Baby is the size of a(n): blueberry...I have an aversion to blueberries right now, lol
Upcoming appts: one week from today!
How are you feeling?: Like crap, but surviving.
Rants/Raves: I am doing a great job at not ruining my kids summer. I am pushing through as usual and staying as active as I can.
Questions: none, I hope everyone has great appointments this week.
GTKY: What do you do for a living? I am a Respiratory Therapist. Everyone thinks we are nurses, but we actually specialize in cardiopulmonary. Similar education, but different registery and licensure. I basically help anyone who can’t breathe from adults to infants. We manage breathing treatments all the way to ventilators and ecmo. It’s not always the most glamorous job, but it’s an amazing career and I usually feel like I made a difference at the end of my day.
Upcoming appts: OB nurse intake phone appt tomorrow (never had one of these with DD)
How are you feeling?: peeing a lot, taking naps almost daily, hungry but I feel good overall which makes me nervous
Rants/Raves: Rants: I am traveling July 4-10 with DD and my parents including flying. Not looking forward to it because we aren’t telling family yet and DD never sleeps well away from home. It’s going to be a long week, I hope the nausea stays away at least! Raves: The weather today is nice!
Questions:
GTKY: What do you do for a living? I was a 3rd grade teacher for 10 years and next year will be an elementary math specialist/interventions in my same school.
Upcoming appts: 7/25 for fu ultrasound and genetic testing
How are you feeling?: blah. MS and fatigue are real. Trying to power thru.
Rants/Raves: we gave my daughter a balance bike yesterday and she did such a good job for her first day! Posted a video on Facebook and my aunt comments “so cute - grandma told me the good news, congrats!” Hopefully no one noticed before I deleted it.
Questions: none
GTKY: What do you do for a living? I work in underwriting capital management in charge of reinsurance recoveries. Woohoo lol
@DDRRT1982 give me all the berries! 😂 good job staying active with your kids- it is hard not to just be like fine watch Paw Patrol. i miss the naps associated with my first pregnancy. My goal is to stay active too and I actually feel better when I am so.
@jvk2012 you are flying with your parents and not telling them? You are good!! Good luck with flying with your LO. The more you do it the better they get!
@Swiftlet good luck at your us let us know how it goes! I had mine last week at 6w and it must have been earlier than last time around because everything was so tiny!!
Me: 38, DH: 36 Married Jan 2008 DD Baby Bells born Dec 2016 5 lbs, 12 oz, 18" so in love Due with #2 Baby Arya EDD February 2020
@leksiL, yeah I am flying with my parents and still don’t plan on telling them. I also can’t take my usual anxiety meds for flying so all of this should be fun! I do plan to tell them we are starting with the RE again so that’s why I won’t be drinking. We’ll see how it goes.
How are you feeling?: Nauseous. All day long. Also, my hypersensitive sense of smell means that my poor (stinky!) dog has to stay far away from me. She doesn't understand why she can't cuddle with Mom right now.
Rants/Raves: I have a 5 day weekend and don't plan on doing a darn thing!
Questions: I just want to know how you gals are doing too! 😊
GTKY: What do you do for a living? I'm a financial advisor.
Baby is the size of a(n): I like that this app says baby is as tall as a reeses cup....lol
Upcoming appts: 1st obgyn appointment on the 12th....CAN IT BE THE 12TH NOW
How are you feeling?: a little queasy today and not as hungry as yesterday. Tired.
Rants/Raves: the fact that I'm too tired to have motivation to do anything but feel like a total slob just not doing anything...
Questions: nothing today
GTKY: What do you do for a living? Drafter at an engineering firm. We deal with substations, transmission lines, nuclear plants.....all that fun stuff.
Team finding out/pink/blue/green: my husband wants to find out, I want to be surprised, we'll see who wins
Baby is the size of a(n): ???
Upcoming appts: Monday July 8, ultrasound to check for growth or possible blighted ovum
How are you feeling?: terrible, I had my first scan yesterday, it's not ectopic, which is one win, there is a gestational sac, which is another win, but no fetal pole, no yolk sac, no heartbeat, nothing, praying for a miracle, preparing for a miscarriage, I can barely keep it together right now, sounds like it could still go either way, but I am not optimistic
Rants/Raves: I hate being in limbo.
Questions: Anyone experience this before? How did it resolve?
GTKY: What do you do for a living? I work for a property management company in a ski resort town and assist people with remodels on their investment properties
@pirateduck I am so sorry you are in limbo and facing such a scary predicament. I'll be thinking about you over the coming days, and hope the time passes quickly. The 'not knowing' part is the worst. Hugs and love to you!
Thanks! I really thought once we got to this stage we'd have answers, but I guess not everyone sees what they need to on such an early ultrasound. I was so nervous about this first visit and hoping it would set my mind at ease about the whole pregnancy, but it did quite the opposite. I hope all you ladies have nothing but good news at your upcoming appointments, this is dreadful.
