That’s it. 17w here and baby girl is getting super active. Anyone ever feel kicking in their butthole? I feel the kicks from the front, but there’s some weird double reaction where I feel it in my butt too. Thought it was funny and figured she’d just shaking up her environment and I can feel it everywhere.

Did not feel this with my first boy.

I don’t know how to explain it and Google has been no help the last few weeks with this. Every time I have a bowel movement it feels like my stomach is ripping down the middle from the inside. As someone who’s suffered from IBS my whole life I know constipation pain and this is not that. I’m not even constipated but as soon as I feel the poop moving down it feels like the middle of my belly is being sliced open from the inside. Maybe it feels like round ligament pain? Idk I just know I have to grip the toilet seat until the stool passes because it’s so excruciating. After I’ve passed the stool the pain is gone immediately. I am not straining to go either. I can tolerate it, if it’s normal but I’ve never seen anyone post about this…anyone else? I’m 23 weeks today. It’s maybe been going on for about 6-7 weeks.

So I’m on my third pregnancy and everything is great, thankfully! I’m 21w4d but I’m starting to worry about my weight. With my first pregnancy I went from 104 to 145. 145 to 165 with my second, and I’m currently around 158-160 and since I still have a ways to go, I’m worried about the stretch marks and all other changes my body will be going through for a third time. I also feel like I have more belly fat this time around like I’m less firm and I guess that’s really my concern - I don’t know what I need to do in my postpartum care to help tighten my skin along with a workout routine (when able) to minimize my pooch as much as I’ll be able to. Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated! TIA ❣️

how soon can mood swings start after conception? any other early symptoms that happen in the first couple weeks? just curious!

TLDR: is it possible to develop pre-eclampsia during labor?

I’m pregnant with my second and every visit to the dr so far, I’ve been talked to about the gestational hypertension/pre-e I developed with my first. However, the only high BP reading they ever got was when I was in labor after a failed epidural and I was laying on my side on the blood pressure cuff trying to get the epidural to work. My BP at my 39 week appointment was 114/72 and normal every appointment before and after then. Is it really possible to develop pre-eclampsia in labor but have normal BP readings before/after? Has anyone else had an experience like this?

I'm 8w1d pregnant. 2.5 weeks ago I came down with something. Mild sore throat, mild cough, off and on aches, fever and just felt like poop. I tested negative for covid, flu and RSV. felt better for a few days then this Friday I had aches, sore throat, SOB, light headed and today my nose is so stuffy. My throat still hurts but no fever or aches. I also get incredibly anxious when sick because I'm afraid of pneumonia and stuff due to being pregnant. I didn't get sick when I was pregnant with my daughter besides a mild cold and flu season has only just begun. I can't eat well or hold down my prenatal due to morning sickness. I'm miserable HELP. I've been in bed since Friday.

I’m healthy, no med changes, no migraines. No big changes I can think of. But now coffee smells bad to me like it did when I was pregnant!! Took a test and it was negative but still early.

Mommas, is it ok to get a Brazilian wax during pregnancy? I’m 12 weeks and I’m already having trouble getting around there!

I’m currently 16 weeks and had 2 MCs before. I did all that I can to get pregnant and have been spending every minute of it with high anxiety.

I’ve been diagnosed with an SCH at 6weeks and have been taking it easy since then. At 14 weeks, the Dr saw multiple placental lakes and a placental cyst while the SCH is shrinking and scared me with all possible outcomes.

Now at 16 weeks, I tested positive for bacterial vaginosis (BV).

