Pregnancy Check-in (May 4th) **Warning: PIP**

[megd893]

Please feel free to let me know if anything below is incorrect, or if you're new (yay!) and need to be added.





@twoatlmoms - oooooverdue!





calsurb - June 4





@bigko - June 19





megd893- June 22





kevinandjesse-July 19





twotxmommies- July 27





rosieelk- August 2





jgy- August 21





karlamo- August 28





healz413 & manada- September 8







officerofthelaw- November 11





ionaerebor- November 23





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QOTW & Picture:  Do you have LO's nursery planned?  Theme, colours?  Add pictures if you've just started, are already done, or are somewhere in between

[megd893]

Good morning - I started the thread and expected to come back later to add... didn't think I'd still be first!

Today marks 33 weeks for me and the boy.
I just got back from a growth assessment ultrasound to have a peek at both the kidlet and my placenta. Usually, I can coax SOME information out of my tech, but not today as she had someone in training. So, I dont know size or growth or anything, but I am happy to know that he IS head down AND he has a full head of hair they expect We have our next doc appointment next week (Tuesday) to get results.

K and I picked up the boys car seat and installed it this weekend. VERY surreal... And, I seem to be having more and more of these... 'moments' making everything feel SO real. We packed up at K's sisters bridal shower Saturday and from deciding to leave to actually pulling out of the driveway was 10 minutes... TOPS. I looked at her and said "Do you realize how much harder it's going to be to leave ANYWHERE in 10 minutes when hes here??" Down to the wire now... 7 weeks left IF I go term... wow.

QOTW: We're pretty much set for the boy now... Crib's in, glider came, closet is organized etc. I finished making his mobile and hung it as well. We got a LOAD (I sorted through EIGHT diaper boxes) of clothes from Bro and SIL that their boys have grown out of and immediately were stocked for sleepers (thank goodness). Feeling... good... almost ready.

[healz413]

megd893, that's a fantastic nursery! Look at you go.

I have to say that I would be completely and totally unable to wait 8 days for the results. That said, I'm sure if there had been any concern they would have had the radiologist or on call OB meet with you immediately. These things are always easier to convince myself of in the abstract than when I'm sitting in my own life waiting for results.

manada and I are 21w6d today and things are going pretty well!.

Over the weekend we attended a queer prenatal class run at the local gay and lesbian community centre. It was fantastic. It was also really hard, especially Saturday which was spent talking about labor and triggered our memories of pre-term labour last year and my own fears about every little think I feel in my abdomen or pelvis being a sign of pre-term labour. It didn't help that I was gassy and that Rocky moved over to the right several inches during the course of the evening. Both of these things just made for that many more sensations to over-analyze. Also, on Sunday morning I stepped in a shallow hole and fell down while out with the dog. I fell on my knee and then rolled onto my hip (not at all on my pelvis or belly) so my rational brain knew it was no big deal but my PGAL brain got nervous. But Rocky gave me lots of little kicks throughout the day to let me know they were okay in there. And Sunday's part of the course was much less triggering. We left with some really good connections with other queer folks in our city who are due around the same time that we are. That was exciting.

This morning we had our placenta scan. (We requested this. There is a doctor in Toronto who runs the placenta clinic who is a big advocate of making the placenta scan the standard of care. We knew about this through one of our loss support groups, so we asked our midwife to make the referral). Everything looked good on the scan. We still have placenta previa, but it now appears to be marginal rather than complete. (This means the placenta is partially covering the cervix.) My cervix is still long and closed. The placenta has good blood flow and is a good size. And Rocky is measuring about half a week ahead (which is very good for our PGAL brains because larger premature babies have a better chance than smaller premature babies and our brains are still thinking in the "we might have pre-term labour" scheme of things.) As for the placenta previa, we will get another ultrasound in third trimester for this. If it's still there, then we will have a scheduled c-section.

QOTW: We have a lot of our baby room stuff acquired either because we'd already gotten for the twins or because we found it second hand over the last few months. The room isn't at all put together yet. We're using mostly white or pine-coloured furniture (where possible) with teal accents (including a teal bookshelf we got from Ikea). We probably won't paint, but we got some decals for wall and furniture.

This is our wall decal stuff (sorry for the promotional picture; it's all I could get from etsy)


The teal ones below are our furniture decals:



This is our crib (that's not our bedding; our bedding is an assortment of Target sheets and sheets my mom picked up at thrift stores):


This is our bookshelf/storage shelf. They used to make it in teal, which is what we have.


This is our dresser: 

Our change table is from Kijiji (like craigslist) and I don't have a picture.

[karlamo]

megd893, I love the colors and the closet.

I'm 23 weeks 4 days. We have MW appt tomorrow. They need to do another scan to check spine and kidney's since they didn't get the pictures they wanted from our A/S, then we have a MW appt.

On Friday night I think I may have felt Moka's hiccups. If that is what they were, they don't feel anything like what I felt on the outside with R. I was describing them to my wife and we laughed at how different they feel inside vs.outside.

