Dusty - I'm so, so sorry for your loss.
M2C - I'm also so very sorry for you.
Thinking of you girls.
Mels
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Dusty - I'm so, so sorry for your loss.
M2C - I'm also so very sorry for you.
Thinking of you girls.
Mels
Nixon- thank you-does sound similar. I am going to see my chiro/acupuncturist this arvo which will hopefully help...i have a bad back/neck at the best of times
make sure the chiro knows that you're pg possums - mine has altered the way he treats me due to the pg - for some adjustments that he used to have me on my tum using downward pressure he now has me on my back using a more upward pressure kwim?
Possums, I was sick in early pg too with headache, temp, sore throat, aches and pains and it ended up being tonsilitis. I just think because your immune system is a bit low during pg that you are likely to pick up a bug here and there. Might be an idea to go the Dr, especially if you think you have a temp. There's only one thing he could prescribe me, but I felt better having it checked out.
Nixon, calmbirth was very interesting. Have only done one class so far, but really looking forward to the rest of them. She only teaches 2 couples at a time which I was surprised about, but it's good for us. Plenty of opportnity for questions. I've done a track on the first CD most days. DH did it with me on Saturday and was snoring in less than 10 minutes! How often are you practicing?
Bg- thanks...yeh will do- this guy has a great approach incorporating the acupuncture and energy healing as well...he has helped me through IVF etc and when I was pregnant before and I hope he will now help me feel better and also balance things and help this little one stay with us!
Megan - I haven't practiced since before Christmas. I was sick with a very runny nose which makes the breathing techniques v. difficult.
We finished CB classes early Dec and I'm feeling very confident now. I have my rough birth plan and also I have notes for DH on all the things he can do for me to assist during the birth. visualsation tigger words - massage - etc. You'll find out heaps more by the end of the classes.
I try and do at least one track per week at the moment and will increase that as time goes on. I was only 16 weeks or something when we started the classes (very early compared to a lot of others) but you wouldn't believe how much it calmed my anxiety about the pregnancy and impending birth. DH tells everyone how much of a change he say in me - even from the end of the first session.
So, I'm not too worried about doing a track every single day at the moment IYKWIM? I think I'll start trying to do 3 a week from now on. I listen to the 45 minute track while I'm at acupuncture - double the relaxation.
Megan thanks...sorry missed your post earlier, must have posted around the same time
HCG results in... 25,700 up from 10,750 one week ago.... my midwife says those results are "Ok, and we'll just hang in there and see how things go"...which wasn't especially positive. I have fallen below the HCG rising line I was on the graph they have, which has these lines showing how HCG should rise, depending on your starting point. But I didn't ever get levels this high with my last pregnancy, so I am going to take this as a good result. I am sure not all pregnancies follow the text book lines. And it has jumped up by quite a bit...it just hasn't doubled at a rate of every four days (which I was told to expect now). I wish I wasn't so damn nervous every step of the way...just after our last loss I am pretty paranoid, yet trying to accept what will be will be. If anyone else had HCG levels done this far in and has in feedback, it is welcome. Scan on wednesday.
Possums - I wish I could reassure you, but I only had 2 early HCG tests done, so I have nothing to compare it to. Those levels certainly look good to me and as you said - take faith in the fact that last time you didn't get this high. Thank goodness you have your scan on Wednesday to give you some peace of mind. I am sending loads of positive energy your way.
Janie xxx
possums - that all still sounds pretty positive. you will know a lot more after your scan on wednesday too which will hopefully put your mind at rest. i hope you manage to relax a bit between now and then. :hug: you a lot more aware of HCG rates / increases than I am. I didn't have any other BTs after 5 weeks, so I can't comment, but it sounds very high to me.
afm, i had my scan this morning (i tried to post earlier, but my computer kept timing out). anyway, everything looked good - heartbeat, good size, right spot etc. so i'm quite relieved. next scan isn't until 11-13 weeks...which seems like forever away. I can see a scan-addiction developing.
mels xx
Mel - great news on the scan results!! And yes, I think I know TOO much about HCG levels and rising times! (And I realise most women dont seem to have this much monitoring, this was just how my midwife wanted to run things as a constant check) I have now read HCG levels can take longer than 4 days to double after they reach a certain amount, so I felt better about that...and as my midwife said too, each woman is different, and levels can vary around the predictive lines they have on their graph. I think with me it's just such a heightened sensitivity to everything after my experiences last year. last time they were still around 11,500 when I was 8 weeks, so I am well beyond that.
