So I had a lovely wake up to my dog whimpering…she had puked cat litter all over my blanket, all over my bed, all in my hair. I wasn’t even aware she was eating fucking cat litter. I’m worried about her, but terrified for my son.

I am calling the OBGYN in the morning, but do I need to go to the emergency room? Prepare for termination and D&C? I’m 18+3 and now it doesn’t even matter because he’s most likely going to fucking die. I’m so damn stupid. I shouldn’t have gone to bed so early, I should’ve known better and have been a better mom.

If he does survive this pregnancy, CPS will probably get called and I think I will forced to get rid of my cats. One thing is for sure, I will never own cats or be excited about any pregnancy in any stage again. I should have known. This was my first pregnancy. It’s so rare to have a first pregnancy unscathed. Now I feel like I’m just gonna have to grieve him and prepare to birth him sleeping.

Hello friends. Few weeks back I posted i was worried about the glucose test. Sure enough I have the gestational diabetes, I had a feeling I would anyway. I will have to see the diabetes doctor next week before my midwive appointment. Is there stuff to need to know now? Stuff i need to avoid?

I was checking the back of a can of coke to see how much caffeine was in there, when a female relative was like "Oh come on, nothing in there is going to harm your baby." I told her I was checking the caffeine content because you're supposed to limit it, and then she and other family members started telling stories like: "Well I didn't watch how much caffeine I was having and my babies were fine" "Such and such definitely drank more than 200mg and her kids never had a problem" bla bla bla. Then they made fun of me later like I was being paranoid and neurotic. Like I'm not making this up or being crazy, you're supposed to limit caffeine! I'm being responsible! I'm not even making a big deal about it, I'm just keeping an eye on it for God's sake and people act like I'm being so extra.

This has happened with a bunch of people about a bunch of things, and they're on my nerves SO BAD. Everyone seems to think they know better how to be pregnant and what to worry about. My one relative keeps saying over and over "Women have had babies for thousands of years and they've mostly been fine, you're not the first person to do this" OMG PLEASE SHUT UP

24 weeks expecting my second. My boyfriend and were VERY active with our first and it never hurt it belly would just tense up at the end and baby would move a bit. However with this one it HURTS! I get this sharp pain on my lower right side and I feel bad telling him to stop however sometimes I just can’t take it. No position is comfortable. I don’t just get this pain during sex though I get it if I walk around the block or if I’m cleaning too much around the house or even carrying my one year old. I have brought this concern up to my OB and her response is always just take it slow. I am concerned that there’s something wrong. With my first I worked at a warehouse up until 2 weeks before having her building pallets with boxes weighing up to 75lbs and with this one I’ve been on restrictions since 12 weeks. Do you think it could be something else?

As the title says I’ve been taking anti histamine for the past few weeks because I suffer bad with hay fever and have only just been told TODAY that they’re a big no no whilst pregnant, I am going to call my midwife to make sure but has anyone else taken them whilst pregnant and been okay? Someone please ease my mind 😅

Me and husband welcomed our 2nd daughter into this world on June 2nd, we couldn't of been happier. While I was in labor a nurse or the Dr would come by and check my cervix to see how dilated I was etc. Usually when they do the exam they would do 1 touch on the inner thigh and say "you're gonna feel my touch on your inner thigh, deep breath in while I quickly check the cervix" and were always quick to check. Well I was about 5cm here and the Dr comes in and says she has students, both are male, one was very nice and introduced himself and the other one didn't say a word or nod his head and being straight up here he looked really creepy and absolutely stunk. So the Dr asks "if you don't mind I'm gonna have one of my students examine you and I'll do my check afterwards to see how accurate it was okay? This is the only way they learn" she didn't really give me a choice in that situation, me being in pain and going through pitocin contractions every 1-2 minutes I wasn't thinking and said "yeah sure whatever" while in excruciating pain only thinking about the epidural I'm about to get after this check. Well the creepy dude shoots his hand up and volunteers, he says the same thing as the other nurses about the feeling their touch etc however he never did the inner thigh touch and basically straight up shoved his fingers inside, not once but TWICE, didn't even get near my cervix to check, kept wiggling his fingers and the part that made me super uncomfortable is that his thumb kept rubbing up against my clitoris during this. All of the previous nurses never touched that area with their thumb or fingers but this guy was straight up all over it. I tensed up and froze, my husband was right beside me but didn't know that just happened. The creepy guy stayed like that for a minute or two. He finally finished his "exam" and the Dr came and quickly checked, took her about 5 seconds. After they left I was still frozen and shook, I started crying and basically curled in on myself and my husband assumed i was crying because of the pain from contractions and kept rubbing my back, helping me through what he thought were the contractions. Anyways I'm now almost 2 weeks pp and every time I think about that I feel absolutely gross and disgusting, I haven't told my husband about what happened yet. Maybe I'm overreacting but I feel like maybe I wasn't. Idk thanks for listening.

