@williams-jen I just followed you! I seriously love the Peloton! And of course I would get KU just a month after getting it after TTGP for over a year.
*TW LC*
Me & MH: 32 DS: 6/1/18 (Pre-E; IUGR; seizures; NICU) TTC #2: 12/2019 Sept 2020: HSG possible blocked right tube Nov 2020: Letrozole + TI - BFN Dec 2020: Letrozole + TI - BFP!!! EDD 9/18
I’ve been trying to maintain my workout schedule. I’ve been doing a mix of cardio (elliptical usually), yoga, and resistance bands or hand weights 6-7 days a week since June. This pregnancy is knocking me for a loop with the fatigue though!
It’s really bad today but I just got my second covid vaccine and I was bone weary after the first one too.
Question for moms that have 2+ kids...in your second pregnancy did you notice more cramping early on than your first? With my first pregnancy I started having cramps a little later as my uterus started growing but this time it seems like it’s much earlier. I’m just trying not to let my anxiety get the best of me with the cramping because I know some is normal.
@justyouraveragemama I am always nursing a baby when I’m pregnant and one of the first signs that I’m actually pregnant is some cramping while nursing. That happened before I got my BFP. My cramping isn’t really noticeable this time around. I notice it a little here and there.
@emeraldcity1214 I haven’t been pregnant is 6 years so it’s hard to remember what’s normal and what’s not and my anxiety gets the best of me and I’m sure that doesn’t help either lol
@justyouraveragemama this is my third and while I don't feel a ton of cramping.. every symptom seems to be that much worse with each pregnancy. Nausea worse and earlier, fatigue etc.
@nasalot188 oh yeah nausea is hitting me good already and I had it bad my first pregnancy. Not as tired though thankfully! Hoping that one stays away, it’s hard to squeeze a nap in with the kiddo.
@justyouraveragemama I totally feel you on that “it’s hard to remember what’s normal”, it’s been 10 years for me. I don’t remember cramping at all in the beginning with my previous pregnancy, but this go around I’ve had light cramping early on. I have a feeling I may just be paying way more attention this time around.
@justyouraveragemama This is my second pregnancy and I feel like I’m having more slight cramping. I think I’m over paranoid this time though. I had a chemical pregnancy in November and it makes my anxiety a million times worse this time
@grizzlymama86 it definitely could be that I’m paying more attention, I also found out way earlier with this one than my first which is brining in many new things to worry about lol!
@ladylynn222 yeah I can see how that makes things a lot more nerve wrecking. I still haven’t gotten a super dark test which makes me super nervous.
@ladylynn222 I had a CP in early December and my anxiety is all over the place. Some days I feel good and then I start feeling the fear and anxiety creep in and then I start second guessing everything. First trimester is the worst.
@justyouraveragemama totally. I don't think I had any with my first, but this time it was pretty frequent the first week or so after my BFP. Also did not have sore boobs the first time around but man, it is annoying now. And with an active three year old who seems to somehow find ways to elbow me in the chest all day.
@akwr I didn’t have sore boobs first time around at all and they went from an A cup to almost a D cup (the C bra I had was having a hard time containing them😂)
I shrunk down to a B and now with my boobs being slightly sensitive I keep looking down hoping to see growth but they’re still the same size😂
@justyouraveragemama I definitely have nausea earlier this time around too, it's more noticeable and comes more sporadically through the day too which wasn't at all a thing with my first pregnancy.
@akwr ugh, this! They aren't hurting much except for when a certain 18 month old puts all of his weight squarely on my chest!
@akwr Yes! It’s like my sore breasts are targets to my kids these days! The 2yo just pokes them constantly and the 4 year old flails into them ALL THE TIME!
If you are a ST+M when are you going to tell your LO(s) about baby? If you're a 3x+ mom when have you told your LO's in the past?
I could wait until we tell family but DS doesn't see anyone except for daycare and our playdate friends both of which already know so it's not like I have to worry about him telling anyone.
