(44) Little Presents - Due in December 2013

[Kaiecee]

Don't worry about not feeling pregnant cause when u least expect it u will wish for those says lol

I had spotting with Riley and I think it's the same ring with this one it's right after Dtd and I think it was old blood from Dtd but at least this morning I had nothing

 

[SugarBeth]

Glad to see others doing a weekly bump pic! I am too, even though most people think its silly. I have a picture from every single week from my other pregnancies and I love watching my belly change and grow.

 

[ready2Bmum]

I did weekly bump pics with all my pregnancies; it's lovely to look back on. I've attached one of them below

I had pics from weeks 1-4 because I was taking weekly pics while TTC as well. I wanted a complete set

They're great pics Lara. Mine wont look as good cause I already look how you did at 20 weeks!! I dont care though, as long as the baby grows in there I dont mind what size I get.

 

[DrGomps]

the first scan is always scary...can't wait to see everyones! Not long now!!

I have a doppler too...I used it with DD from about 8w6d onwards...it was a lifesaver...

Have we done an intro?? Everyone introducing themselves?? I haven't read all the previous pages...

1)Whats your name? My name is Nicola

2) Where are you located??? South Wales, UK

3) Occupation? Project Manager full time, also in my last year of my Masters in Public Service Management

4) Any kids (besides this one)? 0

5) How long TTC?? Since sep 2010

my answer are in the text above, not sure how lol!

oh wow...you were long term ttc...I started ttc my DD in september 2010. so happy for you!!

1)Whats your name? Kas

2) Where are you located? California, USA

3) Occupation? WIFE (haha, sorry but thats definately an occupation!) And a CSR w/ AAA auto insurance

4) Any kids (besides this one)? One stepdaughter, the light of our lives, 3 1/2yrs old

5) How long TTC? 1 yr - not trying not preventing.. last 6 months have been actually trying

RE: Telling people!

**Needing some advice.. what is everyone's take [if any] on telling my stepdaughters mother? **

Other than that, we're in the process of getting around to telling everyone even though i'm only 5 wks. .. if, god forbid anything happen, i'd never be able to keep it a secret so it doesn't really matter either way..

is there a reason to tell your stepdaughters mother now??? vs later?? I only told close family, mainly because I wanted their prayers...

I am from california....where are you located??

1)Whats your name? Danielle

2) Where are you located? Nashville, Tennessee

3) Occupation? Reading teacher at an elementary school

4) Any kids (besides this one)? None! This is our 1st and 1st among my husband and mine siblings too. Making all 4 of our parents grandparents for the first time

5) How long TTC? This was try #4

my DD was the first grandbaby on both sides and was SPOILED with stuff!

1)Whats your name? Melody

2) Where are you located??? Texas, USA

3) Occupation? Preschool Teacher

4) Any kids (besides this one)? 2 amazing step children who I adore.

5) How long TTC?? researching for years, talking to donor for 2 years and March was our first month TTC...BFP was a surprise becaue we expected it to take a great deal longer...so very excited.

wow, super lucky!!! congrats!

Ladies Im having a worrying day already and its only 10.30am. Im 5+3now and still very few symptoms. Tender boobs have been my only constant. I realy thought ID have something going on by now, and being the worrier that I am I cant help but think maybe im not pregnant anymore.

Is anyone else the same?

hun, there is no reason to worry, every woman and pregnancy is different. as long as your not spotting or bleeding, just count yourself as LUCKY!!!

Lara, I know what you mean - my daughter has wanted to constantly nurse since about two days before I found out I was pregnant. It's like they know and feel threatened that someone else is coming to take their milk! Lol. I'm trying to get her down to morning/nap/night, but she is refusing that completely!

my daughter is down to just night feeds, and a feed before her nap if we're home (if we're out she's distracted so doesn't ask for it), but she only started eating solids in February (at 14m old), so I can't expect her to do a 180 turnaround just yet. I wanted her to be weaned completely by the time the baby comes, but I will be happy if she's on a 7pm feed and a 7am feed, because that's easy to manage. I'm planning on combi-feeding the baby from the beginning, with a view to switch to formula in the first month, so tandem feeding won't really be an issue. The clinginess will though...

Ready2Bmum, I'm not having any real symptoms either; it's as normal as having loads of symptoms; as long as you're not cramping terribly, and you don't have bleeds, then assume your LO is just fine I'm not worried about my lack of symptoms at all, and you shouldn't worry either

why are you going to combi feed out of curiosity??? I would love to tandem feed, but my daughter will be over 2 by then! I started weaning her at 4 months and she LOVES food, but she just loves my milk more! I still feed her at least 5x a day.