*Trigger Warning* Tentatively checking in, and sorry for the novel I've written haha.
EDD/W+D: 7w1d
Team finding out/pink/blue/green: Finding Out
Baby is the size of a(n): blueberry
Upcoming appts: So, monday I had the follow up from my ER visit, but they couldn't actually tell me anything new. They had to send me out of office for the blood test (I thought the best high risk office in the county, that's attached to a major hospital no less, would be able to do blood tests in house) and they scheduled me for an ultrasound today. I don't even know if they'll tell me what they find on the US yet, because I'm not scheduled to meet with the dr again until friday. They say it's still 50/50, but after what my body has gone through the last week, I'm thinking more like 95/5 that it's over.
How are you feeling?: Stressed, I just want to know what's going on. And I'm having this weird new symptom where my skin hurts to the touch. It's on one leg from the knee up to my waist. Even just my clothes or a blanket touching my skin, feels like I'm being stabbed. I was in tears last night because of it. But I read that it can be associated with migraines and I had to go off my migraine meds when I found out I was pregnant, so that could explain it. But it is NOT fun.
Rants/Raves: Rant- This just isn't how I pictured this pregnancy going, but I suppose no one does. Rave- We have told a couple people what is happening, and they've been super helpful. My mom has brought me a few things and she's watching my girls so I can go to the appt without them today (they don't know, although last night my 2 year old said 'mommy, maybe you'll feel better when the baby is out of your tummy' and that freaked me out. I asked her where she got that idea and she just started making up stories. They've been playing with their baby dolls a lot lately so idk.) And a close friend of ours is bringing us dinner tonight, so at least I don't have to worry about cooking.
Questions: n/a
GTKY: What do you do for a living? I'm an equine and canine massage therapist.
@SheHulk723 I am sooooo sorry. This is terrible. Trust me, I know how you feel. This being in limbo is terrible. I'm terrified of what my body will do next. I want to move on, whether it's to be able to finally be excited about pregnancy or to be able to try again if this isn't to work out. I fear my chances of miscarriage are higher than my chances of a healthy pregnancy. I don't really know if that's true, but that's what I think and I have been beside myself. Please keep us updated. You do not need to feel alone right now. I'm glad you have some help at home. xoxo.
Also I know what you mean about quitting the migraine meds. I also suffer migraines and lots of various headaches in general. Not being able to take anything is a drag. I have had a headache for over 24 hours now and it's just been getting worse instead of better.
@SheHulk723 Just checking in. Please update us with any news you have, good or bad, we are here for you. Hang in there. How are you feeling, physically? Emotionally?
@pirateduck Thank you for checking in So, I had the follow up appt today. The doctor I met with told me my hcg had gone from 769 to 889 over the course of 1 week, which is not indicative of a viable pregnancy. And the ultrasound showed, what she believes is a blighted ovum. She recommended the pill to finish everything. Then she did an internal check and my cervix in closed, and I'm still turning a positive pregnancy test. So she double checked things with the attending. Since this is a wanted pregnancy, the hcg level did rise, and the gestational sac is only barely on the cusp of being able to see any life inside, he wants me to do another round of blood tests. So, I won't have a final answer until next Friday. The limbo goes on. The cramping and bleeding has actually lightened up a bit, so physically I'm starting to feel better. But emotionally I'm so freaking stressed out. I just want an answer. I want to know what's going on. I don't like having this hope dangled in front of me like a carrot.
@SheHulk723 Ugh, I'm sorry you still don't have a definitive answer. It would certainly be easier to accept if your HCG was falling as well. I go Monday to find out if anything has grown or if it's a blighted ovum myself. Do you know what your gestational sac is measuring? Either in mm or weeks/days? Did the sac grow from your last scan? I'm sorry, I'm just trying to understand all this myself. Last week my sac measured 12mm, 5 weeks 4 days. This is borderline whether or not you would expect to see anything inside (yolk, fetal pole, heartbeat). So I have to wait a week and remeasure. Under normal circumstances I think a doctor would say, oh, you just aren't as far along as your thought, your ovulation date was off. The thing is, I should have been at 6 weeks 6 days (IUI cycle, so dates are exact), so it should have been bigger AND we should have been able to see something in it. I keep trying to convince myself I've just got a slow grower to start with, but in my heart I don't believe it most of the time. My doctor hasn't tested my HCG recently and seemed to think that what we see on the scan is more important I guess. Hang in there. Also did your doctor mention a D&C at all or think it's not necessary as it's so early? This is not a road I want to go down, but I also don't want to drag things out if it's not viable. What a freakin mess this all is.
