Pregnancy after Long Term TTC - #4 2009

[wavegirl]

Theresep - I'm thinking of you. I hope the bleeding stops or that it's all for normal reasons. I know quite a few friends that experienced this and it seems to be common. As for worrying about it, i would be a mess too. I think that we are all so used to things going wrong. Fingers crossed for you anyway. xo

Greenslw - i have the pimples and ingrown hair thing going on too. My doc has said that i can take maxolon for MS if this keeps up but he would like to try and avoid if possible, so i am trying to avoid resorting to that. He said that it's no majical cure anyway?

Kaydee - Thanks, i tried the ginger but suprise, suprise, it makes me vomit! Lol. The blood noses are strange, never ever had them before. I'm finding this whole pregnancy thing quite odd.


Hope everyone is having a lazy Sunday xo

Due Date 21/02/10

[Murph01]

EDD list updated July 23rd 2009

Alloy----26.07.2009----It's a ....? - B1 and B2


Mels77----30.08.2009----It's a Boy - Sudds
Jen34----01.09.2009----It's a ....? - Little Munchkin
Rara----04.09.2009----It's a ....?
21andTTC (Me+Him+Bub)----13.09.2009----It's a boy
BabyMiracles----02.10.2009----It's a ....?
Neptune----15.10.2009----It's a boy
Wherethere'shope----17.10.2009/CS 13.10.2009---- It's a ....? - BabyH
JenC77----20.10.2009----It's 2 boys - Twin Beans
Diamond----16.10.2009----It's a ....? - Forever Baby
KellyD----23.10.2009----It's a girl - Pink Princess
Miss Magpie----04.11.2009----It's a ....? - Baby Pie
Murph01----08.11.2009----It's a girl - Jasmine Lucy
Azzrenae----19.11.2009----It's 2 boys (Identical twins)
TwoMums----09.12.2009---- It's a boy- Noah Lee
Lalitearns----??.??.2009----It's a ....?
Laniwantsababy----11.12.2009----It's a ....?
Grub17----13.12.2009----It's a boy - Grubby Bub[/COLOR]
Bella55----18.12.2009----It's 2 boys (Identical twins)
Mahli09----??.??----It's a... ?
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Kmond----12.01.2010----It's a... ?
Daytona ----18.01.2010----It's a... ?
Ella's Mum----21.01.2010----It's a... ?
Greenslw----24.01.210----It's a... ? Baby JS
Spookie----28.01.2010----It's a... ?
Misty77----10.02.2010----It's a... ? Spinky
Smithy----12.02.2010----It's a... ? Baby Charlee
Saph204----20.02.2010----It's a... ?
Baby Dreamtime----24.02.2010----It's a... and a...?
Jodes76---##.##.2010----It's a... ?
Wavegirl----21.02.2010----It's a... ?

31becc----##.03.2010----It's a...?
Babydreams----##.##.2010----It's a...?
Sammiejam----##.##.2010----It's a...?
BOC----##.##.2010----It's a...?

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Rach81----Welcome Elii!
Kaydee---- Welcome Jarrod and Teneille!
Farmgirl----Welcome Archer!
Kahlan----Welcome Lyla!
LNB----Welcome Nathaniel (Nate)!
Mon----Welcome Matteo and Martina!
Briggsy's Girl----Welcome Emerald!
Nixon----Welcome Asher!
NicoleS----Welcome Aaron!
Bel----Welcome Sebastian & Isabelle!
Tiggerlinda----Welcome Charlotte!
Janie71----Welcome Jasmine!
Megan---Welcome Noah!
Bee83----Welcome Jacob!

Our thoughts and prayers go to those whose beautiful mothers whose precious babies have been taken too soon.

Much loved & wanted daughter of Hippy Mum & Hippy Dad, Georgia Ariela taken too early from this earth 12-03-09 @ 22wk 6d
Much loved and wanted son of Chez67 & her DH, Ryan Patrick, born sleeping 17-03-09 @ 18wk 1d.

[Murph01]

Hi lovelies,
please let me know if I missed any of your updates. It's getting to be a healthy long list.

Theresep, I hope that seeing your name, last but not least on the list gives you even more hope. Good luck with this anxious time and the bleeding.

Greenslw, good to see things are looking up for you and you are feeling a bit more confident. Sorry I haven't PM'd you yet, I have been a bit run down (just headachy and tired from night work), so having nana naps again too. I know the feeling of the isolation and realisation you have no friends around you, but like KellyD, it has taken probably a year or two to really accept and love the life I have with the sacrifices we have made. I bet you at least have t.v for company. I have Belly Belly I guess you feel you don't have the support of the one who should be supporting you most,and that adds to that feeling of having no one close. You do though. This forum has real live people who care about you, no matter that we don't even know what you look like and we will all follow you through the whole time of your pregnancy. who else but us crazy women in waiting understand the excitement of whether to go two wheels or three I think it's an amazing resource of friendship and support. There's no way to pretty up the ugly subject of financial stress, just work with each other and see each other's fears I guess. YOur years of truck driving sound like my years of DH working in nightclub security. Hateful horrible years and I don't know how we survived! It was all about the money and getting through uni but just a total nightmare. we still can't look at a nightclub strip without being truly thankful those years are behind us and that was 5 years ago! If only we'd discovered nightfilling at Woollies years ago! No drunk and drugged out punters, no crazy life of full time study and full time work. We just didn't put enough thought into our options and persevered. YOu know how it is. I hope you give your options lots of thought.

