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With my first pregnancy,, my diet was very healthy, and focused on adequate iron, protein, and folate intake. I ended up anemic anyway, and even with iron supplements it didn’t go away. Pregnancy is weird?!? With this pregnancy I’m definitely allowing myself to eat more of what I really crave. Still being relatively healthy but sometimes ramen noodles with added soy sauce is sooooo good. I also have the intense hunger pains that often come across with terrible nausea, so that’s a great combo.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH! We got our maternity pictures back. OH MY GOD THEY TURNED OUT SO GOOD. Very excited, next step is to scrape all these previews onto my hard drive while Erin sifts through them to choose only fifty, I have no idea how someone could only choose fifty because all of these shots are good.
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Dec 7, 2020 22:34
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KirbyKhan posted:AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH! We got our maternity pictures back. OH MY GOD THEY TURNED OUT SO GOOD. Wow that colour really pops. She looks amazing and by logical extension, your baby is destined to be beautiful too. Congratulations!
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Dec 7, 2020 23:05
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remigious posted:I didn’t just because I don’t think I photograph well, but I’ve seen a few friends go for it and it looks like a super fun and cute experience! Oh man, post apocalypse you should treat yourself to such an experience. Believe me when I say me and my wife don't look good naturally. Period compared to the godesses and chisled marble statues made man delivering our doordashes in Los Angeles. But the photography process of having a make-up person come to you, going to a hair persons speakeasy'd studio, having a photographer capture you and their assistant dropping the floofy cloth from out of frame, having a photo-editor in post, getting into a new dress or cleaning off the ol wedding tuxedo makes everyone look good enough for camera. The secret is: throughout this whole process these team members will tell you that you are pretty. All of the self doubting voices in your head get hushed to a mere whisper when the first new human being you see after emerging from your bunker tells you that you look hot. It is rejuvenating. Luckily we live in los angeles where this wild talent and vanity infrastructure is readily available, but I believe everyone should get to feel this about themselves sometimes. Note: sorry about the odd image formating. Can't have these previews on imgur, and the attache file function is hella limited. Edit: gently caress it, here's an unlisted imgur KirbyKhan fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Dec 8, 2020 |
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Dec 8, 2020 01:08
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Dec 8, 2020 04:14
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KirbyKhan posted:Note: sorry about the odd image formating. Can't have these previews on imgur, and the attache file function is hella limited. 
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Dec 8, 2020 04:16
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KirbyKhan posted:Oh man, post apocalypse you should treat yourself to such an experience. Believe me when I say me and my wife don't look good naturally. Period compared to the godesses and chisled marble statues made man delivering our doordashes in Los Angeles. But the photography process of having a make-up person come to you, going to a hair persons speakeasy'd studio, having a photographer capture you and their assistant dropping the floofy cloth from out of frame, having a photo-editor in post, getting into a new dress or cleaning off the ol wedding tuxedo makes everyone look good enough for camera. The secret is: throughout this whole process these team members will tell you that you are pretty. All of the self doubting voices in your head get hushed to a mere whisper when the first new human being you see after emerging from your bunker tells you that you look hot. It is rejuvenating. Luckily we live in los angeles where this wild talent and vanity infrastructure is readily available, but I believe everyone should get to feel this about themselves sometimes. My dude, those photos are unworldly, but also the photography staff weren't just saying that: you and your wife are objectively attractive. You're going to have a beautiful child together!
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Dec 8, 2020 05:16
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Maternity pants chat: I’m of average/slightly skinny build, but above the belly jeans have not worked out for me. The top part of the band was too small by week 20 with #1, and now at week 13 with #2 I can’t stretch the band enough to be comfortable. The belly part of the band and the legs fit, it’s actually getting the band over my hips and belly that I quickly outgrew. I just got a pair of below the belly jeans, and they are AMAZING. Specifically, I got a pair of Isabel inset panel jeans from target, and not only are they extremely comfortable, they are currently on sale!! 10/10, highly recommend, will probably be getting another pair since I love them so much. My pre-pregnancy size fits me perfectly and there’s definitely lots of room to grow. I’m so excited about these pants I thought I’d share.
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So, the wife and I are going to the delivery room rather soon. Does anyone have any experience giving birth under this Covid nightmare? Edit: Not today soon, but in the next month. I want to be clear. Cpt_Obvious fucked around with this message at 04:52 on Dec 10, 2020 |
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Dec 10, 2020 04:39
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Cpt_Obvious posted:So, the wife and I are going to the delivery room rather soon. Does anyone have any experience giving birth under this Covid nightmare? I am due early next month, I’ve been told that I can have one support person with me the entire time, and they aren’t allowed to leave and come back.
