PGAL weekly check in 5/25

nik6499 · May 2015

since the old thread was getting pretty big thought we would start a new one this week

How is everyone doing this week?

susiaustin · May 2015

MS is back, at 13 weeks

got to see my parents today, they live 20 hours from me and were at my sisters which is 4 hours, met 3 hours from home. They brought my niece who is INSISTING my belly has her GIRL cousin in it. She was so proud to tell her mommy she got to meet her cousin and kissed her goodbye (cutest thing in the universe seeing my 3 year old goddaughter kiss my belly). Made me feel so amazing. No doctors this week, not till a week Wednesday

yl1m32015 · May 2015

So far, so good. Symptoms are pretty mild, if any. Just some serious smells and I can feel my intestines being pushed up higher. I have an apt Wednesday and I'm curious if he'll try to find the hb. Chromosome testing is 2 weeks from today. I'll be 11 wks this week so I'm feeling good.

keiragann · May 2015

I'm ok. Symptoms are starting to go away (which makes me nervous). I have my NT scan, blood test, and appointment with my High Risk ob on Wednesday. I'll be 13 weeks exactly that day so let's hope everything looks good.

nik6499 · May 2015

@Embuzz247 we can be chromosome buddies, mine is on the 8th NT scan right after.

I have an appt wednesday with my RE one final scan for sanity. And yes I still check the doppler nightly lol

lovebeingamom84 · May 2015

Doing good, 9w3d now, ms has been mild, which makes me nervous but I'm trying to be happy about being able to eat again. I have an ultrasound tomorrow bc I'm a nervous pregnant lady and my doc is awesome and letting me come back for another ultrasound. We saw the baby and heartbeat at 7 weeks, so I'm excited to see what the baby looks like now!!

yl1m32015 · May 2015

nik6499 said:
@Embuzz247 we can be chromosome buddies, mine is on the 8th NT scan right after.

I have an appt wednesday with my RE one final scan for sanity. And yes I still check the doppler nightly lol

Lol, no way. My chromosome and nt testing is the 8th. We will definitely be thinking of each other that day!

nik6499 · May 2015

Haha that's funny. Mine is 1 and 2 MST

Alyssaerin996 · May 2015

Hi everyone. Longtime lurker, first time poster.

Alyssaerin996 · May 2015

How rude! The app cut me off!

kimb311 · May 2015

I have my first appointment with my high risk dr Wednesday. Looks like that's the day for a lot of us this week! Not exactly sure what to expect. First time we have actually made this appointment. I believe he will do the blood tests for all the chromosome abnormalities and we are choosing to find out sex too! I'm under the impression I will see him a few times during the pregnancy. But just unclear. Then June 3rd I have my NT scan. Lots going on the next two weeks. Throw in a dance recital and birthday party for my 4 yo and I might have time to sleep!

The ultrasound at the hospital Friday had me measuring at 11w on the dot. A few days ahead of the last scan I had. I swear every time they take a peek they add a few days, I may have to leave this board and join the November one! LOL

My inlaws rushed here from San Antonio ( I'm in Houston) on Saturday and have not let me do a thing. She has done laundry, grocery shopped, and today she cleaned. All while I stayed in bed snuggling with my daughter. Talk about feeling guilty! But also extremely grateful. Love that woman!

We were at a bbq today and a friend asked " so when is the baby due?" And I didn't know how to answer. I froze. I'm not ready to answer that. It still seems so unlikely this will go the distance. I'm starting to annoy myself at this point

kimb311 · May 2015

Holy crap I just had verbal diarrhea. Sorry ladies!

CMDD · May 2015

Nothing new. Still chugging along at 8w5d today and waiting for my next appointment in a few more weeks.

I'm trying to feel good about this until I hear otherwise and today I'm feeling good. I can't believe I'm only at 8 weeeeekss!!

CMDD · May 2015

@keiragann that's great that your symptoms are subsiding, right on schedule.

mavgirl_73 · May 2015

Posted on the other discussions but never on a PGAL post. 10w today. We lost twins back in 2010 at just under 21 weeks. And most recently I had a missed mc in January. We've been more cautious this time around, feels like before our first daughter was born in 2011 again. So far so good. My OB is not sending us to a perinatologist at the moment as things are chugging along nicely. However we will be doing all the bloodwork and NT scans to prepare us for this one's arrival. Next appointment is in middle of June. I'll see the surgeon for my surgery consult to remove my gallbladder on the 4th. MS has thankfully turned a corner for the better.

BostonBaby1 · May 2015

kimb311 said:
Holy crap I just had verbal diarrhea. Sorry ladies!

