~*~*~Weekly Chat: April 15-21~*~*~ - Page 6 « Back to Group Discussions

[BubbleMa]

I'm a planner too.  I forgot how sucky the not knowing is.

[forestmushroom]

me, too! I'm too exhausted to type. LOL

Onemoreontheway, I've been basically juicing everything I can --fruit and veggie--into weird concoctions and drinking it, too! I freaking crave it.

Rozzie, I have to constantly do weird stretches and stuff while working, too. I hate going anywhere right now.. .except like to the store to get more fruit and veggies. LOL

And I hate getting dressed, I wish I could wear like nothing... nothing is comfy.

Just1more, I think about you having to keep everything clean... sounds crazy!  I can barely pick up these days.
 

[sosurreal09]

I'm 38+1 today! This baby will be here so soon! I am excited and nervous about being a mom of 2.
 

[MeredithA]

Forest, I feel the same way about clothes right now. I have found that gaucho pants and a thin t-shirt is as close to feeling naked as I can get and still leave the house. So I have been wearing that pretty much every day!

We went shopping and our kitchen is stocked with tons of fresh fruit and veggies. Several different yummy dressings for salads. Lots of juice and yogurt and nuts and oatmeal and just tons of good snacks. And I'm sitting here sipping coffee and eating Chips Ahoy Chewy chocolate chip cookies one right after the other. Nothing else seems appetizing. 

[Astraia]

Forest- I hate getting dressed every morning. It's my #1 most hated activity these days. It's one thing if I know I'll be at home all day, but if it's for anything special or going to work then I put effort into it and it takes forever. Everything makes me itch. Even if I'm wandering around in a skirt and loose t-shirt (like one of DH's) then I have the shirt hiked up so it's not touching my belly. If I go out I wear my leggings usually (they fit way under the belly) and a dress. I wish it would warm up, then I could wear JUST the skirt. Oh well :(

Just1- oh my, cleaning. I can't imagine needing to do that every day. We're trying to keep main areas liveable and stay caught up on laundry (and I keep doing big, stupid tasks- like I bought closet organizers and spent the morning organizing/ hanging/ sorting/ etc. Now I'm too tired to do the maintenance stuff. Luckily I have a baby shower to go to (for me! Yay!) in about 45 minutes and DH says he'll try to sweep and pick up, etc. Except I need to find clothes. Bah humbug :(

Meredith- I did a huge shopping trip recently too. Except I know we'll eat everything before this baby is born and I'm already irritated that I'll have to buy more labour/homebirth attended friendly foods :P I'd also like to know how we have SO MUCH FOOD and I still can't ever think of what to make for dinner!

For me: last midwife appointment showed I've gone up 20lbs total- yikes! My last appointment I was weighed for was probably about 6 weeks ago or so and I was only up 12 lbs. Need to slwo down on the cake and nanaimo bars, apparently... Sucks because all I want is sugary stuff right now. Or pizza. Or both?

Feeling slow and huge. My feet itch and ache all day long, they're trying to swell up on me I just know it! My back hurts, baby is feeling lower and I get a lot of pelvic pain now but baby still hasn't engaged. Have been to a chiro/osteopath twice now to try to get this baby to turn around, but this kiddo is determined to remain posterior with his/her head at a stupid angle, wedged into my hip.

Just heard from my sister who had a partial placenta previa- she's due mid-June. She was planning a homebirth. Her most recent ultrasound on Thursday now shows a complete previa. She's super depressed about needing to have a c-section, I'm trying to find some positive stories and information. She did some hunting but all she could find was the depressing "you're just uninformed, that's why you had a c-section" stories that make her feel terrible. I've never actually LOOKED for c-section stories before, but it is totally anti-mothers. So much of it is rude, bashing, condescending or otherwise terrible situations. What the heck is up with that? 

[lightheartedmom]

Count me in for "people who hate clothes" - my poor family has been forced to put up with me walking around in nothing but underwear whenever I can get away with it (I don't think DH minds ;-) but the girls think it's weird). I HATE clothes. My belly itches and I'm (sadly) getting some puffy stretch marks now that make me want to tear my skin off...the feeling of fabric on top of all that (and it's been in the 70's-80's here which for SF locals might as well be 110)...gah.

