I have never been more exhausted, nauseous, and emotional in any of my other pregnancies. Oh and add bloated to that list. I've cried and vomited more in the last few days than my other pregnancies combined. There better be a nice little heartbeat chugging away in there! Also, cried this morning because my H kept singing the chorus to the same damn song over and over again. Cried last night because I hadn't hung up my clean laundry in my closet.
I'm back with good news to report! Ultrasound showed the little bean right where it should be and measuring on target. Too early to try for the heartbeat or see much more than a black spot but I was so relieved to have a normal scan. My hormone levels are also consistent with being 5 weeks according to my OB. She took a peek and is pretty sure the spotting is coming from my cervix, which is another good sign... she said it goes through changes with pregnancy and can become "angry" for lack of a better term. It's good that it's likely not bleeding from my uterus and cervical bleeding isn't an indicator of increased miscarriage risk she said. She put something on it that is apparently supposed to help. Overall, she said that there's no magic wand to be able to tell us for sure that nothing bad will happen, but all signs look good for this early stage of the game. So glad I went in today.
This nausea can gtfo. I have anti- nausea wristbands, ginger gum, lemon drops, peppermint candies, lemon and ginger tea, catnip tea... it works to a point and then is back. Yogurt is my magical food right now. For some reason, it immediately makes me feel better. Except for the ever present headache.
The end result is worth it, but I hate being pregnant.
I don't mean to be "that guy" but my lack of symptoms today makes me nervous. Remind me of this when I'm convinced I'm going to die from morning sickness.
@Poppy0419 I'm often feeling the same! While a lot of my symptoms can be pregnancy symptoms, I also experience them when not pregnant (headAches, heartburn, etc). It's great but also worrisome!
@ccvslp so glad you went in and now have a little piece of mind!
@heelsidehero same! I don't know what pregnancy and what's not. I didn't have morning sickness with my daughter so I'm expecting that to catch up with me this time.
@Poppy0419 Literally me... queen of overanalyzation (think I made up a word.) "Do my boobs REALLY feel tender... or do I just not usually grab them like this all the time to check?" "Did I REALLY feel sick at the thought of that chicken burger?" "Am I SO TIRED or do I just love bed?"
@allison1derlnd and @charlestonchew I had that for a little while but it usually goes away pretty quick. I have oddly not had many symptoms. My doctor says it's still early. I do have itch nipples and when I rub them they get very hard and then I have a whole new problem.
@allison1derlnd and @charlestonchew I had that for a little while but it usually goes away pretty quick. I have oddly not had many symptoms. My doctor says it's still early. I do have itch nipples and when I rub them they get very hard and then I have a whole new problem.
Uggghh bloated out to 20 weeks yesterday. Yikes! And then horrible gas all evening. How can I be only 5w1d? Plus I feel like I smell worse. Like I usually never smell myself but now I do, is that better sense of smell or more BO?!?
I know I just got "good" indicators yesterday, but there was more brown blood and spotting this morning. I'd still call it spotting and not a flow, and it seems to have stopped (for now), but this is a rollercoaster I never asked to get on and would like to get off, please. All of you that have gone through early bleeding.. hats off to you, it is a TRIP. I'm trying to stay positive until my next scan/bloodwork in two weeks and not get in my head too much unless I have heavy red bleeding that doesn't stop and cramping, but it's hard to not feel stressed every time I go to pee (which is like... all the time.)
So still having the frequent urination and breast tenderness. I'm tired, but not like next level tired or anything. Some slight food aversion kind of feelings yesterday but nothing more yet.
Basically 4 weeks along here so nothing to really report. Cramping and lower back pain which are normal. Heart burn and palpitations for the last week or so. Those are typically my first signs that I'm pregnant. I had HG with my DD so I'm happy in no symptom land for now.
The exhaustion, literally the worst. Started falling asleep while eating dinner after work last night. Also, wtf, is greasy hair a thing during pregnancy? Just cut about 10 inches of hair off so not sure if it has more to do with that but I wash it at 7am and by 1pm it's a gross greasy mess. Started keeping dry shampoo at work.
@ccvslp I'm right there with you hun. And I totally feel ya. I still have brown spotting and I am 7 weeks. And, I had a massive bleed but US looked good. Are you on progesterone? Oddly I stopped taking the progesterone this weekend when we thought things were over and I ended up not spotting at all. So now, I am linking my spotting directly to the progesterone. Hang in there.
@justsuzie I'm not.... at my appt yesterday my OB said that it looked like the spotting is coming from my cervix... apparently it's being a temperamental bitch at the changes happening to it with the pregnancy hormones. My hcg levels were normal for 5 weeks and u/s looked good, measuring right on track. Of course after another episode this morning my brain starts going "well, what if not ALL of it is coming from my cervix" and "what could be wrong with my cervix that it's freaking out so much?" I never anticipated feeling like a basket case this early. Seven week scan on 9/25 can't come soon enough, I will be the happiest person in all the land to find a heartbeat.
My skin and hair is SOOOOOO dry rn... It's normally oily, so I don't even know what to do. Dig the ancient bottle of conditioner out of the back of the cabinet?
