Hello everyone,
it's going to take me a few posts just to keep up and catch up but a few very important ones for now.
Dr.Beee - so sorry to hear it wasn't to be this time around. You have the right attitude that it was good to know that you could get there without intervention. I know that we'd never have got anywhere without IVF and accupuncture. goodluck with getting back on giving yourself time to heal.
I'm never going to be able to find who it was I meant to reply to last week! So much has happened since then and right then, I think we found out about TwoMums' baby arriving - blew my mind! So, I just wanted to add to Poppyfairy's advice re not feeling pregnant. All that stuff about the fertility/specialist roundabout that we are on for years before we even arrive at being pregnant, all those lovely internal scans (not) and operations. Then we get our BFPs and some of us don't even get morning sickness to keep us company and after the compulsory scans are over, there's just no more. I have felt very alone out there wishing I could have more scans. I can't even request 3ds or 4ds just for the fun of it like some can cos we don't have the facilities for 4d outside of Bris. That sucks. I was also a late kicker so didn't feel much for quite a long time. Just listen to your body, there will be signs and soon enough you might even feel sick...oh joy!
Jennnnnn!!!! You kept me in suspenders, I was beyond starting to get anxious. Phew, I'm so happy that no news has been the best news. Congratulations!!!It must be an omen that you posted today cos today at the docs there was a lady with two little boys, Lachlan and Hamish! Too funny. so happy to hear you and your little ones are safe and sound, bonding and doing all that wonderful stuff that so terrifies me at the moment.
KellyD - can you remind me why you are going the c-section route (if it's not too personal)? I am lining up for a chinese moxa (accupuncture) to help turn Jasmine right way round and if all else fails, it will be the big C for me too and I have to tell you this whole birth bit is starting to do my head in. Each week just seems to flip past like one of those desk top calendars and I aint liking it at the moment. I thought I'd be more comfortable this far along, but nup! Not long now and we will have these little parasites clinging to our breasts....and filling our lovely cute cloth nappies with yucky stuff...
Ahh but I digress..congrats on your footy win KellyD! Commiserations Miss M. the Cats I can identify with as I spent some fun highschool years at good old Geelong High.
Krikkit: You will find that the f/s clinic will always use the date of transfer (depending on day of embryo) to calculate your due date because from that they know exactly how old the bubba is. With this pregnancy my transfer was something like 21 days into my cycle (day 3 embryo) so they calculated conception date as being day 18 of my cycle. So if you had you transfer further into your cycle, then you will be a couple of days less than if you use the LMP date.
Murph: No problems about telling why we are going the c/s option. This is primarly due to a medical condition I have relating to my bladder called Interstitial Cystitis. I used to suffer from continual UTI's (like 3 out of every 4 weeks) and was officially diagnosed with my condition 4 years ago. I have had bladder surgery to help with the problem, but as I was basically suffering since the age of 18 without being diagnosed I now have a bladder that is damaged ie: your bladder is a flexible muscle that expands as it fills and contracts when emptying and generally holds up to 500ml, my bladder is so damaged that it is a rigid object and can only hold a maximum of 250ml. As the condition is underdiagnosed there is no literature to show how childbirth can affect the condition, but due to the damage I already have we are taking the more controlled option of having the c/s (which I know has it's own risks) instead of going through a v/b and having possible damage to my bladder which is uncontrolled. As I have said to my dr, I know the baby has to come out some way, but if my bladder gets damaged in the process then that is a lifelong problem I have to deal with, so he has agreed that due to the unknown factor it is better to know where we will stand instead of taking a chance.
Hi all, have officially lost it with this pregnancy. Got a phone call from Campbells day care. He has been in contact with slap check. So we are off to the doctor to get checked out. What else could possibly go wrong. It is more than likely that I am immune to it as I am a teacher and have been in contact with every virus under the sun but as it can cause early labour and misscarrige off we go to get checked out.
Sorry for no personals, I am just struggling to cope at the moment.
Krikkit, we had the same argument with our clinic. I figure this baby will come when it wants to come or more like it when it is told to come as I am going to be induced early.
Anyway have to have a blood test for slap cheek. And then will be monitored by ob closer, I think I might just take up camp in her office. ARRGH Can I just go to sleep and wake in twenty weeks.
Just a quickie as I thought I may be able to help with the conception dates vs lmp date issue. A UK IVF site I sometimes look at called Fertility Friends has a due date calculator on it which gives you the choice of lmp or egg pickup date (I think they call it Egg Collection here in the UK, although I should know shouldn't I!!) Since that is the day of conception it is exact. It will then give you an exact age of your pregnancy for today and a whole lot of information on what is happening at each stage.
I hope I haven't crossed any lines I shouldn't cross by mentioning a rival site!
I just checked the UK Fertility Friends calculator using your dates and I am getting you are 5 weeks 3 days and due 21st May 2010. I had a mess up with dates as well from scans and my second sonographer got very angry with the first one for confusing a very simple situation. It annoyed me because I got excited about thinking I was a little more far along than they had first said (although by only a couple of days) but as the second sonographer said it would be impossible to count conception from a couple of days earlier than when they actually put egg and sperm together!!!
Krikkit, for IVF I'd calculate the due date assuming EPU was the ovulation date. Since I don't have a 28 day cycle I've always calculated it based on O day rather than LMP... I'm doing the same this time too - I O'd CD17 or CD18... FF has a due date calculator. Not sure if it's a VIP function? If it is I'd be happy to run your EPU date through it for you next time I log in and see what it says...
BOC, fyi, not always 3 or 5 day transfer - my first two fresh cycles were 2 day transfers...
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