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Dec 10, 2020 05:24
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remigious posted:I am due early next month, I’ve been told that I can have one support person with me the entire time, and they aren’t allowed to leave and come back. Same. At this point, I'm just hoping that the maternity ward isn't filled with covid patients because they ran out of room in the hospital. This is so unbelievably frightening I can't describe it. I'm terrified of my baby getting sick at the loving hospital.
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Dec 10, 2020 05:33
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remigious posted:I am due early next month, I’ve been told that I can have one support person with me the entire time, and they aren’t allowed to leave and come back. This was my experience, although I was allowed to leave and come back exactly once per day after the baby was born. Mom got a Covid test first thing, but then I didn’t. Everyone wore masks at all times and some specialists wore half face respirators. Nobody told Mom to put a mask on, with the exception of the oxygen mask she had to wear on occasion. She would occasionally put it on for random staff/specialists but it was pointless to wear it for the midwife and shift nurses spending hours next to her in labor. I tried to put my mask on whenever the staff came in, but during the night when our same shift nurse was in and out every half hour I just gave up. I only had one person ask me to put the mask on specifically because I had forgot. Security was supposed to be taking temperatures at the door, but didn’t seem too strict about it. The hospital seemed kind of deserted to me because COVID has basically banned all visitors and non essential procedures. The labor and delivery floor was pretty busy but I would go down the cafeteria and be the only non-medical person there every single time.
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Dec 10, 2020 06:05
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It was fine. Hospitals actually do contact tracing for all their staff. We felt pretty safe. Wife got covid tested as a requirement the day before we were planning on going to the hospital. Our hospital was on "divert" so there weren't any covid patients in the hospital as they were all going to another nearby hospital Maternity ward is pretty locked down. Although baby stealing isn't something that really happens, there's extra security getting in and out of the maternity ward, so you don't have a bunch of super spreaders wandering around in the hall. Our ward was super chill. Moms aren't allowed out of their rooms except one at a time to minimize covid, so the halls are deserted. We didn't wear masks in our post partum room, but when people came in, we put them on, which was every 20 minutes or so the first two days after. We also had the "only the birthing partner allowed" rule, it was fine. Doctors were saying it's better with just one other person, the mom can focus on her job and it's less of a party atmosphere. You'll be fine. If you're planning on breastfeeding, ask everyone in the room how to breastfeed, everyone has a slightly different technique.
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Dec 10, 2020 06:16
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Hadlock posted:You'll be fine. If you're planning on breastfeeding, ask everyone in the room how to breastfeed, everyone has a slightly different technique. I'll let my wife handle that. Thanks everyone for all the encouraging information. It makes me feel a lot better knowing other people have gone through the same thing. Of course, I've got the easy job...
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Dec 10, 2020 06:36
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Cpt_Obvious posted:I'll let my wife handle that. That's really my only other piece of advice. The/our hospital lactation consultant was a flighty scatterbrained woman who was completely useless, it wasn't until day 3 that one of the maternity nurses finally gave my wife any useful advice. It's up to the wife, obviously, all I'm saying is don't automatically assume the lactation consultant is the best person to give advice, everyone working in that ward is way more knowledgeable than they let on Currently posting with a 5 week old falling asleep on my chest 
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Cpt_Obvious posted:So, the wife and I are going to the delivery room rather soon. Does anyone have any experience giving birth under this Covid nightmare? Yeah we were allowed one support person (me) plus our doula (doulas are kind-of counted as staff, with their own badges). My partner and I didn't wear masks in the labour room, but I put one on whenever I was going around the hospital, and all the staff did. The hospital we were at is a dedicated womens' hospital though, so the only COVID patients they have are people about to give birth, and they have them isolated. Note: this was six weeks ago, before the second wave really hit. I've no idea what hospitals are like now -- probably a bit more locked down. Hadlock posted:That's really my only other piece of advice. Yeah this is good advice. But do talk to the lactation consultant if you can - they're usually good. Also be patient with breastfeeding -- more people have trouble with it than not at first, but it generally will come right as your baby your wife figure it out. Having some formula on hand for the immediate post-partum period can be a lifesaver. quote:Currently posting with a 5 week old falling asleep on my chest Same, but 6 weeks old and waking up hungry.
