FlyBear... there is no other place to go for an u/s around here that I know of without having to drive hours away. We just moved here, so I'm pretty clueless. But I'm going to ask my Dr. if he can request the baby's gender.. then maybe he can tell me. Lol! Before we moved, with my first kid, I wasn't able to find out either, because she wouldn't get into proper position.. but I was able to find out with my second. Sure makes a difference between knowing and not knowing! I dunno.. maybe I can bribe the sonographer. :) ↑
Smile, well good luck. I hope you can find out. Oh and I think I spoke too soon about the nausea... I am feeling really crappy suddenly. I think I just need to put some food in my stomach but I still have an hour or more before I can get away to do that. :( I'm craving chinese food soooo bad. ↑
Today I was sitting with my husband watching a movie & suddenly mentioned that I had a craving for dark chocolate. He was so funny! He literally ran out the door, jumped on his bike, and flew to the nearest gas station to get me some. I'm still not sure if he was being goofy or if he feels that's his pregancy-duties? He's becoming pretty thrilled I think about the idea of 2. He keeps rubbing my belly...I love the name Evan as well but the name has to sound good in Dutch as well and then it would be Aaaaavon. Not exactly cool :) Smile, are you in a remote part of Canada? ↑
Hi! This is my first. I am hoping someone can explain to me how far along I am. According to my LMP and all the books and websites, I should be 10 weeks pregnant, due Feb 2. But my doctor says I am 8 weeks aaccording to ultrasound, due Feb 15. But if I am only 8 weeks, then I found out I was pregnant the same day I got pregnant and saw the heartbeat 4 days before there should have been a heart beat. I am so confused. Am I really only 8 weeks, or am I 10? Doctor seems to have no time to explain it to me, just my u/s says I am 8 weeks. I am seeing a new doc in 3 weeks. ↑
kim-H, It may be different for you, but with the limited information that you gave, here's a stab at it. I am sort of the same. I'm expecting that Thursday they will tell me I'm more like 9w than 11w. Right now according to my LMP I am 10 1/2w BUT because that math is done using a typical 28-30 day cycle the math is off a little for me. I still only ovulate two weeks before my cycles begin but I have around 40 day cycles, so realistically I am probably dating two weeks ahead when if comes to dating me using my LMP. I think when they date me based on my u/s and the baby's growth, I will prove to be a little less far along than previously thought. It sucks, I know. I feel like I've been waiting forever already, and now it's going to be possibly pushed back another few weeks... I feel ya, but just relax. I know, easier said than done. :) Just enjoy your pregnancy and let's all just be thankful that so far our pregnancies are healthy, whether we're 36 weeks, 10weeks or 5weeks. I'll keep you guys updated and let you know what happens on Thursday. If they still date me at 10 1/2 weeks then looks like I'm actually going to be a January mommy, because that would make my due date January 30th! ↑
Monstera.. not really remote or anything, just a small town about an hour away from a small city. The closest major cities are about 3 hours to the east and west. Congrats on twins BTW.. thats pretty exciting. :) Nice hubby too... mine wouldn't be so responsive to my hunger. Lol! However, he did come around a bit and discuss names... he likes Jake for a boy, but never specified if he'd like it shortened for Jacob. He likes Alice for a girl, me not so sure yet. All in all though, I'm feeling pretty good now in this pregnancy... but my 2 kids are driving me insane. Seriously getting on every one of my last nerves. Lol! ↑
Smile -- my son is only 21 months, so we still have all our baby stuff. He's actually still in his crib, we'll probably transition him this fall so we can use the crib for #2. I have most of his baby clothes, too, so we'll be okay for that part. It's just all MY maternity clothes that are gone. LOL I was pretty sick of them at the end of my pregnancy, know what I mean? ↑