KellyD, I'm sure your DH won't resent you if he has to commute into Melbourne for work. I hope it won't come to that but for the lifestyle it affords you to have in Ballarat (brrr, cold just thinking of that place) and the cheaper living, it may just be one of those pay offs over all. I hope he gets a bit more security with his job though and he can work closer to home.

Kaydee, congrats on your latest milestone. So close now but yet so far away I suppose. Are you with a private system? It's just that witht he mention of all the scans you have had and will still have, mine stopped at the 19 week growth scan and there are apparently none more scheduled throuugh the whole pg unless there are complications (throught he public system). It feels really strange to be out here just doing it on my own, after all that initial IVF intervention and now all I have really is the GP appointments and the antenatal clinic at my local hospital, oh and of course the signs from Jasmine which are most important.

I'd better get off or I'll be kicked off. That damn Daintree pest is hogging the link again....god someone buy her a t.v!!!

[theresep]

You are all so lovely and supportive - thx for your kind wishes. Today has been ok, just a bit of spotting starting this afternoon, and a feeling like i usually get when AF is on her way. Have had a stern word to my body , telling it to break the usual habits of AF etc, it now has the most important role of it's life - that is, to support this little embryo, and help it grow! Didn't hear anything in response LOL !

Murph, thankyou for adding me to your list, it felt very special to see my name up there. If all goes well, i will be due in March. Will find out my proper due date when i have my 6 week scan

[barney]

THERESEP,
hi hun i havent been around much latley but have been lurking and i hope all works out hun i for you and your beautiful embie.take care sweety xxoo
girls hope you all had a nice weekend feeling very sick all the time still but still love it as i know charlie is still there.
have a great week talk soon happy growing girls

[jenc77]

Therese - adding my sticky vibes for you!!
Kaydee you are doing SO well. I will be happy to make it to 35 weeks. I think that's the mental hurdle I have in my head. My twin sisters came at only 30 weeks, and they were so tiny. But at 30 years old now, absolutely fine!
And Murph - wow, our list! How wonderful that there are so many of us.

Hi everyone else - hope you're all well.

I hit third trimester on Tuesday - exciting! Have ob appt tomorrow, so am going to check in my size. Everyone is bigger than me, and I am starting to get paranoid.....

Jenx

[Kaydee78]

Greenslw, we've ended up with family names for the boy's middle names (if needed) but sadly my Nan's middle name of Gertrude and Mum's middle name of Mildred didn't get a look in either... Funny how names make come backs though, one list I looked on did have Mildred in it's top 100 because people were calling their little girl's Millie. Each to their own...

Murph, we are private this time around and the ob has ordered more scans only because it's twins. They monitor the growth from 26 weeks on to make sure one is not growing bigger than the other. Apparently depending on their placement in the uterus, one twin can be in a more nourishing spot than the other so they do more scans and measurements. We had our 12 wk and 18 wk then 26, 32 and now 36. Lots of chances to see the little ones bopping about. With DD, we were public patients and just had the 12 and 18 wk scans. Once you feel those movements though, you know everything is ok and it keeps you going til the end.

Thanks for the updated EDD list Murph!

Jen, congrats on 3rd trimester! Don't stress about your size... We went on a hospital tour today and my tummy was smaller when compared to some of the other mums carrying single bubs. We're all different and carry our babies differently. Our first PG, I was much bigger than what I was this time round (except by now, she was delivered and I had stopped growing!)

Hi to everyone else. Hope you've had a great weekend.

[saph204]

Hi all sorry no time for personals. MS has kicked up a notch so just trying not to vomit. Back to work this week and my new course also starts this week. Busy busy.

Hope everyone is doing well.

[Greenslw]

Wavegirl, I'm glad I'm not alone with the ingrown hairs, my bakini line looks like I have chicken pox. Oh well but my zits are clearing up on my face but not on my neck. Weird hormones.

Theresep oh you have the best nat path. Glad you have a good IVF nurse.

Kaydee my mums a primary school teacher and funny that there is a LONG list of boys names I can NEVER EVER use. Not so many girls. I must admit we've gone for more old fashioned names and included some of our parent/granparents middle and frist names when they aren't to scary. My beloved grandma was Gurtude. Not happening Oma I love you but not doing that to my baby if it's a girl.

ATM i'm being the homework monitor, watching DSS like a hawke, it's his personal project right up and I've mad a stack of corrections which he's working on. His grades were so bad last semester I'm determined to get them up. Hopefully he is too.

p.s. wow murph our list is getting huge. So many beautiful pg women