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Dec 10, 2020 07:15
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I also gave birth six weeks ago (well, almost seven now, whoa) and they gave us surgical masks when we arrived, and we had to wear them anytime we weren’t alone in the room. That included during labor and delivery. I didn’t find it too uncomfortable, obviously I had other things on my mind. I did get the COVID swab too, and wasn’t allowed to leave triage until the results came back.
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Dec 10, 2020 13:22
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My wife is set to be induced on Wednesday, so if I'm not too frazzled I'll try to post an update. We also have two cats, so hopefully they'll let me leave at least daily, but we have her mom ready to cat sit if needed.
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Dec 10, 2020 13:42
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IUG posted:My wife is set to be induced on Wednesday Good luck! We abandoned our cat for 4 days while we went to the hospital, with sufficient food and water, it was fine. We don't like to do that to the cat regularly, but he's seen enough of us the last 9+ months I bet he preferred it, actually If you want to test out your new baby monitor, point it at the food bowl/s and check it from the hospital
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Dec 10, 2020 21:29
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I have the baby cam pointed at the crib, and it's told me about the cats sleeping in there once. Even did the cat's breathing and heart rate, told us when she woke up, lol. It also worked from work well, as it told me when my wife was belting out Freddy Mercury to the cats. "Don't stop me-ow!"
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Dec 11, 2020 01:16
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I'm now 2/2 for making small jaundiced babies. This one was bad enough he got discharged with a biliblanket, but my milk's come in already on night 2, so we should be good. I was scheduled to be induced Sunday night. Woken up at 4:30 on Sat by my toddler, and noticed I was having moderate Cx. Timed a few, they were 5 min apart and closing. Showered, packed, did little chores to give the kiddo a chance to sleep because I didn't want to leave my husband alone with a tired kid for 2+ days. By 6 am it was really bad, so I had to wake them up. Got there by 6:45 or so, got to triage. Literally the only question I could answer through the contractions was "do you want an epidural?" My first labor was ~11 hours from waters breaking to baby, so I was thinking I still had a bit to go since the contractions weren't making me scream and gasp for air yet, and at my appointment on Tuesday I was only 2-3 cm dilated. Turns out I was at 8 cm already lol, waters bulging. But I guess the anesthesiologist had nothing better to do so I still got the epi shortly after they got me to L&D. Baby had decels with every contraction, so they suspected a cord issue. Didn't have to worry long, about 10 minutes after they broke my waters, 3 rounds of pushing and he was out at 08:11. Baby had the cord wrapped around his neck, so that was probably the cause. 10/10, would speed run labor again. The on call midwife was awesome and said she was glad I got the epi because it made sewing up my internal tears much much easier, especially since she was working with a fresh faced new OB and could take her time. Laboring with a surgical mask on top of the oxygen mask was less awesome, but it's understandable because Florida is a coronavirus poo poo show.
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Dec 14, 2020 14:47
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Congrats on fresh baby!!
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Dec 14, 2020 16:24
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Anyone have any good resources about the positives and negatives of inducing late?
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Dec 14, 2020 22:11
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Anyone have any good resources about the positives and negatives of inducing late? Not quite what you’re looking for, but I believe the ARRIVE trial showed that inducing early (39 weeks) actually leads to better outcomes than letting baby go to term. There was a lot of pushback from proponents of reducing birth interventions back when I was pregnant in 2019, I haven’t kept tabs since then.
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in_cahoots posted:Not quite what you’re looking for, but I believe the ARRIVE trial showed that inducing early (39 weeks) actually leads to better outcomes than letting baby go to term. There was a lot of pushback from proponents of reducing birth interventions back when I was pregnant in 2019, I haven’t kept tabs since then. We are coming up at 40.5 weeks right now. Only a little effacement.
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Dec 14, 2020 22:27
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What kind of Christmas gift would be good for someone in their third trimester? I was thinking something that would make her comfortable (she would never buy that for herself) but I don't know what would help.
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Dec 14, 2020 22:48
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Big Dick Cheney posted:What kind of Christmas gift would be good for someone in their third trimester? I was thinking something that would make her comfortable (she would never buy that for herself) but I don't know what would help. I can’t remember exactly what it is called, but a friend sent me a huge c-shaped body pillow and it has been amazing!
