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I'm in the waiting room waiting on the blood glucose test and it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought! They had it cold and I got the fruit punch. Now I just sit and wait.

@ms.line: Yep, no GD for me and she said my blood numbers look good so no need to supplement with iron!

@ms.line: Thanks, I'm weirdly excited for the class. Although, I still kind of feel like an imposter - like I'm just pretending to be pregnant but going through all the motions you see people on TV and the movies doing. But honestly - I kind of feel like that all the time - like I'm still a teenager pretending to be an adult.

I'm having two showers - one in early December in my hometown (mostly for my mom and all of her friends and family). She's a worrier and thinks if we doing something in January or February there will be a huge snowstorm or something.

We're also having a co-ed shower in our current city on January 16 at a brewery with the theme "A baby is brewing" - my guy friend is taking the lead on planning it and he was asking me a ton of questions up front, but I think he and my other close friend have it under control.

@TemperanceBrennan: hahaha, I totally feel like an adult imposter, and especially being the first of my friends to get pregnant, I feel like a teen mom! But then my coworker's 19 year old sister just got pregnant, and I realized I'm a DECADE older than her, so I guess I'm not really so young. The 'baby is brewing' theme is too cute! It's so nice you have a guy friend planning it - my dad is "hosting" mine but he's being such a square old man about it, I'm elbowing a lot of opinions in!

@fancyfunction: Thanks! My husband and I used to live in Brooklyn and got married at Grand Central, so we're headed back to visit some friends and hang out in our old stomping grounds. I'm a museum junkie so I'm super excited to see the new Whitney. I wanted to see Hamilton but I waited too long to get tix and now they're being scalped for $500+ a piece.

@MrsBPhD: congrats on your baby girl!

We just moved so we will probably schedule a hospital tour and get pre-registered (sure came in handy last time..)

What are you ladies thinking of in terms of birth plans?

Even though I've given birth before it still feels new to me.. Last time I was hoping for natural but open to meds.. I ended up laborint at home as long as I could but it was TOO long (rookie mistake??). I was ready to push at home and we barely made it t the hospital.

This time around I we will for sure try to get to the hospital earlier.. And so I'm nervous about laboring there with all the nurses docs checking on me and not being able to relax.. Last time I literally just pushed why out at hospital so I feel like a FTM in not knowing what to expect.

I think I'll try natural again but... We shall see!!

@mrs.kiwi: I'm hoping to do what you did the first time, actually, minus getting to the hospital too late. I want to labor at home as long as possible so I can avoid too much monitoring at the hospital. I also want to go all natural, and I plan to ask for one of the tub rooms to help that--there is no epidural equipment in those rooms, so you're less likely to get it. I've started putting together a birth plan, that mostly says "don't do too much to me unless you have to" and involve DH as much as possible. I haven't reviewed it with my midwife yet, but hopefully she'll be on board. I'm definitely worried about the FTM rookie mistakes, so I need to be open to things not going according to plan. We'll see...

@mrs.kiwi: I love everything about my doctor and hospital and I'm definitely open to an epidural. I'm planning to just follow the guidelines - labor at home until contractions are 5 minutes apart. Ask for an epidural when the pain gets to be too much.

My hospital has huge tubs in each room (there are two suites with actual birthing tubs, but you have to be pre-approved for them), and a huge basket of pain management/coping tools. We can also bring anything we want from home and can wear whatever we want.

It's a "baby friendly" hospital and totally supportive of breastfeeding, but not to the point where if you decide to formula feed they will hinder that (but they don't provide formula unless medically necessary and they don't provide pacifiers).

So I don't really have a birth plan except for "listen to my concerns and answer my questions". Besides that, I feel like I have (and will continue) to do enough research to know what to expect and be able to make informed decisions with the help of my trusted doctor.

My friend with three kids has told me that (for her) giving birth once doesn't truly prepare you for your future labors. She has three kids, first one with a epi (which she got really really sick from), one baby was 3 weeks premature, and her last labor lasted something like 40 hours.

@mrs.kiwi: I'm giving birth in a freestanding birth center attended by midwives, so epidural won't be an option. I just interviewed a doula today and we talked a lot about my birth goals - I'm definitely aiming for an unmedicated birth with as few interventions as possible, but of course, anything can happen.

hello - I'm curious if anyone else is RHnegative blood type? Unfortunately I am and I have my rhogam shot scheduled for next week. I'm a bit nervous about getting the shot as it seems like it will hurt. Curious has anyone had one of these before? Or any issues with being RH-?

