Pregnancy - October 2011

Hello ladies! Well, I joined last month but I've been busy with work and my mind was consumed with getting a BFP. We just started last month and I had high hopes for one the first go around and I was right! Got a BFP yesterday and today! I'm going in for my blood test today so please wish me luck and think sticky thoughts!

Congrats caperfae!

I had my first doctors appt yesterday and it went great! I was very that my doctor noticed that i had lost a lot of weight! I met my first pregnancy goal of staying in the 150s by the time i go to the doctor. I go tomorrow morning for my first ultrasound! Very excited to see my baby and can't wait to see my boys expression of the new baby! I will be 9 weeks tomorrow!

Congratulations caperfae! She's adorable and I'm glad to hear your labor was quick and went smoothly. How are you feeling?

I am feeling great. Only needed one stitch but the hemorrhoids I got from pushing bother me more than anything. The labor/delivery process was a lot faster than with my other daughter and I thought THAT was fast .. LOL
Glad to have it over and done with and finally meeting baby girl and seeing she is perfectly healthy.

All the best to those yet to deliver and congrats to the newly pregnant ladies

Hey girls. So happy everyone is doing well in their pregnancy. I have a personal question.... has anyone ever had a miscarriage and "passed" everything naturally? (Without D&C?)

If so, how long did it take? =( I was told last Thursday that my baby didn't have a heartbeat (was just over 7 wks then) and still haven't had any bleeding or anything. OB said it could take "weeks". Just wondering... I guess I'm just looking for someone who has been through it before. Thanks so much ladies...

Hey girls. So happy everyone is doing well in their pregnancy. I have a personal question.... has anyone ever had a miscarriage and "passed" everything naturally? (Without D&C?)

If so, how long did it take? =( I was told last Thursday that my baby didn't have a heartbeat (was just over 7 wks then) and still haven't had any bleeding or anything. OB said it could take "weeks". Just wondering... I guess I'm just looking for someone who has been through it before. Thanks so much ladies...

I'm terribly sorry for your loss =( I had a miscarriage last year November. I went into my doctor's office because I was having really bad cramping at 8 weeks pregnant. I was spotting all through the pregnancy and it turned to actual bleeding around the time the cramping picked up. She did an ultrasound and it showed the baby was the size of a 6 week old instead of 8 weeks, no heart beat. That night I started passing everything. It took me a week to stop bleeding and stop passing tissue. A week after, I got a positive pregnancy test again. My doctor did another ultrasound and all it showed was my uterus full, as in early pregnancy. We had to assume my body didn't naturally pass everything. Sometimes small parts can remain, making your body think it's pregnant again, starting the whole thing over. My miscarriage started November 2nd and by the time everything was over, it was the end of December. It takes a lot longer to get through it naturally. I was very fortunate to have gotten pregnant again right away in January. I am now due in just 2 weeks with a beautiful healthy baby girl. Again I'm so sorry for your loss. I understand how hard it is to deal with the emotions of a miscarriage. A lot of people don't fully understand how difficult it really can be.

MelissaSerpa: Thank you so much for sharing with me. I'm so sorry you had to go through that -- 2 months must have been terrible, let alone all the emotional stuff that goes with it. Thank you for your sympathy too. It is really hard. On the upside, congratulations on your pregnancy! How wonderful. i'm hoping I will have the same luck too

R_mageddon: Thank you so much for telling me about your miscarriage as well. I know it's something most people don't want to talk about. That's encouraging to hear that you did it naturally, without having any intervention. I'm really hoping mine will go the same way. We know there's no heartbeat, but it's been a week now since finding out, and no bleeding or anything yet. Thanks again.... I really appreciate it.

Hi ladies-
Anyone deal with Sciatica pain during this pregnancy or previous pregnancies? I never had it with my first but the last week and a half or so I have had it and wow does it kill! I feel like a huge baby but I have never had pain in my butt/pelvis,upper thigh like this before. I have tried stretching but my husband looks at me like I am nuts in the living room on the floor lol. I am trying a heat pad tonight. Hopefully I can find something soon.

LindsayChick -My miscarriage was 'natural' as well. I had my first u/s at wk 11 showing no heartbeat. The dr had me come back the next week for another just to make sure the dates weren't off and there was no growth. I started light bleeding the week between the ultrasounds and then I believe it was the next week that I woke up in the middle of the night with severe cramping/contractions and thats when everything passed. Thinking of and praying for you. Also, I became anemic since it all happened at once...so don't be afraid to have people come stay with you (I had my sister one day & mother in law the next).

larsonl2: Thanks so much for sharing your story. I'm so glad yours passed naturally and I'm hoping mine will too. I was really interested to hear that yours took 5 weeks to fully resolve. It's been a wk since they found no heartbeat and nothing has happened sofar.... I'm wondering if mine will take that long too. Thanks so much for thinking about me. It really is a hard time and it helps to know someone elses's story. =(
On the upside, I'm so glad you got pregnant shortly after. I have mixed feelings about getting pregnant again soon as this has been a really hard experience. We'll see.... Thanks again and I wish you the absolute best w/ your pregnancy!

