Bumps and Babies (Grad Thread)

[daisy818]

We want all the bumps and babies!!!!!!1!11!!

[jags8]

Rama

[RajahMD]

Yay! This is my favorite thread of the week.

Come on in Grads, the water's fine!

[housecarder]

Dec 15, 2015 9:39:43 GMT -5 jags8 said:

Rama

Damn you beat me to it!

[sully326]

Hey, GKU!
I dont have a lot of time but I figured I'd post a quick update. Baby A is officially 6 months old! She can't crawl yet but she's pushing up on her knees. Right now she just rolls where ever she wants to go. She loves her purées & we've let her try a few solids. We're going to go full blown BLW in a about a week or so. She's a champ at STTN. She's getting so big so fast!
As always, good luck to all of you amazing ladies!

She can't believe she's 6 Months Old! ::hehe::

[teraiin]

Hey GKU!

One week from today is my anatomy scan. Which means next check-in I will hopefully know if Baby Teraiin is a boy or girl!

Feeling lots of movement which is so cool but so strange.

Lots of ridiculous heart burn.

I'm always lurking and lting. Hoping for more BFPs.

[teraiin]

Dec 15, 2015 10:03:30 GMT -5 @ismellbooks said:

Dec 15, 2015 10:01:05 GMT -5 teraiin said:

Hey GKU!

One week from today is my anatomy scan. Which means next check-in I will hopefully know if Baby Teraiin is a boy or girl!

Feeling lots of movement which is so cool but so strange.

Lots of ridiculous heart burn.

I'm always lurking and lting. Hoping for more BFPs.

NO WAY. How are you that far along already?!

I have no idea! I can't even believe it. 19w4d today. 

[Rama]

Hiiiiiii friends!

4w5d today! I had betas drawn and at 15DPO it was 24, and 18DPO was 64! Doubling time of 51 hours! This is probably happening, holy shit!

I have a paperwork appointment on Friday, so I'll be able to go over what I want for birth plan and probably some other junk.

I miss you guys like crazy and still autopilot to GKU, whoops. I'm stalking you all for good news, always!

[butlerfan]

Dec 15, 2015 9:49:38 GMT -5 housecarder said:

Dec 15, 2015 9:39:43 GMT -5 jags8 said:

Rama

Damn you beat me to it!

Me too

[housecarder]

Hey GKU! I'll be 11 weeks tomorrow. Fred and George are kicking my butt with the nausea/heartburn/constipation combo. But it can only last 9 months right?
Saw my endocrinologist today and she decided to put me back on my insulin pump since I already had all the equipment from when I was pregnant last and my glucose levels are slowly climbing although I can barely eat. First OB appointment is Thursday.
Always lurking and LTing the shit out of you guys.

[housecarder]

@ismellbooks I fully support you smashing your scale. You look great!
Eta: Am I going crazy or did your pic just change colors?

[jags8]

@ismellbooks 6 lbs in 3 weeks is fine. That's what I've done as well. Keep in mind that your baby alone weighs about a pound right now, your uterus is growing so that weighs more, you have amniotic fluid that has weight, and you have more blood coursing through you that adds weight. So it's not like those 6 lbs are just fat.

[jags8]

Yay Rama for good betas! Grow baby, grow!

[gdaisy09]

Hello everyone! This is my first outside baby grad check-in. Isadora is 2 weeks 5 days old (she was a thanksgiving surprise 10 days before her EDD).

[teraiin]

Dec 15, 2015 10:22:14 GMT -5 @ismellbooks said:

Dec 15, 2015 10:20:23 GMT -5 housecarder said:

@ismellbooks I fully support you smashing your scale. You look great!
Eta: Am I going crazy or did your pic just change colors?

Thank you, dear.

And no, you're not crazy. I'm terribly vain, and swapped it out to B&W (because everyone looks better in black and white, duh).

I was wondering the same thing. "Wasn't that in color in a minute ago?"

