I’ve been getting these weird itchy looking like pimples bumps on my body and they won’t go away my doctor tried everything and when I skratch or pop them they spreed and it’s all over my body and idk what to do I’ve tried cream and bath salts hot water and hot baths and the itch seems to stop but comes back and there is white liquid in the bumps

hi everyone. posted earlier about my line? and just wanted to update with my DEFINITE BFP with a digital?!?!

Just wanting to see what you guys see. Because I do???? 9DPO

Trauma, but make it festive and seasonal.

I'm high risk due to diabetes, previous gestational hypertension, previous IUGR, and my last baby was stillborn at 24 weeks. I had my appointments in the same unit where I now have my anatomy scan this week🙃

Period supposed to start next week. Last week I was hella gassy with diarrhea. Have only had one period since my youngest was born. Going to get preg test today, but has anyone used an ovulation test in its place? I always have a lighter control line. No other signs of ovulation in sight. Milky watery discharge. We want to add one more babe to complete our family 🫠

Hey y’all- I’m 7 weeks pregnant and have my first ultrasound on Thursday. I am so excited but also terrified. I’m worried that there won’t be a heartbeat or that something will be wrong. I’m a first time mom. Any advice? Have y’all experienced these fears before? How do I know my pregnancy is going ok? This is driving me crazy!!

I’m a first time mom and currently 4 weeks 5 days pregnant with our first baby. I’m an elementary school teacher, and today I left work early with chills, a slight fever (99.3), and a horrendous headache. I am terrified that I’ve contracted COVID somehow. I’m getting tested in the morning. Have any other expecting moms been sick like this or had COVID? I’m so worried for my sweet baby and how this could affect them :(

I'm 37+6 with baby #4 and I won't be getting the birth I wanted. My kids were born via: emergency c-section, then VBAC, then "scheduled" c-section (went in for normal appointment, blood pressure was super high and I was told I could do a c-section that day or wait until Monday to try for a VBAC, but "baby would probably be gone by then due to [my] blood pressure"). Both c-sections were nightmares. I almost died during the first from massive blood loss. I aspirated during the second because my head was strapped to the table, even though I begged for them not to, and I threw up when the OB was explaining the procedure to the student doc. Recovery from that was awful with a preschooler, toddler, and newborn, and we had moved to a house with stairs that would make me cry everything I went up or down. My VBAC on the other hand was a breeze and I was fully recovered after 4 days. I'm terrified of another c-section and the recovery associated with it.

This pregnancy has been my easiest by far, absolutely no complications other than getting covid at 35 weeks (breakthrough case). And about 3 months ago, my hospital signed into practice new protocols allowing for TOLACs/VBACs (very small hospital). My OB just told me today, though, that due to short staffing, I'm being denied a TOLAC. So now my options are a repeat c-section with the OB I know and trust and has been my caregiver for the last 9 months, or drive 90 minutes to the nearest big hospital when I go into labor and hope that the doctor on call will "allow" me to try for a VBAC. According to whatever calculator my doctor showed me today, I have a >85% of a successful VBAC, but I'm scared that the stress of being so far from home + a doctor I don't know is going to harm that chance of success and instead of a VBAC at home like I wanted, I will get a C-section 90 minutes from home and my family.

I dont think there's anything I can do at this point, just needed to rant before I start crying again. I know that a healthy baby, healthy me is most important, but gosh darn it, I wanted for my last pregnancy for birth to go as I hoped.

The manager I am temporarily working under doesn't seem to get this. I'm in my second trimester and I'm still feeling pretty awful. I also work the WORST schedule, which comes with my position and has overtime built in. She was kind of irritated because I was underperforming one week. I told her I was struggling with my symptoms (nausea, fatigue, aches) and that my doctor was going to write a letter to have certain accommodations made. Nothing crazy, just a certain type of shift being removed from my schedule and some lifting restrictions. Things that are accommodated all the time where I work. 

 The manager then proceeded to tell me, as have others, that pregnant women do my job all the time without any need for that and that it wouldn't be fair to others in my position. She talked to me like I was just being dramatic and needed to toughen up. I questioned whether or not she was right the rest of the day. But this came from someone who told me she never got MS when pregnant. Every pregnancy is different. Sucks that some people don't understand that some pregnancies require a little more care and attention and actually try to make you feel like a burden for it.

Hi everyone. I have a question for all moms out there who have tried 2d/3d ultrasounds. I just had one today and wanted to know how accurate they are. Has anyone ever had one and it turned out to be the opposite gender???

I live in a small town in a mountainous area. The nearest large hospital is 1.5 hrs away on a good day. So, my OB is affiliated with the rinky-dink in town "medical center". .

The last time I gave birth (same hospital, different OB), I was told that I could have a repeat c-section with the OB I've come to know and trust, or drive to the city to maybe have a trial of labor with whatever OB is on call that night (blood pressure was going up and baby needed to get out asap). I chose c-section and it is not something I'm incredibly happy about. I'm so happy baby and I were fine, but I needed so much more help after this one than I did with my first, recovery took longer both in hospital and at home, and - to rub salt in it all - my new scar is so much more ugly.