Janie thanks too... hurry up scan!
Sorry slefish post I failed the 1 hour GTT have to do the 2 hour one on Thurs Now :(
:hug:Oh TL - I have heard of lots of women that have failed the 1 hour and come out fine on the longer one. :pray: that will be the case for you.
Janie xxx
Hi Ladies -
Dusty & M2C - my heart goes out to you both. Keeping you both in my thoughts and prayers.
Possums - I didn't have many BT's so I don't have much advice but it sounds like you are positive about your results .
Kahlan - great to hear you are well and back posting
Belle - hope you are doing well
Mel77 - you must be thrilled with your scan results
BG, TL, Janie, Mels, Nixon, Megan and all the other ladies, thinking of you and sending :bellyrubs:
AFM - all seems to be okay. MS is only in the morning now and is very mild compared to before and can feel my energy levels coming back. MS seems to be more triggered by smell these days. We still have 3 more weeks to our next OB appoint (he is on holidays for 2 weeks) and scan. As much as I hated the MS, at least it was a good sign, now that 'feeling better' is a good symptom it feels a bit strange.
Question - how can tell where the top of the fundus is? If I have a full bladder I think I can feel it when I am lying down but not a full bladder it all feels about the same to me - I guess that's why I'm not a OB!!! Also, has anyone measured their fundus height at home to keep track of it and do you think it is accurate / worthwhile.
Take care everyone,
LNB
Hi ladies
We have a sticky thread on immunology testing in the LTAC area that members have added too over the last few years but it has been dormant for a while but you may have found it useful when you were TTC.
If you were able to take the time, it would be valuable for other members to have any information you may have gained from your own investigations included in this thread which wont disappear over time.
I will also bump it to see if we can add valuable learnings for us all.
HERE it is.
Thanks :)
Also thanks for your personal messages and support the last couple of days. I really appreciate it :hug:
Hi Possum, I think how much hcg increases also depends on how your numbers were originally. Mine was very high originally and continued to stay very high (think I reached 157,000 by 6w 5d). I was told that by 6 weeks reading hcg is not as important anymore. Only because I had spotting which the nurse tried to help by giving another BT. Good luck hun.:
Hi there belly buddy. Glad to see you doing well. I am going to see my midwife today so am very excited! Now what are you talking about with this fundus thing??? What is a fundus??? Should I be concern??? God I feel I know so little.:
Dusty, you are such a brave and strong woman. Many hugs to you.:
HM - Wow so much changes to you.... well good to experience the nannying side of things....guess it prepares you for the real deal later hey?
I was telling hubby about the fact that by 3 months bub will be able to hear us so he started to speak to the belly last night...saying "whatever mum says about me, it is not true".. we had a good laugh. I love teasing my DH who generally become speechless most of the time which is very amusing..
I swear I am feeling my bub internally....it is like liquid moving in your belly... initially I mistoke it for my digestive tract but hubby said we only hear our tummy grumbles, not feel constant movement. I think I will just go with what he said.
Belly rub to everyone else.
Kahlan - i was feeling bub at 9.5 weeks, so it's very very probable you're feeling yours now!
fundus is the height of your uterus as the baby grows - my GP was going to measure the other day, but put her hands on my tum, said "well, fundus is at your belly button which is spot on" and left it. it's not a very scientific measure - it will vary through the day depending on how your baby is laying at the time - if it arches it's back against the front of your tum, it will be higher than if it's just laying all tucked up... fundus height is one of those things they use to tell you that you're having a big baby - and then you might pop out a little one. i don't think it's important to measure it at all... in fact, from what i've read, it's probably something to avoid!
goodmorning everyone!
i have been missing from this forum for a while but been reading all the posts. Everyone seems to be going good and i hope i will be the same.
just a question, when should you go for your first scan? i was thinking 8 weeks to be sure they will see the heart beat if there is one, also i have a retroverted uterus so im nervous they may not find the bub and il freak out! i would love your thoughts on this!
