Weekly thread, March 21-28 - Page 2

[Knitting Mama]

Originally Posted by rhiOrion

Oh, don't let me fool you. I'm only prepared to eat.

This is how I feel, and I don't even have the excuse of having just moved! We've made a ton of freezer food, but the house is still a mess and my energy level is making it way, way tough to focus on cleaning.

[sehbub]

Originally Posted by justamama

Sehbub- I'm sure you'll have no issues staying pg being 34 weeks. Oh, and my bp hasn't been high at all (my one high reading was still well within normal) and I get the dizziness and pounding if baby moves a certain way or during some ctx. Maybe baby is pushing on a nerve, vein, or artery they shouldn't be?

Well, I had a 30wkr, so subsequent pregnancies we kind of hold our breath after that point. I only have to get to 35+4 in order for my midwife to come catch him at home, so that's one week from tomorrow. The midwife thinks he's on my aorta, which is causing the pounding, dizziness and lovely heart palpitations.

AFM- I'm due on Wednesday! I am in disbelief everyday that I am this close to 40 weeks. I'm having consistent ctx, but nothing that has a consistent, active labor pattern to it. Though I'm glad right now. Having a night on Saturday with just Dd2 home and having just Dd1 home last night and today has given us some much needed one on one time with each girl. I've also gotten almost ALL our laundry washed. I have 4 loads to put away and maybe 3 more to wash and put away and it is done! I'm purging as I go, too. Now if the mouse I found a few nights ago would just get caught, we'd be good to go! I hate the idea of a mouse running around a newborn. Icky!

WOW! I hope you get to hold your baby soon and get some relief from the pain!

[s_kristina]

At 35 weeks 1 day my bp is getting nasty even with medication. I was feeling really awful yesterday, but don't have a bp cuff at home. Later in the day after a nap and relaxing I took a trip to the closest machine to check and it was 147/95. I don't think I want to know what it was earlier in the day. I'm sure the ob's office will be happy when I call in tomorrow to see about being seen ASAP as I have missed my GD class, an us and and appointment over the past 2 weeks. Our only vehicle was not working so I had no way to get to appointments. Now after spending a chunk of money it is back running although it no longer has a working ac as that would have been more parts that we just could not afford right now. Hopefully we will be able to get that cared for before it gets too hot here.

[OneWithTwo]

NEXT WEEKEND!!! the plan is for him to come home by Sunday and hopefully before. Taking full feeds by bottle. Feeding tube will come out tomorrow!!! OMG OMG!
I am also ALL UNPACKED and the house is 100% clean! ready for my baby! wow, I moved the beginning of January and just NOW finished unpacking...I am SO EXCITED!

[Pepper44]

YAY Erikca!!!!!!!!

I'm subbing, before this thread is 400 pages long. We're having friends over tonight, I'll be back later!

By the way, hands and feet are a bit swollen right now...first time that's happened this pregnancy.

[LenaC]

Originally Posted by justamama

Lena- the situation with your mil sounds like what we went through with my dad both when we lived with my folks, and this summer when he lived with us after the divorce. If it helps, the kids came out unscathed and quickly adjusted back to healthier (dh is a junk food addict and thinks animal crackers are a healthy snack. :eyeroll) foods and less tv time.

AFM- I'm due on Wednesday! I am in disbelief everyday that I am this close to 40 weeks. I'm having consistent ctx, but nothing that has a consistent, active labor pattern to it. Though I'm glad right now. Having a night on Saturday with just Dd2 home and having just Dd1 home last night and today has given us some much needed one on one time with each girl. I've also gotten almost ALL our laundry washed. I have 4 loads to put away and maybe 3 more to wash and put away and it is done! I'm purging as I go, too. Now if the mouse I found a few nights ago would just get caught, we'd be good to go! I hate the idea of a mouse running around a newborn. Icky!

Acupuncture tomorrow. Tonight I'm going to try to eat some pineapple and relax. I hope getting this laundry done will help remove the mental block I'm feeling with having the mw in our messy bathroom!

