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GTKY: How did you meet your partner?
Re: Weekly Check-in 7/19
Upcoming appointments: 7/27 regular OB
How are you feeling?: So lightheaded, nonstop. Still can’t drink coffee without getting sick so the caffeine withdrawal isn’t helping. But having problems functioning
Rants/Raves: My brother had his gender reveal yesterday and I’m going to have a niece!
Questions: None today
GTKY: How did you meet your partner? My mom forced me to go a thirteenth birthday party that I really didn’t want to go to and there he was! We were on and off for years since I was 13 (I didn’t make it easy on him)
Upcoming appointments: Thursday phone appointment with my GP, 1st Ultrasound August 12th 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
How are you feeling?: The stress comes and goes. Kind of like the nausea. Other than that I'm feeling hopeful...
Rants/Raves: I'm feeling cautiously optimistic that I might actually get to my 1st ultrasound...and that I might actually see a heartbeat 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
Questions: Nope:)
GTKY: How did you meet your partner? Short answer, at a New Year's Eve dance 20+ years ago. We've been together ever since.
@Panaceia I hope the phone appointment goes well and August 12th comes quickly!
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: March 15/5+6
Upcoming appointments: Tomorrow, I'm not sure if they'll just do the intake paperwork/bloodwork or if they'll do a confirmation/dating ultrasound
How are you feeling?: I've had more early pregnancy symptoms in the last 2 weeks than I did my during the entirety of either of my other 2
Rants/Raves: Rave- we did a DNA test on our puppy and we got the results this weekend! she's mostly German shepherd and a variety of hounds, I think it's so much fun to find out about my pups!
Questions: What might my OB be doing at a 6+0 appointment? Has anyone else gone in that early?
GTKY: How did you meet your partner? We work for the same company and were in a training program together, they told us to eat lunch with someone we didn't know that day. I sat with him and after 2 years of running into each other at various events, we started dating!
Upcoming appointments: today! First US today and first midwife appointment on Wednesday.
How are you feeling?: I’m equal parts excited and terrified for today’s appointment. I think my due date is later, so more like 6w3 or something, and I worry we won’t see a heartbeat. I’m glad my husband can finally come with me.
Rants/Raves: we’re leaving on a 10 day road trip Friday so my brain is a pile of to-do lists. How am I supposed to get any work done??
Questions: natm
GTKY: How did you meet your partner? Match.com!
ETA: my due date is now March 14th, according to ultrasound. Makes a lot more sense because I know I ovulated later and have longer cycles.
3/6//7+2
Upcoming appointments:
July 29
How are you feeling?:
Nauseas, pretty sure I have HG
Rants/Raves:
My coworkers are absolutely amazing and I would not be making it through without them
Questions: Has anyone else had HG? What was your experience? Did it go away or last your whole pregnancy?
GTKY: How did you meet your partner?
Bumble right before the world locked down, it was be in my bubble or get out. He got in my bubble (euphemism win)
@iseewholewheat16 I’m so sorry about the possible HG! I had horrible nausea until 19 weeks last time and that was bad enough. I’m so glad I didn’t have HG.
Upcoming appointments: call with the nurse 8/12, US with my doc 8/25
How are you feeling?: pretty good! The relentless nausea started at 6 weeks last time, so I’m just enjoying feeling great for now!
Rants/Raves: like I just said, I’m so glad I’m not feeling sick yet! I have hope that this pregnancy will be different than my last! My initial symptoms have been very different, so maybe that’s a good sign.
Questions: anyone nursing a toddler right now? DS nurses at bedtime and nap time. I want to wean him before baby comes/before it gets too uncomfortable, but I just don’t know how to do it.
GTKY: How did you meet your partner? We met in college. We’ve been together for 11 years, married for 9.
@Panaceia all the things crossed
@jlbaker08 my Ob typically does an intake.. mine is actually this week. Just pee in a cup and talk about being PG. I find it absurd after a first pregnancy, but it's just something my office does. No US or anything.
@rachelredhead thinking of you today!!!!
@iseewholewheat16 sorry about the HG, i'm no help on that front but sending you hugs.
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 3/20 5w1
Upcoming appointments: Wednesday for an intake, no US scheduled yet. I'm hoping for the week of 8/2 or 8/8
How are you feeling?: nauseous, insomnia last night, constantly out of breath, anxious.
Rants/Raves: saw some friends last night who did not make a peep about me not drinking (i typically will, and we were at a brewery) so i didn't have to lie or tell them anything. Bless them.
