PGAL Check-In 03/22

mylittleversailles

Check-in for those who are pregnant after a loss. If you're new, introduce yourself and tell us your story.

1) How far along are you?

2) How are you feeling physically and emotionally?

3) When is your next appointment?

4) Rants/Raves/Questions

5) GTKY: What is your favourite day of the week and why?

mylittleversailles

1. 10+6

2. Physically, about the same. Feel OK in the morning, run out of energy by early afternoon and then super sick in the evenings. Emotionally, better than ever (sooo waiting for that other shoe to drop). We're both getting really excited. 

3. Second last acupuncture appointment today. Don't know what I'll do without him. NT scan on Friday!! Eeeeeee!!

rant: Despite feelings quite a bit better, I still have really, really strong food aversions and eat like an fussy toddler. I'd like to eat like myself again, please.

rave: I find the heartbeat every time I look lately and the first trimester is getting so close to being over!!

questions: Nothing today.

5. I have always loved the quiet privacy of my Sundays. DH likes to start a sourdough loaf on Sundays and I love seeing him carefully measure and do his folds. Love seeing people pay attention to things and the delayed gratification of a long-haul homemade bread. In the summer usually we'll entertain friends; a nice dinner, soul affirming company and a classic board game. If not entertaining, Netflix and snuggles with my husband and kitties is just my speed.

aprilsarahjune

@reneeannemm I second the picky eating and food aversions problem.  In fact, I think my kids are better eaters than I am right now.  All I want is pasta and even seeing salad makes me feel ill.  Here is to hoping second trimester brings back our taste buds!

1) How far along are you? 10w, 6d

2) How are you feeling physically and emotionally?  Doing all right.  Nausea and food aversions as mentioned above but I have gotten my "brain" back, as in I can think and do my job again, something that I had lost for several weeks.  

3) When is your next appointment?  2 weeks

4) Rants/Raves/Questions  

5) GTKY: What is your favourite day of the week and why? Saturday because it almost always belongs uninterrupted to me and my family.  Books, crafts, adventures, etc.  Sunday means we have to start doing laundry, cleaning, grocery shopping, etc. to get ready for the coming week, so (while nice) it is no Saturday.

flowerintherain

@reneeannemm @aprilsarahjune the food aversions are so bad for me too! I'm lucky to eat something once a day because everything sounds like it's gonna make me puke. Sooo ready for this to pass. 

1) How far along are you?
9 weeks 1 day

2) How are you feeling physically and emotionally?
Physically sick and lots of cramps..ready for the 1st tri to be over. But emotionally I feel ok.. my doctor does a quick sono at every appointment just to check on baby. So I got to hear a heartbeat and see it bouncing around yesterday. And so far I've made it 3 weeks further than last time. I know I'm not quite out of the woods yet, but I have a lot more hope than I did at the beginning.

3) When is your next appointment?
Not really an appointment, but having blood drawn for the progenity test on Tuesday which means we get to find out the gender. 

4) Rants/Raves/Questions
I'm boring and don't really have any today. 

5) GTKY: What is your favourite day of the week and why?
I like Saturdays because I usually don't have work to do that day. 

nbcarlson

Hey everyone, I'm Nicole. I have one three year old son. I have had 3 losses, 1 around 6 weeks before I had my son, 1 chemical pregnancy in December, and 1 miscarriage in January around 6 weeks again. If this pregnancy sticks we will be done having bio children and plan on doing foster-to-adopt for our last child.  

1) How far along are you? 7w6d 

2) How are you feeling physically and emotionally? physically super exhausted and nauseous. Emotionally I feel like I am just waiting for the ball to drop. 

3) When is your next appointment? April 11th, just a regular appt and I'll schedule our 12 week ultrasound.

4) Rants/Raves/Questions Nada

5) GTKY: What is your favourite day of the week and why? Tuesdays because it is my weekday off of work. No one has Tuesdays off so nothing is ever busy haha. 

laeberge3

1) How far along are you?  11w5d

2) How are you feeling physically and emotionally?  Feeling pretty well these days, though the last couple days I've had the urge to throw up.  It hasn't happened but feels like it could at a moment's notice.  Emotionally I'm doing well and having the doppler has helped a lot ... I found the heartbeat within a minute last night.

3) When is your next appointment?  4/10

4) Rants/Raves/Questions  My vivid dreams, which seem to usually focus on the pregnancy, have shifted to worry about work and worry about my sister's shower this weekend.  I think that's a good thing, as I'm feeling more excited about the baby.  I'm excited to start telling more people, too ... though I keep pushing that date back and back.  I'm also ready to be out of the first trimester!