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Dec 14, 2020 23:10
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Big Dick Cheney posted:What kind of Christmas gift would be good for someone in their third trimester? I was thinking something that would make her comfortable (she would never buy that for herself) but I don't know what would help. Pregnancy body pillow. Made sleeping possible in third trimester, basically.
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Dec 14, 2020 23:11
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I was gonna say body pillow too. If she has one of the C or U shaped ones, I also liked my little wedge pillow I got to put under my bump so it didn't pull weird on my hips. Also like...fancy thick lotion? If she would like that. My belly itched like crazy in the third trimester and lotion all the time was the only relief. Maybe some sort of no caffeine warm beverage for the winter months if they are usually a coffee person?
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ExtrudeAlongCurve posted:Pregnancy body pillow. Made sleeping possible in third trimester, basically. Wife lives and dies by her pregnancy body pillow RN.
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ExtrudeAlongCurve posted:Pregnancy body pillow. Made sleeping possible in third trimester, basically. If she has one already, offer to wash the cover. It is probably gross by now.
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Anyone have any good resources about the positives and negatives of inducing late? No resources, but while at the hospital I was surprised to learn from one of the medical staff that the placenta usually reaches peak effectiveness around week 37, then starts to taper down. I had just assumed the entire system continued to grow and get stronger until birth Edit: yeah we had a pregnancy pillow as well, received high marks in 2nd trimester, very very high marks 3rd. Also had a wedge pillow to keep her knees apart I. I thought they were a phase and she would grow out of them but used them every day until ~1 week postpartum Hadlock fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Dec 15, 2020 |
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Big Dick Cheney posted:What kind of Christmas gift would be good for someone in their third trimester? I was thinking something that would make her comfortable (she would never buy that for herself) but I don't know what would help. While I also very much agree with the body pillow idea, I had some other suggestions in case she already had one. In the before times, I would have said "prenatal massage" gift certificate, but that'll definitely depend on safety/comfort levels. Barring that, foot massage lotion/oils for you to use on her, (check that it's pregnancy safe!) cozy socks and/or memory foam slippers, fancy jammies (button up tops are nice if nursing), a nice new robe-- you can't have too many once it's nursing time. Yoga balls are nice too.
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McDougirl posted:While I also very much agree with the body pillow idea, I had some other suggestions in case she already had one. In the before times, I would have said "prenatal massage" gift certificate, but that'll definitely depend on safety/comfort levels. Barring that, foot massage lotion/oils for you to use on her, (check that it's pregnancy safe!) cozy socks and/or memory foam slippers, fancy jammies (button up tops are nice if nursing), a nice new robe-- you can't have too many once it's nursing time. Yoga balls are nice too. Yes definitely seconding the comfy pjs, I lived in them for the first couple of weeks. Really lovely to have something comfy that also looks nice when you’re sore and tired.
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My wife is being induced tonight. Guess my daughter is going to keep my tradition of being born in a blizzard!
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Anyone have any good resources about the positives and negatives of inducing late? https://evidencebasedbirth.com/evidence-on-inducing-labor-for-going-past-your-due-date/ We ended up going to 42 weeks 3 days. My partner really wanted a home birth, and the heartrate monitoring suggested the placenta was still working well. Eventually she caved and went into the hospital for oxytocin. Again, everything was pretty healthy and normal - good heartrate, no meconium in the amniotic fluid - and we had a vaginal birth. But I got the impression from both the nurses, midwife and OB that this was pretty unusual for a baby that late. From what I can tell, there are possible cognitive benefits to the kid staying inside, but only up to 41 weeks. The risks also start to go up after that time. At the hospital we were at, they're pretty good about respecting patient choice, but their policy is to very strongly recommend induction if you hit 42 weeks.
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Big Dick Cheney posted:What kind of Christmas gift would be good for someone in their third trimester? I was thinking something that would make her comfortable (she would never buy that for herself) but I don't know what would help. I just got a weighted blanket and I really wish I had had one while I was pregnant. It helps me fall asleep. Definitely agree with the body pillow idea too.
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Big Dick Cheney posted:What kind of Christmas gift would be good for someone in their third trimester? I was thinking something that would make her comfortable (she would never buy that for herself) but I don't know what would help. If she’s planning on nursing, I’d recommend a nice set of nursing-friendly pajamas or tops (Kindred Bravely has some really nice stuff, and Smallshow are pretty solid). I kept buying the cheapest possible stuff that would kind of fit postpartum and it didn’t make me feel good.
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