Well I'm the crazy lady who just read through the whole thread
replies incoming
Hi again! I didn't really introduce myself either...
I'll be 30 in a week (Sob) and my husband is also 30. Our son was a happy accident and he just turned 2. I never wanted another baby but I abruptly changed my mind after realizing I would regret not giving him any siblings. It started out that I was TTC for my son, but by the end of the month I was TTC for ME and I wanted another baby so bad! lol
I have 3 indoor cats and 1 stray cat who lives on my deck, and one frog named Wally who we found on the wall. Hence the name.
I'm currently 11 dpo and due June 8. Hoping for a sticky! Here's my wondfo lines so far
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I like the sound of the frog! Is it cute? Also I love cats! My mother's who was almost like a brother to me ran away when I left home to go to live in Japan. He hasn't been seen since
we are all heartbroken.
I'm hoping yours is a sticky! I hope mine is too! I'm getting nervous just thinking about the possibilities and I want to be all excited looking at baby clothes and stuff!
For all you 2nd timers, what was the first thing you bought during your first pregnancy? When was it? When did you tell close family, like parents? I just don't want to jinx anything by telling too early but I'm so excited I just want to tell everyone! For now though...it will just have to be you guys! Let's all get excited together! X
The first time we told people right away. We had been going to tell my parents with a video I made on easter sunday, but ended up having a beach walk with them on good friday and blurted it out lol. Told other family in short order, and didn't keep it a secret from anyone after that. Took it on faith everything would be ok (had been ttc for over two years) and knew I would want people's support if I miscarried anyway.
The first thing I bought was a change table I think. I was 7 weeks
(half price baby sale, I couldn't resist)
Second time my sister was around when I found out, so I quickly arranged a family brunch for her last day (three days later) and made a T-shirt for my dd that said "I'm getting a promotion" on the front "to big sister" on the back. And then waited for someone to spot it. Lol. Again didn't keep it a secret but didn't make a big deal of it on facebook that time. Dont think I bought her anything
This time we're wanting to keep it an secret for a little while
. The only people besides strangers online (and hubby of course) who know are some ladies from one of my natural parenting/natural birthing/crunchy mama groups that meets once a month as they are also in a facebook group I spilled the news in "anonymously" lol.
We plan fo tell dhs family first this time though (theyre in canada and my family is here so its harder to do)
Not sure how I'll go keeping it secret from my mom though. She knew both times before I did previously...
Surprise.... I am here to join you mamas.
Still trying to grasp my head around things....
But 9 DPO I just knew I was pregnant.
How?
I suddenly started getting the worst case of fart ever... Stinky smelly farts that never relieved me of this feeling of being bloated.
Three days later, 2 days before AF was to visit, I tested and had two BFP.
According to my LMP I should be due June 5.
Sticky baby dust to all.
I am fart city too! As soon as I got my bfp I suddenly realized why I have been so gassy all week. Blah. I'll take smelly gas over ms any day though.
Cutie!! Yes, today you are pregnant! Google is a pain in the butt when it comes to fueling worries for sure!! So, how many of us are planning on natural births?
I am
. I had two natural hospital births previously (one induced but no other drugs, just water injections for bad back Labour, and one spontaneous drug free speedy quick breech birth. I'm hoping for a home birth this time
I got a bfp today, I'm due 6/6/15 per the dr but that date doesn't sit well with me, so put me down for 6/9 (why not lol?!) Man so many emotions today so I am going to come back and read and get to know you ladies later, but I am so excited I wanted to drop in and say hello!
6/6/13 is my dd2s birthday
I definitely plan to get the epidural and/or any other pain relief, I don't actually cope well with pain, I don't know if labour would be different but I just lose all my strength and feel dizzy/powerless. I think I will be happier pain-free. The idea of a birthing pool sounds great but I don't think the water alone would be enough as a painkiller for me. Also, women in my family (mom's side) have quite large babies and very long labours, so I don't expect mine to be a walk in the park. I wouldn't mind a C-section either.
I have hypothyroidism, and I'm terrified of MC because of it. Mine has been always very mild and at subclinical levels actually. I am taking 100mcg per day, and I called the doctor and they told me to immediately increase it to 125mcg and on wednesday I will go for a blood test and they will make a more accurate prescription after it based on my current levels. Apparently every 6 weeks or so they will be checking my levels throughout pregnancy. Trying not to panic. I think everything should be fine, afterall we conceived from our 2nd cycle of trying and the 1st cycle I knew we wouldn't cause we didn't BD during my fertile period.
I bought two expensive clearblue digital tests, I did one today and it said I'm pregnant, 2-3 weeks which is correct
I will save the other one for next week, hoping to see the 3+ then. I also booked my first appointment, it will be on the 27th of October, when I'll be exactly 8 weeks. Soo excited, it's great to have something to wait for.
