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@loki: @Mrs. Sunshine: @NeekieRose: Thanks ladies! Got a little teary eyed when DH saw the little blob. He asked a million questions about what was what and he was so excited!

@loki: with my first pregnancy my first ultrasound was at 9 weeks & she totally already looked like a baby! Obviously not a fully developed one but there was no doubt that she looked like a person!

@loki: here is what mine looked like at 8w5d.

@NeekieRose: still cute

thanks guys. can't wait for that first ultrasound, i think it'll ease my mind a lot.

@HappyBluebird: congrats on the heartbeat.

Even with diclectin I'm feeling horrible. I haven't throw up (which I think is the diclectin's help) but I'm still nauseous pretty much all day. It's going to be a long first trimester.

@makemake: congrats and welcome! So sorry to hear that you're feeling so awful - I hope the nausea subsides soon and/or you're able to find some food or things to help soon! Hugs!

@As Time Goes By: congrats! that's a super strong heartbeat - so great! I can totally understand crying - seeing the heartbeat made it so real for me - I've been so nervous and I know I'm not out of the woods yet in terms of worrying, but it was like, "man, there's a baby in there!"

@ineebee: yay for a great ultrasound - so happy for you!

@lulu22: I hear you on the cheese cravings. I could eat it all day, every day, in every way. I don't have any strange cravings yet, but when I decide on something to eat, I have to have exactly THAT and nothing else sounds good. Poor DH!

@happybluebird: yay for the great appointment! Our measurements were off a bit at first too, and the doc said it was totally normal, depending on who was measuring, etc. (we alternate between our MD and NP).

@loki: sorry you're having a tough day - hopefully tomorrow will be better for you! you should most definitely see a heartbeat at 9 weeks, and also see something that resembles a baby. You're a waiting warrior!

@banana330: so sorry to hear you're feeling awful - does anything help, food-wise? Hopefully the meds will continue to kick in and you'll get some relief soon! I know it sucks, but my doc continues to tell me that nausea is a good thing to have. Hang in there!

Hi ladies - I have been away at a family thing over the weekend - exhausting. We drove in early this morning from where we were holidaying to get to our second ultrasound appointment. Baby measured at 5w6d and going from ovulation date, the most in our calculations that baby could be is 6w1d, so it seemed accurate. We say gestation sac, yolk sac, and a tiny little baby with a little heartbeat, so even though the appt ran an hour behind with a very horribly full bladder, it was a great day. I feel like we can be officially excited now! And I have started to have morning sickness officially this weekend, which involved me running around the condo where we were staying with my BIL and MIL waking everyone up, throwing up into various sinks, looking frantically all over for my pills, lol. Keepin' it classy.

@Rockies11: yes! I'm breastfeeding & pregnant & am eating nearly twice as much as DH! I plan on breastfeeding this LO as well....I feel like I'll never know what a normal portion size is again! lol

@Mrs. Sunshine: On Friday I ate like, 4 platefuls of spaghetti, and I was like painfully full but still hungry. And I was like "there is not enough food in this life to fill me up, there just isn't". I was choking down apples and cheese my whole last pregnancy, and still gained a million pounds, and now I would eat any carb in the world, and haven't gained anything. And with LO#1 who still breastfeeds all the time, I feel like there's a distinct possibility that eating for four could be in my future, lol.

@Mrs. Sunshine: Mine's the opposite - which makes sense for her. She's prone to constipation, and has been more constipated than usual since I got pregnant. She's only going about once every three days. I wouldn't be surprised if it had an impact! I also think my supply is a bit lower too, because she's changing sides a lot more rapidly than she used to.

@Rockies11: my LO only takes one side but I've noticed that more often than not she's been wanting to nurse at night now too so maybe mine has dropped a little too

@PawPrints: my due date just got adjusted to the 21st from the 8th of April, so we must be way further along in April than we thought!

@PawPrints: I noticed that too!!!

@Mrs. Sunshine: We tried to avoid processed food as much as possible also, and now all I want is everything processed!

Today was the first day of school with my first grade babies. I moved down a grade level this year and oh my goodness I am BEAT. This is the first year I've felt this tired on day 1 and oh man baby isn't helping! To make matters better, I hardly want to eat. I've eaten dill pickle chips and one bite of stuffed shells with bolognese for dinner. Nutritious

@delight: is the NT scan part of the genetic screening? Our doc told us to start thinking about if we want to do screening and/or testing, and I'm super overwhelmed by all of it. Did you of that with your first one (if you don't mind me asking )?

@pawprints: whoa, I thought there would be more of us too!

@marionberry: did you like the 2nd and 3rd books? The 3rd was my least fave, and I felt the same way about the hunger games books!

@rockies11: yay for a great appt. so glad you're feeling excited. I get more excited as time goes on and am feeling myself relax a bit, which is so nice!

@Rockies11: @delight: @Mrs. Sunshine: so much hungrier this time! I barely ate anything in the first trimester last time, this time the hunger will come out of nowhere with a vengeance. I, too, am attributing it to "eating for three." Sounds like your guys' supplies haven't taken too much of a hit. Mine has been pretty much decimated, went from pumping an average of 12 oz per day pre pregnancy to less than 3 oz a day last week! Good thing I have a decent freezer stash.

@SunshineMcC: I hated the ending of the third book and thought both were a bit slow at times but I liked reading them.
@neekierose: we're in the same predicament about the testing. We didn't do it last time but would love an extra ultrasound. I just know after all I've been through so far with this pregnancy I probably can't handle being told there's an issue, even if it turns out to be a false positive. So I'm torn.

@NeekieRose: Haha same here!

@Mrs. Sunshine: She will be 10 months on Friday. I have just under 300 oz in the freezer still and she is only drinking 6-9 oz per day at daycare. I already got the okay from her pediatrician that I can introduce WCM before a year. Once I get down to about 150 oz in the freezer, I am going to start mixing WCM into her breastmilk bottles. We are so close to the year mark, it doesn't make sense to me to transition to formula to just transition to WCM a few weeks later.

My only real concern is that she is still getting enough while nursing. I know nursing is much more efficient than the pump. She is also eating 3 full meal and 2-3 snacks a day so she definitely isn't hungry.

The worst part is pumping for 20 minutes and seeing .75 oz total output. Ugh.