Pregnancy after Long Term TTC #5 - 2009

[Murph01]

I sooo shouldn't be in here reading as I am up with kicking baby and am determined to use the time wisely and work on this damn psych report! I'm not even going to try to sleep, last night I was so seriously sick, didn't sleep until 3.30 am. Just caught up on the posts but won't comment on them yet...it's just I've been thinking (dangerous thing to do)....where are you NEPTUNE????? Have we missed something? Hope you are doing well and we hear from you soon.

Poppyfairy, haha, that's gonna be one helluva Michellin Baby all wrapped up like a little Sumo. One of DHs ex-army mates lives in Russia, like the coldest part of Siberia and he sends the funniest photos of his bub rugged up. I'm sure she's a tenth of the size under all those snow suits. I'll stick to the singlets for sure

[BOC]

Luvlies!

Hope you are all feeling well this sunny day!

Poppy: Awesome effort on those persies! If that is what you call a "c#%p" baby-brain effort then WOW full brain capacity must be sensational! You're putting me to shame girlie And your "treat me gently" description is spot on I think! If only we could all yell that to every insensitive nincompoop we meet! I must admit though I am VERY lucky, my OB is one that is recommended by our IVF and deals with a lot of post-IVF bubs and she is sooo down-to-earth, kind and reassuring and NEVER makes you feel like a paranoid idiot. The hospital I'll be delivering at is where all our IVF procedures were done and the staff there are great too and treat you with loads of respect, which we all so rightly deserve after all we've been through!

Saph: Congrats on the ! Remind me, is this what you had hoped for? Do you have any names picked out yet?

Smithy: for belly bands! I love them! Kmart near us has some on sale and I got 1 for $5 and 1 for $10. I wear them every day, even if wearing longer tops as I find they give a great feeling of support too. How are you feeling these days hun? Any better?

Krikkit: You poor thing! I must admit I'm glad I don't know you or live near you becasue if I did I'm sure I would love nothing more to march over and give your mother a mouthful! How rude! I'm glad you've found a way to deal with it though and from here on it's for you that everything goes swimmingly!

Seph: How you doing luv? Hopefully no moer probs. How are you feeling? PS feel free to rant, rave, panic & vent all you like. That's what we're here for and we all do it at one time or another!

Azz: LOVE the idea of the belated 30th! I didn't do anything for mine either becasue it was 3 months before my wedding and all too hard. Wish I'd thought of your idea! Might do it for my 35th! Other than that how u doing?

Hi to Grub, Greenslw, Bridget, BDT, Neptune (wherefore art thou?), Melbel & everyone else I've missed!

AFM: Nuchal scan yesterday. All good, heart 152bpm & fold measuring 1.62mm but still waiting on bloods as in all mybaby brain-ness I for some reason thought I hadn't got my referral yet so I didn't get the bloods done ahead of time. But I had, luckily the OB just laughed. She is soo good, nothing seems to faze her at all. So I had 2D, 3D & 4D scans done and I tell you the look of awe & excitement on DH's face will stay with me forever. It totally blew him away. All night he was bouncing around like a little kid. He's also now convinced it's a boy from the "features". I guess we'll just wait & see. I have some lovely photos to put up on our Photo site, just having trouble getting them off the disk. Other than that, all is good. Just counting down now to when my little goalie starts giving me great big kicks, I think I will finally be able to relax a little then.

Oh I ended up having to go out and buy all new underwear yesterday, I've outgrown everything else now. And I learned a brand new philosophy. I have always been strictly a pretty, lacy, matching lingerie type of girl. Well sadly no more. I've gone up 2 cup sizes, can't tolerate underwires anymore and the pretty stuff just has no support. You know your life has changed when it's full-figured granny bras and big cotton undies all the way for comfort and support because the hot little lacy numbers just aren't cutting it anymore .

Hope you're all away nicely. Thinking of you all!

[Neptune]

I am here! Reading and lurking every day but can't contibute much because of my carpal tunnel...very numb and painful hands so typing makes it worse.

38 weeks tomorrow anf having some mild contractions, worse than BH. No other signs though, still could be a couple of weeks.

Room not ready yet, but getting there, and DH working very hard and is motivated which is great. So I'm not stressing about that really, because ot of my control.

Sorry no personals, need to rest hands!

[Baby Dreamtime]

Hi everyone,

Neptune, my gosh you are getting close. So glad to hear things are progressing on the home front, it is my personal belief that things will always fall into place at the right time, I just bet you will have your nursery just in time. Looking forward to hearing your news.

BOC congrats on good news from your NT scan. It is always so nice and so reasuring to see that all is well in there. I have been doing some of my own gender predicting (obsessing ) myself, there is a great US website called ingender, you can have a look at other peoples NT scans and try to spot the nubby and guess what the gender may be. If you have pics of your own that show the nubby you can also post and have others predict what yours will be. Something about the angle of the dangle. But I have to warn you it can be addictive.

Murph, yikes you were up late, is this what we all have to look forward to? GL with your report, and I am with you, looks like it will be singlets all the way for us too.

Poppy, very interesting re how they work out mat payment in the UK. I think I heard they are now doing 18 weeks mat pay at $500/w here, from the 1st Jan. I will have to investigate, I think this is in lieu of the baby bonus??? Re a winter birth, I have seen lots of cutie baby clothes for winter, a singlet and nappy isn't so glam (which is likely all we will have here in QLD heat). Hope you are taking it easy.

Lilmiss, great to see you on the weekend, hope all is well and looking forward to hearing about your NT scan too. Will be stalking you to hear your news.

Smithy, how are you lovely, has the ms left you yet? And go the belly bands on ebay, I picked up a few myself, though have ended up picking up a few maternity pants and they are really comfy as well.

Saph, big congrats on a , and so glad you are feeling better with the ms.

Krikkit, I checked out your blog, hcg numbers look great, hope you are feeling more confident. Quick question, you mention that with combined prednisone and pessaries, there is a chance to miscarry, I hadn't heard that. I was on both until 13 weeks . Is this something your FS said?

Greenslw, I feeling the heartburn now too. Are you taking anything? And how exciting re a new car.

Grub, great news re DH being home at the right time. And how exciting re your baby shower, your invites sound lovely. Will be a nice keepsake. I will likely end up designing my own, and plan on having mine at about 26 weeks. Just want to make sure I am all organised in case I go early.

Bridget, thinking of you and hope all is well and the spotting has stopped. Let us know how you are going.

Seph, so sorry to hear about your spotting. I too had spotting, thought my cycle was all over, drank a bottle of wine, woke up the next day and POAS and it was + . But your numbers sound great and we have everything crossed it will continue.

MissMagpie, hi, not long until you finish work, hope you are tracking along ok. I am counting down too, 12 weeks for me lol.

Melbel, so good to see you in here and so happy to hear that all is well with your bubba. I know what you mean re Clexane bruises, my OB has me on them until 34 weeks, ouch! Does nothing for a bikini, but I don't care, as long as things go well. I pray for the same for you.

Azz, wow, the 2nd Oct is just around the corner. We are all excited for you, can't wait to hear your news. Hope you are taking care too. I will check out the twin thread to see.

Farmgirl, congratulations again on your little boy! And glad to hear everything is working out fine re feeding.

Juniper, I am not sure if you are still reading, I am so so sorry, words can't express. I hope you are ok. Thinking of you.

KellyD, Hi, hope you are keeping well, not long to go for you either.

TwoMums, hi, hope Noah, yourself and Kim are well.

Umm, I think I have gone back a total of 4 pages for posts, I know I am missing some, hi to you all.

AFM, 19 weeks today , I feel like I have really popped out, and love my belly, DH is constantly amazed by it and feels free to touch and rub anytime he feels like it, among other things he likes to touch. Opps, meaning my b**bies, . Just trying to keep myself occupied in anticiaption of my morphology scan next Tue, I am dying for it, does the waiting never end? I have said to DH if for some reason they don't play ball and I can't know for sure, I will go crazy! I just want to shop now. I have lots planned for this weekend, I have list of all the baby stores on the GC and have planned out my route. Can't wait.

Belly rubs to all!

[Persephone1]

Hi Ladies,

I am so happy being allowed to post in here! It just makes my day. And it is a beautiful day in Melbourne.

I might even try some persies today! Woot!

Saph - another boy! Yay for boy bits! Congratulations on the blue! It's so good to see you in here, I remember how awful your TWW was. It must be good to be moving along.

Bridget - thank you, it's nice to hear that I'm not going mad! I hope things are settling down for you.

BOC - yay for granny undies! My bras are already giving me grief, and it doesn't help that they're all old and falling to bits. I'm too scared to buy any new ones just yet, but I'm guessing they won't be frilly and lacy when I get around to it.

BDT - good luck for your scan next week, and thank you for your thoughts. I had what appears to have been some implantation spotting at 9dpo, and told my boss that I was going to have to sign up for another stim cycle - turns out I don't have to, but had to go back and explain that to him!

to everyone else, I know I missed so many of you but I love reading about your pregnancies and feeling so supported in here. to everyone.

AFM, a little bit more spotting but feeling okay about it. I HATE it, it makes me so anxious, but I'm accepting that, at least at this stage, there's nothing to worry about. Plus, today marks my first day of needing to pee constantly, so I now have another reason to rush to the loo all the time. Have also felt a bit 'wet' but it's all clear, not brown (sorry, TMI).

Oh, and DH is making me laugh. He is going to download the What to Expect Pregnancy application onto his iPhone - so cute! He's been very good to me the last few days, taking my meltdowns in his stride and giving me lots of hugs. And when I rang him this afternoon to complain that I was peeing constantly he said "Ugh, yeah I know, me too!" I told him that he can't steal my pregnancy symptoms from me.

Oh, and funniest of all - I told DH I was interested in a water birth - I've heard good things about giving birth in water and I want to see if I can do it too (I don't think my local birthing centre has pools, but it's just an idea anyway). DH told me that I can't do a water birth because "that's so weird." I was like, WTF? what do you know about water birth anyway? And excuse me, but unless you plan on pushing a watermelon out of your urethra, you have no say in it!

And Poppyfairy mentioned my avatar name - Persephone was the embodiment of the Earth's fertility at the same time that she was the Queen of the Underworld. My real name is not Persephone, but it's the name DH and I thought we would call the belly bump when it starts showing (if it's a girl.) - because it has a deeper meaning but is also quite unique. If it's a boy bump then it will be Aristotle. The baby itself will not be called Persephone or Aristotle, but that's a whole other thread.

I'm going away to a Yoga Retreat for the weekend, can't wait - exactly what I need to relax into the pregnancy and enjoy myself. Will be back next week.

Seph

[Me+him+bub]

hi ladies thought i would pop in and let you know my birth story is up if you are interested in reading! take care all you mummy's to be and oh enjoy your unbroken sleep while you can!

[BOC]

Oh, and DH is making me laugh. He is going to download the What to Expect Pregnancy application onto his iPhone - so cute!

Hey Seph, tell him to get iPregnancy app too, I have that one and it's awesome! During the earlier days I would wake up around midnight just to check my app on the days when I rolled into the next week. Very addictive

[TaRhLi.]

Hi All

Just popping in to say I'm still here and thinking of you all. Had OB appt today and my OB is now on holidays so new OB next week for delivery. I have been told that baby is ready to go any day now and could possible beat my OB going on holidays as he doesn't leave until tomorrow afternoon.... My 36 week blood work came back showing that my iron levels have dropped substantially from 26 weeks so I'm now on iron tablets and a red meat diet until bubs arrives. Was told nothing much to worry about but seeing I'm having a c/s they want to get it up a bit due to possible blood loss during surgery.

If nothing happens in the meantime, I'm at 11 days and counting but thinking I had better not stray too far from home just in case something happens. Although tomorrow is DH's birthday and we are going out for Mexican dinner which I am hanging for, so please little one hold on for a few more days at least.

[saph204]

Kelly maybe the mexican will do the trick.

I have all of a sudden popped. Dh opened the front door yesterday to a supprised look and a big grin as he saw my belly enter before me. Last night my boy (Actually I tell DH it is his son when he does these things) joined the all night rave. But I think it was because I couldnt sleep.
Here goes the family rant. My MIL moved in yesterday. Along with her insane dog (which after one night is being kicked out to the kennel). Long story she had an affair then her husband went and shacked up with her sister. Gross I know. So they after 2 years have finally sold the house and she had no where to go so she and all her house moved in with us hopefully only for a few weeks. Then at 10pm last night my FIL rings and asks if he can move in today because her sister (who is completely nuts) is ranting and raving in the back ground is kicking him out. We have been trying to get him to leave her for 2 years she is absolutely toxic for him. So, yes both of my DH parents who are getting divorced want to live with us at the same time. My party is in two days, there is crap all over my house, I have a cold and I just want to run away. ARRRGH.
But on an up note I have not had a recent infection of slap cheek so at this stage I am not moving in to the OB's office, but on second thoughts it would get me out of here.

Hope everyone is having a lovely day. I am off to my pregnancy massage now if the window cleaner ever leaves.