*Weekly All CAR Check in 9/12*

[oldbaylover1024]

Sorry to hear about the housing drama, renegadewhit. FX it works out soon. And I love the idea of a woodland nursery theme. Very cute


How far along are you? Week/fruit or vegetable. 17w3d

How are you feeling (physically and/or emotionally)? Physically just full of acid and indigestion. Also looking more and more pregnant each day, which is fun, but I almost feel like it's happening too soon LOL Emotionally I'm well. We heard a strong heartbeat last Tuesday at our appointment, so that helped a lot.

Other updates? Thoughts, vents, baby preparations, etc? I'm not getting a ton of movement and it's definitely not consistent. I'm excited to feel him more frequently, but I know it could be a few weeks before that happens.

Upcoming milestones or appointments? Nope, nothing this week.

Do you need any thoughts or prayers? No thank you

QOTW: We're doing a vintage Orioles baseball theme. MH and I are big baseball fans and MH has a ton of old Orioles memorabilia we're going to hang in a gallery wall. We also bought LO his first piece of original artwork this weekend. It's his name spelled out with different photographs of letters. I love it - one of the letters is baseball-themed and the others are all shots from the Baltimore harbor area around the stadium. I can't wait to hang it!

[peaseblossom55]

How far along are you? Week/fruit or vegetable. 23 weeks 2 days/papaya or grapefruit or a buche de noel

How are you feeling (physically and/or emotionally)? Tired as always, but I am getting more acid reflux in the evening which causes nausea. I also feel a lot of pressure and stretching pains around my belly button area.

Other updates? Thoughts, vents, baby preparations, etc? I have none really, don't plan to buy anything until October. IL's offered to buy our nursery furniture I'm kind of shocked and feel so blessed to have such great IL's.

Upcoming milestones or appointments? Viability is Saturday and I have an OB appointment on Thursday afternoon.

Do you need any thoughts or prayers? Nope

QOTW: The nursery will be light pink and grey and have a Parisian theme to it.

[shandorfml2]

Hi ladies

How far along are you? Week/fruit or vegetable. 6w tomorrow. Is that a pea?

How are you feeling (physically and/or emotionally)? ugh morning sickness, tired, cravings

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

Upcoming milestones or appointments? Thursday ultrasound, praying for heart beat! Friday nurse intake

Do you need any thoughts or prayers? just positive thoughts for our ultrasound!



QOTW: We will most likely be doing a woodland/enchanted forest theme

[sfazar]

How far along are you? Week/fruit or vegetable.
Good morning ladies! Hope you and LO are well @fionathehuman--we're all thinking of you. And yes, best wishes to frenchteachermama!

renegadewhit, I hope you can get your new house soon! We sold ours and bought a new one over the summer. One thing that was indispensable was that our real estate agent (for us as sellers) got a stager to come in and just walk through our house for two hours and give us advice on how to best present it. They were little things for the most part (move this piece of furniture here, take this out, turn some books horizontal, hang a picture here), but I totally credit that with helping us get two offers--one full ask and one more--only 3 hrs after the open house. Maybe if you are desperate to sell it would be worth seeing if someone like that is in your area?

How many weeks? 10 weeks, green olive

How are you feeling (physically and/or emotionally)? Ok physically--I have more energy than last time. Emotionally, very anxious--now just about the baby being ok. Since this wasn't planned I don't feel like I was as healthy as I could have been leading up to this pregnancy. Stupid of me, and now I am worried that the baby won't be healthy because of that. I have to keep reminding myself that most children are born normal but it's hard to quiet the fearful voice in my head.

Other updates? Thoughts, vents, baby preparations, etc? Nothing yet, just waiting to hear back from my readers about my dissertation draft and writing my defense in the meantime.

Upcoming milestones or appointments? Well, this week is when I had my first loss, but I don't feel as worried because I haven't had a warning sign of something going wrong (touch wood).

Do you need any thoughts or prayers? No, thank you.

QOTW: tell me about your nursery! Themes/what have you completed, or if you're not quite there yet, where are you getting your inspiration? I am going to probably just transfer my daughter's old nursery to the new baby. Before we did gender neutral--a really cheerful bedding and some wonderful watercolors that were made for me when I was a child--two Russian teddy bears having adventures with a little girl in a red coat.

