Re: OMG!!! Finally pregnant!!! (Now so many questions!)
From: Jenn (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 29 Jan 2003 23:14:13 -0800
YAY!!!!!!
Congrats!
--Jenn
>----- Original Message -----
From: "Valerie" <anonymous@obgyn.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list PCOS" <anonymous@obgyn.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 9:47 PM
Subject: OMG!!! Finally pregnant!!! (Now so many questions!)
> OKAY...OMG, can you believe it!?!?!? I am pg! I just found out less than
> 12 hours ago... my primary care physician was letting me have a
> standing order at the lab, so I went the day before yesterday (Monday
> 1/27) to get a blood beta-HCG test and then yesterday when the labs
> didn't come back I threw a fit to myself that "damn it, they don't even
> bother to call me anymore when it's negative..." except that the reason
> I did not get the results Tuesday was that my doc had them run 3 times
> to be sure... and get this... the day I took the test I was supposedly
> just about 1 day pg!!! (I think it must be more like I was 4-5 days just
> because I last had sex 10 days ago...which means its also probably going
> to be a girl) OMG I laughed and cried so hard!!!
>
> I hope I don't hurt anyone who is struglling to get pg... I know how
> hard it is to read giddy posts like my own, so if its too much I guess I
> can just do private emails from now on...
>
> but for here and now these are my questions: my doc said I can stay at
> 35-80 grams of carbs per day, we share the concern that I don't gain
> more than a baby here... but yet he wants me to stay clear of
> artificial sweeteners for the first trimester (I am a Splenda hound!
> this is going to be a long 11 weeks!) so what can I drink and eat
> without too high carbs??? UGH! and what about my acrylic pink and
> whites? and these cramps are so scary even though he said it is normal,
> and they did an ultrasound and everything looked "nice and fluffy and
> thick" and I am usually such a high stresser, so that has to change...
> OMG, my life has to change!!! WOW!!! It's still hitting me (though the
> 200mg twice per day Progesterone helps it hit too... as does the nasty
> pre-natal vitamin that makes me burp the taste of burnt pop-corn...
>
> Valerie
>
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