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@Cole: Brace yourself ... my insurance paid $3.11 of my blood work. Yet, I pay $550 a month to cover myself and LO. Totallyyyyy makes sense.

@littlejoy: Do you pay a global fee? I had an issue with an ultrasound bill when pregnant with DD and was told most insurance covers 2 ultrasounds unless more are considered medically necessary. I would definitely call - I bet they filed it wrong.

@Cole: @peachykeen: @littlejoy: you're all making me nervous! Ive been under care of an RE so have had extra scans - hoping I'm mostly covered. Haven't received any bills yet.

@Revel: I had several extra scans with my pregnancy with DD - all were covered as they were physician-ordered and considered medically necessary (done through the maternal-fetal medicine office due to a possible anomaly on our anatomy scan and later pre-eclampsia monitoring - all turned out fine).

So this week has been challenging, but not as hard as I expected. DD got a spot at a Mother's Day Out program and started today. So I'm at work without her for the first time! Yay! The time of day that I'm sick has also shifted to night so I don't feel bad until after she's in bed. My aunt visited with us yesterday, took us to lunch, and then put DD down for her nap. It was nice. DD has been walking around asking for "dada" so hopefully he makes it home before bed tomorrow. I'm so glad it's a long weekend.

Also, for everyone struggling with constipation (especially from the zofran; it's the worst!), I cannot recommend magnesium enough. It's a total life saver. And my midwives absolutely recommend it as well. Just don't take too much. I didn't realize once that when I switched brands the dose went from two pills to one, and that was not pleasant.

Unpleasant new symptom for me today, a migraine. I have a history of hormonal migraine but haven't had one in ages. I had a rough time with them around 12-14 weeks with my pregnancy with my daughter, so hoping not to repeat that. I forgot how unpleasant they are... figures that I was feeling decent on the nausea front today- hormones must be shifting!

@Revel: Since I was already taking it (I've taken it for years) we never discussed an amount. But I currently do one 500mg pill per day and I haven't had any issues this pregnancy.

@Revel: I believe I was told start with 500 and then if needed I could increase to 1000. The general advice for non pregnant people is to increase every couple of days until you reach bowel tolerance and then back off.

@Mrs. Microscope: thinking of you! Hope the time passes quickly today.

I'm still totally wiped out from my migraine yesterday. Finally somewhat coming out of it after a few cups of strong tea. Trying to get work done remotely and hanging in for my acupuncture appointment this afternoon. I feel so good for like 24 hours after, I'm hoping that will hold for today. Also, hit 8 weeks today, first midwife appointment on Monday!

@Mrs. Microscope: @sparklemama: Fingers crossed for two great reports from you guys after your appointments!

@Revel: glad you're feeling better, I hope acupuncture is helpful! I've been thinking of trying it but there isn't anyone nearby. My friends who do it drive an hour away and that seems crazy to me because I'd need to hire a sitter then-nothing like adding at least $30 to the cost...

I seem to have finally found my groove with medication but I feel guilty for taking medication around the clock. I can just about function like a normal person though on the max dose of diclegis plus 2mg of zofran (plus colace...) Smells are soooo bad still and drinking is hard but I'm getting there. I actually went out and bought maternity jeans this morning. I can technically still get into my jeans but when I sit they dig into my belly and it makes me feel sick.

Appointment went well! Baby is measuring 9 weeks exactly with a heart rate of 173. I'm super curious about the old wives tale since I think I remember DS's hr usually being in the 150s.

@Cole: hopefully the nausea starts tapering off soon! It's seriously such a struggle... I feel for you!

@littlejoy: It's so funny because in my mind I know these old wives tales are just that.. tales! And I know they can be wrong (I had morning sickness with my first and horrible heartburn and he came out a bald baby boy!). But it's still so fun to speculate and guess. I also did the ring string test and it said boy, then girl, then stopped. Mayan and Chinese calendars also both said boy the first time for me and girl this time. Too bad the blood test is so expensive so we opted out of it!

@Mrs. Microscope: yay! congrats! such great news

@sparklemama: @Mrs. Microscope: Glad to hear your appointments went so well!!

I'm anxious to try to hear baby's heartbeat on Tuesday, but still feeling plenty of symptoms so I know I shouldn't worry too much.

@Mrs. Microscope: Hurray!
@peachykeen: I go in Tuesday too and I'm anxious also. I have the slight advantage of the fact that Tuesday is with the home birth midwives who will try with Doppler but Wednesday I have my OB appointment and he will try with Doppler and if still no luck he will do an ultrasound immediately. They draw for nipt Wed too, I'm so excited!

We still haven't told family (or many other people at all, I think 5 people might know?) and I can't decide if we should tell them after the we find out the sex at this point? I kind of feel like lose some of the fun if we announce both the pregnancy and the sex at the same time though. I like the guessing and speculating! I'm open to ideas for telling family that's far away, I seriously have no clue what we're going to do. I kind of want to do something fun but I don't have any great ideas.

My tiny victory for today- it will be the first time since before Christmas that I've peed 4x in one day!

Ugh, sorry I just caught up on all the posts now. I've been having a miserable first tri. So much puking and so tired I pretty much work and come home, eat and go to bed at the same time as my three year old.
I have my first ultrasound on Tuesday and then maybe I'll feel better about joining this group for real once I've got some visible proof that this is actually happening.

@sparklemama: @Mrs. Microscope: SO SO happy for you both!! I know how nervous I am for mine, which is still almost 2 weeks out, and how relieved I'd be to hear that everything was fine. It's almost too hard to put into words!

@sapphiresun: I'm sorry you've been feeling so horrible! Hopefully the appointment on Tuesday will give you an extra jolt of encouragement!

@Mrs. Blue: @Sapphiresun: oh my goodness! I feel you on the countdown- i find myself longing for the days in my first pregnancy when I could just rest and do whatever I needed. Logically I know I will feel a bit better in time but I worry what if this whole pregnancy is like this! 8 and 1 today tick tock tick tock

I woke up this morning feeling pretty good and cooked my family a big breakfast. All day I've been ok, except I go from not hungry to ravenous in about 30 seconds. I'm probably turning a corner and should be happy! Instead I just think "I'm probably going to miscarry." Sigh.