Cautiously Pregnant & New to this Section

[xobabyhopes]

getting ready to go to my appt, hopefully i make it back here and to work on time! ill keep y'all posted

 

[mackjess]

FX and everything crossed for you XO!

My numbers from Friday looked good. They said my HCG was on target for how early I am and my progesterone is already at 19. My OB said she likes it see to get close to20 by the end of the first trimester, so I'm taking it as a great sign I'm already there at week 4!

Did another blood draw yesterday so they will see how my HCG is doubling. Waiting on pins and needles til they call back.

 

[mackjess]

HCG was 30 on Friday and 232 on Monday. If I wasn't knocked up and afraid of injuring myself or others I would do cartwheels! That is a doubling time of 25 hours.

 

[xobabyhopes]

wooooo woooo! so glad everything looked good for you and that your progesterone is up and almost at your goal number.

my appt went great today besides the fact that i had to wait AN HOUR to get back in a room. dr said that its just stetching and pulling thats causing the random pains and as long as there is no blood im golden. also i did get to see LO today but no picture, he just did an abdominal to make sure i want farther along than i thought since im already having those pains. he sais the sac is super duper tiny like a penny and that i get to see the baby on the 27th! i can not wait

 

[mackjess]

Yay for the good appt. Just went and did more bloodwork today. OB wants to check my HCG even though they are rising fast, just to make sure that they are still low because I'm so early. She also checked progesterone again, it was at 19 and she said that was great and wants to see if it's staying there. Much less nervous this time waiting on the results since I was doubling every 25 hours. Hoping I'm closer to 1,000 and we will both feel at ease.

Today I am getting a patch of darker skin on my upper belly. I will freak if I'm already getting the line. And in a good way. I want to stay preggo, get big and fat and have all the symptoms! LOL

 

[xobabyhopes]

Yay for the good appt. Just went and did more bloodwork today. OB wants to check my HCG even though they are rising fast, just to make sure that they are still low because I'm so early. She also checked progesterone again, it was at 19 and she said that was great and wants to see if it's staying there. Much less nervous this time waiting on the results since I was doubling every 25 hours. Hoping I'm closer to 1,000 and we will both feel at ease.

Today I am getting a patch of darker skin on my upper belly. I will freak if I'm already getting the line. And in a good way. I want to stay preggo, get big and fat and have all the symptoms! LOL

i am so happy that yuor OB is taking super good care of you! this time i cant wait until i get all my bloodwork done just to make sure im in good ranges ya know?

oh and i would be super pumped if i got a belly sometime soon, by 11w last time i had a little bump. It was adorable but in the awkward "people might just think im fat stage" lol

-on a side not our poor puppy Buster got into the trash this morning and ate some moldy food he started having these baaaad tremors and we had to take him to the Emergency Vet. It was $600 dollars but they saved his life so i guess i cant complain. But we had to take him to another vet for observation and they charged us $275 i think, had to get a special HealthCare Credit Card just to pay for it. He's my baby though and he helped me get through losing our LO so i am more than willing to pay for him

 

[mackjess]

Yes a belly will be fun. Something is going on with mine today. It's obviously way too early for a bump, but I know I feel kinda bloated today and my jeans are kinda low rise so it keeps making the front of my jeans push down. Then my belt flips and annoys me and I have to keep hiking my jeans up all day. AArrrgh. Actually they seem a little looser than usual like thru the legs, but the belly area is bigger so they are getting pushed down then start to slide down bc they are loose and now I know what a plumber feels like. LOL

 

[mackjess]

Your poor pup. we live close to a high school and the kids cut behind our fence to walk to it and throw food and trash over it and one of our dogs got really sick after eating an old corn cob. who walks around eating corn on the cob?

 

[xobabyhopes]

i know its way to early for a belly but one can only hope & alll of my jeans are low-rise and im so bloated that they dont fit, its really sad lol but my hubby finds it funny that i wear sweats almost all the time so i dont have anythingntight around my belly.

