** Monday Ticker Change 4/27 **

[txngrl31]

It's been another week my fellow Monday ticker changers!! We are a week closer to meeting our babies and some of you have reached the 35 week mark!!

Week/ FTM? STM?/ Team:

Symptoms/ Concerns/ Rants/ Questions:

Upcoming Appointments:

GTKY: What is something you would like to do ( non baby related) before your little one arrives?

[txngrl31]

34 Weeks/ FTM/ Baby Girl

I am still having issues with sleep, some nights are better than others. Whatever side I am sleeping on, that leg and hip begins to have pain...and so begins the nightly dance of switching sides and going to the bathroom. Baby is still switching positions. I know she still has plenty of time to move head down and stay head down ( she gets head down but does not stay), but I'm seriously becoming anxious about it. Annndddd...welcome back exhaustion!

34 week regular check up tomorrow, including the GBS test (fun fun). Hopefully it's just a boring appointment!

Before baby arrives, I really want to spend as much time with my husband as possible. My mother arrives in three weeks, so our time with just the two of us is cut a little short. We live far away from family, so I know after the initial influx of family in the beginning, we are on our own.

[Bluedaisy]

It's been another week my fellow Monday ticker changers!! We are a week closer to meeting our babies and some of you have reached the 35 week mark!!

Week/ FTM? STM?/ Team: 31, FTM, Boy

Symptoms/ Concerns/ Rants/ Questions: My little one doesn't move much...or maybe I'm just really not paying attention. He moves around but it's not like the crazy ninja moves some ladies are talking about.

Upcoming Appointments: Thursday is my bi-weekly check up. Pretty routine: urine, blood pressure, weight, fetal heart rate

GTKY: I have two- getting my flower beds finished and having one last girls cards night before we have a baby in the house. We'll play dirty minds and possibly cards against humanity and everyone but me will drink lol.

[wormgerm]

32 weeks ftm boy

General discomfort. Visited family 2 hours away and I was so done with the car ride an hour in to it. Talk about being uncomfortable. Nothing sounds good to eat. Heartburn guysers.

Meeting a potential doula today. Chiropractor and dietitian on Wednesday. Midwife appointment in Thursday.

What would I like to do before baby arrives.... hmmm. Maybe one really nice date with my husband. We spend a lot of time together but none is really focused. Usually just running around. We are going to see Amy Schumer on May 14th so maybe we will turn that into a full blown date night.

[carolyngrace]

Bluedaisy, My friend with two kids said that the movement was totally different with both of hers. The super active baby in her belly is also the super active kid, while her little boy hardly moved in there at all and is the MOST MELLOW kid I have ever met! Sorry it's giving you some worry, but I'm sure your little one is just chillin in there

michyme123, I'm right with you on the BHs after walking around. I did errands for a couple of hours yesterday and kept pausing to breath and drink water in Target. I'm pretty sure a couple of people thought i was in labor.

[Bluedaisy]

Apr 27, 2015 8:05:33 GMT -5 carolyngrace said:

Bluedaisy, My friend with two kids said that the movement was totally different with both of hers. The super active baby in her belly is also the super active kid, while her little boy hardly moved in there at all and is the MOST MELLOW kid I have ever met! Sorry it's giving you some worry, but I'm sure your little one is just chillin in there

michyme123, I'm right with you on the BHs after walking around. I did errands for a couple of hours yesterday and kept pausing to breath and drink water in Target. I'm pretty sure a couple of people thought i was in labor.

Haha I've actually heard that too, mellow inside equals mellow outside.  I'm also a few weeks behind most ladies on here so it might just be early for me yet.

[carolyngrace]

Week/ FTM? STM?/ Team: 35 weeks. FTM with a boy.

Symptoms/ Concerns/ Rants/ Questions: What you all said. Uncomfortable, can't sleep, Braxton hicks.. The only (ew) symptom I'll add is that I had hemorrhoids bleed yesterday. And honestly they hadn't bothered me in weeks! It was disgusting and a bit scary.

