*March & April 2021*

[KitteyKat2010]

Got my 2nd HCG results back and it's at 1412. So it did double, now we just look forward to my first appointment on the 11th.

 

[alex_22]

Uk ladies, who else is loving this weather change? I’ve changed all of my plug ins to autumn/winter scents and every time I walk in my house it smells like Christmas. I wouldn’t miss summer if we never had it again, give me cold dark morning and nights any day!! I’m even going to have to set my thermostat to kick in on a morning now

 

[doggylover]

Uk ladies, who else is loving this weather change? I’ve changed all of my plug ins to autumn/winter scents and every time I walk in my house it smells like Christmas. I wouldn’t miss summer if we never had it again, give me cold dark morning and nights any day!! I’m even going to have to set my thermostat to kick in on a morning now

Yes! I love autumn, and I’m not much a fan of summer at all. It’s usually too hot, or else your expect it to be dry but it’s raining all the time! I much prefer autumn and winter (don’t much go in for spring). The crisp autumn days are definitely my favourite that said, I’m already wondering what I’ll be able to wear over the next while when it’s cool in the mornings and warmer by afternoon. I’m rapidly growing out of my clothes

 

[tdog]

I'm loving this weather aswell give me cold days any day my theory is in summer when it's hot you can't cool down but when cold you can put a layer on xx

 

[SCgirl]

Uk ladies, who else is loving this weather change?

im jealous! I wish it got cool to cold where I live- we’re still in the 90s every day, with triple digit heat index, and suffocating humidity (35C).
I have been consuming all of the pumpkin spice though and switching out scents... gotta find joy wherever you can in 2020

 

[doggylover]

im jealous! I wish it got cool to cold where I live- we’re still in the 90s every day, with triple digit heat index, and suffocating humidity (35C).
I have been consuming all of the pumpkin spice though and switching out scents... gotta find joy wherever you can in 2020

Give us a few months and we’ll be complaining it’s too cold

 

[StarryEyes.]

Thanks ladies! I’ve obviously been googling how accurate girl results are and seen loads of people saying they got told girl but it’s a boy, so not getting my hopes set on it just yet!

Oh I’m not enjoying the colder weather, I’m such a cold blooded person so really feel it. Would like it to just be a tad warmer! though I do love it when we can light the wood burner at home!

 

[MrsKatie]

I love autumn more than anything, but I am NOT a winter girl at all, I too run cold and I’m from California so give me summer and Fall any day! But I do love this slow transition, the cool breeze in the morning... I also like that I’ll be able to conceal my belly better haha!

 

[TTCBean]

If we have a girl we're 99% going with Natalie. For a boy... we don't know. Any N boy name suggestions?

 

[WannaBMamma7]

Sorry guys I’ve been MIA. We booked a last minute trip to Madeira as we were meant to be going Barcelona for the weekend. Didn’t know that it’s compulsory COVID testing when you land! It went enjoyable but at least I feel safe now and know I’ve not got it.

Being away has made me glad I’m not having a summer baby. Skin is so much more sensitive to the sun... I never sit in the shade but I’ve had to cos of my skin and being dizzy/light headed. I’ve felt so bad on my boyfriend though as he’s wanted to try loads of seafood restaurants and my god.... between what I can eat and what I can stomach... there isn’t much for me to eat. Pizza tonight ... thank god haha.

Awww I’m loving all the names. We’ve been discussing it loads while we’ve been away as we get to just switch off and chat. We are finally starting to agree on some. We like Charlie but I know my brother loves the name so might need to ask him if he’s going to use it. We like Oliver too and are still undecided on girl names. We aren’t finding out the sex so will just have some names ready and see what feels right when we see the little one

@Nixnax where I live is coming out or local lockdown on Wednesday so hoping DH will be allowed at 20 week exam but on the 12 week scan letter, it said he definitely couldn’t. Have you tried sleeping with a bra yet? I’ve had a couple nights without one and it just makes my boobs so sore again!

Looking forward to going back to the cool, rainy England tomorrow and not having to be a tourist! I have enjoyed swimming lots though... anything to help with the bloat as I feel like 15 weeks pregnant and I’m only 9.

 

[MrsKatie]

@TTCBean boy names are so hard!!

@WannaBMamma7 what a great trip! I am so sick of this Covid nonsense that I’m just ready to get the damn thing already and get on with it! I know that’s irrational but I am so sick of everyone staying away from one-another, DH’s bar being closed (it’s been closed since March 14 with no end in sight), masks on everyone all the time, everything cancelled... I’m like let’s all just get back to normal life and develop some damn herd immunity already this is a horrible way to live.

obviously I know it’s not that simple and I don’t want people to die, and I hope you all know I’m just talking out of frustration here

is anyone else outrageously irritable? It’s terrible. I have the shortest fuse ever and feel so angry. I almost unleashed on the people at the grocery store yesterday (granted they were acting incompetent, long story) but i have just no tolerance for anything right now. I am raging one minute and crying the next!

 

[doggylover]

If we have a girl we're 99% going with Natalie. For a boy... we don't know. Any N boy name suggestions?

Nathan, Nathaniel, Noah, Nicholas

Sorry guys I’ve been MIA. We booked a last minute trip to Madeira as we were meant to be going Barcelona for the weekend. Didn’t know that it’s compulsory COVID testing when you land! It went enjoyable but at least I feel safe now and know I’ve not got it.

Being away has made me glad I’m not having a summer baby. Skin is so much more sensitive to the sun... I never sit in the shade but I’ve had to cos of my skin and being dizzy/light headed. I’ve felt so bad on my boyfriend though as he’s wanted to try loads of seafood restaurants and my god.... between what I can eat and what I can stomach... there isn’t much for me to eat. Pizza tonight ... thank god haha.

Awww I’m loving all the names. We’ve been discussing it loads while we’ve been away as we get to just switch off and chat. We are finally starting to agree on some. We like Charlie but I know my brother loves the name so might need to ask him if he’s going to use it. We like Oliver too and are still undecided on girl names. We aren’t finding out the sex so will just have some names ready and see what feels right when we see the little one

@Nixnax where I live is coming out or local lockdown on Wednesday so hoping DH will be allowed at 20 week exam but on the 12 week scan letter, it said he definitely couldn’t. Have you tried sleeping with a bra yet? I’ve had a couple nights without one and it just makes my boobs so sore again!

Looking forward to going back to the cool, rainy England tomorrow and not having to be a tourist! I have enjoyed swimming lots though... anything to help with the bloat as I feel like 15 weeks pregnant and I’m only 9.

Oliver is my son’s name i know it’s no1 in the England/wales charts but it isn’t so popular here (Northern Ireland) which is great.

Glad you were able to have a lovely break! We had our holiday totally cancelled (it was to New Zealand for my sister in laws wedding) so have been pretty gutted about that.

 

[doggylover]

@TTCBean boy names are so hard!!

@WannaBMamma7 what a great trip! I am so sick of this Covid nonsense that I’m just ready to get the damn thing already and get on with it! I know that’s irrational but I am so sick of everyone staying away from one-another, DH’s bar being closed (it’s been closed since March 14 with no end in sight), masks on everyone all the time, everything cancelled... I’m like let’s all just get back to normal life and develop some damn herd immunity already this is a horrible way to live.

obviously I know it’s not that simple and I don’t want people to die, and I hope you all know I’m just talking out of frustration here

is anyone else outrageously irritable? It’s terrible. I have the shortest fuse ever and feel so angry. I almost unleashed on the people at the grocery store yesterday (granted they were acting incompetent, long story) but i have just no tolerance for anything right now. I am raging one minute and crying the next!

My irritability knows no bounds my kids are super irritable after starting back to school so we are a house of anger!!

 

[WannaBMamma7]

@MrsKatie i know what you mean. It’s awful but I’m just so fed up of it now. However.... it’s been a great excuse not to see people as I’m usually go out for week drinks with friends quite a bit and now I’m just using local lockdown as an excuse! Miss seeing my friends haha. Haha... I’m not massively irritable but when I want something... I don’t beat around the bush as much. Especially if I’m feeling nauseous and someone is faffing about and wasting my time or getting in between me and food! Haha

@doggylover thank you. It’s been short but sweet my boyfriend is trying to fit in lots of holidays and use all our vouchers from cancelled trips before the baby is here so got a few more coming up. I don’t have the energy I usually do! Aww that’s such a shame about New Zealand and the wedding. Will they be able to reschedule and if so will it work around the baby? Haha you take the English names... and we can take the Irish ones. I think there’s loads of lovely Irish names and I like some french names too but I feel like I we have no like or reason to. I like Connel and Amelie. I may change my mind depending on how much we like them

 

[MrsKatie]

