This is by far my hardest pregnancy. With evie I was super sick but after about 16 weeks started to feel good. Wore heels the entire time, never felt achy. Nothing. With Caz I wasn't even sick. I was fine. And didn't even feel that tired.
This time around I'm only half way done and my hips ache, My feet hurt, my back hurts by like 7 every night. My skin is awful, I'm ENORMOUS, and I have constant heartburn. This kid better be solid gold.
However, this time around H has been awesome. Kids go to daycare mon wed and fri and I work from home. So h gets up with them, gives them breakfast, gets them dressed and takes them to daycare and I get to sleep until 9 when I start working. I'll take it.
Post by cookiesandwine on Feb 13, 2015 12:39:56 GMT -5
My A/S isn't for two weeks. THAT FEELS LIKE FOREVER, AND I FEEL LIKE I'VE ALREADY BEEN PREGNANT FOREVER. AND I JUST WANT TO EAT FAST FOOD AND NO VEGETABLES.
cookiesandwine you and I need to seriously eat all the food together... give me all the fast food and all the tacos/nachos the world has to offer. I think part of it is that I'm super lazy lately and don't want to cook. Even though MIL has been cooking most nights!
cookiesandwine you and I need to seriously eat all the food together... give me all the fast food and all the tacos/nachos the world has to offer. I think part of it is that I'm super lazy lately and don't want to cook. Even though MIL has been cooking most nights!
trixi282 I'm just finishing up at Taco Bell and willing to wait for you if you want to join. Oh and I had DQ last night. Pregnancy-FC....?
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Post by britbratjf on Feb 13, 2015 15:50:35 GMT -5
Along the fast food....I crave Wendys allll the time. I don't know why but I'm loving it this pregnancy. Their fries are really salty & I think that's what does it.
Surprisingly I haven't craved any fast food this time. I'm hungry all the time but nothing ever really sounds good unless it involves me putting peanut butter on it. My indigestion, gas, and bloating have been terrible this time around too but I have found if I drink a cup of decaf peppermint tea it really helps.
Surprisingly I haven't craved any fast food this time. I'm hungry all the time but nothing ever really sounds good unless it involves me putting peanut butter on it. My indigestion, gas, and bloating have been terrible this time around too but I have found if I drink a cup of decaf peppermint tea it really helps.
My bloating is really bad too. I hadnt thought to try peppermint tea.
Because I am genuinely curious & bored today...how does your current pregnancy symptom-wise, (or for those no longer pregnant your second pregnancy) compare to your pregnancy symptom-wise with your J12 baby?
So far I feel like this pregnancy has had a lot more symptoms than the first time around. With Robin, I had basically no symptoms in first trimester other than being a little extra tired and some slight nausea around weeks 8-10, and sore boobs for a few weeks. This time I get nauseated multiple times a day, especially in the afternoon in the stretch between lunch and dinner. At the same time, I find that I have very little appetite and a lot more food aversions. The idea of any cold food at all completely turns me off (except in the morning, when I only want cereal) and I find I have very little appetite most of the day. I'm also way more bloated this time around--my pants stopped fitting right at 8 weeks--and I think my skin has been worse this time around. It's also been hard because I got back-to-back sinus infections so I've been sick and that's been contributing to everything as well, I think especially exhaustion. Every day around 2pm I crash and could seriously take a nap at my desk. And my boobs are sore and already huge.
As far as my H, I feel like he's been more supportive/understanding this time around. Because he didn't know what to expect when I was pregnant with Robin, I think there were a lot of things that he thought I was just complaining about or being lazy. This time around I think he understands better that it's all because of the pregnancy. He's still working on learning to keep the house going, but he's definitely trying harder this time around.
I see some similarities and some differences- with Tommy I had nausea all day and forced myself to eat. This time I'll get hungry and if I don't eat I'll get really, really nauseous. I hated chocolate with T and hate it again. With T I remember that grilled cheese was like the only thing I could eat. This time grilled cheese sounds gross. Just want bagels, cheerios and orange juice. My boobs are huge again and I'm just as tired. I think my skin is worse this time though.
Along the fast food....I crave Wendys allll the time. I don't know why but I'm loving it this pregnancy. Their fries are really salty & I think that's what does it.
For me it is a chick-fil-a chicken sandwich. I love them with extra pickles.
Along the fast food....I crave Wendys allll the time. I don't know why but I'm loving it this pregnancy. Their fries are really salty & I think that's what does it.
For me it is a chick-fil-a chicken sandwich. I love them with extra pickles.
More "fast-casual" but I'm loving some dibellas cheesesteaks. Yum!
So I bought a maternity belt about a week ago and while it seems to help a bit with my hips, it hasn't really been doing too much for the pressure on my varicose veins/crotch overall. I still have a hard time spending more than 5 minutes at a time on my feet. I just bought what looks like a female jock strap because I've read great things about it...never in a million years would I have thought this is what I would be searching Amazon for on a Sunday morning...or ever for that matter.
Post by cookiesandwine on Feb 15, 2015 17:00:08 GMT -5
rollerrink I'm right there with ya on crying all day. My eyes feel sore now. That's kind of shitty of your dcp to text that the day before. I hope she at least doesn't expect to be paid for tomorrow.
rollerrink I'm right there with ya on crying all day. My eyes feel sore now. That's kind of shitty of your dcp to text that the day before. I hope she at least doesn't expect to be paid for tomorrow.
