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Welcome everyone! I stepped away for a few days and this group grew quickly. I'm glad to see some more second time mom's join in.

I've been doing okay so far. Some mild cramping all weekend and my chest is getting sore. I got my results from my first blood draw and my progesterone and hcg levels were both good. I did a second draw for hcg to make sure it's rising appropriately, will have those results Monday.

I'm still feeling overwhelmed and fearful for life with a newborn again. Our LO, really doesn't understand. She says she wants a brother and then names a specific younger sibling from her school.

We had announcement photos done yesterday for our families and informed them all today. I wanted to wait longer but 5 days was as long as I could get DH to wait.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

@MamaG: that's great that your DH is so excited to announce!

Everyone else - who have you told? We haven't told anyone yet because I'd rather tell them in person. I'm sure we'll see my parents and my sister in the next week or so and we'll tell them then. We'll hold off on telling others though. Some members of my DH's side of the family are a little ... excitable.

@MsMini: congrats and welcome! Nice to see another nurse mama

@MrsF: we told my mom and dad. We were about to start fertility treatments so since I shared our struggle to get pregnant, I wanted to share our joy.

Just told my parents tonight! As expected they didn't have much reaction (happy of course but they are not super expressive haha). Feel so good that they know! I need to tell my sister next ASAP, and maybe I'll tell my best friend as well. Will prob tell DH's family after 1st appointment.

Here is the thing. I have a good friend that told me as soon as she got a BFP. I feel like I need to return the favor? Would she be mad if I don't tell her till later?

@littlek: your parents must have been so thrilled for you!

@cram88: that's so great that you'll be pregnant at the same time as your best friend! I always thought that would be so neat to go through pregnancy and all the baby stages together.

Our immediate families know. We live several states away from all of our family. We took photos of LO holding signs and shared them. I'm trying to hold out sharing with friends and work until after my appt at 10 weeks. It's challenging.

We will not be team green. I'm too type A to not have the ability to plan. We are also trying to warm LO up to it. That's not going well. She's just confused.

@littlek: multiples! My DH keeps asking me what we will do if we have twins. I'm not at all prepared for that sort of reality. I'm 39, that might push me to insanity.

I jokingly say to DH I wouldn't mind to have twins so I can be done w/ 1 birth! Realistically it would be very scary; I'm like 5 feet so I might topple over haha.

@littlek: @snowjewelz: is this the short girls due date thread bc I'm 5 feet as well.

My really good friend has twin girls (it was an oops pregnancy when her LO was 9 months so she had 3 under 2 at one point). She said the first words out of her mouth when the image came on the u/s machine were "oh f*ck"

@snowjewelz: ummm, I was HUGE at the end of my pregnancy. I usually eat a lot of meat and veggies but when I was pregnant I couldn't stand meat. I ate a ton of carbs (bagels, BLT sandwiches, cereal, and pasta). I gained over 50 lbs. I do not advise gaining so much weight bc my body is so damaged from carrying around that extra weight - my feet and my back are not the same. But my LO was so cute and chubby and the easiest baby so my theory is carbs = happy baby

@theotherstark: Oo nice! So exciting. I had wanted to go into my car to call my OB, but it's snowing outside. Now I gotta find a secret spot to call my OB! O man, that would be so funny haha. Does he know enough to know that it's impossible to tell this early?! lol

@sandy: I know, I'm so afraid I'll gain too much weight and I'll just be a giant ball at the end of this! Maybe I will have an aversion to carbs? lol

@snowjewelz: my friend is 5 feet and she barely gained 30...so you just never know. Her LO was around 7lbs but at almost 2 years he's always been on the small side. My LO was 8lbs 8oz and at 2.5 years old she looks like a 3 year old and has always been on the bigger side (80+ percentile for height/weight).

Oh my word. Does anyone else feel like they're boobs are going to explode? I am in so much pain I can hardly sleep because if I'm on my side, the bottom one hurts, on my back, they both hurt, and stomach is out of the question... I was hoping for at least a little bit of sleep while pregnant before I never get a good light of sleep for the rest of my life!! Haha this is ridiculous.

Is anyone else having major fear of miscarriage? I just hear about so many that happen between weeks 6 and 8 and it terrifies me..

Today I'm supposed to hear back from my doctor regarding my betas from my blood draw, so that's exciting/nerve-wracking! I really hope they don't say anything about what my betas should be at this point based off my LMP (Feb 19), since I O'd late at CD 23 so I was really 14dpo at my betas, though it will lok like I was more based off LMP only. I just don't want to explain all that while I'm at work. I'm a receptionist in a very echo-y lobby with all of the executives in a corporate office, so I don't really want all of them to hear me talking about my fertility hahaha. Hoping they call when it's calm in here so I can just step out for a moment!

Other than that, DH and I have just been looking for a larger 1bedroom apartment so we can save some more money to buy a house, and it's really hard because we currently live in a really nice place, but since I won't be working anymore, and we still need to save, we are going to be seriously downgrading, and it just... bums me out a bit. I guess that's silly and I should just be thankful for baby, I just never realized how NICE our current place is until we started looking at others. I guess that's why ours costs $500 more a month than these though haha. We are just so relieved that we are going to be able to double our saving, while still making extra payments on my student loans, while I am pregnant, and then we will be able to still save while living solely off DH's pay after the baby is born. He made up a budget for us, and while it isn't exactly a FUN budget, it will be so beneficial and has really taken away a lot of our worries. Now we are just getting excited!

Also, we are going to Maui this summer, and are so glad we splurged and got a week trip, since now it can be our babymoon!! Even though I'll only be 24 weeks haha

I'm following along in this thread hoping I can join you December-ers in a week or so. Very excited for you all.

Ugh! Morning sickness has struck, I haven't thrown up yet, but I feel like I could at any moment. I got in with my family doctor today, I had hyper emesis last time around, so I am hoping we can get all the meds and stuff set up right away, save me some suffering. I am going to request bloodwork, and a dating scan as well, since my edd is basically a complete mystery at this point.