Omg, right?? It has been almost 6 months of quarantine now, no indoor play dates no lessons no bars no date nights no work for us (though to be fair having DH home has been WONDERFUL- we have missed him so much over the years. It took a goddamn pandemic but we’ve truly enjoyed his company and he takes the kids roller skating every day). But we have seen family once since Xmas, who knows when we’ll see them again. At first I understood the extreme response - flatten the curve. But especially here in Oregon we absolutely DID flatten the curve and I don’t know when we went from flatten the curve to make sure no one gets it...?!? At a certain point those who are firmly NOT in the at-risk groups need to be able to make the choice to just live our lives because this is taking a toll- for some people their mental health is suffering on an unacceptable level. I understand that this whole thing is really complicated and horrible no matter how you slice it, but for example the risk of dying in a car accident if you’re a young healthy person is exponentially higher than dying of Covid but we allow driving, always have always will. And that puts others at risk too, life is a risky game! I just think this has been too extreme for too long and I don’t really understand it anymore. Are we waiting for a vaccine? That might never happen! Look at the flu vaccine, the success rate is abysmal (like 10% some years!) and we don’t go into lockdown every flu season even though that’s way more deadly for kids especially...

This is just so hard and it’s going on so long and especially with my irritability (“irritability” meaning unbridled rage) it’s especially hard to take right now.

 

[MrsKatie]

It’s our 10th anniversary in October and we were gonna take the family to Kauai... it’s devastating to lose that trip! Ugh so so over this pandemic!!!

 

[Pot_pie]

Omg, right?? It has been almost 6 months of quarantine now, no indoor play dates no lessons no bars no date nights no work for us (though to be fair having DH home has been WONDERFUL- we have missed him so much over the years. It took a goddamn pandemic but we’ve truly enjoyed his company and he takes the kids roller skating every day). But we have seen family once since Xmas, who knows when we’ll see them again. At first I understood the extreme response - flatten the curve. But especially here in Oregon we absolutely DID flatten the curve and I don’t know when we went from flatten the curve to make sure no one gets it...?!? At a certain point those who are firmly NOT in the at-risk groups need to be able to make the choice to just live our lives because this is taking a toll- for some people their mental health is suffering on an unacceptable level. I understand that this whole thing is really complicated and horrible no matter how you slice it, but for example the risk of dying in a car accident if you’re a young healthy person is exponentially higher than dying of Covid but we allow driving, always have always will. And that puts others at risk too, life is a risky game! I just think this has been too extreme for too long and I don’t really understand it anymore. Are we waiting for a vaccine? That might never happen! Look at the flu vaccine, the success rate is abysmal (like 10% some years!) and we don’t go into lockdown every flu season even though that’s way more deadly for kids especially...

This is just so hard and it’s going on so long and especially with my irritability (“irritability” meaning unbridled rage) it’s especially hard to take right now.

OMG I hear you! The "response" to this virus will end up affecting more people than the actual virus!

I am absolutely livid that my partner can't come to my scans. Also, I had to go to A&E on Friday because of a scare (a bleed) and they wouldn't let him through the door, even though we live together. That is simply cruel. I had to wait for 2 hours all alone, scared stupid something was horribly wrong and he was alone, at home, doing the same. Surely, common sense and actual risk assessment will prevail soon or we'll ALL end up in a far worse state down the line.

/ rant

 

[MrsKatie]

@Pot_pie oh I am so sorry he couldn’t be with you! I believe there are some things that are sacred and cannot be taken away. This is your partner’s baby too- it should be illegal to keep him from being there. This is a human rights issue. There are some things you simply cannot do.

In NY for a while they didn’t let fathers/partners in with the laboring mother and I couldn’t even speak I was so upset. Not being there for the birth of your child is a devastation that will last a lifetime. The governor finally said that hospitals couldn’t keep partners from attending births, but imagine how much damage was already done. It feels like we are being asked to pretend we aren’t human, and if we acknowledge our humanity and the reality that we are social creatures with deep attachments to one-another somehow we don’t care about human life...?!? It’s really sickening.

I heard about a hospital too that would only allow the dad to visit mom and new baby for 30 mins a day. I was like, isn’t going in and out of the hospital WAY WORSE than just STAYING there?!? It’s absolutely crazy!

 

[Pot_pie]

It's horrible and wrong in all the worst possible ways. I'm minded to complain to the hospital (I have already sought special permission from the director of midwifery for him to attend the scans - ludicrous!). Happy he will be let in for the birth, although, as we all know, these decisions based on I don't know what, his right to do so might well vanish overnight :*( In which case, I'd be tempted to at least threaten to give birth on the doorstep (or, more sensibly (!) at home if I'm able). Hopefully, by the time March comes around, things will have returned to normal. The old one not the new one!

 

[MrsKatie]

Yes, if they didn’t let DH come to my first appt and scan i would have gone to the birth center instead even though I prefer our hospital. Some things are sacred.