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@raintreebee: Welcome!

so I found out yesterday that my SIL is also pregnant. She just found out this weekend, so she's about 2 weeks behind me.

I'm really happy to have someone to share the pregnancy with and that our LO will have a cousin their age, but I'm also kind of bummed. I was hoping she might lend me gear and maternity clothes. lol

Location: Phoenix AZ
EDD: 1/19/2016
How far along: 4w6d
First child? yes, but not first pregnancy
First doctor appointment: about 7 weeks, June 3... didn't want to risk not seeing/hearing the heartbeat!) And freaking out!

Any symptoms so far? fatigue, sore boobs, and cramping

Who have you told? DH obviously, my work team, and 3 good friends, all of you know our struggle with infertility and miscarriage. We will tell my parents and our friends after hearing the heartbeat and then his family after the first trimester probably. His family is kind of high strung.

@travellingbee: The bloat really is unreal! Sorry that you felt self-conscious

@raintreebee: Congratulations and welcome! It's nice that there are so many second-time-moms on this board! I anticipate having a lot of dumb FTM questions so you will have to be patient with me

@DesertDreams88: So glad to see you here! Congratulations!

@DesertDreams88: welcome!

Welcome and congrats raintreebee and desertdreams88! Exciting to have more moms here!

Ladies..the nausea. Ughh!!! It was not this bad the first time around. I'm currently sitting in my car at work, totally miserable. I don't know how to make it through the rest of the first trimester like this! I feel like I've tried all the usual suggestions, but does anyone have anything that's really helping with morning sickness?

@travellingbee: awesome, where'd you find that? I will literally buy anything at this point.

@karen: I had it around from last pregnancy so I don't remember but likely just CVS or walgreens. I just put a link to amazon too.

@MrsYellowJacket, @cvwood, @swoggette: A special hello to all of you, we all have the same due date!

@raintreebee: a BIG welcome!

Love that this board has so many different types of pregnancies (first/second/third time moms, IVF/fertility treatment pregnancies etc.). And that it's fairly active. My previous board didn't really get going until much later on.

Also dreading the nausea. I would SO get that ginger gum except I can't have any sugar or it'll spike my blood sugar. Speaking of blood sugar...

Did anyone have gestational diabetes with a previous pregnancy? I'm already dreading the challenges that come with it. I'll most likely have it again because I was pre-diabetic before I ever became pregnant. But because I've been through it once before, less anxious overall.

@karen: I am in elementary but not a classroom teacher. I pull small groups to work on reading. I've been ok and able to work through the nausea because it's pretty mild for the most part. I hope that isn't a bad sign. Hoping it means this pregnancy will go a little easier on me. I can't remember how bad it was at this point with DS... I'm 7 weeks tomorrow!

@raintreebee: congratulations! My little bean is an IVF pregnancy as well I hope everything goes well with your first ultrasound - I will be thinking of you on Friday

@karen & @travellingbee: I have taught 5th grade language arts & social studies for 5 years, but next year I am moving up to 8th grade social studies and I'm totally excited! Social studies is my true passion, and I really want to get back to a middle-school-style teaching schedule (5th grade used to be part of the middle school, until this year). My DH is an 8th grade SS teacher, moving up to 10th SS next year. Yep, two peas in a pod!

Welcome @raintreebee @bisous and (super special Janurary 19th welcome to) @desertdreams88. I think all of you that have gone through IVF are so tough, when you get your babies they are going to be so loved!

@travellingbee I wear scrubs and dresses to work and had no idea I was bloated until I put on jeans Friday night and realized this is going to be hard to hide. I'm glad it's warm enough to wear loose dresses all the time and not look suspicious.

@joyfulkiwi I'm glad someone else has my lazy problem! Luckily, I have a pregnant coworker to commiserate with, but she's due in September. Yesterday we just hid in her office and whined about not wanting to do anything.

@desertdreams88 it's gotta to be really hard not to lash out at your friend. I'm sure it was a really hard decision for her to terminate, but I'd still have a hard time not letting my struggles influence the way I reacted to her. Good for you for trying to get past that. I have a coworker with a boyfriend that I HATE, he's awful to her and their son, borrows tons of money from her and spends his own on boats and motorcycles, etc. She pretty much looks at him and gets pregnant. There were definitely days when I had just failed to get pregnant another cycle that I just had to avoid her, but I know it's not her fault that I have finicky eggs. I still hate her stupid boyfriend, though.

@bisous: Congratulations and welcome!

No pregnancy buddies here (yet?), but it's pretty early for people to be announcing. A lot of my friends have struggled with IF, so we all tend to be cautious and don't tell anyone until we are in our 2nd tri. I do know that my DH's best friend and his wife are TTC, so maybe that will happen.

@cvwood: I had a chicken salad salad last week (from potbelly) that I was crazy about. Which is weird because most meat has been a total turn off.

And can I say how happy I am that they have real chicken for salads? There's only a few restaurants near my work so I'm happy I can go with coworkers who eat all the lunch meat (I miss the italian sub, but am pretty sure my heartburn wouldn't appreciate it!)

@MaryM: That's good to know. There is a Potbelly not too far from my office. Though my OB said I only needed to avoid lunch meat that was cut at a deli counter. (Like the big hunks of meat that they pull out, cut some off, and put it back in the case until the next customer orders some.) He said the stuff that is cut and packaged is fine.

@cvwood anything citrus and avocados. I made ramen noodles with lime cilantro and cubed avocado and chopped a couple of my kids chicken nuggets in to it. That was the clincher for my DH, he said ewwww that confirms you are pregnant! Lol

@desertdreams right back at Ya for the 19th due date! Getting excited for my first appointment. 3 more weeks!

My husband put shrimp on a blt this weekend and I said "which one of us is pregnant??"

@MaryM: lol that actually sounds pretty good!

@kristinleigh: Lucas is one of my top choices for a boy, but DH doesn't like how it sounds with our last name.