last night. Between our AC being out for the good part of a month now and DD not listening, I had enough and went into the bedroom and cried. It actually felt good to get it out and to realize that I really need to take a little time to myself. All of my time outside of work I spend with DD so I really don't do anything myself. Physically - not too bad. My ankles are swelling but I think it's because it's been 100 here recently.

Any upcoming appointments or milestones? Had an OB appointment last week and the spina bifida blood draw which came back normal. Anatomy scan on 8/8

Any other word vomit to share? I think I covered it above

[ldubhawksfan]

How far along are you? EDD? 19 weeks, 2 days

How are you feeling physically and emotionally? Doing ok. Just impatiently waiting for NIPT results now that it's been 7 business days

:::eta::: I just got the call and the NIPT came back normal!!!



Any upcoming appointments or milestones? AS on 8/2

Any other word vomit to share? Not really. We really haven't told many people. Mil asked yesterday if we had told the people we are going to their baby shower this weekend because she told them and I said no, dh hasn't even told his 3 best friends yet. It just feels different this time.

[flippinchica]

Jul 24, 2017 11:30:45 GMT -6 ldubhawksfan said:

How far along are you? EDD? 19 weeks, 2 days

How are you feeling physically and emotionally? Doing ok. Just impatiently waiting for NIPT results now that it's been 7 business days

:::eta::: I just got the call and the NIPT came back normal!!!



Any upcoming appointments or milestones? AS on 8/2

Any other word vomit to share? Not really. We really haven't told many people. Mil asked yesterday if we had told the people we are going to their baby shower this weekend because she told them and I said no, dh hasn't even told his 3 best friends yet. It just feels different this time.

Yay for normal!!! I'm thrilled for you!

[snowyowl]

How far along are you? EDD?
10+4, February 15th

How are you feeling physically and emotionally?
Physically I'm nauseated and exhausted and very tired of both.
Emotionally I'm feeling pretty confident and content after hearing a good heartbeat recently, which in turn makes me feel like I'm going to jinx it (which I know is silly).
I'm glad I have my own doppler, since last time it helped keep me calm between appointments.

Any upcoming appointments or milestones?
My NT scan is next Monday. I can't believe it is nearly time for that already. Some days it feels like time is crawling, other days like this is flying by. I prefer the latter.

Any other word vomit to share?
I still feel like a sucky mom to my one year old. I'm struggling so much to give him the attention I should be. My brain can't focus and I'm disfunctionally tired in the mornings.

[snowyowl]

ldubhawksfan That is great, so glad it was a false positive!

sarahh I've been asking for a lot of help lately. It is hard to feel like I'm imposing on my family and I know DH works hard too, but right now I'm putting my pride aside to feel functional. I hope you are able to get some alone time!

muscari I'm so sorry to hear about your mom. You hardly need any extra stress right now. I hope she is out of the hospital and feeling better as soon as possible. Good luck at your appointment, that baby will be here so soon! Exciting!

[nevertoomanyshoes]

How far along are you? 5 weeks 4 days

EDD? March 23rd

How are you feeling physically and emotionally? I'm ok. Spotting seems to have stopped for now. I get the odd bit of nausea. Gas and serious bloat though, by the evening I look 5 months pregnant not 5 weeks. None of my work pants fit properly (can't do them up). Emotionally I'm just riding the roller coaster.

Any upcoming appointments or milestones? Dating scan in two weeks.

Any other word vomit to share? Nope!

[addymac]

ldubhawksfan YAYYYY FOR GOOS RESULTS!!


AFM...

How far along are you? EDD? 36+3... holy cow! 8/19

How are you feeling physically and emotionally? P- meh. Hip and low back pain are really taking a toll. As is the swelling- it genuinely hurts! 🙁 My sleep is erratic, sometimes I will sleep for several hours and other times I'm just a mess.

E- okay this week, actually. I don't think I had many what if thoughts, and I'm just excited to meet him soon. And then I get really scared I'm going to be a shitty mom with low patience and hell cry all the time and then everyone will just cry.