So I normally have a super sniffer and when pregnant it is even worse. I can smell things like a block away. Well either I can now smell through walls into other buildings or strange things are going on.
I swear I could smell a tuna sandwich earlier and now spaghetti. Neither of those things are happening in my house.
Well I am not quite as nauseated as i was when I found out I was pregnant about a week and a half ago. It's still there but I seem to manage it better since I realised that I feel sick when I don't eat or when I get to full. Brushing my teeth is about the worst thing ever... Every time I gag.
Peeing all the time! And at night, I have such a hard time falling back to sleep. It can take hours! I seem to have insomnia along with the pregnancy fatigue. I accidentally fell asleep for 3 hours yesterday. It's a good thing I set an alarm to remind myself when to pick up my son from school!
I am also pretty anxious, I hope my first appointment on Friday will set me more at ease. Oh and boob pain. I really hate my boobs right now
I'm exhausted. Last night was the first time I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep, so of course I started looking up miscarriage stats. Good times... other than that, sore boobs but little to no morning sickness. I had no morning sickness the first time and only like a day and a half the second time. Hoping that Thrice will continue the trend.
So I normally have a super sniffer and when pregnant it is even worse. I can smell things like a block away. Well either I can now smell through walls into other buildings or strange things are going on.
I swear I could smell a tuna sandwich earlier and now spaghetti. Neither of those things are happening in my house.
This is the truth!!! When I take a walk with my DD around 530pm, all I smell are the different dinners being made around the block. It's agony. I just want to eat it all.
Has anyone ever researched why some get morning sickness and some don't. Hey, I'm not complaining over here, just wondering, and also feeling pretty bad about all the nausea I am seeing. Strange thing is I have a super duper sensitive stomach and actually get sour stomach all the time but since pg....nothing.
Has anyone ever researched why some get morning sickness and some don't. Hey, I'm not complaining over here, just wondering, and also feeling pretty bad about all the nausea I am seeing. Strange thing is I have a super duper sensitive stomach and actually get sour stomach all the time but since pg....nothing.
I want to know too! I think it has something to do with the way our individual bodies react to the hCG- but if that's true then why am I so much sicker the third time around?
@justsuzie i want to know, too! Also want to know why some women are hungry/want to eat and literally nothing is appetizing to me. Ive had a few bites of oatmeal today, and thats it.
coughed tonight and felt a weird catch in my side, thought "huh, that reminds me of what I felt before I saw the decent amount of red spotting Friday. Sure enough, I go pee and drip drip drip. The pain sounds a LOT like how round ligament pain is described but I don't know if that makes sense so early and I know no ectopic, etc. from yesterday's scan. One small clotty looking piece and then watery sort of deeper red that I wiped away for probably ten minutes. I actually sent MH out to buy pads because there are none in the house and I was afraid the worst was happening. The amount totaled about what would make you want to change for a fresh pantiliner I'd say. While he was at the store it slowed down and pretty much stopped within half an hour.
I sincerely hope I'm not the bitch who won't shut up about the same thing over and over. It's just so hard to have this keep happening when only a few people know about the pregnancy and I'm going about my daily business trying to be a productive person and sitting in meetings at work wondering if there's going to be any blood to wipe away next time I pee.
I'll call the doctor again tomorrow, just to make sure I'm keeping them on top of what's going on, but I was JUST in and it's still really too soon for the viability scan. If I could pay a few hundred dollars to teleport ahead two weeks right now I would probably do it.
@ccvslp - I am so sorry. Prayers that everything is fine and that the bleeding stops soon.
AFM...**TW** add me to the list of ladies spotting. I woke up this morning with it. It is light pink. Even though I had it at the beginning of my last pregnancy it still makes me nervous.
No symptoms. I already had excessive thirst, peeing all the time, and exhaustion before I was pregnant. Having a toddler who barely naps and wakes up at 5am every day will do that to a person. I hope the sore boobs and nausea stay away; my last pregnancy that started around 7-8wks.
There is definitely a benefit to being a non-drinker where there is no expectation to drink and no scrutiny if you don't. Best of luck ladies. I hope people leave you to not drink in peace.
@justsuzie@kpc914@k5678 I've done some research into this too and can't find anything definitive! While the popular opinion is it's because of HCG (and estrogen is suspected), many articles say the cause is unknown. I've seen discrepancies between whether it's "good" or "bad" as well. Since the popular opinion is that the sicker the better it's interesting since that isn't really true according to literature I've read. One thing I found interesting is an article saying often the worst of it does seem to coincide with organogenesis, which ends around week 8, then MS trails off. HCG levels rise til around week 10 however. BUT it does seem to be super varied for everyone. I know with my sister she didn't have any nausea when she was pregnant with her daughter, but was nauseous with her son. Sorry, this isn't helpful, just kind of rambling...
Oh man, there must have been a skunk run over somewhere because a wave of the smell hit my car and I almost lost it. What do you do it you are driving and suddenly vomit?!?
@Pearlvirus - my last pregnancy I had a long commute so I had a throw up kit in the car. Gallon ziplock bags, roll of paper towels, trash bags, and baby wipes
I also never left home without peppermints, saltines and a bottle of water.
I wasn't really sick with DD but DS wasn't great. I had zofran and threw up a lot before I got on it. I pulled over a few times to throw up. My other pregnancies were more like my daughters. Nauseous but not to the point of puking. I hope it's the same this go around. Although I did almost puke brushing my teeth this morning.
Light bleeding started again last night. Enough that I sent MH to the store for pads and thought the worst had finally come and by the time he got back it seemed to have stop. Started up again this morning and hasn't gotten heavy but will stop for a half an hour or so and be back... off and on.... Doctor's office said the best thing to do right now is just to ride it out until my next u/s appt 9/25 unless i'm bleeding very heavily and cramping, then I'm to call them back. And I get it.... we need to wait and see if there's growth, etc... but this is just the worst mindf*ck I've ever been on. I feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop but someone is just dangling it around and toying with me.
I sincerely hope that nobody takes this as me not being able to be supportive to others if things aren't sunshine and rainbows for me, but I think I'm going to sign off for a while. I think that just trying to go about my day to day and not hearing/talking about/analyzing things is what I need right now. I need to just let things happen or not and try to go to work and make dinner and be a semi functioning adult in the meantime.
I WILL be thinking about you guys and I'm hoping things go well for you.
Re: Symptoms week of 9/9
The end result is worth it, but I hate being pregnant.
@ccvslp so glad you went in and now have a little piece of mind!
So still having the frequent urination and breast tenderness. I'm tired, but not like next level tired or anything. Some slight food aversion kind of feelings yesterday but nothing more yet.
Married June 2012
BFP June 2013- blighted ovum, D&C Aug 2013
BFP Oct 2013- twins! A&H born May 2014
BFP Aug 2017- EDD 5/8/17
I swear I could smell a tuna sandwich earlier and now spaghetti. Neither of those things are happening in my house.
Peeing all the time! And at night, I have such a hard time falling back to sleep. It can take hours! I seem to have insomnia along with the pregnancy fatigue. I accidentally fell asleep for 3 hours yesterday. It's a good thing I set an alarm to remind myself when to pick up my son from school!
I am also pretty anxious, I hope my first appointment on Friday will set me more at ease. Oh and boob pain. I really hate my boobs right now
Baby H: 5/12/2016
TW
coughed tonight and felt a weird catch in my side, thought "huh, that reminds me of what I felt before I saw the decent amount of red spotting Friday. Sure enough, I go pee and drip drip drip. The pain sounds a LOT like how round ligament pain is described but I don't know if that makes sense so early and I know no ectopic, etc. from yesterday's scan. One small clotty looking piece and then watery sort of deeper red that I wiped away for probably ten minutes. I actually sent MH out to buy pads because there are none in the house and I was afraid the worst was happening. The amount totaled about what would make you want to change for a fresh pantiliner I'd say. While he was at the store it slowed down and pretty much stopped within half an hour.
I sincerely hope I'm not the bitch who won't shut up about the same thing over and over. It's just so hard to have this keep happening when only a few people know about the pregnancy and I'm going about my daily business trying to be a productive person and sitting in meetings at work wondering if there's going to be any blood to wipe away next time I pee.
I'll call the doctor again tomorrow, just to make sure I'm keeping them on top of what's going on, but I was JUST in and it's still really too soon for the viability scan. If I could pay a few hundred dollars to teleport ahead two weeks right now I would probably do it.
AFM...**TW**
add me to the list of ladies spotting. I woke up this morning with it. It is light pink. Even though I had it at the beginning of my last pregnancy it still makes me nervous.
I lost my angels 07/2010, 04/2017, 10/2017
Meimsx no more
I also never left home without peppermints, saltines and a bottle of water.
I lost my angels 07/2010, 04/2017, 10/2017
Meimsx no more
i am so not prepared for this!
Light bleeding started again last night. Enough that I sent MH to the store for pads and thought the worst had finally come and by the time he got back it seemed to have stop. Started up again this morning and hasn't gotten heavy but will stop for a half an hour or so and be back... off and on.... Doctor's office said the best thing to do right now is just to ride it out until my next u/s appt 9/25 unless i'm bleeding very heavily and cramping, then I'm to call them back. And I get it.... we need to wait and see if there's growth, etc... but this is just the worst mindf*ck I've ever been on. I feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop but someone is just dangling it around and toying with me.
I sincerely hope that nobody takes this as me not being able to be supportive to others if things aren't sunshine and rainbows for me, but I think I'm going to sign off for a while. I think that just trying to go about my day to day and not hearing/talking about/analyzing things is what I need right now. I need to just let things happen or not and try to go to work and make dinner and be a semi functioning adult in the meantime.
I WILL be thinking about you guys and I'm hoping things go well for you.
Married June 2012
BFP June 2013- blighted ovum, D&C Aug 2013
BFP Oct 2013- twins! A&H born May 2014
BFP Aug 2017- EDD 5/8/17