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I kept waking up last night with this tightness and pain (discomfort really, not serious pain) in my lower abdomen. It was extremely unpleasant. I feel like I’m not really far enough along for this to be contractions, but if I were a few weeks further, that’s exactly what I would have thought it was. But now that I’ve talked to several friends who’ve been through several pregnancies, I’m pretty sure that it really IS Braxton-Hicks contractions. Isn’t it way too early for this? (I’m 15w, 1d) It’s still happening now. Bleh.

I have a perinatology appointment this afternoon, so I guess I’ll find out then if I’m a crazy alarmist or just seriously in tune with my body. Hah. I’m voting for alarmist, how about you?

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I kept waking up last night with this tightness and pain (discomfort really, not serious pain) in my lower abdomen. It was extremely unpleasant. I feel like I'm not really far enough along for this to be contractions, but if I were a few weeks further, that's exactly what I would have thought it was. But now that I've talked to several friends who've been through several pregnancies, I'm pretty sure that it really IS Braxton-Hicks contractions. Isn't it way too early for this? (I'm 15w, 1d) It's still happening now. Bleh.

I have a perinatology appointment this afternoon, so I guess I'll find out then if I'm a crazy alarmist or just seriously in tune with my body. Hah. I'm voting for alarmist, how about you?

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In a lot of ways, I don’t really feel pregnant. It’s not real yet. I’m told it will be once I can feel the babies moving, but that seems so far away. However, there are still a myriad of ways in which I am continually reminded that I’m pregnant.

• I am having incredibly vivid dreams. I’m always a vivid dreamer, but I usually forget my dreams within minutes of waking up. These days, I wake up and it takes me a while to distinguish dream from reality.
• I wake up at exactly, and I mean exactly, 5:08 every morning. There is never any good reason for it. I’m usually right in the middle of a dream and suddenly I’m looking at the clock saying 5:08, and then I fall back into a restless sleep until I drag myself out of bed around 6.
• I am both starving and utterly uninterested in food at all times. I am unbelievably thirsty ALL THE DARNED TIME. Problem is, if I drink water, I cease being hungry at all, which means I’m not eating enough. The perinatologist doesn’t care if I gain weight, lose weight, or stay constant, so long as I am getting sufficient calories, but I’m pretty sure I’m not.
• I have horrific cramping that I’m just assuming is normal. Additionally, I swear my hips already feel all out of whack. I think things are already shifting much more than I would have expected at this point.
• Dog nose. Need I say more?
• I am still 15 pounds below my pre-pregnancy weight, but I can’t button many of my blouses anymore.
• I haven’t gotten over the ridiculous exhaustion, I expect that I won’t ever.

That doesn’t seem like so many symptoms now that I enumerate them, but they sure do seem to rule my life!

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In a lot of ways, I don't really feel pregnant. It's not real yet. I'm told it will be once I can feel the babies moving, but that seems so far away. However, there are still a myriad of ways in which I am continually reminded that I'm pregnant.

• I am having incredibly vivid dreams. I'm always a vivid dreamer, but I usually forget my dreams within minutes of waking up. These days, I wake up and it takes me a while to distinguish dream from reality.
• I wake up at exactly, and I mean exactly, 5:08 every morning. There is never any good reason for it. I'm usually right in the middle of a dream and suddenly I'm looking at the clock saying 5:08, and then I fall back into a restless sleep until I drag myself out of bed around 6.
• I am both starving and utterly uninterested in food at all times. I am unbelievably thirsty ALL THE DARNED TIME. Problem is, if I drink water, I cease being hungry at all, which means I'm not eating enough. The perinatologist doesn't care if I gain weight, lose weight, or stay constant, so long as I am getting sufficient calories, but I'm pretty sure I'm not.
• I have horrific cramping that I'm just assuming is normal. Additionally, I swear my hips already feel all out of whack. I think things are already shifting much more than I would have expected at this point.
• Dog nose. Need I say more?
• I am still 15 pounds below my pre-pregnancy weight, but I can't button many of my blouses anymore.
• I haven't gotten over the ridiculous exhaustion, I expect that I won't ever.

That doesn't seem like so many symptoms now that I enumerate them, but they sure do seem to rule my life!

