Hi all! What was the highlight of your pregnancy? And the total low point?
Highpoint - Feeling euphoric. My nails finally grew out and I was able to paint them for the first time in my life. My hair grew in thick and long. I never got sick and I slept better than I had in ages.
Lowpoint - I wanted to sleep ALL. THE. TIME. The pregnancy ended after seven months of gestation in a preeclamptic emergency C-Section and a two week (for me) ICU stay and my daughter was in the NICU for a month and a half.
Low point: 60 plus days of puking in the first trimester. High points: Feeling movement for the first time, ultrasound indicating he/she was healthy midway through pregnancy and meeting my little one after a painful labor/delivery and feeling that incredible adrenaline high that comes after an unmedicated birth (honestly, there's nothing like it!). Nurse Midwife Mom of 3 of God's greatest blessings
(+)Having a healthy baby, after having a baby with lots of medical issues. (-) Crapping on delivery bed , which I would have been oblivious about , until my husband felt the need to tell me, after I asked him why he had that horrid look on his face.
The low point during the first two pregnacies, was high blood pressure and swelling ankles. The high point from the first two were finding out they were both girls and 100% healthy and the movements while I was pregnant.
The 3rd pregnancy, the low point was too tired and trying to take care of the older two kids. The high point was we was told we were going to have another girl,but the day of the c-section found out it was a healthy boy instead and the movement while I was pregnant!!!
The low points of being pregnant for me was the morning sickness. I had it with all three of my kids. The other low point was at the end as you get bigger just being uncomfortable. The highlights were the ultrasounds and the baby moving and kicking there is nothing in the world like it. I would get pregnant just to feel that again. Ha Ha. Also looking at baby stuff and buying things for the baby and the thoughts of how amazing that your body knows what to do. Bringing such a miracle into the world!! Overall I loved being pregnant!!
Highlight: #1: feeling the "flutter" of his first kicks; #2: tie between first discernible ultrasound and first hearing his heartbeat. Three of the greatest moments of my life! Low point: developing a couple of bulging discs in my back during the first trimester that lasted throughout the pregnancy - and beyond.
The highlight of my pregnancy was the labor and delivery. The low point was the waiting for it to be over with.
The highlight of my pregnancy was, without a doubt, being able to eat whatever I wanted. I am usually pretty sensitive to dairy, but craved tons of it when I was pregnant and didn't have the same unpleasant side effects that I'd experienced in the past.
I also really enjoyed the ultrasound, and finding out that I was having a girl. We have these great ultrasound pictures of baby in profile, and one of her hand and one of her foot that are just incredible.
That final push that got her out was such a rush - someone earlier said the adrenaline rush after an unmedicated birth - it was amazing. I was like, "Heck yeah! I got that sucker out!" LOL!
The low point was feeling so.... very.... tired. I don't think I had that second trimester burst of energy that some women talk about. Also, my daughter giving me these swift kicks to the ribs with her ridiculous long legs and huge feet (so we saw when she came out!).
A low/high - bleeding three weeks after finding out I was pregnant and worrying that I was miscarrying. Going to the doctor and finding out that baby was just fine - however, I had a cervical polyp that was causing the bleeding. That dang thing bled all through my pregnancy so I didn't even get the 9 month break from my "period."
Well, let me see...
highs for all 4: short labors. The longest one was 6 1/2 hours.
#1 LOW-finding out I was pregnant (in a fairly new relationship and not married and that's not the way I wanted my family to begin), first trimester morning sickness, having the flu during delivery
HIGH- when my SO (now DH) finally accepted the fact that we were going to be parents, her birth-2 pushes and she was out. She's beautiful BTW...inside and out :-)
#2 LOW- my DH being on deployments much of the pregnancy
HIGH: it was just an easy pregnancy....she however has learning and emotional disabilities so I think the easy pregnancy was God's way of giving me a break before the tough stuff began.
#3 HIGH-finding out I was having a boy after 2 girls, delivering him
LOWS- where do I begin..... he settled on my sciatic nerve early in the second trimester and stayed there, he kicked me so hard that part of my uterus was pinched (it felt like he had his foot in my ribcage til I gave birth), Edema, loss of taste buds, my right arm continuously pulling out of it's socket at night, near nightly leg spasms, he was 2 weeks late and my third trimester was in the summer-in Virginia- during a huge heatwave and we didn't have AC...i think that's all :-)
#4 HIGH- finding out I was pregnant with him. He wasn't really planned but after he was born I felt so complete.
LOW- DH wasn't here for his birth. He missed it by 5 hours. Thank God for good friends though :-)
Highlight of both, finding out the sex, getting that first karate kick and giving birth. (especially giving birth to my second, because that WAS when i found out the sex)
Low points....most of the first trimesters...and.....episiotomy!
highlight was having hubby and me feel him move together for the first time.
Lowlight - probably my entire last week of pregnancy with how terrible it felt, lol
Lots of highlights - hearing her heartbeat at my very first midwife appt, feeling her move for the first time, finding out she was a girl and healthy (amnio results), finishing a five mile cross-country run in my 7th month, at age 40, and feeling fantastic and strong, an amazing labor and delivery with no drugs and no stitches, seeing her for the first time
Lowlights - feeling tired and queasy day after day and napping on the carpeted floor in the mother's room at work cuz I just had to, in the first trimester
High point was feeling my son move and the low was carpel tunnel!
#1 highpoint--that faint pink positive line after 1.5 yrs of trying--so exited and overwhelmed with joy. lowpoint- 8 weeks of bedrest and that brief second during my horrible labor that I didn't know if my little guy was going to make it.
#2 high point-- feeling the very ritualistic hiccup sessions at 5:30am every morning. Low point--fear of the h1n1 flu outbreak, pushed me to want to get the heck out of the hospital asap--hindsight I should have taken my sweet time, oh well!
pregnancy #1 Highpoint>> i'd have to say the whole pregnancy, everything was just awesome. Lowpoint>>delivery, my BP went through the roof and I was just totally miserable, baby started having de-cells etc.
pregnancy#2 Highpoint>>finding out we were having twins @ 8 week ultrasound Lowpoint>>lets see, which one...having to give myself shots everyday of a blood thinner to help prevent another blood clot, developing gestational diabetes, all day sickness for the first 6 months, having heartburn so bad I had to sleep sitting up on the couch the last 3 months of pregnancy.