We have finally made it to the less than 3 month mark! Whats on your to-do list for before the baby? We really want to get DD potty trained and moved to a big bed. We started potty training this weekend (its day 3) and, spoiler alert, its not going anywhere at all. I can only imagine the big bed will be similar.

We only have a few things left to do in her new room, and a few small purchases to make before the baby arrives. We're keeping the nursery as is.

I'm pretty pleased in our progress, but I'm sure the holidays will fly by and all of a sudden we will be a month out.

@Kelley_lovelikecrazy: i hope the potty training gets better! we are planning to train our newly turned 3 yo starting in the next couple of weeks. Been putting it off for too long, and i am afraid it won't go as smooth and easy as i hope. But i really like the idea of only one kid in diapers at a time!

Updates from me: I have my glucose test this thursday morning. DH and I had a one-day babymoon - we stayed in Niagara Falls last night while my mom babysat since my mom has been visiting for a couple of weeks. It was our first night away together without LO since he was born. And probably the last for another 3 years, lol. I slept 9 hours straight - that alone was worth the cost of the trip!!

I did get a peanut gallery comment in the hotel elevator when a woman said "you must be almost due". And i said "nope, 3 months to go" and she almost didn't believe me! because i guess looked so huge now i think i know when i am due!

@californiadreams: Ugh, M is almost 3 and we tried training this summer with no progress. Going to give it another go next month b/c is really like her to be out of diapers before baby comes!

We did some furniture shopping this weekend and are going to finalize things by next week. Going to convert the crib first, get her used to it then move her to a new bed. I feel like there's still time but it's going to go so fast!
My husband and I are taking a weekend trip this week so I'm really looking forward to that!

@Kelley_lovelikecrazy: He's a boy. We pee trained pretty quickly actually. I just set a timer for a half hour and took him every time it went off, it only took us a few days. Poop was a completely different story. 8 months of fighting him, trying different strategies and bribes, until one morning he just woke up and decided he would poop on the potty. And he hasn't had an accident since.

@saboma: that happened to me with my first. Found out they can sit on a nerve that controls the feeling in just the skin of the top half of your abdomen. Went away by 32 weeks, but not positive when. It's really uncomfortable.

@kiddosc: that's what we are doing, and its going no where. Day 4 and we haven't left the house and are with her 24/7. It's getting exhausting. I was prepared for three days of this but not longer.

How's everyone feeling? We're almost all in our third trimester! (I've just got a few more days, myself!)

I've been super emotional; I seem to cry at the drop of a hat. My grandfather was just moved into hospice care, so that's probably not helping any. He's the only one of my and DH's grandparents who is still alive, so I'm still holding out hope that he'll make it to late February to meet the baby, but that's probably unrealistic. On a happier note, I just found out I passed my glucose test, so I'm pretty stoked about that (among other things, I didn't want my holiday eating impinged upon!).

@ms.line: sorry to hear about your grandfather, that will be sad if even doesn't make it, especially with the holidays. I will keep him in my thoughts.

I am feeling okay. Officially in my third tri as of last tuesday and i feel like it automatically translates into more discomfort.....like with bending over to tie my shoes and cleaning up after a toddler! the extra cleaning is something i didn't have to deal with last time! other than that though i can't complain. it's even been a while since my last headache i had my glucose test last week and it tasted worse than i remembered. oh well, i get the results next week, hopefully all is good. congrats on passing yours!

@saboma: welcome to the third tri!

i do feel like i am really on a count down now, it's crazy. all this time i have been saying it's going so slow, and now suddenly it seems around the corner and i still have so much to do to our house! I have 8 weeks of work left, so that is exciting for sure!

@saboma: My back and hips are hurting at night - maybe I should look into a chiro!

@californiadreams: @fancyfunction: Thanks for the good thoughts.

Hope you all have a very happy Thanksgiving!

@saboma: I did! Not stains on my shirt but for a couple of days, I felt not only that my boobs were bigger but heavier. The same feeling that I haven't had since the early days of nursing DS1. So I was curious and squeezed my nipple and liquid came out! It looked more like colostrum than milk. Was weird because I was totally unaware in my first pregnancy of this at all.

@TemperanceBrennan: i remember reading in some pregnancy books that you can start leaking colostrum in your third tri! so weird, i know.

i am 30 weeks today! 10 weeks to go! suddenly i feel like there is no time left to get everything done!!!

how is everyone feeling this week? I had a good appt with my midwife today. starting talking about different options for labour and what i can expect. she said if no complications, the latest she recommends letting me go before induction is 41 weeks and 3 days. I also need to start taking iron pills. My glucose test was good though!