My pregnancy statistics
I was pregnant four times in five years, here’s how it panned out.
My first pregnancy:
My age: 30-31
Gender: boy💙
Discovered: January 10, 2018
Morning sickness: yes
Food aversions: Meat, eggs and anything charred/blackened
Food cravings:
1st trimester- Ice cream
2nd trimester- Caesar salad
3rd trimester- Publix fried chicken
Complications: a large cyst was found on my ovary, so I was sent to a specialist and had extra ultrasounds throughout
Other symptoms: unusually high sensitivity to gluten and dairy in the beginning
Induced: yes
Birth type: Vaginal
Labor time: 11 hours from beginning of induction to birth
Due date: September 12, 2018
Birth date: September 14, 2018, 6:19 PM
Baby size: 8 lb, 4 oz., 21.5 inches long
My second pregnancy:
My age: 33
Gender: boy💙
Discovered: September 4, 2020
Morning sickness: yes
Food aversions: BBQ, slimy textured steamed greens
Food cravings:
1st trimester- None, I could only tolerate certain foods such as rice and beans, plain toast or spaghetti.
2nd trimester- pasta salad from Whole Foods, Publix popcorn chicken
3rd trimester- popcorn; a spritzer drink made of lemonade, seltzer and fruit tea.
Complications: none. The cyst was no longer there.
Other symptoms: Sickness that hit suddenly around bed time as well as morning. sickness episodes lasted past 20 weeks. Pain in back and hips that started around 30 weeks and escalated. Recurring aggressive UTI.
Birth type: Vaginal
Labor time: 3 hours of hard labor after water broke at home.
Due date: May 8, 2021
Birth date: April 12, 2021
Pregnancy duration: 36w 2d
Baby size: 6 lb, 10 oz., 20.5 inches long
My third pregnancy:
My age: 34
Gender: boy💙
Discovered: December 14, 2021
Morning sickness: yes
Food aversions: No, but struggled with smell of cooking raw meat.
Food cravings:
1st trimester- canned ravioli
2nd trimester- turkey sandwiches or lunch turkey and cheese for a snack (had to cook meat first)
3rd trimester-
Complications: bleeding at six weeks, hormones not rising correctly resulting in needing progesterone supplements. Thyroid values too high in second trimester resulting in needing Methimazole. Water broke at 23 weeks and labor started at 23 weeks, 6 days resulting in birth at only 24 weeks.
Other symptoms: constant drainage from sinuses that resulted in coughs
Induced: no
Birth type: Vaginal
Labor time: uncertain but probably about 3-4 hours
Due date: August 21, 2022
Birth date: May 1, 2022
Pregnancy duration: 24 w
Baby size: 1 lb, 5 oz.
My fourth pregnancy:
My age: 35
Gender: girl💗
Discovered: September 30, 2022
Morning sickness: yes
Food aversions: fast food chicken fingers/nuggets in the first half
Food cravings:
1st trimester- waffles with cream cheese
2nd trimester- Thai chicken chili pies from Kookaburra
3rd trimester- Nutella, “terminator” wrap from Crave (contains greens, chicken, goat cheese, candied pecans, black beans, carrots, cabbage, sun dried tomatoes and Thai peanut dressing)
Complications: none
Other symptoms: Tiredness and exhaustion that lasted through entire pregnancy and achy, run-down feeling if I tried to exercise or do more than two errands in a day. Aches and pains in back and hips from 30 weeks onward. Constant drainage that resulted in coughs.
Induced: yes
Birth type: Vaginal
Labor time: 8 hours from beginning of induction to birth
Due date: June 11, 2023
Birth date: June 6, 2023
Pregnancy duration: 39w 2d
Baby size: 7 lbs, 11 oz., 20 inches long
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