We Made It! Chat Thread - July 25 thru AUGUST 1!! - Page 5

[CrazyCatLady]

I read everything in this thread, but am a failure with the multiquote ever since the format changed.  So forgive me for not being able to reply to everything. 

Had my final ultrasound appointment yesterday.  Baby is still head down and weighs an estimated 7 pounds and some ounces already!  I know those measurements can be off, but they have been really consistent throughout the pregnancy, so I am not doubting it.  My family has been joking all along that this is going to be my 12 pound baby, and it looks like they may not have been too far off lol.

I am so ready for labor.  Not just sick of pregnancy in that nine month way, I just really feel like it's time to be done soon.  I always go very late though, so I am trying to just settle down and relax.  But I really do want her out, and soon.  Hopefully she will be my wild card and be born at 37 weeks.  I can dream anyways!

[PoetryLover]

Carrie, having very little to wear is part of the problem, I must admit. And I CAN'T buy anything new, so I have to make do. Now that you've mentioned it, I wonder if I can get into my maternity jeans. 

I just went back in to check my FB and what a beautiful babe!!!!!

[PoetryLover]

I had the most horrible time with that for the longest time. You just hit multi for each post you want to quote and then for the last one, you hit both multi and quote. 

Originally Posted by CrazyCatLady 

I read everything in this thread, but am a failure with the multiquote ever since the format changed.  So forgive me for not being able to reply to everything. 

[Jbouck5]

Wow, it sounds like some of you ladies are getting really close with all these contractions! I'm sending labor vibes to all those who are ready to go!

I feel like everybody's baby buy mine's dropped. 

I still have a butt/feet up in my ribs all the time. 

I can't wait to be able to breath properly again.

I feel the same way! I'm at 39 weeks, and still don't feel like she's super low in my pelvis. I don't know if this is because she's breech or not, but I am getting headbutts to the diaphram and ribs that make me feel like throwing up, and I am so over it!

So, I made an appt for tomorrow at 11 to get pics taken with DD, and I'm looking fwd to it, but I literally have nothing to wear.  I have 2 striped tank tops, both of which have stains, one pair of frumpy shorts, and a bikini top.  I've been so against buying any more clothes that I'm really down to the bare minimum!  Now what?  LOL!  I don't know if I can cram these hips back into my mat jeans, but I'm going to try, I guess...

Did you guys see on FB that Peony had her baby!?  I hope it's ok that I said something, I can't contain myself!!  Hopefully she'll pop on and announce it soon (if she hasn't already while I've had this reply open!)

Yay! I'm glad you're going to get the pictures, you won't regret it! You look so good in your bikini that you should just wear that :) Also, OMG Peony had her baby!!! I can't wait to hear her story and see pictures!

AFM: Last night I bit off WAY more than I could chew and made a ton of chorizo, potato and egg empanadas to stock the freezer with. About half way through rolling them out I snapped out of my cooking meditation mode and realized I was super contracty and my back and feet were killing me! I whined to DH "I don't wanna do this anymooooore!" and he laughed and said "yeah I thought you were kind of crazy taking that on at this point" well I wish he would have warned me and saved me from myself, lol! In the end I got them done and I am glad to have more good homemade food to last us through the babymoon. Tonight I am going to make more muffins and possibly breakfast burritos, and then I am calling it good!

I'm getting a little nervous because I am at 39 weeks and still don't really feel like my body is gearing up for labor very much. I get BHs that are definitely more intense than they were a few weeks ago, and I get crampy at night, and the occasional cervix twinge (I heard this could mean the beginning of dilation?). It all just feels so subtle that I have a hard time believing that anything is getting accomplished. I am getting super antsy and anxious and just want to get the ball rolling! I know most first timers go past their due date (mine is next tuesday) but I am getting impatient dammit!

[veggiemomto2]

I guess I'm not friends with Peony on FB because I missed that, but YAY Peony!!

Jbouck - I didn't feel like my body was doing anything with my first either, so at least you are feeling *something*. I didn't feel a darn ctx the whole time! At 41+ weeks my water broke (after one last attempt to get some prostaglandins lol) I too am at 39 weeks and except for the one night of horrid contractions, I don't feel much at all....except some pressure and random braxton hicks.