This morning I was freaked out by the lack of any symptoms, I felt perfectly fine. I thought the disappearance of symptoms was a sign of a MC, but this noon "morning" sickness came back with a vengeance, worse than before lol. But I'm happy to feel nauseous, makes me feel safe.
How is everyone feeling today?
Labour pain is totally incomparable to other types of pain. I am a wuss when it comes to pain normally and I was so relaxed I was sleeping in between contractions
a lot of people use hypnosis to help manage labour pain.
I have three friends with thyroid conditions who recently had babies with completely uncomplicated pregnancies if its any reassurance. Their drs just checked their levels and made regular adjustments to their medications. Sounds like you'll be in good hands
Lovely progression
I'm not sure what I'll do about pain relief tbh. This will be my first baby and I've not really got any experience of being in any real pain.... I've never even had a broken bone or anything, so I've got absolutely nothing to compare it to and no idea what my pain threshold is like. I'll probably be a total wimp
I would like a natural birth and would start off with gas/air, but after that I have no idea
The thought of havng an epidural or a c-section really does scare me, so I'd want to avoid that as much as possible.
I quite like the idea of a waterbirth, but I'm not sure if I'd have one or not.
Like I just said above, labour pains are totally different from any other pain. Its all about preparing yourself mentally and physically prior to birth. Look into hypnobirthing maybe (I didn't do it personally, but still naturally fell into some of its practices on my own)
So sorry cutie
went to dr today got my blood drawn he is doing a beta and a full panel. Hope to have results back tomorrow. He also gave me a prenatal prescription yay. but nervous about beta.
Weird thing was he pulled my eyelids down and asked me to look up im curious if there's a pregnancy sign im unfamiliar with lol. He doesn't usually do that at normal appts.
My guess is he was doing a quick check to see if you're aenemic before your labs come in. He could have done it for another reason of course but I always use my corneas to check on my iron situation. If theyre dark pink then your iron is fantastic. If theyre very pale then youre low on iron.
Do any of you ladies work out regularly? I was on a pretty good workout routine with cycling and barre but today I had to revert back to back to running for a three weeks.
I am pretty sure I will be fine if I make sure I don't get too hot or over exert.. but I wanted to see if anyone else was a big cardio/strength queen?
If you were previously working out then hyoure fine to continue doing so. Just listen to your body and dont overexert yourself. A friend of mine was doing insanity and similar type workouts until halfway through her triplet pregnancy!
Yes I've heard of the ramzi method and it seems to be rather accurate. You can't rely on looking at your own scans though better to ask your tech where its implanted as the images are often reversed on scans.
Well I just had my first emotional pregnancy lady alligator tears cry. At 3 am because.... google....lol I was so sad and scared cause I was destined to have a unhealthy baby or lose it and all these test thst drs demand that ladies say cause miscarriages. I finally got calmed down. My real problem is im terrified of a pap smear. Im 24 never had one but hubby was my first and he has always had frequent std testing until we became a thing lol. So ive never done it and really dont care too. Then i saw where a lot of women were saying they miscarried healthy pregnancys a couple days after a pap which really scared me lol But sigh newly pregnant lady stress. Im ok now I am going to talk to the dr and see if he will wait till I deliver I mean even if they find something they cant do anything till babys here anyway. What do u ladies think. Am I parnoid lol
Here in australia they won't do PAPs when youre pregnant. I was more than a year overdue for mine when I saw my gp and she said it's best to wait and catch it at the 6 week checkup afterwards. But in other countries it seems to be routine to do one at the first checkup whether one is needed or not so go figure!
Hello ladies!
I just found out yesterday that I am expecting #3! Two years ago today I found out I was pregnant with #2, my first June bug so thats kind of cool (but last time I found out at 5w2d and this time I found out at 3w3d).
My due date by LMP is the 15th, but I have a tendency to go a few days over.
I will be staying team
and will be having a homebirth. Anyone else planning one?
Further to my introduction, I will be 30 in December, my dh is also 30. We are both Canadians living semipermanently in australia. We ttc our first for over two years, fell pregnant with dd2 on my 5th postpartum cycle, and have been ntnp pretty much for a year now. My cycle didn't return til 13 months pp and I got pregnant on my third cycle this time
As for first appointments and first scans, I will be calling my midwife on monday but I doubt she'll make arrangements to come see me for quite some time yet. I will only be having a scan at 20 weeks
Normally I am quite a worrier, but oddly pregnancy is the one thing I never seem to worry about lol.
I also have been getting the strangest sensations in my abdomen. Like a fluttering near my navel. I'm pretty sure it's wind but I have never felt it like that before. Weird!
s! 
I talked to my doc's nurse and she said that they will do my betas again on Monday...but she also asked if I knew why I was bleeding and if it was from my yeast infection. 
Obviously why I called them in the first place.
I've been getting lots of hot flushes, not helped by my two little people who fight over who gets to sit on my lap and the other stands behind me squeezing my neck... Lol. I just need a little breathing room sometimes.
