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.
Hi jlk... how are you going?????????? I am hanging for news on you this week!!!! What day is your check up????? I need to know what day to worry for you!!!!!!!!!
Hi katiegirl!! Feels like half a reunion in here!! As i said before- i am too a recovering scan addict- i had them monthly with shane and so far i have only had the regular run of the mill scans!! Not even a dating scan!!! I will have more though i think further along as i see the OB more as he has one in his rooms, but congrats on trying to cut back!!
dory... I will be thinking of you tomorrow, i am not fully aware of your history, did you have a little boy or girl? I iwll light a candle for your angel tomorrow
AFM.. doing well here, feeling more wriggles which is soooooo nice!! And thinking about names and i even sorted through some baby clothes yesterday- i went through and picked all the ones i could re use and i have a box of blue things to pass onto to a few friends who are having boys - they already have girls, so we might end up doing a swapsie. And i had a friend drop off some pink things today- its a big thing to be organising and getting things ready- but i take it as a positive thing coz at the moment it feels right, so i will go with it!
For now i am off to bed goodnight all, belly rubs and seet dreams xoxo
Katiegirl - So excited to read your post! Congratulations hun! So here we are together again...wonderful!
Dory - Will be thinking of you tomorrow xxx
Bif HI to everyone else...back to my sick bubba and hubba lol!
Dory, I will be thinking of you today and your precious baby. I will also light a candle today and place it in front of the angel I have to represent my angel son. I hope you are able to remember your baby in a peaceful and supported way, and that the day is not too painful for you.
Hi to everyone and thanks for welcoming me back. It feels like dejavu to be here again.
StarBright, you are giving away all of your little boy clothes? Does that mean that this is going to be your last baby? It is so great to hear that you are able to sort through little clothes and start getting ready already. I was 35 weeks before I would even open the door the nursery to be. My DH was itching to start getting it ready.
Katiegirl, I can't believe that you are 28 weeks already. Time goes by fast when you are not the one pregnant Great to hear that your appt. went well.
Ellie, I hope your DH and DD feel better soon and that you don't get it too.
hi ladies, wow its starting to feel a bit de ja vu, knowing so many of you.
dory - thinking of you today, just do the best you can and you go with how your feeling. anniversaries are so hard, i'm just seeing through the haze of my dd's anniversary from last week, thinking of you. i'm so sorry for your losses, it must seem like you'll never get there, but you will. there is hope it does happen, there are quite a few ladies in here that have had multiple losses at all stages and who have gone on to hold a live healthy baby, i am spending the day with a friend who has been through it, i wont go into her details, i'll save it for another time, but a few of the ladies on here know her.
jlk - hey hon, how you going? been thinking of you
katiegirl - congrats on your news, i had heard whispers you were pg, hope this pg is travelling well for you. you must be due around my ds's birthday, winter babies are awesome, lots more cuddles. great to be here with you i think i left just at the start of your last pg
ellie - wow for you too, congrats, and your little girls birthday this week,big time for you at the moment. great to be in here with you too, i remember you when i was pg with ds
laney - good luck this month, hope its your month. i remember you too, what you doing typing to us, you better get dh back to it lol. and wow on grayson crawling, makes it more fun doesn't it.
angelicdragon - great to see you too, it was about two and a half years since we've been in a thread together, great to see you pg again, good luck for your scans this week, let us know how you go. i saw this ones hb at 6 weeks 1 day, so hoping you'll see both yours.
starbright - hey hon, how you going? nice work on the clothes, you'll have a few more things by the time i send you a stack lol. fantastic on the movement, and i hear ya with the darn anterior placenta, we only started getting moves at nearly 21 weeks so your doing welllol
sorry to anyone i've missed, i'll post on thursday when i get a bit more time.
afm, just starting to see through the haze from the anniversary, but i think it had a lot to do with other things too, but both my boys are helping me through, one from inside and one from out we are just organising our house to sell up so its going to be a busy few months, guess that will be good, maybe i wont be such a crazy lady this time, yeah right lol. struggling to find a name cause we only ever had oneboys name and one girls, but i guess thats the least of my worries. well better get ready i'm spending the day with that friend, so i better get my bottom in gear.
Jo hey welcome back to the thread fantastic news on being pg again I hope all goes well with your scan and we get to hear great news from you.
Wow Katie girl you are back here too What a reunion we are having. Your little girl Anna is 2 mths younger than my grandson Alex.
Dory (((hugs))) for your Angelversary hun.
Kat so you are expecting a little girl then? kewl news, a pigeon pair.
Klee (((hugs))) for Phoebes Angelversary too.
Laney I hope 'being busy' pays off and Grayson has a sibling in about 9 mths time.
I got my last beta result today
19 dpo = 1396
22 dpo = 3158 (Doubling time 59.44 hours) progesterone = 35
25 dpo = 5332 (doubling time 104.54 hours) [scan showed 2 possible gestation sacs]
29 dpo = 9664 (doubling time 106.7 hours) progesterone = 41
my follow up scan is now tomorrow as they had to change the date. I will be 6wk 3d. We saw Daniels h/b at 6w2d and he measured 6w5d so was quite in front of his dates.
