Week 6 (GA 4 weeks)

[BakerALM]

Well I think I am one of the first to move to week 6! : Still totally excited and trying not to worry but I have been up the last 2 nights for many hrs just thinking. So many things to think about, especially since I know so much more than I did last time. :

As for symptoms...EXTREMELY TIRED, a bit of a sour stomach, bad body oder, major drop in BM supply (less than 10oz/day) and the look of dead animal is making me sick. Last night I baked a chicken and could barely eat it, the look of the carkus just sitting on the table was almost too much, last pregnancy I went for a few months totally veggie since I could not stand the look of dead animal.

Anyone else moving onto the 6week mark?

[amymaew]

I'm 6w5d today. I'm always starving (could be b/c I'm nursing a 1yo too!) and I always feel like I'm going to puke. Other than that I'm doing ok - not too tired... well, I'm in bed by 7 and get up around 7 so that might help that.

[hyz]

I'm 6w2d, and feeling more queasy each day, I think. I was snarfing down honey roasted cashews through week 4, I bought a whole 'nother can of them, and now the very thought of them makes me want to puke. I think I might have to move to mostly salty food, except for fruits, which are still pretty ok (I can't get enough clementines, although I only ate one so far today and it pushed me uncomfortably close to puking ), and ice cream . I usually eat very little between breakfast and dinner--a granola bar, piece of fruit, and a cup of oatmeal. All that sweet stuff was making me feel awful all week--today I switched to a Tofurkey sandwich, and I'm feeling a bit less green around the gills. I think I might need to go out and get Saltines. And maybe ginger ale? I haven't tried that, but even my morning coffee didn't go down so easy the last 2 days, and the smell of my herbal teas is so unappealing right now, even the ginger tea .

I'm tired, but I don't get much sleep, and this is a stressful time at work, so .

Today DH commented for the first time that I'm looking a little more buxom than usual, which isn't saying much, but I don't mind that he noticed.

[HulaJenn]

I am 6w1d and feel similar. I am hungry all day yet want to throw up. Late afternoon/evening is the worst. I try and munch on saltines because if I let myself get a little bit hungry the nausea is worse. I am tired but not exhausted - although getting motivated to clean the house is more of a chore! But mostly the nausea bothers me.
I am addicted to hot and sour soup at the moment. :-)
The sore boobs continue and I definately notice a size difference (normally a small b cup - I notice a significant amount of cleavage now! LOL)
I can fit into "normal" jeans in the morning but the slightest bloating and eating all day and the evening I look twice as pg!
And I am freezing at night.
There's my whining of the day. :-)

[moonstruck]

Ok, color me confused. Sorry I missed the thread with the dating/counting weeks... have to go look for it. By my best guess I ovulated and conceived on Nov 9th, so then I estimated a due date of Aug 1st from that. So then this is week 6 for me? Hmm.

Anyhow, yes, I am tired and feeling like getting up to get this or that once I am sitting down feels like more of an effort,lol! But not terrible, and I don't get a ton of sleep. One thing that hasn't happened yet is that undeniable tiredness/coupled with GREAT sleep that I had last time I was pg. The greatest thing about that pg was how soundly I could sleep--much of the time I felt like a little kid again, I could pass out--boom and nothing bothered me. Not so much this time, I'm tired but still wakeful at night. Maybe that's b/c having my dd has trained me to NEVER sleep, lol??? and always anticipate having to get up?

Anyway, yup, a lot of stuff is starting to feel like if I look at it the wrong way I could lose it--nausea. But nothing v. bad, NOTHING like last time when I was really crazy my first trimester into the second with nausea and vomitiing. So, not bad at all I'd say!!!

[moonstruck]

Oh yeah, and i am always hungry, but can't eat very much at once really!

[BakerALM]

Originally Posted by moonstruck

Ok, color me confused. Sorry I missed the thread with the dating/counting weeks... have to go look for it. By my best guess I ovulated and conceived on Nov 9th, so then I estimated a due date of Aug 1st from that. So then this is week 6 for me? Hmm.

I Oed Nov 8 and today is the first day of week 6 for me, so I am 6wks and 0days pregnant right, my EDD is July 31. Here is the free software I am using to calculate my EDD, when you set it up you can choose to either use the day of your LMP or O. I used O since I my LMP was actually a M/C and my cycle this month was off but I was VERY confident of my O date.

It is surely confusing, I remember last pregnancy it took me weeks to finally have it all sorted out. :

[PrayinFor12]

Moonstruck, I think that would mean you're exactly 6 weeks today - tomorrow would be 6wk1d. (Tomorrow being the 7th.)

I'd been calling myself 5wk6d - then I realized I was FINISHING week 5 yesterday - durnit! So today I'm exactly 5 weeks.

[Sugarshoc]

I'm 6 weeks and 2 days. I feel soooo tired and the constant undercurrent of nausea. I had my first ultrasound today which was exciting and my doctor saw the heartbeat. When I have moments of energy, I try to pack in all the things I have to do before I crash again.

[hyz]

I love saltines and ginger ale!

I know, I know, old news--but everything else I was trying to keep the nausea at bay was just making it worse. The smell and taste of my ginger tea, candied ginger, various small snacks between meals (nuts, graham crackers, fruit) all made me feel more queasy than before. I broke down and bought a can of ginger ale yesterday, and the nausea disappeared! Today I have some saltines to go with my ginger ale, which I started eating at the first sign of queasiness, and I feel great!

Oh, but I was tired last night. I passed out after dinner--very unusual for me--and took about a 1.5h nap, woke up briefly, and passed out again for the night for almost 6.5h, which is more than I usually get.

But I can't afford to be tired now--I have too much work to do!! :

[mama_at_home]

I am 6 weeks exactly today and due August 1st. I am tired and don't feel like eating lately but other than that, nothing really. Oh and I can't stand nursing right now!

[kris4chloe]

6w exactly today. Just tired and an overall queezy feeling. I am ok if I don't let myself get to hungry or if I dont eat to much. But finding foods I used to love, just not even appetizing anymore.

Breasts definetily filling out, and I can feel how much they hurt in the shower!