Ten weeks: An introduction.
Hrhodes78
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Hi I'm Holly. I've mostly lurked around this board laughing, admiring, feeling confirmation as I read about similar things I am experiencing. I look at pictures, tickers and sonograms thinking how cute it is to see everyones excitement of the pending life they are carrying around in their bellies. I realize I am compelled to write something but what? Something cute like how my husband and I met or how awesome it was to see and hear the heartbeat? Nope. I'm going to write about the things that some people might feel embarrassed to talk about. The interesting, sometimes concerning and downright weird things that I have experienced so far in this pregnancy. I will be going to other boards as my weeks increase. So to start off, let me tell you the things that run through my mind.
1. When am I going to get my enormous boobs that are due to me? I've been waiting 33 years for some knockers so lets do this! I'm trying to look a little less Sandra Bullock and more Dolly Parton. Lets get with the program.
2. Cravings? Um no. I'm just trying to keep food down. Thank you. I'll let you know when I'm able to drink water much less enjoy food again.
3. Wine, God I miss you. I know that it hasn't been that long since we've been together but I just want you to know that I adore you and please don't give up on me. I'll come visit soon. Promise.
4. Cant a girl get a good bowl movement?! I mean come on really? I'm eating prunes, drinking water, stool softeners...I really don't want to go the enema route. Don't make me go there.
I've been told by my husband that "I'm lucky" and it could be way worse. But really when he says that I want to throw his laptop into his precious flat screen tv.
Can I get an Amen???
Re: Ten weeks: An introduction.
AMEN
Boobs - I got some now...from someone who just filled her A cup I am now a B WOOT WOOT. BUT they still look small due to my belly - yes I am showing quite a bit already - people say this is because Ia m going to have twins. My theory is that I am so bloated that it looks like I am more pregnant that I already am.
Cravings and food. For me I have been lucky -0 however my supervisor had a pizza in her office one day for lunch and I stopped in to say a few words and had to promptly turn around and leave. I haven't had the upset stomach so i am blessed on that part...
WINE. OH WINE. SIGH. I was sitting in a restaurant and the table next to me had a bottle of wine to share with the four people. The smell of wine was sooooooooooooo nice. I caught myself slowly schooching closer to their table to smell more of it...
Bowel movements. I hear ya sister. Yep only so much fibre a girl can take - I can a small appetite (before I ws prego good luck getting me over 1200 calories a day) and now I am at 1500 a day - so with that small of an appetite, it is SOOOOOOO hard for me to ensure I get enough nutrients and fibre..cause caution - if you take a fibre additive (I do two thank you - one in the morning and one inthe afternoon) you a) can't take your pre-natals within two hours cause fibre supplements can interfere with vitamin and mineral absoprtion, b) I have celiac disease so getting enough fibre is hard enough without being prego, and c) when fibre makes you feel full longer, how can I be sure to get enough healthy calories into me... UGH. And the whole feeling like dancing when I do get a bm is very emabrrassing.
And your husband for telling you, you are lucky...I seriously thnk that there are five things a man should NOT be allowed (by law) to comment on: PMS, Pregnancy, annual exams, mammograms and weight. Just as us women should not be able to comment on: how is feels to be debilitated by a kick or other trauma to the jewels, and prostrate exams. Until we can fully appreciate the expereince by going through it ourselves/themselves.
My husband was the youngest of 8 with a huge age gap - in fact he went to his neice's prenatal classes with her when her husband was working out of town. However this is my first pregnancy...and the first in my family. So I am rather frustrated by his lack of "excitement". He is rather polite though about comments regaring the burping and farting...he generally asks if he requires a scott air pack to sleep that night...
Amen ladies,
I can't be having twins. Not possible but I also can't zip up my fat jeans and my husbands pants are getting tight. My boobs ache and are sore but not that much bigger.... What has increased is my need to wax, pluck and thred my face. Really do I need chin hair to grow a baby? Ok last thing ... I do get my bi-weekly bathroom trip to have a bm, but I just figured it was because I've been too busy peeing and pukeing in there to do anything else... ok, I'm done ranting ... thank you
This was great to read, but I'm having quite a different experience. My boobs, which were already large, and swelling to pornstar porportions, and I'm having to run to the restroom for multiple bm's a day. I think it has something to do with the large amounts of fruit and oj I'm consuming.