@pirateduck The report says "Sac diameter 0.29 cm x .20 cm" but I don't know about measurements from the scan before that. The dr mentioned that the d&c is possible, but they aren't going to recommend it yet. I want to avoid it if possible. I am so sorry you're going through this too. If it's any consolation, my oldest measured like two weeks behind and I am 99% sure I had the dates right. I'm almost positive she was just a slow grower. I have everything crossed for you! I know what you mean about what you believe in your heart, I feel that way too.
Re: Group 3 (2/15-2/21) Check-In w/o 7/1
Team finding out/pink/blue/green: maybe green
Baby is the size of a(n): blueberry...I have an aversion to blueberries right now, lol
Upcoming appts: one week from today!
How are you feeling?: Like crap, but surviving.
Rants/Raves: I am doing a great job at not ruining my kids summer. I am pushing through as usual and staying as active as I can.
Questions: none, I hope everyone has great appointments this week.
GTKY: What do you do for a living? I am a Respiratory Therapist. Everyone thinks we are nurses, but we actually specialize in cardiopulmonary. Similar education, but different registery and licensure. I basically help anyone who can’t breathe from adults to infants. We manage breathing treatments all the way to ventilators and ecmo. It’s not always the most glamorous job, but it’s an amazing career and I usually feel like I made a difference at the end of my day.
Team finding out/pink/blue/green: finding out
Baby is the size of a(n): blueberry
Upcoming appts: OB nurse intake phone appt tomorrow (never had one of these with DD)
How are you feeling?: peeing a lot, taking naps almost daily, hungry but I feel good overall which makes me nervous
Rants/Raves:
Rants: I am traveling July 4-10 with DD and my parents including flying. Not looking forward to it because we aren’t telling family yet and DD never sleeps well away from home. It’s going to be a long week, I hope the nausea stays away at least!
Raves: The weather today is nice!
Questions:
GTKY: What do you do for a living? I was a 3rd grade teacher for 10 years and next year will be an elementary math specialist/interventions in my same school.
Team finding out/pink/blue/green: finding out
Baby is the size of a(n): lentil
Upcoming appts: Wednesday is my first ultrasound! Very excited.
How are you feeling?: not great. MS gets worse every day, boobs hurt, random fatigue days. My spotting seems to have stopped though which is a relief.
Rants/Raves:
Rant- MS sucks.
Rave- I’m off Wednesday and Thursday this week, yay
Questions: nope
GTKY: What do you do for a living?
I’m a veterinarian
Team finding out/pink/blue/green: finding out
Baby is the size of a(n): raspberry
Upcoming appts: 7/25 for fu ultrasound and genetic testing
How are you feeling?: blah. MS and fatigue are real. Trying to power thru.
Rants/Raves: we gave my daughter a balance bike yesterday and she did such a good job for her first day! Posted a video on Facebook and my aunt comments “so cute - grandma told me the good news, congrats!” Hopefully no one noticed before I deleted it.
Questions: none
GTKY: What do you do for a living? I work in underwriting capital management in charge of reinsurance recoveries. Woohoo lol
@DDRRT1982 give me all the berries! 😂 good job staying active with your kids- it is hard not to just be like fine watch Paw Patrol. i miss the naps associated with my first pregnancy. My goal is to stay active too and I actually feel better when I am so.
@jvk2012 you are flying with your parents and not telling them? You are good!! Good luck with flying with your LO. The more you do it the better they get!
@Swiftlet good luck at your us let us know how it goes! I had mine last week at 6w and it must have been earlier than last time around because everything was so tiny!!
Married Jan 2008
DD Baby Bells born Dec 2016 5 lbs, 12 oz, 18"
Due with #2 Baby Arya EDD February 2020
Team finding out/pink/blue/green: finding out
Baby is the size of a(n): blueberry
Upcoming appts: ultrasound July 11! Cannot come soon enough.
How are you feeling?: exhausted.
Rants/Raves: Short work week this week! Woooohooo!
Questions: nothing
GTKY: What do you do for a living? Insurance underwriting - it’s more
complicated than that, but that’s the simple way of saying it.
DH: 34
Married: May 2011
TTC #1: May 2015
DS: 10/20/2016
TTC #2: June 2019
#2 EDD: 2/20/2020
DH: 34
Married: May 2011
TTC #1: May 2015
DS: 10/20/2016
TTC #2: June 2019
#2 EDD: 2/20/2020
Team finding out/pink/blue/green: finding out
Baby is the size of a(n): altoid
Upcoming appts: first ultrasound is 7/5!
How are you feeling?: Nauseous. All day long. Also, my hypersensitive sense of smell means that my poor (stinky!) dog has to stay far away from me. She doesn't understand why she can't cuddle with Mom right now.
Rants/Raves: I have a 5 day weekend and don't plan on doing a darn thing!
