October 2018 Moms

Randoms 6/22

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  • cjx95cjx95 member
    We should have a fun pregnancy picture/gif board!!
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  • On TTGP someone revived a 3 year  old thread about cryptic pregnancies. 
    https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/12561717/cryptic-stealth-pregnancy/p2
    It got sorta hilarious back in the day, but I was reading on the cryptic pregnancies site and talk about WEIRD! I've never heard of being pregnant for 3-5 years before...

    DS 6/6/10
    DD 3/15/12
    DD 6/3/14
    #4 Due 10/26/18!
  • @coffee-saur



    To be fair, I’ve read several stories from women whose HCG levels didn’t rise as quickly as normal so their HPTs didn’t turn positive until several weeks into the pregnancy.  But I think those are the 1/450 who wouldn’t have found out they were pregnant until 20wks, not people denying every iota of evidence that they aren’t pregnant.  
  • Robin Hobb wrote a fantasy series in which one of the characters has a pregnancy that lasts several years...it’s fantasy for a reason.
  • edited July 2018
    Isn’t there a mental health disorder where women believe they’re pregnant?

    ETA: It’s called Pseudocyesis. I think I saw it on SVU once.
  • zwink1zwink1 member
    That website is a basket of crazy. @knottieamusements, my hcg levels were extremely low (my first beta at 8dp5dt was 5, and the 2nd 2 days later was 9) and I was not turning home tests, so I know what you mean.

    However, the TLDR of that "cryptic pregnancy support group" website is that you can be pregnant for years and can have extended months long labors and therefore should ignore the doctors because obviously you are right and they are wrong and you just have a very slow growing baby who needs 3-5 years in utero. Weird that medicine hasn't recognized this as an actual possibility yet.
  • I haven't checked the website out yet, but I suspect this is something @chopchop25 will enjoy :D
  • That sounds a little too creepy...
  • @norahkate you just made my day. YAY FALLLLL
  • Finally caught up on this thread, I've been behind all week! The app and the web browser version were wonky for me the last couple days. I logged into 115 undead comments on this thread and I had apparently started to respond because I had a draft from the very beginning of this thread. *facepalm*

    @krzyriver glad your husband is doing well.

    @kiwi2628 sorry things were so crazy for you! I hope the weekend was better for you.

    @knottieamusements your bathroom remodel came@mytrueloves eat! I love the sink and it's so much more functional now! 

    @mytrueloves glad you and baby are doing well and it was nothing to worry about. 

    @cdepperschmidt it sucks that you and your H ware/are I. That position but it sounds like you handled it well. I hope your cousin gets the help he needs and they can move on from this.

    @chopchop25 idk if I missed it or not but I hope your house/pet sitter worked out for you! 
  • Also, I'm with you ladies that love fall! I cant wait!
  • cjx95cjx95 member
    @norahkate yass I love fall stuff but I don't have a Starbucks near me so Dunkins is my life!! Cant wait for pumpkin everything!!
  • All I have to say about that is...wow. 
    Me:29 DH:30
    Married:10/2012
    TTC #1: 12/2017
  • Oh my gosh that cryptic thread was EVERYTHING. You were right @sliztee, I loved it. You know me too well.
  • Wait...I need to go read the cryptic pregnancy thread. If I had to be pregnant for years I would cry. 
  • Oh man, the "What to expect with a cryptic pregnancy" blog entry is simply PRICELESS. I'm so happy this exists.
  • @kiwi2628 You're gonna wanna see this too.
  • It just got more and more mind-boggling. Low levels of Hcg that wouldn't turn a test till much later than expected, sounds possible, but then it just keeps going! Pregnant for 3-5 years and MONTHS long labor, and to be prepared to deliver at home, since doctors keep saying things like they're not pregnant... I think I'd check out once I heard the months long labor, just, no thanks!
    DS 6/6/10
    DD 3/15/12
    DD 6/3/14
    #4 Due 10/26/18!
  • slizteesliztee member
    edited July 2018
    But what about YEARS long labor, @coffee-saur?! Plausible, indeed!
  • DS 6/6/10
    DD 3/15/12
    DD 6/3/14
    #4 Due 10/26/18!
  • cjx95cjx95 member
    So no drinking for 3-5 possibly 7 years?! And a cryptic pregnancy can suddenly turn normal? How do you know if your having a cryptic pregnancy if every possible way to tell comes up negative? I just don't understand 
  • KFrobKFrob member
    @jynjer91 Samesies, the woman who sits next to me at work makes disgusting sucking/smacking sounds with 95% of what she eats.  Today I had to get up and walk away.  I don't even know how or why she makes these sounds.  Its completely unnecessary.  I've randomly been annoyed by it before but the last week or so it's next level annoyance.  I'm also annoyed by pretty much anyone coming to my desk to talk to me. Leave. Me. Alone.     
  • I think that's a great idea, @cdepperschmidt!
  • @jynjer91 I'm feeling the same way lately. Everything gets on my nerves.

