TTC and Beyond!

[wavescrash]

You're welcome

Hahah I feel your pain. I've "popped" almost every other day for the last week. I'm taking my 20 week picture tomorrow but here's a few I've taken on Instagram in the past week (so 19 weeks along):

https://24.media.tumblr.com/6bddd5f513ebd92e0a60c887ea12e1b6/tumblr_mv13zsMtMv1qzzo2fo1_500.jpg

https://24.media.tumblr.com/5437e8b9570316687e67a89965e8a470/tumblr_muuk71QE6Q1qzzo2fo1_500.jpg

So if you're going to be a house, I'm going to be a freaking whale lol. I'm also carrying her very low (like I did last time) so it's going to be all out front.

 

[jury3]

Ashlee-Sorry you're sick...DW and I haven't had sex since before I got preggo. I have ZERO sex drive and feel like puking most of the time...so I'm pretty much off limits. I feel bad

Rachel-Cute bump!

I'm showing enough already that someone actually found out I was pregnant today just by looking at me lol It was this guy I used to work with. Definitely showing and looking pregnant. I'm sure it won't be long before I'm miserable...

 

[TTCaWee1]

Aww your belly button popped!

Julie - I'm sure you are going to get twice as big twice as fast! So exciting to have 2 though!!

 

[asmcsm]

Cute bumps ladies!

Thanks Cassidy, it definitely sucks to feel like crap but I know it won't last forever and it will be worth it.

Julie, thank you. Sorry that you haven't felt well enough to get busy with DW that really sucks :/ I've felt so bloated and backed up that I don't really feel all that attractive but for some reason sex drive has kissed into gear. I'll take advantage before I start puking and it's a no go lol. So excited to see your belly grow!

 

[wavescrash]

Aww your belly button popped!

Who me? That thing popped at like 10 weeks lol. But that's only because it popped both of my previous pregnancies and I have a feeling it's one of those things where, if it happens once it'll happen again and earlier each time.

 

[brunettebimbo]

Beautiful bumps girls

Amanda, what's your username on Instagram?

 

[Disneybaby26]

Love it Amanda!!

Julie- picture please!! Hopefully you are rounding that corner and you'll be feeling better soon Hun!! I sure hope so!!

 

[Disneybaby26]

Morgan-cream cheese on toast with sliced tomato for bfast this morning-the bombbbbbbb!!

 

[CantHrdlyWait]

I wish I wanted to have sex. I'm doing the whole "i'm afraid to do it" thing. I know it'd probably be fine, but I feel super protective of my little bean! LOL

 

[goldstns]

Cassidy- I feel like I havent said Hi to you in a while...so Hi. How are you? How are the kittens? Any new ones/new stories?

 

[morganwhite7]

Kara- How ironic, I picked up few big fat heirloom tomatoes at the store lastnight bc I craved them so bad after yesterday haha.. Will have to try that- I love all those things so why not together?! Sounds like the perfect preggo concoction!!

On sex- Ooh it's been great lately for us, but we must be fiends though haha.. at least every other day it happens! The nights I miss out because I konk out too early I give him grief the next day LOL.. maybe that's just because we have no one else to take care of so after work, chores, and dinner, what else is there to do!? And a piece of advice- you girls want to get it in now before you're too huge to use the positions you love- just saying!! Or before you're hooha has it's BREAK after birth this spring.. Lol I still remember hating that. Wanting sooo bad for some LOVIN' and having to wait 2 months!! Haha. I have also found that my cervix or whatever up there is super sensitive lately, so too far and it's OUCH! That's about all lol.

Beautiful snow here this morning, made me cry of course. So emotional lately I swear lol, everything tugs at a heart string! Feeling very cozy and thankful on this pretty fall morning. Had the best chili ever lastnight, another pot roast tonight with mashed potatoes and apple cider, then the appointment to HOPEFULLY see our little martian in the morn!! Woot woot can't wait!

 

[wavescrash]

Beautiful bumps girls

Amanda, what's your username on Instagram?

msamandajane

Thanks!

 

[morganwhite7]

Forgot to say your bumps are precious..

Amanda WOW I love it.. I hope I pop like that soon too. I have a serious belly button POP too lol.. I remember it always stuck out of all my shirts starting around 18 weeks.

