OK seriously, I am ready for the totally drained feeling to pass. I am really tired of just being tired. And I am so dang hormonal and emotional more then normal its driving me batty.
Just had to put that out there :)
I am sooooo with you here. I am ready for the second tri already!
OK seriously, I am ready for the totally drained feeling to pass. I am really tired of just being tired. And I am so dang hormonal and emotional more then normal its driving me batty.
Just had to put that out there :)
I'm so sorry you're feeling that way. :( 2nd trimester is just around the corner! Is there something nice you can do for yourself to help you feel better?
I feel your pain... I'm irrationally grumpy and irritated most of the time (probably due to hormone-induced insomnia), I hate being around people, loud people annoy me, and I thought my m/s was getting better but I've been nauseous all morning. Yesterday I ate two tiny pieces of chocolate for the first time since I got pregnant (because I had a total aversion) and they made me want to barf. Chocolate! Why chocolate???? Grad school and 1st trimester will be over at the same time, and I get to see DH again. Talk about a reason to celebrate!!!
I'm starting to wonder how often family size is linked to severity of morning sickness! I thought I wanted 4 or 5, but I have been feeling so awful this whole pregnancy (my 2nd) that I don't think I can go through this again! And still only 9 weeks...even if this ends with the first trimester, that's still another month...ugh...
Insomnia? Wow, that must be awful. Every time I've been pregnant, I'm sooo tired I feel like I could just sleep forever. Luckily, my DH is awesome and lets me sleep til 9 every morning (though I don't get to bed til 11:30 pm, since I work second shift). DS also started mostly sleeping through the night (
) so I think I'm also trying to make up for the past 20 months of cruddy, interrupted sleep.
I'm having a hard time with actually feeling pregnant, and I keep getting myself so overworked and worried that somethings going to go wrong.
:( I haven't felt pregnant at all this whole time, and I feel more like I have a yucky cold that's running down my body...it's hard for me to believe that the baby is actually okay and still growing. I just want to be showing so I know it's okay and even than there's so many scary thoughts.
I have a doctors apt this next Tuesday, but I don't know what they're going to do, it's my 12 weeks. And here in Utah (to my understanding, what they told me) they only do a 20 weeks ultrasound covered by insurance that one time. Which is good because of the health issues us present...but I got away with an 8 week one because it was deemed medically necessary since I had no clue about the dates at all. But that ultrasound made me feel better for the last 3ish weeks so I just want one every 4 weeks. Selfish I know.
But I'm just so scared, I have never been pregnant before and this was a surprise and not planned. But now me and my husband have gotten so excited all of that doesn't matter and all that does matter is that in the end of this year we have a sweet baby to hold.
How do I deal with this? How do I know my baby is okay and still growing...I haven't had any ms at all, or anything that's made me feel pregnant (besides the ups and downs that make me feel insane).
Insomnia? Wow, that must be awful. Every time I've been pregnant, I'm sooo tired I feel like I could just sleep forever. Luckily, my DH is awesome and lets me sleep til 9 every morning (though I don't get to bed til 11:30 pm, since I work second shift). DS also started mostly sleeping through the night () so I think I'm also trying to make up for the past 20 months of cruddy, interrupted sleep.
Ooooh, I am so jealous!! (but in a good way!) I fall asleep no problem, but since I became pregnant I get up to pee at least three times a night (even though I stop drinking water at 5pm) and then at 2am I wake up for good and lie in bed for hours... I fall back asleep around 5am but have to get up at 6:30 for a full day of school. *sigh* I'm hoping it's a first trimester thing. And I know I won't be getting sleep once the baby comes, which makes me feel miserable in the middle of the night. Sleep an extra hour for me!!!
I'm having a hard time with actually feeling pregnant, and I keep getting myself so overworked and worried that somethings going to go wrong.
:( I haven't felt pregnant at all this whole time, and I feel more like I have a yucky cold that's running down my body...it's hard for me to believe that the baby is actually okay and still growing. I just want to be showing so I know it's okay and even than there's so many scary thoughts.
I have a doctors apt this next Tuesday, but I don't know what they're going to do, it's my 12 weeks. And here in Utah (to my understanding, what they told me) they only do a 20 weeks ultrasound covered by insurance that one time. Which is good because of the health issues us present...but I got away with an 8 week one because it was deemed medically necessary since I had no clue about the dates at all. But that ultrasound made me feel better for the last 3ish weeks so I just want one every 4 weeks. Selfish I know.
