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@MeginAnCo: Welcome and congratulations!! Similar situation over here for me, too, regarding IVF for LO1 who will just have turned 3 by April! Crazy crazy.

@MamaB: Congratulations! 10 weeks is such a long time to wait!

@MeginAnCo: Seriously. I think my body forgot that it doesn't normally cooperate with me! Haha. But yeah, I definitely need to stay positive too! Do you have any frosties leftover from IVF? Did you really do three rounds of fresh IVF or were some of those FETs as well?

@MeginAnCo: @MamaB: welcome!!

@HappyBaker: Why don't people understand that that question is NEVER OK!!!???!?! How did you respond?

I sort of keep waiting on someone at work to ask. We're a young & fertile bunch around here, DS is 2.5, and they started asking when I'd have another one about a year ago...and my pants don't fit anymore! I'm hoping to avoid the question at least until our first U/S on the 31st.

Also I'd really like to wait to tell my work until the NT scan but with the way things are growing / moving its going to be so obvious by then!

So excited to be able to join here after lurking the start of each new due date board these past few months!

Location: MD

EDD: Either 4/30 or 5/1, depending on what calculator I'm looking at

First child? #2, my son is 22 months

Any symptoms? I felt the need to pee a lot yesterday despite not drinking much water. With my last pregnancy I didn't really have any symptoms until 7ish weeks along.

Who have you told? My husband and my OB's office

Current thoughts/feelings/fears? Mostly excited, but a little apprehensive about all the discomfort and inconvenience that comes with being pregnant (I know I know, it's worth it in the end). I'm relieved that going through with SMEP this cycle paid off b/c I would've had to reevaluate our TTC plans over the next few months due to schedule concerns around due dates and maternity leave, so yay for not having to make any difficult decisions! I'm also kind of annoyed that my usual OB office was booked solid for the next six weeks so I had to make an appointment at another location almost an hour from my home. Last time they were able to get me seen within two days, so this is a new trend Here's hoping something opens up sooner and I make it off the waitlist.

@nanilani: Congratulations!! I grew up in MD and I really miss the yearly crab feasts we'd have around this time in the summer. Sigh.

How soon were you able to make the appointment at the further location? And HOW? Most of us have to wait 7-10 weeks at the least, even if there are openings earlier.

It's aliiive! We went for our dating scan this afternoon and our wee babe has a heartbeat and CRL of 4mm The Tech ended up doing an internal ultrasound due to the retroverted position of my uterus and she puts me at about 5w6d which is about one day behind where I thought I might be (based on ovulation I figured I was six week yesterday or today). I know it's still very early days so I'm still feeling cautious but I'm pretty stoked that our wee bean is hanging in there!

And in other news, I really don't remember feeling this bad with any of my other pregnancies, I'm not vomiting but man, I don't feel good!

@Kemma: How exciting! (Not the feeling crummy part, of course.)

@Kemma: Congrats on the good scan! I go next week, and it can't come soon enough. I'm starting to feel pretty crummy, too, and the bloating is out. Of. Control. But I'm pretty thankful to be feeling badly--at least today! How's everyone else doing?

How's everyone doing?

I have a scan tomorrow, I'll be 7 weeks 5 days so praying all is okay. Then I have a midwife appointment in the afternoon- my first ever, all my other pregnancies were in Canada so very different procedure.

My morning sickness is still horrendous, all day and all night, so much throwing up. I'm on medication that they give to chemotherapy patients to stop the nausea and most days it lessens it but it doesn't stop it. I'm hoping we can tell the kids if the scan goes okay, so they have a reason as to why mummy is a mess on the bathroom floor all day, ha ha.

Oh, also, I am craving salad. How weird is that? Tomatoes with salt on really hits the spot.

@travelgirl1: Good luck tomorrow!! That stinks you are so sick, but craving salad is a win in my book haha.

@travelgirl1: how did your scan go?

@Tasha: Welcome!

Well, the bloat is here already so guess it's time to jump in!

Location: Southern California

EDD: April 25th

First child? No, this will be #3! (And the last assuming all goes well!) 4.5 1.5

Any symptoms? Just bloated!

Who have you told? DH, HB mamas

Current thoughts/feelings/fears? This babe is so wanted and planned for, but it seems like there is a lot more riding on this baby because I already have two awesome healthy kids. So praying for a healthy pregnancy, l&d, and baby because I know each time can be different! Also, worried about the fatigue setting in soon with 2 little ones already!

My first pregnancy was symptom-free, so this one is throwing me for a loop. Now that I'm past 6w, I'm suddenly exhausted, starving yet with no appetite ALL the time, and nauseous in the morning. So hard when I'm a SAHM with my toddler and I have to fix him 3 meals a day! Sorry kiddo - you're getting toast and a cheese stick!

But seriously, I've been eating soup and cereal and it's all I can really stomach! I definitely feel lucky to have skipped this the first time around.

My step-brother is getting married tomorrow so I've been trying to come up with my plan to fake drink, and we just found out there won't be alcohol allowed at the rehearsal dinner venue...saved by the park ranger! Now to get through the rest of the weekend without arousing suspicion.

@sorrycharlie: I'm joining late, but I had a precepitious birth too. At 9pm I had a bloody show and was checked out (history of miscarriage). We all agreed I wasn't in labor at midnight and I went home. At 1am my water broke. At 2 am I went from 2-3 CM at midnight to 8.5. He was born shortly after 3 (the "delay" was he got stuck because his hand was over his face). I'm mentally preparing for this nugget to be a home birth.

@nanilani: Good luck! I would get cranberry and soda in a cocktail glass. It fooled everyone for awhile.

@nanilani: I'm heading to my parents for Labor Day weekend and having the same issue. So much centers around booze (or, for us, beer)!

@HeartAbandoned: Yaaay! Any idea what caused the spotting or was it just a passing thin g?

I'm semi-lurking since there's no May board and I won't create one myself...

I got my betas and progesterone back from Friday (from my PCP) and went to the OB today for repeats of both. She said they'll make an appointment for 7 1/2 weeks or so for an u/s.

Location: NYC-area

EDD: May 7 (my guess)

First child? 2nd! DD was 2 at the end of June.

Any symptoms? Nothing yet.

Who have you told? DH, HB (obvi), 2 local friends - both of whom are also pregnant, 1 magically after IVF for her first and a year of no AF, 1 after 2 m/c including just last month. I swear it's the eclipse!

Current thoughts/feelings/fears? Excited. We needed multiple IUIs with DD and 2+ years of TTC. So although we were actively TTC it still surprised me.