I LOVE the sunshine but all I want to do is alternate between lounging outside in the sun with a cold drink and then dashing back into the house for a cold shower. By the end of this little patch of springtime, I might just have blonde hair (my hair goes dark brown in the winter and then usually a very half-hearted dirty blonde in spring/summer) again from all the sun. Yay.

And food...all I want is cold fruit and grilled meats. I don't have a grill so that's a problem. But I've got chicken thighs marinating (for like 2 days now) and I'm going to make those...somehow and then make a cold noodle salad for the weekend (with those cool clear yam noodles and some kind of soy-rice vinegar dressing). But mostly I just want to eat millions of very very cold bartlett pears...which thankfully are on sale and delicious right now from the market down the street.

All the birth announcements in the April DDC and the start of our May labor watch is making me antsy. Plus, my best friend who was due today had her baby this morning. 5 hr labor. Which does not make the idea of 4 more weeks much easier.

One final random note...I saw my mw on Thursday and she is sure baby is head down (whew...can stop watching breech birth videos on youtube)...but when I told her I constantly feel something sharp wedging up against my groin on the right side she said it's probably a shoulder. My family has a history of broad-shouldered babies and my little sister I'm pretty sure had shoulder dystocia..any ideas for how to help my hips open up more? The midwife didn't seem even remotely concerned about it but naturally, I'd rather worry about it, right? I'm going weekly from now on, so I'll see another mw this Thursday and get a second opinion I guess...I'm just concerned baby hasn't dropped and will maybe not because his/her shoulder is wedged in there...is that possible?

[rozziemama]

Lighthearted - I don't think you should worry about the shoulder being wedged in there - maybe you can get baby to change position slightly by doing some yoga poses or something - just nudge over a bit?
And sitting on a yoga ball/deep squatting will help your hips open -- now that baby is head down for sure that might be a good thing to start doing?

Also - I'm right with you on the fruit and grilled meat thing. Odd. I can't tell if it's pregnancy craving or just a reaction to the hot weather. Really could go for a glass of white wine too -- but unfortunately the acid reflux and alcohol don't mix well, so even if I were feeling lax about alcohol, I still wouldn't do it - even the small sips I've tried of wine burn my throat these days

Grace: how did her placenta to from partial to complete?? I was told (with the low lying placenta) that couldn't happen because the only movement would be away from the cervix.
Maybe she should have another ultrasound to be sure?
How far along is she?

Originally Posted by lightheartedmom 

Count me in for "people who hate clothes" - my poor family has been forced to put up with me walking around in nothing but underwear whenever I can get away with it (I don't think DH minds ;-) but the girls think it's weird). I HATE clothes. My belly itches and I'm (sadly) getting some puffy stretch marks now that make me want to tear my skin off...the feeling of fabric on top of all that (and it's been in the 70's-80's here which for SF locals might as well be 110)...gah.

I LOVE the sunshine but all I want to do is alternate between lounging outside in the sun with a cold drink and then dashing back into the house for a cold shower. By the end of this little patch of springtime, I might just have blonde hair (my hair goes dark brown in the winter and then usually a very half-hearted dirty blonde in spring/summer) again from all the sun. Yay.

And food...all I want is cold fruit and grilled meats. I don't have a grill so that's a problem. But I've got chicken thighs marinating (for like 2 days now) and I'm going to make those...somehow and then make a cold noodle salad for the weekend (with those cool clear yam noodles and some kind of soy-rice vinegar dressing). But mostly I just want to eat millions of very very cold bartlett pears...which thankfully are on sale and delicious right now from the market down the street.

All the birth announcements in the April DDC and the start of our May labor watch is making me antsy. Plus, my best friend who was due today had her baby this morning. 5 hr labor. Which does not make the idea of 4 more weeks much easier.

