someone reassure me that things are fine...

[sake]

So, as you all know, I'm new at the pregnancy thing.
And I haven't really been sick, except a couple of times, around 11:00 each time, and those were both when I hadn't had breakfast, and it was a couple of weeks ago.
Plus, I'm not really showing at all, which I have no idea if that's normal or not at almost 11 weeks.
And I keep having nightmares that something is wrong with the baby. Like NIGHTLY I have these bad dreams. Plus, my blood sugar has continued to go low, despite my lower dose of insulin, and when i talked to my endocrinologist, they were seemed kind of... suspicious?... like asking of i had been having morning sickness, or spotting, and eluding to my blood sugar lows not being normal.
I don't go back to my ob until july 5th....
can someone please say something to me to make me feel better??

[speckledfrog]

Pregnancy is a mind fuck. For real.

[candyapple]

Call your OB's office and see if they'll see you sooner--tomorrow or Friday--and tell them your concerns, no need to go on worrying.

Hope everything's going great with your babe.

[candyapple]

Jun 20, 2012 22:42:48 GMT -5 speckledfrog said:

Pregnancy is a mind fuck. For real.

This.

[OHMBLEEGOHHHHH!]

I can't speak for the blood sugar thing.
BUT - it is normal to not be showing yet. It is normal to only get sick a few times. It is VERY normal to have horrid, vivid dreams, especially about the pregnancy, especially when you are worrying about all these other things and giving yourself a complex.

[Deleted]

In my experience, doctors always seem suspicious and ask too many questions, even when nothing is wrong and they know it. Not related, really, but I was having an abdominal ultrasound once and when the tech got to my appendix area she started "hmmm"ing and digging around, and then started asking me questions about how I'd been feeling and if I'd had a fever recently. Yeah, everything was totally normal.

I wish I had more to tell you. Unfortunately, I don't have pregnancy experience so that's the best I've got. :/

[sake]

Jun 20, 2012 22:44:23 GMT -5 @candyapple said:

Call your OB's office and see if they'll see you sooner--tomorrow or Friday--and tell them your concerns, no need to go on worrying.

Hope everything's going great with your babe.

I wanted to get in sooner, but i'm on vacation this week, and then I start nannying next week from 8 -5 every day, (which are the hours my ob's office is open) and don't get a day off until the 5th. So that's the soonest that will work.

[iamgrace]

I have no idea about the blood sugar, but the rest is very, very normal.

[bab]

Jun 20, 2012 22:44:42 GMT -5 @candyapple said:

Jun 20, 2012 22:42:48 GMT -5 speckledfrog said:

Pregnancy is a mind fuck. For real.

This.

yep

[tinybride]

The first trimester sucks because until you start feeling the baby move or notice you're belly growing you don't know what the heck is going on with the baby.

I've had lots of symptoms with this pregnancy but with my other two girls there were lots of quiet periods where I would get worried.

I'm sure everything is fine. You may consider getting a Doppler to help ease your mind. By 12 weeks the doctor was able to pick up the heartbeat via Doppler.

[sewf]

I'm a few days behind you, and I haven't had many nauseous moments (although I am right now). Honestly, the only pregnancy symptoms I've really had consistently had been being exhausted. Not thrown up yet or anything. I'm not showing either (although I'm kind of excited for it). I have had a lot of those nightmares and dreams, too, though.

I'm sure everything is fine. Just try not to stress. I know your brain is making up all these worst case scenarios, but try to push those away.

[sake]

I was doing ok, until I saw the "what to expect when you're expecting" movie. Which was generally pretty funny, but one of the girls in there has a m/c, and now I'm like terrified. I mean, obviously, I have known that was a possibility, but fuck, I didn't think that seeing it happen in a FAKE MOVIE would make me freak out this much.
And also, I'm usually NOT a worrier, so me worrying about this is making my mind freak out even more. I totally believe that pregnancy is a mind fuck.

[Deleted]

Jun 20, 2012 22:44:44 GMT -5 OHMBLEEGOHHHHH! said:

I can't speak for the blood sugar thing.
BUT - it is normal to not be showing yet. It is normal to only get sick a few times. It is VERY normal to have horrid, vivid dreams, especially about the pregnancy, especially when you are worrying about all these other things and giving yourself a complex.

All of this. I had terrible nightmares about something going wrong, especially the first half of the pregnancy. Getting a doppler really helped ease my mind, BUT don't freak out if you can't find the heartbeat right away if you end up getting one.

Sorry to say, but you'll most likely be paranoid the rest of the pregnancy. And I'm sure we all will be the rest of our lives as mothers. Yay!

[Deleted]

I felt a wee bit queasy once when I was pregnant with my first. That's it. No puking, it didn't last more than a second and I didn't feel I was in any danger of hurling. And I didn't show until 16 weeks. Even then, I just looked like a had a good lunch. Peteybird was a perfectly healthy 8lbs, 9oz.

With pinky, I threw up once. It was orange juice. I never drank orange juice the rest of my pregnancy for fear I'd blow chunks. I felt a bit queasy over extremely garlicky shit but only temporarily and it was over in a week or so. Pinky was healthy as hell too. I can't remember when I started showing but I wore prepregnancy pants for fucking ever.

You're fine. For swears.