Thank you so much girls. I LOVE having people here to talk to. I dont have anyone to run these fears by, only my OH but hes a man so he doesnt get it. It looks like alot of us dont really have symptoms yet, so it must be normal.
No bleeding/spotting at all thank god, hopefully it stays that way!
I took my first bump progression picture today. Im over weight so I already have a bloody bump itll probably be months before I see growth....or il be an elephant in 3 months!!

I agree it does help a lot, to have others to talk to that are experiencing (or in this case not experiencing) the same things.

I'm doing weekly bump pics too, even though for the first 12 weeks it won't look like much...it's still fun and with digital cameras what does it hurt?

yay for bump pics! I will do each week too! I did it with DD as well!!

I did weekly bump pics with all my pregnancies; it's lovely to look back on. I've attached one of them below

I had pics from weeks 1-4 because I was taking weekly pics while TTC as well. I wanted a complete set

this is SO cool!!

Don't worry about not feeling pregnant cause when u least expect it u will wish for those says lol

I had spotting with Riley and I think it's the same ring with this one it's right after Dtd and I think it was old blood from Dtd but at least this morning I had nothing

I had spotting with DD after my Pap at my first prenatal appt...my cervix was just really sensitive.


AFM...ladies..I am feeling a bit better today, but am SOOO dizzy. the dizziness SUCKs. I had really Low BP during my pregnancy with DD and I lost 91 lbs after I had her and so I my blood pressure was 90/60 not pregnant...and when I was pregnant and weighed a whole 90 lbs more then I do now my BP got down to 85/55 so I am sure its probably super low...and I have been having CRAZY headaches by the end of the day...I am eating really well and drinking lots of fluids and doing what I can as far as sleep..going to bed early...my daughter wakes up a few times during the night still...I have acupuncture tomorrow...hope that can help...I just want to feel a bit normal...

also I am SOOO bloated...I lost a lb since I got my but my pants feel tighter? I am wearing a bit looser pants for comfort...I don't like things cutting off my circulation...bye bye size 4s.

also, anyone exercising??? I am a beachbody coach so I try to lead by example and am a bit addicted to working out...but my Heart rate got up to the 170s during my workout this morning...which is higher then it normally gets during these workouts...I should probably go a bit less hard, but I LOVE it and it literally fills me with endorphins and energizes me for my day...I even modified alot of the moves (they have a low impact instructor in the videos to follow)...

 

[Dynamicmae]

Hey Ladies!! I haven't had time to catch up on the blog will sit tonight and have a read. I went to gynea today @ 5weeks 6days because of cramping.... All is well and our gestational sac has grown.... I am soooo releived!! Didn't see a heart beat yet but will hear and see it at our next scan on 6th May

 

[ready2Bmum]

I just pulled a seed out of an apple to see the size of it!!

Thats fantastic news Dynamicmae

 

[SugarBeth]

Lara, I know what you mean - my daughter has wanted to constantly nurse since about two days before I found out I was pregnant. It's like they know and feel threatened that someone else is coming to take their milk! Lol. I'm trying to get her down to morning/nap/night, but she is refusing that completely!

my daughter is down to just night feeds, and a feed before her nap if we're home (if we're out she's distracted so doesn't ask for it), but she only started eating solids in February (at 14m old), so I can't expect her to do a 180 turnaround just yet. I wanted her to be weaned completely by the time the baby comes, but I will be happy if she's on a 7pm feed and a 7am feed, because that's easy to manage. I'm planning on combi-feeding the baby from the beginning, with a view to switch to formula in the first month, so tandem feeding won't really be an issue. The clinginess will though...

Ready2Bmum, I'm not having any real symptoms either; it's as normal as having loads of symptoms; as long as you're not cramping terribly, and you don't have bleeds, then assume your LO is just fine I'm not worried about my lack of symptoms at all, and you shouldn't worry either

why are you going to combi feed out of curiosity??? I would love to tandem feed, but my daughter will be over 2 by then! I started weaning her at 4 months and she LOVES food, but she just loves my milk more! I still feed her at least 5x a day.

also I am SOOO bloated...I lost a lb since I got my but my pants feel tighter? I am wearing a bit looser pants for comfort...I don't like things cutting off my circulation...bye bye size 4s.

also, anyone exercising??? I am a beachbody coach so I try to lead by example and am a bit addicted to working out...but my Heart rate got up to the 170s during my workout this morning...which is higher then it normally gets during these workouts...I should probably go a bit less hard, but I LOVE it and it literally fills me with endorphins and energizes me for my day...I even modified alot of the moves (they have a low impact instructor in the videos to follow)...

