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Not pregnant yet, but need advice!
Hi all!
I'm not pregnant yet, but thought I could get some advice from you "seasoned preggos"!!
I'm very scared of being pregnant.....scared to death actually of the possibility of morning sickness! Is that horrible?! I HATE throwing up (not that anyone likes to) and it actually makes me question having a baby. I know, I know I'm probably just being a wuss! I'm just scared of all the changes that may happen when I become pregnant.
Please share with me your pregnancy stories!!! I need some positive advice to let me know I'm just being silly! I do want a baby, but geez....what we have to go through to get one!!
Help!
Thanks SO much!!!
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Re: Not pregnant yet, but need advice!
First off, we're not pasta sauce.
Secondly, I hate being pregnant for the reasons you mentioned. I love feeling kicks, but I'm still planning on adopting next time. Lots of kids need homes.
I'm not a seasoned preggo...but i heard Bertolli makes a great sauce.
Anyways...if you're scared, maybe you shouldn't reproduce. I mean all this puking for just a kid in return? And don't even get me started on vaginal leakage..oh and don't forget the nipples. No fun...and SO not worth it.
I think GP would be helpful...
First of all, not everyone gets morning sickness... And take it from someone who has had it for 4 months, its bad, but you can take meds for it. The ONLY thing is some of the meds make you sooo tired you literally cannot function. So you need to talk to your OB about getting on something that doesn't cause drowsiness.
Morning sickness sucks, but once you see the baby on the u/s, you know its all worth it. :-)
my first pg i only threw up 3 x's - and had very little m/s... the 3x's i threw up were from brushing my teeth (it makes many pg women gag).
this pg i have thrown up only once so far - fairly little m/s - considering it's twins.
If you are seriously debating not having children becuase you don't like throwing up...maybe you should reconsider all together. You have much grosser things to deal with when baby comes, like diapers, spit up, throw up, spilling diapers....the list goes on...
FWIW though, I never got sick..it's a toss up..you never know what kind of pregnancy you'll have...
i can't get past "seasoned preggos"...
but seriously there's a lot more to worry about than just m/s when pregnant. ?if you can't handle the vomiting i'm not sure you'd be able to handle the entire process. ?
If a little bit of puking makes you think twice, then I would say you need to think long and hard about it.
Sure, puking and constantly being sick is a side effect, so are headaches, back pain, rib pain, pain, and more pain, but in the end you get to have child. If that's not enough incentive, don't do it.
I try to be very nice to the people on these boards, but this time I just can't keep my mouth shut. Go to the boards of all the women who are trying desperately to have kids and can not. Any one of them would trade a thousands days of morning sickness for a baby.
Go to the Success After a Loss board and read all the posts of the women who are scared to death because they went a day or two without morning sickness and are very afraid they are having another miscarriage. Puking sucks, so does constipation, cramps, and the headaches that come with being pregnant. But there isn't a day that goes by that I wouldn't endure ten times as much as I'm dealing with now to have a baby at the end of this pregnancy.
This "seasoned preggo" thinks you should never reproduce if morning sickness scares you to death!
HTH!
I could barely get past the "seasoned preggo." Please, don't refer to pregnant women as spaghetti sauce, seasoned or not.
I didn't get sick at all. There were a couple weeks of feeling nauseous, but that's it. If you can't handle throwing up, you're not ready for a baby.
"You're gonna miss this You're gonna want this back You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast..."
Basil always gives the best advice
If vomitting is the worst of your fears, you're priorities seem to be out of wack.
Yes, puking sucks. I remember a bout of food poisoning a few years ago....exhausted on the bathroom floor, thinking, holy crap, is THIS what women go through? Yes, they do. Multiple times, even. And people also get heartburn, stretch marks, swollen ankles, hemorrhoids...and THOSE are the "easy" pregnancies.
Are you going to be one of those women who posts wondering if she should POAS?
I prefer oregano. I find that it has more of a "tell-me-what-I-want-to-hear" outlook. Basil always tells it how it is...doesn't even sugar-coat it for me.
yum now I want spaghetti
oh and please don't reproduce anytime soon
::dies::
seriously??
no one can predict what a pregnancy will be like- it could be a horrible experience (with a good thing in the end), or it could be life as usual, or fantastic (with a good thing in the end)
Proud mama to a boys- 6/17/09 - a girl 2/23/11- and a boy 8/20/12
Yeah, seriously. The last thing you can be when you are pg is selfish. Worrying about something you can't control and can't predict ranks right up there.
I'm going to go eat left-over spaghetti now.
Most people get over the morning sickness after the first trimester. I did. I was never really physically sick either...I didn't throw up. I just felt like crap the whole time, and didn't want to eat anything.
I feel GREAT now. My little girl kicks all the time, I can eat what I want, I'm really liking being pregnany at this stage.
For me, it is not being able to take regular medicine that is the really crappy part of being pregnant. That and not being able to ski this winter....oh and the clothes suck.
No doubt. I'm sure what I'm feeling now is nothing compared to the grand finale of this whole pregnancy thing.
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I've never thrown up from morning sickness, but the multiple stomach viruses my kids have given me in the past year have definitely made me throw up.
Pregnancy is by far the easiest part of raising children.?
I haven't had a rough pregnancy so far. Yes I was nauseous and tired for the first 16 weeks but only threw up once. I couldn't wait to get past that part. But when I first heard our baby's heartbeat and saw him on the ultrasound I completely fell in love. I think I could go through just about anything knowing I will have a little baby at the end.
You should think about it really hard before deciding to get pregnant though. You do go through a lot, even in the beginning.
You couldn't have said it any better! Bravo!!! I ditto everything you said and considering the issues that have come about for me during pregnancy is still nothing to trade for the baby girl I will have at the end!
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My thoughts exactly... ?please don't reproduce if you are so immature that the thought of throwing up actually makes you reconsider bringing a child into this world. ?Go to the TTC After a Loss board and read what these women are willing to go through... vomiting isn't ***.