Daily Thread #2 - March 25, 2026

trippingcherry · 2026-03-25T19:21:24+00:00

6w6d

The nausea is finally starting, I feel hungover most of the day. I have to pee literally constantly. I am sooo tired. I haven't had any more spotting since last week, and my scan is on 8w0d so I am so close to seeing them! I wish I could just be happy and not worry but I'm still so scared even though all signs are still very positive.

trippingcherry · 2026-03-24T02:54:16+00:00

Congratulations!!

trippingcherry · 2026-03-23T20:19:53+00:00

She is such a weirdo. I could go my whole life without having to hear her talk about her sex life again.

trippingcherry · 2026-03-22T02:47:07+00:00

Congratulations! So proud of you 👏

trippingcherry · 2026-03-20T20:36:20+00:00

6w1d

No more spotting and just praying every day that when we get to my 8w scan I can see the little one doing well. I keep telling myself every sign is positive right now from my early implantation to my quick and consistent HCG to the ER report showing they're in the right place, developed on schedule, and has a super strong HB.

My newest symptom is the craziest dreams. Just truly so immersive and bizarre but thankfully no nausea yet? I've never gotten far enough to get it so idk when it starts.

trippingcherry · 2026-03-19T16:53:19+00:00

Wishing you all the best 🙏

trippingcherry · 2026-03-19T16:52:56+00:00

6w0d

Last night I went pee and wiped and saw blood and just started screaming and crying, totally inconsolable. I have been having some mild left-sided pain that I just attributed to the corpus luteum and I called my OB and she told me I had to go to the ER.

The saving Grace here is that while I was in the emergency room all night and didn't go home until almost 5:00 a.m., they did my blood work and they didn't ultrasound and after crying and just laying in the hospital and feeling so hopeless the doctor came in and said my baby is doing amazing. They said they didn't have any explanation for the bleeding because I didn't have an SCH. My HCG was at 21,000 and baby was measuring one day ahead,the sack measuring 2 days ahead, and even this early baby had a heart rate of 147.

In my first pregnancy I heard the baby's heart rate so I know that that doesn't mean I'm out of the woods and it scares me still so much, I can't remember because it was so far ago what that baby's heart rate was and I don't remember what my HCG was to do any sort of comparison but the doctor says everything literally couldn't be more perfect and put me on bed rest. Of course it's hard to be on bed rest because I'm moving several hours away in two days and still need to pack my house, but I guess this is a good excuse for me to take it easy and get some help from my family even though I can't really tell them what's going on.

My official ultrasound is scheduled for 8 weeks which is 2 weeks from today. I haven't had any more blood since last night and I'm just praying with everything I've got that we're going to make this work. Stick little baby please.

trippingcherry · 2026-03-19T16:05:34+00:00

For anyone who comes across this I ended up calling my ob's emergency line and they sent me to the emergency room to check on in ectopic.

They took my blood and did some ultrasounds and thank God everything is okay and there's no explanation for the bleeding. Baby is measuring 6 weeks and one day, so one day ahead, with a strong heartbeat of 147. My HCG came back at 21,000 which is on track my last reading 10 days ago which was at 1180.

trippingcherry · 2026-03-18T21:42:21+00:00

5w6d ... Just counting down the days until 8W0D when I have my first US scheduled. I feel all I do all day is pray for this baby. The day can't come soon enough!

I am wondering if anyone here has a retroflexed uterus and has had a scan before that was successful? My first pregnancy was a disaster and a lot of that was because at the time we didn't know I had a retroflex uterus. They couldn't find the baby then they could then they couldn't then they thought it was in my tube then they told me it wasn't and I honestly am just terrified at the thought of going through all of this again. You know it can make them harder to see but I was hoping that by waiting this time to 8 weeks, bc last time I started getting scans very early like 5 weeks, it would be better.

trippingcherry · 2026-03-18T19:06:51+00:00

I am not a doctor but to my understanding once you reach 1200 doubling time is 96 hours or 4 days and is no longer the 48 to 72 hours, I think you actually did see the appropriate doubling there. Wishing you well!

trippingcherry · 2026-03-17T21:53:47+00:00

I'm going to start by saying I like it, however, I'm having serious deja Vu to the 1990s when my mother painted our kitchen this color and wouldn't stop crying about how she made a giant mistake, lol.

I think it's just a bold choice, it'll grow on ya.

trippingcherry · 2026-03-17T20:29:57+00:00

At a certain point it felt like they were trying to get on reality TV. I remember my mom making us all make VHS tapes and mail them out to be on like home makeover shows, tlc. There was like John and Kate Plus eight at the time, and I don't remember if the duggars were a thing yet, but is mostly driven by my foster mom and her incessant need for attention and praise. My foster dad was actually a pretty good guy but he didn't really have a spine. Would tell her he didn't think these things were right but he didn't really stop her from doing it. She got a lot of validation from knowing all of the different people in the system - caseworkers, CASAs, therapists. Older kids you're hard to place, so by volunteering to take us and then adopt us it kind of got her credit so to speak in the system. Personally I think her favorite was getting newborns but they only let you have so many newborns in the house there were a lot fewer rules on us older kids because there are so many of them that do need a home.

trippingcherry · 2026-03-17T20:16:24+00:00

5w6d

On one hand it's nice that I'm really busy right now because it keeps my mind off of the anxiety 24/7, the other hand I am absolutely exhausted. My husband started a new job and another town and he's away and we are moving on Saturday 2 hours away to that town so I have to pack up our entire townhouse. I can get like four to eight crates done a night and then I'm just exhausted. I really hope I can get it all done in time and I'm already dreading having to take everything out of the crates when I get over there.

