u/mantalight

I recently went on vacation and stood in a hot tub for about 10 minutes. Just my legs, feet to about mid thigh. I didn’t sit in it and thought that brief hot tub exposure was fine when pregnant as long as you didn’t fully sit in it or let your stomach soak in it.

While I was resting after and scrolling Reddit, I came across a post about how you absolutely can’t have any exposure to hot tubs when pregnant because they’re too hot, even if it’s just a few minutes or it’s just your legs, on and on…

Is this true?! Have I put my baby at major risk? I thought brief standing exposure was totally fine! I’m 17 weeks. 😩

Starting to book our baby moon and I always book hotels with swimming pools, but have never been in one while pregnant. Is there anything suggesting not to swim in hotel pools when you’re expecting?

I’ll be around 5 or 6 months but I lost our firstborn at 5 months so we never made it to a babymoon. We don’t know what happened to her so I’m trying to play on the safe side as much as I can, so if I can’t swim I just don’t want to spend the extra money on a hotel with a pool!

I don’t care much about the specifics I mostly just like the cute little bits about how big baby is. My fav from last pregnancy has been discontinued and I haven’t found another I like as much!

I’ve never really been a hungry person, I skip meals regularly because I just forget to eat or am not hungry.

I’m trying to be better because I’m 11 weeks pregnant and know that baby needs nutrition, but I’ve also had some bad nausea and have thrown up pretty much daily the last couple weeks which is also turning me off to eating.

Sometimes I’ll wake up and just not eat for a few hours because I don’t get the signal that I’m hungry, and then I feel awful like I’m neglecting my baby and my body.

This isn’t an unhealthy relationship with food or my weight or anything, I don’t have a problem with that at all and when I do eat a lot it’s usually not the healthiest options 😂

Does anyone have any tips on how to get better at eating more regularly and consistently? Or even just sooner after I wake up when I really don’t want to because I don’t feel well and am scared to throw up or make it worse?

I really feel like I’m failing this poor baby and my body but I just have no energy or drive to do anything.

My 1st pregnancy was basically a breeze (TW loss) until she passed away in utero at 5 months. This pregnancy has been so different, which I knew it could be but WOW is it ever!

I never even threw up the 1st time around and I’ve done it every day this week, and I’m almost 11 weeks! All food tastes awful, I feel disgusting all the time, I’m totally failing at even getting decent steps in, I’m just feeling so uncomfortable and gross all the time.

I’m off work for the summer too, which isn’t helping because I never really need to be anywhere at a specific time. I mostly just nap, try to eat and drink, cry or throw up, feel bad that I’m not eating enough or drinking enough or doing enough physical activity, repeat.

I think I just need some reassurance that I’m not ruining my pregnancy or baby by not being able to push myself harder 🥲

OBGYN found baby on the Doppler today! I’m so excited but the heartbeat seemed crazy high 😂 anyone else have this high of a heartbeat?! I know they can be higher earlier, and they didn’t seem concerned but this seems super high!

TW MMC

I had a UTI around 12 weeks in my 1st pregnancy and she passed away in an MMC discovered at 18 weeks.

It took 18 cycles to conceive again and now I’m 10 weeks with her little sibling, and have another UTI.

I was super careful this time around and don’t know how I got another one, but I think I’m unnecessarily stressed out about it.

Hoping to hear positive outcomes from others in similar situations 😃

TW MMC

I had a UTI around 12 weeks in my 1st pregnancy and she passed away in an MMC discovered at 18 weeks.

It took 18 cycles to conceive again and now I’m 10 weeks with her little sibling, and have another UTI.

I was super careful this time around and don’t know how I got another one, but I think I’m unnecessarily stressed out about it.

Hoping to hear positive outcomes from others in similar situations 😃

8+4

What are we doing for a stomach that is just never happy?

It grumbles and aches like it’s hungry all the time, but everything sounds and tastes gross. I force it down anyways, and then it grumbles and aches anyways. I eat too much, it’s sore. I don’t eat for too long, it’s sore. I eat junk food, it’s sore. I eat a good balanced meal, it’s sore.

I feel crampy and classic “stomach ache” 90% of the time. It’s affecting my mood, my sleep, my ability to function. Does anyone have any magical ideas to help this go away 😭

I had a reassuring scan at 6+2 where baby was measuring 6+0 and had a heartbeat of 105.

I have another one on Monday and I can’t shake the wonder about if it’ll be bad news.

This is a trauma response because after multiple great scans, I lost my firstborn to a MMC at 18 weeks in 2024. She was a 1st try baby and this sibling took 18 months to conceive so that adds a layer too.

I have no reason to believe anything is wrong, but I didn’t then either. How do you move past this? I know that even if the scan is good news I’ll feel this way again at the next one, I’m not naive. I just need to learn how to let go and let whatever is going to happen, happen.

I’m really good at that in theory but not so good in practice. What do you do to distract yourself or understand that what’s going to be will be?

What are we actually getting down through morning sickness that’s really more like all day sickness?

I don’t actually throw up (just feel like I’m going to constantly) and all food sounds and tastes horrible, but I keep choking it down for the sake of eating (and to avoid the awful crampy nausea I get when my stomach is too empty) but it feels like no matter how much I eat or drink I’m just a hungry, stomach grumbling, nauseous mess all day.

How do you cope with being hungry all the time to the point of nausea when no food sounds or tastes decent? I feel like I’m just torturing myself every time I try to eat 😂 at this rate this baby is going to be made out of chips, fast food burgers, water, and dreams 😭

I had a small SCH, about blueberry sized, at a 6w2d scan where baby had a heartbeat of 105 and was measuring well at 6 weeks. I’ve never had an SCH before but have had an 18 week MMC so this is my rainbow baby and I’m obviously a touch anxious. That baby was also a 1st cycle try and this one took 18 cycles.

My doctors said to just carry on as usual with no restrictions. No pelvic rest, no lifting issues, sex is fine. I feel like everything I’ve read about SCH before says to take at least some precautions. Has anyone else just carried on as usual or been told to? How did it go for you?

My firstborn in 2024 was a 1st cycle conception, and an 18 week MMC. She tested and scanned perfectly multiple times, and never found out why she died.

I’m now 7 weeks pregnant with her little sibling, who took 18 cycles to conceive, and I’m trying very hard to let go of the anxiety because what happened last time was so uncommon, and the odds of a healthy pregnancy are much greater than a loss at this point because I had slow but still good line progression, doubling hcgs, and saw a heartbeat of 105 at a 6 week reassurance scan. I don’t have any worrying symptoms either, just nausea and the odd cramp/general discomfort.

Even with all of that on my side, I still can’t help but being nervous. I’m not good with the unknown so just trusting that everything is going well has been really hard for me. I also have a small SCH this time which I didn’t have before so that’s uncharted territory for me. My doctor said not to worry about it and just carry on as usual but that seems stressful.

Hope you’re all having nice, calm weekends and not overthinking like I’m sometimes guilty of 😅

I booked a massage for this week months ago, before getting pregnant. Now I’ll be 6 weeks when it happens. I’ve had 1 loss before, an 18 week MMC for unknown reasons.

Has anyone gotten any advice from their doctors about massage safety in the 1st tri?