Mid June and July Firecrackers Group Due June/July 2017!

[DobbyForever]

Welcome, EAJ! Have they checked your betas for doubling time? Usually by 8 weeks it is supppper obvious if you have twins, in my opinion. The dead give away for me was when my hcg was tripling between betas. I had a doubling speed of 27 hours. It's not fool proof, but if your beta rises that quickly then it's usually a sign of twins. Hang in there and yay for joining!

 

[eaj555dreamer]

Dobby,

I'm in the States, so they don't do betas here (or at least not in California, where I live). They did a serum HCG on me when I was in the ER on Sunday, at it was in the 180,000 range.

Thanks for the warm welcome! :wave:

 

[DobbyForever]

What?! I'm in Cali, too. I have Kaiser and they, standard, check your levels at your first prenatal minimum. Any more than that usually is requested or you have cramping/bleeding. I have high anxiety disorder though so I tend to get whatever I ask for so long as it is in reason. So when I asked my doctor for one she ordered me like 10 haha. I wouldn't worry too much though about twins at this point. I forgot to say congrats on the healthy scan!

 

[Weebles]

Welcome eaj! I hope you start feeling better soon. I had HG when I was carrying my son, it lasted until I was 16, maybe 18 weeks, and I had to be on disability as well. It was so horrible, I puked all day.. I used to cry going to my appointments, I had no one to drive me. I had to bring bags. So far so good this time around but I remember clearly how awful it was. You poor thing, I really hope it dissipates.

 

[Lunabelle]

Welcome EAJ! Congrats on your healthy scan! I hope you will be feeling better soon!

 

[Catalyst]

Welcome Eaj
I know few women who have had HG and just one of them had twins. The others have more than one child and had it each time, one has three children and she got worse each time. I just hope that wont be the case in your pregnancy! But it would not hurt to be prepared for it.

Have any of you had bad dreems pregnancy related?

 

[Maries_s]

Welcome EAJ!

I went to my PCP today for a follow up and my UTI is back. She gave me again Amoxicillin 3 times per day for 10 days and gave me copy of the lab results. She wanted me to gave the documents to my OB/GYN next week.
I have history of UTI in pregnancy but this time is very bad.

 

[Girly922]

Welcome EAJ!

Sorry about your UTI Maries, I'm surprised they gave you amoxicillin instead of nitrofurantoin, it's such a good antibiotic for bad UTIs and is safe all through pregnancy.

I booked my first midwife appt today, only 2 weeks to wait.

 

[DobbyForever]

Marie so sorry about the uti and agreed about the interesting prescription choice but I'm not a doctor lol

Girly! Yay two weeks is just a hop skip away!

Afm doing my last beta now

 

[Aphy]

Welcome EAJ!

Maries,I hope the meds help once and for all!

Good luck with final beta Dobby!

 

[Aphy]

Weird new symptom: my edges of my lips are turning brown (wtf??). Looks like I am wearing brown lip liner on my top lip. I haven't found anywhere on google of someone experiencing the same thing...

 

[Gagrlinpitt]

I'm having swelling in my legs/ankles at 6 weeks!!!! I called my doctor panicked because I'm already overweight and they said it's very normal.

 

[DobbyForever]

Thanks, Aphy! I'm hoping it's the final one. As long as it's doubled (I went in at 47 hours and 40 minutes haha) then I won't do any more as I won't be back in town until the day of my prenatal, and they do one then anyway lol. But if it hasn't doubled I may go in Friday for peace of mind.

My weeks estimators are in SF! They are still scheduled for delivery on Friday, which annoys me because it left SF at 2am and SF is only about an hour away lol. But whatever. I'm just excited they are on their way and to see a 2-3!

As for your lips, I have never seen/heard it. But I guess pregnancy does weird things to us haha. I look like I have blush on all the time. I'm kind of digging it. Even SO was saying I looked especially pretty hehe

 

[Maries_s]

Girls I was surprised of the antibiotic choice too and she said that in the urine cultive came Amoxicillin as a sensitive one. The other antibiotics it was another penicillin so she gave me Amoxicillin for the third time instead. I'm hoping this time works but I have the feeling it is not going to work. At least my OB/GYN appointment is Friday next week.

 

[Aphy]

Gags, I know ankles swelling is normal in pregnancy but I always expected it would happen much later on...I would also have called them in a panic but glad to hear it's normal.

Dobby,when do you expect to the the result? It's evening here by us so not sure what time it is by you now. That blush must look stunning on your already gorgeous face! Frustrating about the digitals

The closest thing I could find on google was something called melasma but again can't find if it's normal so early on

 

[rainbowsun]

Went for my first scan, and sac and yolk sac are right where they need to (we had a bit of a scare with my son, when they couldn't find the yolk sac and told me I'm miscarrying).

My sac was measuring a bit ahead 6w2d even though I'm only 5w3d and my HcG was pretty high (17,000), but it's an IVF preganacy so I'm sure of dates. But since my doctor wasn't worried, I'll try not to worry, either. Instead, I can start stressing about hearing a heartbeat next week

 

[Gagrlinpitt]

Gags, I know ankles swelling is normal in pregnancy but I always expected it would happen much later on...I would also have called them in a panic but glad to hear it's normal.

Dobby,when do you expect to the the result? It's evening here by us so not sure what time it is by you now. That blush must look stunning on your already gorgeous face! Frustrating about the digitals

The closest thing I could find on google was something called melasma but again can't find if it's normal so early on

They told me just to keep an eye on it.. Said it should go away and put my feet up as much as possible.

I've had swelling in my ankles/legs before pregnancy which started after I had the mirena put in. I've had my kidneys thoroughly checked and plenty of EKGs and they have found nothing... I dunno maybe it's the fact I'm obese.

 

[Girly922]

Aphy: I wonder if it's a form of pregnancy mask? I thought that was normally a third tri thing but there's no telling with these hormones.

Good luck on the betas Dobby! I hope they've doubled! That's annoying about your digis though.

Gag: swelling is completely normal. Oedema is caused by an overload on the circulatory system, so it'll be a mixture of being larger and having an increased blood volume due to pregnancy I'm afraid. Just try and keep your legs elevated to waist height whenever you're resting or sitting down.

Maries: interesting that whatever the infection is its sensitive to amoxicillin but I really hope the course does the trick!

Rainbow: that's great about your scan!

 

[youngmamttc]

I got booked in with my midwife today. I also heard the heartbeat on my home Doppler . My midwife is lovely and very reassuring which goes a long way at the minute since I'm a nervous wreck! Is anyone else not keeping much down food wise?

 

[Gagrlinpitt]

Aphy: I wonder if it's a form of pregnancy mask? I thought that was normally a third tri thing but there's no telling with these hormones.

Good luck on the betas Dobby! I hope they've doubled! That's annoying about your digis though.

Gag: swelling is completely normal. Oedema is caused by an overload on the circulatory system, so it'll be a mixture of being larger and having an increased blood volume due to pregnancy I'm afraid. Just try and keep your legs elevated to waist height whenever you're resting or sitting down.

Maries: interesting that whatever the infection is its sensitive to amoxicillin but I really hope the course does the trick!

Rainbow: that's great about your scan!

I just never expected it to be this early. I am for sure going to get really serious about loosing weight after this baby comes.. I gained 120+ pounds after my car accident in 2004 and then in 2006 was in a very toxic relationship where I gained another 30. My pre pregnancy weight is 254 and I wanted to loose another 60 before we got pregnant.. SP now I just have to really watch weight gain and plan to bust my butt when baby comes.