I would hardly call that verbal diarrhea! Plus… I love to hear anything that you have to say!

vbrannin2010 · May 2015

No appointments for me until next week. I did, however, end up hospitalized for severe dehydration over the weekend. I hate having attention on me so I was just toughing it through the hypermesis, but after a week with only 2 meals kept down and no liquid in over 36 hours... my husband dragged my ass through a thunderstorm/tornado watch to the ER. Bright side? We got to hear our precious angel baby's HB for the first time. I couldn't stop crying/laughing. We're strong at 9 weeks 4 days. :x

holly1811 · May 2015

Today is the day of my first us. Feeling sick with nerves as soon as i see a heart heat i am sure i will relax. Please keep your fingers crossed for us

BostonBaby1 · May 2015

holly1811 said:
Today is the day of my first us. Feeling sick with nerves as soon as i see a heart heat i am sure i will relax. Please keep your fingers crossed for us

Absolutely will be praying for you!

cards10 · May 2015

Good luck to everyone going for u/s and testing this week!! 10w3d today and this is an off-week for us, nothing scheduled. Genetic testing u/s is next week for us. Second trimester is getting closer, ladies!

nik6499 · May 2015

turned 10 weeks this morning and I woke up with this painful abdomen. It's not cramps just Sorr all over, was reading my new 10 week blurb and noticed it talking about all the abdominal pain and stretching lol guess that explains it. I have to go do developmental assessments on toddlers so I hope the discomfort subsides over the next couple hours!

rain0831boww · May 2015

Graduated to a plum (12 weeks)! Wish I would get an ultrasound every week to make sure baby is okay but just waiting for my Harmony test to come back. Just want baby to be healthy!!!!!!!

My best friend's sister is taking photos of my husband and I so we can send announcements to family and friends to finally tell them! Don't like the attention in person so I thought telling them that way is perfect for me.

holly1811 · May 2015

Had my 12 week scan today and official due date of the dec 5th. Was so lovely to see baby, us tech couldnt belive how content baby was and slept with its arms behind its head for the entire scan.

imfunsizeniki · May 2015

I will be 13 weeks tomorrow. I thought I would be feeling more secure about that milestone, but I'm just not. For some reason I had in my head that my last m/c was earlier in week 12 {I was in a super daze after finding out at the appt alone, with DH deployed}. I was looking back at some of my posts from another forum and found that I was 12w5d at the last loss.... So 13 weeks isn't really "safe" in my mind. I might feel safe at 14 weeks, when I'm in the 2nd trimester no matter which source you're looking at. Maybe not... We'll see. I'm still doing my almost daily heartbeat checks with my doppler, had to miss a couple this weekend while I was shooting a wedding. 16 hour day on my feet most of it, and I was literally pooped and didn't get out of bed the next day till I had to take dinner to DH at work. My next appt isn't until 16 weeks and I have one with my regular OB and then my high risk OB for my ultrasound and amnio. Ugh, why won't they invent home u/s machines?? I could really use one now like I use my doppler. I'm losing my mind going 10 weeks between u/s.

rain0831boww · May 2015

imfunsizeniki said:

I will be 13 weeks tomorrow. I thought I would be feeling more secure about that milestone, but I'm just not. For some reason I had in my head that my last m/c was earlier in week 12 {I was in a super daze after finding out at the appt alone, with DH deployed}. I was looking back at some of my posts from another forum and found that I was 12w5d at the last loss.... So 13 weeks isn't really "safe" in my mind. I might feel safe at 14 weeks, when I'm in the 2nd trimester no matter which source you're looking at. Maybe not... We'll see. I'm still doing my almost daily heartbeat checks with my doppler, had to miss a couple this weekend while I was shooting a wedding. 16 hour day on my feet most of it, and I was literally pooped and didn't get out of bed the next day till I had to take dinner to DH at work. My next appt isn't until 16 weeks and I have one with my regular OB and then my high risk OB for my ultrasound and amnio. Ugh, why won't they invent home u/s machines?? I could really use one now like I use my doppler. I'm losing my mind going 10 weeks between u/s.

I know you're not supposed to feel jealous of anyone but I am so jealous of women who have never lost, who go through their pregnancy feeling at ease, who plan ahead and have perfectly healthy babies. They make it look normal. Easy.

Hang in there. Just know if you hit that 13 weeks, you're further along than last time. That's a positive, right?

yl1m32015 · May 2015

I'm so jealous of everyone who can hear heart beats on home dopplers. I'd feel SO much better if I could. No matter how hard I try, I can't get it. It's so frustrating! And everyone talks about finding their own heart beats, I've never gotten that either? I literally don't pick up anything at all. So now I'm wondering if I'm using it correctly or not. I don't get any whooshing or anything. I've read the directions, watched YouTube videos, but I get nothing.

keiragann · May 2015

@CMDD I think I jinxed myself by saying that

I just threw up my lunch everywhere. Gotta love pregnancy

nellybellycat · May 2015

11 weeks here. 1st appt next Friday. Im sure Ill be a nervous wreck (had a missed last time) still batteling MS and fatigue but it is slightly better.

rain0831boww · May 2015

Embuzz247 said:

I'm so jealous of everyone who can hear heart beats on home dopplers. I'd feel SO much better if I could. No matter how hard I try, I can't get it. It's so frustrating! And everyone talks about finding their own heart beats, I've never gotten that either? I literally don't pick up anything at all. So now I'm wondering if I'm using it correctly or not. I don't get any whooshing or anything. I've read the directions, watched YouTube videos, but I get nothing.

