Weekly Chat Thread 12/6-12/12

[earth-mama]

Here's this weeks thread.

AFM--I have recently being feeling more and more nauseous .  It's seems to come on in the past couple of days and nothing seems to really help.  I haven't gotten to the point of throwing up and am hoping I stay that way, but this is definitely different than with DD.  With DD I was barely nauseous and if I ate/rested I was good.  

Maybe it means we are having a boy.  That would be fun since we already have a girl.    I'm about 6.5 weeks right now.  I hope everyone else is feeling "good".

[LivingSky]

Thanks for the new chat thread!

I had one day of feeling awful on Saturday (of course the day I had a wedding to elp set up and then attend!). But other than that, things have been fine. I'm 6w6d today. Get to see my midwives for the first time on Thursday, so that will be m excitement for the week :)

[CarrieCo]

No nausea yet, but I did just read this thread and go clean my toilet! ;) I'd been meaning to do that and haven't had a chance to do it! lol  Now, 1 of 2 is done, so I can feel better when my time comes! lol

I'm 6weeks and 2 days today! I'm really looking forward to my early ultrasound on the 21st.

Nothing too new with me!

[manamakeri]

Still no morning sickness here, not even a lot of nausea. My symptoms aren't very prevalent. The most noticeable symptoms are acne and orthostatic hypotension (almost blacking out when I get up too fast). 

Trying to decide on a care provider for this pregnancy. We would love to have a home birth attended by a midwife, but we got burned to the tune of $3K last time we attempted that. Our midwife transferred my care to an OB at 36 weeks due to high blood pressure. Her contract stated that if you have to transfer after 36 weeks, she only refunds $1800 of the birth fee. Little did we know the birth fee was $3600 (the contract did not state a breakdown of how much of the $4800 was for prenatals and how much was birth fee). So she got $1800 for doing nothing. Then she never properly submitted the paperwork to the insurance for $1200 in prenatals, so we never got reimbursed. She changed all her numbers, stopped practicing in my county and never responded to any e-mails.

All the midwives around here seem to have the same kind of stipulations in their contracts. I am hesitant to sign up with anyone for fear of the same thing happening again. Going with an OB would be super cheap, and we wouldn't be at any risk of losing a large sum of money. I am all for paying people for the work they do, but we paid $3,000 for someone to take my blood pressure, measure my fundus and test my urine. I could do all that myself for free. 

We're going to look into some birth centers that are about an hour away to see what their policies are. It wouldn't be a home birth but better than a hospital birth. 

[TexasMum]

We still have no due date and I don't really know how pregnant I am. I have a dating ultrasound next Thursday. Judging from my experiences with past pregnancies, I'd say I am probably around 10 or 11 weeks because I all the sudden feel SO much better. I still have some lingering exhaustion and a tiny bit of nausea but all in all I feel good again. I even picked up my knitting needles last night and started a new project. Sorry for TMI but DH and I also had sex which is something we had not done in awhile due to nausea. These are all good signs I am on the way to relief. Relief from 1st trimester junk anyways. I have far worse pain and misery to tackle ahead.

[~Katie~]

10 weeks and 2 days here. I'm feeling a lot better, I'm off the zofran but still terrified to start taking my prenatal again for fear it will make me sick. I do end up feeling exhausted and bloated at the end of the day and just drag myself to bed. I'm finding that this pregnancy has been so much harder than my last two. I'm so happy to have another baby but I'm really not enjoying the pregnancy part yet. I'm normally the pregnant woman who loves being pregnant and really enjoys it but not so much this time around. Despite being sick I'm still having a really hard time absorbing that I really am pregnant and maybe it was all just a fluke. I think that has more to do with having the two losses in the Spring so now I'm paranoid. 

I'm finding that now the sickness is gone I'm hungry all the time, I've gained 3 pounds so far (I think I gained 10lbs. by 12 weeks last time) so I'm glad to be on a better weight gain track this time around. 