Carrie, you look great. Rock the bikini! I have mostly been wearing non maternity capris from ON and rotating black tshirts. As if black really does have any slimming effect this late in the game, but I can pretend. I have a variety of shirts but I cannot help but feel like a watermelon in the green shirt and barney in the purple one. heh.

[Baby_Cakes]

Originally Posted by Jbouck5 

Yay! I'm glad you're going to get the pictures, you won't regret it! You look so good in your bikini that you should just wear that :) 

AFM: Last night I bit off WAY more than I could chew and made a ton of chorizo, potato and egg empanadas to stock the freezer with. About half way through rolling them out I snapped out of my cooking meditation mode and realized I was super contracty and my back and feet were killing me! I whined to DH "I don't wanna do this anymooooore!" and he laughed and said "yeah I thought you were kind of crazy taking that on at this point" well I wish he would have warned me and saved me from myself, lol! In the end I got them done and I am glad to have more good homemade food to last us through the babymoon. Tonight I am going to make more muffins and possibly breakfast burritos, and then I am calling it good!

I'm getting a little nervous because I am at 39 weeks and still don't really feel like my body is gearing up for labor very much. I get BHs that are definitely more intense than they were a few weeks ago, and I get crampy at night, and the occasional cervix twinge (I heard this could mean the beginning of dilation?). It all just feels so subtle that I have a hard time believing that anything is getting accomplished. I am getting super antsy and anxious and just want to get the ball rolling! I know most first timers go past their due date (mine is next tuesday) but I am getting impatient dammit!

That made me chuckle!!  Could you imagine me showing up at JCPenney in my orange bikini and being like, Ok lets do this!! 

Ha - and I've also BTDT with biting off more than you can chew.  I'll get halfway through a huge cleaning purge or organizational task and then all of a sudden wake up and be like OMGGG I HAVE TO FINISH THIS??!??

And labor is so fickle.  You might not have ANY gearing up and your body will just click into labor when it's ready.  Don't worry.  Nobody is pregnant forever, even though it might feel that way now.  I wish I were due next Tuesday, I still have 20 days technically!  Hang in there.  I didn't realize E flipped out of transverse and is back to breech, though, at least that's a positive thing, right?  

[greencarnation]

Had my 36 week mw visit.  Everything is good, though I apparently need more vit C.  At least that's easy enough to do.  Baby is still hard to place, but they are fairly sure that he is head down on the right.  They want my chiro to double check tomorrow, as three opinions are better than two.  They did conform that we could try a breech birth, if it came to that.  They also agreed that he has dropped!  I'm on weekly visits now.  I'm getting so close!!!

[Emerging butterfly]

Getting ready for midwife appt. Honestly...I just so wish I looked forward to these. Maybe I should just ask her to STOP weighing me as it makes me feel like crap. I've only got 5 weeks to go, how much damage could I really DO in five weeks? Maaaaaaaaaannnnnn.

My little bear got a dragonfly to crawl onto his hand this morning, where it sat contentedly for several minutes before it opted to fly away...he was over the moon about it. Then, he got to run through a wave sculpture after his swimming lesson, and then, we saw twin baby deer playing in a field. I bought him and his brother a soda (something I nnnnneeeeeevvvvvveeeeeerrrr do...) for the walk home, and his darling little face beamed as he said that this was "The best day in his WHOLE life"...ah sweet love....I'm so happy I got to be part of the best day of his whole life.

All this talk about Dr. Pepper is really messing with me. I haven't had one for years...and now, all I want is a dr. pepper!!! But nooooooooooo, I will be weighed and scolded no matter what I do...so I will just have to avoid it. I do NOT have diabetes. I am healthy! I am sick of being treated like I'm sick because I'm a full bodied woman. Screw bariatrisism. There are tons of studies to show that an active FAT person is more healthy than an inactive SKINNY person. I have great blood levels. My heart is FINE. I have low cholesterol and NO sign of diabetes. I can probably STILL out hike my skinny midwife at 35 weeks pregnant! but...I'm FAT so I get judged. And I want a dr. pepper ice cream float. Poo. I never eat things like that. I want icee's and floats. bah.

Five more weeks. I think it is unfair to tell me I can't have whatever I want at this point.