Questions: nah.
GTKY: How did you meet your partner? A blind date that we were both unenthused by. We both wanted to cancel, didn't have any strong desire to see each other again after. Turns out MH was in a terrible work situation at the time that was stressing him out. After he got out of that, he got ahold of me again and we realized we actually did like each other
Upcoming appointments: August 6 - first OB appt, she has a bedside ultrasound machine and hoping to see a HB
How are you feeling?: My symptoms are fairly minimal, which means my anxiety is high and I have to remind myself often that I had minimal symptoms for my first two babies so it's really meaningless in terms of viability.
Rants/Raves: Rant - weekends are too short.
Questions: None right now.
GTKY: How did you meet your partner? My neighbor went to business school with him, and I knew I was moving out of state a few months later, but I needed a date to an event. Fast forward 11 years, we're 2 kids, 4 dogs deep with another on the way. Hah!
@morgantu he’s 55 minutes away, but we have cousins on H’s side one who is 15 away and my son is obsessed with so that’s amazing, we see them a lot
@jlbaker08 Same as said above, first appointment is usually just answering a million questions and being sent for bloodwork. I do my intake appointments by phone now since my doctor trusts that I know when I'm pregnant at this point and they let me save my blood pannel for when I get my NIPT so I don't have to go multiple times:)
@iseewholewheat16 I have had HG with both my pregnancies. It is miserable. Nothing stays down, including water so you risk dehydration. I was almost hospitalized multiple times (the first was the worst) but my doctors were amazing and monitored me closely throughout. But basically you can't eat, drink, and can barely function. For me it kicked in somewhere between 8 and 10 weeks and lasted until delivery:/ I was throwing up all through labour with my first and left the hospital under my pre peeg weight (and I was underweight to start with in that pregnancy). Miserable!!!!! I hope you don't have it! I'm preparing for it again since I'm only 4+5, my nausea is already ramping up and it's feeling a lot like with DD1. If you have any questions I'm here:)
@appleblossom8317 I sort of wish my ultrasound was later but due to my history they don't let me go later than 8 weeks for my first one:/ I'm still nursing my 2 year old as well, but I'm not planning on weaning. I'm going to let her continue to nurse and hopefully tandem nurse if we're lucky enough to bring this peanut home:)
@Patience7150 I feel the sane about symptoms. The nausea is just starting to ramp up, and I know my symptoms don't normally kick in consistently until well after the 6 week mark, but it doesn't stop me from stressing out! TW***** My first 2 losses my symptoms were super strong immediately so I'm hoping the delay is a good sign ****end TW
@rachelredhead Yay for a great ultrasound and adjusted due date!
March 5/7+2
Upcoming appointments:
July 28 for ultrasound and first OB visit
How are you feeling?:
Still pretty exhausted most of the day, nausea is coming in waves, and I have an aversion to coffee and sometimes chicken
Rants/Raves:
Rant/had to go grocery shopping while nauseous yesterday. Rave/I got Taco Bell on the way home from the store because it was the only thing that sounded good. It was.
Questions:
none
GTKY: How did you meet your partner?
Highschool. We've been together 14 years, married almost 11.
Upcoming appointments: None yet, waiting to hear back from the midwife clinic. Probably not until 8-10 weeks though since that's their usual.
How are you feeling?: Feeling pretty good during the day as long as I have something on my stomach. I've been waking up at 4:30 every morning needing to pee though and then I can't go back to sleep.
Rants/Raves: Glad to be feeling functionally okay for the moment, but I had awful symptoms with my first so I'm bracing myself. It feels like so long until the first appointment still since over probably got a month to go. Gah.
Questions: None yet
GTKY: How did you meet your partner? Elementary school!
@Patience7150 Definitely agree on the lack of symptoms also being anxiety-producing. There is just no winning!
@morgantu That's so great of your friends to not ask!
@appleblossom8317 I hate waiting for that first ultrasound!
@iseewholewheat16 Yay for great coworkers!
@rachelredhead Hope it's a great appointment today!
@jlbaker08 That is so fun finding out about your dog. Hope the appointment goes well!
@Panaceia The anxiety and stress in early pregnancy is definitely unreal.
@gembud Yay for a niece! Coffee has definitely not been sounding good to me either.
Upcoming appointments: My first appointment is on August 11. I'm hoping all looks well. I'm in a new city with a new OB, so I'm curious how it will go! I loved my former OB and wish she were closer, but FX this one is good, too.
