What were your symptoms at 5 & 6 weeks? - Page 2

[AdamsV88]

Originally Posted by jee'smom

no, i never noticed anything different with my breasts, except that i lost my milk by the second month or so. dry-nursed for the rest of the pg, then tandemed. got pg for the third time, tandemed through that pg, thought i would triandem, but #1 weaned when she saw the milk come out after baby was born... thought it was gross. LOL! so then tandemed the next two.

You are my hero. I want to nurse through my pregnancy (if I am in deed pregnant now) but I dont know if I will be able too with how high risk it will be. I will cry so hard so bad if I have to wean my daughter before she wants to. She is 10 1/2 months old (9 months adjusted) and is a boobie addict still. She wont take a bottle or a sippy... she only wants boob 100% of the time.

[katelove]

Relentless, overwhelming nausea. And some increased tiredness.

[Mama2Kayla]

Fatigue, light cramping and weird cravings. I have an appitite until about 8 weeks...then I get nauseous

[WindyCityMom]

Gas. Horrible unrelenting gas.

And I was working retail at the time at the Vitamin Shoppe.

Can you imagine?

[Mama2mc]

I was mostly sleepy, I lost some weight too, but didn't have any nausea or anything else.

[DaisyMae08]

I was starving all the time and had diarrhea.

[AdamsV88]

Originally Posted by WindyCityMom

Gas. Horrible unrelenting gas.

And I was working retail at the time at the Vitamin Shoppe.

Can you imagine?

lol that is too funny I have been gassy a little more too. Its embarrassing. I am lucky Im not a photographer anymore and am now a sahm lol

[jee'smom]

Originally Posted by AdamsV88

You are my hero. I want to nurse through my pregnancy (if I am in deed pregnant now) but I dont know if I will be able too with how high risk it will be. I will cry so hard so bad if I have to wean my daughter before she wants to. She is 10 1/2 months old (9 months adjusted) and is a boobie addict still. She wont take a bottle or a sippy... she only wants boob 100% of the time.

it's really not high-risk to nurse through pg (read kelly mom). your uterus doesn't have many oxytocin receptors until the end of pg, and the receptors that are there do not have a high affinity for oxytocin anyway, until the end. (let me just say that i'm an anatomy and physiology college professor... teaching nurses, doctors, etc., as well as i researched this ALOT because...)

i researched this alot because i went into preterm labor with my first at 29.5 weeks. i have an irritable uterus, contract all of the time. was on strict bed rest for almost 6 weeks. had her at 35 weeks. anyway, i really did not want to wean her, but everything i read said that b/c of my history of preterm labor, i really should, so i decided to "play it by ear". i slowly weaned her down to several to many times/day (just not all of the time- she'd live on my breast if she could!) by the second trimester. (just in case i really had to wean her, i didn't want it to be cold turkey, yk?). i noticed that nursing her did not cause me to have hard contractions, or more frequent contractions. as a matter of fact, sex caused horrible contractions for me, and i kept doing that (although had to slow down, as the contractions got too intense). anyway, i hid it from my ob until one day i was there for an exam and was nursing my dd, never expecting the doctor to come in so soon. he saw me and i started to stammer that it truly did not cause me to have horrible contractions, and i felt safe doing it, and he stopped me and said "oh that?! that's not going to do anything to put you into labor... go on and nurse if you want to!" i was so relieved!

all of that to say... in my opinion... listen to your body. you'll know if it's not right for you (i think! and if you feel that i'm full of s**t and want to listen to your doctor, go ahead and do that too. i don't know you or your medical history!)

[Funny Face]

Nausea and vomiting.

[AdamsV88]

Originally Posted by jee'smom

it's really not high-risk to nurse through pg (read kelly mom). your uterus doesn't have many oxytocin receptors until the end of pg, and the receptors that are there do not have a high affinity for oxytocin anyway, until the end. (let me just say that i'm an anatomy and physiology college professor... teaching nurses, doctors, etc., as well as i researched this ALOT because...)

i researched this alot because i went into preterm labor with my first at 29.5 weeks. i have an irritable uterus, contract all of the time. was on strict bed rest for almost 6 weeks. had her at 35 weeks. anyway, i really did not want to wean her, but everything i read said that b/c of my history of preterm labor, i really should, so i decided to "play it by ear". i slowly weaned her down to several to many times/day (just not all of the time- she'd live on my breast if she could!) by the second trimester. (just in case i really had to wean her, i didn't want it to be cold turkey, yk?). i noticed that nursing her did not cause me to have hard contractions, or more frequent contractions. as a matter of fact, sex caused horrible contractions for me, and i kept doing that (although had to slow down, as the contractions got too intense). anyway, i hid it from my ob until one day i was there for an exam and was nursing my dd, never expecting the doctor to come in so soon. he saw me and i started to stammer that it truly did not cause me to have horrible contractions, and i felt safe doing it, and he stopped me and said "oh that?! that's not going to do anything to put you into labor... go on and nurse if you want to!" i was so relieved!

all of that to say... in my opinion... listen to your body. you'll know if it's not right for you (i think! and if you feel that i'm full of s**t and want to listen to your doctor, go ahead and do that too. i don't know you or your medical history!)

