Weekly check-in, 4/3

[FastHands]

Sup yo?

I got nothin. 17 weeks today.

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18+2 here.
I was a guest speaker for a friend/colleague's work function last night. I got home at 10:30 because the event was over an hour and a half away. YAWNNNNN
We're probably going to register this weekend. I want to go look at furniture too.
I have no motivation, however, to do any sort of planning for a nursery, like decor and whatever. Pinterest-er fail.

Flameful - for someone who wanted a baby as much as I did, I am really not loving this whole pregnancy thing. I just want the baby to be here, this whole pregnancy thing is for the birds. My friend, who is 8 months pg, asked me how I was feeling last night, and I said "sometimes, it feels like someone is holding me down and David Beckham is repeatedly kicking me in the crotch." Her reply: "oh, that's... graphic." She gets it, but is having a far more enjoyable (to her) pg experience.
Flameful #2 - despite my statement above, we are still going to try for #2 ASAP.

[picksthemusic]

Apr 3, 2014 10:38:39 GMT -5 FastHands said:

Sup yo?

I got nothin. 17 weeks today.

How in the heck are you 17 weeks already? I knew you weren't that far behind me, but wow. LOL

Doing great here. Hungry ALL THE TIME. This kid must be trying to put on weight or something because I can't eat enough.

A/S today! So excited to see if we have a penis or not. Either way we'll be super excited. Just happy that baby is healthy!

Hope everyone is having a good week!

[KaraOrNot]

13 weeks tomorrow! My NT results came back and everything looked good. However, I have started feeling really nauseous and throwing up. WHY NOW? I thought I was going to be able to avoid it, as I had been feeling fine until the last couple weeks.

[thatgirl2478]

12w 3d here - NT scan & bloodwork this morning. Measurements look good, just waiting on the blood test results now. 6 more weeks before the Anatomy scan (arrggh - sooo long).

Finally got some good allergy meds & a new inhaler Rx, so I'm hoping to start breathing normally again soon (damn allergy induced asthma). I've been using a 6 yr old inhaler I found in my sock drawer - it works OK but not as good as a new one. I also found a 4 yr old one in my shirt drawer - wonder if that one works better... LOL

Hoping to be able to feel the baby move soon.

I'm in limbo clothing wise though - I have a few pairs of maternity pants, but the stretchy part at the top on all of them is too loose, but regular pants are too tight. So I've been wearing the maternity pants & just pulling them up ALL THE TIME. It's fun. Plus, I want to get more shirts, but I don't want to buy long sleeves (which is what I need) because I'll get more wear time from short sleeves.

[dana2006]

24 wks. I'm detecting a pattern to the baby kicks. He'll be quiet between 10pm and 7:30am, but every morning, 5 minutes after my alarm goes off, he'll start kicking, w/o fail. The rest of the day there's no pattern at all, but the morning kicks are really predictable.

Yesterday I whined that I had nothing to wear. DH said in a knowing tone, You're in the in-between stage, aren't you? This sent me into a giggle fit, b/c he's clueless about women's fashion and is just parroting a common phrase.

[FastHands]

Apr 3, 2014 12:01:21 GMT -5 KaraOrNot said:

13 weeks tomorrow! My NT results came back and everything looked good. However, I have started feeling really nauseous and throwing up. WHY NOW? I thought I was going to be able to avoid it, as I had been feeling fine until the last couple weeks.

This happened to me too! I only tossed once, but I felt WAY worse at the start of 2nd tri than I did all first tri. I started to recognize the pre-yuck feeling, and then I could stave it off by just eating something super light (I had a LOT of rice krispies dinners), but it was not fun. It only lasted a couple of weeks for me, 3 at the most. Now I feel like a normalish person again. Hope it goes away quickly for you!

[FastHands]

Apr 3, 2014 12:59:29 GMT -5 thatgirl2478 said:

I'm in limbo clothing wise though - I have a few pairs of maternity pants, but the stretchy part at the top on all of them is too loose, but regular pants are too tight. So I've been wearing the maternity pants & just pulling them up ALL THE TIME. It's fun. Plus, I want to get more shirts, but I don't want to buy long sleeves (which is what I need) because I'll get more wear time from short sleeves.

