1st Trimester
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I just wanted to introduce myself. I will be 8 weeks pregnant this coming Thursday. I go see our OB today and can't wait to see our tiny little blip on the monitor and hear that sweet heartbeat!! This is our 4th baby but we will have 5 total. My stepson is 20 and leaves for the Navy in December. He keeps asking if we are replacing him but I told him that there is no way that we could replace him! We have a 7yr old, 6 yr old, and an almost 2 yr old (he will be 2 on Friday). We have all boys and I was very actively trying to lose weight. I lost 48lbs since June and then found out that I am pregnant so I have stopped the diet program that I was on. I have gained back 4lbs but I have gotten my eating and such under control. I have been training to do my first 5k and should be doing my first one on the 27th. I am second guessing myself on that only because my knees and hips have been bothering me pretty bad. I have lots of questions for my OB this time around so I hope he is ready to answer lots of questions today.
Congratulations to everyone on this board! Babies are such a blessing and we were definitely surprised by this pregnancy but we are so happy! Who knows, maybe we will get our girl after all! 
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Hi all, I'm Beth, I have a 7 year old son and and currently just over 11 weeks pregnant Very pleased as have had quite a few miscarriages, but never past the 8 week stage so starting to feel very optimistic. I have already put on 8lb as I stopped exercising when I found out I was pregnant and I have been constantly hungry, so I have joined this lovely group for some inspiration and advise and to meet other ladies in similar situations and hopefully make some friends
Hope you are all feeling fab, looking forward to 'chatting' with some of you x
Congratulations! Feel free to add me as a friend! My goal through this pregnancy is to continue to workout throughout the entire pregnancy. My energy level has definitely been low and my workouts aren't as intense as they have been but I am just focused on keeping moving. 0 -
glea- I have my first 5K Nov 17th. Thankfully it is the colorrun so I won't be as worried about time as much as having fun. Who knows how I will be feeling at that point but I am still going. I have been looking forward to it. I didn't start the couch to 5k program like I had planned though. I figured that might be a little much but am still walking each day.0
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Hi everyone,
Joining the group as I recently found out we are having a baby in May! May 17th to be exact...at least what they say right now. My first OB appt. is tomorrow. So far I just get a little queasy every once in awhile and I've been able to keep up my fitness routine. I slacked last week, but got back to running this week and did some circut training. Trying to make sure I get in my fruits and veggies while all I crave is carbs. :happy:0 -
Hi there! I am 10 weeks pregnant (due May 7, 2013- which happens to be my daughter's birthday), and this is my 5th pregnancy. I have two living children, and I have had two miscarriages. Total anxiety was the first emotion I felt when I found out I was pregnant... ok, I was also a bit excited! I had been hoping for more children, but after my latest miscarriage in March of last year, I wasn't sure I would ever get pregnant again. My kids are 5 1/2 (daughter) and 3 1/2 (son).
I lost nearly 40 lbs through MFP, left because some people were extremely discouraging, and now I am back to track while I work for a healthy pregnancy... one totally opposite from my pregnancies with my daughter and son, lol! After my last miscarriage I started running as a release for just all the craziness I was feeling. It became my passion... so when my doctor informed me that I have a slight vaginal prolapse and would no longer be able to run (until I have corrective surgery), I was pretty heartbroken. BUT I am just going to look at it as a new challenge! I do feel a bit jealous when I see all these wonderful pregnant women still running (just like I had planned to do...), but if this is what it takes to have this wonderful blessing, I will gladly give up running for the time being.
