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@momtimes3: keeping you in my prayers!

@erinbaderin: I have told DH he is on pick up duty (and drop off) for the first two weeks. After that I am going to try to do it most days...and ya I am terrified of having both of them alone while DD2 is SO little!

@Alivoo01: Thats likely the first day I can elect to be induced... (39w on 3/4...dont do elective inductions on weekends) so maybe we'll be date twins!

So...are you guys all installing the infant seat on the passenger side? I guess thats what I do right? Otherwise - behind me - I wouldnt be able to see her? I wonder if K will react to switching sides of the car...

@Alivoo01: That's only 3 weeks away! How are you feeling going from 5 weeks to 3 just like that?

@Mrs D: That's our plan, yeah - I'm pretty tall and I don't think that I can fit my knees under the steering wheel with the infant seat beside me plus harder to see the baby. It should be interesting - when Bennett gets upset in the car I can always soothe him by reaching back and holding his hand (if I'm driving. If I'm not driving he wants me in the backseat with him), which I don't think I'll be able to do when he's right behind me? The other day we were driving home from daycare and he was yelling "Mommy sit backseat hold my hand!" and I told him that pretty soon his little brother would be sitting in the backseat with him and he said "Baby brother hold my hand?" and it totally scrunched my heart.

@Loscato: Great name!

@Mrs D: Ok good to know, I'm excited to drive the town and country tomorrow and see how it goes!

I'm so nervous about having both little ones too, but as a SAHM we have no daycare for DS, so hubby is taking 2 weeks off and then it's ust me! AHHH Luckily my mom's a teacher and her spring break is coming up end of March so I will have help again then. And then I have to wait until May when my in-laws fly in from Scotland for three weeks.

I keep hearing two things, the first six months with two kiddos is crazy hard but that is really does go faster with two and it's not as bad a transition as 0 to 1. Hoping they are right!

For car seats, DS will move to behind driver, and DS2 will go behind passenger seat and we'll try to get a mirror for both sides so we can see both boys.

So this is going to be TMI but is anyone else having an increase in discharge these days??? I had some mucus discharge earlier this week but not much. Now I just feel like discharge in general has increased... This is normal, right? I feel like I should know since this is #3 for me.

@Navy_Mommy: Ugh... It just feels gross. Lol. Last night I had a dream that my water broke and then woke up to use the bathroom and had all the gross discharge. I'm ready to get this show on the road!

@Navy_Mommy: Yeah, I never lost it at all with my other two... With my DS my water broke at 36 wks and with DD I only had some discharge after my midwife stripped my membranes and then I went into labor. This is more like a steady discharge. Gotta love how glamorous late pregnancy is.

Car seat is installed! Clothes are put away! Just need to pull the mamaroo out and grab the last few homebirth things.

@mrsrain: that's how I feel, too. Oh, I'm ready? I'll probably go past 42 weeks. Yuck

@mrsrain: yeah, I'll be 38 weeks Tuesday!

Already taking EPO orally, Tuesday I'll start inserting it vaginally. I drink red raspberry leaf tea (with a few other uterus-toning herbs) two to three times a day. I've got a birth pool in my closet. Tuesday we'll make the bed for labor (my snuggly sheets on first, then a shower liner, then sheets I don't mind ruining) so if I deliver in bed we just pull off the top set and I can get to snuggling baby. I filled out the birth certificate paperwork. Now I just wait. Impatiently. To go into labor. Because pretty much any time now would be considered "normal."

I had a rough day Friday. Yesterday I had a really good day! I'm just happy I still have good days, haha.

@Navy_Mommy: is that a Great Dane I see?!? Butt bombing the picture?

I have been having lots of unpleasant feelings and general yuckiness lately! Lots of BH, some long periods of cramping (not rhythmic like I think contractions are)..and baby girls movements are killing me...when she rolls or whatever it almost makes me want to puke...

Hoping it's just from being home three days this weekend chasing a toddler!

@Mrs D: his face is cuter than his butt

@Navy_Mommy: OMG so handsome!!!!!

@Mrs D: aaaaand, just for fun, this is my Gabby girl. I've had her since college. She's an American bulldog. Love my cow-dogs.

Friday I was having a shitty day and my husband surprised me with a cow print blanket. The baby's car seat is cow print. But we refer to it all as Gabby-print.

