TTGP Grad Check-in 10/26

berg

Hey Ladies!

1. How are you feeling?

2. Anyone have an appointment this week?

3. Rants/Raves/Randoms

4. GTKY: What's one silly lie you were told and totally believed in your childhood? (*totally stolen from TTGP btw*)

berg

1. How are you feeling? To put it mildly, like shit.  Everyday is a new twinge or wave of nausea.  The exhaustion runs from me feeling like I'm a zombie to me feeling like I can run 10 miles. 

2. Anyone have an appointment this week?  A week and half left 11/7. It cannot come fast enough.  I need more confirmation than my sudden dislike of every food except mac and cheese (see below).

3. Rants/Raves/Randoms: I asked DH to make, along with the dinner he already cooked, some Shoprite brand Shells and Cheddar Mac &Cheese, orange powder and all.  You know, the good stuff.  Nothing has satisfied me before or since those delicious chemical filled little shells.  DH's response to me telling him that 'You're going to get so fat.'  If he wasn't so cute (and kidding of course) and I wasn't so tired, I'd hurt him.

4. GTKY: What's one silly lie you were told and totally believed in your childhood? My mom told me a lot of ridiculous stories growing up.  But my favorite is the lie of the trolls.  My mom has a small collection of troll dolls from the late 60's-70's, the original troll dolls.  She had written names on each of their feet and kept them in her dresser (still not sure on why they were there).  Anyway, she told me when I was like 5 that at night the trolls came alive and threw raucous parties.  I, of course, totally believed her.  But here is where it gets good.  She would actually move the trolls every day from drawer to drawer.  So I would wake up and check and they would be in a different spot, confirming the 'partying'.  My imagination ran with it and one night I had a sleep over in my sister's room and swore I heard them through the wall partying it up.  I was so excited!  I told her all about it and she was like I know I told you.  This went on for years people.  I was like 10 when I realized that she was lying.  In fact at around 27 or 28, when I moved back home I was telling her how messed up that was.  The next morning I woke up and all of her trolls were lined up outside my bedroom door.  She still thinks it's hilarious.

JessErinF

Hahahha I love it!!!!

im doing ok. Suffering near constant nausea except for today!!  Because now I have a wicked cold.

ClaireCF

1. How are you feeling? It's getting rough over here. Still not doing too bad with nausea although it is getting a little worse every day. Was a little concerned it was going to get twisted right out of me in yoga this morning. The real problem is constipation which has become a huge issue, almost made me cry last night.

2. Anyone have an appointment this week? Tuesday the 1st! So excited!

3. Rants/Raves/Randoms. The fatigue has really set in this week, on Monday night I was asleep by 8:50. Last night DH had a whiffleball game and I asked when he would be home, he said 8:30 and then said "don't wait up." He thinks he is hilarious. Glad someone's getting a kick out of this!

4. GTKY: What's one silly lie you were told and totally believed in your childhood? (*totally stolen from TTGP btw*) I have two older brothers who are very close in age and I am four years younger. When we were kids they loved to tell me I was adopted or a test tube baby and they were extremely convincing. Luckily my mom put a stop to that when she found out about it because I was distressed!

glitterfish-2

1. How are you feeling?
It's early (4+3ish), so I feel 95% normal. Woke up with nausea last night after sleeping for an hour, but went right back to sleep. The chinese food also may have been a poor choice, so it may be unrelated! Even though I haven't been feeling sick, but nothing really "sounds good" for me to eat, so I relate to your mac & cheese story, @berg! I do have a container of the pre-made kind as a side dish, but I don't know if it will last long!
When did your symptoms really kick in? 
 
2. Anyone have an appointment this week?
I have an endocrinologist appt with a new place ear my job (1.5 hrs from where I live) because I don't trust the local one AT ALL to monitor my hashimoto's during pregnancy. Saying I just found out I'm pregnant was like the magic word to securing an appointment ASAP! 

3. Rants/Raves/Randoms
If this old endo doesn't give up my records today so I can bring them to the new endo, I'm going to be SO MAD!

4. GTKY: What's one silly lie you were told and totally believed in your childhood? (*totally stolen from TTGP btw*)
I can't think of any besides the standard santa/easter bunny, etc. Although at my house, we had like a 12 days of christmas beforehand where "Rudolph" would bring little gifts each night. 

swanbrooner

@berg Your mom is a hilarious troll.

1. I'm feeling pretty good. My boobs are pretty sore and my nipples have gotten huge. The nausea is getting better for the most part .


2. Anyone have an appointment this week? Today!!!





3. Rants/Raves/Randoms

I took a whole day off of work today. Sub plans are too much work to end up going back. Plus, who knows what could happen today.