I'm due around Feb 14. This is my 2nd pregnancy, although the 1st ended in miscarriage. My dr. has been great-watching me very closely since we found out.(I've had 3 ultrasounds so far and heartrate was 178 at last visit) My hubby and I weren't trying this time but we weren't preventing either. I have had such a hard time getting a period each month that I kinda thought it couldn't happen (shows what I know) The downer on that is was taking a med that can cause problems with the baby. Part of me wants to worry soooo much but I keep telling myself that there is nothing I can do about it. Instead of taking that med I now have to give myself a shot twice a day in my tummy-OUCH!! but it's worth it! How has everyone's symptoms been? Since the beginning I had a little morning sickness but more bloating, constipation and /or diarrhea(sometimes in the same day) and my boobs have been sooo sore. Now I think things are starting to lighten up a little. ↑
Hi ya'll. Here is some info about me. I am a mother of 2 boys. One is 9 yrs old and the other is 3 yrs old. I have been preggos 6 times....2 M/C and 1 chemical pregnancy. I am currently preggos again and i am supposed to be 10wks and 4 days which the doc said I am due Feb. 9th. I have been going in to see him every week for the last month. When he checked my uterus my first visit he said that I measured 8 weeks. Which would have made me due Jan. 13th. The next wks visit he did a sonogram and he said that my baby measured to be 6 wks and 4 days NOT 8 wks, the baby measured to be 6 centimeters. So that se me back 2 wks. I was very discouraged because of my previous m/c's and was hoping that I was almost out of the scary stage. The 3rd visit the baby measured 10 centimeters. I was getting more excited because it grew. Now this LAST visit which was last Thursday, he says that my gestational sac didn't grow much and my hcg levels was up there but they took a slight dip which he said that they do that around this time in pregnancy. So he scheduled me for another ultrsound at the hosp. since their machine is like 3 times more powerful than his. This was for yesterday. I went and I was able to see the sac but not the baby. The tech said that sometimes that happens and he couldn't give me any of the details of the scan. So now I have to wait till tommorrow for my app. to find out what yesterdays scan found. Please pray for me and my baby. I have not had any major cramping, just those kinda that feel like your beely is stretching and no bleeding or spotting. Thank ya'll for listening. Good luck to you all. ↑
Hello everyone! I'm due with #2 on Feb. 23. We have a 18 month old son, and we're very happy to be pregnant again, although at this point I just want the nausea to GO AWAY!! I'm feeling much sicker this time around, incredibly tired, and so very cranky! My poor son, and poor husband, I haven't been very pleasant to live with the last couple of weeks, and I still have 4-5 more weeks of this awful nausea to get through. We have told our closest friends, but no one else. Want to wait for the first 12 weeks to pass before we share the news with everyone else. Oh, I did tell my boss, she's awesome and very understanding about the whole sickness thing, aaarrrgh, I hate feeling like this! Congrats to you all and can't wait for the 2nd trimester! ↑
Good evening ladies! Hope all is well with you. I had the day off from work and went shopping with a couple of friends, then went swimming. I didn't realize how much being in a pool took away all cramps and aches! haha It felt so good to relax and be able to hold my daughter. My daughter is almost 3 and is big for her age, so I can't carry her as much as I want to. I've tried to not make the baby the reason that I can't, so that she doesn't resent the baby. I can't wait until the 2nd trimester, I'm tired of being tired! No matter what I do, I'm exhausted. I also have been VERY moody. I snap at everybody for the smallest reason. I have told my manager off at work about 10 times in a week, and he just stands there and takes it because he's unsure of what to do or say. I hope I'm not like this my entire pregnancy, if so, I don't even want to be around me!!!!! I am excited though because I go Monday for my second u/s, I'm hoping that the baby grew some and everything is fine. Congratulations ro, asimpkins, and katerae. ↑
I am 6 weeks 6 days pregnant with my firsts. Couldnt be happier but then again couldnt be so worried. I was ttc for only 6 months. Most stories i here are way more drastic than mine. My concern is ... I dont have morning sickness.. I might get a slight queeziness but not what everyone warned me about. And i get cramps on and off.. They dont last very long. Is that normal?
Well sore breast occasionally in the morning and i urinate alot more than i use to.
Due Feb 27th 2009!
