Pregnancy Info HOME

Oh yeah... did you get my 10wk. u/s pic i sent you?

Hi Kim, My weekend was great. I saw your little one's 10 week u/s pic. It is nice. I have no cramping at all now. Weekend was nice with very little nausea and I was able to roam around. My doc last week prescribed me with Citracal prenatals, it has vit B6 and stool softner and 1000mcg of folic acid. Vit B6 helps with nausea. Yes, i can't wait either to feel my baby. I have no pain from like past three weeks, so sometimes I don't even feel pregnant. Get scared. but sencond trimester should be nice for us. We need to relax and take it easy. have a nice day today! When is your next appointment? Mine is Apr 4th, afternoon.

Hi Avi... Oye, this has been the worst 4 days of my life with the nausea. My doc. told me to take the vitamin b-6 last visit but I didnt want to. But I called him today and he a__sured me that it would do no harm. So i got b-6 and lots of gatorade. Its seems to be helping. Well atleast the gatorade and i have only taken 1 b-6 tablet. I still have a little cramping at some points during the day. Nothing bad, just minor period like cramps. doc said that is also normal. I didnt want to drink gatorade because of the sugar doc said that since i am not holding any food down that the best thing right now is to concentrate of the b-6 and the electrolites from the gatorade. How are you feeling? I was told that when you finally feel the baby move it feels like b___terflies in your stomach. How weird... i cant wait to feel it. Ok, well i just got in from work and i need to take a nap, i have also been exhausted. Hope all is well, look forward to hearing back from you.

Hi! I am 5 wks p/g. Will be 6 wks on Friday. I got my blood test back on Monday and although my hcg was doubling and in the correct range, my progesterone was only 10.2 The doc put me on progesterone supplements (Prochieve 8%). I started Monday night. Yesterday I went for my first exam and an u/s which showed a gestational sac. Next week I go for another u/s to hopefully see an embryo, fetal pole and heartbeat. I, too had a m/c at 7wks (back in Sept). I have no spotting ( and God knows I check every time I go to the bathroom which is often!) and my big symptoms are frequent peeing, on-off sore b___bs/nipples, and some pms like cramping which is mild and usually turns out to be gas a or a bowel movement (sorry for TMI). I had heartburn last week, but I think i eliminated the foods that were causing it (triscuits, ha, ha!). I was so happy to See your posts ladies because you started out right where I am and you are both going strong ,with heartbeats and and all! I feel much more optimistic. I, too am having a hard time relaxing and enjoying being p/g this time around although I feel much better being on the supplement's My big fear was that it was too ate. BUt reading your stories gives me hope that this baby will be! Thank you both! Good luck, God bless and thank you!

Hi Helene... Thank you for your heartfelt post. I can tell you that this forum really helps me. Sanjavi and I are due 1 day apart and our symptoms pretty much coenside. We help each other out and that is what this forum is all about. I know relaxing is hard, trust me i know. Each time i go in for a u/s i have a panic attack. The first time, i threw up all over the office floor. lol... it was nerves. The second time i was temped to skip it. If not for my husband i would have fainted. I think i might have made myself block out time when he was doing the u/s. But both times were successful and we are hopeful for this next one. Hang in there... you will be ok. Feel free to contact me when you have a question. I am sure Avi feels the same. :) Good luck darlin'

HI Helene, At 5 weeks, you are starting the progesterone just at right time. Wish you all the best for the doc's appointment. first appointment I had to tell my husband to be with me and hold me tight. During u/s I was so nervous that I did not look at the screen at all until the doc mentioned about the fetal pole and a gestational sac. I still get scared wondering if everything is fine with the baby. I think all these worries are normal for parents to be. Your symptoms are exact what I had at that time and my symptoms are continuing. However, I don't have a lot of nausea like Kim.Save a lot of energy for yourself though. First trimester is tiring. My b___sts are very very sore though. Kim do you see blue viens now? Try this it's fun boy or a girl quiz: http://pregnancy.about.com/b/a/165325.htm?nl=1

Hi Avi...I did the game. Mine said its an old wives tale that it will be a boy. What did yours say? Lets see, as for me I still have nausea pretty much all day. Gatorade has helped a little, i think its just that it is so refreshing. The Vitamin b-6 does not seem to be helping. But I am still going to continue taking it. I wanted to ask you, what is your daily diet like? Are you having any cravings? My b___sts are not veiny but they are definatly tender... more in the morning i find. So you have no nausea and no cramping at all. I am so jealous. I still have the nausea all day long... and I throw up atleast 2 X daily. Plus the minor period cramping still which is more prominant in the morning and sometimes in the evening. I think it has to do with pressure of when i have to pee and stuff. Overall though... how are things?