JKilty: So 11wks... hum.... I may have a while to go until mine passes. I'm so glad you had someone come stay w/ you. No one in my family really knows about the pregnancy/miscarriage as I'm not that close to them.... but I do have a very supportive husband and friends. I also have a follow up appt (Ultrasound) in a few weeks to see if it's passed.... so will keep you posted. Thanks so much for sharing and I wish you the absolute best w/ your pregnancy!

I had sciatiica pain in my first pregancy. It would shoot down my right leg like no other. I found that getting on the bed and getting on all fours helped. Allowing the belly to just hang down was great and it felt good on the back. I suppose you could get on the floor and do it but we had scratchy carpet so the bed was better for my knees. I had it the entire pregnancy but mostly in the first, I'm only five weeks now and I'm already starting to feel it.

Hi ladies-
Anyone deal with Sciatica pain during this pregnancy or previous pregnancies? I never had it with my first but the last week and a half or so I have had it and wow does it kill! I feel like a huge baby but I have never had pain in my butt/pelvis,upper thigh like this before. I have tried stretching but my husband looks at me like I am nuts in the living room on the floor lol. I am trying a heat pad tonight. Hopefully I can find something soon.

I've had it for about the last month. It usually comes on when im walking and i feel it mainly in the upper thigh of my right leg, i also sometimes feel it when im lying down. If it happens when im walking my leg almost completely buckles, I must look so special to those watching :laugh:

I think i redefined the term 'nesting' last night! :laugh: I had a four hour straight cleaning and organizing binge between the hours of 6 and 10pm, so much so that i forgot to have dinner until i was done lol. It involved washing of the floors, dishes, three loads of laundry, vacuuming, setting up of the crib, bassinet and whole nursery and the sorting of clothes into size order hahaha. But it made me so happy!! to sit back and FINALLY see that my baby has his own little space. I put emphasis on the word LITTLE because we only have a studio apartment for the next 3 months, so we had to make the most of it.

I had another doctors appointment today and was told to take off everything below the waist by the nurse, so i duely did so, only for the doctor to come in and give me a strange look b4 asking why i had taken my pants off hahaha. She debated wether to do a strep b test (seeing as im having a c-section) and i told her that i was dressed for the occasion so she may as well :laugh: My lo is still breeched, but im fine with this as long as hes safe and comfy.

I miss sleep....

Happy Thursday! (GO TIGERS!)

Caperfae~ Congrats! What a beautiful baby girl!

Sandijones~ Way to go with keeping at 150! That's where I am (well according to my scale and 152 according to the doc's) and I can only hope to stay there for the next month or so. Glad to hear you u/s went well. How did the boy react?

R_mageddon~ Yay you have an appointment! The weekend is getting closer and closer! Hope your reveal goes well. Have you thought of a creative way to tell everyone or are you just going to tell them what you are thankful for? (10 weeks= 1quarter of the way cooked!)

LindsayChick~ I am so sorry for your loss and hope you and your family find some peace. :flowerforyou:

Elizabeth/Jkilty~ This talk about sciatica pain scares me, because I already have sciatica pain and I'm only 9.5 weeks! :laugh: Oh, I can just imagine how I'm going to feel when I get further along. I think I am going to up my stretching and swimming now...

Melissa~ Great job on getting everything cleaned and organized!! I really need some nesting motivation to hit my house! I don't think my laundry can pile any higher. LOL :noway:

AFM~ Still doing good. We are counting down till our next appointment on the 19th. Hubs will be on vacation on the 11th to the 19th so he will be starting on the nursery. We (well, he) plan(s) on ripping out the carpet, putting down laminate, and building a closet organizing system. I can't wait! We picked up a second-hand dresser that we will be painting and adding new hardware to use in the nursery with a changing pad on top. We are still throwing out a million and two ideas for our Dr. Seuss theme! There are just too many fun things you can do!
As for other planning, we have our Boy name picked, Caleb Jaxson (CJ for short), but we are still working on the girl name. I am thinking Cecelia (my mother’s middle name) Grace (CC for short), but hubs says he doesn’t like it and he couldn’t give me an explanation either. Pshh, men!

Ok, so I guess I should get back to work, hope you all have a wonderful day! Stay healthy and keep those babies safe!

elizabeth- I also plan to return to study full time in march of next year (literally just after doing the move to nz and having the wedding).I dont think it will be easy but i think that the motivation you get from having a young family, a supportive hubby and some super time management can make it a reality. So i like to think its completely possible!! Only you know what you are capable off so dont worry what others may think or say unless there opinion is one you truly value

Scorpiomom – I give you credit for planning to cloth diaper. I don’t think I have the patience for it. You said you would still dump the poop in toilet with a disposable diaper? I’ve never heard of doing that.

It's actually in violation to the WHO (World Health Organization) regulations to not dump the poo in the toilet. NOT flushing is how alot of diseases are spread because it just sits in our landfills. Live Polio, Hepatitis, etc.