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Hi Kim, Howdy? I forgot to mention about the fetal doppler. I asked my doc about it and he said that once in a week is fine to check for the heart beat, but just don't over do it. Take care gals. When is your next u/s appt? Bye for now.

Hey Avi... Glad to hear all went well with the appt. I got all my blood tests back today and they were all negative. I do not have early gestational diabetes and all my other tests looked great he said. He said that I have perfect hemoglobin level and that I am no where close to being anemic. I also found out that my blood type is O positive. Let see what else... ah you asked about my LMP it was Jan. 6th but my cycles are 28 days apart usually. So the docs told me to calculate it from Jan. 10th because i had been off course with going off all fertility meds and insulin regulators. My due date is still Oct. 17th. Have you started showing yet... you mentioned that the doc measured your belly? Hope to hear from you.

Hi Kim, Good to know that your blood report came all negative. I am also not anemic and my blood group is AB+. I jsut have a little belly, but I do certainly need a loose pants now. How about you? Take care and howz your nausea?

Hi Helene, Howz it going for ya? Must be tired after coming from work. First trimester I was usually very tired, but second trimester is much better. Just frequent headaches are there. Heartburn is reduced somewhat. I have finally started to drink one gla__s of milk daily. Take care. Kim, do you use fetal doppler? Have y ou been able to find the heartbeat? One of my freind said that after the meal when are tummy is sorta full, then it is kind of easy to find it. This time my doc just put his fetal doppler on my tommy and we heart the heartbeat. My DH and I were smiling cuz it takes like forever for us to find the hearbeat. You know this morning I started to think about the baby shower, to which I did not wanna go. However, the next day I called and left the msg...apologizing and wishing them all th best and when the baby will arrive we will visit them. She has not bothered to return my phone call. It kind of hurts me, just tiny bit. But then I think okay she is almost full-term...may be she could be very busy ...I should just let it go and think about good stuff. Just wanted to share you know. You two had given me good support earlier. Thanks. It does help :-). Take care both of you and Helene, when is your due date??? Is it near X-mas? I was smiling thinking about it. I always waned a Christmas baby or a Feb baby. but it is okay, now Kim and I are going to have Halloween babies. Yeah!!!!!!! You both have a good day.

Hi... How are you? Things on my end are ok. This weekend i have had not much nausea at all but have had a ma__sive headache. My heartburn is ok, not as bad as it usually is but it is managable. Avi... as far as the fetal doppler, nope hubby and i have not been able to find the heartbeat yet. Its actually really frustrating. Hopefully i will be able to find it soon. Other wize i might send it back becaue it is really starting to get my nerves going. I really want to be able to hear it but no matter how hard i try, full stomach or empty, full bladder or not... all i hear is my own. I have found my own in 4 different places. As far as the "friend" who has not returned your call... i would not give her the credit of saying she is far along and busy. I would say that she did not have the common curtesy to do what is right. When you are 8 months along and have your shower i am sure you will do the right thing. That is what counts. Know that you know how to treat a friend. You should not let people like that bother you. I have a friend who is going through the same thing with another "friend" but she is really letting it get to her. I spoke to her on the phone for over 2 hours trying to get her to realize that some people in this world are not worth out time no matter how close of a friend they once were. Hang in there... there is such a thing as Karma and your "friend" will get her turn of it. You did the right thing and that is what counts. U mentioned about having a halloween baby... I have a feeling that I am going to have a anniversary baby. My 2 year annvr. is on the 9th of oct. just 8 days before my due date. LOL. But then i think about what I will have the baby be for halloween if it is a boy or a girl. Hummmm decisions decisions. :) Well ladies my head is pounding and my bladder feels like its going to explode. Talk to you soon. xoxo.

:) Looks like I spoke to soon. The nausea is back full force. The weekend was not so bad but early this monday morning it showed up again. :) Hope all is well.

Hey Ladies... Hope all is well. Just checking in.

Hi Kim, Howdy? How are your headaches, I bet they are not as bugger as your nausea. did it subside at all? this is our 16th week. 5th months is also about starting. Meanwhile, I have the worst constipation ever. I am eating very less, mostly soup and metamucil, raisins etc. Stomach cramps are so bad which is sending shooting pain to my thighs. I am gonnal call my doc tomorrow, if all that is normal. i am so bloated that when I lay down, it hurts so mcuh. I will come back again....have to go right now. take carfe

Oh Avi... Trust me when I tell you that I know what you are going through. My stomach is so sore. Feels like all this pressure sitting on the lower part of my stomach. The nausea has not subsided but the headaches are coming and going. I can not beleive it is week 16 already. Almost 1/2 way through it. Hang in there girl. Let me know what your doc says. Have you seen Helene on here? Hope she is doing ok? Did you and your hubby start to tell everyone yet? HOw about your belly... has it poped out yet?

