I'm a small fat person pregnant for the first time, and I am really unsure how to best navigate the very specific recommendations around pregnancy weight gain.
For example, I typically do not monitor my weight at all but now the doctors are for sure, and I am wondering if I should too.
Does anyone have any recs for content or people you trust that talk about this?
I hope to god this isn't real? Pronounced "Wiley"
I am in my first trimester so I haven't announced that I am pregnant yet. One of my close friends is also pregnant, due ~2 months before me.
Recently she has shared her top five name choices and one of her picks is also our top choice for a boy (she knows she is having a boy, we won't find out sex until the baby is born).
Should I tell her that the name is also our top choice? I don't mind if we choose the same name, but I don't want to say nothing, have her name her child, and then immediately after I "copy" the same name. I think if I tell her, at least she can make her choice knowing we might also choose the name?
I think I have been having morning sickness (I am ~7w and pregnant for the first time) but it's noticeable that the main trigger for my nausea is gross places and things - not food or food smells. Has anyone else experienced this?
Non-food things that are really bothering me: a faint pet urine smell in the apartment we're subletting, my towel smelling mildewy after the shower, dog pee on the sidewalk, sitting on someone else's dirty couch, etc.
I have always been easily icked out by dirty spaces but it's never made me actually nauseous before. Maybe because my stomach is just on edge from the pregnancy hormones, that ick reaction tips it into nausea?
I am struggling to decide whether I would feel better and less obsessed with wondering what's going on with my cycle if I
I am very type A. I have OCD which makes me particularly prone to latch onto things that are uncertain and obsess over them. I currently have a lot of free time and brain space because I am working a pretty chill job lol.
From ~Sep. 2025 to May 2026, I didn't track anything besides the app-based prediction about my cycle. In that period I had one chemical pregnancy. This month (June 2026) I did OPK tests and checked my cervical mucus. I don't really know if it made a difference to how I feel because I didn't get a super clear OPK result and I don't really know how to detect the nuances of CM.
Has anyone tested this kind of dilemma out? How did it go for you? Did you feel less preoccupied when you tried gathering max info from tests, etc. or when you tried not to think about it too much? Should I try to get better at tracking next month or step back from it?
As the title says. I am currently staying in an Airbnb in New York City for the summer and this week I received a message in the Airbnb app from Airbnb support with a link to claim 2 free tix to an upcoming game.
I contacted Airbnb support directly because I thought maybe this was some kind of phishing scam? But Airbnb support confirmed the message is from them and the tix are legit (I am receiving them via the official FIFA app).
Did anyone else get this?! Why am I getting them?! I can't find anything about this online.
I didn't buy a "World Cup experience" or anything like that from Airbnb.
Found in my catholic grandfather's stuff, from around 1950.
I saw the "What is Abuse" subtitle and thought huh that is progressive (...assuming it would cover DV). No, it covers how even pulling out is an "abuse of nature" according to the bible.
I see my psychiatrist monthly for management of my prescribed pharmaceutical meds. Most months, she brings up a different supplement that she recommends I add. They're nothing crazy - vitamin D, fish oil, something called NAC, etc. Usually she also has a specific brand name she recommends but she doesn't have like an affiliate link, none of them are MLMs, etc. So I can't see any way that she is like making money from this or something nefarious?
But the fact that this happens like every month raises my antenna and I am wondering if there is something going on behind the scenes that I am just not figuring out that would explain this?
Besides obviously the very real possibility she is completely genuine and just a supplement believer!
edit: ty for all the responses, glad it seems like other people have had similar experiences and lots of regular explanations about this (like recommending a specific, trusted brand bc the industry is so unregulated). To clarify I am not worried these supplements are bad for you or anything (and I have taken most of them bc genuinely I do trust my doctors!), it was just the steady drip of new, branded supplement recs month after month that seemed odd to me