Ughhh. That’s what I’m worried about cuz my hair is still falling out a ton. What other symptoms?
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It swings around for me so I get racing heart, can’t sleep, anxiety, weight loss, dizziness/fainting, hungry all the time and then on the other extreme can’t even get off the couch fatigue, weight gain, don’t want to eat, etc
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Yes.
No solution. New fear that if you have it still I’m nowhere near done
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I’ve been following along randomly here and there so for those who don’t know me I’m Gardeningandgreen! I have a 2 year old and once we finish our house we are hoping to try for another!
I had to jump in though because I also had horrible heartburn for most of my pregnancy @Economista. The only thing that finally helped was taking nexium. It was not 100% better but it definitely helped!
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You know how your breath gets deeper as you relax and start to fall asleep? As of today my deeper breaths are meeting resistance in my stomach – there’s no room – which cuts off the breath and sends my lizard brain into a small panic. Eep. Woke up at 4 for extra snack and now can’t relax enough to sleep again and sad about it.
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Can you try standing up and adjusting your stance to allow more room in your lungs?
(This is also a reminder to me to start practicing now and not later when it happens…)
That helps - even more so when leaning over a bit, like hunched over my dresser - but is incompatible with sleeping. I did that for a moment and just had some ginger ale, and made a pillow fortress. Let’s see if sleep happens again. I think I’ll distract myself with that Helen Hoang book you mentioned @LadyDuck.
Also laughing at how reading “the baby crowds your lungs and makes it harder to breathe” in standard pregnancy books was interpreted by my naive brain as charming, but “wake yourself up in the middle of the night feeling suffocated” is decidedly not.
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They sometimes stick a limb up there too. Duckling did this while I was driving (just one side, which was weird but I could still breathe). Little weirdos 
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So…how crazy would I be to put an offer on a condo at 33-34 weeks pregnant (during a pandemic, that is totally livable in the short-term but we’d want to renovate over the next year with a newborn)?
We’ve been keeping an eye on the market for a couple years and were planning to look a little more seriously in the spring. But of course something came up that might be too good of a deal to pass up so we’re talking with our realtor about putting in an offer in a couple days. If we could get it at list price then it’d be 95% of the things we want in a condo at a price we didn’t think was possible.
But ya know…I could technically go into labor at any time, and there’s a pandemic going on which makes moving/renovating harder. Best case scenario with a 30 day close we’re looking at getting keys around 38 weeks. 
Paging @Bracken_Joy and @Ckni27
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That’s a tough one! I’d probably do it but hold off on renovations for a year? Adjusting to newborn life is hard and you don’t want to make it harder. Also I would plan on not doing any of the moving whatsoever. I was induced with Bobbin at 37 weeks and for about 2 weeks before that became our plan I was not supposed to be on my feet much. It’s hard to predict how things will change in the last weeks of pregnancy so it could really go any direction
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I’d rather move pregnant or with an under 3 month old
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Buy and move? Yes I would renovate? No I would not.
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Oh yeah, we’ve been renovating too. Complete shit with a semi mobile infant. Don’t do it
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Yup. Also find someone very good to pay to move your stuff for you. We are hoping to renovate next year with a newborn/infant BUT that is because I plan on going on “holiday” to my parents country house for the duration of stuff happening in my house. We may decide against this and put it off another year because I bet it’s harder than I’m imagining.
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Yes. Moving BEFORE the infant is mobile is a wise, wise choice. That I did not do. Life = hard mode.
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As someone who has both had a newborn and renovated. I would move but I’m not sure I would start renovations until I knew what kind of baby I had. With my crazy mobile baby(crawling at 5 months walking at 9) renovations when she was really little would have been super hard. We are now building a hluse with a 2 year old which is a bit of insanity but doable.
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How much financial, time, & logistical flexibility do you have? The fact that you are considering this at all makes me think you have a good sense of a humor and a decent tolerance for chaos - so it might be doable.
My mom moved across an ocean with a 5yo (me) and 7 months pregnant so my sense of normal is probably whack. My dad was already in the US house-hunting and working so she did all the packing up. Now we’re considering a major reno with a young infant early next year. BUT to ease the panic/chaos/stress we have nearby family we could stay for weeks/months, and have set aside money for for rentals/movers/etc if need be.
If you are really excited about this home, and have at least one dimension of time/logistical/money flexibility, I think you could pull off the purchase and move. You can use that flexibility to arrange things like 2 weeks+ overlap between move-out and move-in date. That would lock in the condo, and then you can take your time planning the reno and seeing how your particular baby responds.
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Another consideration for us is not wanting a newborn living through a renovation and inhaling any renovation dust (which will have lead because this is an old house) or paint/lacquer fumes.
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Thanks all!
I’m usually up for anything and have moved so often that it doesn’t phase me that much. But, I know I can’t do as much to help pack if we moved now, and my spouse doesn’t think moving is as fun as I do. 
The main thing giving me pause is being able to do it safely during a pandemic since our city is still a hotspot. The other thing I would stress about is what if I went into labor earlier than expected at 36 or 37 weeks? I can’t imagine trying to close on a house (I hear the paperwork is a nightmare) and coordinate a move while learning how to care for an infant and being sleep deprived.
If we got the place at a really good price then we could conceivably float the mortgage and our current rental for 1-2 months and get some of quick/easy renovations done before moving in, like new flooring, painting and maybe upgrading the windows. That would mean moving at 1-2 months post birth. Better or worse than right before birth?
The rooms that need more work are the kitchen and two full baths but we could probably do one bath at a time after moving in. All of those rooms are fully functional, just old/ugly and with a strange layouts that could be so much better with a few small tweaks so we could put it off for quite a while.
Luckily my family is in the home remodeling business so I have access to materials/labor without any markup. Ideally we’d do some of it ourselves with the help of family but I wouldn’t be comfortable with that until the pandemic is more under control because my family is all still working and seeing a lot more people than we are.
It’s a really hot market so this could be moot. At the right price this would be an amazing opportunity but we’re not emotionally attached so it really depends on what others are willing to offer. After talking with our realtor today, we might put in something that’s a little lower than listing and if it works out then we’d figure out a way to coordinate the rest.
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This is definitely something I’d want to look into during the inspection, but it was built in 1994 so I’m pretty sure that means no lead paint/pipes in our state.
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