Just popping in to let everyone know that we had our 19 week scan today and we are having a little :itsaboy:
Everything is fine, the limbs are a little on the short side, but Kim is only around 5 foot 1 and so are the rest of her family so it was to be expected!!!
Kim really wanted a boy, i didn't care, but i'm glad that Kim is happy IYKWIM!!!
Take care girls, going to get something warm on, this winter in Brisbane is COOOOLLLDD!!
Grub oh so exciting for your scan. Any feeling blue pink?
Theresep welcome
Kelly D thanks for your support 99 days looks so cool on your ticker well done.
Saph how did your app go?
MissMagpie glad to hear all is on track
JenC that sounds very confusing to me what are you hoping for?
Oh Kaydee MS comes back?!? ewww that sux, wow only 3 weeks how exciting
TwoMums congrats on Baby Boy
ATM no more spots I feel like I'm on a rollercoaster and I wish I was on the up all the time, but that's not normal. I think I just want to be safe and there is no such thing not for ages anyways. So at some point I'll have to trust it's all ok and tell the rest of the world.
Oh I'm showing ALREADY, my tummy is deffinatly pg looking, mum said she did too so I guess the baby will tell people for me soon.
Off to a meeting today (yawn) really just want to bludge and do nothing. Maybe I'll sneek out early
Have a great day and thanks again for your support.
Congrats LNB on gorgeous Nate - I love his name! I have added him to the list of babies born on page 1.
Great news Megan!
A reminder to all the newbies to let Murp01 know your EDD, nickname for bub if you have one and sex if you are finding it out. She can update the list on page one for you.
Congrats and welcome to the PgALTTTC thread!
xx
TWOMUMS... YAY FOR BLUE BUNDLES WOOHOO CONGRATS TO YOU BOTH .
GREENSLW...way to go hun glad no more spots all will be fine hunny just keep growing that beautiful belly.
hi to everyone im just on my way back to bed very sik lol..have a good day ill be back later
LNB - congrats on the bub! i wondered where you went to!
twomums - YAY! another little boy! now the name choosing begins!
welcome to the new ladies!
kaydee - oh i wish i could say i only had 3 weeks to go! are you being induced or have a c section planned?
murph - my EDD is going to be the 13th of sep now not the 14th i didnt realise i had stuffed it up by a day but that one day is so important when it comes to the ticker!!!
AFM - baby is still inside, ive had no itching luckily so havent gone back to hospital got 2 appointments next week then i have to do 4 weeks at allamanda private hospital for university, it was meant to be 8 weeks but i obviously cant do that, so ill be working fulltime on me feet all day for 4 weeks for no pay at 33 - 37 weeks! im not looking foward to it! im in the surgical ward and being a private hospital it should be pretty layed back. i do the other 4 weeks in november and going to miss my little bub like mad but then i graduate! oh i dont think i mentioned im doing my advanced practices in theatre nursing and didnt want to quit 4 years into the degree so im marching on! so expect to hear more whinging from me in a weeks time!
Oh ladies, i'm posting again with not such good news, i've had such a scare today.... took the dog for a walk, and started to bleed lightly - called my ivf nurse, who said go and have a BT, so did that, then had some acupuncture while waiting for results.... acupuncturist said my pulse felt really strong to her, so try to relax (!!). Waited forever for BT results.... they came back good - hcg 7840, and progesterone fine. FS not overly concerned, and i know that quite a few ladies do bleed during pregnancy, but bloody hell it rattles your nerves when it happens! It is still such early days for me, i'm only at 5weeks. This is 100 times worse than the tww! the bleeding buggers off!
LNB:P Congrats on the arrival of Nate. Enjoy your life as a precious mummy.
Kaydee: Wow on 3 weeks until "D" day or sooner. Hope all goes well for you in the next couple of weeks.
Greenslw: Good news about no more spotting. Lets hope it stays away for good now.
Theresep: You did the right thing and so long as your numbers are growing that's good news. I think an afternoon of putting your feet up is needed.