4. GTKY: What's one silly lie you were told and totally believed in your childhood? (*totally stolen from TTGP btw*)

Nothing specific comes to mind. I've always been a skeptical, cynical little shit.

delujm0

1. How are you feeling? the answer to this question depends 100% on how much sleep I have gotten the night before.  When I have the time to actually get 8+ hours and still get everything done, I feel pretty good, though slightly nauseated here and there.  When I get my more frequent 6.5-7 hours, I feel like I've been hit my a truck.  I very seriously almost fell asleep at the wheel on my way to the office yesterday.  It was not good.  I have never drank caffeine, so I don't think pregnancy is the best time to start, but the struggle is real.  also I have really weird vivid dreams generally about people I knew in high school that I haven't spoken to in like 15 years, which is super bizarre.  Some of them aren't even on FB, so i don't even know where my brain is coming up with this stuff, because i literally haven't seen or thought about them in ages.  Also, the constipation and bloating...ugh.

2. Anyone have an appointment this week? one week from today (FINALLY).  11/3.

3. Rants/Raves/Randoms: I don't feel like i have much here.  I'm really ready for my ultrasound.  On the days that I'm not exhausted and I've actually pooped, i feel 100% normal and not at all pregnant, and that's really messing with my brain.

4. GTKY: What's one silly lie you were told and totally believed in your childhood? i can't really think of anything here.  I mean i believed in Santa for a while.  And then was smart enough to know that even when i no longer believed in him i should pretend to because he brings me lots of presents. 

berg

Welcome @GlitterFish!  So happy to see you here!!  I feel like my symptoms have been endless revolving door, different ones enter and leave day to day.  My first symptom was sore boobs and they hurt almost immediately and have been fairly consistent.  The gas, mostly burping, started about halfway into week 4.  It's really cute.  I had waves of nausea here and there since week 5.  No puke yet, just where I feel sick and gross.  But this week (6) has been when I've really felt off.  The food aversions are a real issue.  I feel sick because I'm hungry, but nothing is appetizing.  I've been eating Kix like it's going out of style, and they are currently making me want to vomit.  So I'm adding them to the list.  I totally wish I had the 12 days of Christmas growing up!  That sounds awesome!  I was the youngest so once I stopped believing Santa stopped coming on the firetruck on Christmas Eve (with an extra gift of course).  My sister was 18 when it stopped, I was 9.  To this day I try to convince them to get Santa to come on the firetruck.  Hasn't worked yet... fx this year is my year!
 
@delujm0 I hear ya on the vivid dreams.  I am known to have some pretty weird dreams from time to time, but every dream for the last like 3 weeks has been so clear and so random.  Some of them also have involved people I graduated HS with but haven't seen or spoken to in 15 years.  Another involved my nipples leaking a weird fluid.  Fun.

@swanbrooner Good Luck!!!!!

@claireCF I hear ya.  My DH thinks it's all hysterical.  Laugh it up bub, first diaper change is all you.

MotherofDragons

1. I'm feeling pretty normal just really tired. 

2. Monday. And it can't get here soon enough. Last night I cried to my husband over my anxiety of the unknown. 

3. I'm tired of myself. Of my anxiety. It needs to gtfo. I just want to be happy. 

4. Just before I turned 5 I had open heart surgery for a defect repair. My parents told me after surgery that if I made my heart beat too fast by running around that it would explode because it needed to rest. I was so scared I didn't even want to move. And I refused to let people hug me because I didn't want my heart to explode. It was effective, I definitely took it easy. 

berg

@MotherofDragons aww, you didn't want anyone to hug you!  That's adorable.  And I agree the unknown is the hardest part.  I just want to know what's going on in there and make sure everything is okay.  The wait for the first U/S is the worst.

sevenn

I like this thread- I feel like it's the only place I know I belong!!

5w2d today

1. How are you feeling? Im with @berg that symptoms come and go. Breast tenderness has also been pretty consistent for me. I puked for the first time this morning but it was because I was already nauseous and DH did something gross. I've become very anxious this week- confession- I have the ability to scan myself. It's hard to do your own transvag so I've only done transabdominal. I saw a gestational sac this week (5w0d) which was reassuring but the fact that I could see an HR next week but probably won't bc of bad scanning will hopefully keep me from doing it. I could enlist the help
of coworker but don't want too many people to know yet...

2. Anyone have an appointment this week? I wish! 11/15

3. Rants/Raves/Randoms I have a day off today! Schedule is weird this month and in exchange for working nearly every weekend I get a weekday off. This is better bc DH works from home so having the weekday means we can do real people things (post office, etc) so hopefully today will prove productive!

