February Lovebugs of 2016!! 16 pink, 15 blue, 7 yellow

[Cherr]

Same over here, short of breath, dizzy if I stand up to fast, low energy... I remember this with my first baby

 

[Feanorous]

Being in the UK, I had to google the case about the little boy and circumcision...its so sad! It's not a normal thing to do here so i guess it just seems such an alien concept to me..

FLA - congrats on the scan! So awesome that you got to see the heartbeat

xxx

 

[Feanorous]

As for me, I got a 'Pregnant 1-2' on a digi this morning and the strongest line yet on an internet cheapie - yay!

Now i have officially missed my period I feel like its more real and I can get a bit more excited.

I don't mind either way on gender, but just a little secretly I'd like another girl. I have a sister and its lovely.

We are definitely going to find out the sex! It's at the 20 wks scan here. How about in the US/Canada?

xx

 

[daniyaaq]

BIG mistake!

As a single mother, sometimes you need a little self help. Now I'm cramping and terrified. I knew I should have resisted.

Lol now I get what this is. Lol!!! Totally understand, same thing happened to me early this week, I have since learnt to resist

 

[CrazyMT]

Wow...finally caught up with this thread.

My EDD is February 11. It would be neat to have a Valentine's baby. We are all about hearts around here. My daughter has had 3 open heart surgeries and my DD, DS, and I have electrical issues with our hearts. Leap day would also be kinda fun. I have a cousin whose birthday is Leap day.

I really want to tell my kids (14yrs and 9yrs) but I'm trying to wait another week because I would be asking them to not tell anyone else and that would not be fair for them. My parents are coming up from out of state today and I don't want them to be the first to know or know when they are up here at this point. They will be excited but...Long story short on that, someone fed the idea to my my mother last year that I was jealous of my brother's gf because she was prego and I was not and she decided to tell my 14 yr DD. Totally not true. I was on bc and not even contemplating having another. I was so busy helping my parents out that I never really thought about having another and I was so sick with the first 2 I did not look forward to puking all the time for 9 months. That hurt me so much that I will let a select few know for a week or so and then they can find out with everyone else. I still have not confronted her about it. I want to so badly and to scream at her about it but don't want to cause hurt feelings.

When I do tell my kids I am having a treasure hunt to the answer...sounds like fun!

Wow on that circumcision case. Sounds to me like the father should be charged with child abuse because of trying to cause issues so the boy has to be circumcised. I chose not to have my DS circumcised because I figure God gave him the foreskin for a reason and because my DD had already had several life saving surgeries. I really did not want to deal with another procedure.

So far, so good. I have not had any morning sickness or anything. I am sure that is coming soon though. I am going to see if I can go into the office today to do a urine pregnancy test just to get it on the chart that I am pregnant and then set up an appointment with a temporary provider. My reg doc switched offices and I am waiting for a dermatology referral so I have to wait to follow her.

 

[Nola0841]

I'm getting short of breath a lot now too and extra tired. I went to bed at 7:30pm last night after I put my son down lol

 

[BrandiCanucks]

Sorry ladies, took the opportunity to sleep in a bit. Been a long week. Kiddos are still sleeping at the moment too. I'm enjoying the silence while it lasts.

I was terrified that the cramping would force a miscarriage. I've had two of them, both at 6 weeks, and Dr. Google has many reports of moms miscarrying after self help. The theory is something like the contractions and cramping force the embryo to unimplant. No bleeding or anything this morning though!

Chase's case just breaks my heart. I don't understand how authority can just do this to a 4 year old child and think it's okay. He's probably terrified. I saw his grandma and aunt post on a page dedicated to him about how the hospital he was supposed to be circumcised at hung up on them when they called to ask if they could be present as a support for him, and that his father is refusing all contact between them and the boy. I mean I hate my ex with a passion, but I couldn't do that to my kids.

As for being short of breath, yup! Got that, and the stuffy nose. It doesn't help haha. I have to take breaks a lot. Feels like I did in the third trimester, lol. Only 7 weeks to 2nd trimester!

 

[mitchnorm]

Yay FLA on seeing the heartbeat....it is truly amazing

Thankfully I have got to the stage where the thought of a glass of vino makes me feel nauseous...... phew. Worried I'd be craving all pregnancy x

 

[daniyaaq]

Just 7 weeks!!!?? That's a long time. Yeah I stopped Mt self help simply because the cramps were horrible.

Having a good end to the week, just watched some good rugby... (I'm biased because my team won)

 

[BrandiCanucks]

I'm the same way about hockey, Dani lol

Having only 7 weeks excites me. Already feels like I've been pregnant forever. I found out at 9 days past ovulation, which was exactly 3 weeks. Being 5 weeks tomorrow, feels like it's been forever already.

I resisted the urge to buy another FRER and pee on it just to see the test line darker than the control line. I bought a birthday present instead haha!

I WILL be buying another CB digital though, just to see the 3+ and then I'm done peeing on sticks.

 

[BrandiCanucks]

I'm going for another set of betas on Monday. Based on my doubling times, they should be 14, 080 on Monday by 2pm (doubling time of 32 hours). I wouldn't be surprised if they're higher than that though. And we should most definitely see something more than a questionable sac by then

 

[ajarvis]

7 weeks til 2nd tri? Do you ladies go by 12 weeks then? I don't think I'll be comfortable until 13. Or seeing baby on u/s

Anatomy scan here is also 20 weeks - between 18-22 they book them. Definitely finding out the sex.

I find it very odd a dr would co-relate orgasm and miscarriage unless you're on bed rest for no sex. Orgasm all pregnancy can cause cramps, and contractions. But just mild unless there's an underlying issue.

Brandi are you having an u/s on Monday along with your blood draw?

 

[BrandiCanucks]

No ultrasound yet. They want to see my levels before they book it, so probably end of this coming week, or early next week.

I'm not finding out. My friend is going to come with me to the gender ultrasound and find out and then throw me a gender reveal party. Her mother is a baker so they will be the first ones to know.

My family doctor says 12 weeks is 2nd tri, but I know when you divide a pregnancy, 13w3d is the second trimester. So 8 weeks then haha

 

[ajarvis]

awe that's nice of your friend Brandi

I know there's a fairly wide range of ways different places/people break up the pregnancy 12 weeks, 13 weeks, or 14 weeks for 2nd tri. I'll decide maybe closer too

 

[BrandiCanucks]

Technically, if you divide 40 weeks by 3 trimesters, it comes out to 13.333333333333......

So second tri is 13w3d, 3rd tri is 26w6d

 

[ajarvis]

Any way you look at it it's less than 10 weeks

 

[BrittRashel]

Still two pages behind but some food for thought on the circumcision issue. My son was not circumcised as a baby. We didn't have any problem until he turned 5. Then, in the middle of the night one night, he woke up screaming bloody murder. I ran in to his room and his foreskin was stuck back. He had developed paraphimosis, where the foreskin is pulled back and for some reason gets stuck behind the head of the penis. It cuts off circulation to the head of the penis and causes excruciating pain. I have never seen him in so much pain and he's a pretty tough kid. I tried putting him in an oatmeal bath to get the swelling to go down enough to push it back, no luck. We went through everything google turned up and it just wouldn't go back. I had to sleep in his bed, well not sleep, stay awake and hold the covers up so they didn't touch it. He woke up every 20 minutes crying. It was, to this day, the worst night of my life. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy and having to watch my child go through it broke my heart. I took him to his doctor the next day. She was able to get it pushed back though it was extremely painful for Matt. I asked her what she thought had happened because he had been fine before he went to bed. She said that she thinks that he was just doing what little boys do and playing with it. He probably accidentally pulled it a little too far back and it got stuck. She advised having him circumcised since once it happens, it is more likely to happen again. We had him circumcised and it was a painful recovery. All I could think about over those two weeks was if I had just done this when he was a baby, he would have no memory of it at all. Needless to say, after that experience, if this baby is a boy, he will be circumcised while we are still at the hospital. I'm not saying that everyone should agree with me on this, I know that's impossible. But like I said, just some food for thought.

 

[Feanorous]

Does anyone know how I can add a ticker to my signature?
Whenever I try it just shows up like code...grr!

 

[BrandiCanucks]

Oh, that's terrible Britt. Poor guy. I hope he's doing better now. They're finding now that simply applying a steroid cream to the foreskin helps successfully treat conditions like that. Most boys his age aren't supposed to be retractable, so I can see where your doctor said he went "too far". Gosh, I can't imagine what he went through, but understandable why you'd choose circumcision this time.

My first son didn't have any complications with his, but my youngest son developed buried penis, and 7 months after the circumcision, he was hospitalized for severe meatal stenosis, where scar tissue grows over the urinary opening. He literally couldn't urinate. It was painful for him and he couldn't completely empty his bladder. The pressure from a constantly full bladder put pressure on his bowels so he couldn't have a bowel movement, and the constipation put pressure on his stomach, and he wouldn't eat. He ended up losing weight in just a months time and was finally admitted to the hospital for a week on IV antibiotics when they found he had a penile infection, kidney infection, kidney damage...VCUGs and ultrasounds revealed he also has duplex kidney (3 kidneys) that had put him at a higher risk for kidney damage. He had to go through blood tests every day, and they could only thread a 24-week preemie catheter through the urinary opening. He was 7 months old.

Once the infections cleared, they released him but he has to be followed by urology and nephrology for his kidneys and to watch for this complication to flare again. He will have to have surgery to correct the stenosis. They didn't do it during the hospital stay because they were afraid that they would open him too much, and then he'd require a third surgery to close it again, so they're waiting until he's 3 unless he has more health complications.

With Chase's case, though, he has no medical need to be circumcised and with no one listening to Chase, bring torn from his mother, having this forced on him, his mother being coerced into consenting by being threatened with jailtime...it's a heartbreaking circus.

 

[BrandiCanucks]

Feanourous...click on anyone's ticker in their signature and follow the steps to create one. Then copy the BBCode/Forum Code on the ticker page, and paste it into your signature. The Edit Signature tab can be found on the User CP page.