How bad can this go right ? I feel helpless and it is getting increasingly difficult for me to keep up positive hope. Don’t know if anyone else had these situations but I’m looking for any kind of encouragement as I feel defeated and demotivated 😞

How accurate are anatomy scan, fetal weights compared to baby birth weight? My baby is measuring in the 12 percentile, but I feel like he is gonna be bigger than that. The weight said that he was measuring 5 lbs. 7 oz. on the ultrasound but I don’t have a lot of fluid and my belly is huge so it doesn’t make sense that he would be very small

I eat really well and exercise one hour on the beach every second day (I was doing a lot more but since being pregnant I feel so weak 😭) . My BMI is abit high and was weighing 84kilograms at 14 wks pregnant. Now I'm 22 weeks and definitely look much bigger. My bum and my back have become one at this stage and it's really triggering my body image. I am on medication for epilepsy so that probably does not help with weight gain since I had to increase the dose with pregnancy. I basically eat snacks during the day. I'm not a big day eater. Before pregnancy I was intimittant fasting for 5 yrs. Not eating during the day and just eating all my calories at night. So it's difficult for me to eat full meals during the day but I definitely try. I eat nut bars, fruit, mini salads, yogurts, etc.things that are healthy but small quantitys. but I'm trying.then at night I eat a full meal. I try to add meat and salad with some form of carbs like a side of pasta or bread as well. But I am still gaining weight. I don't mean just my Belly ether. Literally everywhere! And it looks awful. I can't even look myself in the mirror anymore... I literally look like a candle allelted and fused together 🤦🏻‍♀️I love my baby but always struggled with body image. Is it normal to be gaining weight during pregnancy regardless of diet and exercise?

On my 8th week ultrasound doctor was unable find the heartbeat which we heard during my last ultrasound. I did not have any spotting or bleeding, so looks like a silent miscarriage. Doctor later discussed all the three options - natural, medicinal and d&c. My husband is out of town and will not be back in a another 3 weeks or so. I am now confused on which route to take and how to manage this.

20 weeks with my second baby. I wanted to breast feed my first but he was too much of a hungry boy that he wouldn’t latch. I’ve watched some videos on it but would like some other people’s experiences. Biggest issue with my first was struggling to hold him in the right position

Car seats and helmets are two areas where I don’t get them used or hand-me-down. My partner’s friend offered us a car seat that his baby used. He’s getting it out of storage. That right there makes me suspicious. Even if it’s clean and never been in an accident, don’t these things expire? I’ve made my stance clear but he doesn’t seem to care. Am I the asshole for not wanting a used car seat?

Hello moms and moms-to-be I'm due in the mid of next year and my husband just said to me yesterday that he's gonna call his mom over to live with us for 3-4 months, starting at the time of delivery. He said that it's our first baby and as new parents, we wouldn't know the first thing about taking care of a baby and having his mom around would really help us. In my defense, I said to him that nobody knows how to take care of a baby the first time they have one. But when people have babies, they just figure it out together step by step. And nobody really "needs" anyone to "help" with the baby. Also I really wanna be alone with my baby for atleast the 3 months of my maternity leave and after that, we'll call the grandma over to take care of the baby (grandma lives in our home country. She'll have to fly to the US). Also, I don't want anyone on my head 24/7 telling me what I'm doing wrong because obviously, being a FTM, I would be learning a lot of stuff and I want to be alone at that time with my husband and baby. So I have 2 questions from all you girlies here: 1- the already moms here, please guide me if I'm wrong in thinking that we (my husband and i) can take care of our baby ourselves without any help. Or would the help be actually be needed ? 2- If I'm not wrong in wanting some alone time, then how do I convince my husband without it turning into a fight? He's the only child of his mom and she was a single mother. I know she's desperately waiting to be a grandma and she's more excited than us. She's a very loving mother-in-law and an amazing person. I would definitely love for her to take care of our baby when I start working. But I really want 2-3 months alone with the baby.

Sorry for the long post guys. Thanks for coming this far❤️

Just want to know people's OPS on this situation, so title explains most of it, GF Sister has mental health problems such as breaking out in tears as well as her emotions can be all over the place,

she has bipolar, also forgot to mention she has a weed addiction. she's known to makes stupid decisions all the time and doesn't really think of the consequences, and how it will effect other people feelings and financial issues such as my GF, she told my gf and her mum that she's going to find a doner for her to have a baby because "she wants a family"

yet she hates men and doesn't want a man (she's straight) and she explained to them that it would be her going out to a random guy that she never met to get pregnant apparently it's supposed to be like he's supposed to do it in a jar and yet they just done it like normal which is okay I guess.(Bare in mind that she gets put off relationships and ends them, when they mention anything about sex)

They tried talking her out of it and explained it isn't the right thing to do meaning GF and mum, but she was hiding it from her dad because he was the only one that could talk sense to her and be a actual farther, yet GF and mum didn't want to tell her dad cause apparently it's not there place to say, I honestly think GF mum kinda wanted it but obviously didn't want to say that because of my GF misscarrriage and how sensitive it is

we don't actively try and get pregnant but we don't use contraception and it's been hard for her to get pregnant and now her sister just went out to meet a random guy she has never met to get pregnant?

