[katinagj]

I guess I finally get to start my journal here! yay!! I just wanted a place to post symptoms and my HPT's and things like that. So here goes!

12 DPO - New Choice(dollar tree test)


12 DPO - Answer Test


13 DPO - Answer Test


I was sort of shocked how quickly my test got so dark.. haven't tested since but am thinking about getting a test today just to see if it can get any darker than that!


4 weeks 6 days symptoms:

SORE bbs
exhausted(took a 3 hour nap yesterday morning after breakfast!)
stomach twinges here and there
light cramping on and off
craving wendy's chili, as usual
lower back pain(tho this is probably just because my back is completely out of whack again)
itchy belly
Nausea seems to have left me for the most part, only problem now is I can't stop eating!!


Dreams:
1st dream of the night, I miscarried. Then woke up at 2:30 am and ran to the bathroom to pee. Fell back asleep. Second dream, I hung out with Tori Spelling for a week and then went home and tried to convince 20 people that I had hung out with her. However, I didn't have a picture(which is odd because I'm a bit of a photographer!) so nobody believed me, except for my dad.




ETA: I forgot to mention. Today is a milestone for me. Yesterday was the first day I start spotting with my first miscarriage(2nd was a chemical and happened around 3-4 weeks). Though my doctor had stated me as being 5 weeks and 3 days the day that I started spotting, I am going by my ovulation date now. But I am very happy to say I have not spotted one bit during this pregnancy. I have had light crmaping on and off which causes me to go running to the bathroom to check, but I think this one is going to be a sticky bean I hang out with my SIL today who is 7 months pregnant, and we are going to this baby store we heard was supposed to be awesome. I am excited to finally get to baby shop!!

[Im.Nayomi]

I am so following you I was so happy @ how quickly they put up Feb 2011 ddc i.m.o.
& happy to see you were first to post your journal...I was first when I posted my journal when I was in Jan ddc2010...and guess what... my situation if you know it...dh does not want to use protection he wants to keep trying til we get our sticky bean.....so I am happy & am trusting God but also so so so very happy that my close J.M. sister(& most of ya are preggo) I am beaming& praying for yaw everyday.......

Stick Bean Stick!!!!

do you have a feeling what you are having? i know it is early...&& I am not going any where.

[katinagj]

Nayomi! It is good to see you on here! I'm glad you decided not to go! I'm also glad that your DH does not want to stop trying. So will you be NTNP? Or are you actually going to be trying?

I honestly have no feelings as to what I am having! One minute I will think boy, then I will think girl! I do have stronger feelings about boy, but DH keeps complaining to me that he wants a girl, and it seems he is refusing to like ANY boy names at all..

[katinagj]

5 weeks symptoms:

sore and swollen bbs(dh thinks they are huge already, lol! Nips are huge too..)
exhausted- finally got to sleep in a little this morning
I get a lot of muscle pains, but only seems to be when I move
Hip with in so much pain last night I couldn't sleep(I have hip problems, I can tell already that this pregnancy is going to murder my hips)
less cramping than before
craving wendy's chili(dh went out and bought us 4 each to keep in the fridge so I don't have to drive to get my favorite craving!) what a sweetheart
itchy belly has also spread to the palms of my hands yesterday(lovin my moisturizer right now)
Getting dizzy more easily
Space out when I am driving(I know BAD!!)


Dreams: I had one weird dream that I can remember, I know I had another one but cant remember it. The one I do remember really didn't make a whole lot of sense... my SIL Jessica was in this dream(shes not the pregnant one!). She was telling me that she smoked pot and that she found this school that sells it and that they donate all the proceeds to cancer patients. That is all I can remember from it. But what I figure is I must have been thinking about my best friend who has crohns disease and has her medical green card and just put the wrong face with the person. Because I know my SIL would probably never even touch pot! LOL Anyways....how random.....really wish I could remember what my other dream was about. So strange to remember dreams every morning though..


I had fun hanging out with my SIL yesterday. She bought a baby outfit for her upcoming girl, and I decided to buy a gender neutral outfit I found because it had a giraffe on it, and I LOVE giraffes! Plus it was just $4 so I couldn't stop myself! It may seem more like a fall outfit but really in this state it doesn't matter much, it might as well be fall all year round!! I will add a pic later when I get a chance to load it.