[mugster]

Hi GKU,

I am 10 weeks and 1 day, and no longer have to inject myself with progesterone every night! Guess what time it's not? Shot-O-Clock! My butt has yet to start recovering from its gig as a pincushion, but hey, it will come.

housecarder, made me jealous with all her talk of dopplers and heartbeats, so I purchased a doppler and we found the heartbeat at home. My husband tapped it out on his metronome app, and we are sitting pretty at 170. I don't have an appointment to Jan. 4th. My OB decided since I'd already had three scans at the RE, I didn't need a "confirmation of pregnancy appointment," so I won't see the OB for the first time till I'm 13 weeks. My IF brain needed the reassurance that K-mug was okay, I mean lil' Muggy, I mean Tollhouse. This kid has lots of nicknames.

In a fit of craftiness, I sewed a newborn diaper over the weekend. I'm gonna grow a baby that will fit this thing, how crazy is that?!?!?:

[acorn99]

Hi GKU ladies! I haven't checked in since my BFP as I never really had much to share. I am currently 11+6 and just rolling along, I have been really lucky to feel pretty great during my first tri.

We did get some awesome news yesterday; our genetic screening came back all normal and we are team PINK!!!! Cue shock and awe. We are really excited to start sharing with our families during the holidays.

I still stalk the shit out of you all, especially my WTDS ladies and and I am rooting for MOAR BFPs!!

[madamewaffles]

OMG @moonandback141. Those cheeks!

AFM, I'm 12 weeks today! Almost out of first tri, I almost can't believe it. I had blood drawn for NIPT on Friday and should get the results at my next OB appointment on Monday. Hoping to see baby again as it has been almost a month! I've had some pretty bad anxiety lately but my sweet husband has been my rock, as always. And the best news of this week: today is my LAST DAY of progesterone shots, estrogen patches and estrogen pills! My behind will be forever grateful.

Loving all of the BFPs, keep 'em coming!!!

[teraiin]

Dec 15, 2015 10:41:34 GMT -5 @ismellbooks said:

Dec 15, 2015 10:38:56 GMT -5 teraiin said:

I was wondering the same thing. "Wasn't that in color in a minute ago?"

MAGIC.

Because I'm apparently using this gif 40386436 times.

[RajahMD]

I need MOAR GRADS, MOAR BUMPS, AND MOAR BABIES!

Don't let me down people.

[GOmamab15]

Hi GKU!
I haven't checked in since my BFP but I felt inspired by last nights drinking/reunion thread and realized just how much I fucking miss this board!

I'm 12w5d today. I got my cystic fibrosis test results last week and found out I'm a carrier so now we wait for DHs test results which should be back sometime next week. In the mean time, this is what I looked like at 12 weeks:

I think I'm going to be huge. I had to tell my boss the day I took that pic because, well, I wanted to be the one to tell him not the bump.

I'll keep lurking and rooting for all the BFPs! And please have a hard root beer for me, will ya?

[Deleted]

Hello my loves!

I'll be 17w tomorrow and there's not much going on. Lots of pain and I can't sleep, but that's about it. My belly seems to be getting noticeably bigger by the day.

Last night h slept with his hand on my bump half the night and it was the cutest thing ever. We're going back and forth on being team green or not, but we've got a few weeks before it matters.

[rooskie]

Dec 15, 2015 10:53:39 GMT -5 teraiin said:

Dec 15, 2015 10:41:34 GMT -5 @ismellbooks said:

MAGIC.

Because I'm apparently using this gif 40386436 times.

I literally lol-ed at work when I saw this gif again.

[joy]

Dec 15, 2015 10:38:32 GMT -5 gdaisy09 said:

Hello everyone! This is my first outside baby grad check-in. Isadora is 2 weeks 5 days old (she was a thanksgiving surprise 10 days before her EDD). 

::swoon::

I love this name so hard.  Congrats!

[kelle017]

Sorry for the huge pic.  It's from our family/maternity session.  We didn't do maternity pics with dd and haven't had any sort of professional ones since her newborn so I really wanted to have some nice ones.

I'll be 33 weeks tomorrow.  I've basically done nothing to prep, although there isn't a ton we really have to do because we have all the gear and supplies from dd. 

I need to repair or redo the glider cushion, get new pump parts, a ring sling and a few misc things like sleepers etc...

I did order a new video monitor that has dual cameras last night so I can still see dd when she moves out of the crib.

I'm out of breath really easily, and the restless legs are still bad.  Lavender essential oil has helped a little.   I wake up every hour or two at night and am always tired.

But I'm excited to be less than 2 months away from meeting this baby and finding out who it is.  We still need to come up with a girl mn (suggestions for Mallory?)  and I've been thinking girl but I change my mind all the time. 

[Rama]

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[onesweetworld]

Dec 15, 2015 11:42:02 GMT -5 @mrsjohnmarston said:

icequeen!!!

Yay!!! icequeen

[wanderingheart]

GoBigOrGoGnome GET IN HERE!!!!!!

Hai! I'm 16w2d and just hanging out. I think I popped this week, so here's a bump pic of the Hashtwins for you guise. A/S is January 4th, so we're just hanging out until then, anxiously awaiting to find out whether we're team blue, pink, or purple. We've been tossing names around but aren't sharing those with anyone until the births. We broke the doppler out again last night to hear the babies, and could find them pretty easily compared to previous times. Bleeding has stopped, thank goodness. Unfortunately, MH is still freaked out about sex and thinks I'll start bleeding again if we have sex and is treating me as if I'm very fragile. It's sweet, but when I get told I can't carry laundry, it gets a little annoying.

Here's my bump!



and as pippacricket lovingly pointed out, Instagram apps have some serious discrimination towards twins. Just replace "baby" with "babies". 

[Andrea]

Hi Friends!!

I am loving seeing all these bumps and wee ones! All of the cuteness overload.

I am 15w1d, embracing second trimester life. My blump turned into a bump last week & there is no longer any pretense about a baby being in there. I got asked when my due date was this weekend and I almost hugged that kind stranger for not just assuming I was indulging in one too many holiday treats.

I leave you with ze bump:



Love you guys & I loved spending time with everyone last night. GKU always has a special place in my cold, hard heart.

[Sparkly]

Hi ladies!! Looks like I missed some fun last night... I passed out not long after responding to my tag. December in retail + 9 months pregnant + having a toddler is kicking my ass!

I'm 36+4 -- full (early) term on Friday! Woot! I am feeling very big, having a lot of aches and pains, trouble sleeping, heartburn every afternoon/evening, get out of breath/worn out easily, and the like... par for the course at this point, but definitely is emotional roller coaster these days.

I had my 36w appt on Thursday, and an ultrasound to check position. Baby girl FINALLY made her way head down and has already started descending. I'm at 2cm and 50% effaced (cue freak out, since I didn't dilate at all with DD1 until I was in labor!) My OB doesn't think I should stress (yet) about having too early a baby, but I don't think they expect me to go to January. We shall see! I've had some contractions here and there - they are more painful than BH, but very irregular so NBD right now. I tested GBS + so I do have to have antibiotics during labor -- I didn't last time, and had a med-free delivery, so I will ask at my appointment tomorrow what to expect there.

As I said, baby girl is in position and ready to go. She measured at exactly 36w and approximately 6lbs 4oz (they can be off up to a pound in eitehr direction...or more, lol). Depending on when I deliver, the tech predicted 6.5-8lbs (8 if I go full-term). She should gain about 4-8oz/week until delivery, but her machine usually measures a little heavy so she was thinking baby might only be about 6 right now.

Anyway! Here's a bump from last week because I don't feel up to pictures today. Also the pic I got from the U/S. It's her nose, mouth, and cheeks. And last, a comparison to DD1 at 1 day old, because OMG if that isn't the same baby! I have a feeling they will look very much alike!








I am so so SO happy for the recent BFPs and I hope we get even more for Christmas!! Love to you all!