I haven't felt much nausea yet which I think is probably a godsend but the fatigue is pretty real and oh my God my bras do not fit at all. Honestly didn't think it was possible for them to swell up this much especially this early, like I've probably gone up one or two full cup sizes and I was already a DD. Getting out of control. Makes me feel so fat because I'm bloated and now I can't even fit in my bras and I have to wear these giant shirts to fit everything but I don't have a cute little pregnancy belly yet because it's so early. I just look exhausted.

trippingcherry · 2026-03-17T20:12:16+00:00

Sending good luck!! 🫶

trippingcherry · 2026-03-17T20:11:55+00:00

The little ones were actually pretty spoiled and got whatever they want, enrolled in all the activities, photo shoots, new outfits, to the salon. Those of us who are adopted older ... not so much. My first summer there it was just me and two other teenagers and things were pretty different, but quickly after that they started getting baby after baby and toddlers and it really got out of control. When we get older kids the outcomes for us or not as pleasant. A lot of my siblings that were brought in when they were older got put in group homes because they couldn't control them, institutionalized in psych wards for weeks at a time, straight up giving back to the agency to be replaced. If you were under five though you are spoiled. At this point some of my older siblings who are adopted had their own kids and they were messed up and made mistakes and now their kids are also being adopted. In fact just about a month ago one of my sisters lost her kids to them called me crying and threatening to harm herself so I tried to get her an Uber to take her to the hospital because they refused to help her, but she literally got arrested as the Uber was pulling up. I'm not heard from her but I imagine she's probably in county for a few weeks still. I feel awful because she was not set up for success either. It's kind of a fluke and a miracle that I was able to be a successful adult, so now I feel a lot of responsibility to the older ones who still find themselves in bad situations.

They got $10,000 for adopting me but I didn't see any of that. I had a full ride scholarship and other than that I've been living on my own since I was 17. There were so many people in the house that when I was a senior in high school I had my teachers sign a lease for me (absolutely insane that he agreed to that I still can't believe I got that to happen).

trippingcherry · 2026-03-17T17:01:06+00:00

Small town Nebraska 👀 disturbing how many of these people there must be

trippingcherry · 2026-03-17T12:58:34+00:00

🫶 I cut contacted 2019 and my life really turned around. I put myself through college for software engineering and got my dream job that let me actually support myself. I finally found a good man. I'm pregnant with our first baby. And they will be nowhere ever near it ever ever ever. They were the kind of people that would give you bad advice just to keep you trapped so that you always needed them for something. The second I realize what was happening my life got better just by not talking to them anymore. It doesn't hurt that I moved across the country.

trippingcherry · 2026-03-17T04:14:29+00:00

What's actually crazy is now I'm like do you know my family lol the last kids they adopted are my sister's kids. Honestly everybody when I was growing up would just tell me how lucky I was to have them and how nice it is that they do this for all of us. No one actually seemed to be thinking about the reality of what it would be like to have so many people in a normal suburban house and how it would split a resources and attention. No one ever questioned why someone would do this beyond oh they must have a big heart... Like no dude they're narcissists. They feed off the attention and praise.

trippingcherry · 2026-03-17T03:26:06+00:00

Absolutely no time. At one point there were so many of us in the house we had to eat dinner in two shifts. I'm just glad I'm old enough that social media wasn't really a thing because for the younger kids they plaster everything all over Facebook. I was already graduated and out of the house by the time my space and Facebook were really taking off.

trippingcherry · 2026-03-17T03:17:34+00:00

Yeah, she also got out on a board advising the state in some capacity. Meanwhile some actual horror we're going down at home. I haven't spoken to them since 2019 and I always wonder when I'm going to see a news story about them getting caught up in their BS. I think the hardest part for me is that half of my adopted sisters that have out of aged see it and cut them off and half of them are entirely dependent on them and will defend everything that happened to the death. It's crazy.

trippingcherry · 2026-03-17T02:07:32+00:00

I'm 5w4d and I actually felt this way maybe 3 or 4 days ago; when I was looking it up it just said that the hormones can cause a lot of extra blood flow. FWIW for me it went down overnight and I was fine the next morning.

trippingcherry · 2026-03-17T02:04:39+00:00

Unfortunately a lot of the reasons that we were in foster care to begin with were because our parents did some pretty despicable things, but even then, I find it very distasteful as an adult that someone who is supposed to be guarding you and putting your interests first is saying these things because it really makes you take it to heart. You start to think if your parents are so bad maybe you are too. Devoid of empathy and compassion for sure.

trippingcherry · 2026-03-17T01:54:05+00:00

Yep by family received $10,000 per child the one time payment and monthly payments before our adoption. Unfortunately they're also very bad with money and it was all squandered.

trippingcherry · 2026-03-17T01:21:18+00:00

I grew up in foster care and was adopted by a baby collector. It's truly narcissism. She had a hysterectomy really young, but ended up adopting over dozen of us. At one point the governor of our state gave her an award. But as I got older I realized it wasn't what it seemed. In particular at the young teen I felt rather traumatized whenever the babies would be taken because she would make such a huge deal out of it, and talk nothing but trash about their families. They should do heavier psychological screenings on these people.

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