[katinagj]

I am STILL waiting for my blood test results. Just a little annoying. Tomorrow it will be a week since I got blood drawn. I just called and they said they will try and figure out why it has taken so long and will give me a call back. I am soooo tired of waiting!! Nothing much new to update, symptoms are the same today as the have been the past few days, other than I swear I am feeling round ligament pain already when I move to fast and then if hurts when I cough sometimes...

[katinagj]

Blood test results back! Progesterone wasn't checked...but I'm really not too worried about that because it wasn't the problem with my last pregnancies and my temps have all been super high for me(I'm temping probably until I get past the first trimester which is why my ovulation chart is still up on my signature)

hcg levels: 501 at 16 DPO

Going back in today to get blood drawn again. They said I didn't have to but I could if I wanted to. So I am DEFINITELY going in I am very happy with those levels though. My levels were never that high with my first pregnancy. I don't remember them going any higher than 200..

[Im.Nayomi]

Hey girl!!! How far along did you make it to your other pregnancy/pregnancies???

I want to tell your bean... stick baby stick!!!!

I am so happy you started your new diet.

[katinagj]

With my first pregnancy I made it to 18 DPO then spotted for a day and miscarried(the dr had stated me as 5 weeks and 1 day, but it was going by LMP not Ovulation like I am calculating this time). With the second I only made it to the day AF was due. And right now I am on 22 DPO.

I'm really happy I started my new diet too!! It has forced me to eat so much healthier too, and it has made a huge impact on how I feel. I really think it's going to make this bean stick. At least I hope so! I can't wait to hear my second blood test results.

[katinagj]

Got my blood test results back, getting a 3rd draw tomorrow

16 DPO: 501
22 DPO: 5,198

according to justmommies calculator I am doubling every 42 hours!

I am loving all the good signs.

Symptoms:
bbs are extremely sensitive all the way up to my collar bone...and no my bbs do NOT go up that far, lol!
cramping a little when I get hungry...feels like af cramps but when I eat it starts to go away
exhausted- can't wake up any earlier than 9 anymore.
Muscle pains in abdomen, on and off when I move to fast
craving bacon and guacamole with tortilla chips
itchy belly
Getting dizzy more easily
Space out all the time

[hopeful3853]

omg!!!!! katina you're preggo! i am SO happy for you. i have a good feeling about a sticky bean after reading about your symptoms and how dark the lines came up and fast.

so,so,so very happy for you!

[katinagj]

Thank you! I am really excited, I really feel like this one is going to stick! Got my 3rd blood draw today and am excited to see what the results are but I don't find out till Monday.

[katinagj]

Latest Dream:
Made a gluten free pizza and threw it in the oven, turned it on then drove to my parents house. Got out of my car and talked to my parents neighbor Dwight for a few then suddenly there were some weird ducks, a mom and baby. Then the momma duck tried to attack me to protect her baby and I suddenly remembered that I had left the pizza in the oven. I was suddenly scared to death that my house was going to light on fire while I was gone, with all our pets there by themselves. I jumped on my bike(weird since I drove my car there, lol) and start riding as fast as I could down the hill in the direction of my house and suddenly my bike lifted off the ground like in ET and I was flying. Finally I started dropping and was pedaling as fast as I could o try to keep in the air, lol. At the end I was falling fast to the ground and thought I was going to die! Then I woke up.

Very strange to remember most of the details from my dreams. Though I am excited to have a place to record them so that I can keep them on record. Then when baby is all grown up he/she can see all the strange dreams they caused me! haha.

Symptoms:
Nausea
Dizziness
achy extremely painful bbs
exhausted
some muscle pain

[hopeful3853]

sounds like a kind of dream i would have! i mix in all the different people in my life and put them in made up fantastical places. it's like my mind is pretending to be on drugs or something!

can't wait to hear how your blood test results turn out. i'm sure with flying colors!

[katinagj]

Originally Posted by hopeful3853

sounds like a kind of dream i would have! i mix in all the different people in my life and put them in made up fantastical places. it's like my mind is pretending to be on drugs or something!

can't wait to hear how your blood test results turn out. i'm sure with flying colors!