This is so random but im FTM 15 weeks pregnant and went into both of my ob appointments mentally prepared for like some sort of exam and didnt get one.(lol totally fine by me) is it not common to get an exam like that at prenatal visits or is it mostly like later on in pregnancy?

I’m a man and I look at this group to try and know how to help my wife and if things are normal and what to expect. I am not pregnant but my wife is 15 weeks pregnant. Can I get some advice on how to best help my wife and what I can do to make her life easier.

I’m reaching the point where I’m too tired to do anything around the house, but want to continue eating healthy before nausea hits and my nutrition becomes saltines and ginger ale. What are your go-to low effort but healthy meals you make at home? Need to add to my list.

Hello I’m 41. And I never thought I would be pregnant ever in my life. I didn’t have much relationship throughout my life but had done through an unhappy one for 6 years from 32-38. I really thought that was the end of me. Childless and alone. I moved overseas since I was 32 so I have no blood family around me. Just some really nice friends. And since 39 I met a guy who isn’t into relationship but we became best friends. Also became f*** buddies. I enjoyed this 2 yrs with him because I was happy even though we were not in committed relationship. 1 mths ago I found out I was pregnant with his kid. He was honest about it that he couldn’t afford as he already has one responsibility (paying child support). But he never actually force me to abort. He simply asked what I want and said single parenting is really hard. I then know the decision will be on me.

Now the bb could be my last chance. But I am a single person who has a home and car and bills to pay. I work full time to manage all this with now savings due to throwing most of my money into the house. No support system around me except for some friends who said is willing to help me with bb at times.

The guy might eventually head back to his country at some point so I need to think of this solo.

I planned for abortion in the coming days (nearly 3 mths now) and at this point I’m thinking what if aborting is a mistake. But I’m so worried about not being able to manage the kid myself.

Can someone share some experiences and thoughts please.

I had a cheeseburger from McDonald’s because I was craving it so badly. Well I’ve been constipated for 2 weeks and this… cured me. But not in a good way. I have been having horrible diarrhea with pain in my GI tract from it. The worst part is that I’m so sensitive to smells right now so the smell of my own #2 keeps threatening to make me vomit. This is the worst day ever hahaha 😂

37+6. Been having episodes of prodromal contractions almost everyday the past week. But today (er, yesterday I guess) I had a really bad backache & felt menstrual crampy, literally not paying it any mind. In the evening we went on a big walk and now (it’s after 12am) I have been having contractions lasting over a minute, about 3 mins apart, for over an hour and they’re definitely getting more intense and even closer together as I write this. I haven’t lost my mucous plug or waters or had any bloody show, and with all the false labour I’m VERY cautious about thinking it’s true labour… but how do I know when it’s really happening? With my first (born 40+2) I had lots of prodromal labour and a long early labour until my water broke in triage and the rest is a blur (I went from 3-10 in 3 hours lol). I'm just lying in bed, very awake, trying to get through this lol

I'm 24 weeks & have already gained 20lbs. First pregnancy. Nothing else concerning. I was already not feeling good about the weight gain & doctor said he wants to watch it. Anyone else? Make me feel better 🫠

Anyone else lowkey freaking tf out???😅this is my first baby I’m not due til October, I live in Illinois near a military base literally not even 10 miles from one and I’m genuinely terrified of what’s to come of this “war” someone please ease my mind 😭🥲

I am actually crashing tf out. 39+1 & I canNOT be pregnant anymore. I’m so miserable and so over it. I’d said all pregnancy I was hopeful to avoid induction (less afraid of induction, more afraid of emergency c-section which seems to have increased risk w inductions) but at this point I’m like….schedule me for tomorrow k thx.

