Fit, Fabulous, and Pregnant-August 2011

Well just got back from my ultrasound and my pregnancy is definitely NOT in my tube...yay!! I saw the yolk sac inside the gestational sac and next Thursday I go back for another ultrasound to see the heartbeat! I'm so relieved it's not ectopic. Oh, and I weighed 118lbs at the Dr. office which is one pound less than 2 days ago so I guess I do have water weight gain which is fluctuating. I worked out 4 days this week so feeling good. I make sure I have a couple of protein snacks each day and so far I have no nausea. Excited to be part of this group for support

Ok - when do you usually start wearing maternity clothes when you're pregnant?? I'm just over 3 months and I can't fit in ANY of my pants without the zipper completely undone My pants fit me everywhere else, I just can't do up the zipper/buttons.
I've worn leggings ALL week and today is jeans day and I am wearing a pair of jeans with a belly band but I find it really annoying because I'm constantly having to readjust it

I feel like I shouldn't need maternity clothes yet! I'm starting to freak out and think I'm going to have a massive baby lol

Sorry if I sound like a freak, I'm just curious and hoping that maybe someone else had to get maternity pants around this time! lol
My mom and sister said they didn't have to until 5-6 months!!

Awww, look at your little bump! I'm jealous! Of course you get to wear maternity clothes! How did they make it 5-6months? Your baby is peach size, + amniotic fluid and swollen uterus. Stuffing that in pants that fit a previously flat stomach is tough!

My Friday was super busy and I'm just now getting a chance to catch up with all of you!

Cool marine morning air and a little 70's and 80's rock on the ipod made for a happy Friday morning run :-) Got my ten miles in again this week. I had my 38 week appointment today and all is still progressing as it should be. Bambino continues to grow and have a nice strong heartbeat. I still have clear urine, good bp and weight that doesn't seem to want to go up anymore. I know for those of you in the early stages it's probably tough to hear, but you'll be here soon enough and might end up in the same boat! I really thought I had gained this week, but apparently not - my scale agreed too. Frustrating, but my doctor isn't concerned at this point. Bambino is definitely heading into the pelvic area, but is still "bouncy" according to my doctor and no dilation yet. I've been cleared to keep running if I wish :-)

Heather, hope you and Al had a fun day! I'm sure it was great to see him after these past few weeks. How's the nursery coming? I had to chuckle when I read about you not being crafty. I'm right there with you sister! I always say that my mom and sister have the craft gene, I got the cooking gene but completely lack the craft one. I'm sorry to hear about your "friend" that wants you to be so miserable - what's up with that?! As I've said before, I truly think a healthy diet and exercise make a world of difference in our attitudes and just over make us feel better. You sound like you are doing everything right on the oral home care. Unfortunately, pregnancy does have a tendency to cause our gingiva to react negatively. It's believed that the gingiva changes are an exaggerated response of the tissues to bacterial plaque. This becomes further influenced by the increased levels of circulating hormones. I'm happy to hear that you aren't having any bleeding. If you were my patient I would recommend increasing what you are doing, rather than staying away from the gums because they are sore. I don't know if you are using a manual or electric toothbrush - have you changed it recently? Brush heads should be changed about every three months for them to be most effective regardless of if it's a manual or electric. I'd make sure you are angling your tb towards your gumline. Think of nestling the bristles into your gums, use soft pressure and a small circular motion. If you are already brushing for two minutes (yeah!), try bumping it to three for the next few days. Also spend a little more time with the floss and waterpik. Hopefully you will feel things improve within three to four days. Good luck and let me know if they don't start feeling better soon.

Danielle, you sound motivated enough that you will have no trouble getting back to an active lifestyle once you are no longer restricted. Hang in there!

Atomdraco, happy to hear you are feeling better and are able to get back to the running. Don't worry about being slow, I feel like and absolute slug these days! Just listen to your body, it's good at telling you if you are doing too much.

jruecket, the initial weight gain is so hard! I think most of us here are pretty motivated and have all struggled with the idea of gaining the weight and seeing the numbers increase on the scale. It's tough to get your head around in the beginning, especially when you don't look pregnant. Try to remember that you have a very precious little one now growing inside you and a healthy weight gain will totally be worth it. I think all of my first trimester gain was in my breasts. I can't believe how gigantic they have become, although strangely I am now getting used to their size...the water/bloat weight also comes and goes early on.

Sabrina, I've been taking rx prenatals since I starting ttc. I've been on OB Natal one, which I was really happy with. When I refilled last time I was told that they have discontinued them and was switch to Folcaps (I think). So far I've noticed no difference.

Andrea, you're doing awesome workouts. I am happy to hear that your diet sounds like it's back on track too. If the majority of your nutrition is healthy it's okay to cheat every now and again. Keeps us sane and happy!

Rayna, I think the maternity clothes question will be different for all of us. I was in my normal clothes until week 22 or so. I did use a Bella Band with a couple of pairs of jeans. I went to Europe for weeks 23-26 and ended up only taking maternity pants because I didn't want to wake up one morning and not have anything that fit me anymore! I never even tried to go back to my other clothes when we returned. I do know the gal at the maternity shop was surprised that I waited so long, she said in her experience most people move into the maternity clothes by three months or so. I did find that I'd never understood the whole "unbuttoning of your pants" after a meal thing until I was pregnant. Now I totally get it!