AFM- ive got no symptoms still except sore nipples and a bit fatigued, no MS, although i dont want it! last time i was vomiting constantly and i didnt even have a little one in the uterus! just that damn sac so it means nothing to me but agony! i hope i dont get it!
Hi Kahlan - I've also had spotting since getting my BFP. It cleared up last week, but since having my scan yesterday it has come back. Do you mind telling me what yours was like? (Mine is brown (it varies in darkness), sometimes mixed with a discharge, sometimes not - sorry TMI)
I know I should just take comfort that I've seen the baby and I've been told everything is fine (heart beating etc) and the doctor couldn't see any bleeding from my uterus - but there's nothing like a few brown spots to freak me out. When did yours eventually clear up? My next scan is now not until after 12 weeks and I'll be totally beside myself by then, especially if the spotting continues...
Possums and LNB - thanks for your words. I was so happy to see the little one doing all the right things. Though there really should be a service for nervous types like me that allow weekly (or daily!) scans!!
Mels x
Thanks BG... how are you going? Did you end up sending the card with the bub on it? How did the family respond to it?
Hi 21, I would go for 8 week scan (that was what I did) because I reasoned that even if I was going to m/c they couldn't do anything anyway, so I rather live on cloud nine until then. Also 8 week scan allows me to see more of the bub. Congrats on your pg by the way. :clap::
Hi Mel, know how you feel. I had spotting on and off from week 6. Sometimes it was brown and then dark dirty brown and then dark brownish red. It usually last for a few days but not enough to wear a pad. I had a massive bleed with bright red blood at 11 week and that really freaked me out. This one lasted for a week. Went to hospital but it was on the weekend so I end up going to my GP who ordered another ultrasound and a number of tests (include urine - for UTI and swab of my vagina) Everything came back normal. The ultrasound showed bub doing great. GP concluded that one of my vein in the cervix must have burst because there is no other reason for the bleeding. I did end up in bed for 3 days though until the bleeding decreases to dark brown discharge.:
If you are spotting after an ultrasound (I assume it was an internal ultrasound) I would say you have a highly sensitive cervix like me so don't worry about the bub too much. Take care of yourself.
Kahlan - a lot of people knew by christmas (blabber mouth mother after 13 week scan) but we stil sent it out and it was well received - did get to tell a few people that way, so was kinda worth the effort - but after mum blabbed (and the chick at the local Target WTF???) it just lost some of it's importance! ah well, such is life i guess
thanks Kahlan - so helpful. my doc thought it may have been my cervix too. so i'll just hope that is what it is. all the best to you. Mel x
Mel- hope the spotting clear ups. I know what you mean about worrying. It's hard not to, especially if it's been a journey to get here! Can you possibly have another scan in a couple of weeks? I think I will be having scans fairly often, which is a choice available to me.
21andttc- I'd go for the 8 wk scan
afm- nervous waiting for tomorrow's scan. :pray:
Oh ladies big :hug: to all of you with spotting and scares :hug:
AFM:
At work by myslef bored and not very motivated :lol: so trying to do some BB catch up :) Back for the 2hour GTT on Thurs Morn and hopefully we will pass that one
TL- :crossfingers: for the 2 hour one
I just thought of another question...how have most of you kept pics from your scans? scanned them to computer? photocopied them? taken a photo of them? I think I need to destress right now. Just thinking about the scan and the thought of my last scan last time, when there was no heartbeat anymore makes me feel a bit sick. This time has to be different :pray:
possums, i have a little folder with the pics in, and will soon have a box with all the "momento's" - ie HPT's, maternity card etc
i embraced this pg as "the one" from day dot - don't know why but it felt different. i went about everything with a "nothing is gonna go wrong" attitude. still had bad days where i stressed, but it was different to previous pg's...
ooh, as to your HCG - on lots of reading, i found that, as long as your HCG is raising by 66% in 72 hours, you're still right on track - i'm pretty sure you're right up there hun!
Possums dending on the paper they don't scan very well I have taken photos of mine and my 12 and 20 weeks came on CD
:crossfingers: for you tommorrow sweetie
Possum, I scanned them and saved them on my Lap top.
You can also save them to a memory stick and go to your local photo shop and print them on normal photo paper.
Best of luck for your scan tomorrow :goodluck:
Possums, Hun i think i have heard someone before saying to be careful re photocopying them as they can just go all black with the exposure depending on the paper. Good luck hun
BG, I was the same, i just thought from day dot..this is it until D day, this is the one. I have really surprised myself with the confidence inside. Hope you are well.
21.TTC, I have a retroverted Uterus to hun and while some people will tell you it is an issue, i don't believe it is. I have Endo and scar tissue and even with those thing i have witnessed it flipping forward and back 2-3 times in on scan i had. It will not change the visibility, they can work around it and often women find it will flip forward during pregnancy anyway. Just remember it is a muscle and is quite flexible to its surroundings. Good luck with the scan hun.
Kahlan, As BG reassured me last week, it would certainly be the bub if it feels different to you. I normally feel air/wind moving around here and there but my feelings were different too. It was funny, i had second thoughts to tel everyone only because everyone elses feelings were butterflies or bubbles at first. For me it was soft and wave like...like my belly breathed without me doing anything. And when you said liquid moving...that is exactly it, like a change in the pressure of liquid in my belly, soft and gentle. So i reckon that was it to.
My break from packing is over so back to it now. Hope you are all well.
TL good luck for the GTT on Monday hun and I am sure you will be fine. Sending Charlotte and you a big hug.
Mel, hope the spotting clears up hun and you are back to feeling confident again.
Love and rubs to all HM xoxo
Possums, Hun i think i have heard someone before saying to be careful re photocopying them as they can just go all black with the exposure depending on the paper. Good luck hun
BG, I was the same, i just thought from day dot..this is it until D day, this is the one. I have really surprised myself with the confidence inside. Hope you are well.
21.TTC, I have a retroverted Uterus to hun and while some people will tell you it is an issue, i don't believe it is. I have Endo and scar tissue and even with those thing i have witnessed it flipping forward and back 2-3 times in on scan i had. It will not change the visibility, they can work around it and often women find it will flip forward during pregnancy anyway. Just remember it is a muscle and is quite flexible to its surroundings. Good luck with the scan hun.
Kahlan, As BG reassured me last week, it would certainly be the bub if it feels different to you. I normally feel air/wind moving around here and there but my feelings were different too. It was funny, i had second thoughts to tel everyone only because everyone elses feelings were butterflies or bubbles at first. For me it was soft and wave like...like my belly breathed without me doing anything. And when you said liquid moving...that is exactly it, like a change in the pressure of liquid in my belly, soft and gentle. So i reckon that was it to.
My break from packing is over so back to it now. Hope you are all well.
TL good luck for the GTT on Monday hun and I am sure you will be fine. Sending Charlotte and you a big hug.
Mel, hope the spotting clears up hun and you are back to feeling confident again.
Love and rubs to all HM xoxo
Hi all,
Just wanted to quickly pop in and say hi and see how everyone is doing.
Possums - wishing you all the best for your scan today - sounds like everything is on track, so I'm sure that this will just be a formality and you will get to see your little one with a strong heart beat!
Not much to report here - not really feeling at all pg (except if skin break out is a pg sign?) although I had to go and buy 2 mat bras - not because I've grown, but because after 3 years of TTC my old ones have finally bit the dust and I needed something (I never replaced them cause I kept telling myself I would get pg soon :wall:). Sales lady suggested mat bras and then if I grow out of them I can use them later when finishing up breast feeding - but they have a bit of room in them. I was impressed to find some nice one (NZ brand 'hot milk') that actually dont look like mat bras - even DH likes them! Next scan is this Friday, and as per all my posts I cant wait for it but am stressing out and so desperatly want to see the heart beat.
