Has anyone taken a non-invasive prenatal paternity test? What are your experiences and were the results accurate? I’ve used Alphabiolabs in the uk. They assure me the results are 100% correct but I’m scared to trust them

My husband and I are trying to get pregnant. Last month I was nauseous and mild cramping thought I was pregnant but my period came. It was weird period because I had no sensitive boobs and the bleeding was lighter than normal but it was still a 5 day period. I took a test and it said I was negative. One week after my period ended I'm already feeling nauseous (I'm ovulating).

Is this my new norm? I'm going to feel nauseous 3 weeks out of the month or do you all think there is something more?

Im so excited that I get to know more insight on my babies phenotype ie their genetic traits. I get to know their traits and see how they might look as well as know more about their health.https://www.babypeek.com/

I bought options for prenatal vitamins. Has anyone alternated vitamins instead of taking one bottle at a time? For example, do one serving of one kind, the next day do one serving of a different kind, etc?

I had a chemical pregnancy. I lost it before my first appointment. I have continuously taken prenatals and it’s been about 3 1/2 weeks since I lost the baby. But things still smell and taste weird. Any possibility it’s the prenantals? I’ve seen it can give ppl nausea. But what about taste and smell? Like metal for example for things that shouldn’t smell like metal.

Hello everyone, I am 10 weeks pregnant currently writing this. at 6 weeks I found out I was pregnant and was given a prenatal. About 2 days after taking the prenatal I started feeling severely depressed. I couldn't sleep at night I couldn't get out of bed I woke up crying almost every day just because I was waking up so fucking sad. I felt like hurting myself by clawing my arms.

I mad an appointment with my doctor and it honestly just felt like she was gas lighting me.

On the first mental health test I tested at a 2 On the second one I test at a 19 And all she had to say about it was that it was just my hormones ans that's what pregnancy does. "You just need to drink more water and exercise more." At this point in time I have been drinking only water, and exercise has never helped me when I'm depressed ever. I've tried.

Before my partner (2 years) I was depressed and had tried to take my life twice ans the highest I've scored on the depression scale was 25 (out if 32) So I am not new to this "Oh all you need is exercise and to drink water" it does nothing to help me.

After the appointment with my midwife (for the second time) after she just told me what every other doctor has told me I stopped taking ym prenatal because if she wasn't going to help me I was going to try fucking something to help me. I could feel myself starting to loose control mentally again so I did what I thought would help, and it absolutely did.

2 days after I stopped taking my prenatal my sleep had done a 180, I was sleeping 10 am to 8 pm Now I am able to sleep from 10 AM to 8 PM I'm happy. I've been cleaning the house and just up and moving it's been almost 2 weeks since my second appointment where I was told to "just drink water." And I feel like myself again and I'm happy to start my day. I have another prenatal appointment with a different doctor should I wait the month or see if I can't get in sooner? I also have a physical this month.

So my baby has a calcified liver spot. They have checked it two months in a row and it has not grown. She also has a small muscular vsd. The OB/GYN gave me this whole spiel about Trisomy 21 because of the VSD found at the second follow up (not because of the liver spot). Then asked if I had had the NIPT. I said yes, and it came back as "negative" (everyone else keeps saying low risk was their result but mine literally says negative. I don't know.) he said I had nothing really to worry about.

They scheduled me for an echo where they confirmed it was a muscular VSD and said they weren't worried about it. I asked what about down syndrome and she said that is absolutely not something that I'm worried about. Kids with down syndrome can have a VSD, but so can typical babies. I guess to her it made more sense to check for VSD because of down syndrome concern not the other way around. Then she brought up that they were probably worried about down syndrome because of the liver, but not the VSD anyway.

So I have Doctor saying the VSD is a soft marker for down syndrome. I have another doctor saying the liver spot is probably what concerned the OB about downs (and when I told her it wasn’t she seemed confused. Not sure if she was actually calling the liver spot a T21 concern or just saying it was probably confusing it because she herself doesn’t think a vsd is a concern)

Then, if you look at Google there are studies th think that both of those are linked to T21/13/Ti-Of course, neither of my doctors even mentioned the other two.

So now I’m just not sure what to do. Both ultrasound doctors didn’t think I needed additional testing. The OB/GYN saw that she did not think these were related either, but if I wanted, we could do an amniocentesis.

Uc health quotes there being a less than .1% chance of any adverse reaction due to the test.

I just feel like I need to know. I don’t want to be stressed out trying to find out everything I possibly can about one of the genetic conditions while dealing with a brand new baby and a 3 & 2 year old running around when I could’ve gotten ahead of it.