& i have no clue who wats corn on the cob at random lol im just glad he is ok and can still be my cuddle bug. & im hoping your dog is ok now too

 

[mackjess]

I'm glad your pooch is better. She is fine, that was a few years ago when she was still a baby. She only weighed 13 lbs so they had to put her on an IV. Thankfully I was late for work that morning so I was there when I noticed her get sick and start shivering. My vet said she may not have made it because she was so tiny if I'd left for work. I crack my boss up because she has never had pets, so when I call in saying I have to rush a sick dog to the vet or come in late bc they have to get their teeth cleaned she is like "Wow, they really are like kids". LOL

So yesterday I exercised for the first time since I was prego. I am terrified of everything, but guess what. Nothing happened. I did elliptical, some weights, crunches and core work. I felt wonderful after. I think I am going to do a little more elliptical today. It's at such a low intensity that I'm barely getting sweaty so I don't see the harm. I'll take a break from the weights even though I did the lowest on those too. I am already getting neck fat and back fat. OMG. lol.

Tomorrow starts 5 weeks. I'm so scared. My m/c was in the 5 weeks last time. I wish I could go to bed and wake up and it be 11/29 for my scan so I could hear my baby's heartbeat.

 

[xobabyhopes]

that's how buster was, he is only 12 lbs and they had to put him on an IV and sedate him because he was shaking so bad. my dog is seriously like my child, when we take pictures with my belly he will be in them with something big brother on lol

i really wanna do some like pregnancy yoga but i am soooo tired from work and im scared too ya know? i wish i was like you and not a scaredy cat. im gonna ask my doctor if its ok since at my job i am constantly moving. i dont wanna over do it or anything

i feel ya on the whole week of the previous loss thing. i am just praying everyday that this is our sticky and that when 11w comes around i am completely fine. im gonna keep praying for you too, even though we havent formally met or anything like that i honestly want this to be your sticky so i pray for both of us every night

 

[mackjess]

Thank you dear. I feel the same, I was literally bouncing around when you had your first appt. It's so terrible that you had a loss due the trisomy gene issue, but the chances of that happening again are so so slim. I have a very good feeling about your sticky bean as well.

I have to keep up with the exercise while I can because I wasn't in my healthy BMI range. I was trying to lose 17lbs before I got prego again to get in the healthy BMI, but I only lost 12 and honestly I'm so bloated I'm not sure if I'm down any at all now. LOL. Not weighing myself until I go back to the doc and just not going too crazy with eating until then.

I worked out a lot before I got preggers but I was always more into weightlifting than cardio, so I've just dialed down the intensity a lot. They say long as you could still talk without being too out of breath, and no laying on your back after the first trimester, it should be OK. But I'm sure you'll ask your doc because that's what we do.

I do free weights at home, we have the bench and everything, but I might go to a gym when I get a little farther along. I am worried about losing my balance or tweaking something, so I think I'd like to switch the circuit machines and just do lower weights. Since I'm 35 and want to work on a sibling soon as I am up to it, my OB said staying is shape is a BIG deal. It will make this pregnancy and labor, and recovery from pregnancy so much easier.

Also, there is a yoga studio in a shopping center like 3 blocks from my house, and they do pregnancy yoga twice a week. I was surprised by how cheap the classes are so I'm going to start that. I have to take a form to have my doc fill out before I can, so it won't be until December. My lower back has literally been sore since the minute I got knocked up. I had a cold that started about 3DPO, so I thought it hurt from too much bed/couch time. Nope, it's totally the preggers loosening my ligaments. Really hoping yoga will help that. I did light elliptical and a 12 minute pilates video today to try to stretch my back more.