Hi Kim, for me also it said a boy. Let us see, we will know soon. I don't want to find the baby's gender till may be 8th month. I am not sure, if I will have patience. I have cravings for pasta, cake, but sometimes when it is there, I can't eat all. I don't throw up, but feel like it all the time, I think because of heart burn. I take Tums, but no help. I want to get rid of the headaches so bad. What about your spinach and cottage cheese craving? Is it still there? At night I get up twice and it is hard to fall asleep afterwards for one hour or so. What about you? I don't like rice at all. Yup, just very minor cramping compare to the first month. I think also it is becasue of gas, bloating or tiredness. What did you decide about the fetal heartrate monitor? I am gonna order for sure. Do you already know your next appt. time? Mine is on Apr 4th afternoon. That is my mom in law's b'day. We need to buy her something. Today I went for grocery shopping all by myself, so she got upset. In the beginning I felt nice that she doesn't want me to pick up the milk cans and heavy items, but she had to talk about it for the whole day as if something big blunder mistake took place. I feel fine I told her. Also, I told her that I will have to do it when they will be gone and then what? She goes then we can sorta leave now. that bugged me a lot today. I dont' talk like that to anybody, so she should accept things. She is very nice, but sometimes I dunno what comes LOL. Hey, what about s_x? Yesterday, I was so close and soooo wanted it. Oh well. that day will come.

Hi Avi and Helene, First I will start with Helene. Dont get nutz when you see your symptoms disappearing. If you read out posts you will see that mine came and went. Then just as quickly as they went they came back again. I realize that I was a___lyzing every thing that happened to me. Just relax... easier said then done... yes but not impossible. Just realize that your homones do rise and fall during this time. Sometimes your breats will be sore and other days you will be touching them all day to see if they are sore again. Mine were sore one day and not sore the next. I was tired one day and had all the energy in the world the next. The discharge is what happens when a women gets pregnant. It becomes more prominent but it does tapper off. I had it and so did Avi. We were both on progesterone suppliments and had the discharge and the drippy feeling. Totally normal and not just when you are on suppliments. As for the blood test today, go in with positive thoughts. Then tuesday do the same. You U/S will be ok, just try and relax. Well Avi...I know what you mean about wanting the pasta, cakes and snacks but as for me i am in a different boat. If i could eat them i would but when i do i get sick. But when i do feel good enough to eat something like that... well, I have eyes bigger then stomach can possibly handle. I cant eat even 1/2 of what i normally can. maybe 3 to 4 bites of something and I am full to my max. I have no more spinach or cottage cheese cravings... now i crave solice of not throwing up. LOL. I really want one day of not feeling sick. But as long as I know the baby is ok, then i can live with the nausea. I get up 4 X a night. If i go to sleep around 11:30 then i am up at 12:45, 2:30, 5:15 and 6:30. Its very annoying. I think the baby is playing a little game called bladder ball. :) Oh an when i do get up... i dont fall back asleep really, i just fade in a out. I have not had a good night sleep since i was 7 wks. pregnant. Oh well. I still get cramps but they are minor minor minor. Nothing compared to the first few weeks. I know its from pressure down there. But I still get them like 1 time a day for a few seconds. Also, I know what you mean about your mom in law... I have people up my throat telling me what to do, what i should do, what i cant do and what they want me to do. I feel like I am a prisoner in my own home when I am with my husband. I appreciate everything. But between his mom and my mom telling him what I am suppose to do he doesnt let me life a finger and I feel so helpless. I guess I should learn to love it but I cant help but want to do things. You should speak up for yourself... there is nothing wrong with it. It shows that you are a strong and independent women. Oh and About s_x... My husband and i started to fool around the other night, he gave me an orgasim and well i started cramping. So that was the end of that. He now officially will not touch me until the end of my 4th months. But the doc. said that the cramping is normal and that I shouldnt worry. When i told him that... he said that doesnt matter and we will now wait. Oh well, guess thats what I get huh. LOL. Hope to hear from you soon. XOXO

Thanks, Kim! I really needed that rea__surance. I had my blood drawn and the tech looked at the doc's name and said- "oh he is great - he delivered my daughter and I was a high risk pregnancy." I actually have a different doc, this doc had been on call when I went in, but she liked my doc, too. Also, I started to feel a bit tired on the way home from work. I had this craving for nachos, with cheese, refried beans and sour cream and especially tomatoes and onions. So I made some and sat down to relax. I rationalize it by saying, hey it was all homemade, the sour cream was light and beans have lots of folic acid and barely any fat (I didn't fry them in oil, just lightly in their own juice). ANywya, it tasted great but then not long after, I felt kind of weird. When it came time to make dinner, I was so tired (had been relaxing on the couch) that I felt like going sleep, and had no appet_te for dinner (felt almost borderline queasy). Made dinner because i knew dh would be home, and was feeling better by then so I ate some. BUt i am really tired and actually looking forward to going to bed (it is 8pm on a Friday night ! and I am normally a night owl!). Plus, when I got up off the couch, the b___bs felt fuller and while making diner I accidentally brushed something against one nipple and felt a little pain. I was like, okay, so maybe I jumped to conclusions earlier. thanks for all the rea__surance. AS for the s_x thing - right now I am still in that stage where you have no desire, but I know from friends that second trimester is when all the erotic dreams begin. Last time I had just started with that and was just starting to have a s_x drive again before the m/c, so I imagine I still have another two weeks or so before I start with any drive. I have heard thta you can also spot after s_x, so if the cramping freaked out your dh, you might want to warn him ahead of time about the other. Avi - i don't have a MIL- mine is deceased, and we are not close to dh''s stepmother. DH has not been overprotective yet (I sometimes have to remind that I can't do some things), but the other day I was reading about some Irish pub that was being remodeled and opened nearby and I said,"HMM I could go for some Shepard's pie and a nice big Guinness,"and he said, all serious - You won't be having any Guinness for a LONG time!" Duh, like I meant tomorrow! LOL! I rea__sured him that I meant way in the future! So that was hi official first "overprotective dad thing."

Hi Helen and Kim, How are you guys doing? How was the weekend? Mine was the worst. So boring with my migrane type headache and heartburn. I am feeling so sleepy the whole time as if had a sleeping pill. I feel like swimming, but it is so cold. Kim, I hope your nausea wears off soon. Did you weigh yourself yet? I have gained 4 pounds since Jan. With heartburn my appet_te is mostly gone, but don't know how I can still eat during meal times. Sometimes I get afraid that I am not drinking milk/eating yogurt at all. any advice? Kim, you are getting up too much at night. Mine is jsut twice. After going to the rest room, I am so wide awake. Friday, I had such a bad headache that my husband brought the food and gave it to me in the plate. I could has asked for anything that time. I fell asleep, he woke me up and gave me prenatal. Saturday, I got the masage. However, I really needed it. I never had terrible headaches in my life before. I wonder how I would cope pregnancy second time, when I will have another child. I told my husband that we should order the fetal heartrate monitor. He told me in a teasing way that the way I worry we should buy an ultrasound machine. I could not stop laughing. Helen, I wish you all the best for your appointment. Like Kim said...easier said than done, but pls try not to worry a lot. Your baby is fine. I will pray for both of you tonight.