    @cdepperschmidt I think that's a great idea, too.
  • I am easily annoyed too. I've been trying to get SS to chew with his mouth closed, it's not going so well.

    This vacation is my favorite trip of the year. I've been doing it for 6 years now. I do something a little different each time, but it always includes a stay at my best friend's place. They're like second family to me.

    DH is in such a funk. I'm trying so hard to push through my pain, discomfort, short temper, and lack of good sleep. DH last night (only our 2nd day) asked if we should just go home. I feel defeated. I'm enjoying our trip, despite everything else. He says I'm too short tempered with SS. I got yelled at for saying "go ahead" when SS was holding the door open at Subway today (I couldn't get through with him there). But yet DH can get upset all he wants. I've decided I'm not parenting the rest of this week since DH feels I'm too harsh. And I'm done making decisions because I can't make any that make DH happy it feels like. 
  • Sorry to hear that, @sammierose464. That sounds incredibly frustrating. I feel for you and the other step momma's on here; I can't imagine what it must be like.
  • zwink1zwink1 member
    @jynjer91, I am right there with you. I'm so annoyed by every little thing lately that i feel like a complete bitch. I was reading an article about labor this weekend and one of the early labor signs they identified was irritability... welp, guess that one kicks in REALLY early. Lol. 
  • @zwink1 the day before my waters broke last time, I was a giant cow to everyone. It was so bad my mom called me out on it. 
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  • +1 for getting easily irritated at all the things. I also find I'm super emotional in regards to anxiety, more so than usual. Dang hormones!
  • rabtaido1214rabtaido1214 member
    edited July 2018
    @knottieamusements that’s interesting, I’m trying to remember now which hand my LO was sucking on at my ultrasound. I wonder if the techs would commonly point out that it’s he left hand, or not really notice since it isn’t a medical finding. Also curious how often hand choice is the womb correlates to hand dominance later on. It definitely seems like it would be a good indicator. I wish I paid attention. Would be interesting to make note of. Now I have to dig through my ultrasound pics to see if I can even tell. I can barely tell I’m from down in the pics so probably can’t tell left from right in the pics.

    I forget, is hand dominance a genetic trait? Do you have any left handed people in your family?
  • rabtaido1214rabtaido1214 member
    edited July 2018

    Post deleted- realized the article wasn’t what I thought it was talking about!
  • chyviechyvie member
    I'm the only left handed one in my family of 6 siblings. I also am the most creative. I adapted to all the normal right handed things like computer mouse, scissors and binders. Really the only thing I do is write with my left hand.
    I think it is cool your tech noticed that and pointed it out. I see where your are coming from in the sense of wondering how the baby can be left handed and how you will manage that, but honestly it isn't that much different and these day way more accepted and common! Just think of it as something you already know about your Blast! 
    Me 33 DH 41
    TTC since 2016
    Due: October 12, 2018
    Location: Ontario, Canada

  • @knottieamusements I wouldn’t put too much stock in the fact that your Baby is a lefty at this point. DS is 2.5 and still goes back and forth between both hands. 
  • @rabtaido1214 - You’ll be able to tell right from left.  In that sense, the ultrasound pictures are just like regular photographs.  There are several lefties on my Mom’s side of the family.  No idea on the donor’s family.

    @chyvie - Thank you for the reassurance. :)

    @cdepperschmidt - Yeah, handedness is definitely a thing that is more pronounced in some people than others.  I actually use both hands, and my eyes are cross dominant.  (For the gun owners out there- I always knew this instinctively, but I didn’t realize it was an actual thing until a firearms instructor pointed it out- shooting left handed still feels awkward, but it genuinely made a difference.)
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