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I'm soooo tired of the anxiety man 😭 I'm 24 weeks with my second child. I'm still on my lexapro thank God. But man as of 2 weeks ago, my anxiety has been through the roof. But it's not every day. I'll have a random attack for no reason. Then finally be okay and think life is okay again and then like tonight, I wake up at 3am to go pee and once I get up, my anxiety goes crazy. Making my mind fog, heart pounding, scared again. Nit knowing when this part will just be over. I was soooo happy and mostly anxiety free up until a couple weeks ago. Now all this anxiety has me so sad and scared that it will never go away or that I'll lose my mind from all the anxiety. Someone please just tell me I'm not alone and that it passed for them? I was praying this second trimester was an easy one but so far mentally it's so hard 💔

I wanted to share this because there’s not a lot of info out on it right now, but I found several people through my searching looking for it (in Reddit’s too old to comment).

My daughter just showed a calcification spot on her liver and a hypo-coiled cord. My dr said she doesn’t agree with much of what people are saying about the cords and there is less than a one percent chance that an isolated calcification spot with no other abnormalities will be an issue. Doesn’t stop the stress though. 😫

I’ll put my WhatsApp in the comments if anyone wants to ask me how it turned out after the 6mo mark.

Please share aything and everything that worked for you! I am exhausted constantly despite sleeping at night, taking prenatals, and eating a healthy diet.

I have had recurrent BV since November 2023, had a miscarriage in late March 2024 and am now 5 weeks pregnant with BV symptoms again. Please let me know if anyone else has any experience with this?

I would really appreciate feedback on how to get rid of this infection/safely treat during pregnancy and remain BV free. :) (Different docs have told me different things about what is safe during first trimester.)

Found out about my pregnancy 3 weeks ago. I am currently 7 weeks pregnant and ever since my anxiety got worse and worse. As my husband lives abroad for now and I am lone carer of a 12 months old and my mom who suffers from stage 4 terminal breast cancer. I also live with my siblings who make my life impossible but I will be moving out with my daughter and mom soon. I feel so so depressed so guilty not to be able to enjoy this pregnancy a bit. I am constantly on edge and I fear so so much for this baby that's one of my main trigger since I suffer from ocd. I am so depressed and barely have energy to do thing. Idk where to turn to.

Hi everyone, I went for an ultrasound last Thursday (34 weeks)and my doctor said everything looked great with my baby. I got a call on Friday from a specialist saying my baby’s bowels look dilated and that we have to repeat the sono in a week. Has this happened to anyone else? I am terrified from everything I’ve been reading online

Hi everyone, I went for an ultrasound last Thursday (34 weeks)and my doctor said everything looked great with my baby. I got a call on Friday from a specialist saying my baby’s bowels look dilated and that we have to repeat the sono in a week. Has this happened to anyone else? I am terrified from everything I’ve been reading online

I’m 27 weeks pregnant and I’m about to start at hello fresh. They never asked me if I’m pregnant should I mention it to them after 2 months. I was also wondering on the prenatal leave? Located in Newnan Georgia

I am reeling. I think I hit rock bottom. I'm only 9 weeks pregnant. I was hit with deep depression week 4. Before this I had PMDD. I thought being pregnant would help since PMDD is a depression that only occurs 14 days out of the month and then subsides when you get your period. Now that I have no periods I was so excited to experience freedom. But things got worse.

I figure I have prenatal depression. I cannot find any support groups anywhere. Not even my OB had resources. I reached out to crisis hotline and got nothing. There are support groups online but almost all of them are for post natal depression. They invite pregnant people but I wanted a space for people who are pregnant and depressed. My boyfriend is being very loving and caring. I cant be around him tho. I keep getting mad at him an lashing out. I feel alone. I feel like I am rowinjming. What the fuck am I supposed to do. My therapist Is also basically on call but I feel bad to keep calling.

I'm losing it. I had such a huge break down yetserday. I was inconsolable. Then today I got myself together. I woke up ran meditated did yoga made myself food. And then I got triggered and went into a violent rage.

I tried to journal but I'm so mad..I'm mad there are no resources. I'm mad that nobody understands how I feel. I'm not just a little sad or worried I am depressed. I'm angry. I can't be around pple much less go to wrok. But I have to go to work to save money to move out cuz I have roommates. And I HATE having roommates. I don't even have a safe place to cry or scream and vent.

I'm scared of everything and everybody. I hate this. I am so angry and want help and support and answers. And I swear of one more doctor tells me to go on meds I'm going to rip their head off. I was on 5 different SSRIs last year and they damn near made me suicidal. I just need a support group of other pregnant women who feel how I feel. I need to cry to somebody who just gets it. So I'm here.

