Weekly Check In - August 29

[requiressnacks]

Week/Team/Fruit:

Appointments this week:

Symptoms:

Rants/Raves/Questions:

GTKY: Would you or have you relocated for love? Why/Why not?

[fikafairy67]

Week/Team/Fruit: 23w4d/team PINK/no clue

Appointments this week: Every week! heading for another scan today, and praying that it's below 1.4.

Symptoms: achiness at the end of the day if I've done too much, and still heartburn with the wrong foods.

Rants/Raves/Questions: I know that my immune system is compromised being pregnant, but for the love of god I wish I could take some sudafed.

GTKY: Would you or have you relocated for love? Why/Why not? Never have... I would have for DH, but we never needed to. In the future if he gets some crazy job offer then we might consider it, but both of our families are nearby.

[requiressnacks]

Week/Team/Fruit: 26 weeks/Purple/Bowling Pins

Appointments this week: Nada. But I do need to schedule a repeat 1 hour Glucose test

Symptoms: Generally feeling run-down, swollen feet/ankles

Rants/Raves/Questions: @kc295905, I've been thinking a lot of my friend who delivered her twins at 27 weeks. I can't imagine having outside babies next week. It's amazing what modern science can do!

GTKY: Would you or have you relocated for love? Why/Why not? I never have, but I probably would have for DH. I did move about an hour away when we met because he owned a house and I rented. Now I have a shitty commute, which I love to remind him of.

[Deleted]

Week/Team/Fruit:23w3d/Pink/Bunch of Grapes


Appointments this week: 24w appointment with ob/gyn on Friday.


Symptoms: Oye the constipation. Trying to up my fiber this week to see if that helps. Also my hip has been acting up, but I started back at acupuncture so I'm hoping that will help.


Rants/Raves/Questions: Old Navy full panel pants can suck it. They do not stay up and have a weird saggy crotch.


GTKY: Would you or have you relocated for love? Why/Why not? We moved to where we are because of Dh's job. I teach so I can pretty much go anywhere. I really wish his job was in a cheaper area though.

[brit365]

Week/Team/Fruit: 25/blue/cauliflower


Appointments this week: none until next week


Symptoms: Heartburn and reflux is killing me. Last night I threw up a bunch of acid while washing my face because I guess I was bent over too long. That was nice.


Rants/Raves/Questions: Why is it that when you are pregnant you hear about every pregnancy and birthing horror story imaginable? I live in a very small town, like the kind where we only have one high school in our county and the graduating class is around 80. Well, two girls from my home town have had to deliver at 26 weeks in the past month!! There have also been many other terrible horrible stories too that I won't even get into on here. But it has my anxiety at an all time high!! Additionally a woman I work with talks WEEKLY about "ripping from adam's apple to @$$hole". She's a real peach.


GTKY: Would you or have you relocated for love? Why/Why not? I kind of did for my ex-husband, obviously that didn't work out, but if I hadn't done that I wouldn't have met my current husband probably.

[requiressnacks]

Aug 29, 2016 9:59:48 GMT -5 brit365 said:

Rants/Raves/Questions: Why is it that when you are pregnant you hear about every pregnancy and birthing horror story imaginable? I live in a very small town, like the kind where we only have one high school in our county and the graduating class is around 80. Well, two girls from my home town have had to deliver at 26 weeks in the past month!! There have also been many other terrible horrible stories too that I won't even get into on here. But it has my anxiety at an all time high!! Additionally a woman I work with talks WEEKLY about "ripping from adam's apple to @$$hole". She's a real peach.

OMG.

[tbonequeen13]

Week/Team/Fruit: 24...yay viability age!/pink/corn


Appointments this week: regular OB appt tomorrow and the follow-up anatomy scan on Wed (please cooperate this time, kid!)


Symptoms: some sciatic pain...we walked around the aquarium Sat and I'm still sore from it...Disney World for 10 days is gonna kill me, lol


Rants/Raves/Questions: nope


GTKY: Would you or have you relocated for love? Why/Why not? I have...DH and I ived together in the same city until I went away to college, but we didn't date until the end of my freshman year of college (I came home for the summer)...so when I graduated college I decided to move back to be with him instead of staying where my friends and possible jobs were. I don't regret it- he was totally worth it.

[Winnifred]

Week/Team/Fruit: 25/pink/popped bag of popcorn - that's a fruit, right?

Appointments this week: Nope

Symptoms: Not much, heartburn and constipation have subsided for now.

Rants/Raves/Questions: I'm tired today and I cannot wait for the weekend to get started. So. much. relaxation. ahead. Also, does anyone else try to picture your baby in your stomach and just feel like that's completely impossible? Like if I had this baby today, I feel like I'd be totally shocked at her size (of course in addition to having a baby today, that would be the ultimate shocker).