*TW LC*
Me & MH: 32 DS: 6/1/18 (Pre-E; IUGR; seizures; NICU) TTC #2: 12/2019 Sept 2020: HSG possible blocked right tube Nov 2020: Letrozole + TI - BFN Dec 2020: Letrozole + TI - BFP!!! EDD 9/18
@justyouraveragemama what a crazy bra size range! You must have so many to cover all of that haha
@krash_ We told our immediate family via our son wearing a "big brother" shirt of a Zoom call, so we explained it to him before those. And then we had to tell his babysitter since he was probably going to be talking about it at some point. He's only 3.5 so he only really sort of gets it. I think when my belly grows it will be more of a reality to him.
@krash_ I was just wondering about this the other day! I know we’ll be telling some friends earlier than family and we see them often but I don’t want DS to spill the beans if we have a random family get together before I’m ready for them to know. Part of me wants to tell him now though because the other night he asked me when he’s going to get a baby sister lol
@akwr I actually wore like sports bras and sleep bras for majority of my pregnancy so I only have like two “real” bras for bigger sizes which I actually didn’t really need because by the time I had DS I just went braless lol
@krash_ We've already had some serious discussions about when to tell our almost-9-year-old. He still does not really understand the concept of a secret (although he did an OK job keeping Christmas presents a secret this year). He has been asking for a baby brother or sister for about five years now, and in the last year how often he talks about it has gone up exponentially. I think the news might short circuit him and he'll start blabbing to anyone and everyone he sees. We're going to tell him the day before we tell our families. Since we're planning on telling family on Valentine's Day we can tell him that Saturday after his hockey game and not have to worry about him blabbing the news before we can tell them.
@krash_ We've been talking about this a lot, too! My almost 6 you doesn't really see/talk to anyone except his babysitter and our parents, since he's homeschooled this year, so we're going to wait until after our first appointment, which just so happens to be on his 6th birthday to tell him, and we'll tell our babysitter then as well, since I'm sure he'll blab to her. I'll be glad to have an ultrasound picture in hand when we do, too, since at least we'll have a "prop" to show him. We've been reading the book "It's Not the Stork" gradually since fall, so I think he has a decent basic understanding of how pregnancy/birth works, but I'm sure it'll be weird for him to understand that the belly growing is a gradual progression.
@krash_ I think we told DS right away but he was like 15 months and not talking. This time we will wait until.we are ready to share with everyone because we know they won't keep it a secret. It Will probably be around the 16 week mark.
@krash_ I told my 6 yo only because she asked me and she has heard me and DH talking and I think she has been expecting it at some point. She is really good at not telling anyone though. If I ask her to not y’all about it outside of me and DH she won’t. If I couldn’t trust her to do that I likely wouldn’t have told her.
We told our son as soon as we found out. He doesn't really understand so far. We have been talking about it a lot with him so far. "You are going to be a big brother", "there is a baby in mama's belly", "mama's belly is going to get big" ect.
@krash_ My son is four and has been begging for a baby brother for a year now. It’s killing me not to tell him but he won’t understand if something happens. We’re going to Disney at the end of February and we’re going to tell him there somehow. But funny story, last night he was eating dinner and I was in the kitchen and he was like “Mom, why does your belly keep getting bigger and bigger?” Bloat has been REAL this time around 🤣🤣🤣
I had DH open a present on Christmas morning to reveal it to him, so by default our nearly 4yo DD found out too. I didn’t think she would “grasp” it totally, but the second she returned to preschool she announced to her entire class (and every other person she’s encountered since then) that “mommy is growing a baby in her belly and I’m gonna be a big sister!”
I’ll be everyone’s cautionary tale (or at least everyone who doesn’t want the world to know yet) LOL.
@JustAnotherUsername16 Ha! Oh my gosh. That’s *exactly* what I’m worried about with our three year-old. Once she knows, her whole preschool class will know.