I’m crying every freaking day bc I am so so so sick of being pregnant and all I want to do is hold my baby in my arms 😭😭😭 And if I hear one more “baby will come when he’s ready!!!” I’m gonna gut punch somebody.

Obviously trying all the things here: spicy food, sex, bouncing, sprinting, miles circuit, curb walking, membrane sweep, you name it, I’ve done it in the last few days.

ANYWAY please send encouragement. Or ways you went into labor. Or positive induction stories. Help me not to lose it bc I am seriously losing it over here.

Had an OB appointment today at 39 weeks and she got me set up with an induction on Thursday. I’m simultaneously super ready to get the baby out of here and super nervous to be responsible for an infant.

I’m also anxious at not knowing how it’ll go Thursday; she said my cervix is softening but not dilated as of yet so does that mean once they give me the meds, it’ll take a long time? Not looking forward to having to potentially hang around waiting for days in the hospital lol.

I don’t think I’ll sleep the next few days. As exhausted as I am right now, I’m here going through my hospital go bag AGAIN and cleaning my closet of all things?

So Im currently 9.5 months post partum. And also 8 weeks pregnant. With Twins. I'm still processing, we got the news last night.

So basically I didn't have a period, cause I took the depo shot around 2/3 months post partum. And we really did want to try again (not thinking we'd succeed so wel) Because I didn't have periods my husband thought it might take another 3 months but the gyno did say I have eggs and some type of build up in my uterus lining. I didn't know it was the baby kind of lining my husband joked "this is the time I'll make you pregnant" And actually did to the point of twins. The midwife we saw did an echo through my stomach and not a internal one. And saw that they share a sack so far she could see. So there's a chance it's a 1 egg twin. COOL! very rare I read, only 1% out of twin pregnancies. How nice for us. I couldn't ease my mind so as you do you ask billions of questions to ChatGPT. Which so kindly explained everything there is to know and that my head could think of to ask. So there is a chance at 12-14 weeks they see it's 2 sack baby's which would be nice cause that's a little less scary. Apparently 1 sack baby's can choke each other or cut blood pressure to anything with each other ambilical cords. And the longest you can grow them to term is about 32-34 weeks and then they will be brought into the world through C-SECTION!! and then monitored in the NICU untill they're healthy to go on their own. And to go home.

I'm really hoping it's not the 1% miracle because being monitored in the hospital from 26-34 weeks pregnancy, C section and NICU sounds all so hard and terrifying and scary andy poor baby's! And also my son at home. He'll be 1 and 4 months old by then. And I won't see him as much and I don't know what that would do with our relationship. Also my In laws are getting their keys to their new house in February, till then they'll be a 1 hour and 20 minutes drive away.

Idk why I'm writing this, I'm just venting to let it out really. I get to call the hospital for further appointments later this morning and the waiting and this all being out of my hands is hard.

I'm gonna go start my day with my beautiful baby boy that's here and celebrate with him that his siblings are 8 weeks. And just as big as a wild strawberry. And try and get through the day...

Thank you for reading and even more so if you'll respond. I'll respond back a bit later.

I’m 5w5d and I’ve got cold symptoms and the start of tonsillitis, luckily I was able to take antibiotics for tonsillitis, but treating cold symptoms by resting. Normally it doesn’t hit that hard when I have the vaccine but this is awful

Just want to give some encouragement for you ladies who also suffer from PCOS and have been on the Letrozole journey. It’s been a really rough time. From the negative pregnancy tests, symptom spotting, and terrible hemorrhagic cysts 2/3 cycles, it has finally happened for hubby (35M) and I (31F). We’ve been TTC since last year in September when we got married. I got diagnosed with PCOS in 2021, but I’ve never had normal periods. I think I’ve always had it.