I hear you about DH, but at least with him, I can forbid him to bring junk food into the house. If he wants McDonald's, he can eat it on the way home. It's more complicated with other relatives though. I don't know why people think it's OK to hand little kids sugary snacks. I don't get it.

It sounds like you are candidate to have the next baby on this DDC. *****Happy birthing vibes to you********

Originally Posted by Cecilia's Mama

This is how I feel, and I don't even have the excuse of having just moved! We've made a ton of freezer food, but the house is still a mess and my energy level is making it way, way tough to focus on cleaning.

Yes, I keep making lists about what I still want to clean up, but don’t usually get around to doing it LOL

Originally Posted by s_kristina

Our only vehicle was not working so I had no way to get to appointments. Now after spending a chunk of money it is back running although it no longer has a working ac as that would have been more parts that we just could not afford right now. Hopefully we will be able to get that cared for before it gets too hot here.

Unfortunately, I can relate We were planning to get a nicer (and bigger) car from DH's tax refund, but it went to his student loan instead. Now, our only car is overheating and we can't use AC. It gets HOT here fast and I keep thinking I'll be stuck at home with two kids all day argh! At least my MIL can take us places once in a while.

Originally Posted by sehbub

Well, I had a 30wkr, so subsequent pregnancies we kind of hold our breath after that point. I only have to get to 35+4 in order for my midwife to come catch him at home, so that's one week from tomorrow.

Yay for making it so much further this time!! Keeping fingers for you to get to your 35+4 and maybe even a little further

Originally Posted by erickalynne

NEXT WEEKEND!!! the plan is for him to come home by Sunday and hopefully before. Taking full feeds by bottle. Feeding tube will come out tomorrow!!! OMG OMG!
I am also ALL UNPACKED and the house is 100% clean! ready for my baby! wow, I moved the beginning of January and just NOW finished unpacking...I am SO EXCITED!

Ericka, it really sounds like both you and Jennings are doing extremely well, considering what you went through, and a clean house too now. You rock! Happy homecoming baby boy!
Afm, I’m sitting here enjoying my green salad with fresh greens, organic radishes, and avocado. I’m also drinking peppermint tea, steeped from fresh leaves. Today is definitely down time for me. I had to deal with a little fussiness from DS here and there, but for the most part I’m kicking back. I even took a nap, while MIL took DS to church with her. I feel pampered. Almost no contractions today at all, even though I had a ton last night, when I was out and about. Makes me think I’ve got a while to go.

[Riverbeauty]

I have always been sensitive to adhesives because many of them contain latex derivatives, but paper tape has always been safe... no longer! Please laugh with me here...

Last night we used paper tape and a wound covering that the hospital gave us to cover the blisters left behind by the tape used to secure the wound vac to my belly. Today, when we attempted to remove the dressing, we found that everywhere the paper tape had touched I now have MORE blisters! Half of my belly looks like raw steak... popped and fresh blisters everywhere... and my OB doesn't have after hours, they have a recording saying to call the L&D unit... L&D doesn't do post-partum care, so they transferred me to the mother & baby post partum unit... they can't give medical advice over the phone, but TG has a consulting nurse line... the consulting nurse told me to get some cortisone cream, benodryl cream isn't good enough. So I called my grandma who went to the store to get cortisone cream for me... and EVERY cortisone cream available OTC has aloe in it... and I am allergic to aloe. She talked to the pharmacist who told her to just get benodryl creme, she called me and told me what the pharmacist said and I told her that the consulting nurse had already nixed that option... so she went back home, and I called the consulting nurse back to ask if she could send a prescription in for cortisone cream without aloe to the pharmacy, but she said she couldn't write prescriptions and that since my OB has no after hours on-call doc, that I should just go to the ER... or lay on my back for the rest of the day to let air get to the blisters and wait till my doc's office opens tomorrow. Yeah, how likely is that with a nursing newborn and a toddler in the house? So I am sitting here with a clean recieving blanket (the softest material in my house, since we used up the wound dressings already) over the blisters...

[bubbamummy]

Ericka so pleased for you guys! Cant wait until you get to bring him home, then you can relax a little!

River goodness, that sounds totally miserable I hope you find some relief soon!

[Carita]

((hugs)) RB. that's sounds so unpleasant! how is it that your OB has no after hrs doc on call? what if you have to have a baby? ugh.

s_kristina - KUP on your appt. hope you can figure a way to get things under control!

erika - sounds promising!

lena ((hugs))

dena & justamama - thanks for the well wishes. i haven't risked out of MW care yet, but you can - the other girl in my HB class risked out and is only seeing OBs due to insulin dependent GD. I have to see both an OB (for the u/s) and a MW every appt for now. I talked to the nurse making appt and she was having problems scheduking next weeks u/s and i asked her to just scheduled without so she asked the MW and she said NO. So IDK what i can do. I think if I can talk to the MW Tuesday I'll feel a lot better. The Friday appt is w/last weeks MW and I don't care for her as much.

Oh and my doula and I are getting together to go over our music playlist and do a bellycast. I love her. so glad we splurged on that. I feel like I need a girlfriend in this, YKIM? Even though I am paying her to be my girlfriend.

relaxin - def feeling that in my pelvic bones right now! OUCH. I have a strechy ligament condition too so I'm already pretty lax & this just adds to it.

ivy - KUP on those contractions!

rhi - i tried to make them once and they came out bad - i think it was my fault - everyone else raves... darn, now i'm hungry for oatmeal cookies!

[Riverbeauty]

Originally Posted by Carita

((hugs)) RB. that's sounds so unpleasant! how is it that your OB has no after hrs doc on call? what if you have to have a baby? ugh.

You go to L&D

[kristin1924]

Hey Mamas,

So excited to read all these posts. And I still can't believe we are at this point now. All in or just entered the 9th month. I can still remember logging on, saying hello at week 8 (and sooo nervous about this pregnancy!!)

Anyway, cheers to all of us!!

I am 36 weeks and just waiting. I feel tons of movement from baby. I can't wait to meet him or her!

Kristin

[smeisnotapirate]

I'm beat. Can I sleep for the next few weeks? I had a good day today, but I was exhausted by noon - I just can't run around after these kids any more!

I also folded an embarassing amount of laundry tonight, and then promptly put away all the maternity clothes that no longer fit. I have very few clothes now.

ELVs to those who want/need them!

Riverbeauty,

erickalynne,

[Jeannabna]

For the drop cloth... if you have a Lowes they have a huge roll of plastic for lumber that is free!! Just unroll however much you need.

[sew_crafty_girl]

I have hemms. Waaaaaaaah. My butt itches, hurts and burns. When I have a BH it feels like she's coming out of my butt. I've officially become sick of being pregnant for the first time ever. Full term on Tuesday. Everything is ready for birth.

[GreenTeaGinger61]

Anyone heard from Peace+Hope? I'm wondering if she has had the baby!

Riverbeauty: Ouch, ouch, ouch!!!!! You are not having a good time with these allergies are you?

Erika Whoot on Jennings coming home!

AFM: Had a productive day that hasn't really ended yet! I went to TJs, got the rest of my labor snacks, and finished up the weekly shopping....this was after grading about 20 test. I made supper, and felt a bit down so I napped. Woke up with lots of energy: made brownies, finished up the last wash of cloth diapers, prepared a crockpot meal for tomorrow, and have a quiche in the oven for sometime during the week...oh and finished another 10 tests. I'm still restless and not tired so I'm going to grade for a bit more. I'd like to get one class done at least.

[Pepper44]

Originally Posted by Jeannabna

For the drop cloth... if you have a Lowes they have a huge roll of plastic for lumber that is free!! Just unroll however much you need.

Is that up near the front where they have the free twine? I was looking at the free plastic and red flags and twine up there the other day while waiting for DH to pull the car around, but I didn't look that close at the plastic. Hmmm...

I'll definitely get a roll of that painter's drop cloth plastic, otherwise. I considered a shower curtain too, but I didn't think of how smelly they are! Won't get one of those!

I'll be 36 weeks on Tuesday!!! That's the cut-off for homebirth. Unfortunately my midwife has my due date as like 5 days later than I do, so I won't be full term for her until something like next Sunday. I don't know when I should celebrate.