No, fortunately we only pay for the days he's there. I get it- none of the other kids are going to be there, so she'd like the day with her own family (it's an in-home). A bit more of a heads-up would've been nice. Sigh...
rollerrink ugh girl...sorry about your DCP texting you only the day before that sucks, especially when you were planning to get a bunch of stuff accomplished.
You all can add me to your list of crying pregnant ladies (and I am not a crier at all)...I just feel so overwhelmed with work and all the home stuff (ice, water, leaking, damage issues) and then trying to deal with everything while being in so much pain is really just getting to me. And on top of everything I just can't handle the stupid pyogenic granuloma on my lip anymore. I feel like it is all I see when I look in the mirror and I am so self-conscious that people are staring at it and I just keep focusing on it and it's not helping the situation. It looks like it has gotten bigger and when I was at my OBs last week she was all like "wow...is that really bothering you?" and she made such a big deal about it and then was like "I'm sure no one will do anything about it for you now though." Great thanks lady. Tell me something I don't know. She did tell me that if it was really bothering me that I can make an appointment with a dermatologist to just see what they have to say but I probably wouldn't find one that could see me for a few months anyways but it would be good to at least get on their books now. So since I've never been to one before I spent all morning calling places that I found through my insurance and no one is accepting new patients. So naturally I cried every time I hung up the phone because that was the reasonable thing to do...and then I did finally find one and of course if I want to see a doctor I have to wait like 3 months. So I took an appointment to see an NP on Thursday so I am hoping that at least this will get my foot in the door and give me some sort of opinion on the whole thing. If anything maybe get on their schedule to have it removed after I deliver. I know it is vain but it is just so gross and it is just really bothering me.
Post by rollerrink on Feb 16, 2015 11:17:44 GMT -5
laurski81 - I'm sure we'd all feel the same way. I think you've got a great perspective thinking that if anything you might able to get it removed sooner than if you had waited to schedule anything until after you delivered. Ugh. Hugs. I'm sorry this pregnancy has been so rough.
Ugh, laurski81, derms are such a PITA to get an appointment with! The sad thing is, most times you only see the actual doc for like 5 minutes anyway!! How many patients do they actually have?!?!
I hope the NP can at least give you a sense of if they can do anything before baby comes or not... and maybe, just maybe you can get in with a doc (now that you have an appt. scheduled) if someone cancels.
When it rains it pours, and it sucks that it has literally poured into your house, when all this other crap is going on - you've had a rough go the last few weeks... hang in there mama! ((HUGS))
Post by cookiesandwine on Feb 16, 2015 12:05:30 GMT -5
Rawr, I don't even want to get started on how much I hate derms lately. We all go to a HUGE clinic that has like 15 locations and a zillion doctors, so my OBGYN was telling me that a year or so ago, all the OB's got together and threw a shit fit because they would need to refer pregnant patients to derm, and then they'd have a 3 month wait. So now the Derms have to keep open a few appointments for the OB referrals. Not that it helped me anyway because she saw me for like 30 seconds and threw antibiotics at me without really knowing what I had/have. I hope the NP you're seeing has some good advice for you laurski81!
Ugh cookiesandwine, your story makes me stabby too... I can't believe she just resolved to antibiotics after barely seeing you. Such a mess, and you said the other day that the lotion that you bought was helping anyway, so WTH lady?!?!
Are you all still able to lift your July kiddos? I don't know if it's just my muscles stretching but it's killing my hips and back to lift Mirabelle and she's only 23 lbs. also she seems super needy lately; anyone else noticing that with their LO?
Well when until recently I did pick her up a little, but I usually pawn her off on H or someone else if I can. She is getting heavier, and is finally up to 30lb... So I had to keep telling her I would hold her but couldn't carry her... Especially up the stairs!
Recently though, I've been on restricted activity because of my procedures, so its been tough at times, but I remind her about my "owie" on my belly and tell her we can cuddle, but that I can't pick her up.
Post by cookiesandwine on Feb 17, 2015 7:44:11 GMT -5
I still carry her occasionally but I do get weird muscle twinges and can tell when I've strained too much. When H and I are together though, I do try to pass her off to H.
Henry is 35lbs and I still carry him around. For the most part he will walk everywhere but with all the snow and ice up here and getting him in and out of the car there really isn't much I can do. If my H is home I make sure he is in charge of carting him around if he needs to be picked up but I still do it quite a bit because he is really clingy with me. Surprisingly it doesn't strain me to much...even with all my varicose vein/swelling problems.
I have a tough time bending down to get her. So I make her get on a chair or something to get her, but I can't carry her for too long. Otherwise I get super winded wicked fast.
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Post by britbratjf on Feb 17, 2015 10:38:42 GMT -5
I can still pick her up & carry her (though not for long since she's 30lbs) but I'm working on not doing it. I won't be able to for too much longer & once I have the baby I'm going to be carrying the baby so I won't be able to do both. So I'm working on her walking & holding my hand, going up & down the stairs by herself, etc.
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