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@PrincessBaby: outing myself as a lurker to say that I am going through the same with my baby and she/my uterus is measuring just right but my OB said a combination of the way I was carrying and slight muscle separation from my last pregnancy were causing the tightness I am feeling. She also told me it was very important that I am careful not to sit up straight or suddenly from lying down, she said it can cause worse muscle separation over time (right now mine is only slight and minor) and to always get up either by rolling on my side or get help. Another friend of mine just had a nearly 10 pound baby and she was carrying so small and didn't have the tightness. Maybe mention it to your OB and see what they say. Not sure about a private place but unusually I feel like they don't really give that sort of info. So excited that you are so close.

@PrincessBaby: She didn't tell me on Thursday. Baby was breech and actually in terrible position for an ultrasound. We were really just there to check my cervix but they usually try to give me a few pics too - this time she couldn't get anything She did confirm "one million percent" girl though! At my 20 week ultrasound, they said she was in the 94th percentile for gestational age. Not really sure what that means, but the doctor did mention she was looking smaller than my son, thankfully! When I was in the hospital at 28 weeks with my son, he was measuring 31.5 weeks!

I'm not really doing maternity photos but we are going to do some last "family of 3" pictures in early April with the woman who will do our newborn pics. Nothing fancy - just at a park.

@PrincessBaby: @jetsa: I plan on doing the same. Last time, my photographer friend was in town for my shower and she took a few of me and DH, but this time, I'm just going to hand DH my DSLR, give him a print out of a few poses, and tell him what I want. I just want to be able to look back and show LO photos of me carrying him, happily (not the grump face I feel like, heh) and have a cute photo of myself to remember the time. I'm so frumpy all the time now, heh.

I'm 27 weeks! Eep! last tri!

I'm with you guys on the "feeling like my belly doesn't have enough room / tightness feeling". Whew! I feel like this child is huge or long because I feel a thump on one side of the belly at the same time as I feel it on the opposite side! I'm switching practices to a new OB this week, and I'm secretly hoping she'll want to see the baby herself, and I'll get to sneak an extra ultrasound in there. Otherwise, it's just the 18w one I already had.

I don't think we'll do maternity pictures this time. I didn't last either, and I was OK with that. DH did take a few photos every week last time, and while I'm completely slacking on that front (we have ONE picture of me pregnant right now), I'm hoping to step up my game and get a few more before the end. @PrincessBaby: love the idea of having a few shots on the beach in a drapey piece! I bet they'll come out beautiful.

I started this pregnancy below my last pre-pregnancy weight, and I was feeling decently good about myself. But, lately, I can see the weight start to show in my face, and I can also feel water being retained in my fingers. Bleh I was really hoping to not gain a ton of weight this time. I don't know exactly how much it's been - maybe 20 lbs now a 26 weeks? But, I know it's not going to just my belly based on a few pictures of my face this past weekend. Trying not to get down on myself. I know I can lose it after baby if I am extremely diligent (breastfeeding didn't really help last time). Trying to remember I'm making a beautiful blessing of a baby, and that I can't worry about things as "trivial" as a few pounds of fluff. But, we're all human, right?

@PrincessBaby: I agree with @Mrs. Lovejoy that it's probably cramps from the stress of running late and rushing around, not the coffee. If the coffee was "bad" (which I'm not even sure how it would be), I think it would upset your stomach, not cause cramps. We had a stressful morning yesterday and I noticed almost immediately I had far worse cramps and BH contractions than I've had lately.

@jetsa: Love it! We're getting some snow/ice here today and I sent my husband a similar Monday vent text. If one more person tells me "You shouldn't be out in this weather," I may scream. They're not volunteering to take LO to school or do my work for me!

@SeptMomma12: Don't you know that you're a delicate snow flower?

I had the most awkward run in with a guy who works in my building yesterday. He was asking "how i felt" and if it was my first...and then got all debbie downer when he mentioned his middle daughter having another baby and how kids are great until they want to move back in with you when they are 30 years old, like his eldest. And i was like.....AWKWARD.

@littlepeanut: haven't had a csection, but my understanding is if you have an epidural in place from labor they "dose it up" for the csection. If you are a scheduled/planned c section then they put in the spinal. More a technical distinction for the anesthesiologist. That is my understanding

Cutie bump pic @MsHangry!

@BabyPenguinXO Good to know - I'm going to discuss with Doc next time I see her. I definitely don't want that either!

Crazy crazy thinking about how we were all *just* peeing on sticks and now we are talking about due dates and scheduled c-sections! I never thought it would go this fast.

@MsHangry: You look adorable!

@BabyPenguinXO: Not vain at all! I didn't have a c section, but I was induced and had hopes of a vaginal delivery while looking good and fully made up - but the induction started at night and ended up going into the next night, and then the next morning (!) and I ended up not giving a crap about ever putting my makeup on. It just never happened. I even had my invisalign retainers on for most of my labor - SEXY! I only took them out and handed them to DH when I started shaking during transition and knew I was going to throw up. But if I knew when my csection would be, I would totally show up full makeup and hair and no invisalign retainers:)

I survived the coffee incident and weird aches yesterday! You guys were all right - must have just been the stress of the morning!

I was supposed to have a checkup today in which I would beg to find some medical reason to move my EDD up 1 day so that I could be inducted on Fri 4-24 intead of having to wait until Mon 4-27. My husband is currently scheduled to leave for work on 4-30 for 3 weeks, so it would be nice to have a few extra days with him after the baby is born. But on my way to my appt, daycare called and said DD had a fever so I had to cancel and go pick her up. She isn't feeling well, and it looks like we're home tomorrow bc daycare has a 24 hour rule with fever.

So DD2 still has not been named yet. My husband suggested a couple of other names, and I don't want to be a turd who is so set in her ways that she doesn't consider other names. It's causing me anxiety bc I wish we would just both be in love with the same name, that's how it was with DD1. He really likes my favorite name, but wants to look at other possibilities to make sure we're making the right choice.

I don't know how to know which name is right. He gave me a couple of choices that are pretty. But I just don't know the right way to go about figuring out what the right name is.

@BabyPenguinXO: If there's not a medical reason, then the ACOG guidelines state that it's unethical to do an elective induction before 39w. I hit 39w on 4-25 apparently. Which is a saturday, and they don't do weekend inductions. And many insurance companies will not cover a purely elective induction done before 39w0d. Even at 38w6d:)

@BabyPenguinXO: I probably won't put on makeup (I don't wear much anyway), but I will definitely shower, shave my legs and dry my hair the morning of my c-section. I did it at 2am when my water broke with my first LO!

I'm personally leaning toward Charlotte right now, but no official decision. There was a little girl named Charlotte doing a make-up at our music class on Sunday and LO's face lit up as soon as he heard it. He really thinks that's his baby sister's name.

@PrincessBaby: I know! Considering that was our name if LO #1 was a girl, and then the fact he came up with it himself for this baby, I sorta feel like we have to use it. And I think it goes pretty well with his name.

Gah, just stood up and I'm seeing spots (word to the wise don't google that especially if you have even slightly high blood pressure) I just called the dr and they want me to come in at 2 fx its nothing major. It doesn't even feel like blood pressure though because I don't have a headache or anything.

ETA: I've been waiting an hour and haven't been seen, I know they squeezed me in but geez. They took my BP wnd it was normal so I don't even know that the dr will have anything to tell me.

@SeptMomma12: it was fine just took forever. The dr wasn't even concerned with my BP bc it was normal in the dr office. He did scoot my due date back to May 27 because he wanted the most accurate size measurements bc of the pih and he had a baseline for the May 27 because that's where Dia measured at the first scan and it's supposed to be the most accurate.

@blackbird: the spots stuck around for an hour and then turned into flashing lights, I never had anything like that with J so it freaked me out a bit. No swelling here yet but it's been cold and my office is soo cold, with j I started swelling at 21 weeks so I've been watching for it

@blackbird: I never did swell my first pregnancy.. Except after my c section. I was swollen for like 2 ridiculously long weeks!

@BabyPenguinXO: The post c-section swelling was so bad. I forgot about that. I remember I couldn't believe how skinny my legs looked when it finally went away - between being pregnant in summer and the c-section, they were sausages for so long!

@BabyPenguinXO: we did a rooming in before we took E home from the nicu and I had no shoes in the MOTN and of course, I stubbed my toe on something in the room and split my toenail off and bled everywhere and couldn't leave the room or the alarm would go off.....ugh what a mess!