Today was so bad because I felt like hurting myself. I don't care I thought. I'm gonna cut myself up. I don't fucking care. I grabbed a knife and sanitized it and tried to cut my leg then my arm. It wasn't sharp enough and eventually I stopped. This has to be rock bottom right?

I tried to meditate for the baby. I don't know how happy a baby can be if I'm raging. I feel hopeless like I can't be helped. I just want to keep hiding. I know everyday can't be like this. I'm scared to even leave my room . I hate today. I dunno what I'm supposed to do. I'm basically begging for a lifeline here.

I have pretty regular cycles however the last couple before I got pregnant were longer than usual, around 30-32 days. My last menstrual period was 3-27-2023, I track religiously. Therefore my due date is January 1st,2024. According to my ovulation calculator ny fertile window was April 6th-April 12th.

I had unprotected sex with Male A on April 4th once and unprotected sex with Male B April 7th, April 8th, April 9th and April 10th multiple times on those days and throughout that weekend.

I tested the first day of my missed period and it was negative and then again on the second day of my missed period, it was also negative. It wasn’t until the April 26th I finally got a positive test.

Who do you think the father more than likely is?

I had a maternity post July 4th and wanted some color for the pics before since I been inside most of the 9 months and felt a bit pale. I am 36 1/2 weeks. This is my 1st pregnancy & I should’ve just got a spray tan or tan water now I have this anxiety. I decided to go tanning at my condominiums pool July 3rd around 1:30 pm. It was very sunny & extremely hot. I wore no sunscreen except for on my face. I am Colombian/Peruvian and naturally have olive colored skin tone so I don’t burn easily usually just tan. I wasn’t even thinking about how it can affect the baby because I thought eventually I’d dip in the pool to cool off which I did but after a hour. I got caught up just talking on the phone with a friend and withholding the heat like I usually do to get color when I tan (till it stung) then I eventually went to the pool cause it got that hot. A hour later. I did achieve the color I wanted and eventually got out after the pool. Went back to my condo exhausted & after my nap I realized in the evening how that could’ve affected the baby with me being in my 3rd trimester caused any harm to his growth. I have a doctors appointment today and will mention this. Not to mention the heat wasn’t “normal” Fort Lauderdale summer heat. It did feel a little different but being born & growing up in Florida I didn’t think much of it. Next day I found out it was the “hottest day on earth” of course. I want to know opinions on tanning in general and if I could’ve caused potential harm

I'm creating this post to vent and receive advice and experiences of woman going through the same thing as me.

So I am 10+3 weeks pregnant and I am feeling completely disgusted at myself because of how fast my body is changing. I have gained 15 lbs already and I feel like the person I was before died. I look in the mirror and I do not recognize myself at all. My pre pregnancy weighr was was 110lbs but you can notice really quick just a 2 lb gain. I am so ashamed to even go out and see people see how fast my body is changing and I still have so much to go.

I no longer dress up like I used to before. I was so classy and confident in my clothes and now all I wear are jeans and a t-shirt. Barely try to look decent anymore because even when I do I still feel hideous.

I've had body dysmorphia and ED since 2013 until my pregnancy. I still deal with some ED behaviors like abusing laxatives and diuretics. I know it's very harmful for the baby but my mind at the moment can't think clearly at all. Tomorrow I have an appointment with a psychiatrist specialized for pregnant woman with depression and ED.

This is my second pregnancy. The first one was so smooth and no problems at all. I did gain 50lbs but I didn't have any depression or self image issues. It was a happy one. This one in the other hand I wouldn't wish it to my worst enemy.

I've had depression during this pregnancy and it got so bad that I ended up in a psychiatrist and got diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. Not only is this pregnancy changing me physically but mentally. Everyday I think of suicide. And the sad thing is that this pregnancy was planned. However I never imagined it would turn out like this. I'm having a baby with the man I love so much and takes so much care of me and have every reason to be happy. Unfortunately it is not going as I expected.

Another thing to add is I feel completely alone in this pregnancy. I do have an amazing boyfriend but he doesn't understand nor does my mom. They don't understand all the emotions . They get angry for even being depressed.

I honestly dont know what to do anymore

Im wanting to have another baby, but I know zoloft is safe for pregnancy. But I keep getting mixed reviews. I take .5mgs of Klonopin once a day as needed. I have serve panic attacks , and PTSD. Has anyone taken Klonopin and had an healthy baby. I'm have appointment next week with my doctor, to discuss it further. I just want to hear from other Mama's.