TTC and Beyond!

BB- don't worry about sore boobs, didn't get that til I was ~20 weeks!

Sonia- yay, beautiful belly!! Lil miss is really growing! :)

Waves- Haha I hope you're going into labor. I'm so ready FOR YOU lol.. I can't imagine your pain, I'm miserable, swollen, keep getting stabbed by lil feet, and am a month behind you!

Waiting for my ultrasound.. Just had to have the ECV talk :/ They said they'll send me to L&D and give me an epidural to flip her at 36 weeks. Holy crap. I'm so nervous. Plz baby flip on your own :(
 
Thanks Morgan :)

I had a few contractions last night with a TON of back pain. Went to bed to see how things would go and wasn't woken up by any contractions however I didn't even wake up to pee like I normally would have at least once or twice so that was weird. Woke up with a backache and still crampy. Belly got hard a few times but didn't feel any contractions yet. Haven't had much discharge the last day or two but when I went pee this morning, there was a ton of yellow mucus-like discharge so hopefully it was from the contractions last night & not just a weird coincidence.

I'm just going to give it a few hours to see how I feel before I bother calling my OB. I see her tomorrow at 2:20 if nothing else but also don't want to ignore something THAT long since baby is breech just in case. We'll see. It'd be nice if today were the day lol.

Good luck with the ECV but hopefully she flips on her own. I was already dilated to a 2 by that point and it would have been too risky to flip her with the dilation + anterior placenta and both my OB & I didn't think based on size/space/position it would work and didn't want to put myself or the baby through it. So many girls I know on here have had breech babies (due in March like me or on a Breech Baby thread in 3rd tri boards) and only 1 person had a successful ECV :/ None of the others who got them worked unfortunately so I'm glad we didn't try. I'm not thrilled about a c-section but I suppose it could be worse lol.
 
Re: placenta capsules... I've thought about it but haven't quite decided where I stand...I probably won't end up doing it especially if its really expensive
Re: Cord blood banking, I have not even given that a thought ever...guess I'll cross that bridge when I get to it lol

Amanda, that is so sweet of your dad to help your sister like that!!

CAPSULES not PLACENTA STEW lmao... and this is not a joke, my earthy/hippie Aunt did this after her 3rd son... ate it in a stew to herself. The thought is just revolting.
Ewww...definitely don't think I could eat a stew made up of placenta!

i do think a placenta print on canvas would be cool, but too weird for most people, so i'd be too embarassed to do it myself.
LOL Mirolee, what an original idea...do you think people would know what it was right away or just think it was some type of abstract art??

And I LOVE the placenta as tree nourishment idea.. much better.. very hippie too, but my kind of hippie! May consider as we've been looking into planting a willow for Jaxon.
Morgan I think that is such a sweet idea :)

Sonia, You look great! I like the name Sara...who cares if the family disagrees with it not being "traditional"...its your baby not theirs lol

Contractions got down to every 5 min. I'm at home again and laying down. They seem to have eased off. I had a meltdown earlier bc I'm so uncomfortable. I honestly don't know how I'm going to make it another 6 weeks being this swollen. My face is super puffy today and I can't fit my rings on so I'll dip my pee tomorrow at work to check for protein. I think I'm getting close to taking my maternity leave.
I'm sorry you're so uncomfortable Rachel... I hope it gets better soon and you can still work like you want to :hugs:

Waves...7 DAYS!! I'm getting so excited for Leah's debut...all these u/s pics are warming my heart I can't wait for more baby out of the womb pics lol

Ash, Lux is adorbs!

Nikki...can we get some more pics of Alia please...I'm living vicariously through all of you ladies until summer when i can jump Dh's bones again hehe

Sorry I forgot to post puppy pics last night...Zara was a terror when I got home so I was wiped by the time Marcos got home. I will post more tonight promise!

If there is anyone I missed I'm really sorry...so much to catch up on it reminds me of a couple months ago on the TTC thread :)
 
i asked OH about the art and he said no, hehe. i just thought it was a neat idea - but i would hate to have to explain it to people - i'm fairly certain most would be skeeved out.
i did not have many/any symptoms except sore boobs.
 
morgan, do you know if you can change the title of this thread? it's not that i dont like "babymamas", but maybe to make all the peeps on here feel included, we could change it to "babymamas + support" or "moms and friends" or "ttc and beyond" - i dunno, just an idea. ppl can shoot it down. :-P
 
TTC and Beyond sounds appropriate I think. Everyone has been here since TTC and will be here beyond that :)
 
Firsttimemom (sandy I think)- I don't want to be the one with bad news, but they will only pass you with 1 or less bad numbers. I am happy to walk you threw what I did with gd if you are interested.

bb, I didn't have symptoms really either till like 8 weeks.
 
I like ttc and beyond.

Britt - I'll work on the pictures....which just means getting on a computer, nit just my phone....not a big deal!
 
Omgosh what a day!
We've had window fitters in today. They've managed to get all the windows in but will be back tomorrow to touch up paint etc. I am shattered, it's been a cold noisy day!
It's only 3.50pm and they think they will be here until 5pm. They put dust sheets down but every single surface is covered in dust including all 4 beds! I guess tomorrow my birthday will be spent gutting the house! :(
 
Happy almost bday BB!

