October 2012 Weddings
mana8503
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Dear Community,
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
TTC
TTCers:
Cycle/Month:
CD/DPO:
W2O or 2WW?
Testing plans:
Chart stalks/rants/Thoughts:
Pregnant Girls:
How many weeks:
How are you feeling?
Rants/Thoughts/Bump pics?
Mommies:
How old are your LOs (Little Ones)?
How do you feel?
Any Milestones this week?
Rants/Thoughts/Baby pics?
Cycle/Month:
CD/DPO:
W2O or 2WW?
Testing plans:
Chart stalks/rants/Thoughts:
Pregnant Girls:
How many weeks:
How are you feeling?
Rants/Thoughts/Bump pics?
Mommies:
How old are your LOs (Little Ones)?
How do you feel?
Any Milestones this week?
Rants/Thoughts/Baby pics?
Re: TTC
Cycle/Month: 8/8
CD/DPO: CD 30
W2O or 2WW? 2WW
Testing plans: POAS yesterday and got a BFN. POAS again Friday
Chart stalks/rants/Thoughts: yesterday I was convinced I must be pregnant because my boobs are bigger and I had severe nausea in the morning.
How many weeks: 34
How are you feeling? Better than I have been. I've been getting a lot more sleep recently. Not sure why but it's straight up awesome.
Rants/Thoughts/Bump pics?
I locked down my newborn photographer. She's a coworker and has been working on becoming a photographer. She will do a newborn shoot for $40, come to me and give me rights to my photos. DH doesn't see the need for newborn photos but I want them for my birth announcement/Christmas cards. Since he's due in December I see it as two birds one stone.
Today is another doctor's appointment, I feel like I'm in there all the time. My kidney function is ok, but each time I go in the results are less OK. Hoping for good numbers today. I scheduled all of my appointments up to my due date, I'm almost to weekly appointments!!! Holy crap.
We haven't done much with the nursery lately. Right now it's storing all of the baby stuff. The crib is set up, but haven't done really anything else. Part of me is scared to take things out of the boxes and wash his clothes because I'm still scared something could happen.
I have dinner plans with MIL on Wednesday. This is probably a good time to set some post baby visit rules. I'm just thinking I'll tell her that she should always call before she comes and to ask how she can help when she is over rather than just doing. I'm really weird and if someone came over to my house and started doing the dishes I would be offended like you think I'm lazy for not doing my dishes. Can you ladies that recently had babies think of any other boundaries I should set with the ILs? They live like 5 miles from my house, this is their first grand kid, and they have boundary issues.
Finally I'm going to attach inspiration for my birth announcement. Let me know if you ladies like it.
And I love that idea for an announcement!!
Cycle/Month: 12/1AL
CD/DPO: 34/12
W2O or 2WW? 2ww
Testing plans: I was going to break down today because I had all sorts of symptoms this weekend, but loss brain wouldn't let me test on our anniversary yesterday just in case. But I had a .2 temp drop this morning so I didn't even bother.
Chart stalks/rants/Thoughts: pretty sure I'm out another flipping cycle. I don't know why I let myself get optimistic. It took 11 chances the first time....stupid.
How many weeks: 6
How are you feeling? just tired, i went to bed at 7:30 last night, the baby was being a brat from lack of napping at DC so she went to bed and I followed suit
Rants/Thoughts/Bump pics? My first appt is next tues, FX that everything is ok!
Mommies:
How old are your LOs (Little Ones)? 15 months+
How do you feel? see above
Any Milestones this week? nothing to report, H and I counted how many words she could say bc the doctor said at this point she should be able to say 2-3 and she is at around 20-25, my kid amazes me everyday!
Rants/Thoughts/Baby pics? n/a
How many weeks: 12w1d
How are you feeling? Ok. The round ligament pain is back. I've also been having some trouble sleeping. It's getting uncomfortable sleeping on my stomach, which I tend to do in the middle of the night, so I've been waking up from discomfort. I hope I get used to sleeping on my side sooner than later!
Rants/Thoughts/Bump pics? I got a chalkboard so I can start doing my bump pics. I'm pretty sure my blump is getting to be more of a bump now. I'm going to try to wait until 16 weeks before I get some maternity pants, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to hold off that long. I tried the belly bands from Target and I did not like them at all!
Thanks. I just can't believe how excited I was yesterday. It's like I'm a newb again and symptom spotting.
I guess I was just hoping that whatever was wrong before wasn't an issue anymore. It doesn't help that I have literally been passed by everyone in my life with getting KU'd. Many acquaintances who this spring were maybe starting to think about trying this summer have been announcing. Maybe they were fudging the truth, but I don't think so.
I also don't want to have to go through medicated cycles, so my hope was high that one of these last shots will work.
As for your FIL wanting to do skin to skin, I have no comment. Maybe he doesn't realize it's a bonding thing for mommies and babies?
How old are your LOs (Little Ones)? 10 weeks.
How do you feel? I feel good. O is napping and sleeping again.
Any Milestones this week? O is trying to roll. She will sort of roll onto her side when you put her on her back.
Rants/Thoughts/Baby pics? I went for a walk this morning and was so hot and winded when I got home. I need to walk more often.
Also I love the announcement!
@mrshall1027 - if you make it to 16 weeks without maternity pants you are my hero. I needed maternity shirts at 10 weeks because my regular shirts were too short. Maternity jeans at 12.
@LDubHawksFan - I think it's hard anywhere on this journey to not get excited. Hugs
Mommies:
How old are your LOs (Little Ones)? 5 weeks.
How do you feel? H gave E his cold and now me. It's just a sore throat now... And I dread when it gets full-blown. Can't just sleep it off.
Also, new moms, I suggest talking to your H and agreeing anything said between midnight and 8am will stay there. It's so easy to get snippy. It's helped me not hold onto things like I tend to do. Like last night we got a little testy. We both apologized this morning but moved on knowing it's just the lack of sleep etc.
Any Milestones this week? I think we are out of our first leap week. It's so neat how alert she is now! I got my first awake smile, she follows people with her eyes, and doesn't give me the WTF face when I talk/sing.
Rants/Thoughts/Baby pics?
Last picture is the necklace I got myself from etsy.
As for shirts, I had to go shopping this weekend for some. Most of my shirts are short too and just make me look really wide. My belly isn't sticking out far enough to look like a bump, but like I've just had way too many donuts. I can't wait to get a little bigger so I can wear more form fitting shirts again. I'm going to own my bump and show it off proudly!
@mana8503 I made it about 16 weeks without really needing to wear maternity pants. I would wear regular pants with a belly band. However, I literally went one day where I was fine in the morning, ate lunch and regular pants didn't fit anymore. Had I been able to take off my pants at work, I would have. They were that uncomfortable. I wore regular sweatpants, yoga pants and leggings the entire time.
How many weeks: 29
How are you feeling? I feel fine. Starting to get more uncomfortable.
Rants/Thoughts/Bump pics? I had to do the glucose tests in the first tri and I failed the one hour but passed the three hour. Well now that I'm in my third tri they ran the one hour again and of course I failed so now I have to go back Friday to do the dreaded 3 hour test again.
How old are your LOs (Little Ones)? 3 weeks
How do you feel? Still tired, but Wren has been taking better naps since we got her some gas drops the other day. My mom brought us some Gripe Water today and it seems to be working even better for her gas. I hope the fussiness is done for a while!
Any Milestones this week? She's smiling more and likes to look all around while she's awake. She's very nosy
Rants/Thoughts/Baby pics?