How are you feeling?: I feel so different from my pregnancy with DD. With DD, I had only the faintest line the day I missed my period. I was also immediately exhausted and nauseous, but had hardly any other symptoms. With this one, I had a pretty distinct positive at 3w3d, I still have energy (thank goodness), and I'm not all that nauseous (yet!), but I have all these symptoms I never had with DD--headaches, sore boobs, heightened smell. Normal pregnancy stuff, but new to me since I never had them with DD!
Rants/Raves: I'm going on a roadtrip to visit family this Friday. Excited to see everyone (especially a new little niece I haven't gotten to meet in person yet!), but kind of nervous that morning sickness might decide to show up right in the middle of our two-day car trip...
Questions: Any tips for surviving long car trips while pregnant?
GTKY: How did you meet your partner? We met in school. He asked me to play tennis with him and a group of friends and then I ended up sitting next to him in one of our classes. The rest is history
We've been together 6 years and married almost 4.
Upcoming appointments: Next Wednesday for first in-person appointment and ultrasound
How are you feeling?: Towards the end of last week I found myself thinking "I almost wish I had more symptoms so it felt more real"...well, be careful what you wish for, I suppose. The nausea has hit pretty hard the last two days and the fatigue is here as well. Have also had a hard time staying asleep for the full night, but hoping that gets better now that my poison oak has finally faded!
Rants/Raves: We are officially fully moved in to our new apartment, and we ordered a new bedroom set now that we have the extra space! I am so excited that the queen-sized bed will be here before we introduce a pregnancy pillow to the mix (I don't think there would be room in the full-sized for me, DH, and the pillow). So relieved for that process to be over and done with!
Questions: none, other than the rhetorical question of why does the first trimester feel so long? I can't fathom feeling like this for another 8 weeks
GTKY: How did you meet your partner? We did Teach For America together after college!
@smoresdoeuvres I also had a somewhat nauseous grocery shopping experience yesterday...I went to get some snacks and nothing sounded appealing except pickles. So now I have a bunch of plain crackers and some pickles to get me through the week!
@abjm0325 elementary school!! I love that!! I work in an elementary school now and it's so funny to think about there potentially being a future set of spouses/partners amongst our kids!
Upcoming appointments: I will probably schedule one sometime this week
How are you feeling?: I’m feeling pretty okay at the moment. I’ve been super lightheaded and dizzy but pretty well other than that.
Rants/Raves: Just got to spend some time with my sister and nieces/nephews. It was a fun time but I’m glad to stick on a show for a little bit of quiet around here. Rant: my husband and my baby have some type of eye infection so I guess I have to get to the pedi tomorrow.
Questions: I have a really filmy feeling in my mouth, anyone else? It feels so gross and is accompanied by metallic taste (typical for me I’m early pregnancy). Never experienced that part.
GTKY: How did you meet your partner? Bible study when we were in college. We ended up leading the music for many years.
5.5.16 | 8.14.17 | 1.30.19
@appleblossom8317 @gembud I weaned my two year old 6 weeks ago, and it was surprisingly super easy! I had been expecting it to be a nightmare. First I cut it down to one session a day, right before bed. We stayed there for a while. Then for a few days my husband and I alternated handling bedtime (so only nursing every other day). Within 3-4 days of that schedule my son just stopped asking for it. I hope weaning turns out to be easy for you.
@iseewholewheat16 I didn't have HG last pregnancy, but I did have brutal morning sickness. So bad I had to take a leave of absence from work because I couldn't function. (HG diagnosis often requires vomiting so bad that there's either dehydration or dangerous weight loss. I didn't have either of those, I was just basically in bed for two months miserable). But my nausea did clear up. Between about 12 weeks and 20 weeks I was able to function again, living normal life but still exhausted and nauseous most of the time. By the end of my second trimester I finally started to feel good again, and the pregnancy gods compensated me for my brutal first trimester by giving me an easy, comfortable third trimester. So it might get better for you, but it might be a long road. I hope you don't have HG!
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: March 23, 4+5
Upcoming appointments: an ultrasound on 7/30. Fingers crossed we get to see a heartbeat!
How are you feeling?: Great! I'm shocked to say that because by this time last pregnancy my nausea was already completely debilitating, but right now the waves of nausea have been almost completely controllable with snacking. I am thrilled about that. Even if the bad bad nausea I was expecting still comes later, I've dodged one week of it so far and that feels good.