Any upcoming appointments or milestones? Weekly appt Thursday. U/s was last week, so no more 😭

Any other word vomit to share? I'm kind of tired of people being like WOW! Ready to pop! Or asking if we've picked a name yet. NOO!!! I am so sad that whatever name we pick will be one we like but not we are like YES! THIS IS HIS NAME! I also spent half my shift hearing my coworker tell stories of her five labor and deliveries and I'm fully terrified now. I guess I'm mostly starting to get scared of labor. 😳

[Waffle]

How far along are you? EDD? 18w2d/23 December

How are you feeling physically and emotionally? Physically fine, less tired (I can stay up until 11 now!). I think I might be feeling some movement here and there, but I'm not sure. Emotionally ok I guess. I'm still not engaging with it all. H has been talking to the bump and is generally wonderful and adorable but I just don't dare yet. We said something about "when she comes" the other day and it made me all shaky. Like I'll jinx it all. Maybe once I'm sure I feel movement? Or after the second trimester scan?

Any upcoming appointments or milestones? Second trimester scan booked for 22/08. Next appointment is a week before that.

Any other word vomit to share? See above...

[officedronette]

How far along are you? EDD? 20w 5d

How are you feeling physically and emotionally? Feeling mostly good physically, some random lower back pain yesterday that made me feel like I was suddenly 35 weeks, but hopefully that was a fluke and chills out. Emotionally doing pretty well post A/S, though I had a major scare this weekend. I'm flying next Sun to CA for work, and I had reached out to my OB for reassurance/confirmation that it was safe, because I flew to CA right before my MMC was diagnosed, so I've always wondered if it had a role to play in it given all my other issues. She called and was like, if it's for work, I would try to get out of it. Except, I can't get out of it, I'm the only one in the case that can defend these depositions. I called the MFM and the doctor said it was totally fine, nothing is without risk, but my risk of anything happening is lower than a regular pregnant person since I'm anticoagulated up the wazoo. Nurse also said any risk from flight would be to me, vs. to baby, so I feel mostly better, but some lingering anxiety. Darn regular OB.

Any upcoming appointments or milestones? One on Aug 1 that I realized I'll need to reschedule because I'll be in CA.

Any other word vomit to share? I think I vomited enough re the flight issue. If anyone has any positive flight stories, I'll take them. (I have an anti-phospholipid antibody for which studies have been inconclusive as to whether or not it causes APS, so they treat me like an APS patient just in case, but that's to be conservative.) A friend with FVL flew multiple times with both pregnancies and said all was well and they were never super worried.

[flippinchica]

LC mentioned

@officerdronette I flew multiple times for work when I was pregnant with DS. My doc wasn't worried and there were no problems

[littlecabbage1019]

How far along are you? EDD? 7w4d 3/11/18

How are you feeling physically and emotionally? Constipated and bloated. Work is crazy right now so i dont have a lot of time to stress.

Any upcoming appointments or milestones? Ultrasound next Wednesday and if all goes well i will have passed my last loss milestone.

Any other word vomit to share? I'm really in a funk. Work is really stressful right now and I just feel like poo. I'm going to my friends baby shower on saturday...if i hadnt lost the last baby i would be 3 weeks behind her. We work together so im used to pushing the feels aside. But saturday may be rough.

[elliecat17]

How far along are you? EDD? 36+1, August 23

How are you feeling physically and emotionally? P - Sore. I've been getting pretty painful BH in my back and lower ute. E - excited. I want to meet baby. But also nervous, because my mind goes to all the what ifs.

Any upcoming appointments or milestones? Appointment Wednesday with Midwife.

Any other word vomit to share? Nope

[littlecabbage1019]

ldubhawksfan Yes!

[officedronette]

littlecabbage1019 - hugs. I hope the ultrasound goes well and that Saturday isn't too painful for you. I still remember all the kiddos born around when my first loss would have been born and it's been almost three years. For me though, it's gotten easier with time.


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[cali]

ldubhawksfan, so happy the results came back ok!!!