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@Banana330: MY LIPS FEEL HUGE!!! haha. it's so weird, i feel like they've totally gotten bigger. also... my face in general just looks so chubby. i had to get a new drivers license picture and it. is. hideous. okay i'll start a board!

@Banana330: haha i know. it's because i FINALLY changed my last name so that it wouldn't have my maiden name on her birth certificate... but i totally didn't think they would take another picture. luckily it expires on my birthday this year so i won't have it long. just gotta look cute by then haha.

ok ladies i started the board:

http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/april-2015-labour-amp-announcement-board

I am not sick, but, I'm so sorry those of y'all that are! My partner was sick for the last week and a half and I've been living in terror that I'll get it. ::knock wood:: I had one day of feel vaguely gross and having a scratchy throat, but, that's it.

A downside to having a home birth is that when you're birthing, you're also hosting company. Also for all the midwife visits. Agggh!

Our house is a wreck, and I am so embarrassed about the state of things that I'm dreading our appointment on Thursday morning. At the Thursday appt all three midwives and their student come over, get acclimated to the whole house, go over our birth plan, and set up a supplies station.

I am trying to focus on doing cleaning that will be good for my overall quality of life, but, it is really shame cleaning.

@Rockies11: is it bad i'm kinda hoping i have it so i can get this baby out asap? haha. jk jk i want her to be healthy and everything to be good. i'll have to look into this, thanks for the info! i had no idea.

@lilyofthewest: i'm with you on the house. my parents emailed me saturday morning asking if they could come and i totally shame cleaned. hadn't heard that term before but i love it and pretty much describes all the cleaning i do haha. glad you're feeling good! that makes one of us i think haha.

@loki: I just looked up choleostasis after reading this thread and now I am worried for you! I hope it turns out to be nothing, or else that they let you have the baby early and everything still turns out fine.

Oh the cleaning, I just went on Groupon and found a cleaning service that was offering a discount and booked them to come when I'll be 39 weeks. I'm not much good for heavy cleaning tasks anymore, like vacuuming the million staircases in our house, so I think it's necessary (though DH has been stepping up to fill in for my chores).

We set up our Arm's Reach co-sleeper yesterday and it looks great and kind of helps me picture what it is really going to be like with baby here finally. But getting out of bed for night-time bathroom trips was seriously difficult - major abdominal workout. That makes me worried for what it's going to be like when I'm recovering from birth. Anyone have experience with postpartum recovery and a co-sleeper?

@Marionberry: No, I don't think it really annoyed me, but it's not something you want to hear, regardless. Baby hasn't dropped all the way down yet, so that's all she's going on. That and the fact that first babies usually go late. I'm planning on doing all I can in the next week and a half to prove her wrong!

Speaking of, my massage this morning was amazing! Love that pregnancy pillow. I really should have been going for months! @SunshineMcC: you won't regret booking your appt for later this week.

I have my mani/pedi in half an hour, so I'm chilling at Starbucks. Got my free drink and a bday cake pop (those things are like crack!). I didn't feel any movement this morning, but the chai and treat sure perked him up! Whew! I hate how my mind goes there, but he's usually so active.

Sorry to hear that everyone's been having such a hard time of it lately. @Rockies11: and @Loki: I hope you don't have choleostasis. @Mrs. Sunshine: I hope you feel better soon.

@SunshineMcC: yeah good sleep is not too common around here anymore. On Friday I was wide awake from 2-4 am soi just got up and played on my phone until I fell asleep on the couch... I guess it's practice for a few weeks from now!

I can't believe some areas still have such winter weather. I hope it doesn't interfere with anyone getting to the hospital!

I was just called to schedule my ultrasound to check fluid levels... I get to see this guy one more time tomorrow afternoon! I've mentally prepared myself for being told I can't leave the hospital which is a crazy feeling.

@Astro Bee: happy birthday! It sounds like you have a great day planned!

just wanted to quickly drop in to say that Charlie was discharged from NICU today and we are all at home! Not sleeping much and feeling a little anxious and overwhelmed about DH and I being all alone with him now! but I'm sure we will get more comfortable as we go along. our first pediatrician appointment is on wednesday so hopefully that will ease my mind and then my mother arrives from Australia on Friday so it will be so reassuring to have her around... we don't have any other family here so it's really just the three of us! It sounds like so many of you are feeling under the weather... sending strength to everyone for these last few weeks - I still can't believe it's only March and I have a baby at home with me!

Thanks, everyone! I had a great birthday! The massage was just what I needed and my hips and back feel great. I went with a really sweet blue (think Easter egg blue) colour for my nails. Interestingly enough, the aesthetician wouldn't do a paraffin treatment on my feet; not sure if there is some potential for kick-starting labour? She didn't know, but I said I understood if it was spa policy, even though me and baby were more than ready at his stage. I did get the paraffin treatment on my hands, though. So nice! DH cooked me a wonderful meal, and we had a nice, relaxing evening at home together.

@Boopers: Are you planning on working right until the end? It's so close for you; I'm sure you'll be the first! The questions were driving me crazy at work, too, but I didn't even really realize how much until I stopped working. Hang in there!

@Lulu22: So glad you are all home together. Even though I'm sure it's a little overwhelming at first, it's great that you, DH, and Charlie get to spend a few days bonding at home alone before your mom arrives. I'm sure she'll be a big help to you once she does, and it's great that she's able to come all this way so soon. Had she already had the ticket booked or did she need to change her flight to get there earlier?

@Boopers: I hear you on all the questions at work. Up to this point they haven't bothered me but now I alnost want to put a sign around my neck with an update: Feeling good, 38 weeks, yes I'm ready.

@lulu22: so happy to hear you're home and thst Charlie is out of the NICU. I'm sure it will be great to have your mom in town, as well as the peds appointment. Keep us posted and would love to hear your birth story if you feel like sharing! XO

@marionberry: To answer your question from pages ago, they caught the pre-e because I went in for a last-minute visit because I saw my mucous plug in the toilet and also some blood. In the routine blood pressure check, they saw that it was elevated, so they sent me to my hospital to get the blood test. It came back positive. But even before the results came in, they also did an ultrasound on my just in case and saw that little Marcus was in the 0th percentile for growth, which means that the placenta had stopped "working" and that he needed to come out. If the nurse hadn't told me to come in to check on me when I was worried about the mucous plug, the pre-e wouldn't have been caught!

@lulu22: It's so wonderful that you're home from the NICU!

I'm still shuttling back and forth and it's been hard. But it's great to know that Marcus is getting the best care. My boobs are enormous and rock hard, and I was able to squeeze a few drops of milk out of them for the first time this morning! Very exciting.

I hope everyone's dealing with their pain and sicknesses okay. Almost there!

@marionberry: It might be a while - a week or two, maybe? They want him to be able to maintain his blood sugar level with only milk (right now he's getting both milk and IV-glucose).

On the bright side, I've been able to get rest and recover some. But driving away from the hospital that first day I was discharged was brutal. The emotions hit me like a ton of bricks. "How am I leaving my baby behind with strangers??" But I'm feeling much better about it now.

@lulu22: awww yay, so happy you're home! youl'l figure it out and all learn from each other. so nice your mom is coming soon. send love to baby charlie

@ineebee: glad marcus is getting the best treatment possible but i imagine it must be so difficult to leave him. nice you're able to rest though before he comes home! hopefully it won't be too much longer.

@Banana330: omg i think i gained like 10 lbs in the last week. my weight gain was pretty minimal for most of the pregnancy so this has really bothered me. but i'm also hoping it's just water retention. my ankles are ENORMOUS, it's actually absurd. my belly definitely does not feel smaller though.

baby is still moving LIKE CRAZY and i thought she would run out of room by now... but she is constantly kicking me, it worries me for when she's out... cuz it does not seem like she rests/sleeps at all! haha.

@loki: I was feeling pretty good about the weight gain too until now. It's crazy how quickly it's going up. I took a picture of my cankles last night they were so bad. I actually convinced DH to rub them and i think it helped a bit.

I think I have the least active baby ever! She frequently scares me with how little she moves. I always get the kick count, but it usually takes then entire time limit. There are some days she just barely moves. I think my anterior placenta must be blocking alot of her smaller movements still. I'm hoping it means she'll be chill once she's out but who knows!

@Banana330: I've had a banana and about half a bowl of plain oatmeal. I was thinking of eating some PB but I wasn't sure if it was plain enough...I may have some later. thanks!

@Banana330: I would be happy to split the difference with you on movement. I'm not sure mine ever sleeps, and many of the movements are dramatic or hard enough to be pretty uncomfortable. I regularly get woken up by fetal movement, and he/she has woken sweetie up a couple of times too.

@Banana330: I don't feel much and didn't with my first either. We just never did kick counts.

@Banana330: i'm sure everything is totally healthy! and ya you definitely need to just compare your little one to your little one and no one else's! if all of a sudden my baby wasn't moving i would be stressed but it sounds like it's totally normal. maybe it means you'll get a much more laid back baby! lucky!

@marionberry: Maybe those babies will be coming earlier! Hope they don't leave you hanging too long. There's nothing worse that sitting there waiting.