But I'm just so scared, I have never been pregnant before and this was a surprise and not planned. But now me and my husband have gotten so excited all of that doesn't matter and all that does matter is that in the end of this year we have a sweet baby to hold.
How do I deal with this? How do I know my baby is okay and still growing...I haven't had any ms at all, or anything that's made me feel pregnant (besides the ups and downs that make me feel insane).
Hey kelsey, this might sound nutty, but even though I had tons of symptoms I also spent the first few weeks worrying something would go wrong. What has helped me ENORMOUSLY has been doing positive affirmations. Every time I get a negative thought into my head, I immediately exchange it for a positive one, such as: "My baby is strong, healthy, and beautiful." I repeat it over and over again in my head, and sometimes even out loud if nobody's around. It's almost like turning the page in a magazine. It took me a while to "buy" into it, but now it's just automatic and it has made such a difference. Your tummy is clearly growing, from what the pictures show, and your u/s was perfectly normal, right? All great signs (the ups and downs and the exhaustion are big signs of pregnancy hormones at work, so take that as a positive thing). Hang in there, I'm sure you'll be sporting a lovely tummy before you know it and the baby will be kicking up a storm. Have faith in Nature. Look around you and see how many people were created in the same way your baby is being created... And feel free to vent here! HUGS!!
Kelsey - just to ease your fears (hopefully!)...I've had two perfectly healthy babies grow inside me and not ONE symptom for either pregnancy. Seriously. I felt dizzy once with my daughter. And I felt a hot flash once with my son. It's so easy to think there's a problem if you don't "feel" pregnant, but not everybody "feels" it the same way. Once you get to the point of hearing the heartbeat at appointments it might alleviate some of your worries...at least, it does for me.
Can I just complain here for a minute? My hips, pelvis and sacrum hurt SOOOO bad. Every night I go to bed and I am so uncomfortable that I toss and turn all night. I wake up with aching teeth and a sore jaw every morning due to clenching my jaw in my sleep from the pain. I remember this at the end of my 3rd trimester with dd2, but do I have to put up with this the whole pregnancy??? I'm keeping up with my yoga and applying heat and I just can't afford a whole pregnancy worth of chiro care. Is anyone else experiencing this?
On a more positive note my morning sickness seems to be mostly gone! It started right at four weeks though, so I did get a good month and a half of it in. Still tired, grumpy and have huge aching boobs though, so I know I'm still pg.
I am still so sick. 4 weeks so far of throwing up and feeling exhausted. I am just hoping that maybe it will lighten up before the end of the first trimester..... doing this for another 5 ish weeks just seems like torture.
Pilar--I had a lot of insomnia my first pg too and it was not something I had ever dealt with before. But suddenly I'd be roaming the house eating cereal at 2am. . .weird. But you'll be relieved to know that as soon as my son was born the insomnia went away. . .too bad I still haven't had an un-interupted nights sleep since then! Ah, the irony. And this pg I am super tired and sleep like the dead, but again with a toddler who still BFs twice a night. It's so not fair that the last chance I had at good sleep were spent with pg insomnia! But I'll sleep again someday. .. hope you get to enjoy your graduation and time with DH. And don't worry, your love for chocolate will return!
Kelsey--I think they way you feel is totally normal. . .but you're young and healthy and your body was made to do this! The chances of something going wrong are really small. (If you saw/heard the heartbeat already the chance of m/c is only 3% and after 14wks it drops to 1%. . .if numbers help you.) I feel like I missed half of my first pg just worrying that something would go wrong and not letting myself believe or enjoy that I was even pg! So, please try to just enjoy and relax if you can. Once you can feel the baby move it will get so much better! 
I get pregnancy insomnia too. It sucks. It's usually not being able to go to sleep, though. When I get to sleep, I sleep like a log.
sarah_bella1050 get the book Relieving Pelvic Pain during and after Pregnancy Great book. It really helped me during my last pregnancy & the one exercise I remember from it is helping already this time around.
I'm starting to wonder how often family size is linked to severity of morning sickness! I thought I wanted 4 or 5, but I have been feeling so awful this whole pregnancy (my 2nd) that I don't think I can go through this again! And still only 9 weeks...even if this ends with the first trimester, that's still another month...ugh...
Totally OT, but is anyone else not receiving their e-mail notifications from their subscribed threads anymore??
Totally OT, but is anyone else not receiving their e-mail notifications from their subscribed threads anymore??
Yes! I stopped getting any about a week or so ago. Annoying!
