Christmas (December) Babies 2018!

[jessicaftl]

Good morning everyone!!

Star - my midwife and OB are both across the street from the hospital, but I'm really hoping to avoid it because I have had some pretty bad experiences at this particular hospital. If for some reason I cannot deliver with my midwife I will be going to a hospital closer to where I live, in Salem. It's good to keep moving as long as you can, it really will help with pp recovery and even in labor. I remember my heart rate got up to 180 with my first labor and they had to put an oxygen mask on me because I wasn't breathing (lol), Being in better shape the last two times definitely helped! I hope you can keep up the stair going, even if it's minimal. I'm also having issues sleeping well the last few nights, for whatever reason. I feel for you there with the uncomfortableness of it all. If your BH get too strong, try drinking lots of water and relaxing for about 10/15 minutes, that usually helps!

afm - woo, 34 weeks today! Sleep was terrible last night because I woke up hungry every other hour, again. So annoying. I get up, eat a light snack, lie back down and of course it takes about ten minutes to get comfortable and then I wake up again to my stomach growling. I feel like my body is just digesting all my food really fast. This weekend looks to be the last of the non-rainy weather we have for awhile, so we are going to grill and do a little outside stuff. Tbh, I'm looking forward to having some Greek salad dh asked me to make, lol.

 

[StarGazerRose]

Oooh yeah I've been waking up feeling hungry too. Probably not a good thing. I drink some water after peeing and then go back to bed. I try not to change my routine... minus the getting up a few times to pee....I try to eat breakfast when i get to work. If I have something i have to test before doing so if i do any earlier. I'm thinking these last few weeks i might have to up the time i test my fasting glucose and eat something.

mmm I know that I was trying to find "alternative" solutions for my carbs... but the bread my mom suggested reminds me of Rye >,< I hate rye bread. It's grainy and tough I'm having to pair it with ham to get the same kinda feeling with the meat to trick me into thinking it's the ham not the bread. I also have it lathered in mayo to mask some of the taste..... Sadly i only have 1 piece of meat, so it's not really helping a whole lot.
And for the remainder of my lunch carbs i have an apple sauce cup and i'll have to munch on some crackers to get to 45.... >,< -- It's not gonna be a good lunch, and i'm gonna starve before my snack time

 

[jessicaftl]

I'd be starving, lol. My breakfast alone is about 500-600 calories, then I am ravenous about an hour and a half later, so I have some cheese or if I'm feeling wild I'll have some eggs. I end up having another snack before lunch, but then I go awhile before having a snack mid-day (usually nuts and berries and more cheese) then I get dinner going and either have two helpings spread out over the evening or I'll have something small before bed. I still end up so hungry around midnight it's uncomfortable. The last few nights have been pretty rough for it, I think maybe the baby is going through a growth spurt. I actually have been feeling kind of weak, like I need to eat more, which also sucks. Weekends I generally get more food in me though.

I like rye bread, but if you're trying to mask the flavor you should definitely add more meat, maybe cheese or a pickle? A sandwich sounds kind of good right now, but I'm sticking out for some chili leftovers at lunch time!

 

[StarGazerRose]

I'm not calorie counting so i can't tell you that but .... my breakfast and morning snack can only be 22g of carbs each. So if i eat something before getting to work, i'm gonna be starving well before my snack time at 10...and will have to eat way more than 2 string cheese packs (it's "free").
I have to also have some sort of protein with every meal and snack.
I'm gonna give that loaf to my mom ... I just don't like it enough to try it again. Plus i need more carbs that what it gives me (i need the 15 each slice, not 9)

Baby just literally zapped my energy. I took two steps and wanted to curl in a ball and sleep. Did that to me last night. Got to the kitchen and was like "do i have to move?"

 

[jessicaftl]

The energy drain is real in the last stretch, lol. I'm feeling particularly lazy right now, myself. I've been irritable all morning, kids have been driving me nuts with their attitude, and of course they pick up on my frustration and just get worse. It's definitely hormones because I'm not usually this way :/

 

[StarGazerRose]

Energy drain is worse when all i'm doing is waiting around ... Went to ask the IT guys for help, and they said they'd refresh it for me.... i haven't heard from them to tell me it's finished so i can get back to work. Stupid program.... I swear it hates me!

Mostly i'm tired and hungry. I usually have a snack on the way home cause Lunch being at 12(ish), snack around 3:30, and dinner near 7 .... i can't wait for food. Snacks are tracked, but i still try not to indulge in something. Usually a 15g snack or something alike.

There is a guy cleaning the fridge and has music playing on his phone... he's been at it for a few hours -- we have 2 fridges in the break room. I know 1 was pretty nasty idk about the other. It's been nice to hear music not on my computer.

 

[Sushai]

You guys!!! All this talk of food just makes me hungry lol

Just wanted to give a quick update. At my ob appointment I was scheduled in for a csection for 27 November, they wanted to do it the day before but it had already been booked for another twin mum. So just over 5 weeks to go that’s if babies don’t come sooner.

 

[jessicaftl]

Sushai - omg that is so soon, it is getting so close and exciting... yaay

 

[Buttercupbabi]

Aaah Sushai! How exciting!!
Will you the first mama to have the baby(ies) on this group?
Can't wait for updates!

AFM, I've been totally MIA but really struggling with SPD and my previous scars have made it a real issue!
Pretty much been on bed rest... Keep getting myself all worked up thinking the scars are going to rupture.
Was officially 7months yesterday and this baby is already bigger then his brothers! No concerns though so all good in that sense!

Hope you are all well! I haven't quite read everything back...
Jess, can't believe you're nearly 35weeks!
Star, sorry to hear you're calorie counting and I think i saw on previous chats you have GD? Or am I wrong?

xxxx

 

[jessicaftl]

I am anxious to see who goes first! I was just saying that I'll be full term in a couple weeks, but I'll likely go longer than that. I hope your scar pain goes away and that you aren't too tired. I think most of us are dealing with some degree of spd, so I feel for you there!

 

[Sushai]

I’m curious to see who goes first too. With me though, I won’t be going past the 27th November, so anytime from now til then. Hopefully not just yet though lol I really want to avoid having my babies in nicu. But if they end up needing it then they’ll need it.

Buttercupbabi I’m so sorry your scars are making everything a lot more uncomfortable and painful. Glad to hear everything else is going well and that baby is doing good.

 

[Buttercupbabi]

I can't believe we all went from the 2 week wait to nearing the end date!
I feel like it has gone SO QUICK! I dont feel ready at all haha
I find out my date on the 21st Nov - countdown will start then

SPD is a b*tch!
Im so swollen and can barely walk - all part of the... fun? i guess!!

 

[StarGazerRose]

Morning Ladies!

I hate that so many of you are dealing with SPD

Sushai -- Nov 27th! Oh my goodness. You might be the first, although I can't say much about those on FB.... It's so exciting that you'll see your little ones so soon!

Buttercup -- Yeah I have GD :/ But so far things have been going well. My numbers are near perfect and She (dietitian) said I didn't have to keep track of my food except the week before my next appointment -- i'm gonna keep doing it so i don't forget ... Pregnancy brain is for real!!! I feel stupid half the time cause i'm always forgetting something. I get to see baby again in November, so we'll see what they say then. I think as long as I am a good girl and follow the carb numbers I was given then I'll be fine. I even found an ice cream bar with 13g of carbs! I was super excited about that. Since being surrounded by cookies and candy and cake ....I'm going mad! I've been craving sugar so bad I feel so crushed while walking through the stores.

AFM -- Hubby and I have made it through a lot more of our spare room! There is now a path from the one side to the other! So much stuff to sell .... SO MUCH!!! I'm actually quite glad that the pile to keep is smaller than the sell pile. Trying to let go of stuffed animals is tough But I'm doing it! I have so many clothes to get rid of! And the other half of the room is mainly large boxes, craft supplies and Christmas decorations. I'm hoping that the rest of it goes by quickly.
It keeps raining the day Hubby and FIL want to work on the roof, but they at least bought the supplies to work on it. So i'm hoping we can get that fixed soon to get one more headache out of the way -- plus take down the extra gutters while they are up there too!
Weekend went decent for the most part. BH's are becoming more of a thing, Trying not to make a big deal out of them since i know they aren't (and they haven't been regular enough to measure, so that's good)
My friend had her baby on the 19th. Poor thing has Respiratory Distress Syndrome and is in the NICU. Over the weekend they took him off the little nose guard but still isn't breathing correctly. According to what I looked up, it's something that can last for a few hours to weeks before finally clearing up. For her sake i hope that's not the case!

 

[jessicaftl]

Good morning ladies!

Sushai - I imagine you or bdb would be the first to go, but she hasn't posted here or on fb in awhile so it's hard to say. I keep fingers crossed those little ones stay in as long as possible to avoid the nicu!

buttercup - it does seem to have flown by, hehe. The 21st is so soon! I hope your swelling calms a bit.