I figure now I get to make my daughter's room a proper toddler room, and I am thinking of just doing sweet pink floral bedding and some nice feminine curtains.

One thing that upsets me is that we just moved into a new house, and I got pregnant before I had a chance to paint plus there are a lot of rooms I want to change the color of . And now I don't think I can paint safely so I have to rely on DH, and I don't entirely trust him to do it neatly/ to my standards!

[sfazar]

shandorfml2, will be thinking of you especially on Thursday.

opheliainwaders, thanks for the advice--we'll have to check out that paint. I saw a few commercials on TV recently for a hypoallergenic paint. Maybe wait til 2nd / 3rd tri and give it a whirl...

[carlsonbaby]

Hey ladies, sorry I haven't participated in previous weeks and have been kind of a lurker - I'm still finding my groove with my new(ish) job and balancing home life. But time for an update on me/us. I'll circle back around later to check in with everyone else and give love and ((hugs)).


How far along are you? Week/fruit or vegetable. 24 weeks - no idea of the fruit/veggie

How are you feeling (physically and/or emotionally)? Now that I can feel this LO move I've been in a much better frame of mind. I have an anterior placenta this time around so it took longer than I had expected. Needless to say, my once-a-week check-in with my home doppler was so nice to calm some anxiety.

Other updates? Thoughts, vents, baby preparations, etc? For those of you who don't know we opted OUT of finding out the sex of this baby. It's been really interesting to see how it plays out in our "preparation" even though we don't consider ourselves to be very tied to that bit of information one way or another (sugh as getting "girl" clothes if it's a girl, etc.)

Other updates: We busted out our newborn stash of CD (cloth diapers) over the weekend. Stuff's starting to feel like it's getting real!

Upcoming milestones or appointments? OBGYN appointment today - we'll talk about GD testing (I had it with my last pregnancy, rainbow baby #1), and plan of action if my placenta doesn't move further up to "clear" a vaginal birth. I love it how my OBGYN phrases that - as if there is more than one option? Good times.

Do you need any thoughts or prayers?

QOTW: tell me about your nursery! Themes/what have you completed, or if you're not quite there yet, where are you getting your inspiration? Baby #2 is going to be sharing a room with E. At first we were going to have him or her in a separate room (we have the space) but then decided against it to help keep some "baby stuff" guardrails in tact . So the room is already done! We'll just need to add a new name banner to the wall once he or she is here.

renegadewhit - can you add me to the list, please? Due date is 12.31.2016 Thanks lady! Fingers crossed something works out in terms of housing for you guys - it can be so stressful making all those transitions and letting the different scenarios play out.

[chknma]

How far along are you? Week/fruit or vegetable. 6+1 chocolate chip ;-)
renegadewhit, can you add me for EDD 05/07/17? please and thank you!

How are you feeling (physically and/or emotionally)?
so far fatigue, cramping, headache, mild food aversion/nausea
blah....emotionally I find I'm stressing because I feel X or because I don't feel Y

Other updates?
another concern is my blood sugar...I was GD with both girls and prediabetic about a year ago for a few months until my numbers improved...I took my fasting BS this morning and it was high, breakfast was fine, lunch was high. I will adjust my diet and monitor for a few more days before I put a call into my MW....doesn't help that I'm starting to feel some meat aversion and really only want to eat carbs :-(

Upcoming milestones or appointments? made my first MW appointment..they see you at 8 weeks....9/26....first appointment of the morning. we'll be out of town that weekend which is good because i'm sure I'll be a nervous wreck

Do you need any thoughts or prayers?

QOTW: tell me about your nursery! Themes/what have you completed, or if you're not quite there yet, where are you getting your inspiration?

haha. we just took down the wall between our 2nd/3rd rooms to make a big room/play space for DD1/DD2. this LO won't have a room for a while. I plan use an arms reach cosleeper...then perhaps he/she will transition to the kid room..sounds like a disaster...or perhaps DH needs to get busy working on our addition ;-)

[ksyknelvr73]

renegadewhit will you add me to the due date list? EDD is 10/24/16.

How far along are you? Week/fruit or vegetable. 34 weeks. I saw butternut squash in a couple places, I'll go with that.