Also, my DH is getting super busy at work (like he always does in Spring) and we're getting stressed and short with each other, and I feel anxious about adding a baby into this mix. Or even getting more pregnant. I've kind of accepted I need to lean on my friends/family/church right now and try to support HIM, even though I want him to be able to support me.

Upcoming Appointments: Not until next week, and then they're weekly

GTKY: What is something you would like to do ( non baby related) before your little one arrives?

Organize the house more? Ok that's baby related... I guess I'm trying to spend time with all of my friends as much as possible!

[tiffbot]

34 weeks! STM, team green.

My hips have officially been completely taken over which results in some interesting sleeping positions and some not fun pain and occasional locking up. Oy.

My next appointment is in about 3 hours! Routine checkup.

This Saturday there's a Ladies Night in town that I have tickets to and before that my mom and sister and I are going greenhouse shopping so try to get the backyard flowers ready to go! The other big thing is to have a family date of just me, DS, and H. Once again pushed off due to a big snowstorm in the city this weekend (luckily we didn't get hit!). The 14 day forecast shows nice, normal, warm spring weather from this point forward now once again.

[megd893]

It's been another week my fellow Monday ticker changers!! We are a week closer to meeting our babies and some of you have reached the 35 week mark!!

Week/ FTM? STM?/ Team: FTM who is 32 weeks preg with my squash boy!

Symptoms/ Concerns/ Rants/ Questions: I'm a headache/migraine sufferer normally, and pregnancy has been a complete GODSEND for me. Few migraines and headaches are much less. However, as I get closer to the end they're getting bad again. I'm waking every day with one which is just compounding the exhaustion. I just want to wake up every few days feeling "good". Ready for the day, energy etc. I miss that.

Upcoming Appointments: I looked into the average baby thats cooking, and at 32 weeks, they should be roughly 3.75 pounds. Well, at our 27 week scan the doctor told us he was likely already 3 pounds, so I'm getting very excited about our next ultrasound... see how big he is now! I have my 32 week chekup on Thursday which is when I will receive the requisition for the next ultrasound. Becuase we'd had one at 27 weeks, they decided to push out the 32 week scan by a week or two.
Our 'birthing' class is tomorrow night from 5-9. I'm really excited. I think I'm most excited for them to tell K what a big part she'll have in helping me that day. I know there is still a disconnect for her, so I'm hoping hearing about the birthing partners role will be helpful.

GTKY: What is something you would like to do (non baby related) before your little one arrives? Re-arrange some things in the house. We need to setup a real home office, and I'd love to organize the basement into something that remotely resembles 'clean'...

[wegrowsheep]

Apr 27, 2015 5:50:07 GMT -5 txngrl31 said:

It's been another week my fellow Monday ticker changers!! We are a week closer to meeting our babies and some of you have reached the 35 week mark!!

Week/ FTM? STM?/ Team:

Symptoms/ Concerns/ Rants/ Questions:

Upcoming Appointments:

GTKY: What is something you would like to do ( non baby related) before your little one arrives?

35 weeks (OMG ONLY 35 DAYS LEFT!) TTM to boy.

Sciatic pain, sometimes both legs. Nausea, vomiting, exhaustion, and the longest do to list ever..

Appt next week. Dentist today.

I have lots of work around the farm to do, including plant the garden, most of which has to wait til 3rd week of May.

[Girlymama79]

Week/ FTM? STM?/ Team:

34 STM team pink

Symptoms/ Concerns/ Rants/ Questions:

The baby is a mover! She makes sore spots on me from pushing so hard in one spot over and over again. I have pregsomnia, Braxton hicks, full on contractions, nausea, and a whole lots of other annoying symptoms.

Upcoming Appointments: not til next week

GTKY: What is something you would like to do ( non baby related) before your little one arrives?

Soooo many projects! Get the garden going, finishing painting my basement, repaint the garden shed, build a barn. Maybe the garden one will happen.

