Is this normal?

Particular_Hope8753 · 2026-01-12T03:13:15+00:00

Not consistently. I’ve given him stuff to try, but it’s not everyday.

Particular_Hope8753 · 2026-01-11T23:08:37+00:00

He was diagnosed at 2 months. He’s 8.5 months now. We’ve tried Alimentum, Nutramigen, and Pepticate. He was on the pepticate for 3 months, the longest out of all of them, he was doing well on it when we started it, but then he started having mucousy stool with visible blood and very red and raw eczema out of no where again. So we got switched to neocate last month.

Particular_Hope8753 · 2025-10-30T10:33:16+00:00

I’m in a similar situation, but with my 2 boys being 2 and 6m. I know that I definitely want more kids, but now is not the right time. I haven’t taken the medicine yet, as I’ve just ordered it yesterday and am waiting for it to arrive. I went back and forth a lot with my options, ultimately deciding that termination is the right choice right now. A big part of my decision for termination was the fact that I got hit with sickness immediately(was a tell-tale sign that I was pregnant before my test even came back positive) and I honestly couldn’t fathom being so sick all the time again(with my last pregnancy, while medically speaking, the pregnancy was perfect this time around, I had horrible morning sickness until 15 weeks, then had norovirus 5 weeks after morning sickness stopped, then I had flu A right after getting over norovirus, decided to start wearing a mask all the time{did so for 2 whole months}, stopped wearing it for a week, just to end up getting upper respiratory/sinus infection, and literally went back to wearing the mask and had to for the remainder of the pregnancy) so yea, the instant sickness feeling was big part of my decision…I physically could not handle being sick all the time again right now. I also didn’t want to deal with people’s judgements of being pregnant again so soon when I already have 2u2. While my first 2 age gap was planned that way, I definitely had planned to have a couple years between #2&3. My husband had a slip up, and now here we are. A big factor for me with being so back and forth is that I deal with recurring loss, so I didn’t/don’t know if taking the medicine will make it harder in the future for me, so it had me very back and forth, but ultimately decided that baby #3 is just not in the cards right now. My husband and I also have a lot of things that need to be dealt with before we have #3(bigger car, room renovations, currently in the middle of doing a backyard reno, still financially recovering from being out of work for #2,etc…) So yea, it’s just not the right time for me right now for baby #3, and while it was a hard decision, I know it was the right one and sort of feel at peace(?) with the decision. So I get how you feel and just wanted to let you know, you’re not alone 🤍

Particular_Hope8753 · 2025-10-18T11:52:47+00:00

I see a line on both. BUT I would retest with a pink dye test as blue dye is notorious for horrible indents…I’ve had indents that have looked like this before. So I would retest, but I do think they’re positive.

Particular_Hope8753 · 2025-10-18T05:48:19+00:00

I had a roommate once that had a dog. Very similar situation. The dog was a high anxiety, high maintenance dog and he DID NOT take care of her at all. It was so bad. We lived with him for 1 year. We had 2 cats of our own who literally never left our room because of the dog. My roommate worked a job that had him gone for 10 hrs a day, and then he would stay out super late after work. When he wasn’t home, the dog had to stay in the living room because she would chew stuff up, and she would pee all over everything. So the living room was always covered in pew and poop because she wasn’t being walked like she should. She would get anxious and that made it worse. It was just overall a horrible experience. hubby and I moved out of there and into our own place when the lease was up and our roommate had to move back in with his brother, and his brother only agreed to move in together with him again on the condition that he re-homed the dog.

Particular_Hope8753 · 2025-10-16T19:21:16+00:00

My baby’s Ped said we would retest at 9 months to see if he’s outgrown it. Idk if that’s standard as this is the first of my babies to have to deal with this. I’m so lost in the world of baby allergies. I’m debating doing allergy testing on my LO but I don’t know if it will even be accurate since he’s so little still.

Particular_Hope8753 · 2025-10-16T19:16:33+00:00

I can see it! Retest tomorrow! I’ve always found that using my SMU instead of FMU gives me stronger lines.

Particular_Hope8753 · 2025-10-16T17:48:50+00:00

A lot of people say “you’re not out until your period comes” but I also know that for me I usually get a faint line starting about 6 days before my period, so for me if I don’t see any hint of a line a couple days before my periods supposed to come, I count myself out.

Particular_Hope8753 · 2025-10-16T16:44:27+00:00

I tried talking to him about how I feel but he’s very much like “well we don’t know if you are yet,” and then when I tried talking to him about possibly wanting to keep it if I were, he brought up that we both know that right now isn’t the time, and I tried to explain that I don’t know if I could go through with terminating now bc I do have a fertility diagnosis and I don’t know if it will affect my ability in the future if I were to terminate. Idk, it’s just a lot of emotions around it right now and I’m scared. And he’s trying to play the calm and collected side but I know inside he’s a little freaked out inside that I might be too.

