Re: OMG!!! Finally pregnant!!! (Now so many questions!)
From: tweetie (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 30 Jan 2003 21:52:57 -0600 (CST)
At Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Jenn wrote:
>
>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
>>
Congraulation!! you are so funny, reading your post actually put me at
ease now that I know that I am not the only person with 100 million
questions, the pains and cramps are scarring the crap out of me, I found
out also on the 27th that I was pregnant about 5-6 weeks. We pray for
healthy babies in 2003.
--
Tweetie
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