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I just read on my pregnancy calender on another site (ivillage)that when you are pregnant your sinuses swell to try and prevent germs from entering into out systems. Keep this in mind girls before you try to zap the stuffy feeling in your sinuses with meds. Hope you all have a glorious day...P.S. I am feeling very nauseas today :(. No more spotting for 5 days now..YAYYY! Also, once you have heard the heartbeat you only have a 5 or 10% of miscarrying. So girls...we could very well have keepers here :)...our odds are getting better by the day! TTYL Kristin :)

Kristin - I'm sooooooooo glad you're sounding better today - and that's even with the nausea. Wonderful news! MellyMel - thanks for spreading the positive vibe. We all need to boost each other's confidence as much as we can and your post really did that for me! I'm feeling great today. The sun has come out for the first time this spring today and yesterday so it's been salad in the garden for two days running. I'm really beginning to look forward to the summer and to being able to relax in the sunshine (shade!!) and contemplate life. Wonderful stuff!!

Kristin~So happy to hear your spotting has stopped! YAY! Hopeful~Yes, it is great stuff indeed!! How are all our other ladies? Kristin~I also think all of us on this board definately have keepers!!

Christa: thanks so much for the helpful website. I'm bookmarking the site so I can use it again. ***Melly: love your enthusiasm!! I'm more sore in the b___b area too esp around the nipples. ***Kristin: I like those odds, makes me feel good! ***Looks like a few of you are loving the nice Spring weather. Enjoy! I'm continuing to take the safe OTC allergy pills which means I'll be sleeping most of the weekend. Ha! I'd rather sleep than sneeze. I'll be better/happier once Summer is here. Have a nice weekend, everybody!

Spoke too soon..spotted a little last night :( I just wish I knew why. Spotting can always mean something is not right..any blood is never good...have an appointment with the gyno next week..maybe he can shed some light. Kristin

Dear Kristin, sorry to hear about the spotting. I spoke to my mum yesterday and she said she spotted all the way through her second pregnancy but gave birth to my very healthy brother who is very successful and has two kids of his own so I'm sure you have nothing to worry about. Just take it easy!

Kristin: the advice nurse at my prenatal information session told us that spotting during pregnancy is normal but she also said that bleeding (where the blood is flowing from you) as opposed to light spotting is not normal. I know it's frustrating to see any amount of blood and I would want to be more closely monitored too. But I hope you can take a little comfort in knowing that you are spotting and not bleeding. My mother also told me that she spotted continuously for several months during her last pregnancy before she gave birth to my brother who's perfectly healthy and is now 25 years old. Take care and God bless.

Thankyou Perl and Hopeful for helping me cope with my spotting. It does make me feel better that many women do spot during pregnancy. I just have a mini heart attack any time i see a hint of colour when wiping. I am trying to remain positive..still feeling pregnant that's for sure!! Let you know how my appoinment goes next week. XO Kristin

kristin, I too am spotting. My spotting seems to be a little every day now, atleast for the last 3 days. It is always old blood too. I am not too concerned about it anymore for some reason. Good luck at you appt and I also hope your name/housing arrangements are calming a bit too.

Hi gals - I left a message on the old thread before I realized there was a new one -- (had the old thread bookmarked.) So I won't repeat myself. But glad to hear everyone sounding so positive! Sorry about the spotting Kristin and Christa - but, as you've heard, it can be normal - just have it checked out and don't stress too much. Melly - your trip to "Clam Haven" sounds wonderful! Yummy! I love lobster anytime, and am kinda bummed that it is on the "no no" list! But haddock and scallops - mmmm...my mouth is already watering! LOL! ~ HappyGal - congrats on hearing the heartbeat! YAY! ~ Kristin - also my first child, and after years of independence it's a little intimidating to know I'll be a mom, but it's all good. Take care everyone!

well...not feeling too pregnant. As a matter of fact last night I felt like I am no longer pregnant. My head has been clearer then it has for a long time and it seems what was my pooching belly is less poochie now. I have also spotted (brown) every day for 4 days now. It hasn;t been a lot, just enough to make the panties dirty. I have an appointment Wednesday. Guess I'll find out then if my pregnancy is still viable or not. If I have lost the pregnancy I won't be able to discuss it with my mother for a few weeks. She is leaving for Europe at the end of the week for 3 weeks and I hate to have her be thinking about it while she is away. I wonder how dh will handle it...and telling my son...I might be putting the cart before the horse here but I am pretty in tune with my body. With my prior mc I knew when it ended before I had my d&c also. Part of me however wonders if this is a coping mechanism for me "just in case" Thanks for letting me rant. Bye