[Deleted]

And pregnancy dreams are the worst. I had a dream that I found my dog dead in a moving box. It was so real that when I woke up, I had to find my damned dog and see for myself that she was alive. Even now I can still remember that dream quite vividly and it gives me the heebies.

[dochas]

I was stunned by the ever changing awfulness of pregnancy. I never dreamed it would be easy. But I couldn't figure out how pregnant women walked around like everything was normal. I felt deceived and lied to! I didn't show for a long time so that can be totally normal. I don't know about blood sugar though. But I can tell you that I worried my ENTIRE pregnancy. I was also sick - not morning sickness but terrible indigestion - until the day he was born. Call your OB as often as you need to.

[partiallysunny]

Jun 20, 2012 22:49:06 GMT -5 iamgrace said:

I have no idea about the blood sugar, but the rest is very, very normal.

Yep. Maybe call your doctor about the blood sugar.

[Cayl]

Jun 20, 2012 22:57:49 GMT -5 sake said:

And also, I'm usually NOT a worrier, so me worrying about this is making my mind freak out even more. I totally believe that pregnancy is a mind fuck.

My pregnancy made me irrationally worry 24/7. I am NEVER like that, so then I would get myself more worked up by thinking "I never worry and freak out, so since I am worrying like this something MUST be wrong, this is my body's way of telling me that something is wrong!". It was awful.

I did have m/s and some other pregnancy symptoms during the first trimester, but I also had twins so that tends to make you feel the symptoms earlier and stronger. I remember being sick of my BMB in the first tri because so many women were posting every day that they were freaking out because they were having no symptoms. Everyone's body reacts differently and I'm sure your baby is perfectly fine I don't know anything about blood sugar, but my BP was high prior to pregnancy and it dropped so much during my pregnancy that they took me off of my BP meds.

[cleo29]

This is why I rented a doppler. As for you not having m/s, that is normal, some women just don't. M/s is not an indication of whether things are going right. NOw, if you have been sick and suddenly all your symptoms went away, I would be a little worried.

Not showing now is normal too. I didn't start needing more comfortable pants until 14/15 wks with C and that has more to do with me getting really uncomfortable with things tight around my stomach, pregnant or no.

The first tri in particular is one big mind fuck. Hang in there and if you are really worried call your OB, maybe they can try to use the doppler on you (10 wks is generally when they can start picking it up the earliest)

[mamasaurus]

My SIL didn't really show until she was 6 months along. Depending on how you're built, you might just look like you are really into buffets up until the very end. Don't worry about not showing.

Also, morning sickness is different with everyone. Some people barely have it, others get the whammy, and then there's everything in between. Most people end up with healthy babies regardless of how much, if any, toilet facetime they had.

I also had (and continue to have) occasional horrible dreams that something happened/will happen to my baby. Plus, in all my dreams about giving birth, I pushed little woodland creatures out of my snatch. It was like the cast of Bambi up in my uterus or something. The dreams, as far as I can tell, are normal too. Half the people on my BMB seemed to talk about wacky dreams. Just wait til the second tri, when they might turn into wacky sex dreams.

Good luck at the doctor!

[LLL]

Jun 20, 2012 22:49:38 GMT -5 bab said:

Jun 20, 2012 22:44:42 GMT -5 @candyapple said:

This.

yep

word

[thebuddhagouda]

I'd say most people on their first pregnancy don't really show in the first tri. Everything is fine. I swear.

I never threw up and didn't show until I was close to 20 weeks. We announced it when I was 12 weeks, and I was just then having to use a bella band over my regular jeans.

[sprky79]

Do your blood sugar usually drop when you exercise? I wonder if the bs is dropping since your body is doing a lot right now, what with the creating a new human and all...

[jaylea]

The whole "being sick shows you have a healthy baby!" is crap said to make sick women feel better - in the sense that it just means that yes, hormones are present and your body's not handling it well.

I had two healthy pregnancies and wasn't sick in either. Nauseous occasionally, but nothing more. Some people's bodies handle the hormones better - that's really all there is to it.

[julez]

I was never once sick with DD. Around 8 weeks, all of the breast tenderness and other symptoms I had suddenly vanished, and I panicked. I called my midwife and they brought me in and did an ultrasound to calm my nerves, even though they said that vanishing symptoms is very normal.

If you're really worried, call. A good OB or midwife will listen to your instincts and will find an appointment for you to come in and make sure that all is well.

As far as the blood sugar, if they were truly worried, they wouldn't just shrug and say, "ok, see you in a few weeks!" They'd check things out pronto. So, it's probably all good.

As for what speckledfrog said...pregnancy is a giant mindfuck. For real.

[iamali]

I know nothing of the blood sugar thing, but everything else is completely normal.

There was like a few days I felt mildly queasy with #1 and none at all with #2. Some people just don't get morning sickness.

The dreams are anxiety. Totally normal too.

Hang in there.

[Tacocat]

I hated the first trimester, just because I was worried that something would happen and I was so tired all the time. I don't think I started showing until about 13 weeks and it was only a little bump. I didn't get sick at all, but didn't have much of an appetite either. I ate a lot a bagels and cream cheese. 2nd tri is so much better and you'll get to hear the heartbeat soon! We've heard it twice now and it's the greatest sound in the world. I felt so much better after my 12 week appt knowing that there was really a baby in there. My worry level went way down after that. Just hang in there until your appt, you'll be fine!