It's like wtf don't you have any fucking idea what she has done it's like she's wants attention but doesn't realise what she had done or maybe she just wants to hurt me and my girlfriend,

(She smokes weed and vapes and drinks monsters)

SUM: am I wrong for feelings this way? (Feeling disgusted with her and angry and sad and I feel bad for the child she's to raise without help from a SO)

I am miserable. I'm 5 weeks and I can't eat salmon, pasta, just anything or I'll vomit. I spent all night vomiting then the next night having diarrhea because I stupidly ate a slice of pizza. Does this ever end?? I'm very lucky to be pregnant we were trying for two years. I just feel helpless.

Hi everybody,

Yesterday I went to go get my three hour glucose test because I failed my one hour by 19 points. (140 cutoff… my blood was 159) Is there any chance that I will possibly pass this three hour test? I really don’t want to deal with gestational diabetes on top of already feeling stressed and in pain being pregnant. Hoping to hear some success stories on here to give me some hope before I get my results tomorrow….. 🫠🥴😂

Thank you in advance!

Please don't think I'm crazy. I'm 10 weeks pregnant with my 3rd and I swear I am feeling something similar to baxton hicks just lessend. With my 2nd I started feeling them around 14 weeks and lately I'm feeling that familiar tightening.

Sometimes when I touch my tummy I can feel where the baby is. Sometimes when I feel him I will poke or push him, just because it makes me so happy that I can actually feel him in there.

Sometimes I feel bad, especially when he was being still and I like him and he starts moving. Probably in there mad at me for waking him up

I feel like crap (nauseous, vomiting, sore boobs... all the early pregnancy symptoms)at about 6.5 weeks.

Anyway... what have been your weirdest cravings so far?

Baby1: yellow starburst (boy, 6yr)

Baby2: A1 sauce on carrots (boy, 3.3yr)

Baby3: cheese with yellow mustard (6.5ish weeks preg)

We can't teach our brains to stop getting emotional over occuring problems, lalo na may iniisip talaga ako problema about sa husband ko kaya stress po ako, ginagawa ko lang is inom ng tubig, higa at pakikinig ng music, di pa ako natutulog n now still lagi nagalaw si baby, will it affects her? May naging findings ba na naging autistic ang bata paglabas showing this kind of untapable movement suey to my stress? How to distress po ba at mag relax as preggy? Food recommendations?

Where is the most cost efficient place to buy Perrin bottles, disposable underwear, post partum creams, packs ect ?

Can someone tell me what I might need to get, what Australian hospitals supply and what I need to bring to the hospital or should have prepared at home ?

Thanks!

My period is now ~9+ days late (9 following a 28 day cycle, but typically my cycles are shorter being 21-24 days)

I took a digital pregnancy test at 2pm 4 days ago and it came back pregnant. I took a second digital test at 7:30pm that night that returned “not pregnant”.

I decided to wait two days, and took a first response digital test yesterday, earlier in the day, that returned “no”

Today, first thing this morning I took a red dye line first response test that showed 1 line, not pregnant.

I have been nauseous with indigestion that I have written off as drinking the last two weeks between multiple holiday celebrations.

I’m leaving for roughly 2 months to Europe in 6 days and I don’t know how to proceed, as I can’t get a doctors appointment before then and even so I don’t currently have insurance in the US. I do have a travel insurance policy.

I’ve been testing positive on early detection tests since three weeks! I’m now 3w3D and got my first digital positive!

I’ve got people telling me it’s probably chemical or there’s something wrong. So anyone else..?

