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OMG Danni, I did a double take on that, I thought u meant her bubba, I'll go find the post, that is sooo sad (well would be either way).
Awesome news Ellie, congrats, hope everything is ok with ur next scan, nah i say go for the time off, best to take it if u need it, who cares if others think u shld keep going, everyone's diff & they can't know unless they're in ur shoes, do what feels right to you. :)
I agree Ellie, only you know how stressful you find your work and how that is affecting you. I feel the same with my sport. I havent played squash or tennis since I was cycling (as I felt crap then had OHSS then found out +ve). PPl who havent been LT TTC may not quite understand how you feel. I have played sport with girls who kept going till about 5+1/2 months but not me.. no way. I have struggled for 10 yrs to get to this point and am going to be soooo careful now. If you can do it go for it. The money side of things always works itself out. I am so glad your bloods are good again, must have been a terrible worry for you.
Mako, your scan sounds great. A whole hour of gazing at your little one!!!
I have my first scan next tuesday at 7wks and am very nervous.... we will see if the bub is in the right place (please, please, please!) and how many are in there!!! (maybe 2). I didnt get my blood results when I got my +ve so I have no idea if they were high or not and havent had any followup ones since.... 2 would be great though.
Hope everyone is going well and feeling great!!! Thanks for the welcomes!
Oh, we told all the immediate family on the weekend and that went well. My folks were pretty excited. My SIL is due in July and now another courtesy of us! Get this...MIL said great cause now she can get out all the stuff she bought years ago for us, and FIL said "Good Girl"... WTF???? Was I being bad all those years before now? Men!!!!!
Hey Sazz...I was thinking about you today wondering where you'd got to? Our due dates are so close...ours is the 5/1!!!We haven't told our family yet...hopefully on Thursday we will have a heartbeat so that might give me the confidence to say the Preg....word out loud! Have decided I am going to take leave till 12 weeks to give bub the best chance...will see how we go?
No, not here yet, but I hope you're all saving a place for me.
I'm actually trying to contact Sammi Jane, I've left a message for her in messages for other members.
Hope you are all well, and that I'll be joining you for real quite soon.
BW
Definitely saving a place for you BW...can't wait to have you here!
Hope you are doing okay chickie!
Thinking of you today Ellie, with your scan. I hope everything is going well and you feel able to relax a little after todays results. Keeping everything crossed for you. I am having my scan on Tuesday and I feel quite nervous about that too. I have told ppl who knew we were cycling and that's about 4+their partners plus our immediate family so that is quite a few in total. I hope everything turns out right for us both!!!! I am positive it will.....
Ellie I too was just thinking about you and your scan hun. I hope everything is just perfect for you.
Sazz All the best for Tuesday. Try not to worry too much hun. I've found that all will be ok as long as I kept thinking positive and if I was starting to worry, my dh would quickly tell me to be positive. It's really exciting to be able to tell people that you're having a bub. We told dh's parents the day we found out only because I got into trouble after losing bub #2 because we hadn't told them I was pregnant until it was too late iykwim and waited about 2 weeks before telling mine. We then made them wait untill we were about 7 or 8 weeks as they were absolutely busting to tell their friends lol. I also adopted the attitude that if anything bad was going to happen this time I didn't want to deal with it by ourselves if that makes sense.
A big hello to Monnie, Djttc and anyone I have missed. I hope you are all going well.
Hey ladies,
Danni - I can't find out sex for another 6wks although everyone who has seen scan thinks it's a girl (like they would no, lol).
I figure if the baby is only 6cm its little bits would be pretty tiny!!!
We still haven't decided if we will find out yet.
Hope you & Mason are doing great.
Mako - so happy to hear your scan went well, I found mine a huge relief as well, I think you are a week ahead of me.
Sammi Jane - all the best for your scan!
Having the full bladder for the scan was pretty hard for me, going to the loo after had never felt so good, lol.
