Dory, I became good friends with a woman while sitting in my high risk ob's office. She had an issue with very early labors. They put her on progesterone injections and put in a cervical stitch. The progesterone injections really helped her get farther into each of her pregnancies.
jlk, how is everything going and when is your next appt.? I think of you often.
Hi Everyone. I popped in and saw so many familiar faces that I had to join in. Congratulations to you all. I look forward to getting to know the new names as well.
My story (for those who don't remember me) in a nutshell is that we found out at 20 weeks with our first pregnancy that our baby had passed away. He was a boy and we named him Nathaniel. They believed he passed away around 15 weeks. Our whole world collapsed and I still miss my little boy with every ounce of my being. He would have been 2 this April.
We fell pregnant 2 months later and I am happy to say that our beautiful daughter Anna Frances was delivered at 41 weeks. She is 15 months and a ball of energy and smiles!
So here I am again. 28 weeks on Wednesday and all is going well so far. I had an ob appointment today and am measuring perfectly and the baby had a fantastic heartbeat. I also did the GD test.
So that is me so far. I have my moments of insanity but thankfully the crazy lady is not as evident as my last pregnancy. The crazy lady is definitely still there but I am able to keep it under control by seeing my ob fortnightly. With Anna I saw him weekly from 11 to 24 weeks and then fortnightly. Like Laney, I had a billion scans! I have had a few this time but not as many, I think my ob is trying to wean me off my addiction.
So I hope to get to know you all and support and follow your pregnancies.
Laney - thanks for the tips. The concept of a cerlage (stitch) has been discussed extensively for this pg and I am still not decided as for me it seems risk of infection is equally an issue. Haven't sopken too much about progesterone, but will when I see the ob in 3 weeks.
Klee - thanks sweetie Thanks for telling me about Phoebe. It does feel like I will never get there, underneath all the bravado, that it my abiding fear. I am for the most part really thankful for each day of this pg.
Today, wasn't as hard as I thought it might be. I was more affected leading up to today than on today. DH took the day off work and I am not working, so we slept in and snuggled ( no BD for me, way too scared) and then went for brunch and then a walk in the park and along the river. In the arvo we snuggled again, looked through our photos, shared some precious memories and listened to the songs we had played for the funeral service. In the end as sad as I am, the most significant memory for me today is just how much our precious girl was loved and how much she gave to us in those fleeting joyous but heartbreaking moments. I am so blessed to have been given such a precious gift. So today? DH and I honoured our baby girl by living, and remembering her. I had day dreams of doing something more symbolic, but in the end, for me, it felt contrived and what we did suited us.
JLK - good luck with your scan.
Hi to everyone else, I am not feeling that talkative. Take care and catch up soon.
Dory... That sounds like a beautiful way to honour your little girl - it is so hard to "decide" what to do each year- you guys went with your hearts and just remembered her- and thats all you can really do
Angelicdragon.... All the best for your scan tomorrow!! I think the numbers may not be perfect- but they are still getting higher- and thats got to be a good thing!! Fingers crossed that you get really good news tomorrow!!
jlk.... Hey there.. did you have an ob appt this week too??? How are you feeling? Feeling any movements yet? How are your nerves holding up???? My thoughts are with you xoxoxo Oh and i love your ticker, its beautiful xoxox
klee..... for you too- even in the haze it can still hurt. I think that you should stick with your nickname- i know that you explained that you have friends with similar sounding names- but i like it anyway!! And from memory... you nicknamed Joey joey before you knew his gender... so maybe its a sign!! Are your movements getting more regular? YAY if they are!! I feel them, but they are far from consistant!!! But i am getting my head around that slowly!!!
Laney.. I agree with klee... go and get busy girl!!! And yeah- we think we might call it a day baby making wise, providing we bring this bubba home. Dh and i have talked about it, and we have decided that in the very least we will be having a nice big vacation from baby worry for about 5 or so years- and we may decide not to try again after that. We arnt saying definatley no- but we have no plans for the near future- so i figured that what goes around comes around- and most of what we have was given to us by people anyway, so i am just keeping the flow going and passing it all along!! In five years it will likely gather moths anyway!!
