7 weeks and 4 days

[Niketa12]

I want to know how everyone else is feeling??

Im sick to my stomach i can barely keep anything down. I constantly sleep all day long! im sooo sleepy. I keep sipping on ginger ale and dry toast. My first prenatal appt is on friday...what to expect?? My due date according to my IUI dr. is June 18th..Who else is around the same time?

[Niketa12]

Ladies, I had my first prenatal appointment on Friday and saw the midwife who assured me some women do get symptoms and some don't!. please don't freak out if you don't your just lucky as one said its the miserable club. I would trade nausea for any other symptom out there. Any ways i did find relief as she told me that there was a thing called nausea band and they are like acupuncture and it actually works! The brand we have in the US is Sea Band.
Well ne ways everything else looks great- the heart was beating away at 160 bpm and we even saw the embryo move. :P The head and tail are forming you can actually see the head formation now. So exciting. I will be going back on Dec 3rd as i will be 12 weeks just to see the DR and make sure everything is going well. Then again for the 14 week ultrasound. I am also thinking about doing Prenatal yoga which is encouraged as it can help you stay fit. Midwife also said that sleeping ALL the time was completely normal and to do it as much as i could. Sore breasts also is very normal. Ive gone up a whole 2 cups bt can seem to find a normal bra to fit and don't know if im ready to go to the maternity stuff yet i just want to get through the first trimester and then move on. My IUI dr had told me my due date was June 18th, however my OB said June 17. So yea we will see when this baby decides to show!!

So ladies who all is going to find out what the sex is?

[bernie40]

I'm due the 18th to :)  I've had variious niggles up until this past week and now I'm so ridiculously tired I could sleep all day and all night, the only time I don't feel too tired is in the morning :-/  The nausea comes and goes, hasn't got to the point of throwing up but just feels like I'm about to.  Boobs are killing if I try and wear a normal bra so have started wearing the maternity ones already. Constipation has been my partner since before I even found out, but that could be due to this horrid cyst pressing on my bowel (long story).  My emotions are all over the shop.  Tomorrow I'll be 8 weeks!  I've also got a real craving every morning for a bacon sandwich with lots of tomato ketchup and a drink of hot chocolate!

[angelkisses777]

Hey count me in! Im due on 17th June 2011, have morning sickness since 5th October and it felt never ending ... found a craving for Marmite ... it seems to damp the mornining sickness. Apparently Marmite is full of Folic Acid & Vita B12! It seems that my body is "helping" me with morning sickness by craving for Marmite!!! As far as the tiredness goes ... I wish I had a answer! lol  

[angela418]

Hey girl,

I completely know how you feel!  When I was pregnant w/my son, I didn't really have strong symptoms until 8 or so weeks, and even then it wasn't all the time.  I still have my pregnancy tracker up for that one and one for this one if you want to compare.  This time around I am MISERABLE...nauseated all the time and I have thrown up 3 times in the past 6 days!  So, you just never know how the pregnancy is going to go...each pregnancy is different for each woman.  The fact that you saw the heartbeat means something is going on, you are just lucky you haven't had any bad symptoms yet...but there's still time to join the misery club!  LOL  It's only week 8 or so, right?  ;-)  I hope all goes well for you while you wait for the next appointment!    

[Verysoon]

I wish I had what you have. I know that is crazy to say, but I wish I had more symptoms. I am sitting here crying bc I don't have "what I think I should have" which I guess is a symptom in its self. But I dont have any that scream YOUR PREGNANT. I've heard the heart beat and that is whats getting me through this time. And I have this twinge or something in my lower abdomen that is making me nervous. I really need Tuesday to hurry up and get here so I can see another heart beat and make me feel better.

I really didn't want to be "one of those" pregnant women who is overly paranoid and complains all the time....but I just want some reassurance. Is anyone else out there feeling as bonkers as I am???

[angela418]

I am nauseated all the time and have thrown up 2 times in the past week.  I pretty much live off of oatmeal, peanut butter sandwiches and rice cakes...because they are bland and I can stomach them...lol  Oh, and ginger ale and decaf ginger tea which I turn into iced tea.  You will probably have an ultrasound and get blood work done at your first appointment...I hope it all goes well for you!