We’re planning to wait until the second trimester begins to tell her. I just want to make sure everything is going well before getting her excited. She’s been asking for a sibling (two, actually!) for months and will be delighted.
The same goes for baby names you want to keep under wraps: when my SIL was expecting her third she told my nephews what they were going to name the baby, but didn’t want anyone else to know. Cue my then-4-year-old nephew flinging open the door to the nursery and yelling at us “this is Isla’s room!!!” Sorry sis, secret’s out 😂
We’ve told my son he’s going to be a big brother but he’s 18m so that means squat to him lol
@krash_ I don’t think we’ll tell the kids until we’re ready to tell family but I just got my BFP yesterday so my husband and I haven’t talked about sharing yet. We told my oldest and our families pretty quickly with our younger son and I told my family immediately when I was pregnant with our (but different bio dad) older son so I don’t imagine we’re going to wait too long. Now that I’m thinking about it it’s always someone’s birthday right after we get our positive and we let everyone know when we get together. With my first it was my older brothers birthday, with my second it was my younger brother and my SILs birthdays and now my parents birthdays are in the next 2 weeks😂.
For what it’s worth, if I was worried about people outside of family knowing I probably wouldn’t tell my kids right away but I’m a SAHM and homeschool so my kids don’t see anyone outside of family.
Hi All! Still trying to figure out how I can get to posting here from the app. So far I've only been able to do so from my laptop, and it's coming up as the wrong username even though I changed it Any input would be greatly appreciated!
I've skimmed this thread and I have a few things to add - for my fellow Peloton mamas, I am totally still working out while I can! If Robin can do it, so can I.... right? LOL. My username on Peloton is RunningOnIndie - I'll follow back! (That's also supposed to be my username here, but...???)
I've definitely begun cramping earlier this time around than I did with my first. I noticed a few of you mention Chemical Pregnancy. What exactly is that? An early MC?
RE: Telling family, I will tell my immediate (parents brothers) and my husband's immediate (sister and her family) the next time we see them, respectively. For everyone else I'll probably wait until 12 weeks. We told people really early with Indie because we had to cancel a huge trip that everyone knew about and couldn't come up with a better decoy excuse, so I'm looking forward to waiting a bit this time around. My daughter is too young to understand that there's a baby coming so we're out of the woods with that for now!
@indigoheightsblog for your username you might need to log into The Knot and change your username there then log back in here and see if it changes.
I followed you on Peloton! Also for you and @williams-jen I also added the tag #pelopreggossept2021 you might not want to do that if you have a lot of followers IRL on there but most of mine are virtual Pelo friends so I don't care if they know I'm pregnant early. But I doubt anyone would see it anyway.
A chemical pregnancy is an early loss where you get a BFP but then your period arrives like normal or maybe a few days late. If you weren't TTC you might not have even known you were KU because you wouldn't have tested early and then got a normal period. Weird fact, the term chemical pregnancy also just refers to just the hormonal state of being pregnant so the paperwork from the RE after my beta had some wording about the beta confirming a chemical pregnancy and I was really confused thinking they we're telling me I had a loss but it was just information about pregnancy and what to avoid.
*TW LC*
Me & MH: 32 DS: 6/1/18 (Pre-E; IUGR; seizures; NICU) TTC #2: 12/2019 Sept 2020: HSG possible blocked right tube Nov 2020: Letrozole + TI - BFN Dec 2020: Letrozole + TI - BFP!!! EDD 9/18
@indigoheightsblog have you ever changed your username before? The Bump/The Knot will only allow you to change your username once, ever. After that, you’re locked in for life lol.
Re: The Great Big Questions Thread
DS: 6/1/18 (Pre-E; IUGR; seizures; NICU)
TTC #2: 12/2019
Sept 2020: HSG possible blocked right tube
Nov 2020: Letrozole + TI - BFN
Dec 2020: Letrozole + TI - BFP!!! EDD 9/18
@ladylynn222 yeah I can see how that makes things a lot more nerve wrecking. I still haven’t gotten a super dark test which makes me super nervous.
