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Congratulations Abc [emoji173] What a beautiful scan and look at your gorgeous beans [emoji7]
Thanks ladies :) I feel more positive about things, at least for now LOL! I was very nervous this morning but really calm on the drive to the doctor - really felt that God was telling me over and over that they were both OK!!
Kitten I'm ok I get nauseated when I'm hungry and I'm pretty hungry most of the time now!! But most foods still don't sound/taste good so that's tough. I'm wondering if part of all that is a result of doing LE for so long... I feel like my body is not used to or not wanting to eat more! I've had headaches too!! Glad your symptoms are picking up!!!! While not pleasant they can be reassuring :)
Mamabird I think we'll find out genders but I'm not sure when. Thinking of waiting until later in the pregnancy so I can just focus on getting them to the point of viability first since I'll be at higher risk of preterm birth and I'm sooooo scared of that right now.
I don't know if Ramzi "works" with twins (we all know it's been debunked anyways!) but they are both located right in the top center of the sacs which is interesting! I've already decided that since the one with the slower HB measures just the tiniest bit larger than the other that maybe that's a boy and the other a girl LOL! That's based totally on unproven OWTs of course!!!!
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My RE told me today they want to see it above 120 by 7 weeks, so if your scan was right at 6 weeks you have plenty of time for it to get above 120 by 7 weeks!! It will increase each day. I think 97 sounds good for 6 weeks!!!Quote:
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Thanks and congrats again! It’s so scary growing people!
:heart: gorgeous pics ABC :) so happy to see both your little beans doing so well, ive always secretly wanted twins i think they are so amazing!!
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Wauw ABC! Whats soo beautiful !! Congrats 🎈
Abc congrats so happy for u:HH:
So yesterday was my day off work and I didn’t wear my sea band. Man, I was so miserable. I do really think it helps me. I put it on to sleep & have worn it since. I can feel a bit of nausea but nothing compared to yesterday. I’m definitely glad I found something that works without meds. How’s everyone else dealing with this first trimester?
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Hannah I may have to try one of those Seabands if my nausea gets worse. I think I used one with DS1 but I can't remember if it helped that much. Have you tried Preggie Pops? They sell them at Target in the pregnancy test section. I've never tried them but I got some for my friend who is pregnant when she was really sick (she had HG) and she loved them and said they helped. I may have to try those too. Although my nausea is not terrible yet... I mainly just feel gross a lot of the time and hungry. My fatigue - which wasn't that bad this past week - has been hitting me hard again since last night. I slept like 9/10 hours last night and then have already had a 1.5 hour nap today and I still feel tired.
Does anyone use those pant extender things or a belly band to be able to wear your jeans/pants longer? Do they work well? My pants are already getting a little tight. The doctor yesterday warned me that I would be getting big fast this time.
Sorry so delayed! No wifi still and awful cell service!!!!! The past few days my exhaustion has picked up. My hunger isn’t very high and nothing sounds good either. I have waves of nausea but nothing too bad. I almost worry I feel too good, if that makes sense. I have my first appointment a week from Wednesday. Fingers crossed all goes well.Quote:
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I also swear I’m already showing. When I suck in all the way as hard as I can there’s a bump?! I’m only 6 w 4 d or 7 weeks (I still haven’t picked what date to go by hahaha).
I am so so so excited to see these babies!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep those u/s pics coming ladies! Can’t wait for WiFi so I can actually check in more frequently than once a week!
I’m on Phenergan, I have Preggie Pops, idk if they work but they’re tasty LOL. I’ve ordered a seaband but it’s not here yet. I’m always hungry but no cravings and nothing sounds good, typical boy complaint I believe so that has me a bit bummed. This is my u/s but I’ve got another coming up. Attachment 39715
Oh and I am totally showing! I was thin (100 lbs) so even after a big meal I typically looked pregnant, but now I just look huge! I’ve been using a hair tie on my pants, but I finally caved and ordered some maternity pants just so I’d be more comfortable.
Pretty, cute little nugget you got there!!
ABC, I did the hair tie trick where you just extend the button hole and it worked for me. But let’s just be honest, I love maternity clothes. I just think they are so comfortable. So the faster I can just skip to those, the better. [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]
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Such lovely pictures ABC and Pretty! So special!
