**3rd Tri Check-In 12/19/16**

[dancerspose]

Welcome to the weekly 3rd Tri Check-In!

We will welcome ladies at 28 weeks until their LO(s) make their grand entrance!

New? Please TAG ME if you would like to be added and include your EDD, team status, and how many beans are cooking. Not new? If you see anything that needs to be changed, let me know! For this week, let us know how many weeks you are, if you have any updates, and any upcoming appointments, etc. etc.

I look forward to welcoming some more of our March ladies!

December
Winnifred - 12/11 (girl) - how are you doing?
lastnamewithheld - 12/17 (boy) - you hanging in there too?
emilie - 12/25 (girl) - good luck today!
angm123 12/31 (girl)

January
somechica - 1/6 (girl)
roeni - 1/13 (girl)

February
Evelyn3 - 2/3 (boy)
tiresiastheblond - 2/5 (girl)
dancerspose - 2/16 (girl)
crazycatlady6 - 2/23 (boy)
@wineandcupcakes - 2/25 (twin girls)

March

turquoisequeen - 3/5 (girl)

QOTW: Holidays - wonderful or stressful?

[dancerspose]

Hey Ladies! I hope everyone is doing well! I'm hanging out at 31w5d and doing well. Sitting around I tend to feel lots of movement, which is great. My OB office gave me the information about counting kicks last time - the 10 in 2 hours. Has anyone else been given that? I have a regular appointment on Wednesday. Crazy to think that after that my next appointment will be in the new year.

Still no progress on the nursery. I'm stuck in completion discount limbo with my amazon registry. Since we're not having a shower, it's left to us to buy everything so I'm trying to decide if I want to buy absolutely everything on the registry that qualifies for the completion discount (even if it's stuff we won't need for a few months like the convertible car seat and high chair) or leave those items until later but forego the discount...decisions decisions. Unfortunately, we won't have nursery furniture until I make up my mind since the furniture qualifies for the discount...

QOTW - Zero holiday stress for me. Since Chanukah is a pretty minor holiday theologically speaking there's really not too much to worry about. We light candles, maybe have potato latkes, play some dreidle...my family always kept the gift aspect pretty minimal, luckily.

[lastnamewithheld]

Hi everyone!!! this is my last check in!!

My water broke yesterday morning and after 22 hours of labor, spiking a fever and baby lastnamewithheld having frequent decels, we went in for a c section this morning! He was born at 8:39am and is 7lbs 9ozs, 18.5 inches long. He is absolutely perfect and we are totally smitten!!

[dancerspose]

Absolutely beautiful lastnamewithheld! Congratulations!!!!

[turquoisequeen]

dancerspose I have to do kick counts due to my high risk condition and was told 12 kicks/movements in a day. I usually feel more than that. And it doesn't have to be one each hour or anything like that... just throughout my day. I could feel a couple and then a couple hrs later feel a few more etc.

[turquoisequeen]

Yay lastnamewithheld! Glad all is well!

[emilie]

Hey guys! I had a baby, um, less than 12 hours ago

Baby Girl arrived via scheduled c-section on 12/19 as planned. She was a footling breech and had a short cord with a weird placement so she never would have turned head down. (So glad I spent all that $$ on a chiro trying )

Spinal was easy, surgery sucked. Baby was out quick and painlessly but I hemmoraged some and was in the OR for over 2 hours. I thought it would never end, I was shaking like crazy and had to be on oxygen. They didn't kick H or the baby out so I knew it wasn't super duper serious, but I lost a lot of blood and got really doped up on a bunch of weird uterine meds, one of which made me shit my pants spectacularly in recovery. Ugh. I was then in recovery for 2 hours and we will be staying here all week, hopefully home before Xmas.

Everything seems to be ok now, LO breastfed like a champ a few times and I'm still doped up enough to not feel much. H and I are insanely smitten with her and we can't believe she's actually here.

[dancerspose]

Congratulations emilie! So sorry for the complications in surgery, but glad everything you're doing well!

[dancerspose]

Dec 19, 2016 15:16:47 GMT -5 turquoisequeen said:

dancerspose I have to do kick counts due to my high risk condition and was told 12 kicks/movements in a day. I usually feel more than that. And it doesn't have to be one each hour or anything like that... just throughout my day. I could feel a couple and then a couple hrs later feel a few more etc.

That's interesting...I was told I should count 10 kicks in 2 hours. It's not something I am necessarily supposed to do every day or obsess over. My OB said if I got nervous that I wasn't feeling as much movement as usual or anything like that to lay down in a quiet room, put my hands on my belly, and count movements until I reach 10. If I didn't reach 10 in two hours I should call... I only do it when I've been really active during the day and haven't felt much.  Then when I get home I'll usually sit on my couch and do it. Luckily the most it's ever taken to reach 10 is an hour.

[dancerspose]

Winnifred I'll be stalking you like crazy, I believe you go in today for your induction, right? Good luck!

[turquoisequeen]

29w2d here. Suffering through an awful and long cold. Bleh. Didn't pass my sugar test last week but now after reading I honestly think it's due to the cold virus. Regardless I don't want to do the long one until I've completely recovered. Who knows how long that will be. Hopefully the OB will be on board with that.

Qotw: this year they seems stressful since I'm sick and can't seem to get anything done to get ready for them.. like wrap gifts.

[Evelyn3]

Congratulations lastnamewithheld !!!

Congratulations emilie !!!

[angm123]

lastnamewithheld Comgratulations they are beautiful!!!
emilie Congratulations on your baby girl! FX you are all home for Xmas!

AFM I'm pretty sure Winnifred was supposed to have her baby several days ago, which makes me next on the list! I'm getting pretty uncomfortable and completely exhausted. Half of me is ready for her to come out and meet us, the other half is already sad to think she won't be in there squirming around anymore.

At my apt Monday I was 1cm and 60% effaced. I go back Tuesday, and will schedule an induction for the first week of January if she decides to stay camped out in there.

QOTW: Usually stressful. We have 2 sets of divorced parents (four remarried families) and none of which live near each other. Every holiday is a clusterfuck of where we will go and we can never please everyone. Don't even get me started on gifts....it's entirely way too many ppl to buy for. BUT this year, it's been great! We basically removed ourselves from all Xmas plans, we might be there or we might not, and told everyone we would not be buying gifts. This may be my new normal

[tiresiastheblond]

Congratulations, lastnamewithheld and emilie! lastnamewithheld, he's beautiful!