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@luckypenny: oh wow! I will have to beef up my Netflix list sometime soon too then! How is everything going?

@luckypenny: my date is wrong, we were 3/31 too!

I went to target for the first time yesterday and had the same feelings...I was exhausted by the end of it and had a lot more bleeding afterwards too.

Hi everyone! I'll catch up later but wanted to check in. We came home yesterday from the hospital, and it is really good to be home. Miss G is a pretty good baby, but she is having some latch issues. Namely, she'll latch like a champ for about 30 seconds, suck, swallow, then FREAK OUT and banshee scream for ten minutes. Rinse and repeat ad nauseum. My milk is in, so that's not it. For the time being, I've been pumping and DH has been feeding her with a dropper while still offering the breast. I'd say she is actually taking it and doing a full feeding from the source about every other time. Progress? Also, we found some blood in her diaper, so that was scary. Pedi said just to keep an eye on it, so we'll talk about it tomorrow.

I'm healing pretty well, though I'm still sick and coughing. The coughing makes my incision hurt, so I can't wait to not do that anymore. I've also been super emotional, so that's interesting too. I just can't believe that I'm not pregnant anymore-it's hard to describe my emotions. I keep rubbing my belly, expecting to feel her, and she's not there. Physically, I feel *so* much better, but emotionally, I'm not sure I really understand what just happened. I'm sure the whole thing is exacerbated by the fact that I've had about 12 hours of sleep or so since Wednesday, so I'm not really working with a full tank. Trying to catch up so I can feel at least a little human.

@luckypenny: oh my gosh, my feet are huge too! Is this normal? I wasn't expecting to be more swollen now! I hope that your outing was successful. We're headed out tomorrow for the first time, so we will see how that goes.

@jill_a55: good luck tomorrow! I hope that you get only good news!

Pregnant mamas, hang in there! I am so excited to see more announcements. I hope you can get some relief from the awful end of pregnancy pain. The end is in sight!

@luckypenny: glad your outing was a success!

@LovelyPlum: good to hear from you! I hope you are able to get some rest and that the cough goes away really soon. You are doing great!

@jhd: thanks Also, please tell me you're not going to work tomorrow...

@LovelyPlum: at this point I'm going to try to go tomorrow and only because I have some things to wrap up that will be easier to do at school than from home. I think this is the best option but if I don't feel well enough in the morning then I won't go. But I have decided that the best thing for baby and for me is for tomorrow to be my last day.

@LovelyPlum: thanks you are right

I've been getting such cabin fever lately, so this weekend I managed to take M and DS to our county museum on Saturday and then yesterday we had a successful trip to walmart, thanks to my carrier. He seemed pretty cozy being worn.

DS goes to his dad's house until Sunday for spring break. I'm gonna miss him and I'm usually quite depressed when he has to go for long stretches, but this week I'm somewhat thankful. I can sleep more when M sleeps and it wouldn't be a very entertaining week for DS. normally I have a ton of things planned for us to do but I just can't swing it this year. So we'll save our adventures til summer and i'll let gis dad attempt to entertain him. Luckily this is the last long stretch until Christmas. He normally juat goes every other weekend.

@preggomeggo82: good call on working from home. How did your appt go today??

I spoke too soon on the swelling thing. My feet and ankles are awful today. It doesn't help that it got pretty warm here over the weekend.

And I had pretty much the worst possible last day at work. Everything that could possibly go wrong did and I still have one more set of tests left to grade that I couldn't get to while at work.

@jhd: Appointment went OK. No progress from last week - 80% effaced and still 1cm dilated. She's worried about his size if we go too long, so I'm not going to be allowed to go to 42 weeks anymore. If he doesn't come on his own, I will have an induction scheduled at 41w3d (the 30th). I'm really torn by this. I knew induction was a viable option, but I didn't really expect it for myself and it threw me off to be discussing it before I'm even at my due date. My doc has been super pro-natural/spontaneous labor up to this point.

@preggomeggo82: I was in the same situation except that my induction was scheduled for 40 weeks 5 days and I felt like it was way too soon. I did go into labor on my own, and I was the same amount dilated/effaced as you at my 40-week appointment. Fwiw, my baby was big-ish (8.5 lbs) but not nearly as big as they'd estimated and my delivery was fine. Hoping for you to go into labor on your own too.

@jhd: glad to hear you're getting a break from work. I do not regret for a second cutting it off early. Those last few days were awful.

@gilmoregirl: how are you doing?? and baby?

@luckypenny: brunch with DH later this week sounds like a good plan! how are you doing today?

@luckypenny: I hope you have a fun time out with your girls!! It's rainy & yucky here today so I'm staying at home. Organized a few things in the nursery & now I'm going to find something to watch on Netflix! Feels good to be done with work!

My baby is a dictator today. He's been sleeping in one to two hour increments since last night. What I wouldn't give to sleep more than 2 hours at a time!

At least he's cute.

Hi loves! I am so sorry that I haven't checked in...we have a gas/spit up monster that requires both of my hands when nursing (I'd love it if that would stop, for the record), so no real chance to HB. But I've missed you all!

G is really a good baby, but I'm learning that even good babies are hard! She keeps doing this thing where we'll change a poopy diaper to feed, then she'll pee everywhere when the diaper is off, then she'll spit up. So we clean her, change her clothes, get her ready to nurse...and she'll poop again, before I've even fed her. I told her that she was going to have to use less diapers if she wanted to go to college

Last night was our first really rough night. She spits up a lot, and every time I got her clean after a feeding, she was hungry again. Thank goodness my mom is here and took her at 7 so I could get some more sleep. She had lost more weight at the pedi on Monday, so we have to wake her to eat. I think we've turned a corner now, but I can't wait to get the all-clear to not have to wake a sleeping baby! And can I just say, having Mamas come up to visit is the best?!

@Dandelion: dictator is a good word. Hope you survived.

@gilmoregirl: mastitis?? Oh honey. Feel better soon!

@preggomeggo82: I'm sorry about your appointment yesterday. I really hope he decides to come for you soon! Are you relieved to be done with work?

@jhd: how are you doing Mama? Get the papers done? I hope you were able to do it with your feet up!

@charityanne: how are you holding up, lady?

@luckypenny: how did the excursion with E&L go? Getting out sounds lovely, but it SNOWED here yesterday. We still took a walk, but it wasn't nearly as warm or spring-y as I was hoping!

Hope you're all well. I'm so glad to be sharing these crazy days with my fellow April mamas

@jhd: Yoga ball feels amazing on the hips. How are you feeling today? Hope working from home is going well! I'm a little stir crazy already and it's only been 2 days! I feel like I might have jinxed it and I am getting so anxious for something to happen.