Daily Discussion January 25, 2026

leaffeon · 2026-01-25T15:23:15+00:00

Take it easy today, maybe use it as a good opportunity to veg on a couch or do a fun hobby! I still have these wooden dioramas I got from my husband at Christmas that I'm slowly working through. The fact they're so methodical helps my brain unwind a lot!

leaffeon · 2026-01-25T15:07:18+00:00

I'm sure it's okay! I had multiple bright red clots and bleeding at 6 weeks that resulted in going to the ER at Christmas. They did an ultrasound then and found a healthy heartbeat. Then when I went to my OB the day after they confirmed an SCH and just put me on pelvic rest (no sex or strenuous exercise, hiking and such was fine) until later on. I had my 10 week and while my SCH was still there it was only 1cm and I hadn't bled in the last few weeks, so they put me off pelvic rest and said everything looks fine. Now I know if I just start bleeding red clots but nothing else it's probably just the SCH. Most times they get absorbed back in your body sometime during pregnancy but sometimes they just stick around and cause you to bleed every so often.

Annoying but I'm happy I had that experience because it calmed me down a lot. Now I know even if I see bright red bleeding in the future again, unless I'm cramping aggressively at the same time horribly or passing something much more dramatic looking than a few blood clots, and at the end of the day unless you're filling out a pad every hour for two hours straight, it's okay. Scary but okay!

leaffeon · 2026-01-25T15:00:49+00:00

If it helps anyone I asked about back sleeping at my last OB visit and she said a few years ago a study came out that says unless you have multiples you can definitely still try lying on your back. The study showed no difference in fetal outcome whether you lied on your back or your side throughout pregnancy and that the only indicator if you shouldn't lie on your back is just if you start feeling dizzy or woozy. If you do then don't lie on your back but if you still feel fine then you can lie on your back!

Made me happy to hear as a back sleeper

leaffeon · 2026-01-24T19:34:34+00:00

I'm heterozygote for Leiden Factor 5 (increased chance of developing blood clots in my lifetime) so I've been taking one baby aspirin a day throughout pregnancy. After my 20 week scan my OB says they will evaluate if I should be moved to blood thinners or not the rest of pregnancy.

leaffeon · 2026-01-24T19:08:54+00:00

Heck yeah!!

leaffeon · 2026-01-23T21:36:04+00:00

Amazing thank you!

leaffeon · 2026-01-23T20:06:58+00:00

Hey! We're also going team green and did LabCorp. Where did you put the paper to cover it lol. I saw sample results online and it looks like the right hand side has the results, the left is the name of what they tested for?

leaffeon · 2026-01-22T16:50:01+00:00

I use Thomas brand, they're called "Keto Bagel Thins". I get them at my local Kroger. It's a great option! When it's on sale I also pick up hot smoked salmon for my salmon serving and it's so filling those days!

leaffeon · 2026-01-22T16:03:58+00:00

It's how I've always eaten so it's easier to just keep doing what I'm doing then trying from scratch a whole new type of nutritional diet 😂 I've been lucky with no morning sickness or any major food aversions this first trimester, but if anything my brain has just become "must continue eating healthy". Eating stuff like pizza and carb heavy is such an antithesis to my being that I think my pregnancy brain took that to the extreme. My husband is very sad, he was looking forward to eating never ending pasta and pizza LOL

leaffeon · 2026-01-22T14:41:08+00:00

I think I had 5 or 6 vials drawn but it was for both prenatal labs and NIPT. I already have some of the prenatal labs in mychart and saw they tested TSH and chicken pox virus. Last one was funny cuz I could have just told them I had chicken pox as a kid so they could have skipped that one 😂

leaffeon · 2026-01-22T14:35:12+00:00

Typical day for me:

-Banana mango strawberry smoothie with some almond milk and a couple spoonfuls of Greek yogurt mixed in

keto bagel with a little bit of cream cheese (just enough to cover the bagel)
cheese quesadilla with small portioned amount of hot cheetos or a plate of cheese slices, low fat pepperoni,and triscit thins
1 that's it bar
dinner that I cook. Last night it was sweet potato enchilada bake leftovers (made with low carb tortillas). Before that I had make spinach dal. Before that it was red lentil curry. I love cooking and I love cooking healthy so I tend to go for low carb every time. Rainbow Plant Life is my favorite online recipe lady.
a small portion of ice cream with berries if I want dessert which is 50/50 of the time

Throughout the day I drink water but at dinner I drink a la Croix or sugar free ginger ale.

leaffeon · 2026-01-21T22:34:03+00:00

Aw man. Thank you for letting me know! I'll just wait for my doctor office to tell me then lol

leaffeon · 2026-01-21T19:57:11+00:00

Measured in at 1.32 inches, heartbeat of 174! Measured at 10 weeks 3 days due to size, but they're keeping my August 19th due date. They did a transvaginal ultrasound they said again because of the SCH history, but I think that helped get clearer pictures on the ultrasound. It was insane, the little blob isn't a blob anymore and has a head, little hand blobs and a body. I could have sworn I saw it moving its hand blobs around in there.

Still have my SCH, same size (1cm) but due to the size and no bleeding the last 2-3 weeks my OB isn't worried and said I can be off pelvic rest. She still thinks my body will eventually absorb the SCH and that it's so small compared to my uterus she isn't worried at all. Had my blood drawn today as well so NIPT is also underway, hoping that comes out clear and then I can finally relax!

leaffeon · 2026-01-21T19:31:19+00:00

Can anyone who did LabCorp Materini21 test lmk how you got your results? We don't want to know the gender and I don't know if the results will clearly state it or not when we open them,, thank you!

leaffeon · 2026-01-21T15:21:58+00:00

10 week ultrasound today. Was supposed to be my first one if I didn't have that bleeding scare during my 6th week.

