Pregnancy Check-in

KH826 · February 2014

Hi Everyone -- please share with us how your/your Spouse/Partner's pregnancy is going? Any updates? Please remind us how far along you are and when your EDD is.

QOTW: Tell us if you have had any pregnancy cravings yet (for food or other indulgences).

Manada · February 2014

Hi Everyone,

I am toeing in a bit, because we are embracing being pregnant today... even if it doesn't stick.

We are 4w6d today and the ivf.ca calculator tells me that the rocky should be getting a neural tube sometime around now.   That's good. For some reason, hitting week 6 - and around the time that the rocky gets little t-rex arm buds feels very significant to me --- so my mind is focused on those little t-rex arms for now.    I'm feeling anxious and emotional today mostly.

Our midwife, who is also a good friend, came over last night for food, games and to talk logistics. She has saved us a spot in her caseload already, which is good because I don't think I could stomach the idea of calling other practices while dealing with so much uncertainty.   Her only real instruction was to immediately start taking 5mg of folic acid/day because the newer research is showing that larger women should be taking considerably more of it in pregnancy.

QOTW: No cravings, aside from being incredibly thirsty lately. My water intake has gone way up without me even trying, mostly because I'm just super thirsty all the time and cold water helps to settle my stomach.   I have woken up in the middle of the night a couple times for snacks though, which is totally out of the ordinary for me. I'm learning to embrace that.

KH826 · February 2014

25w6d - EDD June 3rd.

I am uncomfy today. Didn't sleep well the last few nights, and my hips hurt from forced side sleeping (or lack of sleeping - HA!). This is likely all my own fault, so I have no right to complain. I have gained too much weight and I have not been exercising, so I deserve the hip pain. Just reporting, not complaining.

Baby also seems to have positioned herself on or right near my bladder in the last 2 days. I am noticing a major difference in the number of times I have to use the bathroom, and I feel pressure on my bladder pretty much constantly (which I didn't feel before), so I think she is hanging out there.

I have had more swelling recently too (mainly in my ankles and lower legs, and mainly at the end of the day and toward the end of the work week - Friday nights are usually rough for swelling). So far no swelling of hands or anything - so I am thankful for that.

Still feeling baby move everyday. Some days are much more active than others, which I know is normal at this stage, but I like the active days much better.

I have my next OB appointment at 3pm today. I am of course nervous to talk weight gain again. Story of my life.

QOTW: In the first tri I just wanted carbs and salty foods. Breads and crackers were the only things that seemed to quiet my nausea. I had a love affair with cheese-its and onion bagels around the holidays. I haven't had either in a while. I usually love sweets, but sweet things always seemed to make my nausea worse, so I avoided them in the first tri, and only really like slightly-to-moderately sweet things now. I would much rather have bread and pasta than cakes and cookies. Mostly I feel like I crave "dinner" -- if that makes any sense. I want real food in the form of a meal/entree, not snacks or random little things. Dinner is now my favorite meal of the day. Meat, potatoes, rice, cooked veggies, bread... those are the things that I seem to always want. With a glass of cold milk.

ball.and.chain · February 2014

20w1d, due 7/13/14. I'm feeling OK, but am starting to have some hip/lower back/side soreness that I assume is either from growth or the extra weight there. @KH826, I have been going to the gym and it isn't helping much, so cut yourself some slack!

I do need to start yoga, which I keep putting off or having a conflict or just can't get myself going in time (it's at 9:15 on Sundays and I am having a harder and harder time getting myself out of bed in the morning, especially when I don't have to). I am also not happy about side sleeping -- I'm a back sleeper -- but my wife likes it because I snore a lot less. I need to remember to order my Snoogle. As my OB appointment approaches (it's Wednesday afternoon), I am getting a little nervous that there will be no heartbeat, especially with all we've done for the little guy lately, but I know this is just anxiety and everything will likely be just fine.

This weekend we organized some stuff in the attic, which included finding two old toy chests, a rocking horse and a receiving blanket from my/my sisters' childhood that we can use for Mr. Baby. We also finally went through the bags and boxes my SIL gave us a few years ago and realized they contained a swing, a bouncer, a Boppy, a nursing cover, a Beaba, some sort of wedge pillow for the crib (not too sure about that one), and a mei tai. Score! We moved a bookcase out of the nursery and have started organizing the baby clothes collection. We got some tips from a handy friend on wallpaper removal so my wife can start that once we get the nursery emptied out. And we finally cleaned up our office, which has been a dumping ground for the last few months. That one's not baby-related but it was satisfying!

QOTW: Cereal (many kinds, but especially sugary ones, which I try to limit) and milk; Massaman curry; saag paneer; noodles of all kinds (spaghetti, lo mein, ramen, soba, you name it); red-sauce Italian food (especially eggplant or chicken parmesan).

