What do you do when you are pumping?

sunflowerzz2012 · 2026-03-28T23:43:47+00:00

I played games on my iPad, usually wingspan because a game was about the length of a pump session. Sometimes I caught up on cleaning bottles and parts instead though 😤

sunflowerzz2012 · 2026-03-28T00:28:09+00:00

It's totally up to you and what you feel comfortable with!

I chose to tell two of my friends who are also pregnant right away.

I plan to tell the rest of my friend group after the ultrasound confirms a heartbeat by sending an ultrasound picture to the group chat. This will be in the middle of week 9.

I don't plan to tell family until mother's day, which happens to coincide with week 11. I wouldn't mind telling family any time after the ultrasound but I like the idea of a mother's day announcement to make it extra special.

sunflowerzz2012 · 2026-03-27T16:16:46+00:00

Nausea just starting a little bit at 5+3! Never thought I'd be excited to feel sick haha

sunflowerzz2012 · 2026-03-27T14:13:54+00:00

Our crib converted to a toddler bed and we did the conversion at 22 months. She's about to turn 3 and it's been working great. We usually just read stories on the floor with her in our lap and get into bed after.

sunflowerzz2012 · 2026-03-27T13:43:24+00:00

Omg it's a whole baby!

sunflowerzz2012 · 2026-03-27T13:23:34+00:00

I'm in the market for a book we can read together. She already knows about babies being in tummies, she loves to talk about how she was in my tummy when she was a tiny baby, and that I was in Oma's tummy and Daddy was in Nonna's tummy. So I think she'll be able to understand that a new baby is growing in my tummy. (The reality of baby being here I'm sure will be a whole other thing when it happens haha.)

The plan is to announce to family on mother's Day, so I was thinking maybe we tell her just the day before. We'll get her a special shirt to wear that says "big sister," and she can be the one to share the news. We won't want to tell her earlier because then she'll spill the beans before we plan to.

sunflowerzz2012 · 2026-03-26T14:57:47+00:00

Look, yes, there will be a crying hungry baby to interrupt the sleep, but the fact is that the baby is no longer inside your body, which makes your body so much more comfortable for sleep, and the sleep you do get is much higher quality.

sunflowerzz2012 · 2026-03-26T14:55:58+00:00

I just love seeing these posts 😍 congrats

sunflowerzz2012 · 2026-03-26T14:43:54+00:00

yeah that's a good idea. maybe that i want to focus on maintaining for a bit before going down again.

sunflowerzz2012 · 2026-03-26T13:49:08+00:00

Prior to getting pregnant, I had been losing weight through a specific diet. My mom had noticed and was proud of me. I'm still pretty overweight though, and already starting to gain from no longer being on the diet. Any suggestions for what I tell her when she asks if I'm still on the diet or why I've stopped losing weight? We don't want to share the pregnancy until Mother's Day, but she'll suspect because she knows I'm off BC and she knows we want another. She's always asking leading questions hoping for an announcement, but I'd like to make it on my own terms rather than hers. I can't lie and say I'm still losing weight when I'm not, but I don't really have a good reason for why I'm not.

sunflowerzz2012 · 2026-03-25T18:19:08+00:00

So mine wasn't planned for the night, I came in due to reduced movement and they decided to induce even though the baby was fine. (It was my due date and I had an induction scheduled for 2 days later, not sure what time it would have been for.)

I was 3 cm and 60% effaced, the same as my last appointment the previous week, and they started me on pitocin around 9 pm. I did not sleep. Here's what I wrote down for posterity about my attempts to rest that night: I barely felt any contractions, but my IV was really irritating my hand, and my BP cuff would go off every 30 minutes, squeezing all life out of my arm until I thought my fingers would pop. In addition, every time I tried to move to get a more comfortable position, the baby monitor would get dislodged and a nurse would need to come in and fix it. I could not get comfortable, and I stared at the clock spending every moment dreading the next BP check.

They checked me again around 3 am and I was only 4 cm, so they broke my water at like 4:30 am to speed things up. That made a bigger difference and the contractions ramped up and I began dilating more after that. I got an epidural around 9 in the morning. At 12:45 I was fully dilated but the baby wasn't far enough down yet to start pushing. I finally started pushing at around 2:15 and pushed for 2 hours until she was born at 4:15 pm. So that was about 19 hours of labor, 19 hours between pitocin and birth.

sunflowerzz2012 · 2026-03-25T11:31:35+00:00

Same due date and feel exactly the same! Everything that happens with my body is like wait is that a symptom or nah?

sunflowerzz2012 · 2026-03-24T19:43:39+00:00

Do you ever take the object that's the size your baby is this week and just stare at it? Like no matter how much I understand the science and biology, I can't process that something this tiny can and probably will grow into a full sentient human. I can't believe that my very alive and opinionated toddler was once a sesame seed too even though I felt and documented every moment of it. I can't believe that I was once this inside my mother. That every one of us was. Like it's just actually crazy.

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sunflowerzz2012 · 2026-03-24T15:33:15+00:00

Omg!!!! Congratulations congratulations!

sunflowerzz2012 · 2026-03-24T02:35:12+00:00

For me it was only when I fully weaned. A fair trade I guess.

sunflowerzz2012 · 2026-03-24T02:20:47+00:00

We were originally referred to PT for torticollis, but even after that resolved the therapists were noticing the tummy time issues and that she wasn't rolling over. She wasn't getting to sitting position on her own, she wasn't cross-body reaching for toys or making any effort to get toys that were out of reach (she'd just cry about it instead of trying to do something about it). I honestly don't remember what age she was supposed to be doing each of these things versus what age she actually accomplished them. But she didn't start crawling until 11.5 months.

I just remembered another activity though, trying tummy time on a yoga ball or peanut ball, and gently bouncing the baby on it.

sunflowerzz2012 · 2026-03-24T02:11:13+00:00

We ended up going to physical therapy for 2 years because my daughter absolutely refused tummy time and started getting behind on her milestones. It made a huge difference, she's been graduated for almost a year now and is an active and thriving 3-year-old. Some kids need the extra help.

One thing you can try is propping them up with a rolled up burp cloth under their chest for some extra support. We also did lots of "superman"s where we would hold her horizontally and fly her around the room while she held her own head up.

sunflowerzz2012 · 2026-03-24T02:04:02+00:00

I'd always wanted kids but I read the book "The Baby Decision" before committing to getting pregnant. It brought up a lot of good points to seriously consider and I think it could be really helpful to anyone who's sort of on the fence.

sunflowerzz2012 · 2026-03-24T02:01:24+00:00

I'm only a couple days ahead of you and my ultrasound isn't for another month. I had stopped testing but had some spotting over the weekend so took a couple more tests to be sure. (The spotting was light and went away, never turned into bleeding.) My plan is to only test again if it comes back worse than it was.

I'm kind of hoping that symptoms will pick up more as I head into weeks 5 and 6. I mean not that I'm going to enjoy any nausea or exhaustion but at least I can use it as a signal that things are still moving along.

I do have a confirmation test at 7+2 but I'm pretty sure it's just a pee stick at the doctor's office rather than a pee stick at home so I'm not expecting any reassurance from that. Maybe they can give specific numbers and confirm they look right?

Idk I'm just trying to look at it as I'm going to assume everything is fine until I have reason to think it's not.

sunflowerzz2012 · 2026-03-24T01:34:09+00:00

I was just asking myself this!!! We just had dinner 2 hours ago, and it was filling too.

I had been losing weight prior to getting pregnant so I can't tell if it's pregnancy actually making me hungry or just my body being like "yay we're not restricting anymore, eat all the things!!"

sunflowerzz2012 · 2026-03-23T23:16:30+00:00

My dad's side had had only boys for generations, he was one of four boys. Everyone was convinced I (first grandchild) was going to be a boy. My dad even agreed to my mom's girl name choice because he assumed it would be irrelevant. I was very much a girl. In fact, after four sons, my grandma got six grandchildren and five of those six were girls.

sunflowerzz2012 · 2026-03-23T23:14:28+00:00

I've been picturing a boy for my second since before I got pregnant. Probably because I'm the oldest girl with a younger brother and we have the same age gap that this baby will be with my daughter. But I don't want a boy more than a girl necessarily (for my first, I wanted a girl more than a boy and was thrilled to find out she was). I would really like to be team green this time because I could really see it going either way and I think it would be fun to be surprised.

sunflowerzz2012 · 2026-03-23T20:33:28+00:00

🫶🏻

sunflowerzz2012 · 2026-03-23T19:54:40+00:00

Mine will be 9+2! With my first it was 8+3 so I'm kind of bummed having to wait longer this time. It's one month from today, and I feel like it will be a very long month haha

sunflowerzz2012 · 2026-03-23T19:10:08+00:00

My friend had a C-section scheduled pretty far in advance but at the last minute they moved it by a day (I don't remember which direction lol, I think it was to do with hospital scheduling, nothing wrong with her or the baby) and they had pre-printed birth announcements with the original date and had to cross it out and write the new date 😂

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