 

[frsttimemama]

If we're friends on FB, you may have seen we decided on and announced the name. We're going with Leah Katherine. I'm feeling her move more tonight than ever before. It's down low and to the right which is where Hannah always used to hang out. But this whole anterior placenta thing has me bumming out big time. It explains why I've barely felt any solid movement and I'm worried it's going to be that way the whole pregnancy. If this is my last one (OH is overwhelmed and doesn't know if he wants any more), I'll be a little upset if I hardly ever feel this baby move, you know? I'm grateful to be pregnant... it's just one of those little things I loved so much about my previous pregnancies.

Sorry I rarely come here. I just wanted to say that I had an anterior placenta, too, and after 20ish weeks, I felt him move ALL THE TIME.. especially in my rib area. You will feel her.

You all look so great! Cute bumps!

 

[brunettebimbo]

Beautiful bumps girls

Amanda, what's your username on Instagram?

msamandajane

Thanks!

Following

 

[CantHrdlyWait]

If anyone wants to follow my IG account i'm: bburg

nothing baby related so far, but there will be eventually!

 

[goldstns]

sex- I didn't want it for a while... now I am back to wanting it. I think its hormone related.

OMG, this baby girl is SO active today... she is punching (I assume) my ribs... like ALL day!

 

[morganwhite7]

Holy S**T this boob pain is unbelievable!! Like STABS- reminds me just of when my milk came in! Ouchie!!! (although DH said he'd fix me when I'm home )

BB- You asked about shoulder length hair! Well mine is just now growing out from being VERY short and at a funny short stage now too. I usually do a quick blow dry and then use my straightener (which is very skinny) to make soft curls around my face and then straighten the bottom ends for length.. I try to make it look like that picture LOL. Not sure what type of hair you have though.. mine is so thick!

 

[brunettebimbo]

I have horribly thin hair with no body that turns greasy ridiculously quick

 

[wavescrash]

I can't believe y'all about the sex lol. I have absolutely 0 sex drive, have for the longest time. Pretty sure we've only DTD once (maybe twice?) since conceiving. I just literally have no desire to engage in any sexual activity. Nothing to do with feeling gross about my body or worrying about hurting the baby. Nothing to do with my feelings toward him. I just literally don't even care for any of it lol. I don't even want to get off myself because it makes my bump so tight and full of pressure, it's so uncomfortable. Poor OH. He asks almost every other night. I shoot him down a lot lol. I lost my sex drive after having Hannah... when I started Zoloft for PPD and then it was made worse on the Implanon and never really came back.

Had my monthly OB appointment today. Up to 115lbs so I've gained 12 lbs total so far. This is my ideal weight NOT pregnant so I'm very happy to finally be at this point and hope the gain continues nicely from here. Blood pressure was normal. I have no idea who the nurse was but it wasn't my usual nurse. She seemed a little ditsy and couldn't find Leah's heartbeat for a good 5-7 minutes. I told her I always feel her down low and to the right, like... very low. She kept looking on the opposite side, up high, nowhere as low as I kept saying I feel her. She lied and said she could hear it faintly but all the other sounds were drowning it out but it wasn't there at all because it was nowhere near where she was checking. I figured she lied to try and not freak me out because then she asked when my last ultrasound was. So my OB comes in and I tell her where I feel Leah moving the most and she starts looking for the heartbeat on the opposite side lol. After a couple minutes she found her in the center kinda and wayyyyy down low. Heartbeat was 150bpm. We discussed my SPD and she asked what we tried last time (almost nothing because my OB at the time didn't believe it was a real condition) and prescribed me Vicodin for the pain. I'm hesitant to take it for obvious reasons but will give it a few doses to see if it helps. I've read mixed reviews from some women saying it really didn't help with their SPD pain. It's safe so long as you don't take addict-level quantities or during the end of the 3rd trimester as that's when the baby could develop an addiction and go through withdrawals once born. I'm going to sell my doppler (I never use it anymore) and hopefully use that money to buy a nice support belt recommended for SPD because they're damn expensive :/

I just realized I work the next 7 days straight, 8 hour shifts on my feet and it's going to be hell on my pelvis. I'm going to give it a try but I don't know what to do if it gets to be too much. After this 7 day stretch I'm off for 5 days on vacation but still... that's 7 days straight on my feet for 8 hour shifts. Even being home the last 2 days and not on my feet a lot, I was hurting pretty bad but I guess we'll see.

20 weeks today