Daisalana

Heather, based on everything I read (remembering off the top of my head) some people can read pregnancy from date of ovulation as early as 7 days, most people it takes at least 15 days, and some--even longer. Everyone is different. And with that, everyone is different when they ovulate.. The 'generic' ovulation is the middle of the between-periods, but not everyone is like that. So for example, you may ovulate 5 days before your period, and a week from your missed period is only 13 days. From what you've said--and I'm no expert, just from what I read-- sounds like you could be pregnant, but very early on, and you ovulate late in the month. Wait another week and take the test again :biggrin: If pale lines now were an indicator, in a week, you should have solid unmistakable lines.

Dimitri is so cute!! And I like that name :biggrin: Terry, I meant to say your mom's service sounded beautiful.. Ava Maria is one of my favorite songs, my dad sang it to me as a kid, but he sang "Laura Marie" and till I was about 12, I thought he actually wrote that song for me. It is so beautiful, I cry everytime I hear it.. and just reading "Ava Maria" made me think of Bodacelli (sp) singing it, and it makes me weepy.. could be hormones! Judy thank you so much, I was real redneck in our drive way today waiting for Russell to come out--barefoot, hair a mess, in crappy clothes since nothing fits good.. and I check the mail (a day late)..got your card, opened it in our quiet neighborhood.. I died laughing.. people doing yardwork next door looked funny at me. That was funny, thanks for the laugh! I am feeling as bad as when it started, I had that one good day on Thursday I don't know what was different. But by noon tomorrow I am hopeful that I will have an adjustment, suggestions, a diagnosis.. something. I need to be accountable, I am hungry 24/7.. I mean literally, I can eat and eat and eat, and I never feel full.. not even 'satisfied'.. it's like I'm an empty pit! I go back to my band doc on Oct. 15, I am going to ask to have some put back in, I feel no restriction anymore.. that initial swelling I had when I found out, has gone away. Yesterday, just a guestimate, I'd say I had at least 4,000 calories. I won't even go into all I ate..probably 8 or 9 meals. Yeah!! What the heck!? I baked a cake and.. I only ate one piece yesterday, but I just threw it away tonight. I don't know what's going on with me. I need to get back in the game, but with the quitting smoking, busy season and stress, and lack of any restriction..I can't control myself. And while I'm still a bad person because I still smoke, I am officially down to 5 a day, which is amazing to me. I have about 10 left, and I am deciding that when those 10 are gone, I will not buy anymore.. and go from there. Russell is an annoying non-smoker now, he makes a big deal when ANYONE lights up. So I only smoke outside, which means I smoke less of the cigarette because I don't want to be out there. I threw away all of the ashtrays, and cleaned any smoke residue from our airvents (yuck). Going to go back and read the stories some of you posted.. good night V's!

Tracy hope you feel better soon! My butt was feeling better yesterday, but it's back in full force today..very glad I have the appt Monday, someone who specializes in back pains during pregnancy, I am so anxious!! I went to Motherhood tonight to try on maternity pants. I ordered XL from them.. they have plus size, but I shopped regular sizes and went off their size chart. I was swimming in the XL.. not the maternity part but the normal part, was HUGE. I am so confused. Especially lately when I don't fit quite right in my clothes anymore, I am feeling fat, I look like I gained 60lb when I look in the mirror. So I went to their store to figure out what size I am and if they would be tall enough. Shockingly, I fit into Medium, and even a SMALL. What the heck?? Where do skinny people shop for maternity? This place acts like it's normal sizes, but I would never fit in small pants at a normal store. Again, not talkin about the maternity part which is stretchy, the legs and hips, I fit into small. Which goes to show, my belly is all that makes fat down low. I was really shocked. Anyway I went with medium, they were comfortable and fit well. I am amazed at how comfortable the maternity part is. I was nervous my pants would just fall off since I don't have a butt, but they fit nice and I liked it. I'm not going to start wearing them till I get the noticable bump, but I found 3 flare jeans, 1 corduroy, and 1 dress pants.. should be all I need when the time comes. I also bought a lot of work shirts and pretty shirts that were on sale. My graduation FINALLY processed, I got my degree in Liberal Arts in the mail today. Yay me. Just had some apple slices as a snack, and I had 2 glasses of 2% milk today.. Mmm milk.

Hah I'm glad you posted about this, just because all this time I thought that ad used cookies to know your name, and was filling in the blank with whoever's name came here.. since I'm Laura and I always see Laura in the ads. I think the best solution, and thing to learn here.. don't click on ads. Just like any other website you go to, it's all scammy BS, if they were legit they wouldn't have tasteless ads flashing and ruining the retinas of your eyes.

Avoid Pea in a Pod.. oh my goodness. A coworker was telling me they have cute stuff, I glanced at it.. Normal shirts, ON SALE.. were $90-$200!! Couldn't afford a kid after buying that maternity stuff. My mom has been looking for tall maternity jeans for me, she found some at gap.com, and some other ridiculously priced places. I like some of old navy's stuff (there was a white button-down I wanted to order), but their website for maternity is always few and far between for stuff I like.

Congratulations!!! She is beautiful :thumbup:)

Woohoo how exciting, make sure you take B&A pics, since SOMEBODY never posted them!! :thumbup:

Hey Terry, I don't know about Etsy, but anywhere you can sell stuff--there's always scammers.. It's like the nigerian 409 scams, but they do it with sellers on the internet now. They run you in circles till YOU are confused, then they don't pay anything and you somehow end up paying them. For example, it happened with my car once.. they asked if I'd come down on price. I knew it was a scammer by the way they typed their e-mail, and they always say they are in UK.. then they said ok my price is fine, they'll send me a check for (amount asked for) plus anotehr 2k.. for shipping costs, and for you to refund the rest of the shipping cost.. they 'intentionally' overpay, for a whole list of reasons.. then they want you to send them the money back. Their check is no good, by time you find this out, you've sent them money. So just, whatever that person says (I am so skeptical of people), do not under any circumstances agree to do any money changing for them. And don't ship anything till you get verified payment.. like I said, I don't know how Etsy runs the payment, but just be aware!! :tongue2:) Drinking my mornin' milk. TGIF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My doc called last night, there's a rehab that specializes in physical therapy for prenatal.. they just called me and set up my first appointment for Monday. And as long as it is doctor referred, insurance pays. They did, and it is. Good times. The lady I talked to said it sounds like maybe I twisted and got something out of alignment. I have no idea at this point.

And I am jealous of you and the TT tracy!! :smile2: When you do the meeting, let me know how long it takes to pay off. Just so I can get an idea.

Yeah we're in our busy season, that's why I'm havin' to work through the pain. I am constantly having to put out a fire "This is purple, we wanted Blue.. I know you're behind schedule, but I need this tomorrow.. If you can't have this done in 2 days, even though the schedule is 5 days, you need to pay to overnight this on YOUR account for AM delivery... I don't care about extra charges or the fact that you're busy, I don't care that you have other customers, this has to be done OR ELSE (these things are actually said!!)" My eyes are crossing. I just bought a gallon of milk at the gas station.. I love milk right now! I had a carton of 2% milk for b'fast, had egg drop soup and some beef & broccoli for lunch. Russell just e-mailed me this, this is from an article about Clay Aiken 'coming out'--- "This is really shocking news as I had no idea he was gay," read a comment posted by "Sheridansq." "And now I have to deal with this. I am not sure what to say to people who know I was a fan. ... I didn't go to work today and am not answering the telephone." Talk about denial. Did you guys hear about the aliens coming on Oct. 14th to Alabama? Our news has been talking about it, we're getting a big laugh about it at work.. Russell has been trying to sell $10m anti-alien hats, and one other employee wrote back-- Sure I'll write you a check I know I can't cover, I'll go bankrupt, you'll go bankrupt, the government will bail you out, I'll have anti-alien head gear, you'll have a $10,000,000, and the aliens still won't come. Hehe!! If you haven't heard.. some Australian psychic said some Indian told her that a big space craft is coming to hover over all of Alabama on Oct 14-17. Mmhm. http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/6742/ Galactic Federation of Light spaceship to appear over Alabama for 3 days continuously beginning October 14, 2008.... TO LEADERS, GOVERNERS, POLITICIANS AND ALL PEOPLE OF EARTH …. We wish it to be understood that on the 14th day of your month of October in the year 2008 a craft of great size shall be visible within your skies. It shall be in the south of your hemisphere and it shall scan over many of your states. We give to you the name of Alabama. It has been decided that we shall remain within your atmosphere for the minimum of three of your twenty four hour periods. During this time there will be much commotion upon your earth plane. Your highest authorities will be intruding into ‘our’ atmospherics that surround our ship. This ‘security field’ is necessary for us, as there shall take place a ‘farce’ from those in your world who shall try to deny that we come in LOVE. KNOW OF THIS WE COME TO ASSIST YOUR WORLD. WE DO NOT COME TO TAKE OVER. WE DO NOT COME TO DESTRUCT. WE COME TO GIVE YOU HOPE. We are beings from other planets, who for many eons of your time have been preparing for these days ahead.