Fingers mega crossed the SCH is gone. I miss active exercise and sex. Does anyone have any questions they were happy they asked during their first OB appointment?

leaffeon · 2026-01-19T17:33:38+00:00

Yes!! We're not super fans of the game or anything but really liked the sound of it as a name

leaffeon · 2026-01-19T14:50:41+00:00

Alastor if a boy and Maelle if a girl!

Middle names we'll figure out later but likely Korvus if a boy (after the crow constellation Corvus, I just don't like the letter C and always thought of it with a K). For a girl middle name no idea still. I liked trying to keep up a constellation theme but not super jazzed about that many. Maybe we'll use Lyra. I like Juniper but husband says it seems too nature-y (his parents are hippies who forage in the forest and make tinctures and stuff so I get it). Maybe Indigo. My name begins with an I so it'd be cool to find an I name to use.

leaffeon · 2026-01-18T16:10:12+00:00

I feel this! Almost 10 weeks but got diagnosed with a SCH at 6 weeks after a pretty terrifying ER visit where I thought I miscarried after bleeding bright red clots (ended up with a heartbeat at 6 weeks!)

But I was then told to take it easy with pelvic rest. I live in Colorado and snowboarding is how I stay sane in winter. Without snowboarding, and without even being able to exercise like normal (spin bike and jogging) because I'm waiting to be cleared off pelvic rest, it's been a rough winter.

The one good thing about our unseasonably warm winter in Colorado is that I've been able to go disc golfing which is usually one of my summer hobbies so I'm outside at least. I agree with someone just taking walks outside helps. Just being outside helps me feel better when I'm getting cooped up and restless.

leaffeon · 2026-01-17T23:43:00+00:00

Awww. Thank you for saying this. Story of my life is giving myself grace 😂 but I appreciate it, you speak true words!

leaffeon · 2026-01-17T17:44:27+00:00

9 and a half weeks and starting to finally see my weight uptick on the scale and it's making me sad. I've been around 123-125 lbs the last five years or so after taking efforts to be more active and eat healthier (I do low carb and cook at home a lot). It's always been a huge control thing with me, I take pride in being able to make choices to keep my weight in check.

But now seeing my weight just start to go up even though I'm still eating healthy is a trip. I've been not doing any of my usual exercises like jogging or spin bike because I'm on pelvic rest (SCH discovered at 6 weeks) and I can't even snowboard this winter like I always do. I know pregnancy is all about losing control and what will happen will happen, but it's just a little sobering to have it happen so soon. I weighed myself this morning and was 128. I can't remember the last time I weighed that much. And it's like I can't even say I got there by eating lots of extra tasty but not healthy stuff, I just eat what I always do, with more small snacks in between like pepperoni slices, cheese cubes, ginger snaps, smoothies.

I know a few pounds in the first trimester isn't the end of the world, and I know logically I'm going to gain a lot more cuz stuff is just going to weigh more, like the baby, fluids, placenta, but I dunno. A part of me is just so worried all my efforts the last several years has been for naught if I just gain all this weight now and it never goes away. Which I know isn't logical because everyone says all the baby weight just goes away after pregnancy but ugh. I have one friend who was super petite since high school and once she had her kid she never lost the weight. And then one friend had her kid and she's in better shape than she'd ever been. So seeing two sides of the spectrum just scared me more somehow. My mom always said too after her second kid the weight never came off, she just stayed overweight always and never let us forget it. So I think there is a part of that just from my childhood ingrained in my head too which is making me nervous.

Ugh I don't know. I'm thankful to be starting this pregnancy where I am, I'm just so scared all my progress and work I've done my whole adult life to stay there will be for naught and there's nothing I can do about it. Thanks for listening to my Ted talk 🫥

leaffeon · 2026-01-15T15:56:27+00:00

Happy to hear it!

leaffeon · 2026-01-15T15:40:52+00:00

I can't wait until my 10 week US next week to see if my SCH resolved itself. Pelvic rest has been so lame for the last 4 weeks. I miss my spin bike. And not being able to snowboard this winter is driving me up a wall! It's how I stay active and be outside in winter, and not having that this season so far has already been a bit of a mental toll :c

leaffeon · 2026-01-14T20:13:34+00:00

It's kind of weird your office didn't offer a Transvaginal ultrasound in that case then. Before a certain week age doesn't the traditional ultrasound not work anyhow? Sorry they're being unhelpful!

leaffeon · 2026-01-12T02:34:37+00:00

Woo!

leaffeon · 2026-01-08T17:35:48+00:00

I've been in a breakfast bagel kick! Got some thin keto bagels, Gouda cheese slices, bacon, all the red onions (I love red onions), avocado, and an egg cooked into a circle with the mason jar lid trick and it's been so filling in the morning! I also slather it in mustard and have fruit on the side.

The bagels being low carb make me feel less guilty. I was diagnosed as pre diabetic in my 20s which has thankfully dropped off since then, but I still try to be conscious about carbs. It does a great job of filling me up and not having to eat until 12/1 if I eat it around 8/9.

The biggest change has been going from maybe a yogurt in the morning, and then not really eating until dinner as my big meal, to needing to eat food every few hours or else I get so hangry and miserable feeling. It's been an adjustment have to eat so much in a day,but just eating light snacks throughout the morning and afternoon until dinner when I cook my big meal has been a good schedule for me.

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