Friday Symptoms & Randoms

[tinavonsparkle]

I had a midwife appointment today and heard the heartbeat which was lovely. We also went and picked the curtains and blind material for the nursery. Turns out the baby has expensive taste - pure wool and £32 per metre! Our cottage is old and so cold in the winter that we really do need to keep the warmth in. My SO almost fainted when he paid. We have only bought the crib and change table/draws so far because there is a massive baby and toddler event on this Sunday which we have tickets for. We have been planning on getting everything we need all in one go - the bank account is going to get slaughtered but I'm so dam excited about finally baby shopping! Happy weekend everyone!

[mrskblack11]

Had my glucose test this morning then went and picked up donuts and coffee.



Then I pooped.

HAPPY FUCKING FRIDAY Y'All!

[turtletyme]

Mar 6, 2015 14:16:50 GMT -5 @demanda88 said:

Random: The month board ahead of us has a birth announcement sticky. THE MONTH BOARD JUST AHEAD OF US.

Woah. No way.

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Mar 6, 2015 14:16:50 GMT -5 @demanda88 said:

Random: The month board ahead of us has a birth announcement sticky. THE MONTH BOARD JUST AHEAD OF US.

I've been stalking the other month board's birth announcements for a while now. So many babies!!

Also, I'm in the same boat as @jemomma - I wake up to pee and then spend two hours trying to go back to sleep. It's awful. I end up on my ipad researching random baby stuff like bottles and sterilizers. When I finally fall asleep I end up dreaming about bottles and sterilizers. 

And finally, regular things like grocery shopping and laundry are becoming really hard. Last time I went grocery shopping I ended up with so much back pain I had to lay down for the rest of the afternoon.

[sully326]

I'm seriously over this hip/groin pain. I can't even sit to pee without being uncomfortable, and lawd knows I pee a lot these days!

Andplusalso, I now want donuts.

[alayne926]

Count me in for the hip/groin/back pain...UGH!

[Deleted]

So last night I had a dream that I could grow a penis whenever I wanted to. Except when I did it was like 2 feet long and you couldn't even wrap two hands around it. Then I woke up needing to pee and was ridiculously relieved, when I got to the bathroom, to discover that all my bits and pieces were still as they should be.

[tiffbot]

Those donuts look PERFECT. I want the ones with sprinkles.

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Mar 6, 2015 14:50:04 GMT -5 @pcrunk said:

Mar 6, 2015 14:16:50 GMT -5 @demanda88 said:

Random: The month board ahead of us has a birth announcement sticky. THE MONTH BOARD JUST AHEAD OF US.

Creeping TD earlier and our old board has a baby. A 27 weeker arrived. From the post/update she seems to be doing well.

I am painfully aware that we are mere weeks away from seeing regular birth announcement here.  The front of the June train is just about 28 weeks now.   WTF?!

[karissa764]

I'm willing to give up dhs left nut to sleep comfortably through the night. I can't get comfy at all!

[mrsdee1982]

I am having the audacity to eat lunch about an hour later than I usually do (thanks stupid work), and from the hard kicks and punches to the ribs I am getting, I can tell baby girl is not happy about this. But I can't help but laugh because I just imagine Will Ferrel in my uterus screaming at me for meatloaf.

[beersandweirs]

I passed my GD test, hooray! I did find out that I have low iron, so they are going to call me today with a plan for that. Anyone else experiencing or ever experienced this?

Also, I have a theory that my chai tea was causing my heart burn. I drank some for the first time this week yesterday, and it is the only day I have had heart burn. I am seeing what today looks like without it. It would be super great to know a cause!

[belle0720]

beersandweirs I think the low iron thing may be fairly common in pregnancy. Both my good friend and I were told we need to take an iron supplement after our 24 week blood tests.

[belle0720]

I woke up with weird lower belly pain that I haven't experienced before. It's kind of crampy, but also kind of feels like someone punched me and it's just sore. I don't know how to explain it. I thought maybe baby wasn't happy with the position I slept in, but then the pain went away for a while and now it's back after I've just eaten lunch. So maybe it's gas? I feel like a stranger in my own body these days.

Also, I had a weird dream that my friend and I went to the hospital on June 13th to have our babies. We weren't in labor or anything but we were going to be induced or have C-sections. So to start, the nurse made a large vertical incision to the right of my belly button and hooked some sort of tube up to me through the incision. And then we realized, hey maybe you should be helping my friend out first, cause she's weeks overdue and I'm not due for another month. And then they just left and never came back and I was wandering around with a giant gash in my belly. It was sooo weird!

