Pregnancy- July 2011

Bethany - I added mine to my signature.

Katrina - Its funny you mention DTD. I wish bf would ask me, maybe that would get things going! I am actually using the Physicians and Midwives practice around here. They have a few offices but one of the midwives does their shift at the Alexandria hospital. I liked knowing that whenever we head to the hospital someone there has access to my complete records and possibly even knows me!

I am jealous of all the plug lossage this week for peeps! I havent seen mine yet. I am starting to think baby doesnt want to come out at all (though I am not really sure I blame her). Today was rough for me. I felt really sick all morning but managed to recover in the afternoon. I got my car fixed so we are all set now for trips with baby. I got almost all my final leave details ironed out. I just have to hang in till Friday. Once friday is done, I am all done with the stress of work for 12 weeks! I am so ready to be there.

Katrina – I feel so lazy whenever I read how much you’ve been doing! :laugh:

Bethany – welcome and congratulations! This is a great site; it’s the only thing that has worked to help me lose weight. And I got my ticker at babygaga.com and pasted it into my signature.

Maureen – sorry you had a rough morning yesterday, but you’re so close to being done with work!!!! I keep logging on to see if you and Julie had your LO’s yet.

Anne – yea for a good night’s sleep!!! Kathryn woke me up at 3:30 this morning during her little dance party. I get annoyed for like 2 seconds (I sleep), but I love feeling her move too, so then I get sad when she settles down.

Anne -- Yes, I made it. :frown: :laugh: And I keep wondering whenever Maureen doesn't pop up ever few hours so I know how you feel. So happy for you to have a good night's sleep!

Katrina -- Good idea about the newborn disposables. I have a pack just because I tend to think my baby will be under 8 pounds and not fit well into cloth diapers yet. I also like that newborn disposables have the little notch cut out of them for the umbilical cord, though I guess you could just fold cloth diapers down a little and achieve the same result. My BH contractions have felt mostly like a twisting and tightening of the upper part of my uterus. They started like that when I exercised around 22 weeks or so. Later on I had some menstrual type cramping and a backache with them as well and they'd come and go whenever, with or without exercise. But they would get especially strong and frequent if I had been very physically active over the course of a day.

Maureen -- Good luck today! And I think plenty of people don't lose their plugs until labor starts. Apparently instead of early labor lasting the usual 8-10 hours, it's lasting days and days for me. I'm pretty sure I'm walking around at least 4cm dilated right now which I find a bit ridiculous... and scary.

Ronya -- It's okay. I'm a miserable person today, too. I will say that right around the start of 3rd tri, I became nauseous again for about a week. It DID go away again (ugh, but it sure is back this week). I'm sorry about everything else and I hope you feel better soon!

I'm also in a pretty rotton mood. When I started being so uncomfortable this past weekend, I convinced myself it was going to be okay because I was probably going to go into labor soon. And well, I guess that was true because I guess I am technically in early labor now. But.. OMG, seriously for how long?! The different contractions and discomfort started Monday night.... IT'S THURSDAY! I have to tell you -- if I had a choice, I'm pretty sure I'd chose quick but painful over long & drawn out but not as painful. I hate not knowing what's going on and when something more is going to happen. If I'm still dilating at the rate I was between my last 2 appointments, I'm probably at least 4cm dilated now. I know it's in my head, but every time I sit down to pee or sneeze or cough or laugh or anything, I feel so much pressure and weirdness that I swear I think baby is just going to pop out.

I walked into work today and everyone had to drop their jaw & make some comment about me being here. The way I look at it, I can be miserable here for a few hours and save some of my leave or I can be miserable at home and waste my leave. MIL is apparently having a freak out because I'm dilating and have lost my plug but I'm not in the hospital (why would I need to be in the hospital?). My mom is now calling me 2-3 times a day which is driving me batsh*t insane so I've stopped answering her calls (she usually calls once a week).

I still have hope for today. Feeling this terrible can only last so long. At some point either this baby is going to come out or I'm going to die.
Sorry for the griping!

Anne- that is why I really didn't feel bad in the first place because I don't keep much of what I eat down in the first place. That is one of the reasons that I have lost so much wait with the baby. But then I still feel bad that I ate it any way. But while I am at work I really hope that I eat a lot better then I did yesterday.

And I want to thank everyone for making me feel welcome here...:flowerforyou:

Bethany - I added mine to my signature.

Katrina - Its funny you mention DTD. I wish bf would ask me, maybe that would get things going! I am actually using the Physicians and Midwives practice around here. They have a few offices but one of the midwives does their shift at the Alexandria hospital. I liked knowing that whenever we head to the hospital someone there has access to my complete records and possibly even knows me!

I am jealous of all the plug lossage this week for peeps! I havent seen mine yet. I am starting to think baby doesnt want to come out at all (though I am not really sure I blame her). Today was rough for me. I felt really sick all morning but managed to recover in the afternoon. I got my car fixed so we are all set now for trips with baby. I got almost all my final leave details ironed out. I just have to hang in till Friday. Once friday is done, I am all done with the stress of work for 12 weeks! I am so ready to be there.

I have never noticed the loss of my plug... so I'm guessing it happened sometime around labor or I'm just a very non-observant person! I believe it's one of those things that differs from person to person as to when and how it happens. So don't feel too bad that you haven't seen anything! Maybe your baby just knows to hold off till tomorrow night

I'm also in a pretty rotton mood. When I started being so uncomfortable this past weekend, I convinced myself it was going to be okay because I was probably going to go into labor soon. And well, I guess that was true because I guess I am technically in early labor now. But.. OMG, seriously for how long?! The different contractions and discomfort started Monday night.... IT'S THURSDAY! I have to tell you -- if I had a choice, I'm pretty sure I'd chose quick but painful over long & drawn out but not as painful. I hate not knowing what's going on and when something more is going to happen. If I'm still dilating at the rate I was between my last 2 appointments, I'm probably at least 4cm dilated now. I know it's in my head, but every time I sit down to pee or sneeze or cough or laugh or anything, I feel so much pressure and weirdness that I swear I think baby is just going to pop out.

I'm starting to feel the same! This has definitely been my hardest pregnancy when it comes to pain and how uncomfortable I am. For a week straight now I will feel intense contractions that last 5-7 hours but are anywhere from 3 to 15 minutes apart... Definitely nothing I'm going to run to the hospital about but it makes it so hard to get anything accomplished when I have to stop and grab a wall for 30-45 seconds! I called my sister the other day because I remember her experiencing the same thing with her last pregnancy. She said that it lasted 2 weeks for her and that she just wished everyday that she could just do labor itself and not deal with this on again-off again crap! I totally agree (however, I don't want my baby to come for at least 2 more weeks... I still have to put together my house we just moved into and my kids are 2000 miles away till the 19th). I've decided it almost feels like my LO is so squished in my belly that she tries to stretch and it makes my entire belly contract because of it.

But it now just goes to show me that every pregnancy really is VERY different! With my DS my only complaint was that he was impatient and tried to come out at 33 weeks and I had to get my labor stopped (he's still a very impatient to this day too :laugh: ). Everything else made it a smooth amazing pregnancy. With my DD I threw up everyday after every meal for 9 months straight and I hated my pregnancy. And now with this one, it's been a scary pregnancy because I started spotting at 20 weeks and have been on "light duty" and now she's just being a great big PAIN!

Anyway, I hope your baby decides to meet you soon so you don't have to go through the pain anymore!

I always wonder on some of you - where'd you get your screen name. Some it seems pretty obvious- but feel free to share there also!

My old name (the mjtwo name) is because all the kids in our family have initial MJ and so my folks call us MJ1, MJ2, MJ3, and MJ4.

My new one is an old nickname from an annual camp when I was a teenager - they called me Missy Misdemeanor since back then everyone still knew me as Missy, and it was around the same time as a Missy Elliot album, I think Supa Dupa Fly. Am I dating myself with that statement? Who's got the keys to the jeep? Beep beep.

Ron - I've been having sudden, random waves of nausea this week too. Usually in the middle of class. Don't remember this from before, but it's been so long I've forgotten a lot of the trials of pregnancy.

Anne - My mom was super sick with my brother (the whole 9 months, throwing up all the time, etc). Then with me she was nauseated like once the whole time. So there is hope for you to have another pregnancy that is not nearly so bad!

Mel- I got my user name because I'm an absolute math geek (I'm finishing up a degree in math and starting to look into grad school ... yeah, totally NUMB3RS kind of thing), and Julz has been my nickname since high school.

Been attacked by a killer headache. This after taking Tylenol for something else. :sad:
Hope it goes away quickly.

Worked all day, my feet swollen, and man all I want to do is sleep. But you know how it is when you have to other kids and you really just don't get time to sit and relax at all. And even setting here i am trying so hard to not fall asleep.:yawn:

I feel a need to point out that Maureen hasn't posted in almost 24 hours!! You better not be toying with us, woman! :bigsmile: :bigsmile: