PGAL Check In! week of 9/5

musicinmysoul17 · September 2016

This is a weekly thread for those of us who are pregnant after experiencing loss of any stage (chemical, miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal) to support one another.

Please introduce your self if this is your first time participating

Good of luck to those of us with appointments this week!

1. Tell us about yourself (if your first participating)

2. how far along are you? EDD? Team green, pink, or blue?

3. How are you feeling (pregnancy symptoms)

4. How are you feeling (anxiety wise)

5. When is your next appointment?

6. Rants/raves/whatever

7. Anything else on your mind?

8. GTKY: favorite super hero franchise? X-men? Guardian's of the Galaxy? Avengers? Batman? Etc

MrsDramaK · September 2016

2. how far along are you? EDD? Team green, pink, or blue? 15+6, 2/22, Team Pink!

3. How are you feeling (pregnancy symptoms) Other then my back hurting and these wicked headaches my symptoms have pretty much dissipated.

4. How are you feeling (anxiety wise) The lack of symptoms of course is anxiety provoking and every doctor's appointment I leave feeling good and then I just get more and more anxious until my next appointment.

5. When is your next appointment? Not for another week and a half.

6. Rants/raves/whatever I'm in my empty house waiting for the security guy to show up and install our new system. Except there's no couch or anything really. At least there is wifi, but sitting on a hardwood floor for hours is not helping the back pain.

7. Anything else on your mind? Debating buying a doppler. Can't decide if it will help or hurt at this point.

8. GTKY: favorite super hero franchise? X-men? Guardian's of the Galaxy? Avengers? Batman? Etc I'm an X-Men girl.

ameshape1301 · September 2016

2. how far along are you? EDD? Team green, pink, or blue? 17 weeks today! Team blue.

3. How are you feeling (pregnancy symptoms) Good! Still tired, but my appetite is finally back.

4. How are you feeling (anxiety wise) Better than last week. The microarray came back normal (hooray!) and we had a scan last week. It looks like baby has a heart defect, but it's a VSD which is very fixable. The rest of his heart looks normal so far. If it doesn't close on its own (unlikely given the size) he will need surgery 6-9 months after birth but will otherwise have a totally normal life! Given our original prognosis of a 15% chance of healthy baby, this is good news! There is still a slim chance that the hole is smaller than she thinks or that it's not there at all and the septum was obscured by a shadow, but it's pretty unlikely. I'm just relieved to know what's going on and why the fluid was there in the first place. It looks like the fluid is reabsorbing on the scan, so hopefully it continues to do so and is even smaller or gone next week.

5. When is your next appointment? I have a scan next week to see if we can see the heart better and get referrals for a pediatric cardiologist

6. Rants/raves/whatever I'm so impressed with my doctor's office throughout this whole thing. The geneticist, nurses, MFM, everyone has been incredibly supportive, thoughtful and communicative without giving us false hope. It means that this outcome is all the sweeter for everyone involved! The nurse on the phone this morning giving us the microarray results was genuinely emotional giving us the good news. It was really touching!

7. Anything else on your mind? We've finally started telling work and close friends that we are pregnant! It's such a relief to not be hiding it anymore, especially since the belly is getting pretty big. Everyone has been wonderful and so kind. We won't make a public announcement for a while, if at all. We want to have all of the info/plan in place before that.

8. GTKY: favorite super hero franchise? X-men? Guardian's of the Galaxy? Avengers? Batman? Etc Definitely Guardians.

luckymamaof5 · September 2016

2. how far along are you? EDD? Team green, pink, or blue? 15w 2d Still waiting for Harmony results should be soon.. Feels like a boy though.

3. How are you feeling (pregnancy symptoms) Tired, heartburn and super stuffy nose.

4. How are you feeling (anxiety wise) Every day it gets better.

5. When is your next appointment? September 19th

6. Rants/raves/whatever My pants are just now getting to tight.

7. Anything else on your mind? Thinking of telling my parents and my Grandma on Grandparents day..

8. GTKY: favorite super hero franchise? X-men? Guardian's of the Galaxy? Avengers? Batman? Etc Oooh I LOVE Guardians of the Galaxy well mainly I love Chris Pratt but you get my point..

ckis-2 · September 2016

2. how far along are you? EDD? Team green, pink, or blue?
15 Weeks today/Feb 28/Team finding out at next ultrasound

3. How are you feeling (pregnancy symptoms)
Pretty good besides normal aches/pains/tireds/mild nausea

4. How are you feeling (anxiety wise)
A little better. My doc said today that she has people who don't believe their pregnancy is fine until the baby is a year old...I was like, "that's me!"

5. When is your next appointment?
It was today, heard a nice strong heartbeat! Next one in a month

6. Rants/raves/whatever
I finally am letting myself buy some maternity clothes. Went on a spree at ASOS after my appointment!

7. Anything else on your mind?
I'm going to tell people at work this week. I'm sure they've been suspicious.

8. GTKY: favorite super hero franchise? X-men? Guardian's of the Galaxy? Avengers? Batman? Etc
Mmm, don't really care. I usually just go along for the ride...and popcorn

FreshBakedBrownies · September 2016

@ameshape1301 that's such great news that his heart condition is treatable and he's going to be ok!!!
Prayers that the VSD closes some on its own and won't need surgery at all!

JulesFo · September 2016

1. Tell us about yourself (if your first participating) First-timer on this thread. This is my 4th pregnancy - before this I experienced an early MC followed by a ruptured hemorraghic ovarian cyst, lots of blood loss...not fun. I had to go on BC pills for several months to give both ovaries a chance to recover.

2. how far along are you? EDD? Team green, pink, or blue? I'm 15 w 3 d, have two beautiful daughters and am pregnant with a baby boy. EDD is 2/25

3. How are you feeling (pregnancy symptoms) Headaches and no appetite, but I'll take that over nausea.

4. How are you feeling (anxiety wise) Manageable. I feel like I should be showing more and for whatever reason feel like I should be feeling movement even though it's still so early for that and I tend not to show until later. I do know these anxieties are just that - anxieties and not driven by reality, but you have to still acknowledge those feelings.

5. When is your next appointment? 9/16

6. Rants/raves/whatever None at the moment

7. Anything else on your mind? I wish I could find a really good book for before bed.

8. GTKY: favorite super hero franchise? X-men? Guardian's of the Galaxy? Avengers? Batman? Etc Hmm, not much of a super hero chick, but I'll go with X-men. I also enjoyed Deadpool.

catiecatp · September 2016

2. how far along are you? EDD? Team green, pink, or blue? 17 weeks today, EDD Feb 14 - team finding out eventually

3. How are you feeling (pregnancy symptoms) - pretty sore back but other than that pretty good... which worries me at times

4. How are you feeling (anxiety wise) - overall pretty good, though it has been 5 weeks since I last had an appointment so I'm getting a bit anxious. The size of this bump is helping though...

5. When is your next appointment? I contacted an OB today about having her care for me (I moved at 12 weeks so I have had care, just none in TX). Hopefully she'll take me - she's super convenient to work and home.

6. Rants/raves/whatever - I can't wait for DH to be here - and to go to the OB and hear the baby with a doppler. I was too early when I had my prenatal physical and they didn't do one with the ultrasound because they used the ultrasound to measure it

7. Anything else on your mind? like @ameshape1301 I've started telling work colleagues which is a huge relief - this bump has it's own timeline and would not wait for DH to get down here before I felt like I might not be hiding as well as I would hope. I like my new colleagues and friends - but I wish I was back where we'd been living for the past 10 years with all my close friends to share this with them.

8. GTKY: favorite super hero franchise? X-men? Guardian's of the Galaxy? Avengers? Batman? Etc - I vote X-men I suppose - or Muppets - they could save the world with laughter, right?

ameshape1301 · September 2016

@FreshBakedBrowniesThanks! I feel like dancing and telling everyone, which is probably silly since there are still some big hurdles. But YAY!

@catiecatp isn't it the best feeling? I feel so free! Haha apparently I was hiding it better than I thought, a lot of people are surprised!

Steelerfan78 · September 2016

2. how far along are you? EDD? Team green, pink, or blue? 17+1, 14-Feb, Team Pink

3. How are you feeling (pregnancy symptoms) found out yesterday that I have chronic hypertension and am now on meds to lower my blood pressure

4. How are you feeling (anxiety wise) not happy about taking BP meds, but trying to stay hopeful that they help and keep LO safe

5. When is your next appointment? we have our A/S on 9/13

6. Rants/raves/whatever think I may have started feeling some movement

7. Anything else on your mind? nope

8. GTKY: favorite super hero franchise? X-men? Guardian's of the Galaxy? Avengers? Batman? Etc Not a big super hero fan, but I liked Guardian's of the Galaxy, and really enjoyed Deadpool.

phlox728 · September 2016

how far along are you? EDD? Team blue (still feels so weird to say that after 3 girls!) 18weeks 5d. EDD 2/4

3. How are you feeling (pregnancy symptoms) overall I feel totally fine. Starting to even forget I'm pregnant sometimes. My BP has been decent at home but def creeping up at the drs office.

4. How are you feeling (anxiety wise) I'm an anxious mess and it gets worse the closer I get to a potentially viable babe. I am terrified of delivering another micro preemie. I just wish I could skip weeks 23 to 30 entirely.

5. When is your next appointment? I had my anatomy scan yesterday. Baby was pretty uncooperative BUT he is measuring in the 84th percentile which is huge for my tiny kids. Everything they saw was perfect and we will redo in 2 weeks. I also had an echo done on my heart and my BP was up. Started a super low dose of bp meds. Anxious to get echo results.

6. Rants/raves/whatever This baby is SO busy- I feel him ALL the time. The only part of this pregnancy I am enjoying!

7. Anything else on your mind?

8. GTKY: favorite super hero franchise? X-men? Guardian's of the Galaxy? Avengers? Batman? Etc ahhhhh.....

annewheeler2 · September 2016

2. how far along are you? EDD? Team green, pink, or blue? 15 weeks, team PINK!

3. How are you feeling (pregnancy symptoms)
Pretty good just trying to get some energy
4. How are you feeling (anxiety wise)
It's getting better day by day. I have my 16 week checkup next week and I'll feel better after that.
5. When is your next appointment?
Sept 15th

6. Rants/raves/whatever
Going to the river to float all weekend!
7. Anything else on your mind?
I need to start working out more before it gets harder to get active
8. GTKY: favorite super hero franchise? X-men? Guardian's of the Galaxy? Avengers? Batman? Etc
probably a UO but I don't follow any super hero franchise

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