It's only five more weeks...

[Agatha_Ann]

EB, I'm sorry you don't enjoy your appts. That must be really frustrating to not mesh with your midwife  One of the things in this world that makes me so angry is people who make pregnant women feel guilty about their bodies! I think this is one time in a girl's life that she should be made to feel nothing but gorgeous in every way. It is absurd that anyone should be feeling guilty about how they look when they are doing such amazing work with that body! I stand backwards on the scale and tell my providers I do not want to know the number unless there is a dire threat to myself or the baby. Knowing the number puts it in the back of my mind to pop up as "Should you really be eating that?" "Do you think seconds are the best idea?" etc and in my opinion, those thoughts have nothing beneficial to offer a pregnant woman. And for the record, I gained 80, 65, 65, 60 and ? with each of mine and they are all healthy, dr never said a word, and it came off.

I would tell your midwife that you either do not want to be weighed, do not want to know the number, or that you don't want her opinion on it unless it is a problem beyond vanity.

[Beckily]

I told my son that if he tells me to eat it and it won't kill us, I'm eating it.

I don't think I even gained any weight until, what, nearly the third trimester? Halfway through the second?

And now I flat out don't care. If all we want to eat is bagels and ice cream, that's what I'm eating. I don't care. I wasn't thin before I got knocked up, I won't be after the baby crawls out and so what? If anyone lost their mind enough to try to talk to me about my weight (252, oh my!), I don't think they'd like where the conversation would end up ;) Gimme a shot of beer, a bowl of ice cream and go away :P

Also, Blue Sky Dr. Becker is soooo good! Like Dr. Pepper but with real sugar and much happiness ;)

[PoetryLover]

Originally Posted by Jbouck5 

AFM: Last night I bit off WAY more than I could chew and made a ton of chorizo, potato and egg empanadas to stock the freezer with. About half way through rolling them out I snapped out of my cooking meditation mode and realized I was super contracty and my back and feet were killing me! I whined to DH "I don't wanna do this anymooooore!" and he laughed and said "yeah I thought you were kind of crazy taking that on at this point" well I wish he would have warned me and saved me from myself, lol! In the end I got them done and I am glad to have more good homemade food to last us through the babymoon. Tonight I am going to make more muffins and possibly breakfast burritos, and then I am calling it good!

I'm getting a little nervous because I am at 39 weeks and still don't really feel like my body is gearing up for labor very much. I get BHs that are definitely more intense than they were a few weeks ago, and I get crampy at night, and the occasional cervix twinge (I heard this could mean the beginning of dilation?). It all just feels so subtle that I have a hard time believing that anything is getting accomplished. I am getting super antsy and anxious and just want to get the ball rolling! I know most first timers go past their due date (mine is next tuesday) but I am getting impatient dammit!

Originally Posted by veggiemomto2 

 Jbouck - I didn't feel like my body was doing anything with my first either, so at least you are feeling *something*. I didn't feel a darn ctx the whole time! At 41+ weeks my water broke (after one last attempt to get some prostaglandins lol) I too am at 39 weeks and except for the one night of horrid contractions, I don't feel much at all....except some pressure and random braxton hicks.
 

Originally Posted by Baby_Cakes 

And labor is so fickle.  You might not have ANY gearing up and your body will just click into labor when it's ready.  Don't worry.  Nobody is pregnant forever, even though it might feel that way now.  I wish I were due next Tuesday, I still have 20 days technically!  Hang in there.  I didn't realize E flipped out of transverse and is back to breech, though, at least that's a positive thing, right?  

Jbouck5, I have definitely bitten off more than I can chew. I just make sure to sit and rest inbetween standing up on my feet. So I might sweep and mop and then sit down to fold laundry or relax for a bit on the computer. Still, I feel it the next day. Simple tasks can take me HOURS longer than normal, too. 

Also, with my DS I really had no signs until my water broke. My midwife actually expected it to be another week or two before I went into labor and 1-2 days after she said that, I was birthing my beautiful boy. 

Originally Posted by greencarnation 

Had my 36 week mw visit.  Everything is good, though I apparently need more vit C.  At least that's easy enough to do.  Baby is still hard to place, but they are fairly sure that he is head down on the right.  They want my chiro to double check tomorrow, as three opinions are better than two.  They did conform that we could try a breech birth, if it came to that.  They also agreed that he has dropped!  I'm on weekly visits now.  I'm getting so close!!!

It's good that your appointment went well and it's really good that they'll try a vaginal breech delivery, if necessary.

Originally Posted by Emerging butterfly 

Getting ready for midwife appt. Honestly...I just so wish I looked forward to these. Maybe I should just ask her to STOP weighing me as it makes me feel like crap. I've only got 5 weeks to go, how much damage could I really DO in five weeks? Maaaaaaaaaannnnnn.

My little bear got a dragonfly to crawl onto his hand this morning, where it sat contentedly for several minutes before it opted to fly away...he was over the moon about it. Then, he got to run through a wave sculpture after his swimming lesson, and then, we saw twin baby deer playing in a field. I bought him and his brother a soda (something I nnnnneeeeeevvvvvveeeeeerrrr do...) for the walk home, and his darling little face beamed as he said that this was "The best day in his WHOLE life"...ah sweet love....I'm so happy I got to be part of the best day of his whole life.

All this talk about Dr. Pepper is really messing with me. I haven't had one for years...and now, all I want is a dr. pepper!!! But nooooooooooo, I will be weighed and scolded no matter what I do...so I will just have to avoid it. I do NOT have diabetes. I am healthy! I am sick of being treated like I'm sick because I'm a full bodied woman. Screw bariatrisism. There are tons of studies to show that an active FAT person is more healthy than an inactive SKINNY person. I have great blood levels. My heart is FINE. I have low cholesterol and NO sign of diabetes. I can probably STILL out hike my skinny midwife at 35 weeks pregnant! but...I'm FAT so I get judged. And I want a dr. pepper ice cream float. Poo. I never eat things like that. I want icee's and floats. bah.

Five more weeks. I think it is unfair to tell me I can't have whatever I want at this point.

It's only five more weeks...

Eat whatever you want and tell your midwife you're not concerned about your weight and that you don't even want to know how much you weigh or you could simply request not to be weighed. The last several weeks are hard enough without being unnecessarily hard on yourself or having a midwife be hard on you. It's your body. It's your baby. You deserve to nourish yourself. I'm sorry, providers that make a huge deal about weight gain in pregnancy are on my sh1t list. Seriously. I've dealt with too much of that personally and it's it's poison to the self-esteem. 

[mareseatoats]

I'm heading out the door, so I apologize for not having time to reply to everyone, but I wanted to ask: How soon is too soon to wash baby clothes? I figured washing them too early wouldn't be a lot better than not washing them at all. But my nesting urge so wants to look at and fold baby clothes!

[Beckily]

Originally Posted by mareseatoats 

I'm heading out the door, so I apologize for not having time to reply to everyone, but I wanted to ask: How soon is too soon to wash baby clothes? I figured washing them too early wouldn't be a lot better than not washing them at all. But my nesting urge so wants to look at and fold baby clothes!

I've washed all mine.. except the ones I was just given. They're not getting washed for awhile! :)

[earth-mama]

Mareseatoats:  I got all of our baby clothes washed around 36-37 weeks so we would be ready for the baby to come once I was full term.  I will be 40 weeks tomorrow!!

EB:  I'm sorry your MW is not very supportive of your weight gain.  Mine only ever says great, well actually, one time I gained about 8 pounds in 3 weeks, but she wasn't really worried just meantioned it since the last time I had only gained like 2 pounds and with DD I consistently gained about 4 pound each month.  I definitely think that at this point it certainly is not going to hurt to indulge every once in a while--I have been--yum. . . ice cream 

CCL:  I also feel ready for this baby to come!  

Carrie:  have fun with the pictures.

[CrazyCatLady]

Washed all mine at 35 weeks.  But I keep hoping for an early baby lol.  I'd say anytime by 37 weeks is fine.  :)
 

Originally Posted by mareseatoats 

I'm heading out the door, so I apologize for not having time to reply to everyone, but I wanted to ask: How soon is too soon to wash baby clothes? I figured washing them too early wouldn't be a lot better than not washing them at all. But my nesting urge so wants to look at and fold baby clothes!

[Italiamom]

Originally Posted by CrazyCatLady 

I am so ready for labor.  Not just sick of pregnancy in that nine month way, I just really feel like it's time to be done soon.  I always go very late though, so I am trying to just settle down and relax.  But I really do want her out, and soon.  Hopefully she will be my wild card and be born at 37 weeks.  I can dream anyways!

Fingers crossed for a wild card!!

Originally Posted by Jbouck5 

I'm getting a little nervous because I am at 39 weeks and still don't really feel like my body is gearing up for labor very much. I get BHs that are definitely more intense than they were a few weeks ago, and I get crampy at night, and the occasional cervix twinge (I heard this could mean the beginning of dilation?). It all just feels so subtle that I have a hard time believing that anything is getting accomplished. I am getting super antsy and anxious and just want to get the ball rolling! I know most first timers go past their due date (mine is next tuesday) but I am getting impatient dammit!

If it makes you feel any better, I had NO signs of impending labor with my first.  No extra cramping, and even my Braxton-Hicks contractions were the same as always.  DS didn't engage in my pelvis until several hours into labor.  A few days before labor I was only 1cm dilated, and barely effaced.  And from the time I felt my first, sad little cramp, until the time I was holding my DS in my arms (with a natural labor), was about 12 hours.  Only 6-7 of that was difficult labor.  I'm thinking you might just be one of those women who goes quickly.  Your body will wait and wait and then... GO TIME!  It's easy to get impatient, but just because "nothing" is happening, doesn't really mean much.  Some women have no signs and then progress nicely and quickly to the finish line!

Originally Posted by Baby_Cakes 

Ha - and I've also BTDT with biting off more than you can chew.  I'll get halfway through a huge cleaning purge or organizational task and then all of a sudden wake up and be like OMGGG I HAVE TO FINISH THIS??!??

Originally Posted by greencarnation 

Had my 36 week mw visit.  Everything is good, though I apparently need more vit C.  At least that's easy enough to do.  Baby is still hard to place, but they are fairly sure that he is head down on the right.  They want my chiro to double check tomorrow, as three opinions are better than two.  They did conform that we could try a breech birth, if it came to that.  They also agreed that he has dropped!  I'm on weekly visits now.  I'm getting so close!!!

Here's hoping that your chiro also confirms a head down bebe.  And yay for being close!!

Originally Posted by Emerging butterfly 

Five more weeks. I think it is unfair to tell me I can't have whatever I want at this point.

It is unfair.  I'm with Becky.  If you want to subsist solely on bagels and milkshakes, then eat your damn heart out.  If you're already "fat," then why not enjoy yourself?  I would also just decline the weigh in.  If your urine and BP looks good, there's really no point at this juncture, yk?  Or you can let her weigh you, but tell her that at this point your weight isn't up for discussion, and you just don't want to know!

Originally Posted by Beckily 

Also, Blue Sky Dr. Becker is soooo good! Like Dr. Pepper but with real sugar and much happiness ;)

Ooooooh, I love that stuff!  Sounds heavenly.  Might have DH pick some up on the way home.  All this Dr. Pepper nonsense has been killing me.

Originally Posted by mareseatoats 

How soon is too soon to wash baby clothes? I figured washing them too early wouldn't be a lot better than not washing them at all. But my nesting urge so wants to look at and fold baby clothes!

I'm going to wash mine next week.  I don't think baby clothes sitting in a drawer for 6 weeks vs. 2 weeks is really going to hurt anything.  You're really just washing them to either A) get any chemical residue or other mass market detergents off of the clothes, or B) getting any previous germies off of hand-me-downs.  But once they're washed and folded, they're good to go for quite a while, I would think.

AFM -- Had an appointment with the midwife today.  I just love her!  Bebe is still head down, but still posterior.  She seemed totally unconcerned by the posterior positioning, saying that she still thinks this labor will be easier for me (DS was posterior too), and that I clearly have an ample pelvis if I could get his giant head out as my first baby   It was nice to hear...  I'm so stressed about having a back labor, or a looooong labor.  But she seemed completely unconcerned by it.  I opted to do the GBS screen today, just to know.  It won't affect my HB status at all regardless of the result, and my midwife said it doesn't really change her protocol much either way.  She can do IV ABX, but said that most of her clients don't opt to do it.