Rants/Raves: I am so excited that my betas came back all good last week! I'm still pinching myself to finally be pregnant after 8 months of trying.
Questions: Would anyone join in if I started a name thread? I know it's early but I looove talking about baby names.
GTKY: How did you meet your partner? On okcupid. We had been living 4 blocks away from each other for years and had never met. Then we finally met a few weeks after he moved 45 minutes away. The first two dates were awkward but we stuck it out and after the third date I was completely hooked. We've been together for 7 years and married for 4.
Upcoming appointments: next beta will be 7/21 then my RE will schedule my 1st appointment
How are you feeling?: my boobs hurt so baddddddddddd, but I’m assuming it has to be from the hormones I’m on since it’s far too early for this. My beta was 172 today, so I’m happy 😊
Rants/Raves: I typically work night shift Day shift needs help today and I thought let me test it out because it may be a better fit after maternity leave. Well I’m not a fan at all! Too many cooks in the kitchen 😂 Plus, my night shift nurses seem to have a better sense of humor.
Questions:
GTKY: How did you meet your partner? at a bar 11 years ago....so romantic.
Upcoming appointments: I still have to call. Lol
How are you feeling?: I got pregnant in May, lost it at 5 weeks. I’m nervous. This is my 3rd baby and rainbow if all goes well! I was so happy and feeling blessed but now all the fear is creeping in. I think I have to wait til I’m 8 weeks that means only next month in the second week. 😩
My boobs hurt so much. Barely any nausea. Ehxausted.
Rants/Raves:
Questions: can I drink kombucha? Health Ade one ??
GTKY: How did you meet your partner? When I was 15 years old. In church and high school. ❤️
Upcoming appointments:
I had my first appt with my GP today..gave me some blood work and ultrasound requisitions to do. My first prenatal appt will be on Aug 5
How are you feeling?:
Exhausted!!!! I need sleep
Rants/Raves:
We are in the middle of renovations on our new house ..and I just want to be in already and settled in! Currently looking for new toilets
Questions:
None
GTKY: How did you meet your partner?
We met at work..he was always bringing me coffee and asking me to workout with him
March 10thish? / 6+4
Upcoming appointments: Aug. 2
How are you feeling?: Feeling okay, it hasn't quite sunk in yet, probably will after hearing/seeing a heartbeat. Having nausea off and on with occasional vomiting. Sore nips (nursing = yowch!) Vivid dreams (not that interesting though, just hard to wake up from. Lame.) Quite fatigued. Sometimes talking about something unappetizing or a gross smell (dirty diaper) has made me queasy which is not normal at all for me.
Rants/Raves: Fatigue/sleep issues are the bane of my existence even when I'm not KU but it's really causing issues for me now. My sleep schedule is effed so I've not been falling asleep until 4ish and then can NOT get myself to wake up until like 11 a.m. Not great for keeping the kiddos on a schedule or getting them places on time.
GTKY: How did you meet your partner?
I first met him as the ex of one of my best friends & roommate from college, they were still hooking up though from time to time. The chemistry was immediately apparent but about a year later he still had to ask me out like 15 times before I agreed.
I had never been in a relationship before so I was scared (social anxiety), but thank goodness he persisted! A late night game of slap the bag lead to me saying yes and we haven't been apart since. 
Upcoming appointments: I have one at the end of August
How are you feeling?:
Tired as hell lol i have insomnia
The nausea started today
Rants/Raves:
We're moving states. It's been a 2 month process. We should've paced ourselves better
Questions: none
GTKY: How did you meet your partner?
I met my husband on bumble! I was completely turned off by him as his car smelled similar to my brother (he works with a lot of leather). A month later, I keep trying to let him down slowly. He convinces me to let him come with me to photograph a wedding. We fall in love and got married 12 days later!
@desouzanah @Panaceia I read somewhere that kombucha has natural caffeine in it, which may be why it's generally a no during pregnancy?
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 19 March from my GP / 5w3d
We met on a dancefloor in a club, both rather inebriated! He was a friend of a friend, and we just clicked. We spent the whole night sitting in a booth talking, and he walked me home afterward (we were at university in a very small town, where everyone walked rather than driving). In September, it will be ten years since we started dating.
Upcoming appointments: August 2nd for another US
How are you feeling?: Exhausted, having some food aversion (also had food aversion during pregnancy with DS) and just the usual first trimester jitters.