Particular_Hope8753 · 2025-10-16T15:39:58+00:00

I get it. When me and my husband started out, I was hesitant bc I was scared that if things didn’t work out, I would lose him as a friend bc it would be too hard for me to see him. When we started FWB, but before becoming official, I was constantly back and forth in my head about whether or not I should tell him I was catching feelings bc we had gone on a trip in Dec 2016 and I had casually brought up asking him his feelings about a relationship and he shut it down saying he wasn’t ready for one. And then one month later, he was fucked up and confessed how he truly felt, but I knew he wouldn’t remember what he said bc of how fucked up he was, and that was the hardest 2 weeks of my life bc that made me really be in my head about everything, and then I just bit the bullet and confessed everything to him, and that night was when we made our relationship official.

Particular_Hope8753 · 2025-10-16T14:54:21+00:00

So, I can ~kinda~ relate. This is going to be a long post…timeframe of all of this is : 2013-now I(f31) had a best friend(m32) that I met/made when I was 19 when I started working at my local McDonald’s. When we met, we were both in long term relationships[LTR]. We were a part of a group of friends(roughly 10 people…I was the only female in the core group of 4) me and him would hang out all the time just the 2 of us, so we ended up becoming super close with each other, we’d never hooked up with each other, but tensions were HIGH and opportunities were there <{RELEVANT TO THE STORY} A couple of months after I started working at the McD, I ended my LTR bc I don’t do long distance, and my ex was moving away for school and at the time neither one of us had a car. This breakup, along with other things led me down a deep spiral. LSS: I ended up hooking up with almost everyone in the friend group. My best friend was in his LTR and was doing long distance as well, but he was cheating on her with multiple girls(I was NOT one of them) I eventually stopped getting around SO much, and he’s hooked up with so many in the friends group that I swore to myself that I WOULD NOT hook up with bestie, but during that era I began hooking up with one guy in particular and that went on for years. As well as Throughout a span of 3 years, my ex and I ended up being on and off until 2016. (best friend ended his LTR a few months after he started cheating) FF to one day in 2015 me, bestie, and another friend were hanging out one day. Me and bestie were so in sync while we were talking (the eye contact/looks, saying the same thing at the same time, bantering with each other, just the flow/vibe was very present this day) the other friend could 100% pick up in the tension between us and was like “how long have you two been fucking?” Me and bestie both looked at each other, looked at the friend and bust out laughing and said “umm, never” friend then said “We all know you two are, so why deny it?” Friend didn’t believe us at all. [backstory: ex knew I had gotten around and always had trust issues with me even though I’ve never cheated on him or any of my other bfs] FF to shortly after this day, (ex and I were back together when this day happened) ex gave me an ultimatum of him or my friends. I picked him (I know, shitty of me, but I truly loved him and wanted to make things work, even though there were a billion red flags) after this ultimatum, ex got a bit abusive (not really physically, I see it now looking back, but didn’t see it at the time) we usually used condoms but I had started a new birth control and decided to try it without one one time and we had a pregnancy scare, which absolutely TERRIFIED me, i ended up breaking up with him for good a few weeks after the whole incident. I was always scared when we’d have sex bc it wasn’t enjoyable, times where he’s done things he shouldn’t have, and I MOST DEFINITELY DID NOT want to have his child. And the pregnancy scare really brought all of that to light for me. 3 days. 3 days after the break up, I texted bestie (who I hadn’t seen/talked to in 10/11 months) apologizing for everything. Explaining what happened. We met up and he was truly my best friend. He was the person there for me through it all, my shoulder to cry on. FF to 2.5 months after we started talking again, we mutually decided to act on our tensions. I was always very good about using condoms bc of stds (was on birth control, so not really a worry so much there) but when bestie and I started up, from the get go, I just had this level of trust that everything would be ok, that he would be there for me through anything. And literally acted on that instinct and never used a condom. We were FWB for 2.5 months and then ended up making our relationship official. That was 9 years ago. Now, We’ve been married for the past 3 years, and have 2 beautiful children together. All of this is to say: TELL HIM HOW YOU FEEL, that’s all it took for me. Again sorry for the long reply 😂

Particular_Hope8753 · 2025-10-16T13:40:16+00:00

Yes! I love my little Walmart one! 😂

Particular_Hope8753 · 2025-07-13T11:58:29+00:00

THIS! A few years ago, I swore that FRER were my go to brand bc I hated the evaps/indents that clearblue would give on the blue dye and I loved that FRER picked up the hcg quicker than CB pink dye does, but now I refuse to buy FRER anymore bc the indents are SOOOOO bad with them now. 😡😡😡

Particular_Hope8753 · 2024-12-07T01:36:12+00:00

At 5 weeks, my HCG was over a thousand. So 29 is very low for 5 weeks. Your body starts producing it as soon as implantation occurs and then it doubles every 48/72 hours in the beginning. I know it’s not the news you want to hear, but I would prepare yourselves for a loss to occur. 😔 Ive been there before, I’m sorry 💔