My DH and I celebrated our anniversary a few days ago, and I will admit that it was a lovely dinner at a bistro... that had wine everywhere. They even set the table with wine glasses on them. Sigh, looking forward to getting my glass back.
I want to launch his laptop/phone across the room everytime he mentions ways to remedy my morning sickness, and it can't be "that bad." I tell him over and over, it is that bad, I don't want to walk away from my bowl, and next time he's carrying the baby!
Amen! God Bless you for being honest about the wine. It's going to kill me this summer when I can't sit out on my patio with my husband and have a glass... *sigh*
Consitpation is the worst!!! My prenatals have a stool softener and It still doesn't help. I have issues with this anyway but then to throw pregnancy on top of it, yikes!
Good read, great to hear that someone else feels like you do. What a glamerous time.
So worth it, but none the less a little painful in the beginning. 
AMEN!!
My boobs hurt like crazy I somtimes wake up in the middle of the night with stabbing pains in them. ( Im a B so I secretly hope this means they will be BIG and beautiful)As for cravings just yesterday I found myself eating steak fries, sour cream and ketchup. But just now the thought makes me quesy. I can eat 1 thing one day but find the very same thing repulsive the next. Oh how I miss a bubble bath so hot I feel like im going to melt with my ice cold glass of moscato.....As for a good BM, no matter howmuch fiber, frut and prune juice I eat or drink im lucky to have a good BM once a week. As for my hubby, hes been great with some things. But he is a smoker so its a constant battle for him not to smoke around me. That ushally ends in me not so plesently reminding him its not for me its for the heallth of the baby.
Amen ladies!
This is my third pregnancy and it's been far rougher than the past. Last one was 10 years ago and this one is kicking my rear! My boobs are looking great I must say
but they are so heavy and achy. I am either sick most of the day or just spontaneously,out of the blue. I'm not having much trouble with BMs this time around, that whole situation seems ok for now. Love hearing your stories. None of my friends or coworkers are preggo so I don't feel quite so alone
AH- FREAKING- MEN.
I have been so exhausted to the point where I can't even walk up my apartment stairs without needing a break. I am a college student (luckily graduating May 6- woowoo!) and I could barely sit through my classes. I am throwing up and it is loud and obnixious. Even the vents in the bathroom can't cover the sound of my abnormally loud vomiting. Oh and taking a poop? That is non-existent. I took one good solid poop this past Sunday and that was the first in like a week. My boobs? Yeah they hurt like heck. I can see all these veins running through my body to give nutrients to the baby- which is all well and good, but dang do I feel hideous. Cravings? Psh, nope. I can barely keep down food for 20 minutes. Oh- today I had nachos, that was the only thing that helped.
And let's not even get started on wine... I am a WINE-O. All I love doing is sitting outside on my balcony in the summer with my glass of pinot noir and watching the sunset... now, I'm lucky if I can get ginger ale down for 2 minutes.
I say we all treat ourselves to a spa day...it is much needed. I feel HIDEOUS!
Ten weeks with baby number two, and this one is similar, but SO different. Boobs seem bigger (bra tighter) but not really sore, but my belly. Geez. By 7 weeks my pants were already feeling tight, probably from bloating, but because all the muscles are a little, shall we say, "less toned" than last time, my bump seems obvious to me, even if not to everyone else. I feel HUGE already, and heavy.
I'm exhausted, especially in the evenings after work, and craving salty stuff and orange juice. On Wednesday, I couldn't get full! I ate cereal for breakfast, a handful of granola and a packet of trail mix before lunch, followed by stuffed pepper for lunch. In the afternoon, it was crackers and a string cheese before dinner.
Oh, and no one here has mentioned it, but I have metal mouth, this horrible taste in my mouth that comes and goes.
I'm excited about this little bugger in my belly, but I'm curious: if I'm feeling this huge already, what am i going to be like at 8 and 9 months?!
My hubby is a smoker too. I"m very thankful that he only smokes outside, but the poor guy repulses me right now with the smell of it. I"ve actually gagged in his face when he tried to kiss me after he'd had one! I laughed...and told him he'd better quit
I used to be a 'social' smoker who could start and stop at anytime, but now, the smell is just sickning to me. That's a good thing, I"m sure.
Good luck with keeping that smoke out of your way and your babies way! Kick him outside...its best for that baby!!
My hubby is a smoker too. I"m very thankful that he only smokes outside, but the poor guy repulses me right now with the smell of it. I"ve actually gagged in his face when he tried to kiss me after he'd had one! I laughed...and told him he'd better quit
I used to be a 'social' smoker who could start and stop at anytime, but now, the smell is just sickning to me. That's a good thing, I"m sure.
Good luck with keeping that smoke out of your way and your babies way! Kick him outside...its best for that baby!!
This is my 2nd baby and been married 15yrs.
I say AMEN!! Except to the wine part. Not ever been a drinker here.
The boob stuff, I'm wishing mine would shrink. I'm already a DDD and they are just getting bigger and more painful. Enjoy your small BB's girls. At least when you breast feed you will be able to see your baby. My boob is literally the size of the baby! Lol...
Oh, some days I would pay $100 just to poop and I have already been in the enema club. Some days, I just wanna poop. Even if it does involve putting a hose in my rear!
Cravings? Yes, Pickles. Last pregnancy it was Taco Bell. This time it has been pickles. Not very good coming back up though.
Puking...yet another part of my everyday life now. This morning, while vomiting, my husband who was in the shower at the time says, "When you get a chance can you hand me some shampoo?" Yeah, I hurled a bottle into the shower with rather violent intentions. Hoping it would hit him in the nuts! Actually, I think that every woman should get to kick their husband in the nuts every single time he makes a stupid comment about pregnancy. At least they would think twice about those comments then.
And, my latest problems. Round ligament pain which is the devil and only because I'm older I'm sure. And, sleep problems. When I actually do sleep, I'm having psycho dreams or waking up to pee. Then falling back to sleep is a nightmare with back pain. I usually rotate from the bed to the recliner several times a night only to be awakened early in the morning by my 17 month old son who doesn't understand that mommy is tired and ready to puke.
Yes, Pregnancy is not for sissies!!! Good luck to ya girls!
Amen.
As for the boobs I already have them they are just getting a little ridiculous now. I actually crave everything. OMG I miss wine and beer so much! and I would love a good BM...
I am at 10 weeks 4 days today and I feel like crying......I can hardly think of food much less try to eat anything. I try to drink the recommended amount of water but I feel like vomiting just drinking it. My symptoms are on the extreme bad side...I'm pretty good at keeping myself for vomiting just by changing what I think about. I think yesterday was the worst day yet. I threw up 4 time- 2 times at work (and I haven?t told everyone here yet) and 2 times at home. My doc said that I can take half a Unisom and half b6 vitamin and that would help the nausea but I pass out with any sleep meds and really can't taken this while at work. Any suggestions?
Next is the fatigue...I literally sleep like 12-13 hrs a day and have no energy for anything else.
Last is the bloating and the BM.... I can hardly eat anything...yet im bloated all the time and only have 1 bm per day and only in the morning, because of this I cramp all day long...
I want to be come a scientist and figure a way for a man to have children!!! Any suggestions???
TayLindsay. i'm having the same symptoms. glad to hear i'm not the only one. i was starting to get worried that maybe i wasnt pregnant enough. lol ( my dr. assures me i am). only differance is i have food adversions. not enough to make me physically sick just enough to get me away from the smell quick.
I'm 10 weeks 2 days..I'm not feeling like I'm going to get sick all the time, so I'm lucky there.. but I do feel like food just sits in the same place for days. I literally go from a flat tummy to looking 4-5 months pregnant within hours. I know Progesterone slows down digestion, but it's almost not worth eating because I feel like food is just backing up to my esophagus. Anyone else dealing with this rather than vomiting? Still waiting on the boobs..This is my first pregnancy by the way. I was able to scan myself a few days ago ( I am a sonographer) and got to watch the little guy/girl wiggle around like crazy. Very fun to see how fast they change.