[SouthernStormy]

Originally Posted by mareseatoats 

I'm heading out the door, so I apologize for not having time to reply to everyone, but I wanted to ask: How soon is too soon to wash baby clothes? I figured washing them too early wouldn't be a lot better than not washing them at all. But my nesting urge so wants to look at and fold baby clothes!

All of ours we'd bought at thrift or consignment shops, so as soon as we bought a washer and dryer a couple months ago I started washing them and hanging them in the closet.

[greencarnation]

So, this is my third night of ctx off and on.  More on.  I'm already getting worn out and sick of it and I am not even 37 weeks until Friday/Saturday.  Gah!

[PoetryLover]

Originally Posted by mareseatoats 

I'm heading out the door, so I apologize for not having time to reply to everyone, but I wanted to ask: How soon is too soon to wash baby clothes? I figured washing them too early wouldn't be a lot better than not washing them at all. But my nesting urge so wants to look at and fold baby clothes!

I agree with Italiamom. I washed mine a couple weeks ago and I'm 37 weeks now. It was just an easy project that I could do in order to feel like I had some forward momentum. And it beat all the deep cleaning that I should be doing. 

Originally Posted by Italiamom 

AFM -- Had an appointment with the midwife today.  I just love her!  Bebe is still head down, but still posterior.  She seemed totally unconcerned by the posterior positioning, saying that she still thinks this labor will be easier for me (DS was posterior too), and that I clearly have an ample pelvis if I could get his giant head out as my first baby   It was nice to hear...  I'm so stressed about having a back labor, or a looooong labor.  But she seemed completely unconcerned by it.  I opted to do the GBS screen today, just to know.  It won't affect my HB status at all regardless of the result, and my midwife said it doesn't really change her protocol much either way.  She can do IV ABX, but said that most of her clients don't opt to do it.

It's good that your GBS status won't affect your homebirth. I tested positive last time and was still allowed to birth at home. I have an appointment on Friday and I'm going to ask to be tested then (as I feel most comfortable with this particular midwife and I get a different one nearly every visit). I'm planning to ask if I can retest if I test positive, though. I've done the garlic thing 6 nights in a row, beginning last Thursday, and I'm going to skip tonight and tomorrow night (just so that I don't reek of garlic when she does the swab, something else that I miss about homebirth; my old homebirth midwife let me test my own urine and do my own swab). I don't want to talk to this midwife about the garlic, as she is not at all very crunchy and I'm sure she hasn't heard about it before. I'm hoping 6 nights was enough, though, and that skipping the next 2 nights won't hurt me. I may have DH pick up some hibiclens at the drug store to use the night before the test, but I wonder if I should even bother. ... I also wonder why my old homebirth midwife didn't give me the option of restesting.

Anyhow, I'm sure everything will be fine for you. You've been so on top of all the things that can help you to get negative results, as well as guiding the rest of us. Your knowledge is so, so valuable in our DDC.
 

[Italiamom]

Originally Posted by greencarnation 

So, this is my third night of ctx off and on.  More on.  I'm already getting worn out and sick of it and I am not even 37 weeks until Friday/Saturday.  Gah!

Aw mama, that's hard.  I feel so bad for all of you with these persistent ctx!  Keeping fingers crossed that it will develop into something for you!

Originally Posted by PoetryLover 

I washed mine a couple weeks ago and I'm 37 weeks now. It was just an easy project that I could do in order to feel like I had some forward momentum. And it beat all the deep cleaning that I should be doing. 

Hah.  That's pretty much where I'm at.  If I can hear the washer going, then I feel productive while still sitting   Beat's scrubbing my shower, filing, or any of the other million projects that need to get done.

And thanks PoetryLover for the sweet words.  I love sharing with all you mamas.  You're so sweet!  I feel really fortunate that for me the GBS test is not a stressful thing at all.  I took it more out of curiosity than anything else, as my status won't change anything about my birth.  I can't imagine how terrifying it is to take that test knowing that it could risk you out of the birth you want, or require you to take ABX, or require your infant to be observed.  I think we can ALL relate to being "attached" to our various births, and...  I just want all my DDC mamas to have as little stress as possible, and to get the births that they want.  There are so many real things to worry about!