Looking forward to seeing all of the ultrasounds. Think I'm only going to have a dating scan on the 9th of July. I'm not sure why it's in so long. Both other times I've gone at 8 weeks but I'm already nearly 7 so that seems like a long way away.
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Abc have you heard of the Hair band trick?! Google it, made my jeans last much longer :D it’s a lifesaver!
Sea bands and lemon water helped me.
You all are lucky to get early scans, in the UK we have to wait until at least 12 weeks and don't get to hear the hb until 16!
Loving these scans girls! I can't wait for mine in 4 weeks!
My nausea is getting worse just like with my sons although it has started earlier this pregnancy. The one symptom which is very different this time is headaches night and day- not splitting but dull? Very noticeable that's for sure! Anyone else had these?
I'm the same Simkan no early scan this time just a viability scan before my nipt at 9 weeks. It's booked for the 12th of July so not long after yours!Quote:
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I've had these and never did with DD, so I was hoping it was the boy OWT I'd heard about, but since I know none of this truly has anything to do with gender, I think we're all getting ourselves worked up! Especially the nausea one -- ladies remember something like 80% of pregnancies HAVE MS and nausea! And 80% of pregnancies are not one gender :PQuote:
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I'm holding out on the maternity wear! I'm definitely feeling tight and had to start wearing my "fat" shorts. I have maternity shorts but I know those kind of accentuate the bump, and I'm still trying to hide this awhile longer! But I'm definitely unbuttoning after meals haha.
Next scan tomorrow at 11w5d! Nervous as always!
That totally makes sense! I even posted about it, haha. I am 12 weeks this week and can't believe it. With DD, it dragged because of how nauseous and controlling my food aversions were. Now I practically forget I'm pregnant outside of the boob changes and my clothes not fitting. And my hips D:Quote:
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Thanks ladies for the hair tie trick!! I'll try that!!! I guess it probably wont work for too long.. I've been reading about twin pregnancies the past couple of days and it sounds like I'm going to get really big really fast :( Pretty worried about that!
Kiku glad you are feeling pretty well and that you have a doc appt scheduled!! Your symptoms sounds pretty similar to mine and I'm carrying twins so I wouldn't worry too much!
Pretty yay for your upcoming ultrasound! How far along will you be when you have that? Cassidy is yours today? I know it was this week - let us know!
Kitten and TP - I've been having headaches too, and nasal congestion. My sinuses suck anyways but I think the pregnancy hormones are making them even worse. I think it may just be my sinuses causing the headaches... who knows.
TP can't wait to hear about your next scan!! It will go great!!!
Yes mine is this morning! I’m in the waiting room right now :) I forgot how much I hate having to have a full bladder!
Mine is Thursday! So excited! Good luck Cassidy!
Not a lot of headaches here, but oh the sinuses! It’s like rubber cement!
Oops, and it’ll be 8 weeks for me. Seems like sooooo much longer left to go!
Cassidy, I totally understand the full bladder thing. I told her sorry, I had to go #2 and there was no way of holding anything in during that potty break. So mine was empty. Totally empty.
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I got to empty after they got some abdominal pictures and before the vaginal one, thank goodness! I told her I might pee on her if I didn’t go lol �� everything went great! I measured 6 weeks 6 days and baby had a heart rate of 112bpm.
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Such a cute bean Cassidy!
ABC I've upped my water intake and my headaches have really eased since yesterday- maybe it was dehydration for me? I also woke up to no nausea? Anyone have disappearing then reappearing symptoms this early on? I'm 6 weeks today.
I hear you on the nasal congestion too- so weird!
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I agree Tp I truly don't think symptoms predict gender but it is natural to compare symptoms in past pregnancies to now to try and find differences.Quote:
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and I have since upped my water intake and my headaches have eased so it was dehydration not gender related haha!
Kittendreams, yeah I've been having symptoms coming and going. Was feeling some nausea every afternoon and haven't had any the past 2 days which has me a little worried. Though it was very little nausea to begin with.
I also on Saturday and Sunday had a really bad pain in my ribs. Felt like a stitch which I hadn't had with my other pregnancies. I thought maybe this one was growing quite high up maybe but it seems to have subsided.
