when the "30 yo ttc#1" ladies get their bfp's

She just laughed at me. She is annoyingly adorable. I wasn't able to breastfeed and I still lost 30 pounds pretty quickly so I'm sure breastfeeding you will lose even more. I just went back on the weightwatchers when I went back to work. It sucks to not have the ability to "blame" the pregnancy for eating sugary/fattening stuff but oh well. :blush:
 
Oh you guys I am a freak about gaining weight! I was so made during ivf because meds made me gain weight so I was 10 pounds heavier after my egg retrieval. My bloat went down a little before my transfer and then 12 days later I had my blood test. So I didn't have much time to get back to normal. I've gained 11 pounds so far from the start of everything (that's including the 10 pounds lost due to barfing for weeks every single day and then gained again) so I think I'm evening myself out. I'm supposed to gain a pound a week from here right? That would put me at about a 30 pound weight gain...perfect. Except I know I'll gain more towards the end. I really am hoping I can breast feed. Gaining weight really stresses me out. I have been feeling so gross lately. Super unattractive! Can I have my baby already?! Lol it doesn't help that I'm super constipated all of the time and when I do actually go, it's painful and I get a hemroid. Soooo attractive right?

Oh ladders I hope this is it! How exciting!!!

I hope your test went well Curious! I just got all of my bedding stuff today. Being 22 weeks just got more exciting!
 
Are you taking anything for the constipation? My midwife said Colace is safe, but also recommended a probiotic (Florajen 3, specifically). The probiotic helps me when I remember to take it.
 
And don't forget, a lot of pregnancy weight isn't really weight. On top of the obvious 7lbs or so of baby, you have amniotic fluid, placenta, general water weight (I hear you get lovely night sweats to take care of a lot of that just after having the baby), and a huge increase in blood volume. It may not all go the day of birth, but it's not like it's all just fat piling on.
 
Good luck with the weight JCM. Your weight gain so far is pretty good. By 22 weeks I had gained way more than 11 pounds. But I had also been on a diet for 6 months before I got pregnant and totally used the excuse of pregnancy to eat like a pig. The worst part is, I ate healthy, then I ate AGAIN and it was bad for me. Now I'm back on the diet and I'm paying for it.

hope everyone is doing well out there.

ladders - I can't wait for you to come back with a birth story and an adorable baby.

So yesterday when I went to get Abigail from daycare another little girl crawled over while I was getting Abigail in her carrier and tried to climb up my legs and was doing the pick me up arms. I was like sorry little one, I can barely handle the one I've got. The daycare ladies laughed and said she adores Abigail and follows after whoever has her. Apparently, when Abigail is on the floor this little girl comes and sits next to her and they babble at each other. It just cracked me up that Abigail has made her first "friend"
 
Thanks ladies :) Yeah, my guess at this point would be that I'll end up somewhere right around 40lbs. It was a little disconcerting to see a 7lb weight gain in a month, which was also what I gained the month of December and just figured it was all the holiday food. Apparently not. Ah well. I was complaining to my mom about it and her response was to tell me about her teaching assistant who has only gained 9 lbs her whole pregnancy and is due any day now. Thanks mom.

ladders, I hope you're in labor or holding your beautiful baby at this point!

I passed my diabetes test so yay :) And other blood work is good except for my damn Vitamin D level, which is still low, despite having been on prescription supplements for months.

Reggie, that's totally adorable.
 
Moms, right? Mine tried a few times to ask how much I've gained yet, and I refused to answer, so she just went on to tell me about when she was pregnant, and how she lost NO weight beyond the weight of the babies when my brother and I were born (obviously BS, you'd at least lose the weight of fluid and placenta!), so to be careful, and also about her condescending jackass of a doctor's reaction to her weight gain. It was clear from her story that she's completely oblivious to the fact that he was being a condescending jackass.

Good job on the GD test! I was nervous about that one! Really didn't want to have to stab myself all the time. Leading up to it, a diabetic friend kept offering to test my blood sugar so I'd know what to expect. Uh, that's not gonna change my result, and the idea here is to avoid being stabbed. Letting you stab me extra times is not going to help!
 
Oh, I don't think I updated after the latest growth issue appointment, did I? Not much update, we're still in the dark. The OB had a long chat with the radiologist who interpreted our earlier scans, and she said it is proportions we're looking at, not his overall size, which is what we were originally told. He still looked healthy on a quickie ultrasound at her office, and the midwives were satisfied with his NST, but we have another proper growth scan on Monday. This time we're being sent to the hospital instead of the usual imaging center, so it sounds like she maybe wants a second opinion as much as she wants a follow-up. I'm on weekly NSTs for now, too. I'll update again if we actually learn anything. I spotted a photo of us with DH's mom on the fridge that I forgot was there, and she's got short legs, too (I knew she was short but never paid attention to proportions), so I'm guessing it's just a K Family thing. Hopefully the poor guy doesn't grow up to be 5 feet tall...
 
Hi ladies, I've been MIA for a while, just really overwhelmed with all the new baby stuff. I'm finally getting back into the swing of things. I tried to catch up on the thread, there's lots going on.

