Weekly Check-in - Week of 8/7

[hedwig]

How far along are you? 13w 6d

Size: Lemon

Upcoming Appointments: next midwife appointment is 9/5. I'll get to schedule my AS after this appointment!

Symptoms/concerns/milestones: peeing in the middle of the night, more bump than blump, I sometimes think I feel movement, but then I think it's too early.

GTKY: SAHMs - do you plan to have any help right after baby is born? I'm sure my mom will come to help with baby and DS. H will probably take about a week. He's a workaholic, so I can't see him taking more than that.

[clm585]

How far along are you? 16w2d

Size: avocado 🥑 (convenient since I've been craving Mexican food like nobody's business)

Upcoming Appointments: this coming Monday, will get to schedule my anatomy scan then!

Symptoms/concerns/milestones: Nada. Feeling great, thank goodness! Hopefully this will be the world's most boring pregnancy 😉

GTKY: Working moms - how much maternity leave do you plan to take? 8 weeks (6 mat leave, 2 weeks of vacation added on)... I'm hoping it'll be easier to go back to work with number two bc I was an absolute mess with DS. Lots and lots of tears, hard time focusing, etc.

[sarahh]

@cml585 I am hoping the same thing with #2. Going back to work the first time was really hard on me.

[hiimjamie]

How far along are you? 17 +2

Size: pomegranate or chipmunk 😂

Upcoming Appointments: had one Tuesday, Anatomy scan is the 31st!

Symptoms/concerns/milestones: nothing really some RLP, gagging when I brush my teeth, last night when I took off my BellaBand my belly felt like to weighed a million pounds.

GTKY: Working moms - how much maternity leave do you plan to take? SAHMs - do you plan to have any help right after baby is born? I'll get 8 weeks with the c section and another 2 of parental leave. Last time I took the parental leave when DS was around 4 months old. It was amazing to have time w him but also insane to do at that point. I could have used more time at the beginning and I still had to pay for daycare when when I was home with DS at this point. So I'll take the full 10 weeks all at once and maybe a few more of PTO.

[sunfrogger]

Aug 11, 2017 4:53:45 GMT -6 sarahh said:

@cml585 I am hoping the same thing with #2. Going back to work the first time was really hard on me.

I will +1 this. It was awful. The worst.

[easternshoregirl]

Aug 11, 2017 16:45:59 GMT -6 sunfrogger said:

Aug 11, 2017 4:53:45 GMT -6 sarahh said:

@cml585 I am hoping the same thing with #2. Going back to work the first time was really hard on me.

I will +1 this. It was awful. The worst.

Um, my principal coined a new term with my name bc I cried so much when I first got back. About 2 months after me a colleague came back from maternity leave and cried a lot too and the principal said she was "doing a H-----" (H------) being my last name.
He also sent me home early my first day back it was so bad.
This was all done in caring though he is a very nice guy and great to work for. He knows he can tease a little and not make us upset.