GTKY: Only if it was somewhere I could actually see myself living. If I hated the location it would probably be really hard to stay together and not want to go back to my 'old life.' The more I think about it, I did relocate to move closer to my H, then fiance when we were in college. I was really ready to move somewhere new anyway so it wasn't a huge leap. I'd almost totally forgotten about that. We still live here today, can't imagine going back home!

brit365, I'll never figure out why anyone feels the need to bombard a pregnant woman with stories of preemies or pregnancies gone wrong. How do they not understand how those stories make you feel?! Idiots.

[requiressnacks]

Winnifred, I totally get what you're saying! I was massaging my tummy last night to try to feel where the heads are. Like, the doctor tells me there's two babies in there - but I have no idea "where" exactly they are!

[hmr11913]

Week/Team/Fruit: 25, GREEN, “Small bag of sugar” (not a fruit, but was interesting!)

Appointments this week: none

Symptoms: sore lower back/hips on occasion, heartburn is back (yay me) which causes a ton of “gaggi-ness” and just general yucky feeling, stuffy nose, peeing like I’ve been out all night on a bender!

Rants/Raves/Questions: So we have always used pampers swaddlers and then pampers wipes… well the diapers come w/ a little sticker w/ the rewards code – the wipes box also mentions the rewards but I never had the sticker in the box so figured they didn’t have one. Fast forward to almost FIFTEEN months of buying wipies, someone told me the code is on each individual pack of wipes (on the back)……. Are you f*cking kidding me! It pisses me off how many rewards I’ve missed out on – screw you pampers for being sneaky.

GTKY: Would you or have you relocated for love? Why/Why not? DH and I live within a few miles of both of our parents – and my brother/SIL/niece are all about 45 minutes away so I could never move far away…. DH wouldn’t either, so it’s not even a question.

fikafairy67 – I hope the scan went well today!!! I’ve also been stuffed lately.

requiressnacks – ugh, at least they’re not making you do the 3 hour one! I also have a shitty commute (45 min one way) and I always make sure that DH doesn’t forget it.

brit365 – Oh the terrible birthing stories…… when I was just pass 30 weeks a coworker of mine told me about her niece who had lost her baby during delivery… as if that wasn’t already a concern of anyone that is having a baby. I don’t know why people think it’s okay to say things like that to someone, let alone someone that is currently pregnant and probably already thinks of the things that can go wrong.

[requiressnacks]

hmr11913, I'm sorry you've missed all those rewards! But now I'll know to look out for it. Are the rewards decent?

[Winnifred]

requiressnacks, exactly! And LOL I was totally trying to find her yesterday, too. I read that around 7/8 months you can sometimes understand their position just by feeling around, but I just felt the fat...

hmr11913, ugh! Seriously? Why would someone tell you about a loss during birth? I read a blog yesterday about a baby born sleeping at full term, and it really freaked me out. After all we've been through, I don't know how I'd survive that. I'm officially steering clear of anything like that from here on out.

[hmr11913]

Aug 29, 2016 13:44:46 GMT -5 requiressnacks said:

hmr11913 , I'm sorry you've missed all those rewards! But now I'll know to look out for it. Are the rewards decent?

I don't think I had started entering them right away .... new mom brain fog, however I've been doing them for awhile and have just over 1,200 points now. I think I had used them on some little toy or something before... I can't remember. But you can view the rewards here if you're interesting in taking a peak! I think the diapers are around 100 points or so each "bag".. so like the kind I buy have 2 bags in each box. I scored a ton of good deals during amazon prime days and then target just had a deal where if you spent $100 you got a $25 gift card, so i made 2 separate purchases and got $50 back! I think we're set for awhile. This baby better tolerate Pampers!! 

EDIT: forgot link for requiressnacks,
www.pampers.com/en-us/rewards/catalog

[hmr11913]

I don't know how anyone survives something like that. I can't read things like that since having had G, too scary and sad. Winnifred,

[hmr11913]

I almost forgot my biggest rave............... G is WALKING! Everyones been asking for months now when she's going to walk (she will be 15 months on Thursday) --- she's been cruising along the walls/furniture for a long time now and would walk with your finger, however she's now walking unassisted. It's so crazy how quickly she's picked it up and gained that confidence in the last few days... it's so weird to see her little body walking around the house!