Star - sorry I didn't have the chance to respond on Friday, I had a whole thing written out and then got distracted lol. Yaaay for cleaning! Sounds like you guys are making some good headway on your room. I also got rid of a lot of my old stuffed animals because I just didn't have room for them here, so I know what it's like having to minimalize. Here's to having some dry weather to get your roof done up, too. BH are annoying, they really can hamper so much.

afm - What a busy weekend we had. Saturday we went on one of our grocery trips, but yesterday we took advantage of the decent weather and cleaned up a bit of the front yard while I vacuumed the entire house, and both cars. I'm really sore today, and last night I felt like I could collapse. Dh got on me for doing so much, but it felt kind of good to get the cars vacuumed out (they were soooo bad). A bonus too, found one of dd favorite little dinosaurs she lost months ago so we were all happy for that lol. Today I'll probably take it a bit easy.

 

[Sushai]

Star, thank you! It’s all so exciting knowing we are all so close to the end. Once one of us gives birth it’ll all go so quickly as everyone will just follow suit. I’m so sorry your bh are still making you uncomfortable. Glad to hear you got so much sorted in the spare room. Yay for baby gifts!

Jessica isn’t it great when you clean something out and you find a long lost something? I’m sure your dd was very pleased at seeing her dinosaur again. It’s also amazing how quickly our cars get dirty with kids. My son found half a McDonald’s burger the other day which was for my daughter, I don’t know how long it’s been hiding for though.

Afm, we had downlights installed throughout the whole house on Saturday (62 to be exact) and the guys did a good job but left a huge amount of dust everywhere from making holes in the ceiling. We spent a good part of Saturday evening cleaning out and on Sunday dh hired the carpet steam cleaner (carpeted areas were due for a steam clean) and he bought me a steam mop that I’ve been wanting for a while. So we spent a good chunk of Sunday cleaning also. Although most of the cleaning was done by my dh, he didn’t want me pushing myself doing too much. This clean came at a perfect time as I really wanted to do a big clean before my babies arrive but just don’t have the energy to do it all myself.
Today I have my growth scan and blood test at the hospital to check my iron levels but I’ll be going in to get checked out as I’ve had a horrible headache since Sunday night that doesn’t want to go away. I’ve tried resting, eating, hydrating myself, OTC meds and it just doesn’t budge. I’ve also noticed in the last week that the shoes I normally wear are leaving marks on my feet something that never happened before so I’m guessing I’m getting some sort of swelling throughout the day. Will update later today.

 

[StarGazerRose]

haha I've done that before.... many a times. I navigate away from the page and get caught up in something, come back and read new posts, go to reply and i'm like .. What??? is this? And not just forums, i do that with my text messages too.

I have a LOT of stuff. I took care of everything I was given -- I was told that if you don't respect and treat it well you won't have it for long. So yeah... I love a LOT. Hubby will hold something up and I'll just start laughing at whatever he's got. I do have a few that i'm like "eh ... no opinion, do whatever with it" but that is still rare.
I'm pleased with our progress. It will be nice to see the floor again. Hubby even kinda forced me out of the room, cause i was feeling well enough to keep going. And as soon as he pulled me out I about fell asleep walking to the kitchen to get food. He was like: "yeah.... that's why i made you stop." haha

Oh i don't think i mentioned that I got a few baby gifts already! People sending me (i mean Baby) stuffs Super excited! Baby Shower in 2 weeks! It's so close!

 

[jessicaftl]

I hope you have a really fun shower, and it's awesome you've got some gifts for baby already! Dh and I had so much stuff, we had it in a storage unit for years when we were living in an apartment and trying to buy a house, and a lot of it was ruined from the storage unit from moisture or mice, so yuck. Our house is tiny and we don't even have a garage, so we have gotten rid of a lot of stuff, and it's taken me a year or better of throwing a little bit away in our trash or recycle every week. I still have stuff I'm throwing away and we have large appliances I can't throw away, but there is a big spring cleaning thing that happens in our tiny town every year where we can pay a small fee and get rid of the appliances so I plan to do it then. This house had no shelving and no place to store anything so we built lots of deep shelves to keep our stuff and we continue to go through what we are keeping. Our mudroom was completely full of bins when we first moved in, it was crazy.

Funny how we just keep on doing stuff and our dh look at us like we are crazy and have to get us to slow down. It was dinner time and I wanted to start in on other cleaning stuff and dh was like you've done enough today. Nesting is insane. I am sore today, for sure.