Hi, Ladies! I am sorry I have not posted ina long time. Yes, like you said, I have been SOOO tired that i have only ben posting here and ther on the original site I strated at, and my memory is such swiss cheese that I keep forgetting to check over here (either that, or I am too tired after ipost on the other). The only reason i even checked the other site that often was because I was waiting for one of the girls on it to have her baby (she did on 5/5). ANywya, things are good here - lots of nasesu and I still throw u a couple times a week (probably would do so more often if I didn't resist it so much. I have developed this horrible little gasping cough that sounds like I am going to collapse whenever I feel like I am going to throw up while I am teaching - my studetbs just all look at me like tey expect me to just drop. It's actually pretty funny in retrospect (just not at the time when I think I may just spew in front of them). I had another doc appt on 4/27 and the doc said everything was fine - just did a "bely exam" and looked at the baby with an in office belly u/s that I could barely see anything on (my bladders wasn't full) and he said the heartebeta was there and the baby was moving around. The following Tuesday (last week) I had some of that progesteron residue in the morning and it had a thin stran of black in it - like old bloold. I called the nurse but played phone tag for two days. I got the same thing two days later on Thursday and when I I finally got to talk to the doctor he didn't think anything of it, especially as I was stil puking and naseous and had not abnormal pain or cramping (just gas and the uterus stretching). Then Fridya I woke up and wiped and had a big gob of the residue (that usually happens when I have a bowel movemen- I guess it moves it all down) that was entirely inky black. So Ifreaked out and called the doc who said to come in. Had to wait a while but one of the docs cheked me out and siad that all she could see up there was the normal white residue - no bloold or discoloration. Then she sent me for an intravgainl ultrasound (had to wait two and a half hours before they could squeeze me in!) because she couldn't see anything on the in-office belly u/s which she said was not unusual considering how early (I was 11weeks that day) and my weight (not a skinny girl!). Anyway, the u/s showed the baby with a heartbeat of 150 something and all was fine. I have his/her picture hangiing on the fridge! No issues yesterday (Sat) but today I woke u and wiped and saw the same blackish stuff mixed in with the residue - litlte pinpoints mostly, so I (yes, totaly gross, I know) saved it in a plastic bag and figured I would bring it in to show them tomorrow so they could see whta I am talking about. My only other issue is that I have been having tis pain, not in my belly, but right below my rib cage that comes and goes - it feels like the musce is strehcing or soething. Actually it feels like the day after you do a hundred crunches and your abs hurt. I keep telling myself it is just my uterus stretching, but of course I am so paranoid. HAVe either of you had any thing like that?

Okay - enough with my story - let me actually answer your questions to me and respond to your stuff. My due date is 11/25, Avi. I get constipated, to, here an dthere briefly because I am eating so horribly due to the m/s. Green veggies (and many others0 make me retch so I am having hard time getting enough fiber. I was doing well with carrots (which helped move things along!) but then i tossed them one night while brusing my teeth, so I can only eat them early in the day. Tomatoes & sauce are good and I swear I eat spaghetti or pasta almost daily. Maybe you ned more fiber in your diet, too. Kim - the seas band did nothing for me. DId I tel you that one of my studnts actutually knew what tey were for and asked me why I was wearing them? I haven't since because I didn't find them to make a difference. I keep saying I am going to stop by Babies R Us an buy those preggie pops on my way hoem from work, but it is not on the way home so I keep forgetting. Is your pressure from constipation or your uterus stretching? I get some pain on my lower left which is usually due to gas and sometimes form constipation. Hey, Avi - I am so with Kim on that "friend" - I wouldn't worry about it. Avi - my doc ordererd a milion tests too - genetic stuff I would never have even considered all the way to toxoplasmosis (we have two cats) - and I just got those results back on 4/27 and all was good. I agree that it is so much better to be safe than sory. Okay, ladies, take care! Hope all is still going well with you. I am so happy to hera that are both so helathy (depiste garbage like m/s and constipation!) as you give me hope and you are both such nice women! Take care!

Hi Ladies...Helen, Nice to hear that everything for the most part is ok. I can totally understand about the nausea, tiredness, and couching... If you read the posting I had a severe cough when i was still in my first trimester. Actually it lingered for a while. I would cough, then gag, then throw up. It was horrible. Now i throw up with out the gag or the cough. I dont know what the black residue is from neither Avi or I had that... however, I am sure that if you doc did not seem worried then U shouldnt worry. I know I had some clotted hemridge when I went for my sonogram one time and the doc said it may come out in a clump or two. Nothing ever came out and when I went for my next sonogram... it was gone. Just please try and remain calm. As far as the seabands i can say from experiene its a crock. It does not work. The preggie pops are mind over matter as with anything to help with nausea. But I am almost at week 17 and its still there everymorning no fail. Its become part of my daily routine. Honestly though... I am so sick and tired of being sick and tired. I now know what that saying means. I know when this is over and done with that it will be well worth it. Hang in there... We all need to stay strong. Avi...I still have not found the heartbeat on the home doppler and its actually started to p__s me off. It makes me so pensive and my heartbeat speeds up. We have found mine in 4,5,6 places. But i have high hopes that on monday 5/15 my next appt. the doc with tell me all is still going well. It could be because I am not a skinny girl by any means. I have some cushening. :) Do you have the cantalope shape under your belly b___ton when you lay down. That is the only way I can tell that I am starting to show. Also, my whole body shape has changed. I am just expecting to wake up one morning and for my belly to be huge. :) Well ladies... I gotta run to a meeting and then home to eat some din din and go to sleep. Hope to hear from ya both. XOXO