I follow a primarily vegetarian diet, but from time to time I do eat fish and chicken. I gave up caffeine, as some studies have shown caffeine increases the risk of miscarriage (but if you drink it, I don't judge! I know lots of women who have and they had wonderful pregnancies and healthy babies! I just feel that I need as much as possible to work in my favor.). I definitely miss my morning cup of sweet, sweet coffee! :drinker:
I would love to meet women with similar goals, similar issues, or just... people that can encourage and can use some encouragement as well! However, I won't add anyone who is discouraging, belittling, has a very unhealthy diet, or uses foul language. I am here to support and encourage and I hope everyone is here to do the same! Praying that each and every one of you has a happy, healthy, wonderful pregnancy!!!0 -
Best wishes to all you first tri mommas! That was one long trimester! I'm off to the second!0
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Hi there, just a lil post to introduce myself!
I'm in the UK and I will be 6 weeks pregnant tomorrow with my first, my husband and I found out a week ago and this is a result of our second round of IVF. We have our first scan on 25th October and estimated due date is 11th June 2013.
I am really really excited but also super-nervous as we have wanted this for so long and it seems to good to be true! Due to being 'high risk' I have been advised to take it very easy for my first trimester - I was previously very active and was enjoying doing the Stronglifts 5X5 heavy lifting programe, however I've been told to stop completely. I'm now limiting my workouts to walking on the treadmill and yoga and pilates DVDs just to be on the safe side. I have no weight issues but I am already missing my proper exercise!
So far my only symptoms are sore boobs, tiredness and increased sense of smell - no nausea as yet! I'm also craving carbs and salty foods.
Hope you are all well and enjoying your pregnancies, I look forward to getting to know you all!! 0 -
Welcome to our new joiners! (Sorry, I can't think of a better word for that.)0
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Hi there, just a lil post to introduce myself!
I'm in the UK and I will be 6 weeks pregnant tomorrow with my first, my husband and I found out a week ago and this is a result of our second round of IVF. We have our first scan on 25th October and estimated due date is 11th June 2013.
I am really really excited but also super-nervous as we have wanted this for so long and it seems to good to be true! Due to being 'high risk' I have been advised to take it very easy for my first trimester - I was previously very active and was enjoying doing the Stronglifts 5X5 heavy lifting programe, however I've been told to stop completely. I'm now limiting my workouts to walking on the treadmill and yoga and pilates DVDs just to be on the safe side. I have no weight issues but I am already missing my proper exercise!
So far my only symptoms are sore boobs, tiredness and increased sense of smell - no nausea as yet! I'm also craving carbs and salty foods.
Hope you are all well and enjoying your pregnancies, I look forward to getting to know you all!!
Hi there, and congratulations to you and your husband! I was also told that I can't keep up my regular exercise, but for different reasons. I miss it, too! But it'll be well worth it for both of us I crave carbs as well- mostly because that's the only thing that doesn't totally upset my stomach! I hope all goes well for you!! 0 -
Best wishes to all you first tri mommas! That was one long trimester! I'm off to the second!
I'll be there soon!0 -
Im back ladies!! I was her last month, but ended up having an early mc.
I am currently 5 weeks pregnant!0 -
Im back ladies!! I was her last month, but ended up having an early mc.
I am currently 5 weeks pregnant!
Welcome back, and congratulations!
Edited because the boards went down mid-post!0 -
Im back ladies!! I was her last month, but ended up having an early mc.
I am currently 5 weeks pregnant!
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!! Sooooooo happy for you! Praying for that sticky baby!!0 -
Im back ladies!! I was her last month, but ended up having an early mc.
I am currently 5 weeks pregnant!
OMG, so happy for you! I remember you from last month, too! Congratulations! Yay!0 -
Thanks ladies!!
SO happy to be back! Now to just get back on track with logging/eating healthy!!0 -
For all you mommas who have experienced a loss-
I found myself pregnant less then two months after losing my third baby in less the one year. The first trimester was very difficult emotionally. I am happy to say that I am now in the 2nd trimester with a healthy low risk baby boy. When I first found out I was pregnant I became deeply depressed and wondered not if I would lose this baby but when. I now have changed to saying not if I will have this baby but when. Here is a beautiful poem written by Pandora Waldren to help pull you through:
A Different Child
A different child,
People notice
There's a special glow around you.
