Possums... I was so sad when I started reading your post... and then so HAPPY!
This is a fantastic way to finish the week! Your little one is certainly keeping you on your toes just like Baby Tigger did with TL. It all really sounds so positive now and I am thrilled for you and your DH... you really deserve this happiness.
Big to everyone else.
AFM not much to report - I have my next Ob appointment on Monday when I will be 16 weeks (can you believe it... 16 WEEKS!) So I really can't wait to see our little bubs again and have a chat about a couple of little things that have been cropping up:
1. I have been getting some small pimples on my chest and my back - looking so much like a teenager! I know these are hormonal, but I just like to make sure.
2. My nose is stuffy all the time, especially overnight - so need some relief from that.
3. I've been getting some hormone headaches - I'm a migraine sufferer (although haven't had a migraine since I got pregnant) - so just want to check that all is ok there also.
4. I almost fainted on Wednesday night. I think it was my fault - I had walked quite a distance and was dressed a little too warmly - then I was in a very warm room. So I'm pretty certain that is what caused it - but again just want to check all ok. I also have a tendancy to have perfect if slightly low blood pressure - so just want to make sure that isn't causing the above.
This week my belly has grown so much! It is so exciting to see the rate of growth that has happened in just a few days.
just a quick hello to my friends in here
Possums. tigger. janie. nixon and scooby. i am so hoping to be joining you in here soon. pray
i have bubsicle tfer on tue and then the dreaded TWW but i am really feeling good about this one.
good luck to all with your bubs growing inside . see you soon
That is such great news Possum, what a ride you are on.
Everything sounds really great and positive for you and your DH
AFM, by lower back and hips are pretty sore since yesterday afternoon to the point I am going to throw up. I have read on other sites that early hip/back pain is quite common so am not so freaked out
Nicole- have a good weekend and hope that pain eases
Janie- thanks...and sounds like a good list of questions...I've also heard many of those are common symptoms...bet it's exciting seeing your tummy grow!
Devon and TL- thanks for the kind words
JBM- hope we see you here soon...!
afm- well just got the BT results...and they aren't good...ie, they are well outside the 'norm'... they've risen since tuesday from 10,500 to 11,600...so they've been going really slowly, almost plateaued for the last 1.5 weeks.
My nurse said she is basically confused, because the scan results were so good...she told my OB (who is up at the hospital today) and he apparently also said it doesn't make sense, given the scans showed normal growth for the last week and a strong heart beat.
My nurse actually said "well, you aren't out of the woods yet, we just have to hold our breath and keep looking at those scan results...whatever you are doing, keeping doing it...!" (my mum actually wished she hadn't been so negative with her comments, but DH reckons she is just covering herself and being cautious and concerned)...
My question to all of you, is how would you handle this?? what would you think? I know some clinics dont even do BTs after 6 weeks and rely on scans only, and to be frank, if we were just doing that, we'd be relaxed and happy, as the scans show things are spot on...but these lower levels have the nurse and Dr scratching their heads and a bit worried. My nurse suggested maybe my levels are just plateauing early.... I dont know if really low HCG levels is a worry or not.
My DH is much calmer than me with all this...he just looks at the scan results and says we shouldn't worry about the BT results too much.
Possums - I haven't had the experience with multiple BT's. When I got my BFP I had only 1 more BT 3 days later and then it was all scans from there. So I really wouldn't know what my hcg levels were... it is always possible that mine plateaued at some stage too.
My advice would be to put the BT's out of your mind at the moment. The ranges are so variable and at the moment it is just going to be causing you stress that you don't need. Focus on the scans. Everything that they can see is perfect. The all important HB is right on track and the size is within the correct levels. If you are wanting to keep a close eye on how things are going - I would be asking for scans not BT's. Ask whether you can have some regular scans to start with to check that everything is developing properly. You then get the added benefit of getting to see your little one lots!
Remember - stress is not good for you and as such not good for your baby. Do whatever you need to do to try and reduce that stress.
I am thinking of you and that the hcg levels are just irrelevant.
possums - it's all looking so overwhelming for you! hold onto the fact that your bubba is growing and looked fine on scan this morning!
the ranges are so large and varied - there is a notion of what "should" happen, but realistically, that's only what is expected. looking at a table from the net (sydpath) at 7-12 weeks your levels should be anywhere from 11,500 - 289,000.
given that range - and knowing this sort of range shows up on almost all the sites i've checked - i'd say that there are obviously a large number of people who have numbers like this. you're part of the bell shaped curve - just at the very lower end. i know you'd prefer to be at the upper or at least middle ranges, but it seems that your body and your baby don't think that is a necessity! keep in mind your baby HAS grown, it's heart IS beating - and not just beating, but beating more strongly than it was a week ago - these are all positive signs!!
i can understand your stress, and i am in no way trying to negate that, just offering you some alternative POV's on what might be going on...
Janie and BG- thanks for those words of advice. I think I will do as you say and just focus on the scan results which were so good, and just assume my slow rising HCG levels are just part of me which don't fit the 'normal' pattern, but which really don't matter ...maybe we have just slowed down a bit sooner than in other pregnancies.
I feel in myself, that things are going to be OK too. So I will just be happy and keep talking to and encouraging our baby on. I mean, all that growth has happened in the last week, even with those only slightly rising levels!
Thanks ladies. You are always a help and support...especially for a stress head like me
This is a fantastic way to finish the week! Your little one is certainly keeping you on your toes just like Baby Tigger did with TL. It all really sounds so positive now and I am thrilled for you and your DH... you really deserve this happiness.
to everyone else.
as well as the stuffy nose 
that the hcg levels are just irrelevant.
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