Hello Avi...Oye if i tell you that I totally understand what you are going through. Heartburn is terrible for me today, the headaches I had this weekend and the nausea it guess is NEVER going away. I have it so bad now. I feel for you though, headaches can really suck. Funny you mentioned about another child because I want 4 kids. My husband on the other hand only wants two. After feeling the way I feel, i told him that 2 might be my limit. Oh and about the fetal monitor... i have been seriously thinking about it. i have a fear that what happens if i can not find the heartbeat one night and I totally panic. Not that it wouldnt be there but its not registering correctly. I think I would flip out. I am worried about having a panic attack or something if that happens. What are your feelings on that? Helene I know your appt. is tomorrow. Definately keep us posted and let us know how it all goes. Actually Avi, your appt. is tomorrow to right. Let me know how it all goes. Well, I am gonna make some cabbage soup for dinner tonight. I REALLY want it. :)

Kim, Cabbage soup? Let me know how it turned out for ya? Cabbage especially in pregnancy creates a lot of gas. But try it, we never know, things work differently for everyone. Believe me or not. Since, the last two/three nights I am nto able to sleep thinking that when I go to the doc's office, what if something goes wrong...how will I come home? My life would be nothing...how will I take it...then I start praying pls God, this is all I want...I dunno all these thoughts are normal or I am just too aftraid....My headache just increases and except for my DH I am not able to talk to anybody about it, which is okay. That is all I want. I am just so scared today. I will let you know though. I make myself comfortable thinking that there has been no bleeding nothing, just mild pains and so things should be okay. I dunno why today again I am nervous. Helen, I don't want to make you nervous either, but all the best fr your appointment. This morning when I woke up I remembered you first...thinking... and wishing the best for you. Kim, when is your next appt.? Kim, thanks a lot for sharing my feelings all these days. I also wanted 3 kids, but looks like 2 would be awesome. After, today's appt. ...hope all goes well. I will order the fetalheart rate monitor and keep track of it once in a week. I think it would give us a__surity that all is well.

Avi... The cabbage soup I make doesnt give me gas. Take one large can of tomatoe juice and once large can of water. Bring it to a boil. Add 1/2 head of cabage and carrots (sliced). Cook on med to low heat until carrots and cabbage are soft. Once it is soft take off burner. Add 1/2 cup sugar or spelnda. Its so good. It doesnt give me or hubby gas. But dont eat ma__sive amounts. I know your appt. is today just try and keep calm. I know what you mean about what would you do if something went wrong... however, you cant think like that. Even though its like the pot calling the kettle black coming from me because I have the same thoughts but you have all the cla__sic symptoms. I know in my heart that you appt. will go well. Please let me know how it goes. Helene also let me know how your appt. goes as well. Keep your head up ladies... my next appt. is April 18th and I am sure I am going to need the support then. :) Let me know how it turns out. xoxo

In early pregnancy cramping can be caused in both front and back by the hormone relaxin which stretches ligaments. Your HCG is doubling normally which is good. Your progesterone level is on the low side of normal BUT IT IS NORMAL. You actually cant make a prediction based on one progesterone value because it fluctuates during the day and the test itself is not precise. If you had a progesterone level that couldnt sustain a pregnancy they would tell you. You are in the normal range, relax. There is no evidence progesterone supplementation helps. Many doctors believe low progesterone (and again, your level is still normal) is a sign of a problem, not the cause. The only women helped by progesterone supplements are those with a luteal phase defect who start it after ovulation. Its still controversial but many docs now feel it cant hurt and can only help. Women sing the praises of it if they have healthy pregnancies on it but the fact remains something over 90% of women who had one miscarriage will have a healthy pregnancy after and even among those with 3+ miscarriages, 60-70% will deliver a healthy baby. I tend to feel if youre going to worry alot, better to use the creme. Most common side effects are swollen b___sts, cramps, and spotting but generally its very well tolerated. It does help raise progesterone levels. They give you the creme until close to the end of the first trimester when your placenta will take over and produce progesterone. right now, the cyst you ovulated from, the corpus luteum, is producing the progesterone you need for your pregnancy. Progesterone prepares the uterus and the lining to hold the baby. its quite important. but there is a wide range of normal progesterone values in early pregnancy. hope this helps.

Hi Lisame, Thankx for all the info. Kim and I have stopped using the progesterone about two weeks ago. My doc told me in the 8th week itself to go off progesterone. Yes, but it does help I think. Thanks again