Pregnancy after Long Term TTC #6 - 2009

LM.. hey chicky ,well i rekon that big sneeze will do no damage and its stomach muscles, pulling i get it all the time when i cough and yes it hurts :rolleyes: and as for being a worry wart OMG hunny thats so normal i tell ya i still worry every day and i rekon we all will till the day our little bundles come but its very normal so dont stress. have fun at your scan im sure all will be just fine when you see that beautiful heartbeat and little bubba :D

AFM..today not so good im so teary i can not stop crying

Hey LM..glad you had a great time!!!! I've got my first scan tomorrow and have all the same fears as you. Fingers crossed for us both.

Oh my Murph....wow isn't she just gorgeous!!!! You must tear up whenever you look at her.....your post was very moving and she clearly has already got the best start in life with you as her mummy.

my ticker's not working...is it just the lilliepie ones?

:wall: nah mines stopped to airline. ill let kelly know as i have a thread on this about the tickers stopping lol im a dobber lol.have a great scan to tomorrow hun :clap:

Hi everyone,

It's a bit quiet in here atm hope everyone is baking and resting - and staying out of the heat.

Just a quick pop in.... have home made pizza in the oven yum yum.... not much happening here still having heaps of BH some more painful than others but each night i go to bed wondering if this will be the night but each morning i rise still pregnant lol!! Had monitoring etc Friday a few of my liver enzymes have started to rise so same again for Tuesday and if they are ok then still planned induction Friday... 5 MORE SLEEPS AT THE MOST until i meet my beautiful long awaitied for boys!!!!! We are getting very excited now and slightly nervous.

Anyway gotta go and feed them!!!!

Take care everyone will pop in tom.
P.s Good luck for the scans tom girls xxxx
and big hugs for you smithy!
xxBella

well bella, i hope you aren't popping in tomorrow lol :) get some rest love!! i'm so excited for you and your bubbas!

LM - that's pretty normal. it's ust the ligaments and stuff stretching. I get it when i move too quickly/in an odd direction... like getting out of the car LIKE A NORMAL PERSON! lol. it's been so painful before i've dropped my shopping list (which blew away) and had to lean on the car for 5 mins to recover... (and yes, i couldn't remember one thing on that darn list!)

saph did you get any rest/alone time?

hi smithy!!!

good to hear from you airline - how are you? and Boc - hope you've also been hiding inside from this horrid weather we are having. We had another 43C day here today! OMG do you think it's a conspiracy against me to mke my life miserable?

Am doing well... up to season 3 of the west wing :clap: and eaten a block of chocolate and 3/4 of a watermelon lol. Found some very cute children's paint-by-number canvas print things... they have the image printed on the canvas; paints and brushes for $7! So i bought five and have painted up three - a duck, a crocodile and some sort of underwater creature. It's been too much fun and great to pass the time.

Am super swollen in this hot weather and feel gross.

DH home in 12 days!!! MIL will be here on Sunday :) so just gotta make it through this week and i'm home safe (mostly).

oxox

Cheers smithy re. the tickers....sorry you've been feeling so teary. ((cyber hugs))

thanks for the good luck Bella...mmmmmm home made pizza! We had Torilla stack (hubby made it all) and brushetta yummmmmy.

grub...you made DH and I laugh re. the canvases .... I know the one you're talking about, and I'm guessing they're for the nursery...or maybe just to pass the time!:lol:
DH and I are BIG BIG fans of the West Wing. We started watching from Series 1. and it took us over a year (we watched other stuff too obviously) but we loved it soooo much. When it ended it was sad:rolleyes: I loved ER too....then after about 15 years of watching it, they canned it too.

AFM...I've had what I can only guess to be baby brain, where I'm forgetting phone no.s at work, computer entries at work....and at the end of the shift .... I walked around for almost 10min looking for my car cos I'd lost it in the car park, and couldn't remember where I'd parked - only 6 hours previously!!

