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

[DobbyForever]

Joie hugs. I feel you. Baby has decided it no longer likes my healthy only diet. It was grease, grease, and more grease. Pizza, burgers, fries... my mom is from the generation of FTS you're pregnant eat whatever and whenever you want. Meanwhile my stepdad is like ummm you're really going to eat that 10" Hawaiian pizza by yourself 3 hours after I watched you eat beef teriyaki with rice,miso soup, and 6 ca rolls? Yes, sir. That's exactly what I am going to do.

Girly I cannot wait to hear how DD will react . I looove it when kids understand and want a sibling. So cute. My mom is benefiting from my cousin having a second. The first (23m) does not understand why he doesn't get to be held by mom 24/7 anymore and is losing his shit. So now he'll let my mom hug and kiss him where before he would cry and run out of the room from just her voice haha

And I am thrilled. I have a two story condo and as fun as living downstairs on my sofa bed giving myself sponge baths every day sounded, both uncles will be home from college and my mom can't help but spoil us. I'm like super excited for this haha

I have also never made it to 6w/30k hcg without being a miserable wreck. Not sure if my body just figured out how to be pregnant or if it's going to hit hard soon but I feel really good as long as I stay hydrated

 

[lesondemavie]

I'm with you joie. You're right about where it started to hit me too (I was 6+3). About 9 weeks now and it hasn't lifted at all. Glad the vomiting is mostly just at night and the medicine made it so I could eat again. Anytime I start to feel even a bit better though I worry, so as bad as it is happy to have the reassurance. Bracing myself for another 3-4 weeks of this and looking forward to making it safely to second tri.

 

[youngmamttc]

I am just always hungry guys! As someone who has recently lost 80lbs and gained loads in my previous pregnancies my weight gain is a huge issue for me. Luckily I seem to be maintaining +/- 1lb. I just can't even look at salads and things. I feel like my fear of weigh gain is consuming me too much.

 

[Thejoie]

I eat super healthy and I can't look at anything that is healthy right now. Except blueberries. Those are okay. I literally want nothing to eat except potatoes and definitely no meat. I'm not even thrilled with the idea of cheese! It's so weird!!
Luckily I haven't thrown up yet. I need to avoid getting too hungry though bc the hungrier I get the worse the symptoms seem to be. So I need to avoid extreme huger.

I will admit the symptoms are reassuring that lil bug is growing and doing its thing but wow pregnancy is absolutely bizarre!

It all hit right after 6 weeks...Im hoping there will be good days and bad days. Today was a bad day. Yesterday wasn't terrible. I can survive 5.5 weeks of this as long as there's a variety in the severity

 

[Aphy]

On a scale of 1-10 (1 being non existent and 10 being 'kill me now'), over the past 3 weeks my nausea has escalated from a 4 to about a 7. I don't have any food aversions or vomiting but the nausea is so constant! It will go away for maybe 20 min directly after eating and then it's back. Finding it really difficult to work like this...can't find ginger sweets anywhere either which is supposed to help. I have ginger tablets but they don't help at all. Please don't let me be one of those women whose morning sickness continues past the first trimester!

I hope everyone else is managing ok...

 

[Weebles]

I have this huge fear of weight gain too. I lost over 40lbs and kept it off for two years.. Best shape of my life. It took me awhile to conceive and I started to worry it was my diet and workout schedule so I cut back, gained 8lbs.. No biggie, it was intentional. I planned on not gaining any weight during the first trimester but at 10 weeks I've gained another 5lbs. I'm feeling chubby, not pregnant. It took me more than half a year to loose what I so easily gained back. But I get hungry, so so hungry. And if I don't eat I start feeling sick. DH says to listen, it's my body's way of saying I need to eat more. I have a history of an eating disorder and while I lost all that weight in a very healthy way I am battling with body dysmorphia once again. I feel like I lost that delicate balance between too much and too little. I think I'll feel better once I have a bump that's more than bloat, at least I hope.

 

[Aphy]

On a scale of 1-10 (1 being non existent and 10 being 'kill me now'), over the past 3 weeks my nausea has escalated from a 4 to about a 7. I don't have any food aversions or vomiting but the nausea is so constant! It will go away for maybe 20 min directly after eating and then it's back. Finding it really difficult to work like this...can't find ginger sweets anywhere either which is supposed to help. I have ginger tablets but they don't help at all. Please don't let me be one of those women whose morning sickness continues past the first trimester!

I hope everyone else is managing ok...

 

[PurplePear]

Aphy I'm with you on that one since the weekend my nausea has really increased my ginger gravol use to help but things that did help make it worse now this is brutal. Fxed it all ends with the first trimester

 

[vaniilla]

On a scale of 1-10 (1 being non existent and 10 being 'kill me now'), over the past 3 weeks my nausea has escalated from a 4 to about a 7. I don't have any food aversions or vomiting but the nausea is so constant! It will go away for maybe 20 min directly after eating and then it's back. Finding it really difficult to work like this...can't find ginger sweets anywhere either which is supposed to help. I have ginger tablets but they don't help at all. Please don't let me be one of those women whose morning sickness continues past the first trimester!

I hope everyone else is managing ok...

I'm sorry your nausea is so bad I could have written all of that, I'm supposed to be getting dressed now for the school run but I just feel awful. Have you considered a trip to the doctors?

 

[Mrstruth]

Aphy,
I truly understand What you are going through. I have been placed on bedrest due to the morning sickness and I have been threatening a miscarriage. I have a blood clot that is outside of the sac. They said it is common and that although it makes you high for miscarriages. Most pregnancies end successfully. I truly hope you start to feel better.

 

[Aphy]

Mrstruth,how did they realize you had a blood clot? Are you supposed to be on bed rest for the next few months? I hope it gets reabsorbed or something...

I hope everyone who is in the same boat as me starts to feel better soon!

 

[rainbowsun]

Since this is an IVF pregnancy, I'm being brought in for weekly monitoring. I find it so funny that every week so far, I'm a nervous wreck right before the appointment. Then, when I'm told things are fine, I have 1-2 days of calm, before going right back to freaking out. I keep telling myself most women wouldn't have even had their first OB appointment yet, but that doesn't seem to help my sanity.

Ugh, infertility + previous miscarriage can really mess with my brain

 

[lesondemavie]

I feel the same way rainbow. I have weekly appointments because of my history of miscarriage. I get a few days of positivity after each appointment and then I start to worry again. Just how things go when you're PAL. I'm glad to have the appointments so far though. They've been really reassuring. My horrible morning sickness helps as well. I hesitate to say horrible as I have a coworker who ended up in the ER for fluids several times and then eventually on bed rest for a month...so not that bad, but I am pretty tired of throwing up.

 

[Maries_s]

Aphy,
I truly understand What you are going through. I have been placed on bedrest due to the morning sickness and I have been threatening a miscarriage. I have a blood clot that is outside of the sac. They said it is common and that although it makes you high for miscarriages. Most pregnancies end successfully. I truly hope you start to feel better.

I hope everything ends well, this is your first pregnancy? I'm really scared of ending in bedrest because I ended up with my DD at 33w and was awful and also I don't know how I can do it this time being an SAHM.

Since this is an IVF pregnancy, I'm being brought in for weekly monitoring. I find it so funny that every week so far, I'm a nervous wreck right before the appointment. Then, when I'm told things are fine, I have 1-2 days of calm, before going right back to freaking out. I keep telling myself most women wouldn't have even had their first OB appointment yet, but that doesn't seem to help my sanity.

Ugh, infertility + previous miscarriage can really mess with my brain

I'm so sorry you're so worried, everything is going to be fine hun. And you are totally right of being lucky. Based on my LMP I am 9w4d (my doctor believed that I'm approximately 6w but it is impossible) and my first US is going to be in January 4th! so literally I'm going to be between 12 to 14w!

 

[Lunabelle]

Betty and girly that is just adorable for them to be asking for a little sibling! Such a great gift you will be giving them for life

Dobby I'm sorry that you have to ge going through this week with worry but if you are that early it's completely normal! I really hope that next week you will have good news! It will be such a help to be living with your parents! My mum lives in another country and I wish she was closer!

 

[second.time]

Sorry for joining so late, everyone. I'm nine weeks, due July 9th, but I wasn't fully embracing the pregnancy until my ultrasound this afternoon. Saw a nice big baby and a good heartbeat. We're finally telling my husband's side of the family. They haven't had any new babies since our son, four years old now, so I think it will be a nice surprise for them.

I totally relate to everyone suffering from MS. Mine was never this bad the first time and I've been stuck in bed all day some days from this. Unisom/B6 and chewing mint gum have helped immensely, so I'm just keeping my fingers crossed things will only get easier from here. We're traveling for Christmas and I don't want to be stuck at home because of the nausea.

 

[lesondemavie]

Welcome second! We have the same EDD for now (although I think my baby is just measuring ahead). It's crazy because you got your BFP just 3 days after I O'd, and I didn't get mind until 10.29...but last week baby was measuring 8+2 which makes me 9+1 today. We'll see if that stays true though. My RE thinks I just implanted pretty early, but who knows! I don't care really so long as baby is healthy right?

 

[Thejoie]

Welcome second- it really does make it so much more real to see that ultrasound. I can't wait for that moment. Having the pregnancy symptoms makes it a bit more real for me but there are days still where it doesn't.

 

[Maries_s]

Welcome second!

 

[Lunabelle]

Welcome second and congrats on the healthy scan!