Pregnant Check-in Jan. 9

[DVMmomma]

I can't believe how fast time goes sometimes. 

Week/Team/Fruit:

Appointments this week:

Symptoms:

Rants/Raves/Questions:

GTKY: If you could splurge on one thing for yourself right now, what would it be? 

@wineandcupcakes - Twins due February
nomnom - B/G Twins due February
@jacks605 - B/G Twins due February
HeyMrsPotter - Twins due February
callmeKD – B/G twins due March
dukegirlsc - B/G twins due March
nic1231 – B/G twins due April
mustloveerica - Twins due April
LydiaDeetz - Twin girls due April
DVMmomma - Twin girls due April
fightersince83 – Triplet boys due May
river - Twins due May
lch1309 - Twins due May
Run20K - B/G Twins due May
lastkiss - Twins due May
lindsay - Twins due June
lotusbee - Twins due June
Crisco Salad - Twins due July
twotxmommies - Twins due July

[mustloveerica]

Week/Team/Fruit: 27weeks/team double pink/two heads of cauliflower

Appointments this week: GTT tomorrow, OB checkup Thursday

Symptoms: I think I've been having BH contractions? It's like all of a sudden I feel like I have a reallly tight belt across my belly button. Lasts for a minute or until I move around a bit. BH?

Rants/Raves/Questions: see above

GTKY: If you could splurge on one thing for yourself right now, what would it be? New living room furniture. DH and I went looking this weekend but I couldn't justify buying furniture for a room we really never use. Probably when the tv room becomes a more kid centric room we will splurge on adult living room furniture for the other room.

[nomnom]

Week/Team/Fruit: 33w3d, team purple, don't even care anymore what fruit

Appointments this week: Nothing until next week.

Symptoms: Not much has changed compared to last week. I might be retaining water (about that time). I need to drink more water.

Rants/Raves/Questions: For those with other young kids, how do you keep them occupied when you're watching them solo, especially if they're kind of sick.

GTKY: If you could splurge on one thing for yourself right now, what would it be? Whole house organizing and cleaning help. I want to tell someone what I want and they make it happen.

[DVMmomma]

Week/Team/Fruit: 24 / double pink / ears of corn

Appointments this week: Ultrasound tomorrow. I think it's supposed to be a growth scan because my last appointment was one of those quick ones but I think I'm scheduled for a quick one again. We'll see!

Symptoms: Sleep, oh precious sleep, please come back to me!

Rants/Raves/Questions: Why hello, viability day!

GTKY: If you could splurge on one thing for yourself right now, what would it be? Painters and an interior designer to redo a few rooms in my house (especially my laundry room!). I can easily do it myself but I'm too lazy.

[fightersince83]

Week/Team/Fruit: 21+1, team blue, cantaloupe
Appt this week: I see the MFM on Thursday
Symptoms: sore, tired
Rants/Raves/Questions: so my mom moved here to help us. We needed help now since I'm on bed rest. She found out she needs surgery and they just called saying they can do it this Friday. Better now than later, but we still aren't quite sure how we're going to manage all this without help right now. We'll figure it out though

ETA: QOTW: If I could splurge on something it would be weekly massages. Even going every two weeks is not often enough. This mama hurts

[nic1231]

Week/Team/Fruit: 27+5/team purple/camping laterns

Appointments this week: 28 week on weds

Symptoms: so stinking uncomfortable. Braxton hicks have started too

Rants/Raves/Questions: there is a sensitive spot on my upper stomach, every piece of clothing that touches it makes me want to cry.

GTKY: If you could splurge on one thing for yourself right now, what would it be?
Fun hair cut and crazy color

[Deleted]

Week/Team/Fruit: 35w 3days/ team purple

Appointments this week: Had 1st NST today, 2nd Thursday, 36 week OB and U/S Friday. This week is my start of 3 appts per week now...ugh!

Symptoms: Ready. Tired of not sleeping well, skin on my stomach actually hurts from stretching, carpel tunnel and low back pain. Sorry whiney at this point....

Rants/Raves/Questions: See above. Would love to figure out how to safely induce.

GTKY: If you could splurge on one thing for yourself right now, what would it be?
Weekly spa treatments- hair/massages/mania AND pedis.

[callmeKD]

@jacks605 I'm dealing with the carpal tunnel too. It's awful. I've been wearing wrist braces 24/7.

[callmeKD]

Week: 32, purple
Appts: BPP and NST on Wed
Symptoms: swelling in feet is bad today. Mainly because I was at the office all day and didn't have a chance to elevate my feet.
Rants: I need to get my butt in gear with work stuff. Must stop procrastinating.
GTKY: I'm splurging in 90 min prenatal massages. I had 1 on Sat and booked another in 2 weeks.

[DVMmomma]

mustloveerica, sounds like BH. Should be non painful. Should go away like you said. Shouldn't be terribly regular though I've had days of like 10 in a row if I'm working a long shift.

[fightersince83]

DVMmomma congrats on reaching v-day!

[Crisco Salad]

Week/Team/Fruit: 15+2/finding out/apples

Appointments this week: MFM tomorrow for a cervix check. Hopefully this appointment will be less than 4 hours long like the last one.

Symptoms: Nothing. I'm feeling pretty good.

Rants/Raves/Questions: Coffee finally appeals to me again! It's decaf, but I missed my morning cup every morning, especially in the winter.

