General chatter while we wait (and commentary on the "pull out method")

Hi ladies! It’s been a crazy few weeks. We moved in last weekend. The old tenants basically refused to move their stuff til last minute and told them they cleaned…they did not. The house was def not ready so before we could set up rooms we had to scrub everything and paint because they patched holes but didn’t paint over the giant white plaster patches. We still have quite a bit left, but it’s feeling more like home every day. Then I got an upper respiratory infection…probably from the dust. Pregnancy-wise things are ok. We found out baby girl has a small hole in her heart so I have to go in 2 weeks for an echo with a pediatric cardiologist. They said it’s not life threatening and will most likely close on its own, but needs to be monitored. At my appt today my BP was a tiny bit elevated, but I’m hoping that’s just from the stress of the week.

@shaescott I hope he hears something soon!! I literally laughed so hard at your comment about your DHs grandpas girlfriend looking like a thumb!

@RedRose It will all be over in no time! I hope they can help you come up with a plan though, that’s hard being so far away from the hospital. How often do you have appts? I had that with my son. I was so round and he flipped around many times, they told me there was a good chance I was getting a c-section because he was sideways. Then when I was induced at 37 weeks he had flipped completely head down. It was insane how much water there was when it broke!

@gigglebox I’m good not being more north. I wouldn’t be able to handle the snow and prolonged colder weather. I’m in PA. The weather is bipolar here and the winter was really cold this year, but not even close to what they deal with. It’s going to be 73 tomorrow and I’m here for it! I’m glad to hear things are going well with pregnancy. At least you’ve had bigger babies so you know what to expect!
i hope that the hole closes up itself, its hard having an extra thing to worry about. hopefully it will resolve stress free and you can enjoy your baby girl with no complications asap

i have my appt tomorrow and ill either be admitted again or given a plan hopefully. i get appts twice a week currently. but the fear is going into labour naturally so far away. i lost a bit of my plug this morning and im only 35 weeks and loads of BH i think my body is over this pregnancy already ha
 
@RedRose19 funny and true story, I've been having contractions like crazy since last night as I mentioned, so I went back in this thread to late 2018 when started going into labor at 34 weeks and change with ds3. There was someone else on here back then who had her girl during 35 weeks and she emphasized that all was OK and baby was healthy. I ended up having baby about 38 weeks...but in both our cases we did lose a bit of plug first (reading back...truthfully I didn't remember that). So maybe start making some plans and getting your bag ready "just in case"...but hopefully you have more insight after this next appointment. Could you maybe do a short term rental closer to the hospital?

afm...as I mentioned, I just went back and relived my last birth lol. This all started because I wanted to have some sort of insight as to how the heck I could tell the difference between false labor and real contractions because I couldn't remember how things went down last time with my "premature contractions" with ds3. I also thought it happened earlier, so my memory failed there. But the difference seems to have been the were 5-6 minutes apart with some mild discomfort in my lower back. Mine last night were 10 minutes apart (with one 5 minutes and a couple at 9 minutes, then would go up to 15 minutes then back to 10) and although they were really, really annoying the pressure didn't feel any different than normal braxton hicks and no pain. They've calmed down this morning but I am definitely still getting them. I guess it'll be something to keep my eye on and maybe put a call to the OB about for some guidelines as to when to go in to get checked.

This is also making me feel like I should get a hospital bag packed just in case I'm stuck in there for monitoring like I was last time....though it wasn't overnight I don't think.

Anyway all this to say, I am so thankful for you ladies and for this forum. It has really gotten me though some tough times! Everyone is so sweet and supportive here. I just wanted to say thank you! I sure do miss some of the ladies that were here back in the day. And OMG the discussions! It was so crazy to me, we were posting like 10 pages in a day back then. So wild.

This thread will be 10 years in August. That's insane. I wonder if it's among the oldest ongoing threads on the internet. Surely it must be!
 

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