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19 weeks going on 20 checking in! First timer, I felt pretty confident that I'd get pregnant easily but didn't think I'd manage it on the first cycle of trying. It's been pretty uneventful so far except we're having a hell of a time trying to figure out a name. Thus far he's going by Kirby Jr. after our cat Kirby. Or sometimes Jabroni Jr when I'm unhappy about not getting to have sushi, Italian subs, or fancy cocktails
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I've been putting TBD [LAST NAME] on all the forms. 21 weeks now! Big anatomy scan is on Friday. And I have a list of daycares and cost info but we really need to commit to doing tours and stuff 
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Jul 18, 2024 02:08
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IANAMD but the greatest risk from herbicide/pesticide exposure seems to be around the middle of the first trimester, which your wife would be past by now. If you want to feel extra safe she could take a shower as soon as she gets home to rinse off anything she might have come in contact with between the car and the front door. If she's not making a regular habit of going outside and laying down in the grass things should be fine.
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Aug 6, 2024 17:37
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I am so hungry all the time forever. I had a huge portion of curry and rice for dinner, but all I can thinking about is getting a big bowl of cereal. Kiddo is in like the 48th percentile for size/weight as of the 20-week scan last month. He's been extremely busy in there, moving furniture around and practicing karate and whatnot. But he goes quiet when I try to get my spouse to feel. Oh well, plenty of time and opportunities before he gets here!
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Aug 11, 2024 02:02
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Almost to the third trimester and the swelling has started in a big way! Probably due in part to the fact that I spent the weekend at a LAN party indulging all my snacky sodium-bomb cravings, sitting in a godawful plastic chair and wearing flipflops the whole time. Things are a bit better today but I need to stay off my feet and stop snacking like a teenager. I had a headache earlier and immediately spiralled into "oh god oh gently caress it's preeclampsia" but then I looked outside and saw the storm clouds rolling over and remembered I get barometric headaches.
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Sep 2, 2024 16:52
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Wahoo, month 8 starts today! Putting on my compression socks is now an Olympic sport. My fingers feel very stiff, I'm sure they are also swollen but I switched all my rings to a necklace several months ago for fear of one getting stuck. I did have an unusually high blood pressure at my last doctor's appointment, but I've been monitoring it since then and it's been fine. At the time I didn't feel sufficiently ballsy to explain to the doctor that it probably had to do with the sign on the clinic door that noted she, specifically, was running 45 minutes behind schedule and patients could reschedule if they wanted. Apparently that was no longer true by the time of my appointment but they hadn't taken the sign down and they whisked me back for vitals right away before I had time to settle.
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Oct 2, 2024 21:20
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Pregnancy rhinitis made me snore horrifically so I had to start doing flonase before bed which mostly helped. I hadn't really had a chance to update in this thread but all my pregnancy edema started to get horrible and then at about 37 weeks I was diagnosed with gestational hypertension and induced because of my bp readings. I had originally wanted to try an unmedicated labor out of curiosity (with option to get epidural ofc) but the induction meds made early labor so miserable I got the epidural pretty early on and have no regrets since that allowed me to sleep and get fully dilated for delivery. Three hours of pushing and some salad tongs (forceps) later, baby arrived! Spent some time in the NICU for respiratory distress but we've all been home for a week and a half now and things are going well 
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Nov 22, 2024 20:02
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Rooting for you, Nettle Soup! The hiccups are so fun when you can also see your belly twitching. I never ended up getting a pregnancy pillow but by the eighth month I wished I had. They say to sleep while you still can, before the baby has you up at all hours, but by that time my sleep quality had already gone to complete poo poo. I couldn't roll over without conscious effort so I had to make sure whatever position I was already in would be comfortable and sustainable, since that's where I'd be for the next 6-7 hours. Or at least until my bladder woke me up.
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Jan 15, 2025 08:56
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Nettle Soup posted:Final verdict: epidurals are magic. Modern medicine is awesome and you should take full advantage of it if you can. Complete gamechanger, inventor deserves a public holiday in their honour. Maybe two. Three if we can swing it. Congratulations!!! The epidural was the best choice I ever made, no glory in suffering if you don't want to. See you over in the parenting thread
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Ours was very much planned but even a year out I'm sometimes like drat I miss my old life. Some things are still possible depending on your baby's willingness to be portable (my little guy loves restaurants so he can gawk at people). Seconding the notion I'd be miserable as a full time SAHM. I really like my job and the intellectual challenges of it, and the time away means I feel more ready to put my all into the time I do spend with the baby. And daycare has been great for socializing, practicing solids, and just getting to scoot around in a very babyproofed space. If things continue to progress and go well for y'all, my biggest piece of advice is to be PROACTIVE AS gently caress. Start practicing now, looking around the house and noticing little things that could be done. Dishes that made it to the counter but not the dishwasher. That one sock that fell short of the hamper. The thing that drove me up the loving wall was being told to go rest, without the teller actually taking over what I was doing. I don't care if you don't think it's important, it was important to me and if I ~go rest~ then I just have to finish it later instead of finishing now and then resting.
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