Mid June and July Firecrackers Group Due June/July 2017!

[DobbyForever]

Woohoo congrats Cat! So glad both girlies and yourself are doing well. I agree man 13 lbs of baby is quite a lot so kudos to you momma for handling that like a champ. Hopefully the flow picks up but if you end up combofeeding nothing wrong with that. Rest up and thanks for the update!

 

[808malia]

Huge congrats Catalyst!!! Can't wait to see some pics of your sweet little girls please correct me if I have the wrong date...


June/July due dates


-Hermione394- Due date June 9th, 2017

-Ellie Bean- Due date June 9th, 2017 Born May 19th 2017!

-AmbiguousHope- Due date June 11th, 2017

-4magpies- Due date June 14th, 2017

-Princess Pearl- Due date June 15th, 2017

-BABTTC123- Due date June 16th, 2017


-boobee- Due date June 16th, 2017

-Lexus15- Due date June 23rd, 2017

-Liz_e- Due date June 23rd, 2017

bbygurl719- Due date June 24th, 2017 Born June 12th 2017!

Oculi83 Due date June 26th, 2017

x Zaly x Due date June 26th, 2017


-CanadianLady- Due date June 28th, 2017

-Catalyst- Due date June 29th, 2017 Born June 19th 2017!

-Ad0rkkable- Due date June 29th, 2017

-wannabeprego - Due June 30th, 2017


-sil - Due June 30th, 2017


-Rockell8788 - Due July 1st, 2017



-Sambatiki - Due July 2nd, 2017

-youngmamttc - Due July 3rd, 2017

-Jlh05 - Due July 3rd, 2017



-Weebles - Due July 4th, 2017 Born May 31st 2017!


-stmw - Due July 5th, 2017

-Aubrey2013 - Due July 6th, 2017

-Jlh05 - Due July 6th, 2017

-Flueky88 - Due July 6th, 2017 Born May 31st 2017!

-BeckyTy - Due July 7th, 2017

-Emerson87 - Due July 7th, 2017

-Maries_s - Due July 7th, 2017

-thexfadingpat - Due July 8th, 2017

-Betty.Rubble - Due July 8th, 2017

-second.time - Due July 9th, 2017

-lesondemavie - Due July 11th, 2017


-Lunabelle - Due July 11th, 2017

-Mrstruth - Due July 11th, 2017

-808malia - Due July 14th, 2017


-aknqtpie - Due July 14th, 2017


-ALiKO - Due July 16th, 2017


-blessedmomma - Due July 17th, 2017

-Gagrlinpit - Due July 19th, 2017

-Aphy - Due July 19th, 2017

-PurplePear - Due July 22nd, 2017

-PrettyInInk42 - Due July 22nd, 2017

-vaniilla - Due July 22nd, 2017

-Girly922 - Due July 22th, 2017


-Mummafrog - Due July 23rd, 2017

-rainbowsun - Due July 23rd, 2017

-TTCfirstovr30 -Due July 23rd, 2017

-Parkep - Due July 24th, 2017

-confuzion - Due July 25th, 2017


-Thejoie - Due July 27th, 2017

-zephyr - Due July 27th, 2017

-DobbyForever - Due July 30th, 2017


-baseball_mom - Due July 31st, 2017



Angels:

-Star25-


-annio84-

 

[PrettyInInk42]

Congrats Catalyst. Hope you have a speedy recovery.

Oh man, thank God I only have 19 days of work left. 24, tops. -.-

 

[DobbyForever]

You can do it! Hang in there, Pretty!

Afm now that I'm not work mode my body has given up on life. I'm lucky to get 2-3 chores done a day. Finally washing the nb clothes. Trying to keep my loads small so doing three: whites, brights, darks. Washing the 0-3m tomorrow. Phew exhausted just from pulling the tags off lol but we are on the tail end of a heat wave

 

[Girly922]

Wow! Congrats Cat! Glad to hear you are all recovering well now. I can't believe one of the twins was 8lbs! You are one incredible mama!

Two weeks left at work for me, which totals 8 days. I'm a bit worried I'll be a bit lazy once on leave, but I'm hoping I won't really have long enough to slouch too much. I've got lots to sort in the house still before baby makes an entrance!

 

[Gagrlinpitt]

Yay cat congrats!!

I'm currently laying on an arm chair with my feet up... And my stomach is very upset.. I am just hoping little girl stays cooking because dh is camping an hour and a half away this weekend...

 

[Weebles]

Congrats catalyst!! glad everyone is doing well!

 

[DobbyForever]

Gag hf camping!

I'm miserable. Just woke up feeling like crap and missed my bf class because SO needed maintenance on his motorcycle that ran late (they were supposed to be done at 1 but didn't finish until 2:30... my class was at 1:30) and he was whining about wanting to spend time with me. I'm just like if you wanted to spend time with me you could nut up and go with me but his half hearted agreeing was not worth it. So hoping I can find one during the week while he's at work or I may just skip it

 

[ALiKO]

Congrats Cat! Enjoy your little bundles!

Hearing some of you ladies giving birth already is getting me so pumped! I'm in that phase now where I'm not really fearing labor anymore just want to get on with it even though I'm not completely ready. My house is a mess that I'm trying desperately to clean and organize not to mention I haven't even packed a single thing in my hospital bag. Bah humbug...

Dobby- sorry u missed ur BF class hopefully you can find another one.

 

[DobbyForever]

Aliko I feel the same way. I'm more scared about the state of the house/baby things than birth at this point lol

 

[PrettyInInk42]

Same here, ALiKO and Dobby.