Ladders, how exciting....Hope this is it for you.

Mrs K - good luck on the growth scan on Monday.
 
Yeah, so, that's really funny that you mentioned about your diabetic friend MrsK because my DH is a Type I diabetic and I may or may not have tested my blood sugar on his machine after eating sweets a couple of times before this test.... The thing is it does kind of hurt and it didn't make me any less nervous, lol. I do know that an hour after iced lemon pound cake and a coffee with 3 sugars my blood sugar is 104 though. DH saw that and just said, "I hate you."

Keep us posted on your growth scans. Everything you say sounds positive to me. I've kind of had that feeling too, with my fluid issue, that it just felt like all the doctors were being noncommittal. Not sure what's up with that but it sounds like you have the right attitude.

:wave: Soon
 
Good luck with the growth scan! I'm sure everything will be fine. :thumbup:

Soon - glad to see you are still around. How is the baby doing? How are you doing?
 
Hey, Soon, how's it going?

Ha, your poor DH, Owl! I don't blame you for testing beforehand. For me, I really do NOT like sharp things - it's a psychological thing, not the actual pain - so the idea of adding extra punctures was just insane.

I'll keep you guys updated on the growth stuff. The midwives and the OB are both great about answering questions and giving me what information they can, but there's just not much they can tell me right now. I hope we'll get some good information from Monday's scan. I waver between absolutely losing my mind with stress, and being totally sure that he just inherited the shorty legs from his dad's side. Only 5 more weeks, hopefully he shows up kind of on time so I don't have to stress about this too much longer. Though I'm sure I'll find plenty of new things to stress about once he's born...
 
I can't wait to hear from Ladders!

I don't own a scale, so I don't really know what my starting weight was. I think I'm doing fine for weight gain but I haven't calculated anything yet (and I don't remember what my last weigh-in was!). I'm not eating or exercising as well as I wish I was though. I just find it sooo hard in the winter. This is my hibernating season!

That's adorable about Abigails little friend Reggie :)

I hope your next check-up gives you more reassurances MrsK.

Good job on the diabetes test Curious! Glad that went well.

Hey Soon, I hope all is well! (Other then being exhausted all the time I'm sure)
 
Hey Ladies! I hope everyone is having a great weekend! I can't believe we have so many babies coming up! I too, am excited to hear from ladders! Life has been absolutely crazy here! Mom is in town this weekend because she has an interview tomorrow! I hope she gets the job! We are doing baby sign languages classes and they are wonderful! We only have 3 more sessions though!

Josie had her 4 month checkup and she is up to 12lbs 1 oz. They would like to see her a bit heavier, but she and I were both sick the other week and so they are not concerned at all. She looks healthy, eats well and is growing. Her developmental milestones are right on track too. We were told we could start solids anytim we want. However, I really don't think Josie is ready. I think she is awake, gtg.
 
I hope we hear from Ladders soon. I guess if she had the baby, she has a good excuse for not being around.

Sounds like Josie is doing well! I wouldn't start solids at 4 months, either. Seems early, and they certainly don't need variety in their diet that young. I've considered baby sign language, I'm glad to hear you like it. Good luck to your mom!

We're getting some serious snow here. Suddenly I'm glad we didn't try ttc in May, I'd hate to face possible labor in this weather. Our birth class tonight has been replaced by a remote class - we're cheating and recording it so DH can watch the Super Bowl. It's supposed to stop snowing tonight, so hopefully road conditions will be ok for our morning ultrasound tomorrow. He's out in it now - he was watching a coworker's cat and prairie dog for the weekend, and she's stranded out at some remote ski resort til they reopen the roads. Thankfully he's used to driving in snow and our car handles it well.
 
Glad Josie's doing well :)


Looks like we're going to miss out on that snow...it's not quite going to reach this far north, or at least there won't be too much accumulation. I'm glad though, I really didn't feel like shoveling a lot before work tomorrow (I guess to be honest I never feel like shoveling :haha:).
 
I lucked out this year, DH is absolutely horrified by the idea of me doing even light shoveling while pregnant. I don't think shoveling us out of the current snow would be a good idea, but I'm pretty sure an inch or so would be safe!
 
I lucked out this year, DH is absolutely horrified by the idea of me doing even light shoveling while pregnant. I don't think shoveling us out of the current snow would be a good idea, but I'm pretty sure an inch or so would be safe!

Ha, ya, he gets mad at me for doing it. But we rent out part of our house and have a responsibility to get the snow cleared. He never sees it as an urgent thing unless there's a foot or more :dohh:. What happens is he works late then doesn't get to it right away (says he'll do it in the morning...never happens!). Haha, as you can tell it's a pet peeve. He's really not too bad about it, but it frustrates me to no end!

-last month we had a little wet snow/ice fall which he didn't go out and take of, and now have a layer of ice we can't get rid of-

I'm careful of course. We've only had a couple small snowfalls, and I usually use a small shovel. I'm also only 21 weeks.
 

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