How are you feeling (physically and/or emotionally)? Feeling pretty uncomfortable physically. Lots of soreness and back/pelvic pain. Emotionally, I'm not sure. I am mostly okay but I can kind of feel that I am trying to numb myself from things.

Other updates? Thoughts, vents, baby preparations, etc? We are mostly prepped and ready right now. All I have left is packing a hospital bag, installing the car seat, and getting some postpartum supplies. I will still probably wait a few weeks to do all of that.

Upcoming milestones or appointments? My next appointment is next Thursday, I'm on biweekly and I think after that one I go to weekly. I'm anxious to see how big they think she is and also to see if I'm dilated at all (in a few weeks).

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

QOTW: tell me about your nursery! Themes/what have you completed, or if you're not quite there yet, where are you getting your inspiration? The nursery doesn't have a theme necessarily but we went with a specific color scheme. It's purple, mint, and gray with white furniture. I am not a huge fan of pink. The nursery is pretty much done but I would like to get some kind of wall art for above the changing table area.

[glb30]

How far along are you? 12w2d- lime.

How are you feeling? Physically, pretty good. I keep getting bad headaches/migraines though. Emotionally, I am pretty good this week.

Other updates? The genetic testing came back low risk, and it's a GIRL!!!! My one vent is that I just emailed my OB's office about these headaches, and they emailed back to tell me they "don't treat headaches." I'm only emailing them bc (1) I think most of these are happening bc I'm pregnant and (2) I'd prefer they write an RX, than a general doctor who doesn't specialize in pregnancy. I hate how many doctors constantly are involved in everything. End vent.

Upcoming milestones? I'll hit 2nd tri on Saturday, and go off my medications!

Thoughts or Prayers? I'm good, thanks!

QOTW: We aren't there yet, but won't have a theme. I know the furniture I want from pottery barn (in white). We are going to paint one of the walls a light pink, I think. And get a comfy couch for us.

[glb30]

unringthebell excited for you!

chknma those early weeks are so stressful with symptom spotting. I hope your appointment gets here quickly!

HeyMrsPotter yay on movement!!! Just thinking about it gives me all the feels!

shandorfml2 I hope Thursday's ultrasound goes great!!!

peaseblossom55 so close to viability

renegadewhit I hope something works out with the house! How stressful!!

[glb30]

unringthebell I have an appointment on 9/27, with my favorite doctor in the group, so I will ask then! I thought it was weird too!

[peaseblossom55]

glb30, congrats on the girl
@sarahwithanh, I'm sorry you feel so negative, I hope as your due date gets closer excitement takes over some. You are a great teacher and wife and will be a great mother.

[sfazar]

Yay glb30!

@sarahwithanh--sending a huge hug and all good vibes to your little guy.

You sound like superwoman --you are juggling so much and you are clearly a very caring person. You have every right to operate at a lower level in other aspects of your life while you grow this tiny human. I hope you share these feelings with your husband. He sounds like a sweet guy who could help you regain your perspective.

Remember the mantras and when you let go a bit of the idea that you need to be 100% at work and home, maybe you will feel better about the pregnancy.

You might also consider taking to someone--I met with a life coach about my work and loss a few times and it was very calming.

Xoxo

[shandorfml2]

renegadewhit, my official due date is 5/11/17

[madameovary]

How far along are you? Week/fruit or vegetable. 13 weeks today. Can we just declare this 2nd trimester already?

How are you feeling (physically and/or emotionally)? Actually, pretty great. I think over the exhaustion hump, have a legit blump, have been feeling flutters, and had good appointment this week.

Other updates? Thoughts, vents, baby preparations, etc? Verifi results in less than 2 weeks! Vents are that I want to know the results BEFORE I see my family next weekend. I'd read 7-10 days, but OB office said 10-14. I'll see them 10 days from the test.

Upcoming milestones or appointments? 2nd trimester now or soonish. A huge AW: BBQ is weaned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 26 months is a good run and I'm thrilled and so lucky to have had milk for that long. I was over it.


Do you need any thoughts or prayers? Good verifi results!

QOTW: tell me about your nursery! Themes/what have you completed, or if you're not quite there yet, where are you getting your inspiration?
Um...theme? Baby crap? Ha! We didn't really ever decorate BBQ's room. He'll get a big boy room and will have just turned 3 by the time we need the crib again.