u/BackgroundMajor2054

I am 4w4d today and obviously haven’t seen an OBGYN yet, so I’ve been doing some Googling and research on my own. From what I’ve read, caffeine free hydration packets are usually considered fine during pregnancy, but I wanted to hear from other moms too.

I’ve never really liked plain water, before pregnancy I probably drank at most half a glass a day. I know hydration is super important now though, so to help myself drink more water, I add Hydromate peach tea hydration packets to a full stanley cup. They’re low in sugar and caffeine free. Google says they should be fine, but I’m curious if other moms drank hydration packets during pregnancy as well and if you had any others that you got the ok for!

Hi all! Baby is very wanted and loved so much, husband and I are over the moon and so grateful God is entrusting us with this baby. I am 4 weeks today!

But oh wow am I just so very anxious. I know logically a majority of pregnancies end up being normal, babies are healthy, mom is fine. I know the internet is filled with scary stories and makes everything more extreme than it is but there are just so many of those stories. I am so nervous about miscarriage, about genetic issues, about still-birth. I started a novena for expectant mothers to help and I pray every day and I said a rosary. My husband also is nervous even though he tries not to make it obvious. He said an odd comment when I said we'd be parents like, "let's just slow down." We're both a little on edge and I wish we weren't.

We have no history of miscarriage, this is our first pregnancy. My mother had 5 healthy children, his mother had 2. We're both in good health as far as we know.

My first appointment isn't until June. I've tested twice a day since I found out and I really want to stop testing because it is giving me more anxiety "oh the line isn't as dark as this morning, is it chemical?"

Anyway, just curious how to let go and give it to God. I feel like I am failing him by being so nervous. I also know being anxious won't change anything.

Not sure if anyone else took a test this morning and had it fail, but mine did too. My device also shut off on its own and wouldn’t read the strips. I called support and they said their servers are down. From what I understood, whatever processes the test readings is what’s affected.

Just wanted to share in case anyone else is having issues and starting to panic. They said they’d send me a replacement box of strips for the ones that were wasted since they’re definitely not cheap, so I’d reach out to support about that too.

(Also adding I have the newest version that’s Bluetooth, not sure if the other versions are impacted)

UPDATE: They emailed me and said it should be working again. Currently at work and can't try so please let us know if any you tried to test again and it worked!

I’ve been using LH strips for a while and recently started using Inito. This is my first cycle with it. Before Inito, I’d usually test LH after the gym in the morning instead of with first morning urine because I was up super early (around 5:30) and just didn’t want to deal with testing that early. That routine worked well for me, my cervical mucus usually lined up with whatever phase I was in, and I was able to confirm ovulation without any issues.

Since starting Inito though I’ve been testing with first morning urine, and now I’m a little confused. My estrogen is rising, but my LH keeps coming back suspiciously low. I’m pretty in tune with my cycle at this point since I’ve been tracking for a while, and based on how my body usually behaves, I’d expect my LH to at least be starting to rise by now.

Right now my LH is only 0.19 on Inito which is lower than yesterdays morning reading at 0.23 , and I also took a regular LH strip this morning that was low too. Yesterday I had a low LH result in the morning as well (0.23), then tested again that evening and it went up slightly to 0.27.

I know that’s not a huge jump but it’s enough to make me wonder if first morning urine just isn’t giving me the most accurate LH reading. Has anyone else had better luck catching their LH rise later in the morning or after first morning urine or is sticking to the morning urine the most accurate reading?