I shrunk down to a B and now with my boobs being slightly sensitive I keep looking down hoping to see growth but they’re still the same size😂
@akwr ugh, this! They aren't hurting much except for when a certain 18 month old puts all of his weight squarely on my chest!
I could wait until we tell family but DS doesn't see anyone except for daycare and our playdate friends both of which already know so it's not like I have to worry about him telling anyone.
DS: 6/1/18 (Pre-E; IUGR; seizures; NICU)
TTC #2: 12/2019
Sept 2020: HSG possible blocked right tube
Nov 2020: Letrozole + TI - BFN
Dec 2020: Letrozole + TI - BFP!!! EDD 9/18
@krash_ We told our immediate family via our son wearing a "big brother" shirt of a Zoom call, so we explained it to him before those. And then we had to tell his babysitter since he was probably going to be talking about it at some point. He's only 3.5 so he only really sort of gets it. I think when my belly grows it will be more of a reality to him.
@akwr I actually wore like sports bras and sleep bras for majority of my pregnancy so I only have like two “real” bras for bigger sizes which I actually didn’t really need because by the time I had DS I just went braless lol
her entire class (and every other person she’s encountered since then) that “mommy is growing a baby in her belly and I’m gonna be a big sister!”
I’ll be everyone’s cautionary tale (or at least everyone who doesn’t want the world to know yet) LOL.
We won’t tell our kids until we’re ready for people to know.... so not for a while. Our little won’t understand anyway.
The same goes for baby names you want to keep under wraps: when my SIL was expecting her third she told my nephews what they were going to name the baby, but didn’t want anyone else to know. Cue my then-4-year-old nephew flinging open the door to the nursery and yelling at us “this is Isla’s room!!!” Sorry sis, secret’s out 😂
We’ve told my son he’s going to be a big brother but he’s 18m so that means squat to him lol
I've skimmed this thread and I have a few things to add - for my fellow Peloton mamas, I am totally still working out while I can! If Robin can do it, so can I.... right? LOL. My username on Peloton is RunningOnIndie - I'll follow back! (That's also supposed to be my username here, but...???)
I've definitely begun cramping earlier this time around than I did with my first. I noticed a few of you mention Chemical Pregnancy. What exactly is that? An early MC?
RE: Telling family, I will tell my immediate (parents brothers) and my husband's immediate (sister and her family) the next time we see them, respectively. For everyone else I'll probably wait until 12 weeks. We told people really early with Indie because we had to cancel a huge trip that everyone knew about and couldn't come up with a better decoy excuse, so I'm looking forward to waiting a bit this time around. My daughter is too young to understand that there's a baby coming so we're out of the woods with that for now!
I followed you on Peloton! Also for you and @williams-jen I also added the tag #pelopreggossept2021 you might not want to do that if you have a lot of followers IRL on there but most of mine are virtual Pelo friends so I don't care if they know I'm pregnant early. But I doubt anyone would see it anyway.
A chemical pregnancy is an early loss where you get a BFP but then your period arrives like normal or maybe a few days late. If you weren't TTC you might not have even known you were KU because you wouldn't have tested early and then got a normal period. Weird fact, the term chemical pregnancy also just refers to just the hormonal state of being pregnant so the paperwork from the RE after my beta had some wording about the beta confirming a chemical pregnancy and I was really confused thinking they we're telling me I had a loss but it was just information about pregnancy and what to avoid.
DS: 6/1/18 (Pre-E; IUGR; seizures; NICU)
TTC #2: 12/2019
Sept 2020: HSG possible blocked right tube
Nov 2020: Letrozole + TI - BFN
Dec 2020: Letrozole + TI - BFP!!! EDD 9/18