5) GTKY: What is your favourite day of the week and why?  Probably Saturday because it belongs to entirely me.  It's sometimes spent with H and sometimes with family and friends and generally, I've been able to forget about any work stresses and just enjoy myself.  Of course that's bound to change with a LO, but for now, it is nice. 

aprilsarahjune

@nbcarlson
Welcome!  

@laeberge3
@flowerintherain
Glad to hear that the dopplers are working out!  I keep waffling back and forth on whether to get one.

migdala

+1 to the food aversions @reneeannemm @aprilsarahjune @flowerintherain

@nbcarlson Welcome!

@laeberge3 Can't believe the end of the first tri is coming up already... sorry you're feeling vomity, it's the worst.

1) How far along are you? 10w4d

2) How are you feeling physically and emotionally? Emotionally good!  Saw the baby kicking like crazy yesterday and I feel like I couldn't ask for anything better than that.  Physically, still so awful.

3) When is your next appointment?  April 3 for the NT/cell free

4) Rants/Raves/Questions Last night I decided the only thing I could possibly eat was chicken wings from Wing Stop.  Mind you I've been repulsed by chicken more than any other food for the last 4 weeks, but for some reason fried chicken wings didn't seem like chicken last night so we went with it.  Fast forward to today and I hate my life ... just remembering that I ate chicken makes me want to throw up.  Chicken is disgusting!!!  What was I thinking!!!

5) GTKY: What is your favourite day of the week and why?  Monday ... jk who would pick Monday, put me on the Saturday train with the rest of you

aprilsarahjune

migdala said:

Last night I decided the only thing I could possibly eat was chicken wings from Wing Stop.  Mind you I've been repulsed by chicken more than any other food for the last 4 weeks, but for some reason fried chicken wings didn't seem like chicken last night so we went with it.  Fast forward to today and I hate my life ... just remembering that I ate chicken makes me want to throw up.  Chicken is disgusting!!!  What was I thinking!!!

@migdala  Ewww chicken.  Ewww all meat.  Ewww leafy green vegetables.  Ewww all vegetables.  Cheese pizza, it is.

cooaladolly

Thank goodness I'm not the only one who has had an aversion to healthy food these last weeks.

1) How far along are you?.... 9w5d

2) How are you feeling physically and emotionally?... Physically feeling a bit better. Less nausea and heartburn, though headaches are increasing for some reason. And the cherry on top is I have a nasty cold since yesterday... Emotionally, doing better all the time.

3) When is your next appointment?... Friday for my first prenatal.

4) Rants/Raves/Questions... None today.

5) GTKY: What is your favourite day of the week and why?... Well I will be the Monday person, lol. I work Tuesday through Saturday, so that's my guilt free, totally to myself day. Great for getting stuff done or, since being pregnant, great for sleeping almost the whole day away without someone seeing me as lazy.

Uhlease13

I feel as if I am reading my own thoughts right now!! Not to tag everyone, but food aversions mainly to chicken and veggies! It's crazy cuz we used to eat that a lot! Ugh, I told Dh even though it's early I think I'm showing cuz I usually have a flat stomach and can't suck it flat anymore...he said maybe because we haven't worked out in a couple weeks..!? Um no sir, it's the baby!! LOL I wish. 

How far along are you? 10+5

How are you feeling? Physically not too bad actually just a little of the above with food. Mentally, better! Bought a Doppler and found the heartbeat yesterday. After this weekend I will officially be past my loss milestones! 

Next appt: April 10

R/R/Q: none right now

gtky: fav day of week, Saturday I guess cuz no plans and no work sat/sun

hope everybody is doing well!!

mommac2017

1) How far along are you? 12w2d

2) How are you feeling physically and emotionally? Still nauseous and vomiting but it's getting better. Emotionally I'm doing a lot better now that we've passed the 12 week mark. Although I'll admit I thought I'd instantly feel 100% confident and I definitely don't. 

3) When is your next appointment? We just had one yesterday. Her Doppler wasn't working and she couldn't find the heartbeat which set me into panic mode. But she did a scan and we could see baby's heart beating and bang was jumping around in there. I'm a numbers person and her scanner wouldn't give a number for the heartbeat. But she estimated it was in the 150's. Next appointment in 4 weeks. 

4) Rants/Raves/Questions: I hate that I can only sometimes get the font to change from bold to regular print on my bump app. I give up. 

5) GTKY: What is your favourite day of the week and why? Saturday. I love having DH home with me and DS. The day just goes so much faster with him here and I love our family time.