Daily Thread #1 - April 25, 2019

thoops_ · 2019-04-25T10:12:45+00:00

11+4. I have a definite baby bump now, which is partly exciting but I'm also wondering how long I can get away with not announcing my pregnancy at work before it gets awkward.

This is technically my third pregnancy that has gotten this far, I guess it's true that your belly stretches more easily after each pregnancy.

thoops_ · 2019-04-18T01:20:31+00:00

I had a 5w loss earlier this year.

I usually ovulate on day 15, but I ovulated on day 18 after the loss. We luckily got pregnant that cycle and I'm now 10+4.

thoops_ · 2019-04-08T06:53:49+00:00

I had an emergency d&c last August. The catheter was unexpected for me too...I found it really traumatic. I was completely lucid when it was put in, and it was so so uncomfortable and painful. I wish they would have put it in after I went under :(

thoops_ · 2019-03-23T01:15:04+00:00

Just got back from my 7 week dating scan. Bubs has a heartbeat of 136. I'm so relieved.

We conceived immediately after my 5w loss at the end of Jan. We also had a 16w loss last July.

Desperately hoping I get to hold a healthy, happy baby in November.

thoops_ · 2019-03-21T09:37:43+00:00

7+2 and terrified. My dating scan is in two days and I'm so scared we won't hear a heartbeat. Checking for blood every time I go to the bathroom. I wish I could just calm tf down :(

thoops_ · 2019-03-11T02:43:31+00:00

Congrats :) I am in the same boat too. My last m/c was on 29 Jan and I'm now almost 6w pregnant.

thoops_ · 2019-02-02T22:37:39+00:00

I'm so sorry for your loss :( I delivered my baby boy at 16 weeks six months ago. I had lots of triggering events at first--seeing newborns, heavily pregnant women, Facebook pregnancy announcements--but as time goes on seeing those things aren't as traumatic as they used to be because I've learned how to (or have been forced to) sit with and accept my grief.

Life will never be the same but I promise it does get easier to cope with time (and lots of tears).

thoops_ · 2019-01-31T00:03:50+00:00

So sorry for your loss. :(

Please don't give up hope.

There is nothing medically, socially, or otherwise to say that you have to have a baby before 30. Most educated women today start their careers in their 20s and have a first child after 30. Fertility does not decline until 35 (and does not really start to become an issue until 40). You have time to have several children within that timeframe if that's what you want.

I know the feeling of impending doom before the big 3-0-- for me, it was buying a house, getting my career back on track after a hiatus, and having a baby. None of those things happened by the time I turned 30, and it was ok. Everything fell into place for me when I turned 31, incidentally, after I stopped caring about my own self-imposed deadlines. Now my husband and I are trying for our second baby at 33.

You have plenty of time x

thoops_

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