BD and I just picked up the car seat I really wanted for my car: the Graco 4ever one. It's normally $449, before tax, but after a coupon, gift card, and gift exchange, we only paid $280 (thank you 5% partial child tax). So, with the exception of the crib and change table still being an hour away at his mom's house, we're good to go. Just gotta do a few loads of laundry and pack our hospital bags.

I've also finally figured out the right tightness for my wrist splints and they've been noticeably helping. I spent most of yesterday in them. At one point, I had to take them off to use a knife and fork to cut my food and right my hand started hurting almost immediately. But I put them back on and felt a lot better.

And I think BD might finally be coming around to the name Alex. He made a joke last weekend about naming him "Alexander Ovechkin [his last name]" (Alex Ovechkin being one of the best players for the Washington Captials). And he's referred to the baby as Alex Ovechkin a few more times since. If that's the case, now we just need to decide on a good middle name and I'll need to let him know I'd rather give the baby my last name, at least to start out with.

 

[DobbyForever]

Pretty excellent score! I'm so glad the splints are working but not that your wrist hurts as soon as you get out of them. . Yay for BD coming around to Alex

5 weeks left til EDD! My family just got back from Miami/Cuba and SO has a ride today with his mc, so going to sneak out for lunch with them . Annoyed with my cousins for picking at me because I actually plan and prepare. I know it's just a jealousy thing but it's still annoying af.

 

[lesondemavie]

Thanks all for the support following my appointment.

Yay pretty great news!

Have fun Dobby! And family is always tough. We're meeting my parents for lunch for Father's Day/my dad's bday (they were on a road trip last weekend), and I briefed DH on safe topics to try and minimize the picking/negative comments that get under my skin. The other day by text my mom went on and on about Lamaze and how she couldn't imagine labor without it and I really need to get myself to a class asap *ugh*. It's like we're stuck in the 70s. Thank goodness she's ok with not being there when I deliver!

Now that the nursery is done and the clothes all washed and we're ready for baby I feel in such a limbo. At 37+5, it feels like baby could come any day but also it could be another month before we meet our Charlie. I really don't know what I'm going to do with myself on leave if baby is late. At least if nothing else, I'm guessing we'll have a date for induction in less than two weeks (unless my ob wants to wait until my next appointment when I'm past 40). Beyond just hoping to beat statistics, trying to use that as a marker to break up the time.

 

[second.time]

Good news about the name, pretty! We've finally started calling the baby by an official name (among ourselves, anyway) and it feels good to get that much closer to knowing.

Lesonde, I'm in the same limbo. I swear when I was two months away it felt like ANY DAY NOW, and now it's two weeks and I'm so, so impatient every day. I need to talk to my doc about induction, just to have a date in my mind and cut down some of the uncertainty. My previous OB-GYN was going to discuss induction options at 40+1 if I hadn't popped by then. I don't think I could make it to 42 weeks, though I admire women who do.

My mom's coming down to stay with us. She should be coming in about a week, but part of me keeps thinking 39 weeks is too early. I really love the idea of having help, but I also know it will put pressure on me when I know my mom is sleeping in a guest room and putting her life on hold. Maybe 39.5 weeks would be better?

 

[Gagrlinpitt]

Lesson.. The nursery looks great. I'm 36w5d and I feel like she could come any day now..

 

[PrettyInInk42]

That's a cute lookin' nursery, leson. : )

So, I had the last of my biweekly OB appts today. I got to do my own Strep B swab, thank f***. And my blood pressure is still good, his heartbeat was like 160, and I'm apparently measuring at 38 weeks instead of the 36+2 I should be. My OB was so close to giving me a requisition for an U/S, but then decided to wait to see what I was measuring at my next appt (in 8 days). Really hoping I don't pop too soon though. Based on the Chinese zodiac, it's the year of the fire rooster, and if I can make it to my my due date, baby will be a Leo, which is also a fire sign. I know it's silly, but I think it'd be neat for him to be a double fire sign. Maybe this means he'll be a ginger. lol

 

[808malia]

So only 9 more days til my scheduled induction!!! Getting so close now Only 4 more days of work Sucks having to train a new person at 37+1/2 weeks pregnant... But oh well, at least I'm almost to the finish line

 

[DobbyForever]

9 days?! Wooow time flies

K food coma setting in I'll bbl

 

[ALiKO]

Dobby- ^ haha cracked me up.

Leson- yes girl I'm love that nursery. It will grow nicely with baby.

Malia- yay for only 9 more days!

Pretty- they should let everyone do their own swab to be honest. I didn't do mine and it was awkward to say the least.

Do any of you ladies plan to try bringing on labor yourselves or are you just going to ride it out? I remember when I was pregnant with my daughter I tried to bring on labor at 39weeks and again at 40weeks. Not sure if my efforts paid off or if it was just the natural progression of things but I ended up going into labor at 40+2. I was sooo happy as I was just big and miserable and super afraid of having to be induced. Plus the longer I stayed pregnant the more I worried about baby for some reason and I just wanted her out and in my arms.

 

[Gagrlinpitt]

ALi honestly I'm starting to freak out about baby being here and if I'm going to be a good mom so part of me is ok if she stays in a little longer.. but part of me is over this and just ready to have her on my arms lol.

Pretty- atleast that helped make the awkwardness a bit easier

Dobby- you crack me up!

Malia- soooo close now!!!

AFM I'm in the waiting room of my appointment. I'll update you all after on how things are going.. for some reason I'm really nervous about this appointment, I dunno why...