People think we become mothers when we give birth but the truth is we become mothers the moment we start calling our babies to us in our thoughts, dreams and prayers. Some paths are short and some are so long that you can easily forget where you were headed.
Re: Group 1 Checkin (EDD August 1-7) w/o 12/16
Baby Kai is the size of a honeybee 😍😍😍
Nothing until January 😫😫😫
Nausea has intensified, and I'm not a big fan of the confusing hunger/nausea combination. My boobs are sooooo painfully sensitive. I'm not showing but I might as well be with how bloated I am.
No rants, but a rave: my IRL friends are awesome!
No questions at this time.
I would like to magically skip past my comprehensive exams and my dissertation defense and just be a PhD researching vector-borne disease already, KTHXBAI.
Est Due Date / Weeks + Days: 8/2 ... 7w2d
Baby is the size of a(n): playing die
Upcoming Appointments: still waiting on #1 this Friday
How are you feeling?: Gross. Sick.
Rants/Raves: nah
Questions: not today
GTKY: If you could magically have any career you wanted, what would it be? Is trophy wife a career? Maybe something creative like an Etsy shop. I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.
Baby is the size of a(n): Altoid
Upcoming Appointments: Dec 28. Had my confirmation appointment last Friday. Because of the holiday, it was hard to schedule my next appt for 3-4 weeks out, so instead they squeezed me in to go back in 2 weeks and then again in 4 weeks. I’m happy with the split up appointments because it’ll ease my anxious FTM first trimester mind!
How are you feeling?: exhausted. I stayed at a Christmas party until 11pm last night and am paying for it today. Been on the couch the whole afternoon. The MS has been manageable.
Rants/Raves: Raves: Work should be easy this week, so I can hide in my office. Rants: I’m already sad that I’ll likely feel sick and not want to eat our traditional Christmas dinner.
Questions: Nope.
GTKY: If you could magically have any career you wanted, what would it be? I’d be the General Manager of a sports team.
Baby is the size of a(n): blueberry
Upcoming Appointments: Tomorrow!!! Eek!!!
How are you feeling?: Exhausted, hungry, nauseated, and bloated.
Rants/Raves: DH went out during the football game to get me a sub and salad! I think I’ll keep him!
Questions: none right now.
GTKY: If you could magically have any career you wanted, what would it be? Doctor for sure! I was a pre-MED student when I found out I was unexpectedly pregnant with my first. I still regret not finishing school.
Baby size: depends on which app I use, Ovia has it at a raspberry, but based on my ultrasound on 6w4d I find that verrrry hard to believe.
appt: December 28th 8am
I'm feeling sick to my stomach all the time.. hopefully tomorrow at work won't be too bad
Raves: I went down for a nap right after my toddler and I woke up 3 hours later to an empty house and a text that said went out christmas shopping, we didn't want to wake you that was nice bc I spent the afternoon puking.
GTKY: I would probably be doing something creative and flexible on time, do some STAH mommying if that worked in.
Me: 31 | Husband: 32
Married: September 2014!
TTC #1: January 2016 BFP 5/16/16 Quinn Born 1/27/17
Baby is the size of a(n): raspberry
Upcoming Appointments: 10 weeks blood work. Nothing to check baby directly until the anatomy scan.
How are you feeling?: meh. Haven't thrown up, but nothing really seems good. Meal time is the worst time. I feel a bit better AFTER eating, but while eating and when hungry is blech.
Rants/Raves:
Questions:
GTKY: If you could magically have any career you wanted, what would it be?
Baker
BFP #1 June 2016: EDD 16 March 2017, MC July 2016
Re-started TTC Aug 2016
Started IF testing Nov 2016
Spontaneous BFP #2 January 2017: Rainbow Baby Boy September 2017
BFP #3 November 2018: Baby #2 expected August 2019
Baby is the size of a(n):blueberry
Upcoming Appointments: I have my ultrasound tomorrow at 3:30 and I am so nervous!
How are you feeling?: Like I'm constantly hungover. I feel nauseated, then I want to eat all the food, then I feel sick. Also completely exhausted.
Rants/Raves: My parents are coming on Saturday for Christmas. I'm excited to hopefully be giving them good news, but I'm still just so nervous for tomorrow hoping that everything looks good.
Questions: Nothing
GTKY: If you could magically have any career you wanted, what would it be? Doctor. I am a nurse and felt like I didn't have the drive to go through so much schooling and residency when I started college. Now looking back, I wish I would have cared a little less about my social life and just went for it at the time.