LOL! Yes, definitely the mind "on drugs" haha. I can't wait either! I'm sad I have to wait for tomorrow to hear. I was hoping I would get the results today because I am seeing my MIL and she is afraid to get excited right now and I thought maybe she'd like to hear about my hcg levels.



So, the last dream wasn't even close to as crazy as the one I had last night. Here goes!

Latest Dream:
Me and DH were at the zoo in the sharks room...this aquarium was HUGE with about 5 sections the size of school baseball fields, but with only one animal, a shark. DH fell in the water and accidently hit the drain plug out and so the water quickly drained out and the shark was lieing there. We were afraid we were going to get in big trouble so we picked up the shark to bring to our room. I kept holding onto its nose to keep it calm so it wouldn't bite me(we watched a television show recently where they were testing the calming abilities of holding or touching a sharks nose). Next I remember, DH got in bed and I was on the floor with the shark still trying to keep a hold on its nose while it was trying to bite me! I kept yelling at DH, "we need to tell somebody!!" "we need to tell somebody right now!" he wouldn't listen to me and just fell asleep and stayed asleep. So I left the shark on the floor and ran to look for someone. I ended up suddenly miles away talking to the lady who takes care of the shark. She showed me the newspaper. They had us in it! We were in the newspaper as wanted because we had stolen the shark. Then we walked out to a parking lot because some people that she was with were leaving. And I watched guys, 4 in a hummer and 4 in a jeep smashing their cars into each others. In the end the hummer was smashed flat and the 4 people inside (no clue how they were even still alive) poked their heads through the front window and started laughing. The jeep produced claws which grabbed the hummer and hooked it underneath the jeep. Then finally I was back to talking to the lady about the shark. She took him, then suddenly I was in the shark tank again but it was filled with water again. The shark wasn't there becuase he was sick from being out of water all night and they were putting on a show with some swimming lizards, and I was part of the show. Then I woke up.
lol. wow....

Symptoms:
very sensitive bbs(actually getting some really bad cramps in them now)
round ligament pain
dizziness
starving, all the time!
severe hip pain at times(it really feels like my bones are loosening already...my hips are driving me nuts)

[katinagj]

I am still waiting for test results...I am so sick of waiting!! They told me they would call on Monday, but didn't so I just called and turns out blood tests are in its just that my dr hasn't looked at them yet(I always get the call from her nurse). So I am hoping they call me today becuase I am dieing to know!!! No dreams that I can remember for today. Yesterday I did have a weird dream about my dog and the neighbors but couldn't remember enough detail to describe it.

Symptoms are all about the same other than I am more nauseous, and I woke up about 50 times last night with a bad stomach ache. I did not get a whole lot of sleep. Smells are bothering me a lot more. DH cooked bacon last night and I nearly puked. Whats with guys and the bacon? My dad made bacon yesterday too when I stopped by their house and I had to leave because it was making me so sick. DH also ate all my pickles...which have been a nausea reliever..so now I have to go out and buy more. I'll post my results when the dr finally calls.

[katinagj]

Alright, now that I have had a silly freak out in my post in the forum about my hcg levels. Here they are:

16dpo: 501
22dpo: 5198
24dpo: 9550

Goig by justmommies hcg calculator:

16-22- levels doubling every 42.7 hours

22-24- levels doubling every 54.7 hours (but personally I think that should be more like 49.7 hours because there was only 43 hours in between tests not the 48 there was supposed to be)

[Im.Nayomi]

Hey! dh and I will continue to NTNP most of my cycles....but trying to hit O still... when I say NTNP i will not be temping.....&& using fertilityfriend til my premium membership part is done. Wow. i only have 49 days left on it. I wont be surprised if I talk dh into doing another year on it. Time will tell.

2 your baby....
Stay with Katina a long time and help her have an easy delivery in feb 2011 !!!!! && be a very healthy baby. Thanks!!!!!(from one of your aunts on J.M.)

[Im.Nayomi]

Happy to see that your baby is 6 weeks today

[katinagj]

Actualy 6 weeks and 1 day now!! I'm going to have to change my date

I had my first ultrasound today and we saw a little heartbeat! 114 BPM

So happy to have that reassurance



Since we don't have a section up yet for ultrasound pics, here's the one from today

[Im.Nayomi]

Now this picture just makes me want to cry all day......happy tears ofcourse!!!

bean making 1 of your J.M. Aunties very happy!!!