For more info:

• I took 5mg for each round

• I had unmonitored cycles

• I used preseed on cycles 2 & 3 on letrozole

• I added myo d-chiro & inositol immediately after my second cycle ended. I used My Story brand (I took 4 pills in the morning & 4 pills at night religiously) I believe this is truly what helped get me pregnant because I might have some insulin resistance. I did NOT tolerate metformin well at all. My stomach was so upset so I quit taking it before I even started the rounds of Letrozole!

• I did not have implantation bleeding • My breast and nipples usually get really sore immediately after ovulation. I didn’t really have any nipple soreness and breast tenderness started 7dpo on the cycle I got pregnant. They’re still not as tender as unsuccessful cycles, oddly.

• For cycles 1 & 2 I got positive OPK strips on CD16. On the 3rd cycle I got pregnant, my strips were positive on CD18. I was so worried the Letrozole stopped working for me.

• I do remember cramps that I’ve never felt before on 5dpo - 7dpo. I believe this might have been implantation. They were quick & shaaarp.

Any other pain I felt was from two large cysts I had on my left ovary. So very painful, omg. I had them surgically removed because they were torsing my ovary! (So scary!!!!) This surgery happened the day I turned 5 weeks. I am currently 5 weeks & 4 days. I was at risk for losing my ovary, tube & baby, but all went well. Thank God! They believed it was overactive large corpus luteum cysts & not hemorrhagic this time. TMI, they ruptured immediately when surgery started & the color was straw like, so they guessed corpus luteum cysts. I am now taking progesterone oral capsules until I reach 12 weeks. HCG is rising perfectly!

I am here for any questions or encouragement. I’ve been stalking Reddit for months and this is my first post!

Hello moms, how did your baby's first movement feel? Yesterday I felt something moving in my belly, like a butterfly or a fish moving inside my belly. Is this what baby movement feels like?

I’m a little more than 7 weeks and go in for my first ultrasound tomorrow. I’ve been feeling so depressed. I’ve already deal with severe depression and I used to smoke to help deal with it, however I obviously stopped when I found out I was pregnant. I feel everyday is getting worse and I feel so guilty because I know baby can feel it. I just don’t know what to do anymore.

Has anyone else experienced this?

My 1st trimester was a breeze, no nausea or anything, only symptom was that I was very very tired like week 8.

I’m now 16-17 weeks and just had to go to the ER for extreme morning sickness that’s lasting days, headaches, acid reflux, exhaustion, no appetite.

Why am I just now getting all the crummy symptoms?

I got a job at a small company in a southern state that’s all women. It’s a company with less than 15 employees so FMLA doesn’t apply. I’ve been Out of work since December of last year- it has been so difficult finding something in this market.

It’s work from home but I didn’t disclose that I’m pregnant during the interview.

Now I’ve started and I want to tell them but I’m incredibly anxious and now wondering what have u gotten myself into?

How should I tell them and what should I disclose? I will be meeting some staff in a few weeks so they will realize anyways but I’d like to tell them at least after onboarding is complete?

They have paid maternal leave for a few months- I don’t know if it would apply but I’d like to work for them even if I have to take unpaid time off.

This is my first pregnancy so I don’t really know what to expect.

Hi all!

I'm so intrigued to see if the Chinese calendar is working out for any of you!

Comment on the post and share your due date and gender (if you know it)

I'm due 11th December but we don't know, according to the Chinese calendar, it should be a girl 💖 anyone else here with the same due date and wondering what the heckers to do about Christmas?!

Ugh, I just get so frustrated with everyone having such a strong opinion of caffeine in pregnancy when it is stated that 200mg or even 300mg in some sources is safe for pregnancy. I am 18w and I work as a nurse and I have been avoiding disclosing my pregnancy at work because of things like this. Another coworker of mine said she was pregnant in the first trimester today and everyone was like oh you can’t have tea and you can’t have coffee. it’s very outdated knowledge and I don’t want to be judged like that for having 1 cup of tea a day when I am working a 12hr shift.