I also considered tandem feeding. With my last pregnancy, DD would have just been turning two. She's 21 months old now and still so addicted, so I wasn't sure how I'd wean her so fast and considered just letting her do it.

But this time she'll be 2 1/2. She LOVES food, will eat anything, but just loves nursing. I'm hoping to keep her so busy this summer that she'll wean on her own and will stop thinking about nursing. Right now, anytime I sit down she wants to come over for a swig!

Right now for exercising, we go for a walk around town and do yoga in the mornings. That's all I'm willing to do in first tri. I'd love to start pilates in second tri, but I said that all through my daughter's pregnancy and never even opened the wrapping to the dvd!

 

[brit3435]

Drgomps i also love to workout mainly jogging and elliptical nothing high intensity. I plan to ask my dr if it is ok to continue this during pregnancy. He said it was fine with my previous pregnancy but I did end up in preterm labor so I can't help but worry about that happening again.

Dynamicmae glad everything is growing on track!did you have an abdominal us or a Transvag?

 

[diamondlove33]

Drgromps - There isn't really a rush to tell her MOTHER but we're so excited we want to be able to tell her fairly soon... but she's 3 1/2 and has the biggest mouth were just not sure how well it would go over with her hearing it from baby rather than us..

Located in San Francisco, Bay Area..

 

[diamondlove33]

As for excercising i've always been a workout FREAK... up until the last 6 months - I loved doing MMA and Muay Thai though and those things are DEFINATELY out during pregnancy, but I did like running and weights, however, i've heard that since i've been out of shape for a little while I have to EASEEEEEEE into it but I just don't feel like i'm doing anything because i'm not even sore after!

 

[Suzy_Q]

I feel late to the party but figured I'd share as well!

1)Whats your name? Suzy

2) Where are you located??? Wisconsin

3) Occupation? Professor

4) Any kids (besides this one)? 0

5) How long TTC?? 7 months

I'm also worried about working out. I was doing Insanity workouts for about 1 month, then stopped for my IUI/Injectibles cycle and now, I'm terrified to do something stupid to hurt the baby and also terrified that I'll gain too much weight! My BMI is 26 and at 38, I don't think I can afford to gain too much weight as I may never lose it. Plus, even though I have the 26 BMI, I have run 5k's and even a 1/2 marathon in the recent past. Any advice you ladies can share from your doctors/experiences about exercise is greatly appreciated!!!

 

[DHBH0930]

I am so unlike a lot of you, I dread working out! I get so bored so easily, I used to run almost daily years ago. Since then its such a struggle to get myself to do anything. My favorite "workout" is hiking. But that is not so easily done during the week since we have to drive a good distance to get to the nearest trail. However now that I am pregnant I am determined to be a bit more active. I told my husband we are going for brisk walks every other day. We went yesterday and man I was out of breath! Now I am out of shape, but in my defense my sub does have very steep hills, since most of Tennessee is decently mountainous

I have heard that exercise is fine as long as its not too intense. If you are already in awesome shape you shouldn't have to tone it down too much. But people like me who are couch potatoes need to take our time and slowly work up to it. I guess for both situations you don't want to stress your body out too much and have it think it needs to go into "survival mode" and see you being pregnant as a risk to your survival, therefore directing its efforts elsewhere away from your baby. If that makes any sense

 

[DHBH0930]

I just pulled a seed out of an apple to see the size of it!!

Thats fantastic news Dynamicmae

Hahaha that is too funny! I was thinking of buying an apple to do just the same thing

I feel so lame to be so excited to see my ticker change me from poppyseed to apple seed today ....now I have to wait 6 whole days for it to be a sweet pea!!

 

[diamondlove33]

I know it's early but has anyone else been obsessing over baby names? What is everyone thinking ?

So far all we have (that we can agree on) are:

Girl- Aria, Kaelyn or Kaelen Renee (my middle name)

Boy- Jackson David or Jackson James. ..

I like 'different' names and he's wayyy more mainstream .. ugh!

