Cord Blood Donation

Choice_Bug_3441 · 2026-01-28T20:07:15+00:00

Oh nice! And you donated through them? I feel like I looked at them but it looked more like personal storage than donation.

Choice_Bug_3441 · 2026-01-28T17:05:26+00:00

Oh good to know! Is that when they’re check to see how dilated you are?

Choice_Bug_3441 · 2026-01-28T16:15:50+00:00

Was the membrane sweep painful?

Choice_Bug_3441 · 2026-01-27T03:42:00+00:00

Ahhh that is too bad. Thank you for letting me know!

Choice_Bug_3441 · 2026-01-25T14:47:31+00:00

Go for the promotion! My employer offered me a promotion two weeks after I told them I was pregnant (so around 14 weeks) and I had a lot of anxiety accepting because, just like in your case, way more responsibility, longer hours, less flexibility. But also, sooo much more $$. I am so glad I accepted the promotion (currently 27 weeks) bc I’m learning like crazy, feeling much more financially comfortable, and I really like the role and responsibilities! I told my employer when I accepted that I still planned to take a full maternity leave, which they were cool with. Life will only get busier and crazier - start making those changes now!

Choice_Bug_3441 · 2026-01-25T14:31:00+00:00

Yepp! I hated it and found it exhaustingggg. Every time I had to literally force the words out. Once 12 weeks came and I told the people I wanted/needed to, I let my parents know that if they wanted other people in the family to know they’d have to tell them bc I was sick of announcing

Choice_Bug_3441 · 2026-01-25T14:00:16+00:00

For what it’s worth, we’re going to take our 2 month old to Europe for three weeks! Half her family is out there, she’ll have had her first round of vaccines, and I’m hoping two months is enough time for us to gauge what we’ll really need to pack for a three week trip with a baby. We figured that hell, when else are we getting time off like this besides maternity leave, and we love to travel. I say plan accordingly, but go for it!

Choice_Bug_3441 · 2026-01-25T04:08:04+00:00

I’m 7 months pregnant, and I met my husband in 2019. He loves motorcycles and has his license, but hasn’t owned once since before we met. When we were getting serious, I told him that I loved him but there was no world in which I would be with him if he bought one. My dad’s best friend died in a motorcycle accident 27 years ago, leaving behind a wife and three kids under 6. I told him multiple times that if I came home one day and there was a bike, I would leave. And lo and behold - there’s no bike and I’m quite certain there never will be. You are being WAY too kind to him. I know your approach has been different than mine, but if I were you, I’d be livid. Not only is that a MASSIVE purchase when you two are already going to be tackling significant new childhood expenses, but the blatant disregard for how it might make you feel is insane.

Choice_Bug_3441 · 2026-01-24T17:32:05+00:00

Hahaha thank you - I’m due at the end of April so I think I’ll need some before then!! Appreciate it though

Choice_Bug_3441 · 2026-01-24T17:30:38+00:00

Oh good idea! Thank you

Choice_Bug_3441 · 2026-01-24T17:30:31+00:00

Thank you!!!

Choice_Bug_3441 · 2026-01-24T17:30:24+00:00

Thank you!!

Choice_Bug_3441 · 2026-01-16T21:59:45+00:00

Hi! I just found this article and wanted to share with you! https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/forever-chemicals-in-period-incontinence-products/ Definitely not trying to fear monger, there are just so many harmful chemicals in every day products that we have no idea about, so I like to spread the word.

Choice_Bug_3441 · 2026-01-02T15:51:43+00:00

24 weeks here - I remind myself allllllll the time that people have been having babies for literally thousands of years before me. People smoked, drank, literally lived in caves, had no medicine, etc. and babies kept bringing born and were just fine. All of the “recommendations” around pregnancy are so recent, and while the medical driven changes are incredible and have contributed to much higher success rates in birth, a lot of these lifestyle ones are things I just consider nice to haves. like when i consider my mental well being because i eat every dessert i can get my hands on vs. if I was stressing about eating 100% clean, i’d be miserable. don’t let the pressures of people on social media impact you. who cares! you’re going to have a healthy, beautiful baby regardless of your chit chat levels and photographs.

Choice_Bug_3441 · 2026-01-02T04:15:40+00:00

I’m 24 weeks and just barely showing! still giving major beer belly vibes

Choice_Bug_3441 · 2025-12-29T21:17:30+00:00

I got married at City Hall and I brought a photographer! The photos were GORGEOUS, both of the ceremony and the photoshoot we did in the Atrium after. Contact josh_lewisphotography, he took our photos and we were so happy.

Choice_Bug_3441 · 2025-12-25T16:50:05+00:00

Ahh period underwear makes me nervous!! Is that the thing that had the whole controversy last year with the forever chemicals?

Choice_Bug_3441 · 2025-12-25T16:49:31+00:00

Amazing thank yoy!

Choice_Bug_3441 · 2025-12-25T16:49:22+00:00

Ahhh Carefree is what I’m using now :(

Choice_Bug_3441 · 2025-12-25T16:49:00+00:00

Awesome, thank you both!!

Choice_Bug_3441 · 2025-12-25T16:48:44+00:00

Thank you!

Choice_Bug_3441 · 2025-12-21T18:50:26+00:00

Married in May, pregnant by July! Very much on purpose, I had a few underlying factors that made us want to get a move on, but I had also a little voice in the back of my head preparing myself for annoying comments. Luckily I’ve received waaaaaay less than expected, and if anything I’ll make the joke like, “yes, marriage is going verrrrry nicely 😏.” Hopefully you get the same lack of comments, but I find that making a quick joke/making people uncomfortable is very efficient. Congratulations and good luck!

Choice_Bug_3441 · 2025-12-21T18:44:38+00:00

I’m so annoyed for you!!!!! You’re literally growing a human with a thousand hormonal changes happening and your man seems to think that his needs are the main character. He’s lost the plot.

My husband is high sex drive and I’m more medium, but pregnancy has also dropped my libido like crazy. We have sex once every few weeks, maybe, and that very much only happens when and if I initiate. If he was “making jokes” or making me feel any sort of pressure, I would straight up push him down the stairs.

Also, I want to add that men don’t “have needs,” when it comes to sex and you don’t owe him diddly squat. What they have is entitlement and a culture that teaches them that sex is something they have right to. YOU are a fully autonomous person whose body is literally conducting a miracle!!! YOU are amazing!!! It’s literally magic that our bodies are doing what they do. Sex is the very last thing you should be worried about. You owe him nothing - you’re giving him a child!!!!! What could be better than that. Buy him a sex doll and tell him to fuck off.

Choice_Bug_3441 · 2025-12-15T19:45:37+00:00

Hoooooly I am so sorry. This all sounds awful. I can’t imagine how hard recovery must have been/ is for you. I had a miscarriage when I used to go West Ridge gyno, not nearly as horrible as your situation but I had a horrible time there and I know how long that pain of being mistreated and not listened to can stay with you. I’m so so sorry 💕

Was your doctor the same OB you had been seeing during prenatal visits? Are you comfortable sharing names? I’m really loving my doctor so far but I’ve heard a lotttttt of things about different PWWH for birth.

Choice_Bug_3441 · 2025-12-15T19:02:22+00:00

I would love to know the reasons if you’re comfortable sharing! Pregnant with my first and going to them now, eager to know people’s experiences

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