First Pregnancy

**simply1** · 07-11-2012, 09:22 PM

Originally Posted by cjb1978

We need to have a talk and I don't think you are going to like what I have to say.

I'm going to have a few beers first please.

**simply1** · 07-11-2012, 09:26 PM

Originally Posted by Angie

Oh, the smells. That lasted all pregnancy long for me. I already have a very strong sense of smell, but stuff would push me over the edge during pregnancy, I'd gag. We almost had to get rid of our rabbit.

Was it the smell or the craving?

**Wesley** · 07-11-2012, 09:47 PM

Originally Posted by ISUcy08

My wife's only symptom right now is farting. They are so bad it would make an attacking bear think twice. I'm serious. Not even trying to be funny. Makes my eyes water.

She is forever changed.

The cup may runneth over.

She will be eating for two.

**Angie** · 07-12-2012, 06:22 AM

Originally Posted by simply1

Was it the smell or the craving?

Luckily just the smell, cravings for her would have made me cry (which pregnant women also do more of)!

**jbindm** · 07-12-2012, 06:39 AM

Originally Posted by Angie

Luckily just the smell, cravings for her would have made me cry (which pregnant women also do more of)!

QFT. I lost count of how many times I caught my wife sniffling at something on tv and muttering at herself to get a grip. Pregnancy is a really unsettling time for everyone involved.

**Angie** · 07-12-2012, 07:08 AM

Originally Posted by jbindm

QFT. I lost count of how many times I caught my wife sniffling at something on tv and muttering at herself to get a grip. Pregnancy is a really unsettling time for everyone involved.

Yeah, I'm not one to cry very often normally, but baby and phone commercials would do it to me, and I had always thought it was trite when people would cry at those. We had an incredibly stressful pregnancy, and I would cry about it at the drop of a hat.

**4VR4CY** · 07-12-2012, 07:23 AM

I'm 38 weeks pregnant and cry on the way to work from songs on the radio. Crazy!

**wartknight** · 07-12-2012, 08:16 AM

Keep a pair of scissors handy to cut off onesies that are so full of crap you can't bear to pull it over your child's head. I am 3 for 3 on cleaning poop of the necks of my kids when they were babies.
Worst happened when I wasn't even there. Middle child was just over 1 and filled up her carseat on an hour-long trip for my wife. Then she began examining it. I cleaned it up for my wife when she got home. It was disgusting.

WOrd of advice I got from a very wise dad. Assemble the crib in the room you are going to keep it in because "they don't design that **** to fit through doors"
I knew that, but my wife (who began her "nesting" phase way too early) decided to start putting it together when I was at football practice. Got home and had to take a good chunk of it apart to get through door to the nursery.

**tec71** · 07-12-2012, 02:52 PM

Originally Posted by Angie

The fading lines could be two things:
- an evaporation line (that sometimes happens, it's kind of a false positive); or
- an early positive.

I'd test again in a few days. Use the first morning urine, the hCG concentration is highest at that time. You can call your OB/GYN to get a beta done, but some of them refuse to see you until X number of weeks. Those blood tests are more reliable than pee tests, though.

Is she having other symptoms? My first pregnancy symptom has always been really weird, vivid dreams - and that's pretty common. Lots of women get breast tenderness. Nausea usually waits until about six or seven weeks to show up, and not everyone gets it. (Lucky bastards.)

Make sure she's taking her folic acid every morning, this is the time when it's most important.

And lastly - congrats and good luck!

Did you sleep in a Holiday Inn Express last night?

**CycloneErik** · 07-12-2012, 02:55 PM

Originally Posted by tec71

Did you sleep in a Holiday Inn Express last night?

Just reading the directions and/or a website or two tells all that.
That's how I learned it.

**Angie** · 07-12-2012, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by tec71

Did you sleep in a Holiday Inn Express last night?

This made me laugh.

We've kind of gone through hell with the whole getting-and-staying-pregnant thing, so I've read so very, very much more on the subject than is normal. I've had several friends call me to ask "the expert" what something could be in their pregnancy when it went weird. I guess that's a... compliment?

**oldman** · 07-12-2012, 04:26 PM

Originally Posted by CycloneChris

Can't believe I forgot this piece of advice. Bring an extra bag (luggage/duffel/etc.) with you to the hospital, and stuff everything you can into it. Diapers, vaseline, the super absorbent 3 x 3 washable pads they put on the bed (awesome for those nights when it's projectile out of both ends), baby blankets, nose sucker, wipes, you name it. The hospital is going to charge you for it anyway, so might as well grab them.

I forgot about this! Hahaha!

**cowgirl836** · 07-14-2012, 09:52 PM

just read this thread mostly buzzed.

For a no-longer newlywed getting pointed abdominal glances from family members, this is damn good birth control. I have no current desire to clean up blow outs.

**DistrictCyclone** · 07-14-2012, 09:57 PM

Originally Posted by cowgirl836

just read this thread mostly buzzed.

For a no-longer newlywed getting pointed abdominal glances from family members, this is damn good birth control. I have no current desire to clean up blow outs.

Damn...marry me.