Wow! Thats crazy. I went into PTL with my first at 35 weeks and they managed to stop it and I managed to go to 39 weeks. With my second I started to dilate at 13 weeks and efface at 19 weeks and I went into PTL for the first time at 24 weeks. I was on Procardia from then on to stop or slow down my contractions I had every day... even at that I still had to go to the hospital and have them stop my labor 6 more times during the pregnancy. I had to have fetal fibronectin tests done every two weeks. I had to have the steroid shots at 30 weeks. I was on moderate bed rest from 13-19 weeks and then strict bed rest from 19 weeks until they couldnt stop my labor anymore at 34 weeks. When my OB thought I was still nursing my firstborn during my second trimester (she heard me and my SO talking about nursing our new baby that I was pregnant with) she flipped out and told me that I better NOT be nursing anymore because it could send me into labor. I was put on pelvic and bed rest at 13 weeks.... so IDK.... My third pregnancy ended in miscarriage around 4-5 weeks.... so my history isnt too good so far. But I really dont want to stop nursing so I think I will go with my gut and play it by ear and keep it to myself like what you did and see what happens with my body.

[AdamsV88]

I was ignored...

Went in to see a nurse at the local health department and told her all my symptoms and that my last period was really funky and not normal and how I wasnt able to get any + hpts with my chemical pregnancy and was only able to confirm pregnancy via blood test and she told me that 1- there was no such thing as a chemical pregnancy and that I was basically never pregnant (I wanted to punch her in the face)... and that they would only test me if I had missed more than two periods in a row completely.... If I am indeed pregnant and get lucky enough to miss the next three periods and not have any bleeding during the pregnancy then I will be around 20 weeks by the time they get around to seeing me and confirming the pregnancy! I am so mad... but there isnt a thing I can do but wait

I hate being ignored...

[gummibears]

Originally Posted by TheDivineMrsM

I didn't have any, really - I was just exhausted.

Pretty much this for this pregnancy. Mild nausea and HUNGRY.

For DS throwing up 2x daily.

[jee'smom]

Originally Posted by AdamsV88

Went in to see a nurse at the local health department and told her all my symptoms and that my last period was really funky and not normal and how I wasnt able to get any + hpts with my chemical pregnancy and was only able to confirm pregnancy via blood test and she told me that 1- there was no such thing as a chemical pregnancy and that I was basically never pregnant (I wanted to punch her in the face)... and that they would only test me if I had missed more than two periods in a row completely.... If I am indeed pregnant and get lucky enough to miss the next three periods and not have any bleeding during the pregnancy then I will be around 20 weeks by the time they get around to seeing me and confirming the pregnancy! I am so mad... but there isnt a thing I can do but wait

I hate being ignored...

sorry to hear that. i hate being ignored also! good luck!!!

[Neuromancer]

At 5-6 weeks I think it was a stuffy nose, feeling feverish, some food aversion, strange taste in mouth (sort of metallic, especially on the inside of my lower lip), and general "weird" feeling around stomach area.

[sweeetpea]

Absolutely exhausted.
Absolutely starving.
Breast tenderness
Acne on my face (with the first two, not with the third)

[AdamsV88]

Originally Posted by jee'smom

sorry to hear that. i hate being ignored also! good luck!!!

Thank you. I have between a 5-12 day (including today) period where I should be expecting to have (or not have) AF.... after that I am going to go get a blood test elsewhere... I found a place that will do it for $39. Hopefully they are quick about getting the results back because I want to know asap lol.

[Evergreen]

5 weeks= Sore nipples, some very slight underlying dizziness, having to pee a lot

6 weeks= full blown nausea, fatigue (this is based on my other two pregnancies. I'd rather not repeat those symptoms this time.)

[sara125]

At 5 weeks now

I'm also in my 5th week now. I was also pregnant in April and remember having VERY sore breasts, but nothing like that now. I'm also in MUCH better shape physically this time. I took a pilates class yesterday and felt GREAT! I think the exercising is really helping me feel better. I'm also hula hooping, which is very interesting. I'm not sure I'll be able to do it all the time, but I like feeling my baby while I'm exercising.

My appetite has certainly grown and at about 2 or 3pm each day I MUST HAVE A NAP. I've had a little trouble sleeping through the night since I'm peeing more often. I also have some pain here and there in my pelvis/abdomen, but otherwise not much yet. Still SOOOOO EXCITED

[annablue]

I had mild breast tenderness, but that's it.