I’m 12 weeks 2 days. I had a great ultrasound at 9 weeks 3 days but haven’t heard or seen baby since. My symptoms are gone and I genuinely forget I’m pregnant all the time. My clothes still fit the same. I feel the same. It’s just a weird time.
My husband and I grew up watching The Parent Trap and ironically both have loved the name Hallie because of it. It’s always been a contender for me, and even more so as an adult. I love girl names that aren’t overly feminine sounding, but also aren’t directly boy names. I can picture Hallie being a sporty girl like I was growing up, but I can also see it being a name for a typical girly girl as well. I think it’s so versatile. Thoughts?
My OBGYN ordered my nipt yesterday. I had other bloodwork that required fasting so I went into my hospital lab this morning for my prenatal bloodwork and my nipt. Where will the results eventually be posted? I know it can take a 7+ days but I want to make sure I’m checking the right place for the results. I made a quest portal account but how will they know to post it to there since it was drawn at my hospital lab?
So I am recently pregnant with our third baby. He was planned. My husband got a hefty raise last year that has cushioned us enough to go for it. My husband and I have two boys together and this will be our third son. He makes good money and we get by fine but definitely aren’t super well off. If he works overtime one day it’s an extra $400. He sometimes gets lots of overtime and sometimes it’s none but things balance out. To explain it further some months are tight but other months we can save a few thousand. It just depends. Things have been slow lately. I have been a stay at home mom since our oldest was a year old. I work odd jobs here and there when they are in preschool but nothing consistent. My job didn’t pay enough to justify childcare for two, now three.
Our boys are on paid CHIP for insurance. He was submitting their renewal at the beginning of the month and there was a section to verify any pregnancies. He added our pregnancy to the form. The following week we got a call that I’d be dropped from our PA state marketplace insurance and I’d have to go on Medicaid. I guess we qualify by being just a few hundred under the max threshold.
I feel like I don’t really need this. I feel like others need this way more than I do. We were fine on our state insurance and now I feel like I’m taking something that doesn’t belong to me. Has anyone else been in this situation? Does the guilt go away?
It’s been a whole mess with insurance lately, but basically I was on my state’s marketplace insurance. I realized I qualified for Medicaid so I signed up. I didn’t know my primary insurance would drop me, but it’s fine since I’m still covered by Medicaid. I’m now hearing Medicaid doesn’t cover NIPT testing. My old insurance did and my testing is next week. I’m so confused now.
It seems like things have really been hitting us hard lately. We are recently pregnant which is exciting. I applied for Medicaid since we’re just below the income threshold and we were approved. In the past with my other two pregnancies I was able to stay on Pennie (PA’s state insurance) and be on Medicaid for my pregnancy. We learned today, after being approved for Medicaid yesterday, that I cannot stay on Pennie. Because of this, my husband’s premium has nearly doubled without me being on Pennie with him. Me switching to Medicaid was supposed to save us money by not having deductibles, co pays, out of pocket costs, etc. It’s going to cost us significantly more now. I am sick to my stomach because we are stuck now. There’s literally nothing we can do but pay double our insurance costs every month until January when my husband can get a cheaper plan. I fucking hate health insurance in America. We were financially doing fine before this. We lived comfortably on my husband’s base salary, but he often received a lot of overtime which went straight to savings and extra activities. We now can’t live on his base pay with our insurance doubling and it seems like we will be relying on overtime for the time being, which of course has been scarce lately. I’m going to try to pick up weekend shifts for now but I have no idea who is willing to hire a pregnant person. Wish us luck I guess.
I am 10 weeks 5 days with baby #3. I had a perfect scan at 9 weeks 3 days with a baby measuring on track with a heart rate of 180bpm. My symptoms suddenly disappeared at 10 weeks exactly and haven’t returned. My next scan is two weeks from Monday and I’m feeling so stressed out. I keep feeling cramps and it has me worried.
I have a 2012 with 151k miles on it. A few months ago we had our check engine light come on with the code P0404 which relates to the EGR valve. The light turned off and everything drove well so we let it go for the time being. It turned on again yesterday with the same code so we decided to tackle it ourselves. Fortunately the light turned off again by the time we got home but we still decided we’d at least clean it and see how things went. We also changed the gasket.
We cleaned it and the entire van seems to run so much smoother. I didn’t realize how shaky it was before. We are just wondering if it was the carbon buildup causing the problems or if the whole valve is going bad. Wouldn’t the check engine light coming on and off on its own indicate it’s an intermittent issue like the plunger sticking? We just don’t want to rush ahead and pay over $500 for the shop to install a new one when it isn’t needed but we also don’t want to cause any long term damage to our van. Anyone have any experience with this issue?