Tracy, $217 a month for how long? And I read on another thread that mons lift is generally done with TT as a standard, so that was encouraging! I am years from my TT but I definitely am going to need one.

Denise, was it dibilitating? I'm more and more convinced it must be pregnancy related and not that I hurt myself, so I am calling my obgyn tomorrow to see if she has any suggestions. The exercises, warm baths, pain meds, massager, stretches, shoe inserts, pelvic belt, sleeping with pillows between my knees, and any other random solution I've found has shown no improvement. Russ and I got in a fight about it tonight, he seems to think I can't be in 'that much pain' if I am not at the doc every day and I can go to work. Heh. I'm already in such a funk being in so much pain, I just got so mad at him. He is such an insensitive ass sometimes. I wanted to throw him out of the car, in hopes he'd be in some kind of horrible pain that I can roll my eyes at him and tell him he's just pretending. Wrong time to be picking fights with me, and I can't let it go, I just get so angry with him. Enough of that.. Just needed to vent. He has his equivelant of 'v's' coming to visit tomorrow.. they're his friends he's played online games with for years, 2 of the guys in FL are going up north to visit family and were driving through, so they're staying the night here tomorrow night. I am biting my tongue, I mean.. he's never met them either, and they're going to be in our house, makes me a little nervous. If he had met them before or something, it'd be different. I keep having visions of being robbed/murdered/pillaged in the middle of the night. Tired of being in a funk, tired of hurting.. I could not do this for 7 more months, I can't do anything for myself.

Had half a turkey sub for lunch.. no, back thing ended up not working :girl_hug: :thumbup: :wub: :smile2: Back to misery ugh. Watching this video Judy posted, so far tis funny!

Morning V's.. I got this pregnancy belt thing, that is to support your stomach, and more I read about my pains, it could be a pelvic something something (big words), that has to do with your pelvis changing during pregnancy. I fit the symptoms, so I think I'm going to contact my obgyn more about this. Originally I didn't think it was pregnancy related, now I'm starting to think it is. Anyway they have pelvic belts, which look similar to this pregnancy belt I got. So I put it on last night and tested it out, it actually does provide relief, it feels like it keeps my spine from breaking everytime I move. So I am wearing it to work, fingers crossed it can help with my sitting at the desk pain (the worst). Only problem is the belt is clunky, it makes my fat rolls poof out very bad (think extra muffin top), so I have to wear a baggy sweater over it, and since it slims up my hips my pants won't stay on. I feel utterly frumpy today, but if I can keep from having that pain it will be worth it! B'fast- Chocolate 1% Milk carton

And Lindsay Lohan came out at least a month ago, she's been flaunting her gf and talkin about all the stuff they do together.. they even announced a few days ago they plan on getting married. As for Aiken, yeah..duh.

Look, my little person looks like a little person now!!!

Hah, I drank 1/2 gallon of milk in 2 days this week.. so I'm out at the moment, but until that I was drinking at least 1 glass of whole milk a day (num num). I had 1/2 a banana!! Had hawaiian chicken for dinner, marinated chicken with pineapple on top, 1/2 baked potato.. and more unsweet tea. Had to edit, because I forgot...I also had 1 trip to salad bar, 1/2c iceburg, egg slices, lots of shredded carrot, and ranch. Just took my prenatal vitamin. Doc called me after hours, he was kind of stumped at this point, so I asked him what he thought about accupuncture or massage, he said it's a good idea, then asked if I knew someone via referrals, I said no.. he asked which I'd rather start with.. HMMM needles or massage?? So he said he's going to call around and find a masseuse that specializes in pregnant women, and will get back with me. So that's the next step.

