Weekly Check-In/Ticker Change - 3/20 to 3/26

[goldenlove3]

Happy First Day of Spring everyone!

How many weeks are you?

What is your baby the size of?

What symptoms are you having?

Do you have any appointments this week?

Rants/Raves/Randoms?

QOTW - What do you like and dislike most about Spring?

[ashleysyn]

How many weeks are you? 4w 5d today

What is your baby the size of? My guess is it's the size of a little ball of cells

What symptoms are you having? None. Makes me a little nervous.

Do you have any appointments this week? Just betas tomorrow and Wednesday

Rants/Raves/Randoms? I am WAY more nervous and paranoid than I have ever been for any other pregnancy before. The stakes are so much higher and I am feeling a whole lot of pressure.

QOTW - What do you like and dislike most about Spring? I love that it means winter is over and summer is on its way and the longer days. I dislike how muddy and messy everything is for the first while.

[irish14]

How many weeks are you? 6w1d

What is your baby the size of? Blueberry, lentil. I am trying to find the site where they compare baby to baked goods. Anyone know what site that is?

What symptoms are you having? Some occasional mild cramping last week, went away mostly. Hungry all the time. Boobs are kind of sore but that's tough to attribute to pregnancy bc I'm still nursing DS.

Do you have any appointments this week? Nope, 2 wks out.

Rants/Raves/Randoms? I think I covered my silly OB office in my intro thread, so I won't rehash, except to say that apparently figuring out due dates is harrrrrrd. Also, DS usually naps at 12:30 but he passed out at 11 today so I get to nap too, woooo!

QOTW - What do you like and dislike most about Spring? Like putting away coats and getting outside again. Dislike having to figure out how to save my lawn. We slacked on yard work last summer because of the baby, and the grass is in pretty sad shape. Also our deck needs some help.

[nuggetrn]

How many weeks are you? 4 wks 6 days

What is your baby the size of? Still a grain of sea salt.

What symptoms are you having? I have very tender breasts. I think I am starting to get some end of day bloat as well, feeling incredibly full and uncomfortable after dinner most nights

Do you have any appointments this week? Nope. First appt 4/12

Rants/Raves/Randoms? Fx we really get to move into our house at the end of this week. I am so so so so so ready!!

QOTW - What do you like and dislike most about Spring? Warm weather, but not too hot. Worst is unpredictable weather though. Back to cold, now it's raining, tornado watches...

[hangry]

How many weeks are you? 6w6d

What is your baby the size of? Well as of Fridays US, literally 5 mm. According to my app, still a popping firecracker until tomorrow.

What symptoms are you having? Nausea, uneasiness , headache , and fatigue

Do you have any appointments this week? Nope, now not until 12 wk US. Still need to schedule it.

Rants/Raves/Randoms? So so so relieved to have heard a HB and that it was high. My rant, not looking forward to flying later this week with the nausea here and me normally getting motion sickness.

QOTW - What do you like and dislike most about Spring? Love the fresh air , the longer days, the leaves and flowers filling in. Hate the days of cold rain.

[peanutmuse]

How many weeks are you? 6 weeks tomorrow

What is your baby the size of? Maine blueberry

What symptoms are you having? Fatigue, a bit of nausea, end of day pressure/bloat, sensitive breasts.

Do you have any appointments this week? Ultrasound on Tuesday.

Rants/Raves/Randoms? Feeling MUCH better than I did exactly a week ago.

QOTW - What do you like and dislike most about Spring?
Like - being able to take my son to playgrounds
Dislike - mud

[LizInFL]

How many weeks are you? 6w5d

What is your baby the size of? last update, a blueberry; as of Tuesday, a raspberry

What symptoms are you having? not many, which is nice! The fatigue comes and goes, and otherwise a bit of breast tenderness/swelling.  

Do you have any appointments this week? first u/s on Thursday!

Rants/Raves/Randoms? We got some yard work done today, which was good. We are hosting 15 people for Easter dinner and an egg hunt so I want the house/yard looking its best. Rave to DH for working hard even though his knee is still not 100% (he had it scoped earlier this month)

QOTW - What do you like and dislike most about Spring? Likes: temperature, less humidity, longer days; dislike: knowing that in just a couple months it will be back in the 90s again

[sophiegrace]

How many weeks are you? 6+5

What is your baby the size of? Ladybug! Can't wait to see what cute animal it is on Tuesday.

What symptoms are you having? Lol. All? I won't waste everyone's time by writing it all down.

Do you have any appointments this week? Yes! Intake appt with a nurse. Hopefully getting a prescription antiemetic.

Rants/raves/Randoms? Just biding time until my first u/s next week.

QOTW - like? All the warmth and regrowth of everything. I love planting flowers in our window boxes and watching as the outside world just blooms around our house.
Dislike? Allergies!

[cassiopea]

6 weeks one day. Baby is the size of a blueberry
I am exhausted. Also, more nauseous than last time, but mostly exhausted.
I have an intake phone call with the nurse on Tuesday.
I'm annoyed that they pushed my first appointment/ultrasound back from April 8 to April 15 because the doctor's out of office for a week.
Love the plants blooming and the animals getting active. Hate rain and allergies.

[elliecat17]

How many weeks are you? 4 wks 3 days

What is your baby the size of? tomato seed

What symptoms are you having? some stretching and light cramps on and off. Some breast tenderness. Some nausea that comes and goes.

Do you have any appointments this week? Well if I can get hold of a doctor hopefully I will have some blood work done.

Rants/Raves/Randoms? So a long rant. I called the RE's office on Friday at 9:02. Tell the receptionist all my info including that I'm high risk and so need to have betas drawn asap. Have to SPELL beta's for her. She says ok I will tell the nurse and she'll call you right back. At 3:45 I've heard nothing so I call. Receptionist says, "oh sorry did I not tell you the nurse isn't in today and the doctor is out of town until next friday? Let me see if another nurse can put it through." 10 minutes later she calls back and says nope why don't you call your midwife. I call but it's 4 and she's already home for the evening. I'm FURIOUS!!!! In the last 3 months my RE has NOT been in the office. He keeps being on vacation. I'm calling my midwife on monday morning early and I know she'll order the blood work and monitoring. And I'm going to beg her to take us back full time now that we are pregnant again.

QOTW - What do you like and dislike most about Spring? I love the sun, and the flowers and the warmer weather. I do not like the back and forth rain/snow/mud business.

[sweetmelissa5]

How many weeks are you? 6

What is your baby the size of? rainbow sprinkle

What symptoms are you having? nausea and vomiting as well as food aversions and lack of appetite; I'm also feeling major fatigue, but we've had a bout of flu running through the house this past week, and I'm pretty sure that's where the tiredness comes from

Do you have any appointments this week? Nope, still 2.5 weeks out

Rants/Raves/Randoms? Morning sickness hit with a vengeance a few days ago and I'm not keeping much down, but I'm hoping it gets slightly less bad once the flu is completely gone

QOTW - What do you like and dislike most about Spring? Today is my anniversary, and I love that it sometimes falls on the first day of spring (it actually did in 2010 when we got married as well), but I hate the variance in temperatures. On my wedding day it was like 75 degrees, and today it barely cracked 40, and we had some snow. I just want to be able to wear dresses and flip flops without freezing my ass off.

[tjanca22]

Weeks: 5

Size: according to Ovia a dot snail? I might need to change my setting because I have no clue what a dot snail is.

Symptoms: none for now

Appointments: this reminds me that I need to call and set up my first appointment

Rants/raves/randoms: DS is teething and I HATE teeth.

Like/dislike about Spring: I like that the days are longer and that summer will eventually be here. I hate that stores believe Easter outfits need to be sleeveless when it's still almost freezing (at least where I live).

[sweetmelissa5]

Thanks danib!

[dashook]

elliecat17, that is infuriating about your RE's office. I had an annoying issue on Friday with not getting a call back from my OB's office too. Wtf are these people smoking?? Glad you will get to see your midwife tomorrow.
Happy anniversary sweetmelissa5!

How many weeks are you? 4 weeks + 3 days based on the O date that FF chose for me, though it could be 1-2 days more

What is your baby the size of? a poppy seed/speck of sawdust! Teeny thing.

What symptoms are you having? random nausea, fatigue/exhaustion, yesterday I was insanely thirsty, mood swings

Do you have any appointments this week? No appointments but hopefully I will be able to talk to someone at my OB's office tomorrow and find out what happened with my betas on Friday. Still so pissed to have had to go through the whole weekend not knowing.

Rants/Raves/Randoms? So jealous of all of the ladies who are 6+ weeks already. I had a beginning of the month due date with DS and it was way better than being at the back of the pack haha! I am just impatient. Can't wait to have a bump and be able to talk openly about the pregnancy.

QOTW - What do you like and dislike most about Spring? I like the promise of nice weather and the fact that the farmers markets start to open up! I hate that the promise of nice weather is often broken, especially on days (like today) where it looks sunny and beautiful but it's actually still close to freezing out.

[peanutmuse]

Mar 20, 2016 19:15:37 GMT -5 dashook said:

Rants/Raves/Randoms? So jealous of all of the ladies who are 6+ weeks already. I had a beginning of the month due date with DS and it was way better than being at the back of the pack haha! I am just impatient. Can't wait to have a bump and be able to talk openly about the pregnancy.

I hear ya, dashook. I was at the end of the month for... well, all of the pregnancies I've had, both successful and not successful. That's why I strongly encourage not forcing people to post sex reveals, or other posts like that all in one thread. It sucks to be at the end of the month. No matter what anyone says they will do, the earlier ladies get more attention.

Side note, your user name (not dashook, the real one) caught me off guard -- there was a girl on my Jan14 BMB with a similar name. But she's like 20 weeks pregnant right now, so I know it's not her!

[LizInFL]

dashook I know what you mean about having a 'late' due date. DS was due 11/30, so I was one of the last, if not the last one, to go in N13. He ended up being born 12/4...those last few days were especially long!

[cookswithwine9]

How many weeks are you? 5 weeks 1 day

What is your baby the size of? Peppercorn

What symptoms are you having? Still not a lot... Sore breasts, fatigue and bloating.

Do you have any appointments this week? Nope... Waiting until 4/12

Rants/Raves/Randoms? I don't have anything planned this week so I don't have to worry about how my not drinking will be perceived! Is that a weird rave? lol

QOTW - What do you like and dislike most about Spring? Love the Warner weather! Hate the pollen and allergies!

[cheshie6]

How many weeks are you? 4 weeks +2

What is your baby the size of? poppy seed

What symptoms are you having? low back pain, fatigue, some weird lower abdominal flutterings. (not cramps but not normal) oh and Bloat!!!

Do you have any appointments this week? Will be calling OB tomorrow

Rants/Raves/Randoms? Just nervous with the cramps fluttering. PgAL brain doesn't help. Plus Dh leaves for work so I'm not looking forward to being home alone.

QOTW - What do you like and dislike most about Spring? I love the flowers but dislike BUGS!

[sweetmelissa5]

Thanks dashook!

[sweetmelissa5]

Mar 20, 2016 19:40:26 GMT -5 LizInFL said:

dashook I know what you mean about having a 'late' due date. DS was due 11/30, so I was one of the last, if not the last one, to go in N13. He ended up being born 12/4...those last few days were especially long!

I've also been there, and it really does suck at times. Kid 2 was due 4/29 and didn't come until 5/10. I think I might have actually been the very last on that BMB to have my baby.

[goldenlove3]

How many weeks are you? 6w5d

What is your baby the size of? Sweet pea or chocolate chip

What symptoms are you having? Mostly just tired and starting to have food aversions pretty bad.

Do you have any appointments this week? Another ultrasound on Friday. Hopefully we'll hear the heartbeat a little better this time!

Rants/Raves/Randoms? We got to see the heartbeat last Friday and it was amazing! Baby is measuring a couple days behind but I know that's normal this early so I'm staying positive.

QOTW - What do you like and dislike most about Spring? I love watching things come back to life. My street looks so different once all the trees are blooming and everything is green. I don't like the Canadian Geese! They are EVERYWHERE and so mean. Sorry goose, maybe you shouldn't be nesting where thousands of people are walking everyday.

[kleigh]

How many weeks are you? 6 weeks 1 day

What is your baby the size of? A ladybug, two lady bugs!

What symptoms are you having? Barely there, on and off tender breasts. Occasional mild cramping. Bloating. Very thirsty and a little more hungry. I am also craving soda a lot and I never ever drink soda, at all. Otherwise feeling great!!

Do you have any appointments this week? Today we had our first scan!

Rants/Raves/Randoms: I was so nervous going in there because of how great I feel and my symptoms had really diminished. I prepared myself for the worst. The doctor had a resident in there with him and she was administering the ultrasound. I didn't see anything on the screen and my heart just sank. They weren't saying anything and I started to get really scared and then my RE goes "ok so, there are two sacs". With my nerves I'm all "what does that mean"?!?! They laughed. It's twins!!!! Anyway, both babies are measuring well at 5.1 and 5 mm (6w1day) and we got to hear both heartbeats!!!! 111 and 126!

I can finally relax just a bit and believe it's real. I am going to love the "feeling great" and hope it lasts for the entire pregnancy!

QOTW: What do you like and dislike about spring ? I LOVE spring ! It feels like an awakening; here in New England we have a dynamic shift of seasons and for me spring always means new beginnings and the approach of sweet summer nights. Allergies used to be my dislike but I am on medicine year round now bc of a major allergy issue I have.

[dashook]

Omg kleigh twins!!! That is so amazing! I'm so glad the scan went well. Congratulations!

[LizInFL]

kleigh So exciting!!! What wonderful news. Congratulations!

[rory5280]

How many weeks are you? 7 w 5 d

What is your baby the size of? Blueberry

What symptoms are you having? Nausea has tapered off a bit so thats nice. Boobs feel huge but not much else.

Do you have any appointments this week? First u/s Friday!

Rants/Raves/Randoms? sick of ginerale. . I don't think I'll ever be able to look at that can and not want to vomit!

QOTW - What do you like and dislike most about Spring! I love spring! But hate how March marks the marathon of birthdays in my husbands family. Seriously like 5 I'm the close family. We are invited to something every weekend until mid May and we get the guilt trip when we don't gonto every single thing. Which is fine, because we do us but the tension gets annoying year after year.

[sophiegrace]

Oh my goodness kleigh!!! Twins! So many congratulations!