[Widget123]

Mar 6, 2015 15:05:37 GMT -5 beersandweirs said:

I passed my GD test, hooray! I did find out that I have low iron, so they are going to call me today with a plan for that. Anyone else experiencing or ever experienced this?

Also, I have a theory that my chai tea was causing my heart burn. I drank some for the first time this week yesterday, and it is the only day I have had heart burn. I am seeing what today looks like without it. It would be super great to know a cause!

I had to take iron supplements during third tri with DD and it wasn't a big deal.

[sully326]

Mar 6, 2015 15:05:37 GMT -5 beersandweirs said:

I passed my GD test, hooray! I did find out that I have low iron, so they are going to call me today with a plan for that. Anyone else experiencing or ever experienced this?

Also, I have a theory that my chai tea was causing my heart burn. I drank some for the first time this week yesterday, and it is the only day I have had heart burn. I am seeing what today looks like without it. It would be super great to know a cause!

Yep, I'm anemic with every pregnancy. My Dr just prescribes me Iron supplements and tells me to eat iron rich foods. Just be sure that if you get put on supplements that you eat plenty of Fiber. The supplement I was put on also has stool softener in it so no poop problems here.

[mrsmonogrammed]

Feeling the need to eat everything in sight....not even hungry, just no self control!

[tinavonsparkle]

Mar 6, 2015 14:09:28 GMT -5 mrskblack11 said:

Had my glucose test this morning then went and picked up donuts and coffee.



Then I pooped.

HAPPY FUCKING FRIDAY Y'All!

It's 11pm and I'm in bed trying to work out the nearest place I can go and pick some doughnuts up from. Hot diggerty dawwwwwwg they look so good *dribbles*

[lunalovegood]

I failed my 3 hour test today. Ugh. First time ever that I have failed. I have been torturing myself looking at the suggested meal plans for GD. So sad, so so sad to limit the carbs.

[wormgerm]

My boobs are killing me today. So achy. Is boob flu a thing? Jk. My tailbone is back to aching and now is joined with persistent hip cracking and low back pain. Awesome. My stomach hurts all of a sudden too. Please don't let this be the warning that I'm coming down with the tummy bug going around.

[mathistm]

Mother fucking hemorrhoids? Seriously? It must just be this big baby because I have been priding myself on how regular my poop schedule has been and I don't sit or stand for long periods. I literally cried after realizing for like an hour. How attractive.

[missjenniebean]

My knees ache whenever I lie down. So distracting. How do I fix this? I elevate them, but no luck.

[mathistm]

Mar 6, 2015 21:10:36 GMT -5 @demanda88 said:

Mar 6, 2015 21:00:09 GMT -5 mathistm said:

Mother fucking hemorrhoids? Seriously? It must just be this big baby because I have been priding myself on how regular my poop schedule has been and I don't sit or stand for long periods. I literally cried after realizing for like an hour. How attractive.

I thought you got those from being constipated?! Now I'm scared because LO is measuring in the 82nd percentile and my mom talks about horrible these were during her pregnancies.

That's what I thought too but I have not been constipated. My ob said it could be because the baby is measuring large and low. Womp womp.

[jcprn]

Mar 6, 2015 18:27:23 GMT -5 lunalovegood said:

I failed my 3 hour test today. Ugh. First time ever that I have failed. I have been torturing myself looking at the suggested meal plans for GD. So sad, so so sad to limit the carbs.

ugh sorry to hear this. Just keep thinking that it won't be long now....

[jcprn]

Let's see, some shortness of breath, still having some nasal congestion, peeing ALL THE TIME, and having rib pain. Overall pretty manageable.

Also as a TMI, I think one of my dogs is having anxiety related to my pregnancy because she won't stop eating her poop. I even gave her something that's supposed to make it taste bad and she still won't stop. And it's so snowy and cold out that I can't pick it up every time they go. It's so gross. The only thing I can think of is that it's due to my pregnancy because she never really did it before and I noticed it started a few months ago.

Also throwing an AW in here. I'm in mini-nesting mode: Today I ordered my breast pump, pre-registered for the hospital stay, booked our labor and delivery tour, signed up for breastfeeding, childbirth, and newborn care classes, and contacted the pediatrician's office we'll likely use. Super productive. Now for my pre-sleep nap.

[lc1158]

So happy to find Watermelon going for $0.39/lb today I almost cried, but then I pigged out instead... mmmm .... <doing the happy dance>

Received my pink belly band, so trying it out. I was surprised at how much more supported I felt from the start, but my shift at work on Sunday night will be the real test.

[wormgerm]

I just started throwing up. I have the vicious tummy bug going around. -sob-

[holliberry28]

lunalovegood, sorry you failed the 3 hour test Hopefully the rest of the time will fly by.