You grow
Surrounded by love,
Never doubting you are wanted;
Only look at the pride and joy
In your mother and father's eyes.
And if sometimes
Between the smiles
There's a trace of tears,
One day
You'll understand.
You'll understand
There was once another child
A different child
Who was in their hopes and dreams.
That child will never outgrow the baby clothes
That child will never keep them up at night
In fact, that child will never be any trouble at all.
Except sometimes, in a silent moment,
When mother and father miss so much
That different child.
May hope and love wrap you warmly
And may you learn the lesson forever
How infinitely precious
How infinitely fragile
Is this life on earth.
One day, as a young man or woman
You may see another mother's tears
Another father's silent grief
Then you, and you alone
Will understand
And offer the greatest comfort.
When all hope seems lost,
You will tell them
With great compassion,
"I know how you feel.
I'm only here
Because my mother tried again."
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I'm in 8 weeks--due sometime in June! I was very nervous since I found out I was pregnant when I still had an IUD in--luckily they saw a heartbeat last week. I already had a dream this new baby was a girl--praying everything goes well :O).0
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hi Ladies!
I am 10 weeks pregnant. This is my 4th, I have a 16, 14, and 10 year old. I am 38
My goal was to gain only 15 lbs with this baby as I am about 40 lbs over weight. Im freaking out about gaining too much weight, as I gained 60#, 40#, and 80# with my previous 3. I have not kept track of calories and just weighed myself and I have already gained 12!
NOT COOL! So here I am!
My problem has been, severe nausea, ( no puking) and they only thing that helps the nausea has been salty high carb foods. These are the exact foods I had been avoiding the last year as I lost 30 lbs. So I feel like eating them again has just caused me to gain lke crazy, even if i keep track of calories. I want to get back to my lean meats, eggs and greens zero processed foods, that I had lost weight on and felt great on, but the sound of those make my stomach turn.
I had been running and working out pretty heavily until the tiredness kicked in. So I have been eating like crap and not exercising! I picked up a few highly rated pregnancy exercise dvd's on amazon and have started them this week. I started walking a bit too this week. I need to stop the gain. I have enough "extra" for me and baby! I can not afford to gain 40 or more! It is SO hard to lose it.
I am hoping for advice and motivation from all you ladies!
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hi Ladies!
I am 10 weeks pregnant. This is my 4th, I have a 16, 14, and 10 year old. I am 38
My goal was to gain only 15 lbs with this baby as I am about 40 lbs over weight. Im freaking out about gaining too much weight, as I gained 60#, 40#, and 80# with my previous 3. I have not kept track of calories and just weighed myself and I have already gained 12!
NOT COOL! So here I am!
My problem has been, severe nausea, ( no puking) and they only thing that helps the nausea has been salty high carb foods. These are the exact foods I had been avoiding the last year as I lost 30 lbs. So I feel like eating them again has just caused me to gain lke crazy, even if i keep track of calories. I want to get back to my lean meats, eggs and greens zero processed foods, that I had lost weight on and felt great on, but the sound of those make my stomach turn.
I had been running and working out pretty heavily until the tiredness kicked in. So I have been eating like crap and not exercising! I picked up a few highly rated pregnancy exercise dvd's on amazon and have started them this week. I started walking a bit too this week. I need to stop the gain. I have enough "extra" for me and baby! I can not afford to gain 40 or more! It is SO hard to lose it.
I am hoping for advice and motivation from all you ladies!
any advice would be great!
Hi there! Welcome, and congratulations! I am 10w5d, due in late May, so I'm guessing you're either due in late May or early June (probably late May), so you may want to check out the May 2013 Due Dates thread. (I am 32, for the record, and my son will be 2 in January.)