Questions: I just want to know how you gals are doing too! 😊
GTKY: What do you do for a living? I'm a financial advisor.
I'm feeling ok. Hungry but everything I eat I take a bite and just feel "meh" about it. My stomach is a wreck.
I'm a sahm, bartend/serve occasionally. Testing for my real estate license this month. Can't wait to get back to work.
Team finding out/pink/blue/green: finding out
Baby is the size of a(n): I like that this app says baby is as tall as a reeses cup....lol
Upcoming appts: 1st obgyn appointment on the 12th....CAN IT BE THE 12TH NOW
How are you feeling?: a little queasy today and not as hungry as yesterday. Tired.
Rants/Raves: the fact that I'm too tired to have motivation to do anything but feel like a total slob just not doing anything...
Questions: nothing today
GTKY: What do you do for a living? Drafter at an engineering firm. We deal with substations, transmission lines, nuclear plants.....all that fun stuff.
Team finding out/pink/blue/green: not finding out
Baby is the size of a(n): blueberry
Upcoming appts: first prenatal! july 10!
How are you feeling?: mama1 (who is carrying) reports feeling tired, bloated, gassy, anxious, and happy.
Rants/Raves: who knew bloat could make you look 5 months along at only 6 weeks? 😩
Questions: how do you count down to appointments and milestones without totally wishing your life away?!
GTKY: What do you do for a living? mama1 is a nanny, mama2 is a librarian
Team finding out/pink/blue/green: my husband wants to find out, I want to be surprised, we'll see who wins
Baby is the size of a(n): ???
Upcoming appts: Monday July 8, ultrasound to check for growth or possible blighted ovum
How are you feeling?: terrible, I had my first scan yesterday, it's not ectopic, which is one win, there is a gestational sac, which is another win, but no fetal pole, no yolk sac, no heartbeat, nothing, praying for a miracle, preparing for a miscarriage, I can barely keep it together right now, sounds like it could still go either way, but I am not optimistic
Rants/Raves: I hate being in limbo.
Questions: Anyone experience this before? How did it resolve?
GTKY: What do you do for a living? I work for a property management company in a ski resort town and assist people with remodels on their investment properties
DH: 34
Married: May 2011
TTC #1: May 2015
DS: 10/20/2016
TTC #2: June 2019
#2 EDD: 2/20/2020
Married Jan 2008
DD Baby Bells born Dec 2016 5 lbs, 12 oz, 18"
Due with #2 Baby Arya EDD February 2020
EDD/W+D: 7w1d
Team finding out/pink/blue/green: Finding Out
Baby is the size of a(n): blueberry
Upcoming appts: So, monday I had the follow up from my ER visit, but they couldn't actually tell me anything new. They had to send me out of office for the blood test (I thought the best high risk office in the county, that's attached to a major hospital no less, would be able to do blood tests in house) and they scheduled me for an ultrasound today. I don't even know if they'll tell me what they find on the US yet, because I'm not scheduled to meet with the dr again until friday. They say it's still 50/50, but after what my body has gone through the last week, I'm thinking more like 95/5 that it's over.
How are you feeling?: Stressed, I just want to know what's going on. And I'm having this weird new symptom where my skin hurts to the touch. It's on one leg from the knee up to my waist. Even just my clothes or a blanket touching my skin, feels like I'm being stabbed. I was in tears last night because of it. But I read that it can be associated with migraines and I had to go off my migraine meds when I found out I was pregnant, so that could explain it. But it is NOT fun.
Rants/Raves:
Rant- This just isn't how I pictured this pregnancy going, but I suppose no one does.
Rave- We have told a couple people what is happening, and they've been super helpful. My mom has brought me a few things and she's watching my girls so I can go to the appt without them today (they don't know, although last night my 2 year old said 'mommy, maybe you'll feel better when the baby is out of your tummy' and that freaked me out. I asked her where she got that idea and she just started making up stories. They've been playing with their baby dolls a lot lately so idk.) And a close friend of ours is bringing us dinner tonight, so at least I don't have to worry about cooking.
Questions: n/a
GTKY: What do you do for a living? I'm an equine and canine massage therapist.
DH: 34
Married: May 2011
TTC #1: May 2015
DS: 10/20/2016
TTC #2: June 2019
#2 EDD: 2/20/2020
Also I know what you mean about quitting the migraine meds. I also suffer migraines and lots of various headaches in general. Not being able to take anything is a drag. I have had a headache for over 24 hours now and it's just been getting worse instead of better.
Team finding out/pink/blue/green: finding out
Baby is the size of a(n): blueberry
Upcoming appts: July 23 (10 week appointment)
How are you feeling?: good. Nauseous most of the day, restless sleep
Rants/Raves: Our 3rd baby
Questions: none
GTKY: What do you do for a living? Stay at home mom!