HOpe all goes okay at my first prenatal visit on june 14th 08 ↑
Hi everyone! I went out today and bought myself my first pair of maternity jeans and I'm just as happy as a pig in ... well ... lol. I also had a gyno visit today but he didn't really have much to say. My blood was good he said. For the rest, no u/s or anything. A bit of a bummer. I was looking forward to seeing the babies again. Deebaby06, Í really haven't had morning sickness either. Just sometimes late a night I'd be nauseus, and I'd have some cramping. Everyone's different I guess. And anyway, it also may come yet. Tomorrow I'm flying to Canada and the entire trip is going to take about 14 hours. I'm not looking forward to that considering the occasional nauseu and back pains and the constant trips to the loo. Still, can't wait to be back in a country where everyone speaks my language! :) Good luck everyone. ↑
Hello all! I am a little over 8 weeks pregnant. Due Feb 17!! We are really excited, this is our third baby, but we have been trying for about a year. We had a miscarriage in March and really really wanted just one more!! Needless to say I am really worried though, the doc says they babys heartrate was low (114 at about 6w2d) and that she is growing a little slow, just a few days, but enough to scare me! They have me doing weekly ultrasounds for now!
My question though, is has anybody had their breast tenderness just disappear. Mine are still kind of sore, but not like they have been and they just keep getting less sore. I worry because I had a missed miscarriage last time.
Hi jkmix1--Congrats on the baby!!! I am at 9 weeks and have had some of my symptoms come and go the past week or 2. In fact I called the dr on Monday in a panic because my symptoms were gone! No bloating, constipation sore boobs NOTHIN!! I miscarried the 1st time at 12 weeks and am -understandibly-nervous this time. All was well though--The dr had me come in and did a ultrasound and everything looked great. She said that symptoms can fluctuate. In fact today has been pretty miserable-extreme headaches, nausea, and it hurts for my arms to just brush up against the side of my boobs. Keep me updated and just keep happy thoughts! ↑
Thank you so much. I know that I am probably feeling paranoid but I also feel like the second I start feeling comfortable with things something bad will happen. With our missed miscarriage we honestly had no clue that could happen, we were super naive!
HI LADIES !!! I MAKE 8 WEEKS ON MONDAY!!! I LOOK RIDICULOS ..... I AM HAVING TO USE RUBBER BANDS TO BUTTON MY PANTS, I GUESS ITS TIME TO GO SHOPPING!!! WITH MY FIRST I WAS IN SIZE 5 UNTILL ABOUT 5-6 MONTH AND WITH 2ND BABY I GOT BIGGER A LIL FASTER BUT THIS TIME IT IS LIKE WHOA! I WAS IN SOME 3/4 AND 5 JEANS AND I AM NOW BORROWING MY FRIENDS SIZE 7 JEANS AND EVEN THOSE DONT BUCKLE COMFORTABLY! I CAN'T IMAGINE THE BABY DOING THIS ALREADY, DO YOU THINK IT IS JUST FROM BLOATING??? ANYWAY... MY BB'S ARE STILL VERY SENSITIVE!!! AND MY NASUEA IS FINALLY STARTING TO CUT BACK! YEAH! I AM STILL SOOO TIRED THOUGH!!! BUT IT IS ALL SO WORTH IT!!! ANGLE MONKEY- HOW ARE YOU DOING WITH THE FAGS? I AM GETTING BETTER BUT UNFOURTUNATLY NOT ALL THE WAY QUITE YET. I HAVEN'T BEEN ON MUCH LATELY DUE TO COMP ISSUES. I HOPE EVERYONE IS DOING GREAT AND ENJOYING THEIR LIL ONES!!! DOES ANY ONE HAVE KIDS AND ARE WAITING TO TELL THEM? I HAVE A 3&5 YR OLD. I AM GOING TO WAIT UNTILL AFTER 1ST TRI BEFORE TELLING THEM BECAUSE I TOLD THEM ABOUT LAST 2 AND THEY ENDED IN M/C, I DONT WANT TEM TO GO THRU THAT. BUT I HAVE A GREAT FEELING ABOUT THIS ONE!!! MY BABY HAS ALL ITS PARTS AND A STRONG HEART BEAT! THANK YOU JESUS!!!! ↑
Yeah--I'm waiting to tell the kids as well. I have 2 step kids, ages 8 & 12 -the 8 year old lives with us- Fortunately we didn't tell them I was preg last time and I ended up miscarrying. I hate to put them through all that, especially since I didn't handle it too well myself. My problem is that my closest friends are the teachers I work with and my stepson goes to school with me. Once I start telling all of them it will be hard to keep it from him. I'm afraid someone will slip up and say something or not realize he is around and he will over hear something. I should be 15 weeks when school starts back and past the point when I miscarried last time. Maybe by then we will tell the kids?????? Also My hubby and I get to deal with my step kids mom---she is gonna FREAK!!!! ↑