Definitely feeling the tiredness. My four year old asked me to lie with him at bed time last night. I past out with him at 7, woke up at 10:30 went to prepare the kids school lunches and went straight back to bed and still struggled to get up this morning:/
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I had that with this pregnancy so far (when i had symptoms at all) and I definitely remember that with DD. It seemed like every time I panicked about my nausea going away with her, I'd get twice as much the next day (or even a few hours later!) ;)Quote:
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And in other news, just received an outrageous bill from my endometrial biopsy in DECEMBER. 700!!! I'm so stressed. I feel so haunted by these losses at every step of this process it seems. We had even met our deductible so now I'm even more confused why insurance hadn't covered the procedure.
TP, you can always have the office resubmit to insurance. Also, you can apply for assistance if it’s unreasonable. We had to do payment plans with our last babe and had unexpected costs come up and ended up with an outrageous bill. We finally got that paid off. But a payment plan was the only way.
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Okay ladies. We have exactly 10 people in our lives who know about this pregnancy. We are a little scared to announce it to family, being as this is our 5th little love and they just begged us to stop at 3. [emoji51][emoji51][emoji30] We plan on telling them at 12 weeks. We’re tempted to wait until I just can’t hide it any longer. but here’s the thing, I kinda want to make it memorable. So do y’all have any ideas? And I guess after announcing it to family, how do you announce the 5th?!? I mean, do people just expect you not to announce it? Haha, can you tell we don’t think this one will be positively received by many?
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Wonderful Cassidy!! Congrats!!!!Quote:
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TP that's so stressful! I have no suggestions as things work a bit differently in my part of the world but maybe give them a call and see if it should be covered.
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I totally think a memorable (memorable for you atleast) announcement is always nice. 1st baby or 5th baby or 10th baby it's always a celebration.
Do you mean an in person announcement or social media announcement?
I saw this cute thing on pinterest. It was done like a movie poster. I'll try upload a picture of it. It made me chuckle. If we end up with a "surprise " after this baby I think I'll do something like it.
In person I don't really know for a 5th... only have done a second baby so far and I had my son ask family members to read him the book "there's a house in mummy's tummy ".
I'm sure they will all be excited when you announce it.
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Oh, I know :( I'm stressed because we're already doing so any payment plans for everything else still! (Still paying off the IVF waste of time; still paying off the scans FOR IVF; still paying off the bloodwork!). Now a whole other huge bill to pay every month if I can get this split up :/ And I'm also constantly stressed since we still haven't paid all of the genetic testing yet for IVF -- I keep dreading that bill.Quote:
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Insurance paid SOME of it, which is why I'm like, "Wait... we should only have had to pay 10% max." I'm going to call insurance today, but that's always such a frustrating process as I'm sure my fellow Americans know haha
As for announcing -- I think it's wonderful you still want to do something special! Just because it's number 5 doesn't make baby any less special!! I wonder if you could think of things that come in 5s and do something fun with that. I thought of 'five golden rings' in the Christmas song? Partridge in a pear tree? Especially since baby will be due a month or so after Christmas, right? :) Maybe a "We're getting our five golden rings a little late for Christmas"?
I love fun announcements!
Sorry TP - dealing with insurance and the high cost of everything health-related is so frustrating. We maxed out our FSA this year thinking we'd be using it for the labor & delivery of a baby and instead so far we've been using it for my D&C, RPL testing, etc.
Did you have your scan yet?
I'm having a hard time keeping up with this board the past few days - I'm just so ridiculously tired. I feel like I could sleep all day long. The nausea seems to be slightly picking up too - but I'm surprised I'm not vomiting. Wishing I had another ultrasound this week instead of having to wait until next Thursday - I already need to know again that all is ok!
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Hi guys!
I just left the ER with bleeding. I should be 7 weeks pregnant today minimum. The ultrasoundshowed a yolk sac but no fetal pole. So exactly what a 5 week ultrasound would show. They asked if my dates were off but I know it's not- my first positive test was May 24. My HCG is only 4,769 which is around 4-5 week levels. I need to follow up in a week for another ultrasound and possible D/C. I know I’m losing this baby there’s no way it should only be five weeks.
Anyway loving all the good news here- I’ll probably keep checking in on you guys!!! For those that had losses, when did you start to try again?
Oh no!! I’m so sorry. Prayers coming