I don't have any options, I don't see this going away since it's not getting better, and I can't keep working at home, we're in our busy season and I've got a million fires to put out. Doctor never called me back, have I mentioned I despise docs who run their phones through voicemail only? GRR. Russ is off to his first golf lesson, which is what I got him for his bday.. and I am updating my piehole report.. 1/2 banana & chocolate pudding snack.. Think I'm going to make something chicken tonight. Definitely russ' kid, I craved pizza last week- and I hate pizza!! I asked him to order one, he said 'since when do you eat pizza?' and I just said DO IT! Then when I got it, I didn't eat but a bite of it, I really dont like pizza and dunno why I craved it, guess the bite is all it wanted :confused:

Piehole report thus far: 3x bottle water 1x unsweet tea 3x jolly ranchers Had 2 squares of garlic bread from cici's for lunch (approx 200 calories from what I can figure) Not sure what we're doing for dinner, I can not wait to get home and get back into bed.. I have been trying different chairs, contraptions and arrangements all day trying to make it comfortable to sit at the computer.. so far, no luck. I am cutting out candy and cokes. That should help, I've been having too much of both lately, I was starting to get back into a coke habit! I use to drink it all the time, and I was having at least 12oz a day lately.. I crave coca cola a lot :confused: Told Russ he has to quit buying it, I can't avoid it if we have it.. and I need to be drinking more water. I had a horrible craving for it at lunch, but I opted for unsweet tea, and averted my eyes (they had root beer too mmm).

I wish I could have a steroid & anti-inflammatory shot. :smile:

Day 1 of getting back on track.. b'fast: WATER!

oh btw..scale made me teary-eyed today.. layin around in bed and eating has taken its toll. I gotta get my ass back in gear, no more candy, no more snacking all day long.. and no more sodas, i've been drinking a lot of soda lately!!

LOL Pam, heard that before, it's so true :redface: Im back to square 1 with my back after being at work today. Calling doctor in the morning, going to ask his opinion on accupuncture or massages, or anything else he can think of. I have 1 pain killer left, but I dont want to be on pain meds, what if this thing lasts for months.. I don't like pain meds, and even tho obgyn said it's ok, I don't think it would be ok longterm. Cooking porcupine meatballs tonight.. trying to decide on a side.. any suggestions?? Jenn why are you bleeding?? PMS bleeding? I had bad breakthrough bleeding that lasted for months, my obgyn put me on some meds, that stop your period (I had to get them for my wedding too).

Tell Haydee, yes to the ribs. Season them and pour bbq sauce + water in with it, let it simmer for 6 hours. I wish you guys could help too, I feel so utterly pathetic. When I try to hobble down the hall it takes forever, and I'm slumped over like I'm carrying a turd in my pants. People keep making comments, and I wish I could just disappear.. YES I KNOW I LOOK PATHETIC.

Back to work, and pain is back full force. Sitting in a chair is my enemy. I sit, and I feel aright, barely aches.. but then I try to stand up, and my legs buckle. I can't straighten my spine or lift my legs. I have to hobble extremely slow all over the place. I laid down on the couch in the lobby for a minute, and it instantly felt better- I could stand up straight, walk, etc.. then I sit in my chair again and I'm back to broken. SIGH. I guess I'll just have to go lay on the couch periodically throughout the days. I should go back to my doc, but I feel like there's not a lot they can do and I dread the drive, and getting in and out of the car, and walking from the parking garage after sitting. My mom found something yesterday, it said at 9 weeks, hormones can cause severe migraines, or sciatic pain. This would probably be considered sciatic, its in my butt and radiates into my legs. So I'm trying to just tough it out. She can't find the website again, to see if it goes away, I'm hoping it does. Losingjus said she had severe migraines for weeks, but it did go away.. I am almost into my 10th week. I am out of pain meds, but I do have an extra rx for the muscle relaxers, so I am just going to keep taking them and see. A coworker said "What if it's like this through your entire pregnancy?" and I said.. then I'm not having any more kids!!!!!!! Mom said, she had a crippling hip pain when she was pregnant with my brother. She said it caused her to fall to the ground in pain (she was a nurse).. so she said she remembers once falling in the elevator and having to yell for someone to help her up..so they let her work from a wheel chair till it finally passed. She keeps trying to reassure me the pains go away, and she never had those hip pains with me or my sister, so I shouldn't give up on having more kids lol. Anyway, work is really bad right now in general, we're in our rush season, behind schedule, and customers don't take that as an answer.. And I'm trying not to smoke, HEH.. what a time to do it. I'm sucking the heck out of jolly ranchers.