@Mamosey, I've been wondering about you! Glad to hear a plan is in the works.

trisholio · February 2014

I will be 13 weeks tomorrow, EDD 9/2. There isn't too much to report, my belly is getting a little harder. I had a little belly before that I now cannot suck in, so its makes me look a little preggo. I don't mind at this point and I am embracing maternity clothes and my bump. I thought the exhaustion was lifting a bit, but I am not sure what is making me more tired the pregnancy or the kiddos at this point.

It is a little strange that I have been having more anxiety about miscarriage the last few days. I know that any point in pregnancy things could go wrong, but the most likely time in the first trimester I wasn't that stressed much at all. We have an appointment next weekend to find out the sex of the baby at a special ultra sound place. I am so excited to find out and also see the little baby moving and hear the heartbeat.

Belovedvirgo0209 · February 2014

Today we are a banana

we are officially 20 weeks pregnant and everything is going well.We have our anatomy scan March 5th and cant wait.It has been really hard to not go out a buy a fetal Doppler but I'm trying not to be paranoid.Still no movement felt but they say that is normal.

QOTW: Tell us if you have had any pregnancy cravings yet (for food or other indulgences). As for cravings anything sweet these days and I could live at the local Mexican restaurants and taco bell since the day I got pregnant.Basically any and all food sounds good these days.

healz413 · February 2014

I, like @Manada, have chosen to embrace our pregnancy for now. We don't know if we get to keep it, but today we're pregnant. 4weeks and 6days. If we get to keep going, we'll be like @KH826--always hitting our new week on the TTT day.
We'll go for our next beta on Wednesday. We could have gone today but we are feeling ok right now, so we'd rather wait a little and hopefully have a more telling beta number of Wednesday.
M texted me recently to tell me that she felt like barfing. My response was "Yay!" This is the first distinct nausea she's had (although her sense of smell and gag reflex both have been stronger for a few days).

QOTW: I have had so many pregnancy cravings. Mainly for comfort food. Also I'm not the pregnant person, so they are probably technically stress cravings rather than pregnancy cravings.

2MamazInSeattle · February 2014

@healz413, everytime I felt barfy or sick J would respond "yay!"

while its no fun physically it is reassuring emotionally and psychologically!

Today i am 14w5d...we are t-minus 6 days to the day Babykins stopped growing at 15w4d, and we found out at 16w1d...so next week will be a pretty big milestone! Oddly, though, since finding out about lil'mamaz Trisomy X, I've been way more focused on that than loss...not an ideal distraction but a distraction nonetheless!

We got home from our big trip to the south yesterday and I am pooped!! I believe may have peed in every toilet in the tri-state area, walked a zillion miles and hopefully mitigated the zillion calories of southern food. Super fun time. I also had the first semi-stranger touch my belly! Weird! But she was a youngin' who'd had some Mardi Gras drinks so all was fine...but still weird.

QOTW: I am SO grateful to be on the other side of m/s. However during it, I could not eat meat and craved citrus, water/liquids, and of course comfy carbs

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redrockmama · February 2014

20 weeks 3 days EDD July 10th

Ugh it's been a week around here. We had our anatomy scan last thursday and it was great, or so I thought.cervix and that she had to put complete previa in my chart. She said that my midwife would call us to talk about it and we'd have to come in for another scan. It wasn't a big deal to me, I had read a bit about it before and knew that 1 in 3 pregnancies have previa at some point and 80-90% of the time it resolves. Well then my midwife called on Friday and pretty much said it probably won't resolve. She has never seen a complete previa move and said I have to be on pelvic rest. I am beyond devastated. I am only going to be pregnant once and have been planning our homebirth for ages. I gave myself Friday and Saturday to be sad and worried about c-sections, a premie and the NICU. Now, I am just trying to be positive and go on as if everything is normal (except the pelvic rest of course). We have our follow up scan at 32 weeks, which is forever away. I haven't had any bleeding at all during the pregnancy so that is good news. I've been talking to my placenta and visualizing it moving away from my cervix and focusing on our healthy little baby.

QOTW: Honestly I haven't really had cravings. In the first trimester I ate a lot of soup, but that was more because it was the ONLY thing that sounded edible. I crave salty things more often, but that is what I crave normally. @healz413 my wife has way more pregnancy symptoms that me. It cracks us both up. Nausea, cravings, backaches, you name it she has it.

Belovedvirgo0209 · February 2014

@Manada and @healz413 Congrats and sorry to hear about the nausea I found ice water was the best for soothing my tummy and fritos lol I lived off those the first few weeks.Cinnamon gum also worked.I will tell you that MS is no joke mine would strike any time of day and it wasn't every day it started off every other day and at certain times, hours after I eat then went to once a week then ended up coming every other friday.Avoid hot sauce and Milk they arent good the second time around. It was really weird but like you said it makes you feel a little better about the pregnancy.Good luck ladies

2MamazInSeattle · February 2014

@redrockmama - I am so sorry about your previa - what a total shock when I know you had a very, very different vision. I know you will process it and have time to adjust your expectations (believe me, while my situation is totally different, I get the "what?? something is not perfect?!" moment and how hard it is to have to reset everything you envisioned). I'm sorry

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The good news is that you know now, you have time to digest, and make the necessary adjustments for a healthy baby and healthy mom - which is the goal. Of course, not getting the birth experience we want (or in my case, the chromosome count we want), SUCKS and we are all here to support you through your grief/sadness and adjustment time. ((hugs))

Jazibel · February 2014

30 weeks and 6 days today. It's been a tough week. Baby dropped and now I have a ton of pelvic pressure and cervical pain. It's had me a little more stressed than usual. After being on my feet for a while I end up hobbling around a bit until the pressure/pain resolves itself. I've been trying to carry Kaden less and put my feet up more. I'm also getting regular BH contractions. All of this has me paranoid of pre-term labor, even though I know its all very normal for this stage of pregnancy (especially with #2). One cool thing is that I can feel Baby Owen's little body in my belly. I'm guessing he's head down and I'm feeling the curve of his back/butt pushing out against my stomach - it's so cool. My placenta was in front with Kaden so I've never had this particular experience.

Woke up last night at 3:30am and had a hard time getting back to sleep I keep thinking about all the things we need to do and it has my head spinning. I've decided I need to create a master list today and get organized.

We have an appointment with the midwife tonight which I'm looking forward to. I've had to track my foods for 4 days, I've been pretty good with the exception of eating a Costco muffin for breakfast today. ;-) Last appointment we were able to hear the baby's heartbeat with the fetal stethoscope. It was soooo cool to hear the "real heartbeat" not just the doppler echo (which I love too of course). Again with Kaden's positioning I wasn't able to last time. I love that there have been different "firsts" this time around.

QOTD: I spotted heavily at the start of this pregnancy (I thought it was my period at the time 10dpo and didn't test again until 15-16dpo because my temps were really high). Well I had been so "sure" I was pregnant, in part because in the early days of each of my 3 pregnancies I drank more water, craved spinach and eggs, and the toasted seaweed snacks they sell at TJ's. (Guess my cravings were spot on).
First Trimester I craved carbs and starchy foods and cheese. And grapes. I took grapes with me in the car because I became especially nauseous when we were driving around.
Since then I've crave more salty foods then sweet, with the exception of jelly beans, and sour gummis which I never really eat.

yachee · February 2014

36w3d. This is officially my last pregnancy check-in! We are scheduled for Thursday!!! Sooo excited to meet them!!

QOTD: Wifey has been craving chocolate like crazy.

pauljl · February 2014

Just 4weeks and 1 day here. EDD is Nov 2! Starting to experience those symptoms I've heard about. Mostly indigestion, headaches (mostly from caffeine withdrawl I suppose- I cut back while we were trying but now have completely cut it out), some nausea- mostly it wakes me up in the middle of the night.

Is it strange to say I'm grateful for each symptom? It's almost feels reassuring.

Went and got confirmed by the doc and set up an appointment for an ultrasound in 4 weeks! I keep oscillating somewhere in between fear and ridiculous excitement- trying to find a good balance in there somewhere!

QOTD: I've been drinking water more than usual- I feel like a camel. My indulgence has been sweet but tart things- sorbet(lime) and smoothies (especially with mango). Sour things (candies, dill pickles, lemons in my giant ice water cups) are very appealing too!

Byrrd · February 2014

4 weeks here with a 11/3 EDD, as well. Brand new pregnant girl. I'm utterly convinced that every single twinge is my period starting and the whole thing is psychosomatic. (And that's with a beta confirmation!) We go back on Thursday for another blood draw to get a doubling time check and then in two weeks for an ultrasound. I'm still in a bit of shock that it worked! It was our first IUI and I was planning on at least three or four.

QOTW: Tell us if you have had any pregnancy cravings yet (for food or other indulgences).

I am normally stick to a keto/paleo diet. But in yesterday, I gave in and had a cookie and a cup of ice cream! Talk about a sugar rush! Back to healthy eating today!

Byrrd · February 2014

We are a bit Lynx crazy around our house! Season ticket holders!

yachee · February 2014

Byrrd said:

We are a bit Lynx crazy around our house! Season ticket holders!

Go Storm!

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