Our scan is tomorrow and contrary to the ticker, I'll be 6weeks and 6days so really hoping to see a heartbeat. We talked a bit this morning over brekky about feeling a bit nervous about it....but no doubt I'll be posting later in the day. It's first thing in the morning which I'm relieved at cos i have a bladder the size of a walnut when I'm not pregnant!! Sweet dreams everyone. x

good luck airline!!! will be looking for your post tomorrow.

and for all the other girls with scans and results - GOOD LUCK!!! :pray:

yes good luck for tomorrow. I'm back at work and thus will be on BB all day :lol:

Hi all!

LondonMiss - it is absolutely normal to worry and those weird early pregnancy cramps can be worrying. Everything is shifting and moving about down there making room so you are bound to feel tons of weird cramps and muscle pulling etc. I never had it when sneezing but (ready for TMI????) I used to get a terrible pain in my lower abdomen and what felt like my uterus after an orgasm in the first few months of pregnancy. I was terrified I was doing damage but it was obviously just part of the whole moving, stretching thing going on. Then it will move to your back and bottom and pubic bone! Just think of your body as a sort of renovation, construction site....someone has moved in and they are making all the renos necessary to grow comfortably in there!!! LOL!

Bella - hopefully something happens for you before Friday!

Grub - you sound busy! There is something really relaxing and therapeutic about painting. At my bellybuddies group we do 'Birth Art' sometimes around a theme of birth and our feelings etc. Very therapeutic and gets us really talking around the table!!! A great way for you to pass the time. Not long now!!!!

Airline- Good luck with the scan!!

Saph - hope you managed to finish those reports! Do you use a report writer or do you have to make up all the comments? I found out from an old colleague that they are now being told they cannot write any behaviour comments at all!!! They have to stick to work progress only! Not that the behaviour comments really told the truth anyway...it was always so vague! 'So and So is easily distracted and often distracts others' which really meant 'I am close to strangling So and So because they do nothing they are told and never listen and flagrantly disobey me...in fact last week they swore and threw a chair at me!!!' LOL!!!

Smithy - I hope you are feeling better.....damn those pregnancy hormones and I guess feeling sick for so long cannot be helping in your case. :comfort:You may also be getting to that stage where it seems so near to the end but also so far away! I totally understand!! Cry away! It often makes you feel alot better! And get DH to give you tons of hugs!

AFM- Scan was sort of good. We had a trainee learning how to scan so we were in there for ages while she practised different bits but Bubs is soo big now we couldn't see much at all!!! So we spent ages looking at weird blurry images! No more scans now as they are happy with growth. He is bang on right size for everything. Even my fundal height measurement is finally right on the mark. I was too big at the start. I blame IVF. I think it bloats us up! It was good to get out the measuring tape and see how big his head is and everything is. DH and I were smiling at how cute and small he is but then DH reminded me that I need to push at least that head measurement out of me and I stopped smiling!!!! LOL!
Baby is really kicking now. DH said some of the movements feel like a bird flapping its wings when they get trapped somewhere. So true! So we joke now that he is our big bird! Heartburn is starting to be a problem...I knew I had got away without getting that for too long!
Anyway that is it for me I think!
Belly rubs everyone!!!

Gosh that's ridiculous. Kids will end up getting fired when they get to work as they'll never have been told how to work - honestly. If my kid played up like that, I'd definitely want to know!

I never asked you Poppy if your S-M was English. If she is, then I think a Kevin Rudd style national apology from all the British is in order. She sounds ghastly.

Two random questions - and you can tell I'm getting ahead of myself massively here having not even have my first scan.... a) when did you tell people? When do you think is 'safe'? ( I should add that I was a real red wine fan so lots of people will notice the not drinking!) b) my DH's parents are divorced but both with long term partners but not married. Do they get a 'grandpa B' or a 'Nana Y' or do think that would upset the real grandparents? If not, how do you name them.... ???

Here's hoping for a heart beat tomorrow, although I"ll only be 6 weeks and 4 days so I don't know if I will? ......:pray:

LondonMiss: :hug: Relax hun it's ok, I had the exact same thing, the pain when I sneezed and also sometimes when I stood up too quickly I'd double over. I asked my Ob about it she said it was alright, it's just the ligaments around the uterus stretching as you grow and sometimes these sudden movements make them pull sharply. (:oops: and I just realised I've missed a whole lot of posts and other people have told you the same thing, sorry)

Good that you now have one less thing to worry about!

