Re: OMG!!! Finally pregnant!!! (Now so many questions!)
From: Mel (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 30 Jan 2003 03:39:20 -0600 (CST)
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!! How fantastic for you, take it really easy and
rest loads
Take great caer of yourselves
Mel
At Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Valerie wrote:
>
>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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