I have my first official midwife appointment tomorrow, hoping we can hear a heartbeat 

[StillWaters]

9 weeks here. I have been feeling sick, sick, sick and so extremely fatigued.  Today after I dropped the kids off at school I tried to get some work down on the computer, but I couldn't and just threw myself down on the bed and stayed there until noon.  

The one glimmer of hope I am feeling is that morning I went to the drug store and bought some motion sickness bands, and I have been feeling very little nausea ever since.  I really hope this streak continues.  

[heavensearth]

I just got back from my doctors appointment and everything is looking good, but I was 0.4 over on the glucose test so now I have to go for the 3 hour test tomorrow :( Ive never done it before and really really hope that I don't end up being diabetic :( anyone have any experience with this?

Still too early to check for a heartbeat on the doppler, so it was uneventful for the most part.

[Inkedstar]

Originally Posted by CarrieCo 

No nausea yet, but I did just read this thread and go clean my toilet! ;) I'd been meaning to do that and haven't had a chance to do it! lol  Now, 1 of 2 is done, so I can feel better when my time comes! lol

I'm 6weeks and 2 days today! I'm really looking forward to my early ultrasound on the 21st.

Nothing too new with me!

 Last week I felt sick all day on Sunday but refused to vomit because our toilets needed cleaning (and I didn't want to ask DH to clean them because he was already taking over all the other chores due to my lack of energy/stomach). I felt better (and was expecting company) so I cleaned the toilets this weekend and still haven't vomited.

I'm going on week 9 and am still dealing w/nausea daily. I didn't have m/s w/my prior pregnancies and while i know it's a reassuring sign, I'm really getting annoyed w/the nausea and how it's draining my motivation to get anything done.  It's also not helping how I feel about this pregnancy in general and I am hoping to feel a bit more emotionally stable/relieved after we get more solid confirmation that a baby is actually growing (heartbeat, u/s, etc).

My first appt. w/my NP is next week and I hope we can get a heartbeat. I need to get rolling on finding a midwife as I'm unsure If I want to travel to my m/w (for preN's) we used for DD#2's homebirth.

We haven't told many people since we have had a few m/c's but I'm hoping to feel confident enough to share the news after my appt next week.

I'm so grateful to have this forum, especially when I have few people to "talk" to right now.

[motray36]

Hi everyone! I've been mia a bit, but am ready to jump back in to the threads! 6w3d, and my m/s just started kicking in on Sunday. Low-level nausea, then on Monday morning I got really dizzy at work and ended up blacking out, before sleeping the rest of the day in DH's office. Everytime I got up, I got dizzy and felt sick. Lovely stuff, this morning sickness! Doing ok today as long as I take things REALLY slowly and keep eating saltines. Which are gross  but dont make me feel pukey.

I have a feeling m/s is going to be a terrible experience while trying to care for a toddler. Hoping he takes my mind off of some of it. But all I want to do is sleep.

[magpiedpiper]

Huge hugs to all you with m/s. Hang in there!

Mine has jumped from constant but low level, to all day, all night, can't even keep down liquids even with zofran. Ugh
I felt like it took a lot longer to get to this point last time around - closer to 2nd trimester. I am pushing the liquids even when I throw them up, trying to keep from getting dehydrated like last time and in the hospital.

