Pregnant... Now What?

[aunteater]

15dpo, 2 positive pee tests... and a heckuva lot of questions, most of which are probably not relevant to this forum, or have probably been addressed already, so here's the short list, and apologies for questions that have been covered before here

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[cymrullewes]

3. You won't spend the next 8 months peeing. It's caused by the pressure of your uterus on your bladder. In a few more weeks it'll lift higher in your abdomen then in the last month or so of pregnancy your poor kid will be big enough to fill all of your abdominal cavity so will be pressing on your bladder and against your diaphragm making it difficult to breathe. (Course, your kid might be smaller than my girls were and therefore won't feel as cramped therefore the poor descriptor isn't warranted

[nightsinger]

A 38DD will fit about the same as a 36DDD and be much easier to find.

Oof. While it may fit similarly, it certainly won't be as supportive as one that is actually the right size, and that can lead to back pain. A little extra time spent hunting and a little extra money is worth it, imx.

YMMV, of course. But for me, I'm a 32G and have not yet gotten pregnant (let alone started nursing!), but a 34FF wouldn't be any easier to find... and if I tried to wear a, what, 38E/DDD or something which is able to be found in Target or whatever, I may as well go without a bra entirely for all the good it'd do me.

[aunteater]

I'm all about hunting down a bra in the right size, but if I'm going to keep on expanding... I don't like the thought of shelling out 60-80 bucks for a new bra every few weeks. yikes! You may be onto something with the going braless idea...

[nightsinger]

Yeah, I agree -- buying a new one every few weeks would suck. :/ Tbh, I have no idea what I'm going to do. Wear my current ones until I just can't anymore, then buy a new one two or three sizes up, maybe, and wear that until I can't or it falls apart, rinse and repeat? It's about all I can think of.

Braless is an option, if all else fails, though!

[kort_ni]

Congrats!

Everyone else seems to have answered your questions, but I will add that I used the fact that I didn't O on CD14 to determine early on whether my OB was going to be a good fit. She didn't even really look at my charts, said "if you are charting and you ovulated on X date, you know your body and we'll calculate EDD based on that". If she had said, we're going to use LMP even though it's off by 10 days, I would have started looking elsewhere.

[aunteater]

I like your way of looking at it. I may borrow your screening test for care providers!

[ilikerivers]

The GPs I saw during early pregnancy all refused to believe my charting. I ovulate on day 21 which would have made everything off by a week. I conceded to a dating ultrasound at 9 weeks which gave me proof of my dating being correct to the exact day. When I saw my midwives, they believed me straight away. It may be worth lying about your LMP, I have also done that when I just needed meds and to get out of the GP's office.

[nightsinger]

XD Thanks for asking this; hubby and I are now (as of this week!) finally officially TTC, and I know I'd've been asking a lot of the same questions when we "catch"!

Congrats on your BFP!

[aunteater]

: )

btw, what is BFP? I have not been able to figure out this acronym.

[nightsinger]

Big F**king Positive [pregnancy test]. ;)

[aunteater]

aha! It all makes sense now.

[angelinw8ing13]

First I can't really answer about charting I only started charting a month and half before we got pregnant. So I stopped charting because we were using FAM to get pregnant. But yes as illogical as it seems your gestational count starts from the date of your last period. Why because while 10% of women of childbearing age have PCOS 90% do not (not trying to sound insensitive this is just what my OB told me. And since even less than 10% of women do not chart so they are completely clueless as to when they ovulated they go off last period date since more often than not women know when that was. Oh and lets think about this one... Gestational time 40 weeks. One month average about 40 weeks so you're pregnant for ten months not nine... (Oh even if you aren't catholic the natural family planning, minus they tell you not to use a condom, actually had pretty good information on TTA.) I actually found a one book in particular while it had nothing to do with being pregnant but getting pregnant was (sorry it's a long title

[doraphilia]

I'm not pregnant yet but I'm just starting TTC. So far, I really like mothering.com forum, there's a bit of a natural slant there but people aren't nazis about it.

[aunteater]

Thanks! I think I've read articles on their site before, that I liked. I didn't recall that there was a forum.

[doraphilia]

Here you go:
http://www.mothering.com/community/forum/

Good luck!!! It's true, this LJ FAM community is a lovely, sane group of people. I wish more fertility-related forums were like this.

[aunteater]

I'll check it out!