[Becca]

Week/Team/Fruit: 25w6d/Purple/Napa cabbage

Appointments this week: Nothing again until mid September

Symptoms: Heart burn is starting to kick in

Rants/Raves/Questions: Nothing this week

GTKY: Would you or have you relocated for love? Why/Why not? I haven't yet, but if DH was every to change jobs I would need to. I've told him I would go almost anywhere, he just needs to make sure he would be making enough money that I wouldn't need to work

[ImAPepper]

Week/Team/Fruit: 25, blue, napa cabbage

Appointments: none

Symptoms: I get tired more easily these days! And the heartburn is out of this world! Also getting achy all over at the end of the day

Rants/Raves/Questions: anyone else's DH/SO driving them nuts these days? I don't remember it being like this with DD. @cahistoryteacher I can't get ANY of my maternity pants to stay up! 😫

GTKY: I would move without question!

[Lucy]

Week/Team/Fruit:24/Pink/Small eggplant, I think

Appointments this week: Had a B12 shot today, and my regular OB appt on Friday, along with a crap ton of blood work

Symptoms: Some of these baby acrobatics are getting downright uncomfortable. She goes from stretched way out so she's kicking me under the ribs, to curling into a ball behind my belly button. It's kind of nuts.

Rants/Raves/Questions: SCHOOL STARTS ON THURSDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will be that mom jumping with joy like the facebook photos on Thursday morning.

GTKY: Would you or have you relocated for love? Why/Why not? I might. I mean, I would now for H (we've been together since 2001 -- so I should probably say yes, lol) but I guess it depends on how committed the relationship was. I wouldn't move for someone I was just dating.

[lola]

Lucy I'm getting the acrobatics too! I can tell sometimes that she's balled up right in the center behind my belly button because my stomach changes shape. But if I'm on my side, she's kicking right inside my hip bone over and over.

[mrsp121308]

Week/Team/Fruit: 26w3d/pink/butternut squash

Appointments this week: My last 2nd tri appointment is Friday!! Holy crap, I'll be in 3rd Tri next week. 😳

Symptoms: sore back and hips but overall feeling really good

Rants/raves/questions: I'm getting terrified of the WHEN. When will I go into labor. Will I be at school in class, because that puts me 40 minutes away from DH and on my own and then another 35 minutes from the hospital?! I'm freaking out already.

GTKY: Would you or have you relocated for love? Why/why not? I haven't. DH and I went to high school together and have been together since then. But I would have had the love of my life lived somewhere else.

[sheepish]

@cahistoryteacher, I've had similar issues with the full panel pants - they don't stay up very well and have a weird sort of poochiness at the bottom of the panel/top of the crotch area. What I've found works well this week is to fold down the full panel so that it is working like a low panel - they stay up well and the folded over panel smooths down the weird pooch.

Here are before and after pictures of me in a pair of gap maternity pants, which in my experience are cut about the same as Old Navy's


Pre-fold over with weird front pooch


Post-fold


And a view from the front

[tbonequeen13]

Follow up anatomy scan looked great! Little girl cooperated and they said everything looks good- I even got to see her little face in 3D even though they couldn't get her in a good position to print that picture.

[lola]

Week/Team/Fruit: 25/Pink/Bag of Popcorn (popped!)

Appointments this week: None until my 27 week appointment on Sept. 15 for gestational diabetes test and Rh factor shot appointment, along with regular appointment.

Symptoms: I think maybe I'm carrying low, or baby is just getting much bigger, because my bathroom break need has increased quite a bit. Otherwise, feeling good with the usual stuffy nose and nosebleeds.

Rants/Raves/Questions: Just terrified to be seeing all of the fall items hitting the stores. SLOW DOWN! I'm still mentally preparing for a baby over here. Once Halloween hits, it's going to be a whirlwind.

GTKY: Would you or have you relocated for love? Why/Why not? My husband and I relocated for his job (and I left my awesome job behind) a few years ago, but to be fair, we were moving back to my favorite city, within driving distance of my family, so it was a win for both of us. We recently had the opportunity to relocate again for his job and ultimately decided it was not the right decision for us for a number of reasons. But in the right circumstances, I would.

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lola,they legit had Wal Marts holiday toy list on the news this morning. Not cool. I'm ok with the fall stuff, but it's still way too early for Christmas stuff.

[lola]

@cahistoryteacher, NOOOO! The only thing I actually want to purchase ASAP is a new stocking for the baby, but of course, that's the one thing not yet available at Pottery Barn.

[requiressnacks]

Sept 1, 2016 15:38:36 GMT -5 lola said:

@cahistoryteacher, NOOOO! The only thing I actually want to purchase ASAP is a new stocking for the baby, but of course, that's the one thing not yet available at Pottery Barn.

I was just talking about getting Christmas stockings at PB! I'm surprised they aren't out yet.

[lola]

requiressnacks, I know! So far I only see the plain velvet ones, but I need the plaid ones with the velvet tops! I'm assuming they'll go up after Labor Day maybe?

[hmr11913]

If you have a Hobby Lobby near you - they have TONS of Christmas items out!!!!