I just entered the 3rd tri with baby #4 and I've been starting to get very anxious about about birth. Trying to decide if/when to transfer my care to someone at the larger hospital in the city (started off in town because carting 3 kids to appointments 1.5 hrs away + big hospital during c0vid times....ugh). Also, recently, we've had rock slides that make the highway unsafe and makes those larger hospitals more like 3+ hrs away, so delivering there was starting to seem much more daunting.

Anyways, at my OB appointment this morning, my OB informed me that the hospital board is likely to approve the suggested TOLAC/VBAC protocol at the next meeting in 2 weeks!! And, I'm a great candidate (uterus healed very well and baby #2 was born via VBAC)!!! I should be able to get my TOLAC in town and I don't have to worry about driving into the city or finding a new OB or anything! So much of my anxiety is just gone.

I needed to tell someone, but I don't think my mom friends who had (1) all c-sections, (2) all vaginal deliveries, or (3) are currently pregnant with their first would quite understand my excitement.

Also, I say all this while acknowledging that I may still end up with a c-section and I'm ok with that, I really just don't want to feel forced into it again, especially just because of where I live rather than the safety of me or my child.

FAAAACKKKKKSKKSFJNFONGOIUHGKMLFADC:LC{POKDVOUDABHVAHDV SCEFL<AESP{G I need to get off the internet. I have no room in my life for saccharine posts and if I hear one more asshole who has NEVER been in labor talk about all the right things to do in labor...UM ok, maybe I will write some comments on the mountaineering sub about my opinions on summiting Everest. Despite never having done so.

I'm 22 weeks pregnant with our fourth and final baby. I have 3 boys (7, 4.5 and 2) and am absolutely loving being their mom. I've been conflicted this pregnancy on whether I "want" a boy or girl. A house of/being mom to 4 boys sounds like a lot of fun and I already love my life full of boys - why would I want to change that? On the other hand, I don't have too terribly much in common with my boys so far (I know they are still young and that will likely change, and there's no guarantee a daughter would share my hobbies either!). Having a little girl to get pedicures with or to read my favorite childhood books to (my 7 and 4.5 yr olds have both decided these activities are NOT fun) sounds great.

We've never found out gender at ultrasounds, always waited until birth and we've loved having that surprise. Because of that, we've picked out 2 names for each child - a boy name and a girl name (I have a unisex name and never liked that aspect of it, even if I like the name itself, so I didn't just want to pick one name regardless of baby's gender). Every time, we've had the same girl name. It is my absolute favorite name for a girl....all my barbies had this name while I was growing up. It is my great-grandma's middle name and was a strong tie back to her home country. And the middle name we had chosen for a girl honors both my mom and MIL who are both wonderful people. Anyway, the name is just perfect in our eyes.

At my anatomy scan for baby #4 the ultrasound tech (who I was already having issues with) "forgot" to ask if we wanted to know the gender and pointed out baby's genitalia to me. The tech didn't actually say a gender, but he told me "I can paint the nursery blue now".

I'm pretty upset that I know now that we are having a boy. I will never have a daughter, never get to use the perfect girl's name. And I think that's hitting me harder than any imaginings of what life as a mother to a daughter would be: our perfect name not getting used. I think I would have handled this disappointment better if we were told we had another little boy at birth. When each of my sons were born my husband would tell me "Meet (son's name)" and every time I've just been so happy to meet my boy that I didn't feel any gender disappointment at all and I was hoping for the same thing this time, I guess.

I know I'll get over this and I'm likely just emotional because hormones and such. My husband was not at the ultrasound so he still doesn't know and I intend to let him continue to think I don't know either, but I needed to tell this to someone.

So over the last 4 days I have been taking 4 pregnancy tests. The first one was faint positive, the next day it was negative, then I got a faint positive again, then today at the doctors office I got another negative from my urine. They took a blood sample to be sure, so I am waiting for the result. Have anyone else experience something similar?

Ugh! I'm about 7 weeks along and I only have about 2 hours of energy in me to accomplish anything with my day. I have a 3-1/2 year old that makes messes all over the house and laundry for 3 to keep up with plus dishes and errands and I am drowning. I keep trying to function and just can't. I'm low-key nauseated all day and have migraine style light sensitivity. I know it's hormonal but my first pregnancy was NOTHING compared to this. I need someone I can hire to straight up pick up my house and keep up with keeping things in order because I just can't. Any constructive and friendly advice would be greatly appreciated.

So glad this is a thing but seems very inactive. Maybe I will ask in my current bumper group if anyone wants to move over here?

I’m 12w w #2, and I need a space to discuss pregnancy that has the real life real talk sensibility of breaking mom.

Let’s get it poppin ! LOL

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How are you feeling and what delightful symptoms have you got going on? Spill all - complaints, milestones, gross-ness.. Nothing is TMI!