That's what I'm worried about if I order one.

yl1m32015 · May 2015

rain0831boww said:

Embuzz247 said:

I'm so jealous of everyone who can hear heart beats on home dopplers. I'd feel SO much better if I could. No matter how hard I try, I can't get it. It's so frustrating! And everyone talks about finding their own heart beats, I've never gotten that either? I literally don't pick up anything at all. So now I'm wondering if I'm using it correctly or not. I don't get any whooshing or anything. I've read the directions, watched YouTube videos, but I get nothing.

That's what I'm worried about if I order one.

I try everyday for at least a half hour and then just end up crying. I just hoped I'd have been able to hear it before my apt tomorrow, but now I'm completely a wreck. I'm terrified for my apt tomorrow, if the OB can't find it and has to send me to the hospital for an u/s, my DH has to work so I'll be all alone. I don't know how to face the possibility of another loss. I wish I'd never even known about home dopplers. At least then I could be blissfully excited for my apt tomorrow.

blackw15 · May 2015

@Embuzz247, if it's any consolation, I'm an ER nurse and I have seen countless patients for whom I couldn't find FHT's, but they have an ultrasound and there's a healthy little baby in there. I often tell my patients that I probably won't find the heartbeat before 12 weeks because it's so hit or miss.
I myself have tried to find the heartbeat on a Doppler (I'm 10w1d today) and have been unsuccessful. We just need to tell ourselves that we are really early.
Lots of hugs to you.

rain0831boww · May 2015

@Embuzz247 Just try to stay positive until tomorrow and let us know how everything goes. Don't go there in your mind yet.

kimb311 · May 2015

@Embuzz247 you are going to be good tomorrow! I know the stress is just so much at times. But you are stronger than even YOU know. That's one of the side effects of being through what we all have been through. While we may feel weak and fragile we are actually strong strong women that can carry so much on our shoulders and in our hearts. We got this girls!

kimb311 · May 2015

@holly1811 that's an honest to god baby in there! How adorable!!!! Congrats!!!!!

imfunsizeniki · May 2015

@cmdd try putting it right where your dr puts the stethoscope to listen to your heart. If you don't hear anything there, you have a faulty doppler or the cable isn't in the machine securely. Mine wiggled out just the slightest bit while I was using it the other day. It was still on like everything was fine, and it looked like it was still connected, but it was dead silent. No wooshing, no gurgles, no heartbeat of my own. I thought for sure my doppler had just died. I wiggled the cord and realized it was loose, fixed it and boom sound was back. But if you don't hear your own heart beat right over your heart, and everything is secure, your machine is a dud.

CMDD · May 2015

holly1811 said:
Today is the day of my first us. Feeling sick with nerves as soon as i see a heart heat i am sure i will relax. Please keep your fingers crossed for us

How did it go? Sorry. Missed your post! See it now yay!

nik6499 · May 2015

Embuzz247 said:
I'm so jealous of everyone who can hear heart beats on home dopplers. I'd feel SO much better if I could. No matter how hard I try, I can't get it. It's so frustrating! And everyone talks about finding their own heart beats, I've never gotten that either? I literally don't pick up anything at all. So now I'm wondering if I'm using it correctly or not. I don't get any whooshing or anything. I've read the directions, watched YouTube videos, but I get nothing.

Put lots of gel on your lower abdomen right about where the crease is (ok maybe you are thin and don't have a crease, I have a crease) start over near your hip bone, press firmly and move slowly, you should pick up your own heartbeat in this area. Slowly move towards center and press somewhat and just once along slowly. I always started with finding my own in the beginning.

nik6499 · May 2015

And let me ADD many and I mean MANY women cannot find until 14 weeks. You are pregnant today hon, whether or not that pesky doppler is working. If you do check, and if you are anything like me you will. Just slow and methodical. If you don't find in 10 minutes out it up and tell yourself you will check tomorrow. I know that's easier said than done but set the boundary for your sanity. And I press pretty damn hard lol BUT you have an inverted uterus right? That MIGHT be the problem and you may not hear until later.

imfunsizeniki · May 2015

^^^ yep, I press really hard, some times I have to take a break because it's not comfortable. I also use my bose headphones occasionally to hear it better. Especially early on. If your uterus is inverted, this may also help. But I suspect since you aren't hearing wooshing or your own, it's the doppler.

kategancla · May 2015

I'm 11 weeks today and MS seems to be getting worse. It was most mornings and some afternoons. One Zofran a day and I was fine (we won't talk about what happened if I didn't take the Zofran). Since Saturday it has been morning, noon, and night. My new MS laughs at Zofran and projectile vomits it into the closest toilet/sink/bush. Help.

Beckah31 · May 2015

I want to say that I've moved past MS, but I don't want to jinx it. I will say I'm gagging less. But I'm back to bloated as a whale. Like, I look pregnant and I'm running out of ways to cover this non-sense up because it's hotter than heck here!!

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