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@Christy412: Ahhhh good luck!! Hoping for a healthy baby and healthy delivery!

Hope baby is here and you are both happy and healthy @Christy412

Welcome little one! It sounds like all went pretty well @Christy412 - so good to hear and what a sweet little boy. Love the name

@Christy412: congratulations!! He’s an itty bitty perfection. Glad you both are doing well and he doesn’t need NICU.

@LindsayInNY: Haha yes that’s basically what I said when they admitted me!

Thanks everyone!! We’re going home tomorrow morning and Big Brother is very excited!

Good luck to everyone and I’ll definitely be checking back to see all of your beautiful babes!

@LindsayInNY: whaaaaaaaat!? and what circumstances? that you're pregnant!? how do they miss that!?

@LindsayInNY: had you notified your manager that you were pregnant and were going to take leave? Did you let HR know or did you leave it to your manager to take care of that? I'm just curious because someone (not you) dropped the ball. This sounds fishy and illegal to me.

@LindsayInNY: you have record of notifying HR. Find that email, save it to your personal account now. Also, get HR to email you what they told you verbally, if they haven't already so you have record of that, as well. Try to get them to do that today. You need as much documented as possible.

@mediagirl: I've forwarded all relevant documents, emails, etc. to my personal email. I have a packet arriving today but think HR will need to update it given my "circumstances." I'm trying to think long term and whether I want to stay with a company like this anyways... I *think* my leave will still be covered in full so working on that. Because, ya know, I don't have anything else going on right now?!

@mediagirl: Whenever I work from home, I find I poop more. So now I'm always like omg is this the start?! Except cervix is still closed so unlikely lol.

@mediagirl: Yay!! Same here - super low and head down but cervix still firmly shut. Boo. I have an appointment next Wednesday which is kinda annoying but oh well... It was either that or skip a week and I didn't think they wanted to do that.

@LindsayInNY: I'm on deck for next Wednesday too and I made it for the afternoon so thankfully it means I get to take off work a little early the day before the holiday break

I had my 37/38 week appt today (37+4) and I'm just kind of trying to stay patient but ready for anything. Baby is nice and low and head down - same spot she's been in for weeks and weeks. But since I do midwifery care they won't likely check me unless I start to go over 40 weeks.

Appts made for 11/21 and 11/27 AND 12/5 (but I don't want to make it to that 12/5 one since it's past my date lol). Though, I am looking forward to just spending time with LO now while it's three of us and doing a few special things. Plus decorating for the holidays!! Part of me wonders if I should just suck it up and do that this weekend instead of waiting for after Thanksgiving like we usually do?

Thanksgiving plans are settled too and we'll be going over to our friends house in the neighborhood. She is cooking all the main dishes and I offered to make some pre-meal snacks. It will be nice to not do much since I planned to make everything just for the three of us and stay home solo style - as well as get the kids together to play after being out of school all week!

@mediagirl: I’m no help. I wake every 2-3 hours all night long. It sucks.

38 weeks yesterday and feeling good. Trying to close up at work pretty much every day so that I don't leave anything too unfinished. I'll probably be here a while though lol

I would LOVE to wait till actual December to have this baby and I don't *feel* like there are any signs for me of impending labor but I'm sort of in that "we'll see!" limbo space.

Sleep has been pretty crap. I just toss and turn to relieve hip pain and am up every 1-2 hours from that and/or going to the bathroom. Thankfully no insomnia though - I hope it lets up for you soon @mediagirl:

Husband has one more day of contract work he needs to do next Monday which means driving about 3 hours away for 30 minutes of work and returning. Sooo crossing my fingers she waits until that's done too!

@LindsayInNY: I bought this print from Etsy. It's going on the side table next to the nursing chair.

@mediagirl: Oh how incredibly sweet. Funny I get emotional over the most random things these days and that little print is one of them!! Tearing up at my desk right now thinking of the days to come and how slow they feel but how fast they really go

@MrsMom: you hosted a birthday party and went to Disneyland at 36 weeks pregnant? You're my hero.

@lindseykaye: it made me tear up, as well. I've been watching this artist for a while and waiting for her to make this one into a print I could buy.

37 weeks today. Rescheduling the appointment for the baby's urologist, just in case. Baby is having a grand ol' time in there, with all of her fluid to float in.

We made it to my "I can't have a baby before X" date. We're going to see Hamilton tonight!!

Oh! And I just checked my results - I'm negative for GBS! I was positive last pregnancy, so that makes me feel good.

@mediagirl: @Christy412: @LindsayInNY: Are we all flip-flopping our GBS status? I was negative last time and am positive this time!

@LindsayInNY: I'm curious too since I am allergic to like 5 major antibiotic classes... so our plan is to have one that they think will work for me and my allergies and keep meds on hand in case I do have a reaction. Not looking forward to the possibility of full body hives during or after labor but we will see!

They said it was only a half-hour infusion though, and that I would need it about 4 hours or more before delivery. I can even come get it done, and go back home to continue laboring if I'm not very close to delivery but want to ensure I have the antibiotics with enough time.