Wishing everyone well and will try and get to personals later this week. :bellyrubs: for everyone!
FG
Possums good luck for today hon - I am sending you so many positive baby vibes. Looking forward to hearing positive news. In regards to the scan photos - with my early ones I just scanned them onto my computer. With the later ones they put them on disc for you at the scanning place.
FG - my skin has been like a teenagers since I found out I was pregnant. I haven't been this spotty in years! Apparently it clears up - once you have the baby!
HM - hope the packing is going well.
21 - I have a retroverted uterus also and they had no problems finding bubs at 6 weeks 3 days - it was an internal scan though, so perhaps just ask for that rather than one on the tummy. The only reason I had such an early scan was due to being an IVF pregnancy and that was my final appointment with FS. You can see so much more at 8 weeks, so if you can hang off until then, I think that is a good time to get it done.
Dusty - sending you lots of love.
Hi Nicole, TL, BG, Mels, Kahlan, LNB and anyone else I have missed. Hope you are all well.
AFM - well the hot Melbourne weather and pregnancy definitely do NOT go together! I have been feeling really fatigued yesterday and today. Trying to keep fluids up as much as possible and in the air con or swimming pool wherever I can. Bubs has been dancing up a storm over the past week which has been both really nice/sometimes a little painful! Really been starting to think about the actual giving birth part a lot more... only got 10 weeks and 5 days until we meet our little one - if they decide to arrive on time.
Janie xxx
HM - :hug: back from me and a kick from Charlotte :)
FG - Sweetie the growing and the breakouts are all PG signs hun :)
Janie - Good to see our dancers are having fun together I almost bough Charlotte a Tutu yesterday it was soo cute
Hi everyone...thanks for the kind thoughts. Just back from the scan and all is just perfect! We have nicknamed this little one "Hope" because that's what it's given us. I had estimated I would be 7 weeks today and measured 6 wks 6 days, so spot on. HB was 133BPM which is apparently great for this early stage. And I guess the main thing for us was to see that this baby is in my uterus, and not ectopic...the final proof that we really can make a baby ALL BY OURSELVES! we didn't think that was possible. And even more amazing, I ovulated on my right side, which is the side without a tube...clever egg made it to the other tube, which in the past was described to me as being "clubbed down, with lots of adhesions and scarring, making it difficult for an egg to get into it, and also to travel through it". So this little one just is meant to be and has been a determined one from the start! HOORAY!! This is a relief...although both DH and I want to get past that 8.5 wks stage when we lost our last one. That is a bit of a hurdle for us...so I will have another scan in about a week and a half. But so far so good! The ladies put our pics to disc for us which was nice (I know them,as they do all the IVF scans- they are thrilled we have a natural pregnancy)
BG and HM- as for knowing its the one...I lost some faith in myself and my inner knowing after last time, when I really believed it was going to be our baby, and yet we lost it. I need to learn to trust myself again.
FG- glad you are doing well and I can understand you wanting to get to that scan!! Like you I really dont have many symptoms, and both times I was pregnant before had larger really sore boobs...and this time, they've hardly changed!
Janie- hope the heat isnt knocking you around too badly
hi everyone else
Possums :cheer: hun so happy for you DH and Hope :leap:
Possums - that is just fantastic news. sounds like you really do have a miracle (in my humble opinion, all babies are miracles)
Awesome news Possums!!!
xx
Possums, that i wonderful hun. Hope is what we called our little one that we lost in May...for the very same reason. It gave us hope that we could do it...and to keep going a bit longer...and we did. I felt i ovulated on my battered side too. When it is meant to be...it is just meant to be. I am so proud for you hun and thrilled for you for the results. You go girl!!
Love and hugs
HM xoxo
Thanks everyone...i want to shout out that I am pregnant!...but am keeping this one a secret at work until at least 12 weeks..close friends and family know though
yee ha Possums!! fabulous news!! :clap: