How are all the pg moms doing?

kimberley wrote: did you all survive the holidays? did baby like turkey? how is everyone feeling?
give us an update

FroggyJK replied: I am already getting uncomfortable Having back pain, sore ribs and feeling crampy a lot. I have my check up later this afternoon and my appointments are every two weeks from now on. I think I will have to go for my glucose test in the next few weeks.

I have hit a little bit of a nesting mode. Between the new baby coming and new years I am supper motivated to reorganize the whole house and get ride of a bunch of junk!

~Roo'sMama~ replied: Aside from headaches almost everyday, I'm feeling great. Most of my clothes officially don't fit ~ I started wearing the maternity jeans my sis gave me but they are too big. But I was too miserable in my regular jeans so that's ok.
I still haven't felt the baby moving though - I know it's moving around in there because at my last appointment it kept jumping around when we were trying to hear the heartbeat.

coasterqueen replied: I'm doing ok. I feel more like I'm 40 weeks along than only 24 though. All my symptoms are symptoms I didn't get til 8th or 9th month with Kylie.

I'm officially 2.5 pounds away from gaining a total of 40 pounds which was the entire amount I gained with Kylie. So that's freaking me out. I still have 16 weeks to go! Very very depressing, and yet I still keep eating.

Have my GD test on the 14th of January and I think my sono to find out whether the placenta has moved is somewhere around the last part of January. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed for that one.

Lollie replied: Hi Mommies

I have hardly been to this board and I have decided to get my big belly over here more often.

Things are going fine with my pregnancy. I have been given orders by my gynae to take things very easy cos I have already been to hospital with 2 false labours but luckily I wasnt dialated!!Phew!!! Its difficult tho to get alot of rest with a crawling and energetic 8 month old baby girl!!Im glad tho that I get tons of help from my hubby and my mum.

I am soooo uncomfortable!!!I have been from about the 4th month of this pregnancy cos I am carrying so much bigger than I did with Bri...I still have 2 more months to go. I am getting really nervous about how Im going to cope with 2 babies so close in age....as soon as I start feeling fine with it,someone makes some comment that freaks me out!!

Baby Caitlyn Paige is moving around soo much!!I love it!!Its soo cute when Bri rubs my big belly with her little hands!!! My only real complaints are being very uncomfortable and the hot weather here in South Africa!! My blood pressure has also been a little high but at my last check up it had come down a bit.

I am having gynae check up's every week.So..all is well with us..I just want baby Caitlyn to beahve herself and stay in a bit longer!!

A&A'smommy replied:
I just wanted to add that my SILs kids are just a couple days shy of being 13months apart and she is doing just fine copping with it anyway. I know a girl that is your age and her kids are going to be 11months apart but she is going to do fine too! It will be a little different but I'm sure your going to do great!!!

smullin replied: I am fourteen weeks today. Which is great. I am not feeling as sick as I was. I am now feeling sick at weird times. Before I knew if I did this or that I would be sick but now it is just when my stomach wants to be. Still tired but can stay up later then I was. I was tired and ready to go to bed at 7pm or so before and in the afternoon I would fall asleep at my desk. Now I am much better with that.The pulling of everything around where the baby is has gotten better to. No cramps which I got occasionally also(which I didn't like even though they only lasted for second and came out of now where). My back has been killing me though but it is just going to get worse. Gladfully I have not gained weight even though my weight has gotten much bigger.


Also don't worry about having two babies close. My sister in law is 23 and has two babies. She does great and I would never think she could handle it. It just takes some getting use to. You always have the help of your mom and dh.


Sarah
14 weeks today !!!!

Lollie replied:
Thank you Jessica Ann and Sarah....

Its good to know that Im not alone in this and that many mommies do just fine!!Im sure I'll be one of them...Ive got alot on my plate but I trust we'll be just fine.

amynicole21 replied: I'm halfway there now, and still feeling good... I expect that to change shortly though The baby is flipping and rolling as I type this, but DH and Sophia can't feel it yet. Sophia has to hug my tummy and kiss the baby every day. She kept trying to lift my dress up at Christmas dinner so that she could say "hi" to the baby!

Maddie&EthansMom replied:
Lollie you will be just fine. Just think about how close the girls will be. They will really learn to depend on each other and they will be best friends!

~KARA~ replied: Im only 6 weeks 5day adn I feel pretty crappy most days. The m/s is all day not just morning. I have had cramping and spotting, but I went for a u/s today and saw and heard the heart beat. Im not sleeping very well at night but as soon as the sun comes up boy Im out like a light. I have lost 3 lbs since I found out I was prego, but thats ok seeing how I weighed more than when I was 9mo prego with my dd's
Im hoping I can keep my weight under control a lil better this time around. My clothes have already gotten way to tight and I got 2 pairs of marternity jeans for christmas, they are a lil big still but I have no doubt that Ill grow in to them!

Littlejojames replied: Hello

I'm doing great at the minute really starting to enjoy it apart from the incident with the leaky boobs .

Baby is a very active one, full of kicks and punches, sometimes swear its trying to get out now

In all maternity clothes now my nice jacket which i got earlier this year does not even come over my bump when i try it on i look like im trying on a 3 year old clothes

Its getting harder to do things everything feels like such a big effort at the minute and living in shoes/trainers which just slip on as i cants tie anything that low down

Glad that everyone is doing well.....

Tamatha replied: Well, so far it seems that Peanut is here to stay! (which is a very good thing! ) We're 10 weeks today, and we survived one of the most stressful Christmases EVER...

Hubby and I live in central Illinois, but all of our family is in Indiana. We went to visit his parents over Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. When we got back Saturday night, things got a little crazy. Hubby drank 3-4 beers, 4-5 rum and cokes, and then took an Ambien--sleeping pill. He is also on Paxil and Wellbutrin, both of which are anti-depressants. I don't think there would have been a problem if he had just gone to bed when he took the Ambien. But he didn't...

He was out on the front porch talking on the phone with a friend, smoking a cigarette. No problem, right? Well, he'd been out there for a while, so I went to check on him. He was gone. I walked all the way around the house, and he was nowhere to be found. I checked every room inside the house, thinking maybe he snuck back in somehow and I didn't know it. He wasn't here. In a flash of genius, I realized he still had the phone with him, so I paged it. He answered! He was behind the house, in the alley. I got him inside and pretty much fell apart. You see, the Ambien makes him stumble when he walks, not to mention all the alcohol he had in his system... I was scared to death that he had curled up somewhere and that he would end up with hypothermia or something. But he was safe. So I got him to sit on the couch and watch tv for a while. Then he wanted to go back outside. I wouldn't let him. He put his shoes back on and told me his feet were cold when I asked him why he was doing that. Then he got up and went to the bedroom. I thought he was finally going to go to bed, like I had been begging him to do all night. I followed him in there just in time to see him pop another pill in his mouth--another Ambien. I ran across the room and hit him in the back as hard as I could to make him spit it out. It didn't work.

I flipped out and started screaming. I was going to call 911. He wouldn't let me. He didn't hurt me at all, I want to be very clear about that. But he did restrain me from getting to the phone. He wrapped his arms around me and wouldn't let go. Finally, I agreed that I wouldn't call 911, but that I was going to call the hospital and see if they thought I should bring him in. He relented and let me go. He wanted to go to the basement, so I took him down there--his computer is down there, along with a big screen TV and all kinds of stuff for him to play with. He spends a lot of time down there on a regular basis. I brought all the alcohol with me upstairs and proceeded to look for the number to the hospital. I had a strange feeling about Mike, so I went back downstairs to look for him. He wasn't there. I searched the whole house again, and I still couldn't find him. Went back downstairs, and the dogs were staring at the laundry room. I opened the door, and they raced to Mike's workshop at the front of the house. I followed them and discovered that he had crawled out a basement window. I went outside to look for him again and couldn't find him. That's when I called the police.

I'll try to keep the rest brief. Police came, talked him into going to the hospital with me, we checked into the hospital around 11 or so, they put him on oxygen and monitored his heartrate, oxygen levels, and blood pressure to make sure he was ok. Took blood and urine samples, etc. His blood alcohol level was .288! We were discharged sometime around 3am with his instructions being, "Do not drink alcohol." lol Came home and went to bed.

When I woke up later that morning to go to church, hubby got up with me. He didn't remember anything from the night before and thought it was all a dream until he saw the hospital band on his arm and the bruise from the IV. I had to tell him everything he had done. It was awful.

Yet, several good things came from this! One, Peanut stayed right there and didn't go anywhere! I figure that the stress would cause a m/c if I was going to have one, and all I had was an upset stomach. No cramping, no spotting, nothing. So that was pretty reassuring. I know it isn't a guarantee, but I feel better about it.

Two, Mike has promised me that he will not drink anymore except socially. And I am allowed to monitor his drinking to make sure he doesn't do something like this again.

And Three, he has decided to go into counseling for the depression. The meds are working pretty well usually, but since he is going to be a Daddy now, he decided that maybe he should see if he can treat the cause and not just the symptoms.

So, how was my Christmas?? lol It was great until Saturday night! Peanut wasn't too crazy about eating Christmas dinner, but we made do. I'm glad you all seemed to have a nice time!

smullin replied: I am so sorry. Sounds just like my brother. He gets that way but he won't take any medicine for his depression or go to counseling so that is a very good step that dh is doing that. I know it is not good at all to put anti-depressant and drinking together. It can do alot of damage long term or short term. Hope the counseling helps some. I am sure things will look for you. Make sure to always think of the positive and keep that baby safe as much as possible from stress.

Sarah
14 weeks, one day !!!!