 

[Starry Night]

We sort of have names picked out already. For a girl we want Hannah Sophia. Boy we haven't quite settled yet. We had wanted Theodore originally but I'm having a hard time picturing myself yelling that name out! LOL We're also thinking about Luke. DH wants to be able to say "Luke, I am your father" a la Darth Vader. But with Theodore he could potentially grow up to be an Uncle Ted which is what my niece and nephew call my husband...and my husband's name is NOTHING like Ted. It's a joke that started when my nephew was small and just stuck.

 

[nicky84]

Hey Ladies!! I haven't had time to catch up on the blog will sit tonight and have a read. I went to gynea today @ 5weeks 6days because of cramping.... All is well and our gestational sac has grown.... I am soooo releived!! Didn't see a heart beat yet but will hear and see it at our next scan on 6th May

Did you see the yolk sac and foetal pole??

 

[diamondlove33]

We sort of have names picked out already. For a girl we want Hannah Sophia. Boy we haven't quite settled yet. We had wanted Theodore originally but I'm having a hard time picturing myself yelling that name out! LOL We're also thinking about Luke. DH wants to be able to say "Luke, I am your father" a la Darth Vader. But with Theodore he could potentially grow up to be an Uncle Ted which is what my niece and nephew call my husband...and my husband's name is NOTHING like Ted. It's a joke that started when my nephew was small and just stuck.

I've always loved the name luke! very classic but new age too. Theodore would be cute to keep a family tradition going ! names are so hard i'm always on name websites and can't stop - i want a name that means something so when i looked up the meaning of my name you could imagine my surprise at 'one who entangles men' being the definition of my name (Kassandra) hhhahahaha!

We also liked kylee too, but far too common

 

[DHBH0930]

Our lists for both genders are big, about a dozen each. Which is surprising that we agree on that many names since I'm a teacher so there were MANY names I tossed out because they made me think of "that student'' We are just going to wait till we know the gender to pick since we have such big lists and that will narrow it down to 1/2!

On another note, is anyone else already really wanting to nest? This is my first so we don't already have a nursery, but we have a room designated. Ever since we moved into our house 1.5 years ago we left it empty knowing it would be a babies room and we had nothing else to put in there anyway. Anywho, now that I'm preggers, I REALLY want to decorate it, but I want it to be specific to the gender and it's just overall too soon for buying stuff *sigh*

 

[SugarBeth]

We already decided on names. We've had the same boy name for three pregnancies now - William Lee. For a girl, I had two names picked out - one in case we got pregnant in the summer, and one for the winter, so our due date chose which one! The summer one (which we'll use next time if this is a girl) was Charlotte Ariel. Our Christmasy baby, if a girl, will be Cecelia (CeCe) Snow.

I've been trying to decide on spellings, such as Cecelia/Cecilia or Cee/CeCe/Cici, but I think I have it down to Cecelia and CeCe.

(I'm sure I said this already, but I can't keep track of which December thread I say what in. Seems like most of us are in multiples too)

I always first trimester nest. I declutter everything I can (currently have about ten boxes for the donation pile) and clean everything before mornign sickness gets rough.

 

[Lara310809]

I'm also worried about working out. I was doing Insanity workouts for about 1 month, then stopped for my IUI/Injectibles cycle and now, I'm terrified to do something stupid to hurt the baby and also terrified that I'll gain too much weight! My BMI is 26 and at 38, I don't think I can afford to gain too much weight as I may never lose it. Plus, even though I have the 26 BMI, I have run 5k's and even a 1/2 marathon in the recent past. Any advice you ladies can share from your doctors/experiences about exercise is greatly appreciated!!!

they say you should only do the level of exercise you were doing when you got pregnant; if you're relatively new to Insanity, I'd definitely lay off. It's what your body can take; I don't think you're supposed to push it.

I know it's early but has anyone else been obsessing over baby names?

We have a name for a girl (Darcy Beau) but no name for a boy yet.

On another note, is anyone else already really wanting to nest? This is my first so we don't already have a nursery, but we have a room designated. Ever since we moved into our house 1.5 years ago we left it empty knowing it would be a babies room and we had nothing else to put in there anyway. Anywho, now that I'm preggers, I REALLY want to decorate it, but I want it to be specific to the gender and it's too soon for that *sigh*

I dunno; I wouldn't call it nesting as such, but we're on the verge of moving house, and I just want to get it done so that I know I can then focus on the pregnancy and getting ready for the baby properly; not in all of this chaos.