I have a black pug she thinks she is 100 pds lol and im guessin ill be first to give birth in our group since i will never see march and have a date and time set? Im def gettin nervous closer it gets

@Momtimes3: remind me what the date is? We'll have to set up a March labor watch thread soon!

I feel like I've had one long BH contraction all day. Hard, tight belly with almost no relief. Anyone else have this?

Edited to correct who question was for!

Pugs are awesome lol i love their smushed faces ive been crampy a lot which sucks but since i measure like 7 weeks ahead im not surprised lol

@momtimes3: oh no! I'm sorry, but I totally understand.

Ugh. I'm a little frustrated today. My weight is up quite a bit in spite of not changing my eating habits. I've been doing very well managing my weight-gain this time around, so that makes me nervous. With Maddie I gained a lot in the third tri and had a lot of swelling and some other symptoms that had them watching me for pre-e.
Eek! I don't want to go through that again!

@mrsrain: I think that it fluctuates depending on the week, on the baby, etc - if you've been doing fine the whole time and it's just this past week that's been bad I'd try not to worry about it, at least wait and see what happens next week! I'm expecting mine to be up a fair amount at my appointment tomorrow too but that's because I ate basically a full pan of rice krispie squares this weekend...

@Mrs D: It's bad news when you're thinking "Oh, workday, that should be relaxing!" But I know what you mean. By yesterday afternoon I was basically letting my husband handle all the toddler wrangling and just sitting on the couch. I think the three trips running up and down 3 flights of stairs with him on my back were a mistake...

Where are you planning a trip to? We made a vow coming home from our last vacation - no flights in 2016 - but I'm starting to feel trip-antsy so I'm not sure we'll actually be able to keep it. Nothing planned yet, though.

It was so nice to have a long weekend! We didn't get everything done that I wanted - it was -40 with the windchill so we decided that loading up the car and going to the dump was probably a mistake - but we did get the nursery finished, so I feel good about that, and otherwise we just had a lovely family weekend where we did nothing except play.

@mrsrain: Oh....totally all belly and you have totally dropped!!! And yes on the clearing out...it was great trying to explain to a 2.5 yo why mommy had to run to the bathroom! Then she stood in there with me asking 4500 why questions...she's lucky she is cute!!!

@erinbaderin: Right - its sad when work is relaxing!!! Not 100% sure on trips yet. I told DH I want to road trip a bit more this summer bc of how amazing wee ones do in the car. I was thinking maybe the east coast (a lot of our friends are in NYC/Boston) or maybe Gatlinberg, TN. I think I will also take 2 weeks in northern Michigan...1 week at my cottage and another week in the UP...

I think our first flight will be Thanksgiving...we'll likely head to Florida. DD2 will be about 8-9 mos...so should still be an easy-ish flying age....

@creativemomma15: um.... I've been wearing panty liners for a lil while now due to discharge and a little bit of incontinence, which is really weird. If my bladder has any liquid in it, and I sneeze without squeezing my legs together, yea... not cool.

I had a dream the other day I saw my mucous plug too, but it was super long like the umbilical cord. So weird!!!

@Navy_Mommy: I picked out DD's going home outfit yesterday as I was putting away her clothes. Going to discuss the car seat thing with DH tonight. Debating if we should move DS's car seat to its new location soon so he can get used to it or wait until we install DD's base next week or so.

And good thinking on layering your bed so stripping it down will be easy breezy and you'll have your snuggly sheets ready to go!

Love your announcement canvases btw!!

@mrsrain: woohoo for being almost done!! So exciting and nerve wracking at the same time!!

As for the weight gain, maybe it's all baby??? It is home stretch and don't they gain like 0.5lbs or something a week? And the weight looks to be definitely all in your belly!! So cute!!!

@Mrs D: Yay for feeling better and new cute clothes for DD#2!! Our first trip is probably going to be over July 4th weekend so she'll be about 4 months old. That's about how old DS was when he took his 1st trip. Should be interesting to see how traveling with 2 kiddos will be like!

@erinbaderin: -40?! No thank you!!! lol. Our weather has been fluctuating like crazy. The high's will be in the upper 50's one day and by the end of the week it's mid 70's, then it'll crash back down to the 50's the following Monday. Rinse and repeat.