Welcome Mamas! - Page 2

[heathenmom]

Checked mine today and it's pretty high, but more firm than soft. I really think it varies from woman to woman. Best to you ... hopefully you'll get your bfp quick!

[koofie]

Mine has been fluctuating - lower in the am and higher in the pm, but not super high, as I can reach it. There are times when I just can't feel a thing! The worst thing about the tww is that it is usually too early for pg symptoms, or the symptoms are similar to AF. For me, the biggest clue was that I started obsessing about being pg, and I hadn't for the previous two cycles. I usually don't put much stock in my own intuition, but I "knew" I was pg, and now I "know" it is a boy. When I was pg before I miscarried, I "knew" it was a girl, but the m/c was too early to tell. I didn't have these same feelings with DD. Weird. I'm guessing it is because this time I got pregnant with the right person.

I'm sorry I couldn't help more. I had never really felt my cervix before I got pg, so I don't know what mine normally feels like.

I have a question: If the cervix is closed with a mucus plug, how does it still produce more mucus? I have had creamy or sticky cm almost everyday since I ovulated. I very rarely had dry days ever, but I was surprised that I was still producing cm. I never noticed stuff like this when I was pg with DD!

[jecaly]

hi! looks like i'll be joining you guys too--due on april 3, according to whatever internet calculator thingy i just used. my daughter is 20 months old, and we're so excited! we had an accidental pregnancy and miscarriage about 3 months ago, but this one already feels so different. grapejuicemama, those twinges and crampies are my most dependable sign (well, that and the constant peeing). crossing fingers for you!

yay yay yay...

*j

[koofie]

Good morning and w: !

I also had a m/c 3 months ago. I am anxious, but telling myself everything will be fine because I don't want to add to my stress. I have noticed a number of people on this and the march ddc who had m/c about 3 months ago. I wonder if that is the optimal time after a m/c to get pg? Sorry, just the musings of someone with time on their hands.

Congratulations again!

Edited to add: Please, everyone who has come to join our ddc, please post on the roll call sticky! It is a great way to see who our fellow April ddc members are

[Millie Ivy]

Hey all!

So....Unimaginably....Tired........today. I have been passing out at 10pm and getting up at 5:30-6:15. Seriously cannot sleep later than that. So this a.m. I got up and walked. I have played with the kids a very tiny bit, cleaned the kitchen, helped clean ds room, made a couple phone calls and taken care of the infant I nanny for. And I feel like I need to go to bed RIGHT NOW.

My oldest and my best friends oldest are at girl scouts right now, the younguns are all here, watching A bugs life while I eat edamame and suck down my 5th glass of water for the day.

So Hot.

TX summers suck.

Other than that, life is lovely! Best friend brought me a congrats gift, a little cutesy outfit from Old Navy. Yay!

[CarolynnMarilynn]

Mine is high and soft in texture, but it is very closed. Hope that helps.

Carolynn

Originally Posted by grapejuicemama

Hi ladies.

I haven't got a positive yet. AF is due on Sat. or Sun.

I have a TMI question for you.

If you check your CP is it high and soft, now that you know you are pregnant?

Everything I've read says that the cervix will drop and firm up again after O, but mine is WAY high. It was totally different last month.

I'm also getting lots of twinges and dull crampies (I know that sounds cutesy, but they really can't be described as "cramps" just lil' crampies).

I REALLY want to join the April DDC and my EDD would be Easter Sunday, April 8th.

Anxiously awaiting your responses........

[mother_sunshine]

Hi Mamas, I've been watching this thread for the past few days. I had a very faint positive but not dark enough to say bfp.....until today. I got a BFP !!! :

My "duedate" is April 6. I'll post in the roll call too arismomkoofee.

I don't ever again want to see a thermometer in my mouth first thing in the morning before I am fully awake, nor a pee cup and ovulation/pregnancy pee stick while taking my temp, or to feel my cervix and guess where it's at and how it feels, nor to scrutinize my fertilityfriend chart and wonder when and if.......AHHHHHHH!!!!!! (huge sigh of relief!!!)

I also lost a baby in May, at 10 weeks. I will never forget, that baby will be in my heart always. I'm going to try to fully enjoy my pregnancy and not be worried (what good would it do anyway).

[megan sacha]

Hi everyone. We're so thrilled to be posting here having just gotten our first ever BFP today after 8 tries. Still so very much in shock. Wow. :

[pottermama]

Congradulations to all the new mamas! Here is some sticky dust Let's pray for sticky babies! Anyone who has lost a pregnancy, there is a great thread called Pregnancy after a Loss. There is great support there for all the what ifs! Hope all is well!

[CarolynnMarilynn]

Welcome to everyone and congratulations to the new posters!

[juliaaaah]

Hey mamas!

I'm Julia, and I JUST got a faintfaintfaint line this morning. So faint. But definitely there and pinky. Due date is approximately April 8th.

I live in San Diego, this is our first. We've been trying for 5 months.


I'd also like to get some sticky tips, especially because I did a lot of hippie-tricks to try and counter a perceived short luteal phase. I know that luteal phase defects are often linked with low progesterone levels.

And I'd also like to let grapejuice know that I'm also having lots of twinges and mini crampies. I've been like this since O, give-or-take, however.

My chart:
http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/12fe34

and me, self-portrait in Yosemite:
http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/12fe34

Hot damn!

[RobynFSU]

What are those crampy twingies?? I had a very faint line this am, not enough to be convinced yet. I plan on trying again tom. I have had those crampy twingy feelings and having been peeing non stop!! I was hoping to catch my 1st pp egg and from my charting I'm thinking we did.

Any sticky tips for nursing moms?? I saw someone post about lab work??

Lurking from ttc while nursing...

[grapejuicemama]

Well, I guess I was right about my cp being off track!

I'm definitely pregnant! SOOO EXCITED! My CP is still so high I can't reach it. I won't be checking anymore now, though.

Juliah, we share the same EDD! Easter Sunday! I have a Halloween baby, so it would be kind of funny to have an Easter Baby. My first was due on Father's Day, but came a week before!

[grapejuicemama]

Originally Posted by RobynFSU

What are those crampy twingies?? I had a very faint line this am, not enough to be convinced yet.

Robyn-I'm pretty sure that the crampy twinges are your uterus and the ligaments supporting it stretching.

Mine are quite painful this time around, went they weren't at all with my first two.

Oh and as I've learned 6 tests later, a line is a line!

Congratulations! You're pregnant!

[peacechief]

I'm joining in!

I poas Monday night & Tuesday morning & got bfps both times - then got the "official" word from my family doc last night According to her, I'm due around April 6, but she was using the wheel, not going by when I actually ovulated - according to ff, it's 4/11. Either way, I'm so pumped!

I'm still scared, though - this is my first pregnancy, and I'm afraid to be too excited about it in case I m/c - I'm having to deal with my excessive worrying - trying to just be excited, since like a pp said, you can't do anything about it anyway.

I've had some crampy twinges, too - and pressure/pulling feelings, too.