1. Tell us about yourself (if your first time participating) Here's to my leap of faith. I'm 28 and my husband is turning 30 next month. We have been trying off and on for three years and have had two mmc at 9-10 weeks. I am currently 6 weeks pregnant and have had doubling (early) hcg and just had my first ultrasound yesterday. The peanut measured a day ahead and the doctor could see the heartbeat but it was too small to measure. We have had all of the recurrent loss bloodwork possible and everything turned out fine. Our last mmc was due to genetics and my doctor is chalking it all up to "bad luck."
2. How are you feeling (pregnancy symptoms) Exhausted, headaches, moody, huge boobs
3. How are you feeling (anxiety wise) Nervous, scared, excited, anxious. There's no better way to describe it then having a really guarded heart. I find myself getting excited and then I'll have a reality check.
4. When is your first or next appointment? I have another ultrasound on 5/25 to see if we can measure the heart beat.
5. Rants/raves/whatever: My husband just let me have the corners of all of his monte cristo sandwich, so I don't have much to complain about right now.
6. GTKY: what was the first CD you ever bought? Spice Girls. Oh the great time of girl/boy bands. I'm totally that person.
On a side note, I'm so happy to have found this group. Being pregnant is a mixture of emotions, but even more so after a loss. I remember the first time I was pregnant, and I miss how naive I was to everything. I'm glad to find a group of women that understand how hard the journey is and will be.
@LoneStar21416 I'm having the same uneasiness today. My husband said, "no bleeding and no cramping is a good sign." But like you, I had a mmc with no symptoms.
@LoneStar21416 and @ThePax89 I'm in the exact same boat! Having a mmc toys extra hard with the anxiety because there was never a sign anything was wrong. I try to tell myself that it is out of my hands. I can't change what is going to happen, good or bad, so I just need to keep on keepin' on.
MC #1 January 2013 DS born 4/06/14 MC #2 August 2015 CP November 2015 MC#3 January 2016 BFP 5/11/16 EDD 1/19/17
I've had a MMC and had a DNC because I couldn't stand the idea of waiting. I've given birth since but I still have anxiety every time I use the restroom. I always brace myself for blood. You all aren't alone with worry!
i try to tell myself this when I start dwelling (pic attached).
1. Tell us about yourself (if your first time participating): I'm 34 and have a DS who is 18months. I had a miscarriage in October 2015 at around 8 weeks (I was having very long cycles at the time and pretty sure my dating based on lmp was not accurate). I'm 6w 5d into this pregnancy.
2. How are you feeling (pregnancy symptoms): Started with the nausea yesterday. Feeling miserable.
3. How are you feeling (anxiety wise): Starting to get a little better now that the nausea started. The first week I really didn't think much about it and didn't talk much about it, I was surprised and really trying to protect myself from something going wrong again. Still anxious to see the little peanut on an u/s and hoping for the best.
4. When is your first or next appointment? Health history is Monday and based on previous experience will most likely have an U/S and doctor followup on Tuesday.
5. Rants/raves/whatever: They are right...you forget the worse parts of pregnancy...you have to or you wouldn't go through it again. I was nauseas with my first but once it was done, I kind of forgot about how gross I had felt
6. GTKY: what was the first CD you ever bought? I don't remember the first one I bought but the first one I received was Weezer.
@curlysue22 My OB's office only checks beta's and does extra things if you have had more than 1 MC, an ectopic pregnancy, or a few other situations. Since I have only had one loss, I am just following the normal routine. They do an U/S at 8 weeks if there are questions about date or if your bmi doesn't fall in the normal range.
Sorry posting late in the week again >.< I I was waiting to hear back on my results. I had blood drawn on Monday and Wednesday and my numbers more than doubled thank goodness. They asked whether I wanted to do a third draw and I opted for it so I should hear back on the results from Friday's on Monday.
2. How are you feeling (pregnancy symptoms) I have been sooo sleepy it's ridiculous, I can't make it through the day without a nap, luckily DS naps so when he does I sleep with him. In the last few days my BB's have started to ache but besides that I haven't had many symptoms. A little nausea here and there and cramps but nothing abnormal for me. It's a little frustrating...
3. How are you feeling (anxiety wise) Up and down mostly positive but I feel like the days are dragging by I just want to be past the 1st trimester. It's been a week plus a few days since BFP and I feel like I'm starting to obsess over it. I just want everything to go right so badly.
4. When is your first or next appointment? They want to make sure they can see some thing so they wanted to do U/s and first appointment week 7-8 so I made the appointment for June 9th right on the cusp of week 8. Although I don't know how I am supposed to wait that long.
5. Rants/raves/whatever Every cramp, twinge, CM etc. I find my self stressing out and running to the bathroom to make sure it's not blood I know it's silly but I just want to make sure. But since I had the MMC it's hard too because there were no symptoms and how would I know. There are just too many thoughts running through my head.
@ThePax89 I totally understand the no sex thing with my 2nd pregnancy we had intercourse around 5 weeks and I started bleeding for almost 2 weeks straight it scared me so much we didn;t have sex the rest of the pregnancy. My husband has been pushing to have sex again and I'm pretty nervous about it and undecided on how to handle it.
6. GTKY: what was the first CD you ever bought? Umm I don't really remember I nevery really listened to music I was an audiobook person but I think it was brittney spears CD.