Hey Ladies... My appt. was moved up until today. My doc. had some a double booking and they called and asked if i wanted to come in early. Hope all is well. I hope my appt. goes well and that the baby is growing. :) Feel good ladies.

Hi, Kim! WHen is your doc appt? I am sure you said, but I couldn't find it. I am much better. The pain went away finally and i am certain itw as just my uterus tretching . Yesterday i wore apair of pannts that fit last week and I couldn't b___ton them while sitting down. By the end of the day, my zipper broke. Ha ha! So I guess I was pushing the limit with that pair! My friend said to buy maternity pants but it is so early and I am in between my clothes and maternity clothes. Think I may just buy some more elastic waste pants or a size up. Today is officially 12 weeks, so I am very happy! Now I am officially into the second trimester! Yippee! I thought the nausea was better, too and then on Wednesday I had a major barfing fit that monring - it made me late for work. Had a battery acid taste in my mouth all day. Today was a great day, almost nothing at all. Hope this keeps up. The coughing I mentioned isn't real coughing - I just get this horrible urge to puek and I start coughing to sort of cover up the choking I do as I try to hold back from projectile vomiting across the cla__sroom. I end up sounding like i ma about to die, which is probably very bizarre and comical to watch, but trust me I am not laughing at the time. I haven't had the black stfuff since SUnday when I had a teeny bit so I am feeling good. Yeah, no one else who toook the supplements had that either, I just think there some minor bleeding and it just dried up there and got absorbed by the progesterone residue (that stuff is like tissues!). Kim I really hope your m/s stops soon. You certainly have had more than your share of it. I wouldn't worry about the doppler - having a little cushioning can make it harder to hear. MY doc couldn't hera the hb in office yet because it is early and I have plenty of cushioiing myself - that is also why they had to do the intrav____al u/s to see the baby's heartbeat. Now I have the litle munchkin's pic up on the fridge. Do either of you ladies have any hunches as to whether you are having a girls or a boy? I was 100% convinced girl for the firts few weeks, now I am backa nd forth. My mom and sister were both like- girl, definitley girl at first, and now they both say boy. Two friends at work were saying the same thing. It is so funny. Take care ladies - have a greta weekend!

Hi Helene... My doc. appt. was suppose to be on tues. of next week but the doc. had doubled booked and moved me up til yesterday. Everything went well. They were able to find the heartbeat on their office doppler. My husband just thinks we were doing it wrong. Its possible because we both never really did it before and the CD they send should be more indepth. But as long as the doc. was able to find it I am a bit relieved. I am going to find out the s_x of the baby on 5/31 at my 3 D sonogram. I am hoping it cooperates and lets us find out. I didnt think I would be this anxious but now that I am 2 wks. away from 20 wks. I am getting more and more ancy to find out. I am glad to hear that your cramping went away... I am sure it was the uterus stretching. Avi and I both had that. We had it more towards weeks 15-16 though. It really truely depends. The ones I had felt like sharp pains down my lower tummy to my thighs. The earlier cramping I had was very light period cramps almost. I have not really felt the baby move I dont think. I really dont know what I am looking for. In the past two days I have been feeling what I think can be the baby moving but I wont know until it is more prominent. I wouldnt worry to much about the residue... so many weird things are goign to happen to our bodies. And this is just the start. I am glad you nausea is starting to tapper off. Mine is still going strong but it has become part of my everyday routine. LOL.. I have a feeling it is going to last all the way through. But I know in the end it will be worth it. As far as a hunch on what s_x it is... NOPE. Sometimes I think its a girl. other times i think its a boy. Either way I would be happy. I just am anxious to find out so I can start shopping. I love to shop for baby stuff... just not stuff for me. Of course I wont shop until I am like 8 months though. Anyways, gotta run for now. Hope things are going well and that you have a great weekend. Glad to hear from you and keep in touch.

HI, I am so glad I found your thread. I am about 6 weeks pregnant and started progesterine suppositories today because may level is 6...which is low...but it did go up from 3. I had heavy bleeding about 2 weeks ago for 4 days and have been spotting ever since. I am a nerous wreck. I lost my baby girl at 23 weeks to potters syndrome and now this. I am so nervous and am trying to stay positive but it is soooo hard. ANy words of wisdom or encouragment will be a great help. Thanks!