Cutmd, sometimes our medical/healthcare backgrounds can be a bad thing. It's too much knowledge that gets jumbled with the irrational pregnancy thinking. I know my weight bounced around early on and I'd guess if your breasts are still super sore and growing that all is moving along as it should be. You are trained to think of the worst so that's where you mind easily goes. I'm sending happy prayers for you! As for scrubs, I wore my regular bottoms until about week 22 and my regular tops until about week 35. Lucky for me my husband wears navy blue scrubs too, so I have just been wearing his bottoms lately. He likes the full elastic waist so they nicely fit under my bump ;-)

Sylvia, yeah! yeah! yeah! Glad to hear about the doctor's appointment. Also happy to hear you are feeling good and working out.

Lexi, I too remember when we were a little group. It was much easier to keep up wasn't it? The nice thing is we've just added a bunch of nice, fabulous, pregnant women. I know your due date has been played with quite a bit, happy to hear that you feel better about the new date. Remind me how much longer you'll have to stay in Texas? I feel like you are almost done with school...you, Amy and I are so close at this point. Hang in there, your little guy will be here soon :-)

80lbs. So glad to hear that everything is well!! Congrats!!
I meet with my midwife tomorrow for our monthly checkup!!!
Go back to the Dr. on Tuesday morning to check and see if this infection in my leg is gone. Good Lord willing it will be. I really want to try to get back to normal, no pills and able to move around full time!!
Hope everyone is having a Great weekend!!

Holly - I have 2 semesters left, but our semesters are fairly short because we have "front loading" where we go to school 8-5 every day for a few weeks to get all our info in before clinicals. When clinicals start, we only go to school for 2 days, 3 hrs each, then a 12 hr clinical... And total is 15 weeks so the way I see it, it is a total of about 7 "school months" lol not counting Christmas break.. (can you tell I am counting down to graduation already??? lol) You inspire me to keep running, just want you to know that!!!!! I am always thinking that if you could do it, I could at least try today... and a lot of times, when I try it, I end up doing a good 20 min run at least and walking on top of that... Can't wait to get back in the groove after the baby!!!

Lexi

I am so glad to see another mommy to be still going to classes this fall. I have 2 semesters left of my bachelors. I deliberately scheduled this semester light (only 10 hours) and everything on MWF except one lab on T. People shake their heads at hearing I'm planning on going to school and having a baby mid-semester, but I don't really see any other way to do it, especially with my scholarship and financial aid. I hope you make it through those first few weeks of "front loading!"

Morning!

Had a crazy crazy busy weekend!! Every minute was jam packed with something. :noway:

Hubby and I finally had our first break down (mind you we are both first parents)...but after our initial meltdown we were both able to sit and talk calmly and I was able to tell him that I can no longer keep up at 100 miles and hour. I get hot, I get tired and I get hungry!! More importantly when I say I'm hungry that doesn't mean oh we have at least another hour before we eat. I need to eat within the next 10 min or less if he doesn't want me getting nauseaus in the truck.

With a little bit of communication and little bit of understanding I think he finally understood that I just cant keep up with him anymore. So as he continued to do things around the house/run errands most of the weekend I retreated myself to the bedroom for a good long nap! Helped him when I could, as much as I could without over doing it. Things definitely were much better after that.

Lesson learned for both of us this weekend.

Any of you experienced anything similar?

Checking in with everyone. I had a super busy weekends: baby birthday, family reunion - party after party, pizza after pizza. Now I'm very sick of eating pizza, so greasy. After I got home, I just don't feel satisfied without my usually intake of fruits and vegetables. Will feel much better today I hope since I packed lots of vegi.

This morning, I decided to find all my maternity clothes/pants from the closet. Put a nice light pants on and it is much too comfortable (even it's a little bit bigger, but had draw strings to make it tighter). Now I feel like I can drive my car without keep shifting and adjusting every a few minutes.

Hoping for a run today before lunch, but was so tired this morning and got up late (both my kid and I). So I got to work pretty late. I guess I have to skip the lunch run, and may be I can manage a walk after lunch. Hopefully get sometime tonight to get a nice workout in.

Hello everyone, my name is Ashley, some of you may know me already from the TTC thread. Well I was hoping to be able to join you group as I’m now 6weeks 5 days pregnant! DH and I have been trying for over two years and have gone through a couple failed IUI’s (intrauterine inseminations) and were planning on doing our last one this past week while on vacation. Instead I found out we were pregnant! Because we were considered fertility patients we’re still under the care of our RE and will be referred over to an OB at our 8week u/s next week. This is also the reason why we have been able to have a 6week u/s and will have an 8week one too.
So now that we finally did it, all the other stuff came flooding, we spent so long in the TTC frame of mind that all this other stuff if foreign to us. Like to choose a midwife or OB, if an OB which one and which hospital? Oh and since we live in Montreal and the average waiting list time for a daycare is 2years, we need to start looking into that right away too! And the hardest question of all, when to tell everyone!
I hope that in this group I can find other fit conscious moms to be that are willing to share their stories and advice on this whole process.
Wishing you all healthy and happy little bundles of joy!