GTKY: If you could splurge on one thing for yourself right now, what would it be? Packers and movers to get our house in order and ready to sell. We are about 2 months out from our move and I'm incredibly overwhelmed.

[Run20K]

Week/Team/Fruit: 18 / Purple / Sweet Potato

Appointments this week: Anatomy scan on Thursday morning

Symptoms: Sore (but just started using a sleep pillow to help), tired, lethargic, harder to go from sitting to standing, just starting to slow down in general

Rants/Raves/Questions: I'm very nervous about this week's a/s. I just want both babies to be healthy!

QTKY: I'd splurge on a minivan (Sienna) with all of the options.

[Crisco Salad]

Ok, I have a question. I've never heard the heartbeats for these babies. My OB uses an ultrasound to check for heartbeat and size. Is this weird? Does your OB listen to heartbeats?

[nomnom]

Crisco Salad They check heartbeats every appointment at least with a portable doppler.

[fightersince83]

Crisco Salad My OB and MFM both use u/s for the hbs. They can let you listen to the hb via u/s, just ask them at the next appt.

[Crisco Salad]

I will ask at my MFM appointment tomorrow.

Thanks fightersince83, nomnom, I knew it was kind of weird.

[dukegirlsc]

Week/Team/Fruit: 28 weeks/ B/G twins/ tropical coconut

Appointments this week: Saw MFM and OB on Monday

Symptoms: Lower lumbar pain, all over belly pain, general puffiness

Rants/Raves/Questions: Our 28 week scan went well except that baby boy has his head behind his sisters head wedged in by my right hip! So no cute profile or 3D pics for us! They were finally able to get their measurements baby girl weighed 2lb11oz and baby boy 2lb9oz. So far so good!

GTKY: If you could splurge on one thing for yourself right now, what would it be?

If there was someone that could come in and purge and organize my house AND sell everything at a yard sale that would be awesome and I'd splurge on that! But purging and organizing has to be done by me, which just sucks!

[DVMmomma]

Crisco Salad not really the same thing but I work with some people who just cannot stand the actual sound of heart beats and prefer to just see the wave form. It's really potato/potatoe at the end of the day as long as they get a rate and a 4 chamber view. I agree with fightersince83 though. If you want to hear it, they can easily turn on the doppler and the sound via the ultrasound next time.

[dukegirlsc]

DVMmomma thanks for the check in! Happy viability day, I hope the U/S went well!
mustloveerica I hope your GTT goes well!
nomnom I hope everyone is feeling better!
fightersince83 I hope your mom's surgery goes well and she has a quick recovery!
nic1231 I feel you on the uncomfortable part!
@jacks605 3 appointments a week, wow! Not too much longer!
callmeKD 32 weeks! Awesome milestone reached!
Crisco Salad How often are they checking your cervix? Is there a reason? Also every time I have an u/s they isolate and play the HB for us to hear, hopefully they will do that for you too!
Run20K GL with your anatomy scan!

[fightersince83]

Jan 10, 2017 14:59:36 GMT -5 Crisco Salad said:

I will ask at my MFM appointment tomorrow.

Thanks fightersince83, nomnom, I knew it was kind of weird.

It's not super weird. I'm sure they measure the hbs at your appts. When you see the bar with all the peaks pop up on the u/s screen they are measuring the hb. They don't need the audio on to do it. Just a lot of Dr's will turn it on at least once so you can hear it.

[Crisco Salad]

Jan 10, 2017 18:10:23 GMT -5 fightersince83 said:

Jan 10, 2017 14:59:36 GMT -5 Crisco Salad said:

I will ask at my MFM appointment tomorrow.

Thanks fightersince83 , nomnom , I knew it was kind of weird.

It's not super weird. I'm sure they measure the hbs at your appts. When you see the bar with all the peaks pop up on the u/s screen they are measuring the hb. They don't need the audio on to do it. Just a lot of Dr's will turn it on at least once so you can hear it.

Oh I know they measure it, I've seen them do it. I am just used to hearing the heartbeat at every appointment and thought it was a little strange that this doc doesn't do that. Maybe when I get further along they will. 

[Crisco Salad]

dukegirlsc they are measuring my cervix every two weeks until 24 weeks. I had what they called a "dynamic cervix" during my singleton pregnancy where it would get longer and shorter and longer and shorter resulting in bedrest starting at 27 weeks. They are just measuring to be safe this time.

[callmeKD]

Crisco Salad - my OB tried the doppler at every appt but usually she couldn't find Baby B's HB. so then we would do a quick look on the U/S. I think since about 24 weeks she has been able to consistently find both HBs on the doppler.

[Crisco Salad]

Jan 10, 2017 19:59:01 GMT -5 callmeKD said:

Crisco Salad - my OB tried the doppler at every appt but usually she couldn't find Baby B's HB. so then we would do a quick look on the U/S. I think since about 24 weeks she has been able to consistently find both HBs on the doppler.

I guess it still could be too early. 

This is my first experience with an OB. I saw a midwife when I was pregnant with my son so I feel like I have a bit of a skewed sense of normalcy. 

[Deleted]

@willy - My OB doesn't even try to hear the heartbeat with her Doppler this time around. She did with my singleton but said too hard with twins. She defaults to the U/S.