Try not to stress about your weight gain. I know, I know, it's hard, and I have a really hard time with it, too. I gained 65# with my son, and after losing 20# immediately after his birth, I lost 82# in about a year using MFP. However, I'd gotten a little sloppy in the two or three months leading up to my getting pregnant again, and I gained back about 5#, which put me at the very tip-top of the "normal" BMI range for my height.
Like you, I haven't had any puking, but I did have bad nausea for a couple of weeks and still have it hit me from time to time, especially if I'm not eating enough/often enough. I also get low blood sugar if I don't eat often enough, so point being, I need to eat pretty much constantly! And, like you, the foods that sound good/go down easily are the kind of foods I pretty much avoided while losing weight... But that's just the way it goes. I figure as we go through our second trimesters, that will change somewhat (though last time I remember retaining certain food aversions for quite a while, even after giving birth), and hopefully our weight gains will slow down so that the only gains we have are due to a growing baby :happy: If not, though, that's ok.
To show you how much I need to take my own advice and that I'm not up on some high horse about this, I will admit that I am afraid to get on the scale because I am afraid of what it will show! I am thinking I have gained upwards of 10#, if not more, just based on the fact that I am eating more in general, plus a lot of what I am eating is high carb. I am trying to listen to my body, eating when it tells me to eat, and feeding it what I feel is appropriate. I just try to keep it reasonable. Yes, I've had ice cream, but I don't eat it daily or anything like that, maybe a couple of times a week, and only when I really want it/it will make my stomach feel good.
I am painfully aware of how hard it is to deal with early pregnancy weight gain, but there are some women who gained a lot early on due to eating a lot/high carb intake to calm their nausea and then plateaued or even lost weight as they got farther along and their eating desires/needs changed. I am trying desperately to keep a positive outlook and remember that this is only temporary. Plus, I lost a lot of weight last time after having a baby, and after having this baby, I should be nowhere near my last starting weight. I know how to eat right, and I have exercise that I love to do (running and Spinning). The "trick" will simply be knowing when is ok to get back on the MFP horse.
In short, I am in the same boat as you, and I definitely need to take my own advice, but try not to sweat your weight gain too much. Just try to keep yourself feeling good!
You did it once using MFP; you can certainly do it again! Right now we need to focus on pregnancy 0 -
I had been running and working out pretty heavily until the tiredness kicked in. So I have been eating like crap and not exercising! I picked up a few highly rated pregnancy exercise dvd's on amazon and have started them this week. I started walking a bit too this week. I need to stop the gain. I have enough "extra" for me and baby! I can not afford to gain 40 or more! It is SO hard to lose it.
I am hoping for advice and motivation from all you ladies!
any advice would be great!
Also, to add to my last post, I worked out 4-6 days/week, mostly Spinning, up until I got pregnant and the exhaustion set in. It's starting to pass, though, except last night I could have gone to bed at 7:30! I mean, my toddler son wasn't even asleep yet! I literally had a 3-week break in working out due to the fact that I couldn't drag my butt out of bed early or drag my butt out the door to walk/jog in the evening, and my weekends were unusually full with family stuff. I got back to Spinning last Saturday and am going tomorrow but have done zero inbetween.
So yeah, I've basically gone from 4-6 workouts/week that burned anywhere between 500 and 700 calories to once a week. Getting to Spinning has been difficult because of changes in the class schedule, but I should still be able to walk briskly. I just need to get my butt out there!!!0 -
quote:To show you how much I need to take my own advice and that I'm not up on some high horse about this, I will admit that I am afraid to get on the scale because I am afraid of what it will show! I am thinking I have gained upwards of 10#, if not more, just based on the fact that I am eating more in general, plus a lot of what I am eating is high carb. I am trying to listen to my body, eating when it tells me to eat, and feeding it what I feel is appropriate. I just try to keep it reasonable. Yes, I've had ice cream, but I don't eat it daily or anything like that, maybe a couple of times a week, and only when I really want it/it will make my stomach feel good.