Re: Weekly PGAL check in - 5.16.16
1. Tell us about yourself (if your first time participating)
Here's to my leap of faith. I'm 28 and my husband is turning 30 next month. We have been trying off and on for three years and have had two mmc at 9-10 weeks. I am currently 6 weeks pregnant and have had doubling (early) hcg and just had my first ultrasound yesterday. The peanut measured a day ahead and the doctor could see the heartbeat but it was too small to measure.
We have had all of the recurrent loss bloodwork possible and everything turned out fine. Our last mmc was due to genetics and my doctor is chalking it all up to "bad luck."
2. How are you feeling (pregnancy symptoms)
Exhausted, headaches, moody, huge boobs
3. How are you feeling (anxiety wise)
Nervous, scared, excited, anxious. There's no better way to describe it then having a really guarded heart. I find myself getting excited and then I'll have a reality check.
4. When is your first or next appointment?
I have another ultrasound on 5/25 to see if we can measure the heart beat.
5. Rants/raves/whatever:
My husband just let me have the corners of all of his monte cristo sandwich, so I don't have much to complain about right now.
6. GTKY: what was the first CD you ever bought?
Spice Girls. Oh the great time of girl/boy bands. I'm totally that person.
On a side note, I'm so happy to have found this group. Being pregnant is a mixture of emotions, but even more so after a loss. I remember the first time I was pregnant, and I miss how naive I was to everything. I'm glad to find a group of women that understand how hard the journey is and will be.
I'm in the exact same boat! Having a mmc toys extra hard with the anxiety because there was never a sign anything was wrong. I try to tell myself that it is out of my hands. I can't change what is going to happen, good or bad, so I just need to keep on keepin' on.
DS born 4/06/14
MC #2 August 2015
CP November 2015
MC#3 January 2016
BFP 5/11/16 EDD 1/19/17
***TW****MC mentioned & BFP mentioned***
TTC#1 since July 2014
AMH 0.1, DOR, Poor responder
Moved to Prague, Czech Republic for IVF
DE attempt in Czech Republic!!
March trip to Prague canceled due to Pancreatitis.
Headed to Prague April 30
3 different donors resulted in 1 PGS tested embryo and 1 fresh embryo
BFP on 5/15/16 at 5dp5dt
My blog: www.wearethehammitts.blogspot.com
i try to tell myself this when I start dwelling (pic attached).
2. How are you feeling (pregnancy symptoms): Started with the nausea yesterday. Feeling miserable.
3. How are you feeling (anxiety wise): Starting to get a little better now that the nausea started. The first week I really didn't think much about it and didn't talk much about it, I was surprised and really trying to protect myself from something going wrong again. Still anxious to see the little peanut on an u/s and hoping for the best.
4. When is your first or next appointment? Health history is Monday and based on previous experience will most likely have an U/S and doctor followup on Tuesday.
5. Rants/raves/whatever: They are right...you forget the worse parts of pregnancy...you have to or you wouldn't go through it again. I was nauseas with my first but once it was done, I kind of forgot about how gross I had felt
6. GTKY: what was the first CD you ever bought? I don't remember the first one I bought but the first one I received was Weezer.
2. How are you feeling (pregnancy symptoms)
I have been sooo sleepy it's ridiculous, I can't make it through the day without a nap, luckily DS naps so when he does I sleep with him. In the last few days my BB's have started to ache but besides that I haven't had many symptoms. A little nausea here and there and cramps but nothing abnormal for me. It's a little frustrating...
3. How are you feeling (anxiety wise)
Up and down mostly positive but I feel like the days are dragging by I just want to be past the 1st trimester. It's been a week plus a few days since BFP and I feel like I'm starting to obsess over it. I just want everything to go right so badly.
4. When is your first or next appointment?
They want to make sure they can see some thing so they wanted to do U/s and first appointment week 7-8 so I made the appointment for June 9th right on the cusp of week 8. Although I don't know how I am supposed to wait that long.
5. Rants/raves/whatever
Every cramp, twinge, CM etc. I find my self stressing out and running to the bathroom to make sure it's not blood I know it's silly but I just want to make sure. But since I had the MMC it's hard too because there were no symptoms and how would I know. There are just too many thoughts running through my head.
@ThePax89 I totally understand the no sex thing with my 2nd pregnancy we had intercourse around 5 weeks and I started bleeding for almost 2 weeks straight it scared me so much we didn;t have sex the rest of the pregnancy. My husband has been pushing to have sex again and I'm pretty nervous about it and undecided on how to handle it.
6. GTKY: what was the first CD you ever bought?
Umm I don't really remember I nevery really listened to music I was an audiobook person but I think it was brittney spears CD.
Me: 26 DH: 29 Married 8/4/2012
BFP #1 8/20/2013 | EDD 5/4/2014 | MMC 10/2/2013 9w3d | D&C 10/8/2013
BFP #2 2/8/2014 (kinda) EDD 10/29/2014 | DS Born 10/8/2014
TTCAL 11/2015 BFP #3 5/12/16 | EDD Jan 2017
DS born 4/06/14
MC #2 August 2015
CP November 2015
MC#3 January 2016
BFP 5/11/16 EDD 1/19/17