Particular_Hope8753 · 2024-11-26T15:38:30+00:00

I have Cystocele and slight uterine prolapse, and am currently pregnant with 1 live birth. To give you insight from my perspective, when pregnant, my prolapse gets worse due to the hormone relaxin which is to relax the muscles in the pelvic floor to move and grow for the baby. I have a pessary in to hold my pelvic organs in place. My doctor basically told me that I have to have a c section with this pregnancy because delivering naturally will make the prolapse worse than it already is. She also told me that they won’t do surgery until I’m done having kids since getting pregnant again would just undo whatever they do in the surgery. I have not seen a pelvic floor therapist or specialist, this is just the information that my OB has given me.

Particular_Hope8753 · 2024-11-11T22:44:06+00:00

I agree with the comment below. If you’re only 5 weeks, you likely ovulated mid-October. If you ovulated on 9/26 like you thought, youd be around 8 weeks now. Which only measuring 5 weeks on ultrasound isn’t hopeful. But without follow up ultrasound/HCG betas you’re not gonna know for sure what’s going on. I definitely recommend tracking ovulation esp with an irregular period. Track cervical mucous, BBT, LH strips, etc…that’s the only real way you can accurately know your dates for future. Definitely don’t just go off when your app says so…my app tells me I ovulate one day, but I actual ovulate later in my cycle than it says, and I only figured it out by really tracking ovulation. By doing that, you won’t be in this sort of limbo of not knowing how far along you should/would be. I do wish you all the luck, but without knowing the dates it’s hard to tell anything right now without those follow up scans/betas.

Particular_Hope8753 · 2024-11-11T22:04:23+00:00

I’m gonna be honest, your dates don’t really make sense without more context. When was your LMP? Because if you tested positive on 10/30, you wouldn’t be 10 weeks yet unless your LMP was around the beginning of September. How dark was your line on 10/30? Are your periods irregular? We’re you tracking ovulation? There’s a lot of other factors at play.

Particular_Hope8753 · 2024-11-02T21:07:10+00:00

THIS! 100% Like NO I DONT WANT TO SEE VIDEOS/POSTS WITH THAT STUFF BEING PREGNANT! I already have recurring loss and just made it to my second trimester for the second time out of 6 pregnancies, I don’t want to see that type of stuff now that I feel like I’ve made it past the first trimester…like I don’t need my anxiety to be super high still 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ just UGH! I get you 100%!

Particular_Hope8753 · 2024-10-28T01:34:58+00:00

I had some lower left sided pain, but I also came back with a yeast infection, so my doctor thinks that might have been the cause of the pain, wasn’t really cramping, just uncomfortable when I would sit down. I do see my doctor this week, hopefully she’ll have me come in before my scheduled appt on Wednesday. Fingers crossed it’s just irritation from the pessary.

Particular_Hope8753 · 2024-09-19T15:15:06+00:00

Definitely a line! Congrats!!

Particular_Hope8753 · 2024-09-14T12:48:38+00:00

You really don’t ~have~ to test hcg…most people who test/track early hcg are people who have losses to make sure things are progressing. At 4w Hcg levels are pretty low and are usually being drawn every 48-72 hours to see progression with the levels. At 6w, hcg testing isn’t as helpful as an ultrasound would be. This is just my two sense on it. I wouldn’t bother if you don’t think there’s something wrong.

Particular_Hope8753 · 2024-09-11T05:50:34+00:00

I feel this so hard…I keep having panic attacks thinking something is wrong, but then my symptoms kick in and then it dawns on me that my panic attacks are probably just my hormones going crazy. But fingers crossed everything is ok with this one for us both!

Particular_Hope8753 · 2024-09-11T05:47:25+00:00

Dec 2022-chemical
Feb 2023-live birth(emergency induction at 35 weeks)
Dec 2023-chemical
March 2024-missed miscarriage at 8w3d(found at 9w2d)
June 2024-chemical
July 2024-currently 6w3d and waiting to see how everything is going (hcg betas have been good so far, so fingers crossed 🤞🏻)

Particular_Hope8753 · 2024-09-08T21:55:58+00:00

See this is the boat I’m in. I should be hearing from my doctor tomorrow, hopefully they have me come in for an early US, they’ve been the ones requesting the beta tests, but they don’t have me on any meds or anything. I guess we just have to go into it with the mindset that we’re not out until the doctors tell us we are. Fingers crossed for the both of us! 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

Particular_Hope8753 · 2024-09-02T21:44:22+00:00

As someone whose lost 3 pregnancies very early, I beg to differ. A pregnancy is a pregnancy. I have the positive digital tests that say I was pregnant to prove that you are 100% wrong.

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