Presenting my Alia:
 

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Morgan, so scary! Hope she flips. There is NO WAY anyone will be doing anything like that to me. I cannot even imagine. You are so brave! Fx!

Nikki, I'm thinking I failed, too. I would love the advice please! Did you use insulin? Alia is adorable!

Bb, that sucks! Happy early birthday though!

I also like TTC && Beyond :)

Ash, Lux is SO cute!

Waves, glad the contractions stopped.

Rachel, how are you today?
 
Beautiful pics of miss Alia!!! <3

Don't have much time as I was late to work, but we can change the name for sure! Will update whatever name you girls would like as soon as I have a free minute! Babymamas isn't very classy lol, doesn't hurt my feelings a bit. Love TTC and Beyond! (what about Chatty Cathy's? LOL just love that nickname)

Just wanted to update real quick..........

I was really excited for every 2 weeks appointments. I thought wow how nice, before I know it she'll be here! WELL, that was before doc came in to review the US with me. Said baby looked HUGE again (didn't get exact measurements, but roughly a month ahead) and still a LOT of excess fluid. But- THANK THE LORD- she flipped. Not exactly perfect but she's head down and facing outward (not towards my back like they'd like!). But hey I'll take it. Anything to avoid an ECV, I think my SpinningBabies breech tilt/inversion worked last night.

THE BAD NEWS- I have to come back TWICE A WEEK for monitoring and ultrasounds!!!!!!! Twice a WEEK! My boss is okay, just talked to her about it... (not MIL) but wtf. They gave me a schedule (packet, I should say) with a long list of appointments and times to come back. I'll go Monday/Thursday every week until birth, from here on out. Hmm not really sure how to take it but anything for my girl I guess! Just crazy to think my life is about to be consumed with OB appts. Fun fun. Check back in later when I don't have 50 million other important things to do... :flower:
 
Nikki-love the tax deduction onsie! Lol

Bb-I didn't feel pregnant for a long time. Ms kicked in after 5 weeks.

Sandy-they told me 2 elevated numbers means GD, I only had one...

I got up to pee this morning around 6. When I laid back down I felt slightly crampy. That came and went for about an hour but luckily died down. Now I'm super paranoid I'm having contractions. I don't think my belly was really getting tight though...idk guess I'll drink lots of water today
 
Rachel- I really hope you do not get pre-e.. will be praying for you!

Sonia- Cute bump!!!

Sandy- I am not sure how to interpret your results, but I hope you do not have diabetes!!

BB- The only symptoms I had for the first few weeks were exactly the same as what you have going on. I also had some bad cramping which was just my little boy settling in! My boobs started hurting a little later on. Happy Early Birthday!!!

Britt- Have you heard of Dansko? They are expensive but really comfortable.

Morgan- I sure hope if she is breech that she flips but you do have time. A friend of mine had her baby flip at 38 weeks and delivered vaginally

Waves- Have you told your doctor about the yellow discharge? Could that be a sign of an infection?

Nikki- So sorry Alia has a cold. They are so hard when the babies are this young.

I like TTC and Beyond too!!
 
Glad she flipped Morgan!! and twice a week?? My boss would NOT be a fan! LOL

Sonia - You look great!

Sarah- I have heard them! I will have to look more into them!
 
Morgan - Glad she flipped :)

I'm sorry ladies but I'm really at a loss of what to do here.

So I've been crampy since yesterday afternoon, had a low backache. Last night I had a lot more BH than normal, lots of episodes of my belly getting hard but not during a cramp/contraction/BH on top of a few real contractions. None of the contractions were close together so I went to bed to see what happens. Slept straight through the night (not even a pee break which is weird but appreciated lol) and woke up crampy with some yellow mucus-like discharge. Pretty uneventful morning until about an hour ago when I started having a few more BH than normal, a little more crampy than normal, had a contraction (while sitting down trying to change a wriggling toddler's diaper - THAT sucked especially because she kicked me during it lol) have back pain still and have been getting the worst pressure and sharp/shooting pains in my rectum.

I don't want to rush off to L&D since I've done that a lot lately only to be sent home. Especially since we have no car (OH is at work, 3rd day on a new job so I don't want to call him away unless it's "go time") so my mom would need to drive 20 minutes to pick up me and Hannah (who I just put down for a 2 hour nap), drop me off at the hospital, go home and wait for me to call to be picked up (unless I was admitted in which case I'd have OH come up to the hospital.) I don't even know what I'd say to my doctor if I called - I think I might be in labor or early labor with a breech baby but I'm not having a lot of contractions so nothing would even get picked up on the monitors? If I'm not having contractions on their monitor they'll just send me home but I don't know what else to do/think. UGH.
 
Morgan- glad she flipped. I had to do 2x week too for the gd. I felt like I lived there.
 
Thanks ladies. I'm stressing. Ugh.

I had to do a biophysical profile weekly for about 8 weeks. It's 30 miles away. Very inconvenient, but my other option was a NST 2x a week. My boss is very accommodating luckily!
 

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