As for when to tell, well my parents, DH's 2 sons and a few close friends who were supporting us through the IVF process were told the day we found out. For everyone else we were definitely waiting til 12week mark but then I had to have a scan at 10 weeks and when we got the all clear there that's when we made the big Facebook announcement etc. Mind you, a few of the first lot of people who were told did slip up a little becasue they were so excited for us (actually the entire busload from our gym going to the city 2 surf found out at 5 weeks LOL)

Airline: Good luck today!!! That first scan is awesome, I'm not someone who gets overly emotional at things (well at least not before I was pg anyway) but I teared up a little when we saw that first heartbeat! Hope it's awesome for you!

Grub: How much of a shocker was yesterday? It wasn't too bad in the morning but around lunchtime I went for a nap and an hour or so later woke up in a bucketload of sweat and spent the rest of the afternoon whaling it in the pool! Loving the cool change this morning though! Can't believe it's so close to your DH getting home :dance:

:hello: to everyone else!

AFM: I had a huge fright on Sat night, I almost choked on a piece of homemade garlic pizza. And I'm not talking cough/splutter type I'm talking full-on, couldn't breathe DH having to give me first aid to try & dislodge it from the top of my windpipe. It was horrible, scariest thing that has ever happened to me. I couldn't breathe or swallow or talk and DH was practicing his golf swing so was totally oblivious and I had to bash on the wall and wave madly to get his attention. It took what felt like ages but eventually we got it out, which then made me sick (sorry :tmi:) and I still have a bit of a sore throat but all good now. But it's funny, the whole time all I could think about was the baby and that I didn't want it to die yet. It's funny what goes through your mind at these times.

Anyway that's all my excitement for the time being (and more than enough I reckon LOL) other than that just been so very hot and loving that our pool is finally fixed!

And I've just realised I'm running late so had better run! Hope you all have a good day and this heat is easing up for some of you! Look forward to hearing from you later on airline!

How did it go Airline?

Well not going to be the post I'd so hoped for. My first issue which DH and I joked about initially but then I was seriously not laughing half an hour later was that I am a regular pee-er. I pee A LOT!. It is a joke amongst friends, bladder size of walnut etc etc. However, having drunk my litre between 7 and 7.30 am... by 8 when we arrived (half hour early) I was very uncomfortable, which became painful. They said I could pee 1cup or count to 5. Well that would alleviate it for 5 minutes or so. Ended up doing it 4 times, but was bladder was clearly still very full.

Anyway, I could tell straight away there was no heartbeat and the sonographer didn't say anything. She asked me to empty my bladder and then did an internal. More measurements and then she talked us through it. Neither of us said a word, just stared at the screen, it was horrible and I could feel myself tearing up but kept it together.

Now according to doc and ourselves (not the ticker) I'm 7 weeks tomorrow. According to what she saw on the scan I'm only 5 weeks and 4 days. She said she wouldn't expect to see a heartbeat at that stage. So I have to see FS on Wednesday, another blood test and then another scan in 10-14 days. We both felt flat on way home, I was wrapped up in my own thoughts as was DH and he dropped me home, had a hug and went to work.

Having been awake since 5 I just went back to bed for hour or so, but funnily enough didn't sleep. Sorry for mammoth 'me' post but there we have it.

Oh airline - what a crushing disappointment. Been there, not a t-shirt I wanted to get. I cried my eyes out all over the sonographer, doctor that got called in, my FS who made the initial judgement, the lady at reception and so on.....

Very very very best wishes for the next week. Praying for you that it is just a little bit behind and will catch up plenty by the next visit. I'll be thinking of you.

Thanks LM. I'm praying yours goes well and you can enjoy your moment x

:hug: aww airline im very sorry that happend today hun ,take it one day at a time darlin .dont give up just yet though ok xoxoxo

airline, honey, i can't even begin to imagine how you are feeling atm love but please know i'm sending you lots of support and hugs and positive vibes. I really hope it is simply a case of wrong dates and you get some better news soon. Be kind to yourself and your DH ... :pray::pray::pray: