PG/Mom Check In - week of 3/31

[aegis2005]

Pregnant

Lauren(babybchbum) due 4/30/2013 (Team Blue)

Tasha (tashaandsage) due 5/28/2013 (Team Pink)

Kim (kimandross) due 8/12/2013 (Team Blue)

Sara (sara76) due 11/19/2013
Kathy (mrsjason) due 11/26/2013

Moms

Liz (aidensmom) mom to Aiden (1/25/2008)

Kim (kimandross) mom to Quinn (2/25/2008)

Kathy (mrsjason) mom to Macy (12/8/2009)

Danielle (dvroxy) mom to MacKenzie (4/10/2010) and Madeline (7/23/2012)

Jennifer (jennifer8080) mom to Kennedy (2/19/2011) and Caleb(8/6/2012)
Chelsea (mrschelseap09) mom to Lila (3/11/2011)
Tasha (tashaandsage) mom to Maisy (3/22/2011) and Beckett (1/28/2008)
Mayette (etteyam) mom to Sophia (5/3/2011) and Juliana (11/14/2009)
Marissa (amellis2) mom to Amelia and Abigail (6/4/2011)
(lovethesun) mom to Mason (7/22/2011)

Lauren (babybchbum) mom to Triston (8/8/2011)

Sara (sara76) mom to Amelia (12/27/2011)

Meghan (mrsmew) mom to Ellie (3/29/2012)

Melissa (mellis74) mom to Mia (4/27/2012)
Shawna (mrsshawanab) mom to Blake (5/22/2012)

Jen (jen812) mom to Dominic (5/31/2012)

Angela (loskadoodle) mom to Drew (6/28/2012)
Janelle (dearselah) mom to Selah (6/29/2012)
Krystal (krystalskitsch) mom to Cannon (9/9/2012)
Kara (April17) mom to Ethan (9/14/2012)

Carolyn (moonstone523) mom to Samantha (9/30/2012)

Stephanie (surfbetty530) mom to Lauryl (10/14/2012)

Terri (may07wedding) mom to Cooper (1/17/2013)

Kate (mskateb) mom to Lily (7/26/2008) and Brendan (1/23/2013)
Heather (aegis2005) mom to Shane (2/18/2013)

Jen (mrsjenrn) mom to Zoe (2/17/2011) and Jack (3/12/2013)

Aly (alzi) mom to Alexandra (3/18/2013)

[aegis2005]

I have my 6 week PP check this afternoon - and I'm pretty sure AF has returned this past Sunday. Uggh ... I hate that I have to "think" because with the hormones I was on for the year prior to getting pregnant, I don't know what my "normal" is.

Shane is becoming more and more interactive and I love it so much.

Other than that, my milk supply sucks on my left side. I'm getting ready to start sending out my resume, so I want to start building a freezer stash, and I won't be able to with one side. I'm contemplating renting a hospital grade pump to see if I can get things going a bit more, but I'm not sure if it's too late to bump up supply on that side. I hope not.

[alzi]

Day 1 of being on my own. Little nervous! We have been sooooo spoiled by my parents. They did everything around the house and did all the errands lol.

I might have blocked duct, how do I fix that?

Things are going well otherwise, sleep is unpredictable but im taking what I can get.

[kimandross]

Heather, it is never too late. Go on kellymom.com or call your closest LLL chapter, I'm sure they'll have great tips. I would give you the number of my awesome friend who is an IBCLC, but she sadly moved to TX.

Things here are good. Still having issues that mostly stem from having low iron/hemoglobin, but it is what it is and all that good stuff. I'm trying to get some stuff together for the baby, but it is proving to be more difficult than I thought, mostly due to our current living situation. But as with the iron, it is what it is and I can't change it at this present moment. It'll work out.

[sara76]

7 weeks today. Besides being tired I wouldn't even know I'm pregnant if it weren't for this god forsaken head/chest cold I'm dealing with. I would hurt a panda to take a big fat Mucinex. My 1st ob appt isn't until the 26th which puts me past 10 weeks and I'm thinking of calling to get in sooner to be sure I don't miss the window for 1st tri screening. I don't really know if my lmp was a real thing or implantation because it was early and short. Please pray I don't have twinsies in there y'all!

Amelia is doing awesome. We're at her well visit right now waiting to be called. (And i can head a kid vomiting-omg awful!!!!) She's such a big girl. We walked in and I put her down and told her it was ok if she went into the waiting room so she walked right into the well room and started playing with the bead maze. Now she's rearranging the chairs but we're the only ones in here so I'm ok with it. It hurts to talk but if I do talk to her she can tell me what a dog says now. Her friend knows what a dog, cat, bird, and lion say so we have some catching up to do!

[mrsjason]

On Friday afternoon I started bleeding I tried to get into my OB's office but they were closed for Good Friday so rather than going to the ER I waited it out until yesterday afternoon for my scheduled appointment.

I had my H come with me to the appointment because I was sure that the news wouldn't be good. But surprisingly the baby was in there measuring 5w5d, which was my initial estimation for the due date. There was a HB for 91 BMP. While that's low my OB wasn't too worried about it, he was more worried about the bleeding. Basically things are fine now but I have a 50/50 chance of losing the baby since I am bleeding. I am going back on Progestrone this pregnancy so hopefully that will help things.

He wanted to see me next week for a follow up ultrasound but I will be in FL. I won't be able to get back until April 18 so the wait will be long.

Although I do need to call my OB's office. They ran my beta numbers again yesterday and I will be interested to see where my number is. That might be a indicator of the outcome of things.

I have morning sickness on and off through out the day. Previously working out would help curb that but now I am on strict orders not to work out. Bummer. I was REALLY hoping to stay active this pregnancy. It took me a year of dedication to get my body to where it is now and while I know this sounds really selfish, I am bummed that I will lose all the progress I made. I dread having to start over from zero. Ha, I know that sounds really bad but it sucks that my lifestyle for the last year will be changed.

[aegis2005]

Apr 2, 2013 9:02:54 GMT -5 alzi said:

Day 1 of being on my own. Little nervous! We have been sooooo spoiled by my parents. They did everything around the house and did all the errands lol.

I might have blocked duct, how do I fix that?

Things are going well otherwise, sleep is unpredictable but im taking what I can get.

When I called the LC at St Joe's she suggested putting the baby on the bed and leaning over to feed.  It's a weird position, but gravity helps work things out.  She also suggested I put the blocked boob in a bowl of warm water (gravity again) for about five minutes while massaging to work the blockage out.  Other than that she suggested nursing a lot to get things moving.

[mrsmew]

alzi, when I thought I had a blocked duct I did a lot of what aegis said - warm compresses, massage in the shower, angle the baby's chin at the block and massage while she nurses, nurse leaning over the baby. Hope you feel better soon!

Ellie is a hot mess these days. She's still as cute as a button but we're in this weird place where she's pissed off a lot of the time. She's fighting off a bit of a cold, so I assume that's the majority of it, and she's also getting another tooth. But she's not sleeping well, really whiny, lots of temper tantrums, etc. I feel like I'm spending all day trying to keep her distracted from rage. Plus none of us are getting much sleep and I happen to have a big jury project on my plate right now so it's stressful. I just want my happy, easy-going girl back!

[mskateb]

Heather, def contact a specialist for some help. FWIW, I never had a good freezer stash with Lily, and I pumped at work for about 9 months and it was always just enough. Never a surplus, never a shortage. I guess your overachiever is making up for your slacker, but there must be a way to even it out some.

All is well here. Brendan is such an easy baby, I feel really spoiled. He smiles and coos all the time, and I just can't get enough of it. Yesterday in his play gym thinger, he grabbed one of the hanging toys. Pretty sure it wasn't on purpose, and then he was just staring at it, like he was trying to figure out what just happened.

Lily is doing better. Less anger, more happy. She and I have date night on Wednesday that I'm looking forward to.

Sunday for a good chunk of the day, I found myself mostly on my own with B, L, and their 4 cousins. That's six kids all under the age of six. I needed to find a quiet place all alone with a bottle of wine by the time that was over.

[amellis2]

Apr 2, 2013 9:18:54 GMT -5 sara76 said:

7 weeks today. Besides being tired I wouldn't even know I'm pregnant if it weren't for this god forsaken head/chest cold I'm dealing with. I would hurt a panda to take a big fat Mucinex. My 1st ob appt isn't until the 26th which puts me past 10 weeks and I'm thinking of calling to get in sooner to be sure I don't miss the window for 1st tri screening. I don't really know if my lmp was a real thing or implantation because it was early and short. Please pray I don't have twinsies in there y'all!

Amelia is doing awesome. We're at her well visit right now waiting to be called. (And i can head a kid vomiting-omg awful!!!!) She's such a big girl. We walked in and I put her down and told her it was ok if she went into the waiting room so she walked right into the well room and started playing with the bead maze. Now she's rearranging the chairs but we're the only ones in here so I'm ok with it. It hurts to talk but if I do talk to her she can tell me what a dog says now. Her friend knows what a dog, cat, bird, and lion say so we have some catching up to do!

What do bad about twins?  Someone is due for a double dose soon! 

[sara76]

amellis (how do I tag from my phone??) I can't do 3 kids. It can't be me. Nopers.

[tashaandsage]

Kathy, glad that things are okay for now. Praying for you that everything continues to be alright.

I definitely feel conflicted thoughts of "Oh my goodness, I still have another 7 weeks or so to go," and "holy crap, these weeks are flying by! She'll be here before I know it." I don't have a tremendous amount of things to still buy or do in preparation, but I feel like I ought to get going nonetheless. The hardest part is just making up my mind on what i want.

I'm beginning to experience a good deal of downward pressure and backaches and I wear out easily, but for the most part, I feel pretty good. I broke down and finally got some medical grade compression hose, which should help to alleviate some of the pain of my varicose veins. I'm not sure if I will wear them outside of the house much, but I definitely plan on wearing them at home.

[mrsjason]

I just talked to my OB's office and got the results of my beta test. I was expecting the results to be around 5,000 or so but my blood work came back at 34,000. What? That's crazy high. The normal range for five weeks is 180 to 7,400. I am about 4.5 times higher than the "normal" high reading. WTF?

I am trying not to worry since I know HCG levels don't mean a whole lot, but I am slightly worried something is wrong genetically since pregnancies with chromosomal issues tend to have much higher HCG levels.

Ugh. I am going to work on turning my mind off now........

[babybchbum]

Apr 2, 2013 15:20:54 GMT -5 mrsjason said:

I just talked to my OB's office and got the results of my beta test. I was expecting the results to be around 5,000 or so but my blood work came back at 34,000. What? That's crazy high. The normal range for five weeks is 180 to 7,400. I am about 4.5 times higher than the "normal" high reading. WTF?

I am trying not to worry since I know HCG levels don't mean a whole lot, but I am slightly worried something is wrong genetically since pregnancies with chromosomal issues tend to have much higher HCG levels.

Ugh. I am going to work on turning my mind off now........

Praying for you- glad to hear everything is as it should be.

[babybchbum]

I hit 36 weeks today- everything is looking great and we are still on track for an April 30th EDD. Triston came at 38 weeks so we have been getting things together even more.

Triston has come down with a bit of a cold. I am hoping he can kick it before his swim lessons start this weekend. He is babbling more since we got him enrolled in a Mothers Day out program. He didn't qualify for speech therapy at our first evaluation. We have another evaluation next month. If no major language improvements we will start speech therapy 2x a week. We have decided in August we will probably get him enrolled in a 3 day program in hopes it will help him socialize more and help him continue to grow with his communication.

Ds2 has a name- his name will be Owen. We have called him this since finding out he was a boy but never fell in love with it until recently. We couldn't find another name we liked even more either so it fit and I couldn't be more excited,

[sara76]

Apr 2, 2013 15:20:54 GMT -5 mrsjason said:

I just talked to my OB's office and got the results of my beta test. I was expecting the results to be around 5,000 or so but my blood work came back at 34,000. What? That's crazy high. The normal range for five weeks is 180 to 7,400. I am about 4.5 times higher than the "normal" high reading. WTF?

I am trying not to worry since I know HCG levels don't mean a whole lot, but I am slightly worried something is wrong genetically since pregnancies with chromosomal issues tend to have much higher HCG levels.

Ugh. I am going to work on turning my mind off now........

Umm what if you have the twinsies? Praying that it is all ok.

[mrsjenrn]

Apr 2, 2013 15:34:12 GMT -5 babybchbum said:

I hit 36 weeks today- everything is looking great and we are still on track for an April 30th EDD. Triston came at 38 weeks so we have been getting things together even more.

Triston has come down with a bit of a cold. I am hoping he can kick it before his swim lessons start this weekend. He is babbling more since we got him enrolled in a Mothers Day out program. He didn't qualify for speech therapy at our first evaluation. We have another evaluation next month. If no major language improvements we will start speech therapy 2x a week. We have decided in August we will probably get him enrolled in a 3 day program in hopes it will help him socialize more and help him continue to grow with his communication.

Ds2 has a name- his name will be Owen. We have called him this since finding out he was a boy but never fell in love with it until recently. We couldn't find another name we liked even more either so it fit and I couldn't be more excited,

Owen was my first choice for a name but H didn't like it as a first name

[babybchbum]

[quote/]Owen was my first choice for a name but H didn't like it as a first name [/quote]

I have found that it is becoming rather popular. When I saw it was Jack's middle name I smiled. You've got good taste.

[jen812]

Apr 2, 2013 15:57:00 GMT -5 sara76 said:

Apr 2, 2013 15:20:54 GMT -5 mrsjason said:

I just talked to my OB's office and got the results of my beta test. I was expecting the results to be around 5,000 or so but my blood work came back at 34,000. What? That's crazy high. The normal range for five weeks is 180 to 7,400. I am about 4.5 times higher than the "normal" high reading. WTF?

I am trying not to worry since I know HCG levels don't mean a whole lot, but I am slightly worried something is wrong genetically since pregnancies with chromosomal issues tend to have much higher HCG levels.

Ugh. I am going to work on turning my mind off now........

Umm what if you have the twinsies? Praying that it is all ok.

I hope so!