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In a lot of ways, I don't really feel pregnant. It's not real yet. I'm told it will be once I can feel the babies moving, but that seems so far away. However, there are still a myriad of ways in which I am continually reminded that I'm pregnant.

• I am having incredibly vivid dreams. I'm always a vivid dreamer, but I usually forget my dreams within minutes of waking up. These days, I wake up and it takes me a while to distinguish dream from reality.
• I wake up at exactly, and I mean exactly, 5:08 every morning. There is never any good reason for it. I'm usually right in the middle of a dream and suddenly I'm looking at the clock saying 5:08, and then I fall back into a restless sleep until I drag myself out of bed around 6.
• I am both starving and utterly uninterested in food at all times. I am unbelievably thirsty ALL THE DARNED TIME. Problem is, if I drink water, I cease being hungry at all, which means I'm not eating enough. The perinatologist doesn't care if I gain weight, lose weight, or stay constant, so long as I am getting sufficient calories, but I'm pretty sure I'm not.
• I have horrific cramping that I'm just assuming is normal. Additionally, I swear my hips already feel all out of whack. I think things are already shifting much more than I would have expected at this point.
• Dog nose. Need I say more?
• I am still 15 pounds below my pre-pregnancy weight, but I can't button many of my blouses anymore.
• I haven't gotten over the ridiculous exhaustion, I expect that I won't ever.

That doesn't seem like so many symptoms now that I enumerate them, but they sure do seem to rule my life!

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Really, why wouldn’t the universe take each and every opportunity to laugh at me? So I’ve been spotting pretty consistently for about a week. Maybe more. I’m really trying not to pay much attention. I’m wholly convinced that it’s nothing, and the rest of me knows that even if it’s something there’s not a darned thing to be done about it. But I’m really quite tired of dealing with this. It’s not heavy. It’s not terribly alarming. It’s just enough that I can’t sit back and pretend everything’s normal and fine.

Oh, and the Zofran is no longer doing a particularly good job. While my nausea no longer is a guarantee of vomitting, it is almost always painful. Yes, painful. Sounds odd, I realize, but that’s what it is. A tremendous pain in my gut while I stand there praying not to throw up. Adding Fenergen to the Zofran does little to help, but does send me to sleep, so I suppose it has a bit of a bonus.

Just in case any of you thought the whole pregnancy thing was boring compared to the roller coaster of fertility treatment. Bah!

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Really, why wouldn't the universe take each and every opportunity to laugh at me? So I've been spotting pretty consistently for about a week. Maybe more. I'm really trying not to pay much attention. I'm wholly convinced that it's nothing, and the rest of me knows that even if it's something there's not a darned thing to be done about it. But I'm really quite tired of dealing with this. It's not heavy. It's not terribly alarming. It's just enough that I can't sit back and pretend everything's normal and fine.

Oh, and the Zofran is no longer doing a particularly good job. While my nausea no longer is a guarantee of vomitting, it is almost always painful. Yes, painful. Sounds odd, I realize, but that's what it is. A tremendous pain in my gut while I stand there praying not to throw up. Adding Fenergen to the Zofran does little to help, but does send me to sleep, so I suppose it has a bit of a bonus.

Just in case any of you thought the whole pregnancy thing was boring compared to the roller coaster of fertility treatment. Bah!

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Really, why wouldn't the universe take each and every opportunity to laugh at me? So I've been spotting pretty consistently for about a week. Maybe more. I'm really trying not to pay much attention. I'm wholly convinced that it's nothing, and the rest of me knows that even if it's something there's not a darned thing to be done about it. But I'm really quite tired of dealing with this. It's not heavy. It's not terribly alarming. It's just enough that I can't sit back and pretend everything's normal and fine.

Oh, and the Zofran is no longer doing a particularly good job. While my nausea no longer is a guarantee of vomitting, it is almost always painful. Yes, painful. Sounds odd, I realize, but that's what it is. A tremendous pain in my gut while I stand there praying not to throw up. Adding Fenergen to the Zofran does little to help, but does send me to sleep, so I suppose it has a bit of a bonus.

Just in case any of you thought the whole pregnancy thing was boring compared to the roller coaster of fertility treatment. Bah!

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