For a bit of fun (guessing game!)

Hey! My mother, her sisters, and their mother (my maternal grandmother) all had big babies. There were a few 9 pounders, but most (30+ babies) weighed in around and above 10lb.

I weighed 10lb at birth, my elder sibling was just shy of 11lb, and my younger sibling was 12lb 4oz - aka a turkey.

I’ve always known that there was a good chance that I’d also have big babies, so I’m not freaking out at all.

I’m 19.5weeks, and my fundal height is measuring in around 26cm (aka size of 26wk). And my last measurement was at 17wks and I measured at 21cm (aka size of 21 wks).

Anyone who had big babies (10lb+)remember their fundal measurements in these earlier wks? Aka, if I keep growing at this rate, how big do you think my baby will be? (I know this is all guess work! Just a bit of fun)

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I am terrified of having another miscarriage and possibly finding out about it so late into the first trimester.

Last year, I saw my doctor around week 9 and found out there that not only was I pregnant with twins, but there was no heartbeat and they appeared even smaller than they should be at 9 weeks. After multiple blood tests to monitor that my Hgc levels did in fact start to decline, she confirmed it was a miscarriage.

While I know that miscarriage is suuuupper common, and I told myself not to get excited and be realistic, finding out it was both twins and not viable in the same couple of hours was the most unexpected emotional rollercoaster I have been on.

Now this time around, I took a pregnancy test and according to the first day of my last period I should be 4 weeks. My doctor can’t see me until mid Jan (which is 7 weeks away). So I’ll be 11 weeks before I even get to confirm my pregnancy. I feel cloaked in anxiety of the unknown. Something about finding out almost a quarter into the pregnancy that I’m possibly not pregnant is horrifying. Does anyone have any advice as to anything I can do in the meantime?

Everything I read says it should be bad right now but I feel less nauseated. I'm still pretty tired but more able to accomplish things. My breasts are still a bit tender as well.

I had symptoms really early though, like I took a test the day my period should have started because I felt horrible and my breasts hurt so bad. I have read a few things saying this may be attributed to hormone levels peaking earlier and maybe my placenta is starting to take over?

I'm not bleeding and there hasn't really been cramping. I haven't seen a drop of blood my entire pregnancy.

A week ago I had a limited ultrasound at the clinic showing I was ahead of where they thought I would be, they saw the baby twitch (my partner and I missed it unfortunately), heart rate was 154bpm, and the doctor called back saying he saw nothing abnormal.

My first OBGYN appointment is next Friday but because I feel less awful i'm not scared of miscarriage and I know I'll be worried until then. I just need some kind words or "hey, that happened to me and my baby is fine" or even realism is appreciated.

Guys I need some reassurance I didn't mess up or harm my baby by not speaking up sooner.

At 6w pregnant I ended up going to the hospital for a kidney infection. They wanted to do an abdominal and transvaginal ultrasound to check on the baby. My abdominal ultrasound was administered by a tech that stated she was in training and when she was complete, her mentor would come in the room and check her work.

She worked on the abdominal ultrasound in silence for about 30 minutes, literally until all the gel was gone from my belly and the wand was starting to feel very hot on my skin. She was also pressing very hard at certain times which caused some discomfort. At one point she asked "what I was getting an ultrasound for" so I knew she couldn't see or find the baby. It was at this point I asked her to stop and for her mentor to finish the tests.

Her mentor came in the room and immediately noticed that I have a retroverted uterus, and asked me to empty my bladder for the transvaginal ultrasound. When I went to the bathroom I noticed I was bleeding a little, which I hadn't done at all before the ultrasound. The bleeding lasted a couple days and cleared up.

The transvaginal was done by the actual fully trained ultrasound tech within 5-10 minutes and everything was fine with baby.

Fast forward, I am 12 weeks pregnant and everything looks healthy. I just can't stop worrying about the possibility of long term damage done from such a long (30 minute) abdominal ultrasound from excessive heat exposure, lack of proper training of the tech, or anything. Can someone please reassure me if they have had any long early ultrasounds, or if this could have been harmful? I just wish I would have spoken up sooner :(