Well nearly bed time for me!!! Take care everyone!!
xoxoxo
StarBright, I think that one more will be the end of baby making for me and DH too. If we can make one more. It is a difficult decision to make. I had a c-section with Grayson and I was already thinking about getting my tubes tied. I would love to have 3 or 4 but I just don't think it a good idea for us. I guess it all depends on how easy my next pregnancy is.
dory, I think that you honored your little girl in a prefect way. You and DH spent the day together taking a little time to remember.
I also understand how you feel about not being able to do more than snuggle. DH and I went 8 months without. I was so scared because I had bleeding everytime. My doctor kept telling me that it was perfectly fine but I still couldn't.
Jude, I am glad that they moved your scan up. Less time to worry and wait. I will be thinking of you tomorrow.
Klee, I am glad that your boys helped you through a tough day. As for the name, you have time. You will know the right name when you hear it. I gave up looking through books. That never really worked for me. I really feel like TTC is a lot of work this time around. It is hard when Grayson doesn't want to sleep through the night or gets up extra early. All I want to do at night is sleep. We were just going to let it happen but after a few months of nothing I decided that we needed to put in some effort. Three more days and then the wait.
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We have progressed from last week. Both sacs have grown to the 6wk mark and both now have the decidual ring thing around them. One has a yolk and a fetal pole with heartbeat. But being as I was 6w3d it is a bit behind measuring between 5w4d and 6w exact. The other sac she said was empty yet she refused to do trans vaginal to check. I have the CD of pics here from Ethans scan at 6wk exact that showed an empty sac trans abdominal yet when he switched to trans vaginal we had a sac, yolk and a heartbeat of 92. Ok so Ethan left us a week later which is what is in my mind this time round.
I am just worried that with slow betas and measurements behind dates.. it won't last.
So we know for sure that at the moment we have one baby on board.
The sonographer suggested that we either had 2 eggs that fertilsied a few days behind and so B is not visual yet and may be in a week or two or that B started off then failed... so if that is the case why has the sac developed so much from last week when it had no ring around it?
She also kept saying that if she could see a baby in A then she should be able to see the same in B ... but if it is a few days behind then she wouldn't... this is doing my head in.
We have a few family problems at the moment too with my sons pg g/f who both live with us. She is due in 10 days. I see my GP this afternoon coz I am struggling to cope again so I am going to ask if I can go back on the zoloft. I have a stress migraine which is not responding to panadol or panadeine but I don't want to take anything stronger.
Daniel can now climb out of his walker lol. It is bedtime - morning nap time.
hugs to all
Jude
Jude, I always though that if there are two different eggs then you ovulate twice possibly even a couple of days apart. Why didn't they do the trans.vag. ultrasound? That really is the only good way to get a look in there right now and to get good measurements. I know how difficult the not knowing can be. Did you make another ultrasound appt. to recheck?
Just to remind you, Grayson measured 5 days behind at our first ultrasound. I thought for sure that we were going to lose him. I had no MS and then small for dates. At my 8 week appt. he was right on.
Sorry to hear about the family issues. I hope everything turns out okay. Try to take it easy. You shouldn't be letting yourself get so stressed right now.
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I think of you often.
Thanks for telling me about Phoebe. It does feel like I will never get there, underneath all the bravado, that it my abiding fear. I am for the most part really thankful for each day of this pg.
And yeah- we think we might call it a day baby making wise, providing we bring this bubba home. Dh and i have talked about it, and we have decided that in the very least we will be having a nice big vacation from baby worry for about 5 or so years- and we may decide not to try again after that. We arnt saying definatley no- but we have no plans for the near future- so i figured that what goes around comes around- and most of what we have was given to us by people anyway, so i am just keeping the flow going and passing it all along!! In five years it will likely gather moths anyway!!
I really feel like TTC is a lot of work this time around. It is hard when Grayson doesn't want to sleep through the night or gets up extra early. All I want to do at night is sleep. We were just going to let it happen but after a few months of nothing I decided that we needed to put in some effort. Three more days and then the wait.
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