4.GTKY: What's one silly lie you were told and totally believed in your childhood? (*totally stolen from TTGP btw*) I believed you got pregnant by drinking each others pee : P

MotherofDragons

@sevenn ha! Who told you that? 

berg

@sevenn that's hysterical and so good to see you here!!

sevenn

@MotherofDragons I don't remember exactly who but I'm sure one of my best friends at the time!

@berg thanks it's good to be here

@delujm0 I can't believe I left out the vivid dreams- could totally do without those. Some are disturbing, especially if they're of a sexual nature. I always had strange dreams during my LP... Oh the love hate relationship with progesterone 

mrlight

1. How are you feeling?  I’m feeling great!  I’ve been really lucky to not have any morning sickness, yet.  I’m just really tired and my boobs are pretty sore.

2. Anyone have an appointment this week?  I had my first u/s this morning!!  Baby measured right on target at 6 weeks 3 days.  I go back next week for a follow up u/s. 

3. Rants/Raves/Randoms: None!

4. GTKY: What's one silly lie you were told and totally believed in your childhood? (*totally stolen from TTGP btw*)  I’m sure there were many, but I can’t think of any right now!  

mrlight

@berg Omg!  Your troll story is hilarious!  I was absolutely terrified of troll dolls as a kid, so all the moving around would have probably freaked me out.

@ClaireCF I have a brother that is two years younger than me, and I had him convinced when we were kids that he was adopted.  He had bleach blonde hair, fair skin, and light eyes as a kid.  Both of our parents and I all had dark brown hair, tan skin, and dark eyes.  I even found some of those photos that come with the picture frame and told him that was his real family.  I had him in tears.  Needless to say, I got into trouble!

@swanbronner I hope your appointment goes well today!

swanbrooner

All is well! I have a small uterine fibroid, but my doctor didn't seem too concerned with it. Baby is measuring 8 weeks 1 day, right on schedule. Heart beat was 166.

MotherofDragons

Glad it was a good appointment, @swanbrooner

Sirius37

MY PEOPLE! I'm happy to see you all

1. How are you feeling?
I'm alright...... I felt like I was about to hurl during lunch yesterday and it's on track again for today so the neausa seems to be kicking in an extra gear. DH stayed home from work today because he feels sick though (like he's going to hurl) so I'm really hoping he didn't share that with me. very tired lately as well. Random heartburn.

2. Anyone have an appointment this week?
I'm with @delujm0 - a week from today, FINALLY.

3. Rants/Raves/Randoms
In relation to how I'm feeling: Does anyone know if there's a " preferred" time frame to get the flu shot while pregnant? I was going to ask at my appt, but I fly across country the next day and with DH being sick, I realize I should probably give the shot time to build antibodies. I'm just not sure if there's a window that's considered more safe than others (I'm currently 6w1d). 

4. GTKY: What's one silly lie you were told and totally believed in your childhood? 
Oh man. I was such a gullible child, which is probably why I'm such a cynical toad now. the biggest one ( and a classic) is that my evil uncle told me swallowing watermelon seeds will grow watermelons inside of me. To this day, I will only eat about 4 different veggies. 

Elyse1384

@swanbrooner I'm so happy to hear all is well with LO! 

@Sirius37 I got my flu shot already, but I don't know if there is an ideal time.  My OB said its safe and to get it ASAP.

@mrlight congrats to you as well one the good appointment 

AFM - I feel like hell, probably look like hell and can't wait for tomorrow to get here.  I have my first ultrasound and I'm hoping to graduate to my OB.  My mind is messing with me as I feel like I've broken a rule or something.  I'm now 3 for 3 on consecutive IVF cycles (1 fresh with DS followed by 1 frozen for DD and now 1 frozen for this LO).  After 3 years of failed attempts before DS, I kind of expected some more BFNs were coming my way before another BFP.  I'm afraid to get too exited!  I statistically should not be pregnant, but boy am I happy to be!

Elyse1384

Oh almost forgot!  The lie I believed... Ok so not an intended lie, but more misunderstanding...

I'm adopted and don't remember a time where I didn't know.  My kindergarten teacher found a family circle clipping that said something to the effect of "Jessie was grown in his Mommy's belly, but I was grown in my Mommy's heart."  My mom read it to me and she said it was about adopted kids. Not shitting you... I remember thinking "I grew in my Mommy's heart" for a brief period after that.  My mom corrected me when I brought it up again and tried to explain it was just an expression. 

mrlight

@Elyse1384 That is a really cute misunderstanding!

MotherofDragons

@Elyse1384 That is really sweet. And screw statistics. You deserve to be happy after 3 years of failed attempts. Enjoy this awesome streak!