Some people had already started chatting in the initial thread I posted, but some had just indicated interest in doing one, so while I don't want to end the conversation over there I thought I'd put up a new "official" thread as well. After reading everyone's responses, I decided to put the "rambling" bit into the title, so that we all feel free and welcome to do so! 
I think rambling is good for us...especially here, where we don't have to worry about whether we're talking too much about the whole being pregnant thing.
Here are some questions (or not so much questions but prompts, now that I've written them down), for anyone so inclined to check in that way. Answering them is completely optional...if you'd rather just talk about what's on your mind, just start talking!
Name:
Weeks/Days along:
Appointments:
Symptoms:
Food:
Exercise:
Body changes and other milestones:
Thoughts:
AFM:
Name: Cloud
Weeks/Days along: 6 weeks, 1 day
Appointments: I have one with my OB's nurse next Friday. I don't even get to meet my OB until I'm 10 weeks, which I'm not entirely happy with. I've heard wonderful, wonderful things about her, though, so...I'm trying not to worry about that too much. I'm not entirely impressed with the recommended books in the packet of info they sent me in the meantime (or with the guide to pregnancy pamphlet that's obviously marketing propaganda from a cord blood company), but it's the same packet the clinic sends out to everyone, regardless of which OB you see, so...we'll see. I feel kind of bad for not going with a midwife, and I wish I was able to compare at this point before people get booked, but this OB is really highly recommended by people I trust and gets awesome reviews online. I guess if we don't click in four weeks, I can look for someone else then.
Symptoms: Fatigue, big time, though I figured out that was from cutting my antidepressant dose too much too fast. My doctor wanted to wean myself off of Wellbutrin after getting pregnant, but since I'm sort of between seeing her and the OB at the moment, I'm having to play it by ear and I think I got a little too overzealous about getting off of it. I'm trying just to be happy I've cut my dose by a third. Otherwise, I haven't had too many symptoms. A teeny, tiny bit of queasiness and some aversions to certain kinds of sugary foods. Gigantic, sore breasts! Although, I don't think they're quite as tender as they were for awhile. I've been occasionally cranky, though that could be as much from the antidepressant debacle as from hormones.
Food: The food aversion I'm having is mostly to the homemade marshmallows in the fridge. Kind of like I ate too many of them when I first made them, but I didn't eat that many. And now they're in the fridge and not disappearing fast enough, and every time I think of them it turns my stomach. Eating crackers is enough to get rid of the feeling, though. I'm fixated on having pizza for lunch today. Last night I was planning how to get some for at least twenty minutes while I was falling asleep. I'm worried I'm drinking too much juice/eating too much fruit, but hopefully it's an irrational fear because it's what I want to eat right now! My goal for the next week is to eat more vegetables.
Exercise: I started a prenatal yoga class last Friday. It rocked, but today is the first day I'm not feeling extra sore! I guess that means I should get out my mat and practice today, so I can start getting used to it faster.
Body changes and other milestones: I'm happy for the moment because usually gaining weight makes me feel really uncomfortable in my own skin to the point of not being able to sleep because my skin actually feels weird, but so far pregnancy weight actually doesn't feel bad at all. I might be getting a little bigger already, but I also feel like I'm getting firmer, especially my chest, which is fine by me for the moment.
Thoughts: At this point, half of everyone we know knows despite the fact that I wanted to keep it mostly a secret, and so there are some people I really have to tell now but I'm just exhausted of the whole thing! I never really know what to say.
Question: What pregnancy books would you girls recommend? I have the Mayo Clinic one, but it's not really a read from cover to cover type of book.
I think rambling is good for us...especially here, where we don't have to worry about whether we're talking too much about the whole being pregnant thing.Here are some questions (or not so much questions but prompts, now that I've written them down), for anyone so inclined to check in that way. Answering them is completely optional...if you'd rather just talk about what's on your mind, just start talking!
Name:
Weeks/Days along:
Appointments:
Symptoms:
Food:
Exercise:
Body changes and other milestones:
Thoughts:
AFM:
Name: Cloud
Weeks/Days along: 6 weeks, 1 day
Appointments: I have one with my OB's nurse next Friday. I don't even get to meet my OB until I'm 10 weeks, which I'm not entirely happy with. I've heard wonderful, wonderful things about her, though, so...I'm trying not to worry about that too much. I'm not entirely impressed with the recommended books in the packet of info they sent me in the meantime (or with the guide to pregnancy pamphlet that's obviously marketing propaganda from a cord blood company), but it's the same packet the clinic sends out to everyone, regardless of which OB you see, so...we'll see. I feel kind of bad for not going with a midwife, and I wish I was able to compare at this point before people get booked, but this OB is really highly recommended by people I trust and gets awesome reviews online. I guess if we don't click in four weeks, I can look for someone else then.
Symptoms: Fatigue, big time, though I figured out that was from cutting my antidepressant dose too much too fast. My doctor wanted to wean myself off of Wellbutrin after getting pregnant, but since I'm sort of between seeing her and the OB at the moment, I'm having to play it by ear and I think I got a little too overzealous about getting off of it. I'm trying just to be happy I've cut my dose by a third. Otherwise, I haven't had too many symptoms. A teeny, tiny bit of queasiness and some aversions to certain kinds of sugary foods. Gigantic, sore breasts! Although, I don't think they're quite as tender as they were for awhile. I've been occasionally cranky, though that could be as much from the antidepressant debacle as from hormones.
Food: The food aversion I'm having is mostly to the homemade marshmallows in the fridge. Kind of like I ate too many of them when I first made them, but I didn't eat that many. And now they're in the fridge and not disappearing fast enough, and every time I think of them it turns my stomach. Eating crackers is enough to get rid of the feeling, though. I'm fixated on having pizza for lunch today. Last night I was planning how to get some for at least twenty minutes while I was falling asleep. I'm worried I'm drinking too much juice/eating too much fruit, but hopefully it's an irrational fear because it's what I want to eat right now! My goal for the next week is to eat more vegetables.
Exercise: I started a prenatal yoga class last Friday. It rocked, but today is the first day I'm not feeling extra sore! I guess that means I should get out my mat and practice today, so I can start getting used to it faster.
Body changes and other milestones: I'm happy for the moment because usually gaining weight makes me feel really uncomfortable in my own skin to the point of not being able to sleep because my skin actually feels weird, but so far pregnancy weight actually doesn't feel bad at all. I might be getting a little bigger already, but I also feel like I'm getting firmer, especially my chest, which is fine by me for the moment.
Thoughts: At this point, half of everyone we know knows despite the fact that I wanted to keep it mostly a secret, and so there are some people I really have to tell now but I'm just exhausted of the whole thing! I never really know what to say.
Question: What pregnancy books would you girls recommend? I have the Mayo Clinic one, but it's not really a read from cover to cover type of book.
and read about other people too of course 
Funny, they have a lot of prenatals (11-15!) with the public health clinic, but you see a new nurse every time, and even if you have the same doctor several times that doctor will not be delivering your baby because the maternity wards are staffed with nurse-midwives (who work on a shift schedule and whom you generally don't get to meet beforehand), with OBs around for emergencies only. I can understand having lots of appointments with the same midwife so that she can get to know you and your body, but that many appointments with random people? Not likely to be helpful imho. So I think I will try to put off the prenatals as long as I can.
) I did some prenatal yoga during my first pregnancy, though, and I might do it again this time around, if I can find the time.
And a lot of meat. And I would love a huge, crispy salad. I made a big skillet peach cobbler recently, and I could not stop eaing it. I kept the leftovers at the back of the fridge so no one else would notice them. 
and it's a little discuraging.
I've never had that happen before.