Trying to keep a toddler entertained while feeling like a limp noodle is hard. Especially when she gets really upset every time I throw up, poor thing. I have to comfort her in between heaves. lol

Between the worse m/s, extreme fatigue (I almost nodded off while helping dd color, hence the new blue squiggles on our green couch...) and the super dark, darker than the control lines on the peesticks, I almost have myself believing the jokes about having twins. haha
Oh, and I am 6 weeks, 5 days. Been nauseous since 4 weeks when I tested. I had HG last time though. I just thought it would take longer to start being so awful than 5.5 weeks in.
Edited by magpiedpiper - 12/7/10 at 9:08am

[Charlize]

Morning sickness has been tough for me this time. With our first two daughters I never had morning sickness and felt wonderful the whole time. With DD3, I had mild morning sickness, but I wasn't working at the time and could do as I needed to since I had family close by to care for the girls. With this one I'm working full time in a very demanding marketing position, have DD1 in kindergarten and take DD2, DD3 and the dog (yes, the dog is babysat as well since he has separation anxiety!) to my grandparents every morning.. Then factor in the mega doses of Prometrium, prenatals and no sleep.

On top of everything else, I'm not so sure what I'm gonna do with four kids next summer. I will have a newborn, 20 month old, 4 yo and 6 yo...

[AnnieA]

Here's a fun new symptom. I ate a sandwich from Panera today (so not a small sandwich by any means) plus the small bag of chips that comes with it. I ate it less than 2 hours ago and I'm STARVING now.

[tourist.]

Originally Posted by AnnieA 

Here's a fun new symptom. I ate a sandwich from Panera today (so not a small sandwich by any means) plus the small bag of chips that comes with it. I ate it less than 2 hours ago and I'm STARVING now.

Hi Ladies.  Lurker here. :)  Just had to reply that I am having the exact same symptom.  It's so weird!  I almost begged my OB for the ultrasound yesterday (insurance restrictions) because I needed to know I was only having one baby.  Thankfully, there's only one but I feel like I'm eating for many.   This is just so different than last time for me, it seemed super unusual. 
 

[~Katie~]

I had a midwife appointment tonight. She ended up taking 5 vials of blood and I was starving afterwards. We weren't able to catch the babe's heartbeat via doppler but we did hear a nice, strong placenta swooshing away, so that is a good sign. I'm going back in 2 weeks and we'll try again. 

[amayhew]

I'm 10 weeks and some change and feel much better this week, more energy, less nausea. I actually ran a little today, and worked out! I have my first appointment with my midwives tomorrow, hopefully we will hear the heartbeat, but I did see it on a 7 week u/s, so I won't be too worried if we don't.

I feel for all you ladies still having morning sickness so bad! It was bad for me two weeks straight here and I have 4 other kids at home, with homeschooling and all our activities it sure was horrible!

[scheelimama]

Originally Posted by amayhew 

I'm 10 weeks and some change and feel much better this week, more energy, less nausea. I actually ran a little today, and worked out! I have my first appointment with my midwives tomorrow, hopefully we will hear the heartbeat, but I did see it on a 7 week u/s, so I won't be too worried if we don't.

I feel for all you ladies still having morning sickness so bad! It was bad for me two weeks straight here and I have 4 other kids at home, with homeschooling and all our activities it sure was horrible!

Same exact update here, lol.  Funny, but I could have written your post word for word, exactly, down to how far along I am, the 7 week u/s, starting to feel better, having 4 kids, homeschooling, etc, lol.  Except my first appt. is not until next week.  Looking forward to it.

[AnnieA]

I'm 8w2d and the nausea seems to be getting worse...is that possible?!? I was dry heaving last night. I was basically a slug on the couch from about 6 PM until I crawled to bed around 9 PM. My DH is being so awesome through all this. The kids were home last night and he stepped up and did everything that I normally do on school nights and didn't even complain! I thought I would feel better this AM when I woke up because that's usually how it goes, but nope. Still feeling gross. So do not want to be at work right now!

[amayhew]

Scheelimama,

funny...do you have 3 girls and one boy? we have 3 girls and a boy.. lol with a May & Jan too, but a year earlier on both.

[scheelimama]

Originally Posted by amayhew 

Scheelimama,

funny...do you have 3 girls and one boy? we have 3 girls and a boy.. lol with a May & Jan too, but a year earlier on both.

Yes!  Too funny!  The boy is our baby right now.  Kind of hoping for another boy.