 

[xobabyhopes]

thanks mackjess! & when my dr told me about the trisomy gene issue i was so scared of for my next pregnancy but he said it's an unlucky thing. im not worrying this time because i know i have a that slim chance of it happeneing again but i mean its still in the back of my mind.

i think its awesome that you are taking control of your body and *going to sound cliche* but your fertility too. i wish somewhere around here had a pregnancy yoga class around here, we have a bigger city around us but nobody that specializes in that who doesnt charge an arm and a leg lol so ill probably just have to buy the DVD's adn do it by my lonesome or with my momma

 

[mackjess]

Well I'm definitely not going to worry about the diet thru the holidays. I have random moments of queasy feelings every other day or so, and last night it was pretty strong. Not worried that I actually was going to get sick, but if it had gotten any stronger I might have mozied over near the bathroom just in case. I feel like morning (more like evening for me) sickness is right around the corner for me so I'm going to stuff my face tomorrow! And again Saturday because that is when I have my family over for Thanksgiving.

I hope you have a great holiday!

 

[mackjess]

I'm freaking out a bit today. Last time I miscarried, we were in Chicago sitting at a restaurant eating and I kept feeling these weird little pulls. Almost like a moment of dizziness and would feel like I got pulled down a bit. It wasn't enough to disturb me, and I figured it was because I'd been on the train for several hours earlier that day. My m/c started some time that night. This morning when I woke up I was having those exact same pulls, kinda dizzy feelings. I haven't been in a train, or even a car. No spotting, cramping or anything, and my bbs still hurt like crazy. I'm hoping it's just sinuses making me dizzy as I'm very congested today.

But something feels kind of off. My head has that same exact weird feeling that I haven't had since the m/c in Sept. I went to bed feeling so hopeful and reassured. One more day til I am in week 6, and I've made it days past my m/c. I was only 5+2. I thought I was home free and feeling positive for the first time since my BFP, so I don't think it's nervousness making me imagine things.

 

[xobabyhopes]

i really hope that its nothing serious, ill pray for you tonight girl.

 

[mackjess]

Thanks lady. How are you doing? Did you have a good holiday?

I'm feeling a little bit better after doing some googling. I freaked out because this is exactly how I felt the day before my m/c. But after reading, these are very normal early pregnancy symptoms, so it makes sense that the last time I felt this I was pregnant. It was late in the evening when this happened before and the m/c started that night. So it's been over 12 hours since I woke up with those feelings and nothing has happened so I feel OK now. I guess it's my uterus and ligaments expanding causing the pulling, and the light headed feeling can be from the increased bloodflow going to our new babies and not to our head. So glad my scan is Thursday. I will feel a lot better then.

 

[xobabyhopes]

i had an awesome holiday, i was off up until black friday so i did lots of relaxing. i was excited though because i got to eat lots and lots at my mammaws house for thanksgiving. my mom actually asked me if i was eating like that because i wasnt nauseous, i was like uh yeah you gotta get good food while you can lol

im really glad that everything is good now, although we will still freak ourselves out for the remainder of this pregnancy i know it ha


my first ultrasound is bright and early tomorrow at 930 am and i am soooo excited. i did have a dream though that we were having twins. i told my hubby and his face just fell flat and he looked like he was gonna pass out. he proceeded to tell me i would prob have to quit my job and stay at home all day just to make sure the bare necessities were taken care of there and that my mom would be over everyday lol he is really excited though to see our LO tomorrow, its so reassuring seeing him/her on the screen for the first time.

 

[xobabyhopes]

so had my dating appt today and LO is measuring 1 day behind. soooo excited that everything is good with him/her. i go back in 2 weeks for my family history appointment and to hopefully get to hear the heartbeat. i told my hubby today that the closer we get to 11w the more nervous i get, making it past that "loss date" will be amazing. hope you are doin ok

 

[mackjess]

I'm doing great, thank you for asking. So glad your appt went well. Happy to be in 6 weeks since I'm past my loss date so I definitely understand that! My appt is Thursday so I'll keep you posted!