Me too. I'm finally starting to expand forwardly (lol), but in general, maternity pants are still a pain with the falling down. I was on vaca this weekend and wearing a pair of jeans that is a bit too long anyway (I cuffed. I don't even care. lol), BUT.. I have one of those sort of webbed belts, where you can put the pin in anywhere, and I put that on over my maternity jeans, kind of low on my hips, just to give a little extra snugness, and it helped a TON. They still sagged after a while, but it was like adjusting once every couple of hours vs every few minutes.

[FastHands]

Oh, I forgot! I have 2 things to bitch about, lol:
1) I finally measured my boobs. 36H. H! As in "HOW THE HELL?!" I'm hoping to run to Nordstrom Rack (rack. heh.) today to get a couple of holsters for these bad boys. I'm lucky that I can get away with sports bras at work, but I'm tired of feeling MASHED in there. lol

2) Daycare searching is the pits. They are opening a new one literally across the road from work, and I was all YAAAAY FINALLY!! They have a location about 45mins away that has great reviews, and you can tour that place and sign up at the new one. awesome. Well we keep meaning to go tour the existing one and then, well, don't. So I emailed them today about availability, figuring that should light a fire under my ass. They wrote back to tell me that they are currently only accepting registrations for their opening month (August), and beyond that, they will only enroll 2 weeks out. Sooooooooooooooo I can wait until 2 weeks before I go on maternity leave and just HOPE you have something? Screw you in orafices where it won't feel nice at ALL. UGGH. I know it makes perfect sense from their (financial) perspective, but dude. What a crappy policy for incoming infants. For older kids who ostensibly already have other arrangements for child care, sure, fine.

[thatgirl2478]

Apr 3, 2014 13:26:52 GMT -5 FastHands said:

Oh, I forgot! I have 2 things to bitch about, lol:
1) I finally measured my boobs. 36H. H! As in "HOW THE HELL?!" I'm hoping to run to Nordstrom Rack (rack. heh.) today to get a couple of holsters for these bad boys. I'm lucky that I can get away with sports bras at work, but I'm tired of feeling MASHED in there. lol

2) Daycare searching is the pits. They are opening a new one literally across the road from work, and I was all YAAAAY FINALLY!! They have a location about 45mins away that has great reviews, and you can tour that place and sign up at the new one. awesome. Well we keep meaning to go tour the existing one and then, well, don't. So I emailed them today about availability, figuring that should light a fire under my ass. They wrote back to tell me that they are currently only accepting registrations for their opening month (August), and beyond that, they will only enroll 2 weeks out. Sooooooooooooooo I can wait until 2 weeks before I go on maternity leave and just HOPE you have something? Screw you in orafices where it won't feel nice at ALL. UGGH. I know it makes perfect sense from their (financial) perspective, but dude. What a crappy policy for incoming infants. For older kids who ostensibly already have other arrangements for child care, sure, fine.

LOL! this whole update made me LOL (well, not the crappy daycare update - boo)

[anna7602]

I'm 23 weeks today. I have been suffering from pregnancy insomnia and it makes me weepy and irritable during the day. Today, I cried at the grocery store because they were out of my brand of soy milk. Okay, the milk thing was bigger than that because I went to the store yesterday, stocked up on all other kinds of stuff and blanked out on the milk. Then DH greeted me with the news this morning that we were out of milk, instead of helpfully offering to run out to the store or to pick some up at some time today. 

But anyway, the point is that I am so tired I am making federal cases out of things like milk running out. So you can only imagine how pleasant I am to be around these days. I walked 75 blocks today and ran another 20 in an effort to wear myself out so thoroughly that my body will have no choice but to sleep soundly tonight. 

And despite all of this, I am not one of those pregnant women who is all "hurry up and get here" about the baby. If I can barely function on little sleep now when I have a relatively self-sufficient kindergartener, I am pretty sure I will be downright overwhelmed once I have a newborn in the mix. I am going to try to savor these last 17 weeks or so...

[andthentherewere10]

I am 35 weeks today and that means I have 35 days left! I've started weekly appts which are a PITA since I work very far from where I'll deliver. And I'm with @mrsspunky. Pregnancy and I do not get along. Baby shower is this weekend...

[cheesepuff]

I'm 12 weeks today, and at my prenatal appointment yesterday, we were able to hear the heartbeat. It was such an amazing feeling!!