Baby is the size of a(n): blueberry
Upcoming Appointments: OB tomorrow and US on Friday
How are you feeling?: it’s hit or miss but overall doing okay. Anyone else waking up super hot in the middle of the night??
Rants/Raves: getting close to being done with Xmas shopping!
Questions:
GTKY: If you could magically have any career you wanted, what would it be? If I could get paid to travel and eat and drink my way through the world I would die happy. I would totally take Rick Steves job!
@olivemomma Getting paid to travel would be the BEST. I'm always insanely jealous of travel bloggers.
Baby is the size of a(n): uncooked macaroni
Upcoming Appointments: Our viability ultrasound is Friday!!! We had our initial with my CNM last Wednesday and it went well, just took a bunch of blood and peed in a cup and gave me 20000 papers to look over. Excited to see our blob Friday.
How are you feeling?: Gross. I am bloated and constipated, although adding in some prunes/prune juice has helped get things moving. I am fatigued all the time. Half the time I am low level constantly nauseous and not hungry, and the other half the time I am ravenous and starving. And when I am ravenous and eat I then suddenly become nauseated again. It's a wonderful cycle. And my boobs feel like they are going to explode out of my nipples, it hurts to sleep
Rants/Raves: We haven't told anyone yet other than Dr's and it is driving me insane!!! I usually tell my best friends/family everything and keeping it in sucks. We are going to tell our friends on Friday at our Friendsgiving party assuming our US goes well, and am planning on telling family on Christmas Eve. Excited to see reactions!! Hoping to catch it on camera.
Questions: Best maternity reading? I need something funny/light without a ton of dry information. I have been listening to the Pregnancy Podcast and love that I can absorb the info on the go but would like a reference book.
GTKY: If you could magically have any career you wanted, what would it be?: Honestly, I really love what I do now I would just tweak it to work better with my life. I am a mental health counselor for a school district and travel from school to school meeting with kids. I'd prefer to just be at one school full time, and now that we are expecting I am kind of wishing I could just do it part time. I don't want to give up this awesome job since it is hard to get placed in the schools as a mental health counselor, but I also kind of want to be home....lots of number crunching and thinking to do!
Baby is the size of a blueberry!
First appointment was a week ago! Saw our little spawn and their heartbeat! It was amazing! Next appointment on 1/7
SICK. I cry at anything and everything. Cramps. Sore. So tired all the time.
If one more person tells me to feel ashamed for not eating complete meals I will FREAK out. I'm eating what I can!
Anyone doing the Sneak Peek test???
Career: Freelance writer. I love writing, and having my own schedule sounds AMAZING.
Saw the blob today and couldn’t help but laugh / cry - didn’t even notice my husband trying to hold my hand!!
Love the hungover description (nauseous, tired, and famished at the same time) - that + bloating, and nipple pain / sensitivity!
Chef, at some fancy shamancy restaurants, funny enough, I’m not a great cook, but I enjoy it, and I enjoy the finished product as well... plus chef is probably as close as I’ll ever get to rock star with my vocal cords!
My 7 Year Journey ***Tw in spoiler***
IVF #1 - September 2018; Follistim, Menopur, Cetrotide & Lupron/HCG combo trigger; PGS; ICSI
Back on Levothyroxine
FET #1 - October 2018; cancelled, all PGS aneuploid
FET #1 - November 30th, transferred anyway
Wondfo BFP 5dp5dt, CB Digi 6dpt,
1st Beta on 7dpt 93
2nd Beta on 10dpt 510!
TTC #1 since 2011. Tried for 5 years before we knew there was a one year rule.
Diag w/MS 2016; w/PCOS & IF 2017
New RE 2018; PCOS diagnosis taken away, IF due to ovary adhesions, but prev. RE insists PCOS IF
IUI
IUI #1 July 2017 w/100mg Clo+trigger; BFN; benched w/big cysts
IUI #2 October 2017 w/50mg Clo+trigger; BFN; benched w/big cysts
IUI #3 February 2018 w/5mg Femara+trigger; low P
BFP February; mc March; Subclinical hypothyroid started Levothyroxine
IUI #4 March 2018 w/7.5mg Femara+trigger; BFN
Medicated cycle & TI April 2018 w/7.5mg Femara+trigger; BFN
Tried several cycles on our own; all BFN
8/5ish, hopefully will have an updated EDD after my next appt
Baby is the size of a(n):
Jellybean
Upcoming Appointments:
Jan 2
How are you feeling?:
Exhausted. The week before Christmas break is a killer (teacher)
Rants/Raves:
I just want to sleep! But yay for 2 weeks without alarms!
Questions:
None
GTKY: If you could magically have any career you wanted, what would it be?
Marine biologist