My VITEX Journey

:celebrate: Week 5 celebration! :celebrate:
I forgot I can email myself pics off my phone so here you ladies go!!!!

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My view: LOL some of it is definitely my baby bump!

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And here's my June BFP in focus taken with my cell phone I promised!
I then called up my BFF at 11:30 pm hysterically bawling..and I then woke up DH ahh that was a mistake! LOL

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UGh...round ligament pain tonight...OWWIE! around my right pelvic errr hip bone, I think.
It feels weird and it hurts!

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It's moved to the left side now, yup.. definitely what it is! I guess when your body knows what to do, it gets right to work!

regarding HCG levels, they are supposed to about double, but it is not exact. i did not have a heartbeat at 7.5 weeks, and my hcg levels were going up minimally, i was told to schedule a d&C.
eight months later, 8.4 lbs of DS2 was born.

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Originally Posted by Butterfly Spirit

Gosh, nobody should threaten God ever!

Now Babyy hon, there is absolutely no way to know what you are having this early. So, it's your first baby ever? HOW EXCITING! Even if it was a boy, wouldn't you want your daughter to have a big brother to protect her? ;)

I wouldn't start on anything, just be happy you are pregnant, and enjoy it! Oh you are going to LOVE feeling baby inside of you, it is such a FUN time, and is my favorite part of being prego.

As far as hcg .. it's the pregnancy hormone, and it's the indicator on whether you have a viable pregnancy or not

This is from americanpregnancy.org:

Guideline to hCG levels during pregnancy:
hCG levels in weeks from LMP (gestational age)* :

3 weeks LMP: 5 - 50 mIU/ml
4 weeks LMP: 5 - 426 mIU/ml
5 weeks LMP: 18 - 7,340 mIU/ml
6 weeks LMP: 1,080 - 56,500 mIU/ml
7 - 8 weeks LMP: 7, 650 - 229,000 mIU/ml
9 - 12 weeks LMP: 25,700 - 288,000 mIU/ml
13 - 16 weeks LMP: 13,300 - 254,000 mIU/ml
17 - 24 weeks LMP: 4,060 - 165,400 mIU/ml
25 - 40 weeks LMP: 3,640 - 117,000 mIU/ml
Non-pregnant females: <5.0 mIU/ml
Postmenopausal females: <9.5 mIU/ml

I went to get my blood drawn to gage where my hcg is sitting and if it's doubling normally every 48 hours. This was especially important to me after my loss.
So the way it works is...
My first level was 55 so 48 hours later it should be 110..and my next one was 100
depends on the hour you get your betas drawn..you should try to shoot for the same time.

So my beta should have looked like this
Mon: 55:

Wed:100

Friday 200

Sunday 400

Tues 800

Thurs 1600

And so on....

I guess pregnancy brain strikes again damnit... so it should have been 1600 Thur not 800.

I took the beta today because I didn't make it in Thursday.

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If you ladies were in my place.... would you make love to your DH?

The internet says not to until 12 weeks..so that's 6 weeks and a few days from now for me...and some sites say Don't do it at all, and that I think is overboard.

I can't help but be terrified! DH tried his hardest to pressure me into playing around but not going inside...

To me that's like two damn teenagers saying "We'll kiss, but we won't do anything else."

None of my pregnancies ever dragged..but this one... OH YEAH!

My hcg is good, and I took the raspberry to heal and thicken my uterine lining...

So wouldn't that make my situation better? UGH!

Am I just nuts or what? :'(

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Originally Posted by janie

regarding HCG levels, they are supposed to about double, but it is not exact. i did not have a heartbeat at 7.5 weeks, and my hcg levels were going up minimally, i was told to schedule a d&C.
eight months later, 8.4 lbs of DS2 was born.

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Thanks for sharing. :) Yeah medical pros aren't always right, are they!

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Originally Posted by Butterfly Spirit

If you ladies were in my place.... would you make love to your DH?

The internet says not to until 12 weeks..so that's 6 weeks and a few days from now for me...and some sites say Don't do it at all, and that I think is overboard.

I can't help but be terrified! DH tried his hardest to pressure me into playing around but not going inside...

To me that's like two damn teenagers saying "We'll kiss, but we won't do anything else."

None of my pregnancies ever dragged..but this one... OH YEAH!

My hcg is good, and I took the raspberry to heal and thicken my uterine lining...

So wouldn't that make my situation better? UGH!

Am I just nuts or what? :'(

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Wait what!? I have bonked all over this place! Now I'm scared :( was I not supposed to!? Maybe thats why I have excess cramps

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Originally Posted by Babyy Love

Wait what!? I have bonked all over this place! Now I'm scared :( was I not supposed to!? Maybe thats why I have excess cramps

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NOOOOOO you should be fine sweetheart!

I'm talking about me having sex after my M/C!!!! Totally different. Noo, you are FINE! I was completely fine with both of my pregnancies... the orgasms caused one contraction much much later in my third trimester.

Cramps are normal, especially when you haven't been prego before.. your uterus is stretching!!!! :)

Mocha, Atomic, anyone? ;)

HELP!!!!!

I would NOT have sex. You should not have sex if you are spotting, even if you aren't in danger of miscarrying. I would leave everything at peace for now.