Riverbeauty, that sounds SO miserable.

[justamama]

River- that sounds awful! Hope you can get some relief tomorrow when the doctors office is open. you poor mama. s

Going to toot my own horn really quick. In the past 24 hrs, I have washed, dried, and put away the equivalent of TEN baskets of laundry! These are clothes, bed linens, towels, diapers, a bit of anything fabric in our house. We have a load (half of which needs purged...dh didn't ask before throwing stuff from the floor into the washer) in the washer, one in the dryer, and half a diaper pail of clothes. Most of what's in the diaper pail can be purged. I also vacuumed twice today.

....so why can't I fall asleep?

[jsh7809]

Originally Posted by Pepper44

By the way, hands and feet are a bit swollen right now...first time that's happened this pregnancy.

Are you kidding me?! I've been GROSSly swollen since early February... now I feel like I have stuff stuck in between my toes (no, it's just more toes jammed together cause they're so swollen!). I dreamed that my toes were so swollen that they started morphing into one disgusting toe (like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle foot, as DH put it). UGH.

I'm so excited and happy for the mamas on here who are getting to meet their babies! And for Ericka, looking forward to bringing Jennings home. Woohoo!

I have been struggling with mood swings and anxiety attacks (big ones for the first time since about 10 weeks!). As in, waking up at 4am feeling completely alone and terrified not of giving birth but of my life changing so dramatically. Which is exactly how I spent weeks 5-10 or so of my pregnancy... so I guess it makes sense that weeks 38-40(ish) will be that way too? Sigh. Trying to get more things done to help stave off the anxiety of too many projects with a newborn, while also letting myself rest, watch stupid movies, play the Wii, enjoy the garden and these last days ever (!!) of feeling my little girl kick and wiggle inside of me.

It's just too much for the human brain to fathom - no wonder I feel so overwhelmed! I don't know about you ladies, but I find it kind of hard to believe that anyone else (my friends and family and colleagues) have anything else to think about - I keep wondering, why are they not all over here visiting me and marveling at what is about to happen like I am? I forget that everyone else has regular lives to lead - and I kind of do too - but, boy, is it hard to think about anything else!

[GreenTeaGinger61]

Jess (((hugs))). I remember feeling like this with my son. It's such an amazing thing and sometimes I miss feeling that way. I have so much more going on this time around that it's hard to just focus on being. As I drove home, blissfully alone from the stores, I kept thinking about how amazingly wonderful this pregnancy has been for me, of the rather insane circumstances that had lead to it, and how it was saving me in so many ways. I could feel the tears starting and almost had to pull over. So enjoy it if you can. Don't worry about what needs to be done. It will get done, and frankly there is always something that doesn't get done, and yet the baby survives

Lena I forgot to mention that I felt the same way about astrology. I didn't look up good days but I keep really hoping not to go to EDD because it would mean another Taurus! Seriously my dh, and both daughters are Tauruses. I don't think my household can take another one:P

So I'm still up. But my grading for one class is done. It made me grumpy though. Hoping I'll wind down soon. I still feel really restless.

I'm making these tomorrow:
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Lactation Cookies

1 cup *butter*
1 cup *sugar*
1 cup firmly packed *brown sugar*
4 tablespoons *water*
2 tablespoons *flax seed meal*
2 *eggs*
1 teaspoon *vanilla*
2 cups *flour*
1 teaspoon *baking soda*
1 teaspoon *salt*
3 cups *oats*
1 cup *chocolate chips*
2-4 tablespoons *brewer's yeast*

Preheat oven to 350°.

1. Mix the flaxseed meal and water and let sit for 3-5 minutes.
2. Beat butter, sugar, and brown sugar well.
3. Add eggs and mix well.
4. Add flaxseed mix and vanilla; beat well.
5. Sift together flour, brewer's yeast, baking soda, and salt.
6. Add dry ingredients to butter mix.
7. Stir in oats and chips.
8. Scoop onto baking sheet.
9. Bake for 12 minutes.
10. Let set for a couple minutes then remove from tray.

[Carita]

sneak one and give us a review on that recipe!