I have progressed to nausea on and off thru the day and feeling tired but nothing consistent. I just hope the scan tomorrow can give some reassurance. The progesterone is good and I know the betas do slow down after a while but they slow to a doubling of 96 once over 6000 so I just hope 106 is not too far off 96
I know it is totally a Miracle to have got even this far at my age.
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.
Hi
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.
Jude, sending you a hug as it sounds like you have way too much to cope with at the moment. I hope you get some good news soon. I have only had vag scans at that early stage as they can never pick up anything abdominally until I am around 12 or so weeks (I have an inverted uterus). Can you ask for another scan just to put your mind at ease?
Dory, it sounds like you remembered your baby girl in the perfect way. There is never an easy way to work out what to do on those days, but I think it helps to just go with what feels right. It sounds like you and your DH expressed the love you have for your daughter in a beautiful way.
Klee, I am also glad your boys helped you through a tough day. It is always a bit easier when you can hug your kids to make things seem a bit better. How did your day go yesterday?
Laney, so the 2 week wait starts in 3 days. I hope it passes quickly. The waiting is always so hard. I think it is totally understandable that you find TTC difficult. It is so hard to find time for TTC when sleep seems so appealing. Poor DH was hoping for plenty of practise and I think we fell pregnant the first cycle. In fact my cycle was obviously all over the place as it turns out I conceived 3 weeks earlier than I had thought. I even had a period after I fell pregnant (which is why I got my dates wrong). I am glad I didn't think I was pregnant as I would have assumed I was having an ms.
All is well here. The baby is a kicker and is head down (was head down from 26 weeks just like Anna). I had a dream last night that my breasts started leaking milk, thankfully that has not happened yet. Have I told you all that we are having a boy? It is a secret to the general public but you all have the right to know. We are very excited by this news. I had secretly always worried that maybe I would not get to have another boy after Nathaniel, so this has really been a great joy to us.
Hi to everyone, and I hope you are all having peaceful and stress free days.
Judy... a friend of mine had twins that were a week apart in age!! She ovulated twice- and being a "normal" pregnant person didnt have a scan until the 12 weeks mark- and one twin measured a week behind the other- and stayed that way right till the end! I dont know any comforting numbers stories to tell you- but i think your sonographer is a jerk- with your history she should have done all she could do establish what was going on with egg b... it is not too difficult to do a trans vaginal.
I hope that both your little bubbas are sticky xoxo
Laney... LOL i think we were same ttc- with a lil boy who loved to be in our bed and dh working alot and me just generally being tired- we definately didnt bed as much as he would have hoped!! But i must say - it must be something about being pregnant with a girl- coz i am alot more randy this time than i was when pregnant with Shane- and from memory i was the same with Zahra!! And our lil boy has learned to sleep all night in his bed!!
Katie.... Congrats on a little boy- we are keeping the gender quiet in public too (well facebook basically) but only because some of our family want a surprise- if anyone wants to know they just have to ask and we will tell. That is crazy that you got an AF after you were actually pregnant!! Your right if you had known you would have freaked out for sure!!!
Klee.... I saw you in some lovely photos!!! Your bump is looking very impressive!! (not as big as mine though!! ) I hope you had a great day with your friend and that she has many many many more happy days to come!!!
Oh and do you mean to say that you will be passing on some clothes that are "pink"? Like ones you had for Phoebe??? Or do you plan on going out and buying me lots??!! If they are your angels clothes i would be sooo humbled and honored to accept them, and please dont feel you have to xoxoxo
jlk.... Sorry i disapeared the other day while we were chatting!! I got stuck being a bed for Shane!! I hope all is going ok with you- rest up and take care!!
AFM... All is going well here- feeling movements a bit more which is nice- she seems to move more at night once i stop and sit down and relax. So far i am feeling really good- excep tthe muscles in the top of my legs (like the VERY TOP- but not exactly UP THERE IYKWIM) feel really tender. Its a bit hard to explain- but i guess you could say they are sore.. it has felt like this for awhile- at first i thought it was from DTD.. lol so i didnt do it again for awhile, but it still feels tender. I am not too worried coz its def not in the tummy- or even as high up to make me feel its cervix or contraction related.. its just kinda weird. i will mention it to the Dr next time i see him- its just that i dont remember feeling it with any of my other pregnancies. Mind you - i wasnt getting up and down off the floor as often in any of my pregnancies, so it could have something to do with it too!!!
Hi everyone
Have read but crazy here ...so sorry no personals...DH has been away and I am STUFFED...just wanted to give everyone a big HUG...wonderful that it's chatty in here again.
Try to get on tomorrow to catch up properly xxx
I think of you often.
As i said before- i am too a recovering scan addict- i had them monthly with shane and so far i have only had the regular run of the mill scans!! Not even a dating scan!!! I will have more though i think further along as i see the OB more as he has one in his rooms, but congrats on trying to cut back!! 
Great to hear that your appt. went well. 
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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