Pregnancy after Long Term TTC #8

[melbel]

melbel - how are you looking with dates? Has it changed again? Hope you're not feeling too big and uncomfortable.

We saw the obstetrician on Friday and she said I was looking bigger than full term.....measured me at 42.5 weeks at 34 weeks exactly...yikes!!! She said I was about the size she would expect to see someone of my gestation who is carryin twins...and just looking at BD's beautiful belly shots I think she is right.

She says if I was to come into the office at 36 weeks and say I cant take anymore she would completely undertsand and symapthasize and would be happy to deliver from that point on...that's Friday week....OMG!! I'm gonna be a mummy soon...

My personal goal is hopefully 37 weeks for good lung development but we will see...at the moment it is day by day. We are now on twice weekly CTGs and once weekly umbilcal artery flow scans to keep an eye on bubs.......fun fun fun..between those and ob appts, diabetes specialist appts, chiropractor, acupuncture and myotherapy pretty much every day has something packed in there!!!

Since Friday I have been getting swollen ankles and feet by the end of the day but it seems to go down overnight....the right foot worse than the left...anyone else had lopsided cankles?!

Oh and to compare here is my 34 belly shots..only one there and pretty much as big as BD

http://www.facebook.com/melbel69#/ph...3&id=613507035

The one awesome thing I am very proud of is I am 40 years old carrying an elephant of a baby and I have not yet got a single stretch mark...I love my mum for giving me such good elastic skin!!! now you watch...I will have jinx myself ands and wake up tomorrow with a belly full....LOL

Oh and GO SMITHY!!

[TaRhLi.]

Melbel: Cute belly shot, did you see mine that I posted I was huge before Tara arrived and she was only a 7lb'er (we thought she would be huge) the night before delivery we measured how big I was around at it was 124cm, which equalled on me the height from the floor to my shoulder. Oh and as for stretch marks, I was fine up until week 37 and than they kicked in. I delivered Tara a 38 + 3 and I think that helped them from getting too bad, not that I want to jinx you but just wait they could still arrive.

Here is the link again for my huge belly.... Welcome to Facebook | Facebook

[Ella'sMum]

Hi Ladies,

Hope everyone is well, thought I'd do a AFM and let everyone know our wonderful news.
At 8.51 pm 19/01/2010, Emme Scarlett was born by c -sect she is absolutely amazing and so far a perfect baby.

Good luck to smithy and green!

[Neptune]

Ella's mum, a huge congrats on the arrival of Emme. Well done

[Neptune]

And Melbel, I was 41 weeks at birth, 40 years old and DID have a 10 pounder......check out my belly. Yours looks pretty good to me! All the best

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[Mummy-Lani]

Congratulations to Ella's mum on the safe arrival of your little princess Emme Scarlett. What a beautiful name. Enjoy xx

[grub17]

big congratulations to Ella's Mum... now Emme's mum too!

Fingers are crossed for smithy!!! thinking of you love.

and Green, remember i was convinced it would never happen lol... went to bed on night and woke up at 1am in labour... had baby by 9.30am. But it sounds really hopeful and i doubt you'll be here long.

Hope everyone is keeping well.

oxox

[TaRhLi.]

Congrats Ella's mum on the arrival of your new little princess Emme...

Finally the blue trend has broken and a couple of pinkies are getting added to the list (that includes Smithy's Charlie when she arrives)..

O.k Green we are just waiting for you now.....

[LondonMiss]

Congratulations Ella's Mum - what a beautiful name you've picked. I hope you are feeling well and everythings ok.

[Greenslw]

Kyrawolfe thankyou so much. I think it's the control freak in me, but you're right millions of women do it daily and my day is coming. Loved hearing about your rib kicks, they are nasty. little toes I reccon.

Lise DH has my car no more going out! I need a wall and now have one. So exciting to hear you felt Chicklet move "shivers" it is amzing.

Baby Dreamtime I'm glad I'm not the only one who is confused re labor! Your belly is such a perfect shape, your poor back! hope DH is pulling his weight

Saph sending you labor vibes but only good ones

Mitf glad your midwife app went well and great to find a good GP.

Melbel beautiful belly shots, goodluck with your goal, your ob sounds blunt like mine, oh well as long as they'r on the ball hay.

KellyD OMG your belly was so round. I'll have to post mine soon, I'm not that big and feel a bit left out.

Ella'sMum well done. welcome Emme

Grub hope things are going great for you and bubs.

ATM still waiting but getting "it's close vibes too" had regular bh at 1.30 hourly till 5.30 almost thought it was labor but not sustained enough, pain but only for a few moments. And baby is still very active.

DSS is working full time for the next few days so I can laze around in a sarong. 40C today Yuck.

OB appointment tonight, I'm going to ask about regula BH but I'm sure she'll blow me off like normal. Actually went to bed thinking "i'd love to go into labor now so I don't have to have another OB appointment" yep I'm hormonal.

[*Paula*]

Congratulations Ella's Mum! Fantastic news!!

Love seeing all your beautiful belly pics. Just proves everyone is different.

[lilmisshavachat]

Congratulations Ella'sMum on Emme's arrival... what a lovely name...

Melbel - I have posted a link to my 18week photo on facebook as I've been told i'm huge and i'm now nearly 28 weeks... Maybe BDT can give you her impression of how big I am as she's met me.. I hope it can make you feel better...

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[lise]

CONGRATULATIONS Ella's mum, so exciting! And a gorgeous name, love it. Hope all is going well and Emme stays perfect

Mitf - glad the appointment went well and you don't regret the change. Now just think of all the gorgeous baby items you can buy with that money!

BDT - love the nursery, just beautiful.

Green- glad DH has the car, hopefully that slows you down, though are you in walking distance of any shops?!

Ladies - love all the belly shots! Makes me feel positively tiny and dainty, which is not at all true (well it might be true of my belly, but not the rest of me!). Here is my comparatively insy belly at 17 weeks exactly:

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Melbel - hope you get to hang on till you want to - just keep those legs crossed! Hehe, will keep my fingers crossed instead and see if that helps...

Smithy - any news???

AFM - DH and I are going out for dinner, which used to be a weekly event and somehow hasn't happened since my birthday, just before Christmas. I'll see if I can manage to stay up past 10 for this special occasion - I seem to be just as tired now as I was in the first trimester! And another quick gripe - do the frequent nightly bathroom visits ever stop? I was (probably naively) under the impression the urge to pee constantly diminished in the second semester and have been sadly disappointed that i'm still up several times a night. Clearly I still have much to learn...

Belly rubs to all,

love lise xx

[LondonMiss]

Hey Lise - can't get into your facebook page - it says I don't have permission!

I'm still weeing in the night too, I was hoping it might go if I wee'd just before bed. But no, 4am.... Worse, I'm so paranoid about waking the dog up that I have to tiptoe like some demented Disney character down my own hall

[lise]

Argh, damn facebook, I just changed the settings!! Should be good now!

And glad someone else is up during the night too, well, you know what I mean...!

[LondonMiss]

sadly it still doesn't like me!

[TaRhLi.]

Hi all,

I have the very very VERY grand privlege of announcing the birth of a gorgeous Miss Charlie Isabella

This beautiful little girl was born 5:23 this afternoon. Weighing in at a very healthy 6 pound 10 ounces.

Congratulations wonderful Smithy & Super Cooper! Welcome to the world little one. We have been waiting for you

PS I thought you would appreciate the above in magenta Smithy..lol

Hi Girls

Look what I found in another thread.. Thought you all might have been waiting to see it.

Congrats Smithy, I am so happy that Charlie has finally arrived...

[JustOneMore]

Hello lovely ladies,

I am not Pregnant (I wish) but I have been on the 2ww thread for well over a year now. I have seen familiar names and also new ladies come and go when they get their BFP and Its always been lurking in the back of my mind, what did they do to get there BFP.
So I suppose I am asking this question for all of us on the 2ww, in hope to get some answers.

The question I would like to Ask is:

I was wondering, what did you ladies do to get your !
Was there something different that you did that month that you didn't do before.
Example: acupuncture, took special herb medicines, went on a long holiday, a round of golf perhaps, went on a roller coaster ride or hung upside down or was it just the right little Embryo ?

My sisters friend had been trying for 10 years, they decided that after this last IVF cycle if it didn't work then they would quit. Well on her very last FET she fell pregnant.


So we don’t Clutter up your thread could you ladies please post in the below thread:

https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...fferently.html


Any information is greatly appreciated .

To all the ladies who have found my thread and put there story up there - Thank you


Moderators: I Private Messaged Marcellus and she said it was o.k. to do this.

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Another way is at the top of the page you will see the Forum Information
click on Pregnancy After Long Term TTC (it is underlined)

It will take you to all the threads that are in that forum
Then scroll down until you see my thread:

PG After LT TTC - What did you do differently ?

Every little bit of information helps.
Thanks again everyone