All CAR Check-In 8/1

[agpjt413]

How far along are you? Week/fruit or vegetable 38w3d // a bucket of fried chicken (cuz it's more fun than a fruit or veggie!)

How are you feeling (physically and/or emotionally)? LARGE - felt dizzy and nauseated over the weekend. The dizziness kind of dissipated by Fri night though. I think it might have been due to heat and overexertion with errand running that day. Feeling ok this AM so far so that's good, right? I think the nausea may be from LO moving and kicking a TON - although I shouldn't complain b/c I'm loving the movement! Emotionally - ready to hold my rainbow...aka, ready to give baby the eviction notice!!!

Other updates? Thoughts, vents, baby preparations, etc? FINALLY ordered our crib! We couldn't decide on what we wanted and luckily, this one will be here within 3-5 business days. Some websites we were looking at were about 6-8 wks out. We are hoping (FX'd!!) to transition LO to the crib at or around 8 weeks per pedi recommendations.

Upcoming milestones or appointments? Had my 38w appt w/ NST & cervical check this past Friday. Still parked at 1cm dilation & 50% effacement. My OB doesn't want me to go beyond 7 days past my EDD (which is 11 days away!!!! What?!!?). She said if we're not at a go by then, she wants to induce around 40+3 or 40+4.

Do you need any thoughts or prayers? Not at the moment, thank you!!

QOTW: Do you have names picked out? If so, are you sharing? How did you choose? We do! And since we're team green, we have several names chosen! Most all of the middle names are family names and we just tossed a few around when we came across them. Didn't look on nameberry, books or online lists or anything so we don't know how these names "rank" nationally or globally!

[oldbaylover1024]

agpjt413 - Gah! You're so close! Good luck with the next 11 days! Hopefully you won't be checking in here by then

[oldbaylover1024]

How far along are you? 11w3d

How are you feeling (physically and/or emotionally)? Physically still pretty nauseous and very tired. Emotionally all over the place. I've had some pretty awful dreams lately, one that was so realistic I'm not sure if it actually happened or not (a random painful cramp 'dream' in the middle of the night). Plus, we had our panoramic blood work last Thursday, so I'm anxious for the results.

Other updates? Thoughts, vents, baby preparations, etc? I pulled out my maternity jeans and rocked those bad boys on Saturday. Why was I torturing myself with regular pants? The bloat thanks me for the elastic waist band

Upcoming milestones or appointments? We've officially passed our loss milestones And we should (hopefully) get our blood work results this week, including the sex!

Do you need any thoughts or prayers? No... yes... maybe a few for good, clear blood work results. I keep repeating "healthy and happy, healthy and happy" over and over.

QOTW: Oh, yeah. We have a few names we really like for a boy, but girls names are proving difficult. We won't be sharing the name with anyone IRL. We picked first names based on our preferences - no family names required. But the middle name will definitely be a family name. ::: LC mentioned ::: J's middle name is my middle name (also my grandmother's name). It also just so happens that both J and my niece are named after Beatle's songs, so if it's a girl we may stick with that theme LOL

[agpjt413]

Aug 1, 2016 8:37:31 GMT -5 oldbaylover1024 said:

agpjt413 - Gah! You're so close! Good luck with the next 11 days! Hopefully you won't be checking in here by then

Thanks so much!!! I feel like this belly just got HUGE this past week. Sleeping has been increasingly difficult

GL on your BW results!! And how cool is it that J & your niece are named after Beatle's songs?!

[fionnathehuman]

agpjt413 - "eviction notice" made laugh... I'm such a dork... lol

oldbaylover1024 - Sorry about the nausea and H yeah for maternity pants!!! Could not make it without them! Lol

[fionnathehuman]

How far along are you? Week/fruit or vegetable.
33w1d have no idea wich fruit...

How are you feeling (physically and/or emotionally)?
I feel tired, have no energy and I'm sooo grumpy!! Poor H...
Emotionally... well, I had a moment last night.
I freaked out a little when I saw the things we bought for baby and just got so scared... He is so close and so far at the same time, and than he just decides to go to sleep and not move for a while ( long while for me) and I feel like I'm about to die!

Other updates? Thoughts, vents, baby preparations, etc?

No updates... I do have lots of vents though... (sorry)
It sucks not having any friends where I live now... it sucks that my family lives so far away and that I can't have a baby shower with them. Sucks that my MIL is always looking for drama and trying to push her used/unwanted things to me always followed by the words "This was Expensive". Some stuff are good, but some are just gross, like the used earings that she gave me this weekend in a "like new" box, but all dirty... seriously... is dirty and gross... yes I'm pick...
It pisses me off that BIL and his wife think we are swimming on money.

That felt good. Even though I could not give the rich details of the last 3 months...

Now for preparations.
We are finishing the nursery!!!
And I feel lost... have no idea of what I still need... and people keep giving me stuff I don't need... lol


Upcoming milestones or appointments?
No app this week...

Do you need any thoughts or prayers?
I don't know anymore...

QOTW: Do you have names picked out? If so, are you sharing? How did you choose?

Yes, we picked the name!!
Still haven't decide how the last name is gonna go... I did not change my name and would like my son to have my last name too, but H doesn't agree... Well let's see...
We shared the name already on our "gender review cards".
We looked for some names on the Internet but in the end we didn't go with any of them... lol

[ksyknelvr73]

How far along are you? Week/fruit or vegetable. 28 weeks today. I saw eggplant somewhere for the size.

How are you feeling (physically and/or emotionally)? Physically I am mostly okay - just really hot all the time. Definitely already uncomfortable as well, difficulty sleeping. Emotionally I have been struggling quite a bit. I have anxiety and fears, but I think I am maybe even dealing with some depression. I've talked to H about it and I intend to talk to my doctor at my next appt which is next Wednesday.

Other updates? Thoughts, vents, baby preparations, etc? We just got all the furniture for the nursery, but we still have to paint before we put it together and get it in the room. I'm looking forward to decorating.

Upcoming milestones or appointments? Next Wednesday - it's just a routine appointment but I did schedule a 3D u/s so that should be really cool.

Do you need any thoughts or prayers? I don't know...I feel weird asking, but I do think whatever is rearing its ugly head right now - depression/anxiety related - I do feel a little overwhelmed. I also feel like I am really doing a disservice to my family (H and my boys) with how I feel and I hate it.

QOTW: Do you have names picked out? If so, are you sharing? How did you choose? We have a name chosen - Grace Evangeline.

[oldbaylover1024]

unringthebell - I'm sorry to hear YH is struggling. Do you plan to move out of your IL's house soon? When is the house supposed to be ready? And FX baby is head down!

fionnathehuman - All the {{hugs}} to you. I'm so sorry you're dealing with so much right now. AL brain is so so hard, especially surrounding nursery/baby items (I really struggled with that, too). All the T&Ps for calm and cool vibes, friend.

ksyknelvr73 - I love the name! Beautiful! FX your doctor can offer some advice re: the depression/anxiety. You're a brave women for recognizing and talking about it now. Lots of women (raises hand) ignore symptoms - facing them is the right move. And don't feel weird asking for support! You're not alone in these feelings {{hugs}}

[oldbaylover1024]

Good luck at your appointment, renegadewhit! And I hope you get to see Scarlett {{hugs}}

[peaseblossom55]

**********Loss mentioned***********
How far along are you? Week/fruit or vegetable. 17 weels 2 days/ onion

How are you feeling (physically and/or emotionally)? Physically doing ok, recovering, on 3 different meds

Other updates? Thoughts, vents, baby preparations, etc? Last week we lost one of our girls, our second loss. It's so hard emotionally and to also balance out the grief with hope for her sister. She is being given a 60-70% chance.

Upcoming milestones or appointments? I had an appointment today and saw Duck she was doing great. I have one every week this month. I just hope each week gets better, counting down to viability.

Do you need any thoughts or prayers? Thoughts and prayers needed for Duck- that she is born healthy and alive.

QOTW: Do you have names picked out? If so, are you sharing? How did you choose? We had to choose a name for Magg.ie last minute, as we had nothing really picked out. I think we have a few ideas for Duck but we aren't sharing.

[gratefulgirl]

peaseblossom55 - my heart aches for you. I am so sorry for you loss of Magg.ie and praying for Duck.

ksyknelvr73 - I hope you are able to find a good solution for your challenges now.

unringthebell - ((hugs)). I hope that you and YH are able to find a solution for his issues too. Having a partner mentally/emotionally down for the count is very hard. FX he avoids PPND (the male postpartum depression).

[gratefulgirl]

How far along are you? Week/fruit or vegetable. 37+6, 9 days until RCS

How are you feeling (physically and/or emotionally)? pregnancy brain is strong today. Physically I go back and forth. The days when I sit at work for 10 hours (Tue. and Thu.) are the worst. When I'm very active around home I actually feel a lot better - less swollen, fewer painful BHs, etc.

Other updates? Thoughts, vents, baby preparations, etc? my house needs some serious help. My parents will be watching my bigs while we are at the hospital and if anything they make it all dirtier and worse (with the best of intentions, they are lovely people). I'm feeling stressed about it. Everything for the baby is pretty well set, though.

DH saw his orthopedist about his foot today. Doctor continues to be confident that his recovery is progressing, though slowly. He seems to do more every day, but has a lot of time of telling me it will never get better (which is not what he told the doctor...). So it's hard for me to know what to expect.

*LC mentioned*
Also I had to reassure DD1 that even though I was having surgery, I would recover. She's overheard enough of DH's griping that it had her really scared. I assured her that I've done this twice before and that for me it really isn't that bad. I think it helped that we were able to talk about it.

Upcoming milestones or appointments? last routine OB on 8/5, RCS on 8/10

Do you need any thoughts or prayers? for DH's foot. For a safe RCS.

QOTW: Do you have names picked out? If so, are you sharing? How did you choose? I think we are settled on the first name but we will seal the deal in the hospital. It was one off the name lists from the bigs. Middle name is not set yet and the list of things we both like isn't long. We may end up with one by default.

[oldbaylover1024]

I'm so sorry for your loss, peaseblossom55. T&Ps for Duck, and for you and YH.

[crazycatlady6]

peaseblossom55 - I am so sorry for your loss. T&P for Duck.

renegadewhit - can you add me please? My due date is February 23rd.

How far along are you? Week/fruit or vegetable. 10w4d - date

How are you feeling (physically and/or emotionally)? Physically- awful. I had a migraine all weekend and couldn't take any of my migraine meds. Other than the migraine, still dealing with fatigue, nausea, and food aversions.

Other updates? Thoughts, vents, baby preparations, etc? There is a great sale on maternity clothing today online but I still refuse to buy anything: part of it is PGAL brain, part of it is money concerns.

Upcoming milestones or appointments? Weekly ultrasound on Friday. I'm going to miss the weekly scans when I graduate from my RE next week!

Do you need any thoughts or prayers? Not today.

QOTW: Do you have names picked out? If so, are you sharing? How did you choose?

We do not have names picked out, we are going to find out next friday at our last RE appointment what the gender is then we'll go from there. We are not sharing with anyone until the baby is delivered, I don't want to hear flak about it from my family.

[agpjt413]

All the hugs and love peaseblossom55 ❤️

[ksyknelvr73]

peaseblossom55 I am so sorry for the loss of your sweet baby girl. I know it is probably so hard to balance the grief of losing her plus the hope/anxiety over her sister and praying all goes well.

[glb30]

Hi, all!

@peaseblossom I am so sorry for the loss of your baby girl. I am praying your other baby continues to do well.

crazycatlady6 I hope you start feeling better soon!

HeyMrsPotter awesome friends!!

agpjt413 so close!

oldbaylover1024 Fingers crossed for good results!

@fionathehuman I hope your H starts to feel better soon. I'm sure living with parents is hard...((hugs))

ksyknelvr73 I'm glad you are going to talk to you doctor. I hope you start feeling better soon.

renegadewhit try not to worry about the lack of symptoms! I know it's hard in the early weeks with PGAL brain. I hope Scarlett hangs on long enough for you to see her over Labor Day!

@sarahwithanh awesome score on the deals!

gratefulgirl I hope the next 9 days go by quickly!

[glb30]

AFM:

I'm 6w2d- a lentil.

Physically, I haven't been feeling as nauseous. Luckily, it's not worrying me as my boobs are super sore. Emotionally, I'm really doing pretty good.

I have my second ultrasound on Wednesday, at 6w4d. I'm hoping and praying baby's heart is beating faster.

Thoughts or Prayers? I'd appreciate all the positive thoughts for a strong heartbeat at this ultrasound. This is the week that things tend to go wrong for me, and the lowish heartbeat last week has me concerned. Hopefully if I make it through this week, I won't need prayers every week.

QOTW: Haha. No. We're not even convinced this baby is going to stick around yet.

(I just realized this post is kind of a downer. Emotionally, I really am doing well- maybe dealing with the possibility of a loss better than I have previously, but it's still day by day here.)

[tbonequeen13]

How far along are you? Week/fruit or vegetable. 20 weeks/banana! Halfway!!

How are you feeling (physically and/or emotionally)? Pretty nervous about tomorrow but physically ok

Other updates? Thoughts, vents, baby preparations, etc? Here's a vent...my OB's office does the Panorama test for first tri screening..she asked her nurse what kind of insurance I had before ordering it and said mine would cover it...well...now they're (the insurance) sending me a letter say it wasn't covered...so now I have to deal with fighting it b/c I don't have 8k to pay for it out of pocket!

Upcoming milestones or appointments? Anatomy scan tomorrow...super duper nervous about it

Do you need any thoughts or prayers? That tomorrow goes well and that I can get the insurance to cover this test- I really don't have 8K

QOTW: Do you have names picked out? If so, are you sharing? How did you choose? Yeah, we have some in mind...we're not sharing yet, I have a plan to reveal that to our friends and family

[gratefulgirl]

Aug 2, 2016 9:45:31 GMT -5 tbonequeen13 said:

How far along are you? Week/fruit or vegetable. 20 weeks/banana! Halfway!!

How are you feeling (physically and/or emotionally)? Pretty nervous about tomorrow but physically ok

Other updates? Thoughts, vents, baby preparations, etc? Here's a vent...my OB's office does the Panorama test for first tri screening..she asked her nurse what kind of insurance I had before ordering it and said mine would cover it...well...now they're (the insurance) sending me a letter say it wasn't covered...so now I have to deal with fighting it b/c I don't have 8k to pay for it out of pocket!

Upcoming milestones or appointments? Anatomy scan tomorrow...super duper nervous about it

Do you need any thoughts or prayers? That tomorrow goes well and that I can get the insurance to cover this test- I really don't have 8K

QOTW: Do you have names picked out? If so, are you sharing? How did you choose? Yeah, we have some in mind...we're not sharing yet, I have a plan to reveal that to our friends and family

Many of these test places have a deal where you only have to actually pay a certain amount ($100-200 usually) if you are paying OOP. Worth a call to Panorama to ask.

[tbonequeen13]

gratefulgirl, thanks for the tip! I am going to talk to my OB Thurs at that appt and see if they can help, and if not I'll try appealing it with my insurance, but if all else fails I'll check with the company and see if they can give me a break

[glb30]

tbonequeen13 that's so stressful- I hope it all works out!