 

[StarGazerRose]

I guess i was nesting .... cause while i was doing it I felt fine, like i could have kept going. Hubby probably would have come in and found me asleep

Oh so I thought that the little "puddle" we had in our water meter ditch was cause of the hurricanes that came through earlier. FIL said that because it's not going down, there could be an issue. So Hubby called it in to the city. A guy came out had to pump down the puddle and said, it's on the city side, and the meter wasn't working either, so they'll have to investigate it. There must be a leak somewhere and we're the ones ending up with the water from it. At least THIS issue isn't ours! I'm just hoping they don't have to tear up our yard >_<

I'm so ready for my shower! My mom is going to deck out the gym at her church for this! IIt's Winnie the Pooh themed ... it's gonna be crazy over the top -- cause well that's how my mom does it! I'll share pictures for sure!

 

[jessicaftl]

Sushai - not sure what's going on with the forums, but it seems your post is showing further back even though it's more recent? lol. I know what you mean about the big clean because that's what it is for us, luckily dh is really good about cleaning as well and he helps a lot. He works commercial concrete and gets fine dust all over everything in the cars so you can imagine just how dirty the cars were after months of not being vacuumed, plus kid foods. I also found burger pieces I don't know how old LOL. I told him our next project needs to be cleaning the fridge out, like the glass shelves and such. Can't believe how dirty some places get, but somehow it feels so good to get things cleaned up and organized. The lights sound interesting, good thing you got to clean up the mess, though! Sorry about the swelling, I didn't have it much at all my last couple pregnancies, and so far not much at all this time, I imagine having twins probably the extra weight and fluids being held up doesn't help. And for headaches, I have also been having terrible tension headaches that are always in the same spot and no amount of tylenol touches them, I feel for you there! I hope you can get some relief from them.

Star - funny you're having issues with water lines. We had the same thing going when we moved in. The leak was on the other side of the meter, of their side. There was always water pooled up in the meter and finally this summer they replaced it and fixed it. It was torn up for a few days but just at the meter. I'm glad it's not wasting water anymore, too. Here's to hoping your issue isn't too bad. Sounds like you've got nesting going on too, funny we're all doing it at the same time. I also felt that urge to keep going and dh was just shaking his head at me. Can't believe how sore I was last night after it all though, omg, I could have used log rolling as a form of transportation. Can't wait for pics of your shower!

afm, kids are already irritating me today, I swear it's the hormones, because the little stuff usually doesn't bother me. I can't chase them around or anything because I feel like a whale, a fat whale.

 

[StarGazerRose]

(you posted right before i clicked reply ....)

Sushai -- LOL at the hamburger .... wow. I'm sure that i'll experience the "mystery smell" soon enough.
Nice about getting to deep clean the house (even if it was cause of the dust from the lighting install) We have a ton more cleaning to do not related to that room. Our windows don't seal well -- old house, old issues -- we need to clean out all the cob webs and wash the windows.
Sucks about the headache. I hope they find something that will help ease it down. I know the only thing that ever worked for me was Excedrin Migraine (the extra strength stuff) [which we can't take while pregnant]

 

[Sushai]

Thanks ladies.

I really thought for a second my post was lost and never posted until I saw it way up lol.

Funny thing star is there was no smell and the burger had not one bit of mild or anything and with the hot weather here lately it would’ve been green and fluffy by now for sure there’s also the random French fries here and there and the very well crushed potato chips lol

Jessica the headaches I get come out of nowhere while I’m asleep. I mentioned it to my ob at a previous appointment and she told me to keep an eye on it. I got this one Sunday night out of nowhere and it doesn’t budge. My bp the last time it was taken was quite high for me although absolutely perfectly normal for the average person. My normal is quite low 100-105 the lowest I hit once was around 70/30 and that was during my first pregnancy, almost passed out but luckily I was doing my nursing clinicals at a good hospital when it happened.

 

[jessicaftl]

It's funny you mention it not being moldy, because none of the burger parts I found in my car were moldy either haha. There were fries as well and lots pistachio shells. For some reason the post you made was above the older ones and then it moved back after I refreshed and was trying to reply, then I saw Star replied as well. This morning it wouldn't post a reply I made then suddenly there were like four or five copies of my reply, I was a bit frustrated. I hope nothing serious comes from the headache or higher bp, I know mine was high a couple mw appointments ago, even though it was "normal" but generally mine is also really low. Headaches are the worst, I sooo hope you can get some relief from it! Ibuprofen seems like the only thing that works for mine but since we can't take that while pregnant I have to rely on pressure points, dh rubbing my neck and base of my skull, or trying not to focus on anything. Mine are definitely more tension related, though.

 

[Sushai]

I ended up calling in for my headache and they said to just keep an eye on my bp with my gp and to keep an eye out for any sudden swelling and/or tummy pains.

I’m here now, 45 minutes too early for my scan lol.