When I am knocked up, I obsessively read the pregnancy bulletin boards.  Heck, it starts before I get knocked up, but then I am generally reading the IVF sections.  So I do have the prior pregnancy board reading to compare to.

I don’t know if it is because I have Becca, because if I don’t have a live birth I am already paid for another cycle, because I have three frozen, or just because I have been here before, but I am not feeling quite as freaked this time around.  Everyone else in the world however….

When first pregnant, it is very common to get ligament stretching pain.  It is from the uterus growing.  Standard.  It’s how I’ve known I was pregnant all three times.  Well, that and feeling the implantation.  It’s not hard to notice it when you have a dr. inserting embryos into you and telling you about what day they will actually implant.

Anywho, back to the ligament pain.  Everyone is freaking over this on the boards.  Natural enough if its your first pregnany.  Heck, Ben and I ended up at the hospital somewhere around 9-10 weeks with Becca because we weren’t sure what it was.  Not entirely our fault.  I called the dr’s office and asked the nurse if that could be it, and she to me to go in.

Back on track.  One woman on the board with a daughter about Becca’s age will reassure others that this is normal.  For herself, she is a complete basket case.  She is calling her dr’s office about this almost every other day.  She has gotten extra beta tests and ultrasound done to make sure everything is okay.  She has experienced this before.  It is common.  She has never had a miscarriage or suffered infertility.  I have the urge to smack some sense into her.  It is rather annoying to go to the boards and read her posts about, ‘oh, the cramping is still there!’.  Get over it.  It’s fine.

A new thing that I don’t recall with Becca is the eating of lunchmeats or deli meat.  Apparently there is a slight risk of listeria.  You wouldn’t believe how many topic questions there are about should they call their dr because they forgot and ate some.

A woman on another board literally washed her mouth out with soap 10 times after she kissed her husband on the cheeck and it had turned out that he was covered in bug spray.  She did IVF to get pregnant.  I will make more allowances for her than the others, but still, 10 times?  It’s a little extreme. 

Of course, I myself am hormonal and don’t like anyone.  Or is that all the time and I am just using hormones as an excuse now?  Hmmmm….