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***** pregnancy brain, I replied to the quote wrong, so here I try again*************
First, thank you so much for your kind and encouraging words! You are right, we do need to focus on being pregnant and healthy. And, congratulations on your awesome weight loss this last year! WOW!
As far as you not getting on the scale, I had to laugh because I have not been on it either, I totally know how you feel, but made myself this morning. It was my wake up call!
I dont want to encourage myself to go hog crazy, but I also need to stay in a limit. I did not need 2 pieces of wedding cake at the wedding I was at last weekend. And I dont need a plate of cheese and crackers every time I feel nausea coming.
I did feel really good to work out again! I have not worked out for 6 weeks until this week. Im glad to be back!
Again, thank you so much for your encouraging words! You have no idea how much I needed that!0 -
***** pregnancy brain, I replied to the quote wrong, so here I try again*************
First, thank you so much for your kind and encouraging words! You are right, we do need to focus on being pregnant and healthy. And, congratulations on your awesome weight loss this last year! WOW!
As far as you not getting on the scale, I had to laugh because I have not been on it either, I totally know how you feel, but made myself this morning. It was my wake up call!
I dont want to encourage myself to go hog crazy, but I also need to stay in a limit. I did not need 2 pieces of wedding cake at the wedding I was at last weekend. And I dont need a plate of cheese and crackers every time I feel nausea coming.
I did feel really good to work out again! I have not worked out for 6 weeks until this week. Im glad to be back!
Again, thank you so much for your encouraging words! You have no idea how much I needed that!
You're welcome - I got on this weekend and was not pleased (although admittedly I had already eaten breakfast and had a bunch of water at that point). I am going to try logging again now that I am not dealing with nausea 0 -
Hi all
I just found out I am pregnant! Only 4 weeks, and fingers crossed that this baby sticks. This would be my first baby. I lost about 25 lbs, with MFP since February, and and just switched my calories to maintenance. Hoping to use MFP to gain weight at a healthy pace, and help keep me motivated to exercise.0 -
Hi all
I just found out I am pregnant! Only 4 weeks, and fingers crossed that this baby sticks. This would be my first baby. I lost about 25 lbs, with MFP since February, and and just switched my calories to maintenance. Hoping to use MFP to gain weight at a healthy pace, and help keep me motivated to exercise.
Welcome, and congratulations! A lot of us have lost weight prior to becoming pregnant (or becoming pregnant again), so we're right here with you. Congrats on your weight loss, and maintenance calories is where most of us start out. You're in the right place!0 -
welcome & congrats @free! How ya feelin? Any symptoms yet? I hit 11 weeks Sat and the past few days my nausea/pickiness have seemingly subsided, YAY!
Hey there! Glad your symptoms have subsided! You and I are about the same place (I hit 11w this past Sunday), and my symptoms (well, at least as far as nausea/food aversions, I still have sore/growing boobs) almost completely went away around week 9 (thank goodness!). It's funny how everyone has a different point where that goes away.0 -
I just found out I am pregnant with my third child. I won't know until I have an ultrasound, but I am somewhere between 11 and 17 weeks. I am 36 and because of an emergency surgery a few years back where I lost an ovary, I was told to expect that I couldn't get pregnant again. I took 3 pregnancy tests several weeks ago and they were all negative, so I attributed all of the pregnancy symptoms to a medication I was taking. I will be on edge until I can get in to see a doctor.0
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Hi ladies! I'm very excited that I finally get to join you all; after about a year of trying I'm now 4w6d pregnant with my first.
Congrats to the rest of you all! Ashtin, it's great to see you on this board now!0 -
Hi ladies! I'm very excited that I finally get to join you all; after about a year of trying I'm now 4w6d pregnant with my first.
Congrats to the rest of you all! Ashtin, it's great to see you on this board now!
RisOnTheRun! I'm soooooo happy to see you over here now!! Congrats hun! I'm praying for a healthy, happy pregnancy for you!0
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