Also- so many positive thoughts for tomorrow

[cheshie6]

How far along are you? Week/fruit or vegetable. 23 weeks +3, Grapefruit

How are you feeling (physically and/or emotionally)? I'm good, baby is starting to move more and that feels kind of weird/crazy!

Other updates? Thoughts, vents, baby preparations, etc? Stroller and Carseat arrived today! Things are getting "realer" by the minute! Dh is trying to pick a crib while in Egypt. I will have to drive to BBB and BRU this week with a drawer from his childhood bureau to try to get as close a match of a crib. LOL He's pickier about things matching than I am.

Upcoming milestones or appointments? Next week I have the 1 hour GD test, a repeat of the A/S in the hopes baby will be in the right position to get the information. The hospital also is wanting me to pre-register.

Do you need any thoughts or prayers? No thank you. Please send them to peaseblossom55!

QOTW: Do you have names picked out? If so, are you sharing? How did you choose? We do have names picked, we will share if asked (but we don't know the gender so they don't have a name to call baby yet) The boys name is a family tradition in DH's family. When we discussed it with my dad (who also had a middle name tradition) since the first name Wi.ll.iam is the same as my dad's middle name tradition, he was fine with it as a first name. We're ignoring the girl tradition, I love the name El.iza.beth but there are too many crazy ones in our family. (We both have a big sister, and DH's has a grandma with the same name... ALL CRAZY)

[frenchteachermama]

renegadewhit, thanks for the check-in! My due date is 9/17 but I'm scheduled for a c-section on 9/12.

How far along are you? Week/fruit or vegetable.
33W4D

How are you feeling (physically and/or emotionally)?
Physically I would say I am having a pretty good week...I have more energy than last week for some reason. Emotionally I'm trying to calm my fears that something is going to go wrong in these last few weeks.

Other updates? Thoughts, vents, baby preparations, etc?
Baby's room is *almost* finished!

Upcoming milestones or appointments?
I start weekly appointments this month!!!!!!!!!!

Do you need any thoughts or prayers?
Not this week

QOTW: Do you have names picked out? If so, are you sharing? How did you choose?
We do have a name picked out and I'm only sharing with close friends at this point

[tbonequeen13]

gratefulgirl, I talked to my OB's office today and they said once I get the bill, talk to them and they can get it reduced to $100 or less since my insurance refuses to pay for it. What a relief!!!

[oldbaylover1024]

opheliainwaders- Good luck with the A/S today! And your DD is too sweet ("Can I kiss her?")!

[madameovary]

How far along are you? Week/fruit or vegetable. 7 weeks tomorrow, so almost blueberry

How are you feeling (physically and/or emotionally)? Super bloated, not as relieved as I thought I would be after a great ultrasound

Other updates? Thoughts, vents, baby preparations, etc? We had our viability scan yesterday and the baby measured one day ahead of my calculated O, perfect heartbeat

Upcoming milestones or appointments?
Regular appointment 8/19


Do you need any thoughts or prayers? Not today!

QOTW: Do you have names picked out? If so, are you sharing? How did you choose? No names yet really. We didn't share with BBQ and probably won't again.

[oldbaylover1024]

Aug 5, 2016 11:24:06 GMT -5 opheliainwaders said:

Aug 5, 2016 7:24:14 GMT -5 oldbaylover1024 said:

opheliainwaders - Good luck with the A/S today! And your DD is too sweet ("Can I kiss her?")!

whoops, that was a typo! Should be 8/15, but I'll bank the well-wishes for later

Ha! If I could do math, I probably would have figured it out LOL The well-wishes remain!

[fionnathehuman]

peaseblossom55 - I am sorry for your loss...

HeyMrsPotter - Oh it was gross... I don't mind getting used stuff as long as people don't fake it as new and not even clean it... eww. She gave some dirty stuff to the baby too... one of which ended in the trash.