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I've been kind of silent and just lurking for the past few weeks because I didn't want to get too attached to this baby. My OB appointment went well. I'm pretty sure I ovulated on March 25th (haven't had a period since my daughter was born), which would make me 7 weeks + 0 days, and my little peanut measured as 7 weeks + 6 days. I don't know, maybe I just have big babies XD So my OB adjusted my due date to Dec. 11th. Heartbeat was 167 bpm. My husband went with me to this appointment just in case it went badly. I don't have a history of miscarriages, but statistically they are rather common.

My next ultrasound is in 4 weeks. If that one goes well I'll start to tell more people. Right now my mom knows as well as my sister and a few close friends. My husband's mom knows because his sister is getting married (in Japan) in August or September, and he had explain why I couldn't go. Feeling cautiously optimistic. Nausea has started to get worse, and I've lost weight from when I got pregnant. I think I gained 10 pounds in the first trimester with my last baby XD

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Crashing in from the Nov board too...

@thepaperbutterfly: Once you have a heartbeat the chance of miscarriage drops considerably. Also my son at one point measured almost 3 weeks ahead... but usually measured 7-10 days ahead and was born on his due date slightly under 10lbs... so the ultrasound dating game is really just an estimate anyways.

In regards to language speaking to your daughter in Japanese isn't going to hurt her at all. And any words she knows in both Japanese and English counts separately. (For example hai and yes count for two words not one.) We live in a area with a lot of Spanish speakers so a lot of classes we've attended touch on dual language a lot. Sign language also counts towards total words. And words like "meow" or "woof" when seeing a cat or a dog counts as well.

@yellowbeach: Reading through your comments about your daughter's speaking skills it sounds like to me she's right on track... hopefully your speech therapist will say the same thing. I have a friend who's son is in speech therapy once a week right now but both the therapist and the pediatrician who gave the referral both say it's hard to tell if he has a delay or is just a late speaker. He's 22 months and I'd say his speech is inline with your daughters.

@yellowbeach: I'm so sorry that your pediatrician is being so insensitive. It seems like (s)he should have experience working with families with more than one kid, and giving strategies for how to fit it all in instead of saying "well, since you're not going to be able to do this soon..."

And thanks for adding! If you're capitalizing, KarenBME, would be more appropriate. I grew up in Maine, and even though I haven't lived there in a decade and my last initial isn't even B anymore, this has been my screen name since myspace and AIM, and it's what I use because it's what I remember

@thepaperbutterfly: That's such a great heartbeat! I also read somewhere that after you've seen a heartbeat miscarriage risk goes down to like 3%. I don't know your history, but I'm taking the approach that the joy I feel now is valuable enough to take the hurt I will feel if it does turn out to be another loss, particularly knowing that I'm probably going to feel the hurt even if I don't embrace the happiness now.

Going in for another level today, and decided to take a test this morning so I could brace myself if it wasn’t going up, but the line (on a wondfo) was pretty much as dark as the control and darker than my line 4 days ago by a lot! I know hpts are qualitative rather than quantitative, so I can’t be sure it’s gonna be good news, but🤞🤞🤞

@LindsayInNY: The past few times it’s been ~2 hours to get results, so I’ll probably have results around 3.

@LindsayInNY: Totally hear what you’re saying, the first time I got pregnant I had been on whole 30 right before, so I thought it was so obvious by the time I had the loss, but nobody guessed, or at least of the people I told nobody admitted to guessing. Nobody looks at your body the same way you do, and most people are polite enough not to say anything if they have a hunch. Are you worried about telling too soon at work or more with friends?

So my level came back good today, 90% rise, and they scheduled an ultrasound for Monday contingent on another strong rise by Friday. This’ll be my 5th blood draw in 9 days, so I asked if we could push to Monday even if it meant the ultrasound couldnt happen until Tuesday or Wednesday, but they want the level at 48 hours. I know if it’s ectopic there’s a chance of things going bad, but it would only put off the diagnosis by 1 day and I haven’t had any pain or symptoms of rupture, so idk...

@karenbme: Thats great news!!! Sorry you have to get poked so much. Hopefully Friday will be the last for a while and Mondays Ultrasound will show everything where it needs to be! I agree with you, I told most everyone who I would tell if I had a miscarriage anyways. DH is not a very private person and he's excited.

@karenbme: That’s great!! Does that mean it doubled? Mine always just gave me the numbers lol.

@LindsayInNY: Didn't quite double, but rose from 339 to 641, which is what they told me. Doubling would be 100% increase, but having a measure of how close to doubling it was makes me feel more comfortable than just saying "we're happy with it, but it didn't double." Also the numbers feel so small right compared to like 5,000 or 10,000 or more right now that I get a little paranoid looking at the raw numbers.

Guys. I can’t today. Listen to this (basically the last two hours):

Realized my credit card was missing. Left it at lunch restaurant yesterday and needed coworker to pick it up for me.

Realized drivers license was missing. Found it in fleece jacket pocket where it’s probably been since Friday.

Shook my protein shake to drink. Cover was off. Got all over me and laptop. It’s drying now. If sticky I need to get a new shell.

@LindsayInNY: What a day... Fingers crossed tomorrow is better

Question for everybody, when did you start to get sick to your stomach? With my first pregnancy it didn’t start until like week 7, but I couldn’t eat dinner tonight (tacos, which are usually my fav) because the smell of the corn tortillas was making me gag every time I tried to take bite. I’m only 5+3ish, so I’m not sure if it’s normal and a sign that my levels are still rising, or something to worry about that I’m sick this early.

@LindsayInNY: haha oh man. What a nutty 2 hours. I am not looking forward to pregnancy brain hitting hard... I'm already a bit scatter brained...

@karenbme: last pregnancy that's how I knew I was pregnant! I got nauseous eating my favorite breakfast and Starbucks coffee. This pregnancy, no nausea. I had one or two small bouts - like 2 nights ago after eating I couldn't handle looking at the leftovers.

@thepaperbutterfly: it's crazy how different each pregnancy can be! I'm curious to see if it means a different gender, like a few friends have suggested to me.

@karenbme: I think it varies for everyone... My SIL was SO sick with all pregnancies, regardless of gender or whether it was a successful pregnancy or not. For me, *knock on wood* the worst it gets is a nausea/hangover feeling and that's it.

@thepaperbutterfly: @mediagirl: @LindsayInNY: Glad to hear it’s different for everyone and even between pregnancies. Finally something I don’t have to worry about.

@mediagirl: I didn’t even realize this was a thing, but googled my hospital’s policy and found a press release from 2011 indicating that not only are kids under 12 fully banned, but they limit you to 2 designated support people that cannot change throughout your labor/recovery. I had been thinking about having a doula, but that would mean DH and doula only, no one else.

So tomorrow one of the ultrasound girls at my husbands hospital is going to give us an ultrasound...I'm really excited but part of me is petrified! Is it normal to be this nervous for your first ultrasound? I didn't know I was getting one the first time with my son so I didn't have time to think about it but now i'm just so scared.

@MrsMom: I'm also nervous about telling one of my friends. I feel like she's going to be so judgy of us having another...