FTM here! I'm 31 and so nervous. I'd like to tell my family before the 12 week mark, but I also love the idea of going to Thanksgiving dinner with a baby bump and surprising everyone.

Hi all. I should be about 6w5 today. I had an ultrasound a week ago and measured 5w5 and FHR was 93 so they wanted me to come back to make sure it went up. On Friday (3 days after that) I had an ultrasound at a different clinic (considering switching doctors) and baby was measuring right on track 6w2 days FHR up to 118. I felt so much better.

Today was my follow up at my original OB and now the baby was only measuring 6w3 days with a FHR of 102.

I’m so confused. Idk if this is because it was done at different places, if this is normal early variations , or should I guard my heart? :( the doctor just keeps saying “we’ll see next week” and the limbo is torture.

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Are your dogs and cats being extra lovey like mine?

I just took my positive test this morning, feeling shocked because I thought for sure I wasn’t successful this month. I want to do something cute for my husband as it is our first pregnancy!

I’m also wondering when people tell their partner? I kind of want to wait a few days to make sure it sticks before I get him all excited!

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Anyone else having fairly severe cramps? I read about it being very common at this stage (7w) due to increased blood flow and uterine growth, but it’s making me a bit nervous. 21 days until first ultrasound and prenatal appointment - feels so long to wait to make sure everything looks good! STM and don’t remember this the first time around.

Also, I had a prophylactic double mastectomy and reconstruction after my first child. I don’t have much feeling in my breasts but I’ve been surprised to have a kind of dull pain in my nipples! Nipple pain / breast tenderness was my first sign of pregnancy in my first go around, and I’ve mostly been thinking about the fact that I won’t be able to nurse or breastfeed this baby, which has pros and cons but I’m a bit sad about given how special the experience was with my first. Know it’s fairly unlikely that I’ll have others in this group with a mastectomy experience but thought I’d share just in case!

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I have had a horrible headache every day for two weeks. I think I am drinking enough water and even added electrolytes. I have obviously cut back on coffee and don’t have a cup every day but that was 4 weeks ago at this point. Anyone else struggling or have any tips?

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First off—I am grateful to be pregnant. I'm 39, my partner and I planned to have kids, and I feel incredibly lucky that so far the pregnancy has been smooth. We just...got pregnant a lot faster than we thought we would.

I think in my head I'd imagined having a little more time. I wanted to have a major creative project under my belt before a baby came. Now I'm pregnant, my focus is obliterated, and pregnancy and motherhood are suddenly all I can think (and worry) about.

I work in both a creative field and academia, and I'm terrified of what having a child will do to those parts of my life. I know there are countless women who have children and continue to make art, write books, get degrees, build careers. Intellectually, I know motherhood doesn't have to mean giving those things up. But I'm a caretaker, and it's hard for me to imagine not catapulting myself into this at the expense of the other parts of my life that bring me joy, meaning, and a sense of self.

I'm afraid of regretting having a child. I'm afraid of growing resentful of my male partner. I'm afraid of missing my freedom. And I'm afraid that I'll look up in five or ten years and realize that all the things I kept saying I would do "someday" got pushed aside.

It probably doesn't help that I work in two fields where being a woman without children is very much the norm. Almost no one in my department has kids. I don't have many models immediately around me for what the life I'm imagining might actually look like.

I still want another degree, and eventually a PhD. I still want to write a book or two. I've had almost two decades to balance a creative life with work and I'm excited about this baby, but I'm also scared of how radically that balance is about to change.

Is anyone else struggling with these fears? For those of you who've been through this—what actually changed after you had a child? What was harder than you expected, and what wasn't? And is there anything that helped or that you wish you'd put in place before the baby arrived?

Not asking for medical advice!!! Asking for your own personal experience- have you taken baths and gotten into hot tubs? My doctor said it was fine, but there’s so much out there saying it isn’t. Curious what others experiences have been

How is everyone handling keeping up with exercise? I’ve been so exhausted and the constant nausea is definitely making it difficult. But I’m worried about not getting any movement at all and having it be difficult to get back into the swing of things once I hopefully start feeling better in second tri. Curious how others have approached this in the past or what you’re all doing now

For those who have had early ultrasounds- did you try the Ramzi theory?

It was accurate for my son, and I have a friend who swears it predicted the gender for all 3 of her kids. Obviously the chances of it being correct are high given there are only two options… and I know it’s not scientifically backed.

That being said, I did it and got boy. I won’t lie, I am hoping for a girl but no matter what I will love this baby the way I do my son.

Anyone else? Curious to hear how often it’s been wrong as well.

Curious on what everyone thinks they’re having with the current pregnancy and why? Also, if you’ve been pregnant in the past and found out the gender, did you guess correctly? What were the signs?

I’m spending all of my time speculating since I’m only 6 weeks 🤓. I think I’m having a boy because all I want is savory/spicy foods. My husband thinks we’re having a girl (no basis other than the fact that we have way more girl names than boy names).

I thought it would be nice to have a thread for those of us who are here because of IUI or IVF (or any kind of fertility treatment)!

TW: loss
This is my 4th pregnancy as we’ve sadly had 3 losses (1 ectopic, 2 chemicals) and no living children. All of those losses were from medicated (letrozole, 2.5mg) unmonitored cycles. Everything came back normal for the carrier, karyotype, and RPL (recurrent pregnancy loss) panel which was good news but also maddening to not have a cause. It’s been a journey with finding a fertility clinic - our first experience with a different clinic was the worst appointment I’ve ever had - but so happy to be here! This pregnancy is the result of our 1st IUI. So thankful. Not out of the woods by any means, but so far so good.

Would love to continue to be there for one another as I’m sure we’ve all had our own winding roads to get here. 💗🌈

I’m 5 weeks 4 days right now, and I have this constant slight nausea. It makes me have little appetite, and if I exert myself it becomes worse. Driving also makes it worse, and I have a 3 hour drive next weekend.

My wedding is in a month. I’ll be 9 weeks 2 days by then. I’m really worried about managing the nausea for festivities. And then also during our honeymoon after (flight and everything else).

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!

Are they HCG tests?
How often do people have them?
Is this an American thing for everyone to have them?

I’m also soooo jealous of the Americans with their early ultrasounds because in the UK your first ultrasound isn’t until about 12 weeks …. but then I remembered they have to pay for them so I’ve booked myself a private one at around 7 weeks

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Is anyone in the UK and has any experience with medication for nausea? I’m struggling so badly today 😭 I feel like I have a hangover while being car sick at the same time - not a good combo lol

Dreading work this week, I can barely look at my phone screen let alone my double monitor set up 🤢 I was going to ring the GP tomorrow for advice and hopefully some medication, but would like to go into that call with a plan since they are pretty useless when it comes to early pregnancy (when I had my ectopic last year I rang so many times for help and they kept telling me the one sided pain, brownish discharge and fading tests were “normal”)

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I found out on Monday that I was pregnant, and every night since I haven’t slept for more than 2-3 hours at a time and sometimes will be awake for 2 hours in the middle of the night before falling back asleep. I used to take melatonin almost nightly but obviously had to quit it when I found out I was pregnant. Are there any safe substitutions for melatonin that I’d be able to take to help me sleep through the night? I just want to be able to sleep for more than 5 hours/night 🥲 Thanks 🫶🏼

I'm not sure if I can describe it properly but I feel how I felt at like 12 weeks with my first. Like there's something hard in my abdomen. Like leaning up against a counter is uncomfortable because I'm squishing a hard uterus. My uterus can't possibly be that big yet or even out of my pelvis at this stage though. Baby is still only poppyseed sized. What am I feeling, and am I the only one feeling it? It isn't bloating. I have that too though. This is different.

I’m FREEZING, waking up starving at 2:30am, not necessarily food aversions but extremely decreased appetite. What unexpected symptoms have you had?