Twomums: Wow Megan, a boy... Congrats.
This thread is looking so Blue... Come on I hope some of you newbies have some pink on board.
AFM: OB appt today and all is well. Now on 2 weekly appt's which really seems to make the end seem closer. Have booked in for our 4d scan for next Tuesday, can't wait to see her little face and fingers & toes.
Big hello to everyone else. MMM wonder how Kahlan is going, her little one must be here by now. Can't wait to hear from her to see how everything went.
DP has been working really hard and I've been there for him, making sure he eats listening to his stuff. And today I get DP grump like I haven't seen for ages. The rout of all evil is MONEY.
He finally did our revised wages with welfare etc and his money has dropped 200$ a fortnight, Which then got the responce. "well I'll just go back to truck driving" I had a zombie, No worse than that a TREX grumpy, eat sleep and the occasional BD. What a horrible life that was, he was so happy with his day job, and now even dispite me saying "I'll pick up the slack" I got a "I have to pay for MY son" responce at which i burst into teers.
He has no idea. I don't want to be the only care giver for his son and our baby. I can't cope with the TREX I had for a year. OMG
Last night I realised that I have no girlfriends left the only people I know are either friends of his friends or workmates who I haven't told anything about pg. All my grilfriends have moved away or become totally different. I'm a big sook and I know it but as I pulled in the driveway slumped on the stearing wheel and sobbed for like 15 minutes I realies just how little support I have especially if DP is no longer around.
Missing Sister in law so much and just want to run. Which would be a funny site in itself.. Oh I hate my hormones.
Hello lovelies,
firslty, Smithy, you are a champ snoop detective! Thanks for the link. I've been looking but i'm just not in your league
I've got lots to catch up on but have been following everyone. So in no particular order and just from memory, I will mention just some of you.
TwoMums: great news on your little boy. So glad to hear everything is going well for you and Kim.
Greenslw: I will PM you on the most recent stuff about DP as I can't really cover it here but you need to work out your priorities about looking after this baby and minimise stress from your life. Stress is responsible for so many health problems. My big belief is that women can have everything (as the saying goes), but just not all at once. We need to be able to sit on the sidelines occasionally and do the best for ourselves, which is actually also best for the other people in our lives. I'm not saying that everyone can drop out in the Daintree as I have, but mate, both DH and I let go of the good jobs and the high stress to concentrate on the life we wanted (and needed) and don't regret it for a second. We'll join the rat race again somewhere sometime but for now, the main thing is just to concentrate on what really matters, love, health and happiness. Take care.
MHB: I can't imagine what you have been through but it sounds really dumb to say it, I'm really proud of you. I know what uni entails, I know what a fairly straight forward pregnancy entails, but I could never do what you have done and are continuing to do and I understand why you are pushing through it to finish your final year. It's an enormous achievement. the only thing that could have made it harder is if you had to go through with IVF to get here. Luckily you managed that on your own and hopefully, your birth will be the same. Fingers crossed that all your symptoms settle down.
Jenc: re the pregnancy comments. OMG how rude people can be. do people still really think it is a compliment to accuse someone of having an eating disorder??!! It's hard enough as it is without that ignorant cr@p. I'll never be accused of being undrweight, but I spose just healthy weight. You are doing a fantastic job and you know that we all respond differently to the changes we're going through. I get the comments of not showing, not looking so far pg and everyone says it as a compliment, unaware I have made a special effort to look like the proud preggas chick and feel a bit deflated. I guess we have to just build ourselves up and stuff what anyone else thinks. My DH tells me how amazing I look and he knows the changes and is in love with every one of them, so that's enough for me.
Smithy: how is that MS going? Are you trying all the different remedies about eating? I got some good tips off BG and Janie and still follow them although my main issue is indigestion daily now. Not sure where Jasmine is doing all her partying but I'm pretty sure she has moved the furniture to make more room to boogy in there! I feel closer to spewing with indigestion than I did with MS. Any tips?? Fruit tingles are no longer that effective, though they were great at first. Now I have discovered chewy mint Quick-eze (old man lollies). they're okay but wouldn't want to live off them.
So my tips for MS courtesy of others who helped me along the way. Eggs, eggs, eggs. Hard boiled stand by snack, soft boiled with toast soldiers for a good start to the morning and hard boiled before bed at night. It seems to be the protein I need. Can you stomach the thought of eating them? they are my complete saviour.
As for Jazzy's update, I am sooooo in love with this little person I can feel inside me and DH is just so amazed by everything. Despite being told the minute I started feeling her move that I would be getting all the big kicks soon enough and not loving it, I think I have been lucky just having her company for a few weeks now and she hasn't stuck the boots in yet so we have been having lovely plays and DH is trying desperately to catch her at just the right times and talk to her. she is shy though and backs off. I'm sure the fun will end soon enough but I feel pretty lucky to have had this amazing time to feel her and I will be excited to know when it happens for you girls. Miss Magpie, I was quite late in feeling her movements. It wasn't really until 22 weeks that it really started so you will be there before you know it and it's just lovely. Suddenly, you don't need scans to know that your baby is healthy and when they are hungry and active and you actually start to feed the baby and know its needs. Okay, I'm a tad emotional today, so I will end here before I get teary thinking of all we have been through. Too late!
Greenslw: I wish I could give you a big hug in person, I know exactly how you feel about having no girlfriends around to talk to and to be a shoulder to cry on. You will find that money will always be in the back of your mind, while we are all doing treatment and working it seems like we will all be able to cope on one income but generally when reality hits (especially for our DH's) I think we all start to worry.
When we decided to embark on this journey we knew that we couldn't afford to stay in Melbourne and pay a Mortgage and live on one wage, so made the decision to sell up and move to the Country for a better (ie: more inexpensive) life. The major downside however is that we left all our friends behind in Melbourne and no longer have the option of just being able to drop in when you need to.
I have been having my own worries lately about DH's job as his contract is up in Sept. Things like will he get another job, if he does then he won't be able to take time off when the baby arrives, will he have to commute back to Melbourne everyday (3 hrs of commuting) and then resent me for it etc. Well it seems like he is going to get another contract extension... whew... hopefully until Xmas at least so at least we are guaranteed income until then and he will be able to now take the time off. Such a relief...
Anyway, too much about me... Sending big belly rubs to you all....
Thanks for your kind words Murph and KellyD. I'm feeling less sad today. Still bit sooky about not having a girlfriend to have a cuppa with a winge about Dp and life in genral.
DP was very sheepish when he got home last night, and we agrea to talk about the work thing. His mate was down who works 2on 2off in a mine and he seams to thing that would be a good job for DP men really don't get it do they.
KellyD seams like I'm not alone, fingers crossed for an extension.
Murph sounds so nice you describing Jazzy's movements, Something to look forward to
Well done on double digits Smithy
Theresep How's today treating you? My bleading stopped and wow your numbers sound good so I'm hoping you have good news for us.
Oh Greenslw I totally sympathise with you. Being pg is supposed to be a HAPPY and EXCITING time, not a time to stress about money but all of us have the same issues. I too am stressing as my DP just found out recently (after a DNA test) that he has another child. As you can imagine I was both angry, shocked and upset when I found out as it was something that should have been sorted out a long time ago, not when we were going through IVF. He was never sure if the child was his and the mother named someone else on the birth certificate so he never pursued it and its come back to bite him 15 yrs later. Anyway, his wage is now DRASTICALLY reduced and I earn $200 more than him a WEEK so thats a huge difference. We are now comtemplating me going straight back to work after I have used up my long service leave and him taking paternity leave. Its a heartbreaking decision to make me being away from the baby, especially after all that Ive been through to get here but we may not have much choice.
I can only imagine how hard it would be for you with your DP being on the road or in the mines and you having to do everything yourself. Take care and Im thinking of you.
Thanks Smithy for posting the link. I was so busy with the bub to write more.
Congrats LNB, seems like our children shares the same birthday.
To those who are not aware, my little girl was delivered on Wednesday 8th of July (one day late), weighing 3.44kg, length 47cm. Her name is Lyla.
I was having painless "tightenings" around my belly the whole of Monday 6th of July at a somewhat regular intervals. I didn't know it was contraction until I felt like my period was coming (I don't normally have period pains, just feeling heavy). But it disappeared when I went to sleep (or at least I was not conscious to feel it). The next morning it return and by that night I was getting it every 5 mins or so (as indicated on last post). I knew it was contractions by then. My cervical plug gave way at 8 pm (just so you first timers know, it was like glue with some blood and about the size of a 50 cent coin.) I rang the hospital and they told me to call back when I get pain with my contractions. I went to bed and was woken at 1:20 am, went to the loo and so streaks of blood, rang hospital and they said to come in for a check if I wanted. Woke DH and went to hospital. Contractions were 5-6 mins apart but still painless. Hospital gave options of staying or going home. Opted to stay. Water broke at 4:55 am which contractions became very painful then and continued to be so until 12:06 when I delivered my girl. I had a some tearing but all is well. Total labour time is 8 hours which they say is pretty good for first timers.
It is all so worth it girls. I can't even recall the pain now, though I have to say because of the tearing, the pain after birth is more memorable than the birth itself.
I am well but am struggling with breastfeeding. Anyway, with this issue I better jump onto another thread (I have gratuated yay!) to discuss with the appropriate group of girls. Can't wait till you guys join me.
oh miss magpie big hugs for YOU! i can't even imagine having to go back to work when i didn't want to.
as for feeling isolate - i too am a sad sole all alone here. we are in defence and have moved to this area for dh's work. we'll be getting posted probably to darwin xmas 2010 so when bubba is 1 and then will have to start over again. But i knew what i was getting in for when i married DH and i'm a pretty adaptable, positive person. Still sometimes it gets you down and is so hard, particularly being from a small country town where all my girlfirends have returned and having their babies together one thing is i absoluely treasure my friends and make a big effort to stay in contact with all of them. it's paid dividends and i am much closer to them than before despite the distance.
if it helps, it does get better. after about about 2.5 years it was just better. the homesickness just sort of evaporated and this became my life, not longing for something so far away.
as for the money situation - at least we have job surity and DH will get time off around bub's due date. so we don't have that stress. plus with the posting i probably won't be returning to work. still our plans for DH to take long service leave for a bit next year are kaput as he's just got a big promotion and is starting a new, demanding role (but it's great for the career and will ultimately mean i may be able to be a sahm )
i really feel for you girls facing these stresses now. i hope you can sort something out that you can live with, even if its only temporary.
Just saw your post Kahlan
huge congrats on the birth of LYLA - what a gorgeous name!!! oxox
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well done LNB congratulations.
welcome
YAY FOR BLUE BUNDLES WOOHOO CONGRATS TO YOU BOTH .
all will be fine hunny just keep growing that beautiful belly.
. Waited forever for BT results.... they came back good - hcg 7840, and progesterone fine. FS not overly concerned, and i know that quite a few ladies do bleed during pregnancy, but bloody hell it rattles your nerves when it happens! It is still such early days for me, i'm only at 5weeks. This is 100 times worse than the tww!
the bleeding buggers off!
I had a zombie, No worse than that a TREX grumpy, eat sleep and the occasional BD. What a horrible life that was, he was so happy with his day job, and now even dispite me saying "I'll pick up the slack" I got a "I have to pay for MY son" responce at which i burst into teers.
). they're okay but wouldn't want to live off them.
men really don't get it do they.
seams like I'm not alone, fingers crossed for an extension.
one thing is i absoluely treasure my friends and make a big effort to stay in contact with all of them. it's paid dividends and i am much closer to them than before despite the distance.
Just saw your post Kahlan
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