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They wouldn’t make my appointment before 8 weeks and then there is no ultrasound. I am trying to be patient...
I was on ICU night shift last weekend and grabbed one of the nice ultrasounds into the call room and did a trans abdominal on myself. It is not easy...I found the gestational sac and stuff in it that may have been yolk sac. Of course my depth was not optimized and I couldn’t figure out how to move my body and the probe to get as good a view as the professionals. It will have to satisfy me until my actual ultrasound in three weeks...

@jaguar: I know ... I had to be sneaky though, and you can only really do that at 3am. Young woman taking ultrasound into room will start all the rumors way too early.

Anyone else starting to feel more than bloated? I have a work environment where apparently it is okay to ask someone if they are pregnant all.the.time. I know that when I finally tell people there will be some saying, “oh I knew it back in April”
Well, I wasn’t pregnant then. It was a burrito, Karen.

@MsHangry: hahaha bloody hell, Karen!

@Jessiemuller88: I feel GINORMOUS.

@jaguar: I'm so happy to hear that things are looking good!!! and so sorry for all the stress this pregnancy has put you though.

I feel like I'm in the doldrums of first tri. I've felt super nauseous/pukey/exhausted for what seems like an eternity. Yet if things continue to go well with the pregnancy, based on my experience last time I think it will be at least another month before I start to feel some relief. Finding food that will stay down has been a struggle, and I think I officially need more sleep than my toddler.

I had the NIPT draw today and NT scan in a week. Glad to have gotten this far, but I'm already feeling super nervous about it....Being AMA doesn't help...

@helloperidot: Thank you! I feel like this pregnancy has in some sense been too good to be true - took us a year and multiple losses to get pregnant with DS whereas this time we only TTC'ed for a few months. Today was my first blood draw for this pregnancy, by the time I was at this point with DS I'd been back to the hospital for literally dozens of blood draws (had to track a partial molar pregnancy back down to zero...) Being AMA makes me all the more nervous that the other shoe is about to drop, but I'm really trying to have at least a neutral mindset!

@helloperidot: Ugh, pregnancy after loss is tough.

I'm not sure how old FTMs are where I am, probably early 30s. Where I grew up it was like early 20s, and I feel like it was seen as a hard rule that you needed to be done by 35. Being called elderly is ridiculous I haven't seen a doctor yet (intake appt a few weeks ago was with a nurse who didn't know much), so I'm not sure whether my practice does anything automatically different for AMA. But it does say it in huge letters at the top of my ultrasound report

@periwinklebee: How many weeks are you? Poor thing with the sickness. I am the opposite and have the usual 'don't feel sick so something must be wrong' panics.

@periwinklebee: I’m sorry you feel so sick too! Hopefully it eases up soon.

@jaguar: I’m the same way. Some days I have a ton of symptoms and other days I feel great and think something is wrong.

I have my first ultrasound today, and I’m so nervous. This is the same time (7.5 weeks) I found out I had a MMC.

@Jessiemuller88: Deep breaths, mama. You're in our thoughts today.

@periwinklebee: @helloperidot: @CatchAFallingStar: I needed a lot of deep breaths ladies. I am in complete shock!

@helloperidot: honestly I’m in shock, as is DH, but I am over the moon with excitement. Both babies were measuring right on track with strong heartbeats!

@Jessiemuller88: Whoa! Congratulations!!!

@Jessiemuller88: oh my gosh!!!! So exciting!!!

@CatchAFallingStar: it was natural, other than taking 2.5 mg of letrozole to ovulate.

@Jessiemuller88: Such amazing news!!! Congrats!!!

@Jessiemuller88: BABIES! Hi BABIES! What a delight!

@periwinklebee: Oh you poor bugger. I hope time flies for you!

Our little blob is 9 weeks today and measuring bang on, little arm and leg buds forming, super fast heart rate. I have to start organising NIPT bloodwork... pretty anxious, as we've lost a little one to T21 before, and it was a MMC at 11 weeks. I'll be on edge the next few weeks I think!

@Jessiemuller88: Congratulations!! I'm not due in January but I lerk on other boards cause I have too much time on my hands.

Congratulations to all you ladies!!

@Jessiemuller88: just dropping into say CONGRATS on 2 babies!! What an amazing surprise! So happy for you!

So I have my own exciting update, except it has nothing really to do with babies (and it's nowhere near as exciting as twins!).

I just bought a new mattress set! I have never in my life owned a brand new mattress, and after 2 pregnancies sleeping on the 20 year old POS that we call our bed. I told my DH I was done and want something new. A store near us was having a killer Memorial Day sale, and we found a model that we really like...so I bought it today!

Hoping it gets here with enough time that I can sleep on my stomach at least once.

Okay. Back to being excited about twins.

@JennyLayneAZ: You are not crazy! My cycles are like that too. I'm pretty sure it corresponds to which ovary you're ovulating from, and that typically alternates. I have figured out that when I'm ovulating from my left ovary, I'll have a shorter cycle (O on day 15-17ish), and when I ovulate from my right, it's a longer cycle (O around day 22-25).