[lc1158]

Week/ FTM? STM?/ Team: 34 / FTM / Team Pink

Symptoms/ Concerns/ Rants/ Questions: really bad pelvic pain that reared it's head after I took a 45 min walk yesterday (that will teach me to exercise!). Itchy belly which is new for me. Really
sore boobs.

Upcoming Appointments: 34 week check up tomorrow, Tuesday.

GTKY: What is something you would like to do ( non baby related) before your little one arrives? I know this is supposed to be a fun thing, but I really
want to clean the blinds. We moved in a few weeks ago and the previous tenant apparently never ever wiped them down. Neither did the landlord before
we moved in. So. Gross. Even grosser that I haven't gotten around to it yet. So that's my want to. Unfortunately when third trimester exhaustion kicks in each day, it's funny how quickly this falls off my radar...

[amber311]

Hi Monday lovlies!

Week/ FTM? STM?/ Team:
31 weeks ftm team pink

Symptoms/ Concerns/ Rants/ Questions:
Insomnia, pretty nasty pubic pain when getting up from lying down. I'm just flat out exhausted but doing ok otherwise!

Upcoming Appointments: 32 week check up next week

GTKY: What is something you would like to do ( non baby related) before your little one arrives?
Buy a house. Maybe I'm too picky but we are just not finding what we want

[redlipz]

W34/ third time mom/green team.

Holy swollen feet with this dang nesting. Right hip is bugging me and my lower back has started as well.

Next apt is at 36 weeks.

I'd like a whole day to myself to do as I please.

[khaze]

Week/ FTM? STM?/ Team: 32 weeks/STM/Team Blue

Symptoms/ Concerns/ Rants/ Questions: Wondering if I've got a UTI or this baby is just lower than the first and has gotten comfy on my bladder. Braxton hicks. That's about it.

Upcoming Appointments: Had a routine appt yesterday. Baby looks great, estimated 4lbs 12 ozs. Next routine checkup in 2 weeks.

GTKY: What is something you would like to do ( non baby related) before your little one arrives? I have a few painting projects I want to get done around the house.

Bluedaisy, I wanted to second what carolyngrace, said about your movement. My first baby was a little ninja in there 24/7. This one is sooooo much more calm than the first one. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a mellow baby because my first was a devil child! I actually have to lay down and relax and make sure he's still moving around this time around. My first I could have been running a marathon and I would have felt him flipping and whatnot.

[ombradellarosa]

Week/ FTM? STM?/ Team: 35 weeks with a coconut (one of my favourites). FTM with a girl.

Symptoms/ Concerns/ Rants/ Questions: I still need to call the doctor's office back and get clarification on what constitutes "cramps". I used to feel BH all the time but I haven't felt any kind of contractions at all, just sometimes pain in my lower abdomen and I'm wondering if it's pressure from baby's head. Also, baby's kicks hurt me now and sometimes I react and people look at me and freeze up like they're afraid they'll have to take me to the hospital.
On top of all the pain and discomfort and those type of symptoms, I think I'm experiencing nesting now. I was cautious about claiming it because the cases I read about would obsessively clean every little thing and I have not been cleaning the screws in my cabinet handles, but maybe that's because we have actually big things to deal with, like a house full of boxes. I'm definitely feeling like I want to get rid of all of it and make the house perfectly clean now because if it's not there's no way I'll be able to keep up with it after the baby comes.

Upcoming Appointments: Next Monday, then I have weekly appointments. Gasp.

GTKY: What is something you would like to do ( non baby related) before your little one arrives? I'd really like to have a movie date with my husband. That's what we used to do all the time. We haven't been out to the cinema since before we found out I was pregnant, although I think I already was because the 3-D was making me really sick. Not sure I want to watch anything on the big screen, but I'd like to buy all the candy and make popcorn and watch something on our flatscreen at home. I just want to appreciate the little things now before our lives change so much.