QOTW: We are in the not even started phase of the nursery, lol. Baby Moka's room is our office which needs to be moved to the basement.
The walls are a sage green color that we'll keep. We have a rough idea on the crib and dresser that we need to buy. We bought the cadillac of all rocking chairs for R and barely used it so that is going in Moka's room. For the decor, still not sure. R's nursery never had a theme but instead we filled it with things that we love, so we may do the same or not. I think we'll really get started with it in June once we're back from vacay and in prepping mode.

[twotxmommies]

megd893 & healz413 - adorable set ups! Love the colors

We are 28 weeks today. Our glucose test and next apt is set for next Monday. I think this is a little late as I am in my 3rd trimester, but better late than never I guess.
We bought a new living room set this past week and are super excited to get it before LO gets here. One of the chairs is on back order and won’t arrive for 6-15 weeks!! Weird to think he could be here before that chair is! We are being told we will be spending a lot of time sitting and thought this was the perfect excuse to get some new digs! lol It was time anyways.

QOTW: His nursery has been painted (light grey & blue green), we have also purchased the changing table/dresser, Crib, night stand and lamp. My MIL is making the window covering and bedding from scratch so that is in the works. She is also getting the rug and chair for his room as a gift so we really don’t have much more in way of nursery to buy. She wants us to leave one day for a spa day and come home to it totally done. I have NO prob with that at all~! lol

[jgy]

We are 24w3d and trucking along. We're mostly over our CMV scare, though they are going to keep testing me at regular intervals so I have another blood draw on Wednesday that I'll be able to stress about for the following week or so. I've been getting truly exhausted lately, and I've been having a hard time with regulating my eating so every once in a while I'll get really dizzy. Yes, I'm nervous for the results of my glucose screening which I will have at my 28 week appointment ( twotxmommies, every group seems to have their own standard for when they test and my MW group is on pace with yours).

I'm ecstatic that I can finally feel Sticky Ricky kicking on a pretty regular basis. It's so calming to me. I just wish I wasn't quite as big as I am so early, but thus is the nature of second pregnancies, or so I've been told.

I was finally able to get into a pool on Sunday and so I'm hoping to slowly climb back onto the regular exercise train. Nothing crazy, just need to build my stamina back up a little bit more so I feel somewhat prepared for labor and birth. Here's hoping I can make it work time-wise!

QOTW: Ricky's nursery is officially finished and has been since about February of 2013. That's because he'll be sharing a room with Gabe. He'll be in a bassinet next to our bed for the first 6 months or so, and then we'll figure out how to reconfigure that tiny, tiny room to accommodate 2 small beings. We have bedrooms on the first level of our home (one is currently a den which we use a ton and the other is a makeshift playroom/office which also gets steady use), but we're not very comfortable having either child in a bedroom on the first level when we are upstairs. There are a variety of reasons for that, and we're also unwilling to give up our master bedroom and move ourselves downstairs so instead we'll be cramming them into the tiniest of rooms with no closet. Selfish? Perhaps. But sharing a room never killed a kid, right? Please tell me I'm right.

[karlamo]

jgy,"Selfish? Perhaps. But sharing a room never killed a kid, right? Please tell me I'm right."

I think you're in the clear for now. But when they're 7 and 9, that's when it could turn into the Hunger Games.

[calsurb]

I love reading these check ins! I'll be induced sometime during the week of May 25 (essentially one week ahead of my due date due to gestational diabetes). This past week the maternal fetal med dude put me on a 2x/daily glyburide to help with my higher sugar counts.

Our nursery is mostly done. We lack pictures or cliche phrases to hang on the wall! We have gray walls, and yellow chevron curtains that need to be hung. My wife took apart our pack and play and washed all the fabric pieces (we picked it up from a Facebook re-sell page in our area) and re-attached it all. The last thing we really need to do is pack the hospital bag. That'll come this week I hope!

[megd893]

calsurb - Is it acceptable that I just freaked out FOR you!? Week of May 25th! That's only 2.5 weeks away!! EEEEEEE!!!

[karlamo]

May 5, 2015 15:54:37 GMT -5 calsurb said:

I love reading these check ins! I'll be induced sometime during the week of May 25 (essentially one week ahead of my due date due to gestational diabetes). This past week the maternal fetal med dude put me on a 2x/daily glyburide to help with my higher sugar counts.

Our nursery is mostly done. We lack pictures or cliche phrases to hang on the wall! We have gray walls, and yellow chevron curtains that need to be hung. My wife took apart our pack and play and washed all the fabric pieces (we picked it up from a Facebook re-sell page in our area) and re-attached it all. The last thing we really need to do is pack the hospital bag. That'll come this week I hope!

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Good luck with everything! .

This is R's room. Grey walls, yellow curtains, pops of turquoise in the bedding. I like it. I'm also not a fan of kitchy nursery decor so we have original art work up along with a Rudy movie poster in honor of his namesake.

[kevinandjesse]

Sorry for the late check in! My Dad had a heart attack so ...we think he will be ok though. He'll have a procedure today to make sure everything is ok up there. fingers crossed.

In the world of pregnancy - things are going ok. Sky is kicking up a storm in there. We are 29w+3d now (wow! almost in the 30's!!!!) Glucose test came back normal so that's awesome!

What's not awesome is all our friends and family constantly asking, "Are you sure she (our surrogate) will still give up the baby?" "Are you sure she's not getting attached?" "Are you sure she won't try and keep it?" - oh... my... god... not helpful! Like it is not one of DH and my biggest fears! Anything could happen! - I know they're just curious and concerned for us out of love, but my god the stress it puts us under to be so constantly reminded of our worst fears. Everything will be ok. Everytime we talk about it with our surrogate all systems are still a go. She's still looking forward to not being pregnant. She's still excited to laugh at us being zombies and not sleeping as she sleeps the days away during maternity leave. Are we SURE of anything - heck no!!!! But I guess this is one of those situations where you just have to hope and have a little faith everything will work out ok... and I think it will. ... ok, rant over, sorry.

QOTW & Picture: Do you have LO's nursery planned? Theme,
colours? Add pictures if you've just started, are already done, or are somewhere in between

- We have a theme picked out and we are so excited to get decorating soon! We are hosting a foreign exchange student from Japan this year and he will be leaving June 15... which gives us exactly 4 weeks to transform that room from the den of a 17y/o boy to a peaceful and tranqual heaven of a newborn! Oy but we chose a woodland animals theme with starry night sky scene on the celing. We have absolutely no furnature or anything purchased yet really. Surrogacy is expensive to the extreme so when we open our wallets moths fly out. We are being selfish and crossing our fingers we get some good things at the baby shower. Ugh, the struggle is real

[healz413]

kevinandjesse, your family and friends' questions do sound super stress-inducing!

Everything will be ok. I believe it with you.

Friends of mine just had a baby via a surrogate this weekend and they are now happily raising that baby at home. Of course we need to be aware of the things that can go wrong, but the movies really mislead us in how likely any of that is. You're going to get your baby soon! 29w3d--wow!
Congrats!!

[officerofthelaw]

I am late to posting, just got back from our baby moon yesterday. Received our Panorama testing results back and the baby is healthy, no chromosomal issues. And the baby is a BOY! Now that I am in my second trimester, the side effects are subsiding, I still occasionally get nausea and heartburn. No throwing up. I have not been emotional once during my pregnancy. In my heart I knew it was a boy but I wanted a girl. Either way, it's a healthy baby and I am going to be mom which makes me very excited!!!

[karlamo]

kevinandjesse, That's exactly what you don't need to hear right now. They need to step away from Lifetime. I'm sure you have legal documents drawn up so I wouldn't be spending too much energy worrying.

I'm also sorry to hear about your family. Hope he's doing ok and it's not too serious.

@officetofthelaw, congrats on having a healthy boy. As a mom to a son, I wouldn't trade it for the world. I love having a son.

[rosieelk]

I'm always so late checking in! I am 27 weeks and 4 days today, so we have reached viability! I'm honestly so happy I can't say. We went out for dinner on Monday to celebrate it was so nice. I have a scan tomorrow which I'm really excited about. It probably won't have all that much stuff happening, but we'll find out how big baby is and if baby is still measuring a week ahead.

QOTW: The nursery is yellow with mainly pine furniture. So far, we've only finished painting it and got a set of drawers up, but we've got some furniture sitting in it ready to be set up as well. It's actually very plain, but the walls are chalk walls, so we've got chalk so we can draw on them when baby arrives.

[kevinandjesse]

May 7, 2015 6:56:48 GMT -5 officerofthelaw said:

I am late to posting, just got back from our baby moon yesterday. Received our Panorama testing results back and the baby is healthy, no chromosomal issues. And the baby is a BOY! Now that I am in my second trimester, the side effects are subsiding, I still occasionally get nausea and heartburn. No throwing up. I have not been emotional once during my pregnancy. In my heart I knew it was a boy but I wanted a girl. Either way, it's a healthy baby and I am going to be mom which makes me very excited!!!

Congrats on a healthy baby boy!!!

[kevinandjesse]

May 7, 2015 10:13:04 GMT -5 rosieelk said:

I'm always so late checking in! I am 27 weeks and 4 days today, so we have reached viability! I'm honestly so happy I can't say. We went out for dinner on Monday to celebrate it was so nice. I have a scan tomorrow which I'm really excited about. It probably won't have all that much stuff happening, but we'll find out how big baby is and if baby is still measuring a week ahead.

QOTW: The nursery is yellow with mainly pine furniture. So far, we've only finished painting it and got a set of drawers up, but we've got some furniture sitting in it ready to be set up as well. It's actually very plain, but the walls are chalk walls, so we've got chalk so we can draw on them when baby arrives.

I love that idea!!! Chalk walls are so cool  and congrats on 27 weeks!!!