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I did the first time - with my daughter we tried for a year and I got pregnant without meds but my bloodwork at the time was showing that I was only "borderline" - in fact, not even enough to diagnose me with PCOS. With my son, I did need Metformin. With my daughter, I was having cycles every 6-8 weeks without meds. With…

Look into Stronglifts 5x5 - it's a very simple program. I think it was vital to regulating my hormones and helping me to get pregnant. You can Google it or there is a great group on MFP called Stronglifts for Women. The program is heavily geared toward men as far as the write ups but lots of women do it - the group is nice…

I started two months PP but was not breastfeeding. Then I had like two or three cycles that were seriously two weeks long so not sure if that was ovulation bleeding or just messed up cycles. I am not almost six months PP and they are pretty normal.

I'm sorry for your distress but I am LMAO right now.

Probably closer to seven. They told me a half a pound a week.

True! This seems like a relatively new thing too - I did not have that experience with my daughter, who is now 7. But with my son, ugh, it was constant stress and then they say "try to relax because stress isn't good for the baby."

Is it possible that he has reflux? My son does and he would always cry for about 10 minutes after eating no matter what I did. Now he doesn't do that as much because he's outgrowing it a little bit. As for crying, I was told if you've met all their needs, it's fine.

I did not have it but I've known some who did. It can be caused by a number of things, including high blood pressure. I will caution you about the ultrasounds - I had to get them for the opposite issue - my baby was too big, supposedly. I have heard over and over again from women who had the ultrasounds and they were not…

It was... THE SALMON MOUSSE!

With my son, I had heartburn so bad I thought I had food poisoning (I didn't throw up or anything but I felt like I was going to!). That seemed to peak right around 34/35 weeks. With my daughter, I actually did throw up when I was 39 weeks. The doctor told me it was from having my stomach be much smaller due to so much…

I used OBs for both my kids but there was a hospital midwife on site and she provided a lot of the pre-birth care for my son, which I thought was very cool. They didn't have that when my daughter was born at the same hospital seven years ago. I really liked her but also had two fabulous OBs from my practice deliver my…

I have a seven year old daughter, Miriana, or usually just Miri, and a five month old son, Gabriel. I had a lot of troubling conceiving my daughter and didn't plan on having another one because it was very stressful. But I changed my mind right after she turned five. It took a year and a half to conceive my son so we have…

My job puts me in a lot of different child care situations (I'm a social worker working with children with developmental delays) and I've seen good and bad home care, good and bad centers, and everything in between. The two biggest benefits to day care centers are 1) that they tend to offer more educationally as far as…

You haven't done anything wrong. You are human. I highly recommend that you read the book "Expecting Better" by Emily Oster. It should ease your mind about some of the things you've been worrying about. PS - I had gestational diabetes and we were allowed to eat three servings of artificial sweeteners a day. PPS - you are…

^^^ haha, I have been killing them with information the last week! I guess the thing that frustrates me the most now is that I see most of my co-workers making much larger mistakes and as far as I know, nothing is said. I think it mostly happened to me because someone else had to fill in for me. Otherwise you can kind of…

I only get it if I eat something really carby. And not all the time that I do that, just sometimes. It's always been that way for me, the dosage didn't matter.

^^^ agreed! I went into labor in the middle of the night and my daughter had school the next day. My mom came to pick her up and take her to school and kept busy with those kinds of activities and before we knew it the baby was here (short labor) and then she brought my daughter to visit in the afternoon.

My daughter stayed with my parents for the two days I was in. She came to visit me and the baby both nights. The hospital made her these cute little cards that had his footprints on them and said "My baby brother's footprints". She is still super proud of them and has one of them in a picture frame. We also had pictures…

I have PCOS so my cycles are long. Both times I had no idea how pregnant I was. Turns out the first time I was less pregnant than I thought (I thought I was around four weeks when I tested - it was actually only three!) and with the second I thought I found out around four and it was actually five. When I went for the…

The diet I was placed on (by a dietician and maternal fetal medicine specialist) when I had GD was: breakfast - 30 g carbs morning snack - 15 g lunch - 45 g afternoon snack - 30 g dinner - 45 g bedtime snack - 30-45 g These #s were sort of the upper limit but I was told to make sure I had at least 175 g per day. (grand…

For me, it has helped my hair loss tremendously and also re-started my completely non-existent cycle. I got pregnant on it and took it for the first trimester.

When you look at actual studies, there is no evidence that it causes issues. A lot of what you are going to see on Google is people saying their own opinions and acting like they are fact. I think I had sugar free stuff after I was diagnosed with GD because I really couldn't have sugar - stuff like the flavored cream for…

With my daughter (my first) I didn't have any signs except losing my mucus plug a week or so before. With my second (my son) about a week and a half before (when I was about 36 weeks) I had a lot of pressure in my pelvis for one day and at my next exam, the doctor said he was extremely far down. I was also very effaced and…

I actually had a few regular cycles both times I went off (both times in order to conceive). I had maybe two or three months that were normal each time, then they became irregular after that. After having my son in January, I have had normal cycles now since March. Waiting to see if they become irregular again or if they…

Not only with BCP mask the symptoms of PCOS but it can also prevent you from getting cysts when you were normally get them. The cysts are the result of the body trying to ovulate unsuccessfully - your body does try to ovulate when you're on the pill. So if you were on the pill when you had your ultrasound or had recently…

I have two children. My younger is only four months old so I have some recent experience with postpartum weight struggles. With my daughter, who is seven, I just didn't give a crap after I had her and I did gain weight and had a hard time losing it. With my son, I lost all my pregnancy weight and then some right away (like…

Wanted to add - talk to your doctor because the risk of miscarriage is very high with PCOS (it is about 10-20% in the general population and 40-50% for women with PCOS). Metformin can reduce this to as low as 8%. (A study on this came out right before I got pregnant with my son, which is how I know the #s). I took…

I have two children. The first time I conceived it took a year. My cycles were about six to eight weeks long. I started South Beach and got pregnant about a month later. The second time, after I went off the pill, I had two normal periods and then stopped getting periods altogether. They were restarted with Metformin. I…

In my case, it got worse with age. I have two children and conceiving #2 was much harder (and took longer) than conceiving #1. With #2, I had a few normal length cycles after going off the pill and then... nothing. Literally. Without the help of metformin I did not get a period at all. It was very frustrating because I had…

You're growing a human being! Enough said!