Christa, you're preparing yourself for the worst when your Dr. may prove you wrong on Wednesday and tell you that everything is fine. Please wait until your Dr. confirms this until you give up all hope. Can you at least to talk on the phone with someone in your Dr's office about this so they can give you more insight? Brown blood is old bleeding as opposed to fresh bright red blood right? Wouldn't this indicate that you are no longer bleeding? Hopefully you will be able to give your mother good news instead before she leaves for Europe. By the way, my stomach looks flatter too and pants are fittting regularly again. I'm guessing that it's because I'm less bloated and less ga__sy. Please let us know how it goes.

Also, even if you were bleeding bright red blood it does not necessarily mean that the pregnancy is over. You can't really know whether you've miscarried until you see that ultrasound or unless God forbid, you see large amounts of blood and clots pa__sing which is not the case. Please stay positive.

Well, this must be the forum for brown blood, because now I"VEGOT IT TOO!! It's not alot, just when I wipe usually. CHRISTA~I'm sure you are fine hun, please don't worry or think the worst just yet o.k. Otherwise you will get me thinking and then all of us thinking negative and we will all need a new thread~Paranoid Mommy's! Good luck with your appointment on Wedneday and I hope the doctor verifies it is nothing.

Kristin and Christa: I've been spotting, too....a streak or two of bright red on the toliet paper. My doctor said it's totally normal, that cervix is tender at this stage and that ANYTHING can irritate it...constipation, lifting, anything, really. So try not to fret, I know it's difficult, my heart jumps everytime I see it, too.....but soooo many women have this. Kristin: I KNOW your are worried, I KNOW you think it's over, this is what happens to us after we experience a miscarriage. I'ts just the minds way of trying to prepare for the worst. Listen. Symptoms come and go...the other night my nausea just stopped out of the blue and my b___bs didn't feel sorry and I thought the same thing....oh my gosh, I'm not pregnant anymore. Sure enough, the very next morning, I woke up with sore b___sts and feeling like I"m going to puke. Wiith miscarriage, the symptoms stay gone and or get less everyday...and spotting and red blood come AFTER. I think you are just fine.....also, I was told that the Plantentia can begin taking over very early in some women.....my doctor has me going off progesterone next week. I'll only be 10 weeks, he said, "you're placentia is in full swing by then, you don't need it. " He's a world-wide expert reproductive endoctinologist, I think he knows what he's talking about. So, while I respect that you have a "feeling" you're not pregnant anymore....know that I've had that feeling about 10 times so far, and everytime I've been wrong....every ultrsound I expect them to say....."can't find the heartbeat," or " no growth," or whatever. It's just our minds....it's not reality. So you have 2 more days before you'll get an ultraousoud, right? Try to suspend judgment unitl then, if you can. It will be more healthy of you and what I suspect is your thriving little one :).

Thankyou Happy Gal for your words for both Christa and I. Christa~please try to remain optimistic. I know exactly how you are feeling. I wake up thinking my b___bs are not sore enough, or maybe the the pregnancy feelings I have are only a full stomach from eating..not pregnancy. Like you said, it is just our way of preparing ourselves for the worst. I am trying to remain optomistic ..but in my heart I think there is no way I will carry this baby to term.. absoloutely no way. When you have been hurt before like I have been with a loss at 14 weeks..your hopes and dreams just go out the door. I had a seemingly normal pregnancy last time too..until at 14 weeks they told me the heart stopped beating. I don't think I will ever feel "safe" in my current pregnacy. Even after I heard the heartbeat via the doppler last week..I thought well I have continued to spot so maybe the baby has died since then. I hope to get enlightened and encouraged after my next appointment. Plus... I am hiding this pregnancy from so many people that I feel like a liar at times..and I don't like to live my life like that. I am afraid to jinx myself again and have to explain to people that I have lost this one too..the shame I felt was almost unbearable last time. I did not spot today...but I did all day yesterday ..so weird.. Hope everyone else is doing well and Mel~ I hope your spotting is nothing..has it stopped?..it's funny but I am just more positive about other pregnancies than my own...I think you will be just fine!! Take CAre Kristin