###3rd tri check in 1/26###

[kmc84]

This is our first official 3rd tri check-in in our new home! I hope everyone is doing well! It looks like the 3rd tri is being dominated by team pink!

Best of luck to Robeano on Wednesday at her RCS!

Good luck and stay safe to everyone who is getting hit with this east coast storm today!

We will welcome ladies at 28 weeks until their LO(s) make their grand entrance!
Please let me know if you would like to be added and include your EDD, team status, and how many beans are cooking. If you see anything that needs to be changed, let me know!
Let us know how many weeks you are, if you have any updates, and any upcoming appointments.


QOTW: Is there anything you eat that others might give a side eye? Perhaps and odd food, or a food that you have an unusual way of eating…..


FEBRUARY
Robeano 2/3/15 (girl) RCS 1/28!!!!!
runawaylaurel 2/22/15 (team green)

MARCH
@ducky719 3/8/15 (girl)
snarkysparklefart 3/9/15 (girl)

APRIL
aliciar6 4/8 
kmc84 4/11 (girl)
ProfessorChaos 4/17 (girl)

[ProfessorChaos]

Oh my goodness, you tagged me for my very first third tri check-in!!! I'm all in a tizzy! I'm 28+3 and things would be great if it weren't for this bloody heartburn. I caved and started taking Zantac over the weekend. Before that I was trying to **manage** with diet and behavior changes, but I was utterly failing--problems sleeping, eating, exercising, drinking water, getting work done, etc. FX this helps me get my life back. Baby prep is in full swing right now--nursery projects, shower planning, last childbirth class tonight, etc. We'll even start interviewing pediatricians in the next week or two. I passed all my third tri blood tests, including the GTT, so things are good.

QOTW: I think most people would side eye how much sriracha I use (not in recent weeks, obvs). I've really built up a tolerance for it, so I can eat it by the quarter cup. Maybe it's time for me to figure out how to add an image here. YUM!!!

[Deleted]

Hi girls! KMC, thanks for running the check-in! 34w2d today and overall feeling good. I am getting excited to meet LO in the future. I only have a few more things on my to-do list so I feel prepared (most are 'nice to dos' but I have two more musts: pack my bag and DD's bag and also make/freeze a few more meals). 6 weeks and counting!!

QOTW: I don't know if people give me the side eye or not but I always wonder if people think it's gross how I dissect chicken wings when I eat them. I don't want the sauce all over my face so I pull them apart with my fingers. I imagine someone has to be grossed out by it...but this is me not caring in the least.

[snarkysparklefart]

ProfessorChaos lol I love that chart!!

I'm 34w, I am now doing biweekly appointments for NSTS due to GD, Mondays and Thursdays.

Today I'm hoping I can discuss this horrible tooth infection I have, because the pain is just unbearable. I can barely eat, and I am really struggling.I was told by the emergency dental clinic that they won't work on pregnant women in 3rd tri. (as I hope many of you can understand, I've already tapped out my HSA and chose to purchase better health insurance and skip dental coverage this year to hopefully have this LO.. I'm very embarrassed and frustrated with myself!)

On a more positive note, my blood sugars have been pretty good, I'm feeling good mostly, and so far I'm being considered a great candidate for VBAC.

QOTW: if anything, my pickiness probably stands out. My h thinks it's strange that I tear pizza instead of biting into it (my mom ate it with a fork.) and I tend to break my food into smaller pieces or cut things he wouldn't usually. I also like sriracha though! I've become a bit less finicky over the last few years since I'm trying to model better habits for DD.

[runawaylaurel]

Hi all!! I don't think I can handle the pressure of being the NEXT DUE DATE over here. I am gonna need someone else's delivery to obsess over instead of mine! 36+1 today.

I have my first weekly midwife appt tomorrow. They'll do my one and only cervical check to ensure the kiddo is vertex and do my GBS swab. I'm really looking forward to it (so much sarcasm!). After all those months of people up in my lady parts during IF treatment, it's been a blissful 7ish months of only people I choose in there.

QOTW: I use french fries exclusively as a ketchup delivery tool. Flimsy fries have no place in my life since they can't carry enough delicious tomato-ness to my mouth. I'm the wuss version of ProfessorChaos (although I love Sriracha too!)

[kmc84]

29+2 for me today! I had an OB visit and a rheumatology appointment today. All is well as far as the docs were concerned. My OB visits are now weekly with NSTs starting next Monday. Eeeee! I really hope my face calms down after baby girl is born. With A my face was normal to better than normal; this time is just angry

QOTW: I put milk on my ice cream. It makes an icy coating over all the ice cream and it's so yummy!

[Robeano]

Ahhhh! Two days left!!! I had my pre-op today. I signed consent for a tubal ligation (definitely finished after this one, although it seemed so final ) I also dropped DD off at my sister's for the next few days and it all seems so final! It hit me coming home that I'm having a baby in TWO days!!!! I'm super excited, and nervous and a mixture of everything.

Found out today that for like an extra $25 a night I can upgrade to a private room... uh heck yes! I didn't know it would only be that little bit more cuz my insurance covers semi!

[Robeano]

Oh ya, QOTW:
I eat hot dogs uncooked straight from the package

[snarkysparklefart]

Jan 26, 2015 18:34:28 GMT -5 Robeano said:

Oh ya, QOTW:
I eat hot dogs uncooked straight from the package

I do this too. And my H, who eats literally ANYTHING out in front of him, thinks it's weird.

[Robeano]

Jan 26, 2015 19:58:07 GMT -5 snarkysparklefart said:

Jan 26, 2015 18:34:28 GMT -5 Robeano said:

Oh ya, QOTW:
I eat hot dogs uncooked straight from the package

I do this too. And my H, who eats literally ANYTHING out in front of him, thinks it's weird.

Ahahaha, love it! My hubby joins me in my eating of raw hot dog passions.

[kmc84]

Robeano $25!?!? Heck yes indeed! That is money very well spent!

[lib1974]

Just wanted to say I made it over! Dd 3/27 with girl. 32 weeks thursday.

I like chocolate cake in a glass of milk and I eat it with a spoon. So delicious but it looks weird when you are eating it.

[aliciar6]

hi ladies, a bit late to the game here...my new work computer finally lets me log on here!!!

30w1d right now. We had a U/S monday for a cervix check. Not as good as it was last week, but I kind of felt like things were off again. Not as bad as a few weeks ago, so just holding steady and going in again on the 4th. The one bonus is we get to see her a lot more often and have that many more pictures, granted they don't look much different one week to the next, but it's still nice to have.

Had the tubal discussion with the OB on wed. No idea why after having 1 child they need to try to recommend every other non-permanant option, I know I don't want to do this again. Which I know disappoints DH even if he understands on some level. He always had visions of a multi-child family (boys and girls) and I always had dreams of being childfree until we met...but due to circumstances, I just don't want more than one at all. sorry for the vent/dear diary moment.

Hopefully by next weekend the nursery will be done. The part that has me the most worried is getting the wall stickers on perfectly.

QOTW: not that I can think of...When I was in high school I used to squish all the grease out of my pizza and breadsticks

[kmc84]

aliciar6 hopefully your cervix holds tight until your in a good, safe time to deliver!

Good luck with your decision about the tubal. Hopefully your OB gets on board! No need to apologize-it's an emotional decision no matter what your reasons or wants! DH and I have been together since HS and we never wanted kids for the longest time. Then we did.... Now we know we are done with 2, but thinking about permenent BC is on our minds, even though we needed IVF to get pg.....nothing is ever easy!

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aliciar6 totally understand how you are feeling about the tubal. If it's what you want then that is all that matters. I'm sure your OB is only telling you the other options just in case you aren't aware of them.

DH and i are done after this LO. We got lucky this time around and it made us even more aware of how hard conceiving DD1 was for us. We just don't have treatments left in us...and maybe not any other kids period. I'll be taking bcp again for the first time in...4 years? Seems crazy but that is our personal decision. We may explore another child in the future but it'll almost be like half assed bc we won't be returning to the RE.