PGAL Check-in October 16

[Rama]

Hello! The PGAL check in is posted on Mondays. If it is Monday and you would like to post it, please feel free.

How far along are you? EDD?

How are you feeling physically and emotionally?

Any upcoming appointments or milestones?

Any other word vomit to share?

QotW: What are you most looking forward to this holiday season?  Family, friends, food?  Traditions?

[Rama]

How far along are you? EDD? 16,3 EDD 3/30

How are you feeling physically and emotionally? Physically, I feel mostly okay? I think I got some energy back, but I also kinda messed up my back by wearing the wrong pants. Never again. Emotionally, I think I'm just kinda going haywire. One minute I'm fine, excited, happy, the next H can do no right. Poor guy, he's a saint.

Any upcoming appointments or milestones? Today! Regular OB visit. Then a/s on 11/3!

Any other word vomit to share? Nothing much. Yesterday was as emotional as you'd think. I think I cried for most of the hour I was in the Wave of Light. My H went to get food just as it started and before he left, he put his hand on my leg and told me he missed our babies, too. It was a nice moment, but definitely had big blobby tears after that.

QotW: What are you most looking forward to this holiday season? Family, friends, food? Traditions? I'm mostly looking forward to the festivities and my little brother coming home for a little while during Christmastime. I miss him a lot and at that point I'll definitely be showing, so I bet he's going to be super excited about that, too.

[sarahh]

How far along are you? EDD? 28w6d

How are you feeling physically and emotionally? Physically - I overdid it this weekend and today is the first cooler day this fall so I wore boots. Wrong decision. My feet are killing me. I'm afraid if I take off my boots I won't get them back on. Emotionally - okay - I didn't feel the baby as much a few days last week and Friday I started to freak out so they brought me in for a NST and everything was fine. I wish I could just relax and enjoy the last weeks of this pregnancy.

Any upcoming appointments or milestones? OB and Ultrasound next Tuesday. We haven't seen the baby since the AS so I'm excited to see her again. DD1 was frank breech which led to hip issues as a baby so I'm anxious to make sure that this baby is in the correct position so we don't have to go through the same thing with this one.

Any other word vomit to share? Nope!

QotW: What are you most looking forward to this holiday season? Family, friends, food? Traditions? My sister is coming for Thanksgiving and I haven't seen her in over a year so I'm excited for that. My parents are coming on Christmas because my RCS is 12/28 so I'm excited to see them but also worried that they will annoy me after a few days.

[rm2013]

How far along are you? EDD? 14w2d , 4/14

How are you feeling physically and emotionally? Tired!! Been running on empty constantly for the past 2 weeks - traveling by plane and hosting family

Any upcoming appointments or milestones?
I MADE IT TO 2nd TRI !!!!!!!

Any other word vomit to share? Waiting for that energy I was promised 😄

QotW: What are you most looking forward to this holiday season?Family, friends, food? Traditions?

I guess making new traditions!

[mattsgirl2004]

How far along are you? EDD?

15 weeks, 4-9-17

How are you feeling physically and emotionally?

Physically, I'm tired. I'm always tired though. Lol

Emotionally, yesterday was hard. I've been very anxious lately and find myself using my doppler multiple times per day.

Any upcoming appointments or milestones?

16 week appointment next week. A/S in 5 weeks.

Any other word vomit to share?

As I mentioned above, yesterday was hard. I cried a lot, which I wasn't expecting. I think partly because of the significance of the day, buy also feel like I'm still grieving losses I experienced earlier this year and the guilt I feel from being pregnant again with (hopefully) a healthy take-home baby. Just so many emotions.

QotW: What are you most looking forward to this holiday season?  Family, friends, food? 

Food. All the food.

[ldubhawksfan]

::TW LO mentioned:::


How far along are you? EDD? 31w2d 12/16

How are you feeling physically and emotionally? Physically I'm having a lot of sciatica nerve pain which I didn't have with DD. It hurts badly. Even yesterday the day after a prenatal massage. Emotionally I'm doing ok other than decisions. I have to decide on RCS vs VBAC next appt and I don't know, I'm scared to try VBAC with my rainbow. I know the risks are small but it's scary; plus the whole labor thing which I haven't experienced. This baby was breech as of last too, so I was thinking it would actually be forced to RCS.....until this am I felt hiccups on the opposite side which makes me think it might have flipped last night. If that's the case, it's 100% my decision. 😳

Any upcoming appointments or milestones? Next Tuesday. US to see position.

Any other word vomit to share? I did a pretty good job above. I feel bad because I didn't post on FB yesterday. I have the last 2 years and I feel like I disappointed my babies yesterday. I don't want it to be an afterthought today though. 😢

QotW: What are you most looking forward to this holiday season? Family, friends, food? Traditions?

Holiday season is going to be crazy this year. I mean other than having this LO in the midst of it, I'm excited for family that we will see and food!!

[snowyowl]

How far along are you? EDD?
22+4, 2/15

How are you feeling physically and emotionally?
Physically I’m still doing ok. Definitely getting a little more unwieldy and I have some pelvic pain when I overdo it.
Emotionally I’m pretty calm. The movement is sporadic, which is fine at this point and gives me a nice reassurance from time to time.

Any upcoming appointments or milestones?
Nothing anytime soon. I just had my monthly appt and it was the usual.

Any other word vomit to share?
It’s already getting a little hard to get my boots on. I have no idea how I’ll be doing it come January and February!

QotW: What are you most looking forward to this holiday season? Family, friends, food? Traditions?
My sister has been working and going to school on the other side of the world for two years, and now she’s finally graduating and coming back for Christmas! We are all looking forward to having her home for good.

[Rama]

ldubhawksfan, Don't feel bad. You don't have to shout your love from the computer screen to feel the love and sorrow for your babies. October 15th is just as much private as it is public. There is no wrong way to remember them and doing so a day late doesn't mean that you love them any less. You can't pin love down to a single hour or a single day, it happens always and on its own time.

[Waffle]

How far along are you? EDD? 30w4d, 23/12

How are you feeling physically and emotionally? Physically better today as I had a physio appointment and she massaged my lower back. Before that my sciatica and tailbone were really painful. Emotionally I'm still not grasping the fact that this bump will be an actual little human in 8 weeks or so, it just seems completely surreal. H keeps telling me to talk to her but I feel really weird doing it, like it isn't real. Am I being horrible? I'm enjoying this pregnancy in the sense that I'm feeling good but I'm not sure I'm embracing/relating to the part of it that isn't strictly physical. The physio asked about labour and all I could say was that I hadn't really thought about it much yet.

Any upcoming appointments or milestones? Nothing more this week.

Any other word vomit to share? See above.

QotW: What are you most looking forward to this holiday season? Family, friends, food? Traditions? Making new traditions, not having someone sitting on my bladder, and drinking wine freely.