Been busy and haven't kept up here well. Trying to keep a toddler entertained and search for a MW is challenging! I have spoken with two good candidates though and will meet with them both hopefully in the next week or so. There are a couple more possibilities too, but there is only so much I can think of at once! So I thought I'd start with the two who seemed the most likely from there websites and location.
My m/s is a little better, but I am so not into food lately. Hungry, but nothing sounds good.
Have my NT u/s three weeks form today and after that we plan to finally bust loose and tell everyone. That will be a relief, it's starting to get awkward not to tell people!
Well, I had to tell my mom last night so she would watch the youngest while we took the oldest to Disney for Thanksgiving (she really wanted to come with us and my old man told me to just tell her WHY we wanted to do it alone). Of course, she was thrilled - my dad, too. I just don't like having people know so early. If it were my choice I wouldn't tell anybody until the kid emerged from me.
Part of the reason why I wanted to keep it on the D/L was because we haven't told our daughter yet...and I *hate* that she didn't know first. It's the birthright of being born in the family to know before everybody else!
Argh... Drowning in final exam madness here... But one cool thing to report: I'm starting to show!!!! (I'm at 10w5d) Three people have told me so, in three different occasions! The funny thing is, now they're all looking at my tummy when they talk to me. It's kind of like when guys used to talk to my boobs when I was a teenager, except now women are talking to my stomach. Cracks me up!
I just told my brother and SIL, they were thrilled. We sent out some cute announcements to DH's immediate family and I already heard back from his youngest sister. Everyone's super excited, so I'm psyched!
kismetbaby - I hear ya on being too busy to hunt for the perfect m/w... Don't you just wish there was that one perfect one, and she showed up at your doorstep?
OK, back to the books... Just four more days and this insanity will be over, and I'll be able to enjoy the rest of my pregnancy in peace!!!
Just a mini-update from me... I had my 12 week midwife appt yesterday, and she found two little heartbeats with the doppler! 
The baby on the left was low 160s, the baby on the right was low 170s. I had/have some concerns about vanishing twin syndrome, so it was reassuring to know that both little babies are still there and doing well.
I'll see the OB for my next visit. At this particular practice, an OB has to deliver twins. I can still have my midwife do all my prenatal care, but the actual delivery, because of its higher risk for emergency c-section, has to be attended by a doc. At least he's a very open-minded doctor, but I'm still sad that my wonderful midwife can't deliver for me again. I talked with them about c-sections and inductions yesterday, and as long as everything is normal and babies and I are doing well, there's no reason why they wouldn't "let" me carry the babies to 40+ weeks. I feel so much better after hearing that. I don't want anyone pushing me about interventions, and those seem to be more likely with a twin birth.
Yeah, I had to open my mouth about the insomnia thing... The past few nights, I don't feel sleepy (though I'm plenty tired 
), and I haven't been able to get to bed til after 12:30. Then, I wake up too early on top of it. *yawn*
I am 12 weeks today, went for my second prenatal bc at the first one 2 weeks ago, we couldn't hear the HB (retroverted uterus). And we heard it today! That made me very happy and now I feel better that all will continue well. I had already seen it at the 8 wk sono, but now I feel like we're almost at the end of the 1st trimester, so more like we're coming out of the danger zone so to speak and I can trust that we won't miscarry again. =)
I also have insomnia, which I didn't with DS at all. For me, I can't fall asleep at night. It takes me over an hour many nights, and if I'm awake in bed, I have to pee like every 20 min, so that makes it even harder. Then DS wakes up at like 6am and I am running on empty all day with only 6 hours of sleep - esp since I wake up 1-2 times a night to pee. Sheesh.
Luckily, the nausea is fading. It's no longer all day, and now seems to be mostly just a bit at meal times or in the evening. Much more bearable.
Hey mama's. I hit 12 weeks today and I am thrilled. At my age (45) the risk of m/c is 50% so I am super happy to be where I am. I had thought my nausea was gone so I stopped taking my unisom/b6 combo on Sat and Sun nights. Well, I felt horrible yday and last night. I took the unisom again last night and then I decided to stay home from work today to make sure I am back on track. I literally cannot do damn thing at work when I feel that lousy.
I got amazing news, too! My sweetie is in Australia, visiting his sister (who lives there). We were all on Skype when they tell me that she is pregnant, too! AND due two weeks after me. I was so happy to hear this. She has a DD, who will be 2.5 when the new baby arrives. I wish I could be there to see the look on his parents faces when they hear that they will be getting two grandbabies in one month! :)
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