This is our third rodeo and it didn’t cross my mind to have him come to my first appointment next week, plus someone has to watch our two boys.
I really don’t want him to come since I have terrible white coat syndrome and I feel like I’ll be more stressed with someone there watching my entire appointment. He will obviously come to the anatomy scan. Is this odd?
We have two very active and ravenous boys. They’re 7 and 5. We have a pantry inside with cereal, granola bars, oatmeal, graham crackers, and all of my cooking and baking stuff. It’s not locked and always accessible. Our fridge is constantly stocked with fruit, veggies, yogurt, cheese, etc that they have constant access to. We have a garage cabinet with chips, cookies, crackers, soda, etc that they have access to throughout the week, but it stays locked. They have to have permission for those snacks. We almost always say yes when they ask at appropriate times. It’s locked because when they had open access to it, they’d take bags of chips outside and graze all afternoon and be stuffed by dinner time. They struggled to self regulate and we couldn’t be on top of them at all times so we put the boundary down. There’s no restriction, just learning when is a good time for junk food vs when is not.
Our neighbor was over talking to my husband and my 7 year old asked for a snack from the garage pantry. It was after dinner so he said yes. He grabbed the key and unlocked it and my son grabbed a snack and ran off. She said “You lock up their food?!” My husband explained the situation but she was still appalled. We didn’t know what to say. Is this weird? Bad? Anyone else do something similar?
I have two boys and I’d genuinely be thrilled with a third boy. I feel like I’ve got the boy stuff figured out and I’d love for my boys to have a little brother to teach. I’m not super girly myself so I feel like I’ve thrived in the world of raising boys.
That being said, I have an extremely strong intuition it’s a girl. I have no clue why. I’d be thrilled with a girl as well and I truly do not have a gender preference, but it just seems like any time I think of this baby I automatically think girl. I felt similarly with my boys and just knew. Has anyone had strong intuitions with their babies?
For all three of my pregnancies I have chosen to stay away from bagged lettuce to avoid e. Coli, listeria, and other ugly GI issues. I’ve eaten lunch meat without any concerns. I wonder why this is.
I am due with number 3 in February. My first two were inductions at 37 weeks. My first was traumatic and LONG. I started my induction on a Sunday night and he wasn’t born until Wednesday morning. I pushed for 3 hours and he still wouldn’t budge so he was born via vacuum assist. My second was a very fast redemption birth. I was induced at 12pm on a Thursday and he was born that same day at 11pm. Active labor started at 8pm, and I only pushed for 15 minutes.
I would be ecstatic to have another birth like my second, or even faster for that matter. What’s your succession look like?
I’ve been having some cramping in my stomach and pelvic region. Right now they are starting to bother me but I can’t tell if it’s my uterus or colon. It’s been nearly constant since I found out at 4 weeks.
I was prescribed 5000iu of vitamin d3 about 2.5 years ago because of low-ish levels. I noticed how much better it made me feel and it also regulated my periods so I just continued taking it. I recently learned that this is way too high (especially since my prenatal also has 800iu) and I’ve been taking it daily since I found out I was pregnant. I’m starting to worry and spiral a bit that I may have harmed my baby. I also recently learned I was taking too much magnesium glycinate (I was taking 630mg but went down to 400mg after learning what the safe dose was). Should I have bloodwork done to make sure I’m okay?
I take 630mg of elemental magnesium for my blood pressure. My one doctor says it’s fine to continue. The other days it exceeds the 350mg daily dosage.
It’s just weird. I don’t feel like myself at all. I feel like I’ve been trudging through the last week (when my symptoms started) in a weird mindset. I feel completely out of it and I’m ready for the first trimester to be over.
I am 6 weeks 1 day today. I didn’t do betas but my pregnancy tests progressed nicely over a 2 week period. I was at the pool today and was suddenly hit with a sharp gas pain between my left ribs and my iliac crest. I could feel gurgles so I thought it was gas pains. I eventually passed some gas and it went away for a bit. Once we started driving home it started hurting and gurgling again. Once I passed gas again it felt better. I got home and went to the bathroom. I didn’t have any bleeding and had a little soft stool. I’m laying it bed now and I think everything feels okay but I’m a bit freaked out. I’ve read some posts on here where people thought they just had gas but it was ectopic. What’s your experience? Should I get checked just to be safe?
My cousin avoids gluten and eggs and I’d like her to be able to have the foods I’m bringing to our family reunion next week. I’m making pasta salad so I need something yummy and as close to regular pasta flavor and texture as possible. I’m also making a fruit pizza so a gluten free sugar cookie recipe would be appreciated!