One final random note...I saw my mw on Thursday and she is sure baby is head down (whew...can stop watching breech birth videos on youtube)...but when I told her I constantly feel something sharp wedging up against my groin on the right side she said it's probably a shoulder. My family has a history of broad-shouldered babies and my little sister I'm pretty sure had shoulder dystocia..any ideas for how to help my hips open up more? The midwife didn't seem even remotely concerned about it but naturally, I'd rather worry about it, right? I'm going weekly from now on, so I'll see another mw this Thursday and get a second opinion I guess...I'm just concerned baby hasn't dropped and will maybe not because his/her shoulder is wedged in there...is that possible?

[BubbleMa]

I'm with you ladies on the cold salad/fruit/grilled meat thing.  It's all I want.  And we live in an apartment so we can't grill unless we go to the park.  Which me might have to do soon because I really want a steak from the grill.  And macaroni salad.  And watermelon.

I'm going to wash up our sheets this evening and get the bed made up with the waterproof thingy.  I hope it doesn't make me sweatier. 

I've been sleeping naked (well, just undies) the last couple nights and I've been sleeping so much better.  I wish I would have thought of that sooner.

SO is home from El Paso!  Woohoo.  Now I can relax. 

[sosurreal09]

I'd sleep naked but then I'd have a toddler glued to the boob all night LOL

Mini Rant: I am so so SO sick of my DD being sick. She is immune compromised from horrible vax reactions she had and we have done so much to try to heal her and she is still not better fully She was just sick from the 1st to the 12th. Then she got sick yesterday and it's going to last again b/c it ALWAYS does. I am so depressed and helpless in this. I'm worried about the new baby getting sick from their constantly ill sister and I am terribly worried about the effect all of this will have on my DD and how if effects her quality of life. (always cooped up in the house since she is always sick, vicious cycle, she gets very upset) I just want to curl up in a ball...
 

[Astraia]

Rozzie: I don't know, I've never done much hunting around about placenta previa. I thought it could only move up, too. They first found it at 20 weeks and she's... 34 weeks now, I think? I don't know if it's now centered over the top, but she said it had definitely moved down. Maybe they just mismeasured the first time? Or as the placenta grew (they do grow right??) it just covered more? Not sure.

Bubble- I almost always wear a shirt to bed, but I've forgotten the last few nights and I'm sleeping better so that's good right?

Blessingway- was awesome. Just a few friends talking babies and labours, dicussing their births and how it relates to the blessing that they have for us (peace, feeling surrounded by love and warmth, easy, have strength and serenity, etc). Definitely teared up more than once! Maybe a lot of times, actually. Then my friend did some belly henna for me and I love it! It's SO itchy! She said to leave it on as long as I could (6-8 hrs) but it's flaking off quite a bit already which concerns me :( I'm trying REALLY hard not to touch it, but i keep rubbing my belly absentmindedly because it's itchy which I'm sure is making it flake off faster.

Someone else here did belly henna- how did yours turn out? Did it flake off? Was it itchy?

[callieollie]

I can't believe how close we're all getting. It's so exciting!

I have just developed hemorrhoids. They stink!  I think I've had smaller ones for a bit, but no biggie but now I have one big painful one. I am not loving this. And it's funny - I was super constipated during the second trimester when youd' think Id get them, but now that I'm not and am drinking tons of water, I get them. Go figure. Dh just went to the store to get me tucks pads. I'm going to go sit in the tub and then try the pads. i hope it helps!

[cristeen]

LHM - I wouldn't worry too much about it right now.  Practice squats, stair climbing/lunges, sit on a birth ball, and make sure you're familiar with the hip press for use during labor (for your DH to do).  Ultimately though I wouldn't stress.  But I will say a chiropractic visit may be in order. 

Originally Posted by rozziemama 

Also - I'm right with you on the fruit and grilled meat thing. Odd. I can't tell if it's pregnancy craving or just a reaction to the hot weather.

Me too!  I think some of it is pregnancy, but the hot weather is just making it worse.  It broke 80 the last 2 days, which like LHM said, might as well be 100 around here. 

Originally Posted by sosurreal09 

I'd sleep naked but then I'd have a toddler glued to the boob all night LOL

Mini Rant: I am so so SO sick of my DD being sick. She is immune compromised from horrible vax reactions she had and we have done so much to try to heal her and she is still not better fully She was just sick from the 1st to the 12th. Then she got sick yesterday and it's going to last again b/c it ALWAYS does. I am so depressed and helpless in this. I'm worried about the new baby getting sick from their constantly ill sister and I am terribly worried about the effect all of this will have on my DD and how if effects her quality of life. (always cooped up in the house since she is always sick, vicious cycle, she gets very upset) I just want to curl up in a ball...
 

I'm right there with the toddler.  I'm a naked person normally, but I have a boob obsessed toddler.  So the only naked time I get is after he's in bed.  I do sleep naked normally, unless I'm on night-duty. 

sosu -   That's gotta be tough!

Originally Posted by Astraia 
Blessingway- was awesome. Just a few friends talking babies and labours, dicussing their births and how it relates to the blessing that they have for us (peace, feeling surrounded by love and warmth, easy, have strength and serenity, etc). Definitely teared up more than once! Maybe a lot of times, actually. Then my friend did some belly henna for me and I love it! It's SO itchy! She said to leave it on as long as I could (6-8 hrs) but it's flaking off quite a bit already which concerns me :( I'm trying REALLY hard not to touch it, but i keep rubbing my belly absentmindedly because it's itchy which I'm sure is making it flake off faster.

Someone else here did belly henna- how did yours turn out? Did it flake off? Was it itchy?

Mine was today too!  I wound up having like 6 people cancel at the last minute and one set of grandparents completely flake (no phone call, no email, no show).  So right now we're trying to get all the leftover food packed into the freezer in batches - it will fit, but it's all dim sum, so I have to freeze it separately and then bag it up.  And there's a LOT of food left.  We didn't get to do really any of the "blessing" stuff, the guys kinda kiboshed some of that.  And only 1 person remembered to bring everything they were instructed to.  But regardless, it was wonderful, and I had a great time.  And my family cleaned up before they left, did the dishes, loaded the dishwasher, and all that's left is the few dishes that still have food on them. 

I did the henna on Wednesday.  It didn't really itch that badly.  But she did spray it with the sugar solution, and then I went and put on a clingy nightgown over top of it, so it was basically under pressure the entire time.  I wound up leaving it on overnight, and by middle of the night it was really itching.  When I scraped it off in the morning I was a little leery because it looked like the pieces of it that had stuck to my nightgown were really too light and were just going to fade right away.  But 2 days later, it looks great.  That first day I wasn't sure it was going to be dark enough, but it definitely got darker.  Don't know what they told you to do about it, but I was told to rub oil (she said olive, but I used coconut) into the area before scraping it off, and then again periodically - I've been doing about 3 times a day, and also right before a shower.  That helps prevent the skin from drying out and exfoliating (and itching), which will keep the design lasting longer. 

[KM84]

Originally Posted by Astraia 

Just heard from my sister who had a partial placenta previa- she's due mid-June. She was planning a homebirth. Her most recent ultrasound on Thursday now shows a complete previa. She's super depressed about needing to have a c-section, I'm trying to find some positive stories and information. She did some hunting but all she could find was the depressing "you're just uninformed, that's why you had a c-section" stories that make her feel terrible. I've never actually LOOKED for c-section stories before, but it is totally anti-mothers. So much of it is rude, bashing, condescending or otherwise terrible situations. What the heck is up with that? 

I thought this was a pretty good article about C-sections, without being about scare tactics: http://offbeatmama.com/2012/03/elective-c-section

Still catching up on the thread, but I've been skimming. Lately I'm so tired I spend about half my time vegging out on the couch. 

[rozziemama]

I have a boob obsessed 3.5 year old! He is literally obsessed with nipples and "boobies." with my currently enormous (normally smallish to average 34b) pregnancy breasts and nipples he is going insane, wanting to touch them all the time. I'm not a pajama wearer normally, but I feel like I have to these days because otherwise DS will go nuts... Not sure how he is going to handle the breast feeding of this little one -- DS bf until 16 months -- so it's been a while since he nursed! Still I think he is going to have an intense time with it to say the least.

[sosurreal09]

We are tandeming. DD is 30 m/o but no where near ready to wean it seems. We have rules though about touching my breasts LOL