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@getjazzy: me too! it's 9:30pm and I'm legit hungry again! That's happened several times this week where Im either starving again before bed or starving as soon as I wake up! Baby sure is moving a TON, getting bigger and stronger!

@Mrs. Microscope: I feel ravenously hungry often, but I get full so much faster! If I have a late lunch I won't even need dinner. It's always one extreme or the other!

@kayakgirl73: I got one when LO 2 was born when LO 1 was 16 months old. We still use it a lot and they are 2 & 3. We have a City Mini GT.

@kayakgirl73: We went with the Contours Options Elite. I was set on the city select until I played with it in person and I didn't like it anymore. For the price tag, it was not what I was looking for. Kids will be JUST 2 years apart so I thought it was necessary for us. It was a pain in the butt to order because the colour option I wanted was only sold in the US and I'm in Canada but it worked out in the end! Just from playing with it in the house, I'm super happy with it.

I think we are Getting the contours Elite. Just saw one at the park and was really impressed. It was the only non side by side I liked, it was between that and the B Agile double.

@kayakgirl73: Another vote for the Contours Options Elite. My LOs will only be 20 months apart, so we'll definitely need a double stroller.

Hi everyone, hope everyone's doing well. Just wanted to do a weekend check-in. After my drama with the secretary at my OB's office, my mom talked me into calling them back Friday morning since I was still contracting a lot. I spoke to the OTHER receptionist, and she basically said we need to see you RIGHT NOW.

And it turns out when I get to the OB, the nurse tells me (as I suspected) that the other secretary never gave her the message. She and the doctor both apologized profusely to me and said if something like that ever happens again or if I'm ever unsure or anything, just ask to speak to the nurse directly and they will get her for me. So, I feel better.

As for the contractions, they are still happening all. the. time. My OB took a swab for a fetal fibronectin test (kinda like a pap smear - test to show if you're likely to go into labor in the next 2 weeks), should have the results Monday. She also swabbed me for bacterial vaginosis and is sending my urine for a urine culture. She said an infection can definitely cause contractions. She said when she was examining me my cervix looked closed.

I have a follow up with her on Wednesday and another ultrasound to check cervical length to see if the contractions are actually doing anything. I almost went to the hospital last night because they were so bad, 4 minutes apart at one point, but then they spaced out to like 20 minutes apart. And my husband is half a country away, no family in town so I really did not want to go to the hospital alone.

Just keeping my fingers crossed at this point that these are just random non-productive contractions and nothing is changing!

@MrsADS: stay in there baby! Thanks for the check in. Fingers crossed. For good test results!

@buttermilk: ugh! I haven't thrown up yet... Food anyways. I threw up just stomach acid last night when I tried to go to bed.

@MrsADS: Glad you saw your OB again, thinking of you!

@MrsADS: I'm glad your OB took you more seriously than receptionist #1. I'm crossing my fingers for good results back today!!

Heading to my glucose test soon, hoping that goes well. I didn't have issues with my first but who knows. I know a few people who got GD with their second (or more) pregnancies when their first was ok.

Baby girl has been moving like CRAZY and totally deforming my belly in the process, it's been awesome. This was my favorite time in my pregnancy with DS. I love the strong dramatic movements. My sleep has been terrible lately. I'm so so so so restless. I never got this with DS. I could sleep like a log, never had problems getting comfortable, just lay down and out for the night (minus pee breaks) but this time, I'm up minimum 3 times to pee per night and then up 5-6 times aside from that because I'm not comfortable, or I have restless legs, or I had a weird dream. Add to that, any time DS makes a noise in his room I wake up for that too. NOW I see what all the movies are portraying about pregnant woman sleep and it sucks!

Drank the icky orange drink...and now we wait!

@getjazzy: had mine last Monday. Awful drink.

The lab tech asked how many weeks and I told her 28 without batting an eyelash. I'm 27 weeks today.. LOL preggo brain much?! I'm blaming the sugar haha.

@getjazzy: I've definitely had some pregnancy brain! The other day I tried to drink out of my water bottle with the top just sitting on it instead of screwed on, dumped water everywhere. (It's a reusable, so the top that you drink out of, not what closes it.) DH thinks it's hilarious. Also, I love just sitting and watching my belly move. It's so weird!

I can't explain it, but I feel much more pregnant today, and not really in a good way. Like she's suddenly interfering with my ability to move and breathe way more. I'm wondering if she's changed position? But I'm still feeling movement in more or less the same places (which is actually all over, but with some particular areas she concentrates on), so I have no idea. I did have a kind of weird moment the other night. I could clearly feel two large hard areas, which I'm assuming were her head and torso, pressed hard up against the top and side of my belly, and then I realized I could feel another very small hard spot moving down low. So I'm guessing foot. But it was the first time I've really felt like I could distinguish a body part that wasn't her head or torso from the outside. Never felt that with R, but I had an anterior placenta then.

@Mizhi: AMAZING news about the previa!! What a relief! Congrats on the glucose results as well. All great news, I'm sure you feel very renewed spiritually to have worries lifted like that!

@Torchwood: LOL I've done that! I actually spilled non alcoholic beer all over myself the other day. I went to take a drink and tipped the can before it was anywhere near my mouth. Of course it covered me and although it's non alcoholic, it sure doesn't smell much different. I'm like great, I smell like a preggo with a drinking problem lol.

@buttermilk: Haha totally take off my pants as soon as I walk in the door!

@Mizhi: Yay for the good ultrasound, glucose results, and placenta moving!! That's great news!

@MrsADS: So glad the contractions are better! Hope they stay away for awhile!!

@lilteacherbee: that sounds like a great day tomorrow! have fun!

@MrsADS: @lilteacherbee: No Pants Club!!

I'm lying here on the couch watching my belly move when baby moves. I can even see her foot stick out every now and then!

I think she might've had a growth spurt over the weekend because I was SO tired on Saturday, I even had to nap because I couldn't keep my eyes open. And since Sunday I've been fine! Putting socks and shoes on is becoming pretty hard though.

Once again, I am so behind on this thread!

@MrsADS: thinking of you! Hope things settle down and baby stays put.

@kayakgirl73: our LOs will be almost exactly 3 years apart so I don't think we are going to get a double. DD hardly ever uses one at this point and I don't want to end up with extra gear so we'll see if we think we end up needing it.

I had my follow-up growth scan last week to make sure baby boy is on track because of the marginal cord insertion-- so far, so good. He was measuring a couple of days ahead and in the 50th percentile for most things. I'll go back again in July just to make sure.

I don't know if it's because it's my second or what, but I feel huge already. I swear I look as big as I did at 36 weeks last time. But I think my weight gain has been similar. Hard to imagine another 3 months of growing (not that I am complaining-- I want baby boy to get nice and big!)