Hi ladies. Hope all of you are doing good. I'm doing ok, just wishing I wasn't so tired all of the time. I go in the morning for another u/s...the doctor will give me an official due date this time, I'm just hoping that it's at least close to what we originally thought (Feb 14). I bought a pair of maternity pants a few days ago and wore them around the house and my goodness, they were comfortable. I bought them a little big because I can remember when I was like 8 months pregnant with my daughter all of my maternity pants were a little too snug. They are kind of falling off of me, but so very comfortable. I do have to admit that I looked pretty silly in them right now, but I don't even care. My little girl does know that I'm pregnant again, she was actually the one that told me that I was pregnant. (To make a long story kind of short......) She put her hands on my stomach one day and said she liked my baby and then kissed my stomach and said that it was a nice baby. I thought it was odd because at the time I didn't even think I was pregnant. I guess kids just know these things. Anyway, hope you ladies have a good night. ↑
Hey everyone! Hope all is well. We had our first ultra sound last Thursday and everything looked great with that. We now proudly display our first picture of baby! lol Just as I suspected, they told me I was about 2 weeks behind what they had originally told me based on my LMP. I know my cycle and body and I knew I couldn't be that far along, so I'm back to week 9 now. :(Meaning, like I thought, that my due date is pushed back to around Valentine's day!!!
I got in a fight with my best friend, who hasn't had a child and sometimes has an issue with thinking she knows everything. I was telling her that so far my pregnancy has been very easy compared to some but that the fatigue is killing me. I broke down crying at work Friday because I was just so tired, and I was telling her how sometimes I go home and I HAVE to have a nap and I end up sleeping for like 3 or 4 hours and then I have trouble sleeping all the way through the night and all. She started mouthing off at me about how that was lazy and no wonder I couldn't sleep through the night if I was taking naps right before bed time. She suggested I set the alarm and just take a 30 min nap if I need one. I was just amazed at what a jerk she was. I was like, well I can't believe all of us pregnant women are so effing stupid. Why didn't we just come to you for advice, you seem to know everything. I told her, when I'm tired like that 30mins is not enough and that I couldn't wait till she was pregnant so I could give her that same wonderful advice. Then I called home and cried to my love for a while. Of course later she apologized and said she was just having a rough day and that she had told her sister, who does have a baby, about it and she told her that she was wrong because you are that sleepy in the first trimester and all... Anyways, just wondering, have any of you experienced anyone being a jerk like that yet? ↑
Today has been a very eventful day for me. I had my second u/s this morning and my goodness...I was shocked. They did the external one like normal and she was acting all weird during it, then says she wants to do an internal one. I instantly started thinking that something was wrong...well, after we started the internal one, the practioner comes in and that's when I really started to worry because the lady doing the u/s said to her "I haven't told her anything yet" and then I was like "whats wrong?" the practioner looks at the u/s monitor and then to me and smiles and says "sweetie, you're having twins" TWINS????!!!!! omg...I almost fell off of the bed I was laying on. I got to see both heart beats, it was amazing!! In the pictures they gave me, you can see both of the babies, but there is only one sac, so she said that it's possible there is another one but because the babies are so close together it could be behind them...but right now it's looking like identical twins! That's the good news from today, but with that on my mind along with a million other things, I went to work and was soo stressed out and after getting yelled at by my boss for no reason, I went off on everybody and then quit. I don't regret quitting because I didnt' need that stress, but now I'm kind of stuck because I don't know where I can work for a few months until I'm about 7 months pregnant. I should just take the time off and spend it with my daughter while I can still do stuff with her and it just be us. I hope you ladies had a better day than I did. ↑
omg deebaby
im so glad you told us what you going through.. this is my first child as you im about 5 weeks or 6 maybe earlier not sure...
but i only have the cramping up doenst last for long but i was soooo scared.. and my breas hurts but bearable... im worried also because im far away from home matter afact im far away from america so its hard on me to go throught this with out my family here.. but im so glad to see others that relates to me ↑
Hey ladies -- Wow, am I reading right? TWO sets of twins amongst us? Yikes. That better not be catching, lol, or I think my husband will have a heart attack. I'm at 11w3days today, starting to feel a lot less pukey, though I'm still tired and hungry. DH says I'm eating us out of house and home. I'm showing a bit already, doing the rubberband on the button trick on my jeans. Luckily I'm not skinny to begin with, so i dont' think anyone at work has noticed (or else they just think I've stopped working out, lol). I have my first real doctor appointment tomorrow. I'm hoping we can hear the heartbeat. I had an early ultrasound with my son, but I don't know if they'll do one with this babe since I haven't had the same complications. Let's hope it's just ONE babe in there, please! :) ↑
~Flybear, I've known people to be like that when somebody is pregnant. Actually when I was pregnant with my daughter, my best friend was like that and it was because she was jealous that I was pregnant and she wasn't. And now that I'm pregnant again, she's starting all over. She has a little boy that is about 5 months old and is really struggling to take care of him and she keeps telling me that she wants to try to have another one and that I shouldn't be as tired as I am or that I shouldn't be cramping like this. For the most part, I try to ignore all of the negative talk, but sometimes you just need to go off on somebody because it really does make you feel better. ~ I thought I was finally getting over the nausea, but I guess not...I got sick today, twice....first time actually vomitting with this pregnancy. I'm not sure if it was everything from yesterday or just pregnancy hormones, but my goodness. It was kind of cute afterward because I could hear my mom talking to my little girl outside of the bathroom door and my little girl peeks her head in and asks me if I was ok. At that moment, I wanted to cry...for a 2 year old to ask an adult if they are ok was just wonderful. And tonight as I was tucking her into bed and telling her a story, she interrupts me to ask if my tummy felt better. I can tell she's going to be a big help with the babies. I go next monday for my first prenatal visit and I'm really nervous because there's hundreds of things I want to ask, but I'm not sure how to ask them. For those that had a first visit already, how did they go? For those that haven't, when is it? Best wishes!!! ↑
isabella congratualtions!! did you have any symtoms? i think i have twins as i have gained 14lbs and im only 9weeks! but thats about all! i have my first scan on tuesady ↑
Thanks ladies! Yes, I'm still in shock, but I think it's wearing off because now I'm worrying about everything. My biggest thing isn't even related to money or lack of it...it's that I'm worried I won't be able to tell them apart. I know it might sound silly, but I wouldn't want to mix up my own children and have them like that forever. My boyfriend is excited about it, but he's also nervous. This is his first...and second child, so he doesn't really know what to expect. I'm excited but it's really overwhelming when you think about it. You plan on one of everything and with twins it's so different. I'm so worried that something is going to happen and that I will lose one of them. I tried to compare this pregnancy to my first and everything is just 'worse' now than it was then. I was nauseated...more than if I just had the flu, but didnt' actually vomit until yesterday. I'm tired all of the time, sometimes it feels like I haven't slept in weeks. My bbs are still tender. My lower back still hurts and I've been feeling the pulling in my stomach from where everything is moving and stretching. One reason I thought I might be having twins before the u/s confirmed it...my stomach was already itching (something I didnt' experience with my daughter until I was about 15 weeks). Twins do run in my family, on both my moms side and my dads side. It skips generations and it wasn't my turn on my moms side, but it was on my dads. But I guess it was meant to be. I do have a lot of stress right now, and I'm trying to just forget it, but I can't. My dad hasn't talked to me since I told him that I'm pregnant and he told me that day that he would never speak to me again. Without going into too much detail, I'm white and my boyfriend is black and my dad doesn't approve. Everybody else in my family approves and thinks he's great. My dad has never met him and is passing judgement already. I just want to be happy and as long as some guy treats me and my child(ren) good, nothing else should matter...right? ↑
Isabellasmommy, congrats! Twins, how exciting!!!
So last night I was having some mild cramps. Nothing painful, just noticeable. That's normal around this time though right? As long as there's no bleeding or they aren't severe??? ↑