Rants/Raves: DS and I are home for the 3rd day because he has a runny nose and thanks to COVID that's enough to send kids home sick nowadays (despite him just having a negative COVID/Flu/RSV test last week).
Questions: None as of right now!
GTKY: How did you meet your partner?
We bumped into each other (literally) at his work and chatted for a few minutes. We added each other on Facebook, went on our first date and the rest is history.
Upcoming appointments: August 12, which is right before we go on a quick trip with my parents and my grandmother.
How are you feeling?: Anxious and excited. The nausea and exhaustion have kicked up a couple notches over the past few days, so I'm feeling a little more hopeful.
Rants/Raves: I generally love the weather in CT. It doesn't usually get too hot or too cold, but the weather this summer has been terrible. We have gotten something like 16 inches of rain in the past 2-3 weeks. The humidity is much crazier than normal. I'm ready for fall.
Questions:
GTKY: How did you meet your partner? We online! Our first date was July 25, 2010. We got married on July 25, 2015.
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 3/16/22, 5+6
Upcoming appointments: Fri, 7/23 - I'll be 6+2!
How are you feeling?: Overall, not too bad. Fatigued (taking 2 naps a day to survive), bloated, and had some brown spotting this morning.
Rants/Raves: Ted Lasso, season 1! I've been binging on TV shows to pass the time, and that was the latest show I watched that I really liked.
Questions:
GTKY: How did you meet your partner? We met at a bar through a mutual friend. He was more interested in me than I in him, but I fell in love after a few months of dating. We actually moved in together after 7 months! Been together for 7 years, married for 4 years. Thankful that he is a supportive husband and that he is good at giving me those progesterone shots!
@trails15 I am with you on the feeling nothing and then almost wishing you did and then it'll hit so hard. It's like the second you think you'd like some reassurance with symptoms, you get it 3 fold.
@plalli Have fun with the design portion of the Renos! Toilets seems simple but I remember when we gutted our last bathroom there seemed be so many options.
@brianalee9757 Just a runny nose!? I'm sorry! I thought ours was tight but even they allow for runny noses as long as there is no fever.
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: March 26th I think.
Upcoming appointments: First ultrasound isn't till 8/17...Cool part is that by random chance it's with the doctor who delivered my two DD's. It's a large practice so such a cool thing to have randomly happen.
How are you feeling?: I'm doing well which of course worries me. Tests have all awesomely progressed and I had nausea last week but aside from tiredness and burping, this week has gone just fine. Twinges of nausea here and there. I try not to worry and I know with my last two the nausea hit like a truck at 6 weeks, but of course my brain goes crazy.
Rants/Raves: So if this little one sticks we need a larger vehicle and we came to the conclusion that our SUV ways are going to need to change for the functionality of a van. We rented one for vacation last year and the sheer functionality amazed me enough to give up my hate of minivans aesthetics. Anyway I found a great used one but I called the dealership this morning and the sales person seemed soooo unenthused about answering questions. Tons of awkward silence where the answers to my questions were bare bones and short. I hate giving people like that my business....but the van is loaded with super low mileage. I'm warring with myself, as I wait for the video they are supposed to send me, on if I want to engage in the pain in the buttness of car negotiations with someone like that. Bleh.
Questions: None for now.
GTKY: How did you meet your partner? Match! Years ago I was in law school and a few of my friends had success. I didn't want to date a future lawyer and given the packed schedule of class and studying, options outside of law school were slim. So one night with a glass of wine and my sister's help, I signed up. DH reached out with in 48 hours and we had our first date a few weeks later. He was the only person I met in person on there. We dated for two years and have been married since 2014.
March 10 / 6 + 4 I think
Upcoming appointments:
Monday, July 26 I moved since my last two pregnancies so will be seeing a new OB-GYN and am curious how they will be. I am also AMA so not sure how my care will change, I was also AMA with my others but my prior doctor didn’t feel I needed any extra monitoring
How are you feeling?:
Overall, pretty good actually. Tired and moody but could definitely be worse.
Rants/Raves:
We just received an email this morning that my company is ending their WFH policy earlier than originally communicated but was very vague on the actual plan and details to return to work. I’m unimpressed and worried about what sort of changes I will need to make. Plus, half my team is on vacation till August and I am SWAMPED 😵💫
Questions:
GTKY: How did you meet your partner?
We met in 2008 at work and started dating in 2009. He left for another company not long after and eight years later, I joined him again at the new company and we still both work there now but in different departments.