Ellie - sorry I can't give you any advice on work, I am kinda in the same situation with a stressful job (I took on the manager position a few weeks b4 our BFP.
I think if money is no big deal you should leave if not maybe you could cut back on your hours.
Ultimately only you know how you feel & what you can handle.
Not much to report with me except I am exhausted after working all week & my tummy seems so huge.
I have always had a flat tummy so it's taking a bit to get used to.
I found my tummy popped out pretty quickly & with my 8 wk scan there was heaps of space around the baby but after the last one there is no space so I figure that the same thing will happen again were I pop out with space & then have to fill it up.
I didn't think I would have to buy maternity clothes at 13 wks. (secretly I love it though)
Have a great weekend.
Jo - 27 (treated endo)
Dh - 34
Second chlomid / IUI March 2007 - :bfp:
Hey guys
How's everyone doing?
DJTTC...it's exciting buying maternity clothes, hey? I've found e-bay pretty good and there's a market place member here maternite-west, who is excellent!
Mako...so glad the scan went well...wonderful news!
Sammi-Jane...not sure when you scan is...but hope it goes wonderfully.
Sazz...how you doing?
Danni...how's motherhood going, chickie?
Re. Ellie...I've seen on her other posts that her scan showed no heartbeat...so sad...
I'm just started reading this great book on birth skills...very empowering...but practical too! It's written by Juju Sundin (Sydney physiotherapist) and just seems to make a whole lot of sense...hoping I can use it!!!
Hope I haven't missed anyone...take care all!
Monnie
Wow its very quiet here. I hope everyone is ok and growing nice bellies lol.
I have had a really bad cold/flu thing for the last week and still no better now. I'm sure its just the time of year and every child at work has had a cough or runny nose or something for the past month so was inevitable that I'd end up with something.
On the baby front though everything is going well. My MIL commented on my belly on Thursday saying I now have a nice little bump which seems to have grown alot during the past few days which is nice. Still wearing my normal clothes though. Maybe this has something to do with the fact I'd lost some weight before and after becoming pregnant. I'm sure it won't be too long before I start to gain a little again.
Monnie Wow I can't believe your 29 weeks tomorrow. Where has the time gone?
Anyway I hope you've all had a great weekend and will catch up with you all soon.
Yeah Mako...I can't believe I'm 29 weeks either!
Starting to feel very real now...
Off to antenatal classes tomorrow night...so excited!!!
So pleased baby is doing well Mako...sorry to hear about the cold though! You poor thing!
Hope everyone else is doing fantastically!
Hi girls, it is very quiet in here.....
Mako - hope you're feeling a bit better now. I had a bad cold when I was about 6 weeks pregnant and I felt terrible for about a week & 1/2 - it's so hard because you can't take anything for it! I hope you're ok.
Monnie - how exciting - antenatal classes!! Not long to go now! Have fun.
Hi to everyone else, I hope everyone is doing well.
I had my NT scan last week and all is well so we've been telling the world now! It's very exciting being able to tell people, although I am extremely disappointed in the number of people who ask if I had to do IVF. I think it's such a rude question to ask, I would never ask someone.... I don't like talking about it and so really struggle with what to say. I want to say that's really rude and what does it matter anyway???? I think I am getting across that I think it's rude. I wish people would just be happy that we're pregnant?!
Sam
Yay Sammi on your NT scan. Its so exciting to be able to tell the world that your having a baby. I agree with you about people asking if you went through IVF too. I had a couple of people ask me the same thing and couldn't believe they'd even ask. I always told them "no" and asked what difference it would make anyway. That would always put them on the spot iykwim.
Monnie Good luck with your classes tonight. I can't wait to do mine. Have to ring up and book in in a couple of weeks.
Well I'm still no better. Went to drs yesterday and have been told I have a really bad respritory infection and have been given anti biotics. I rang my Ob to make sure that it would be ok to take them even though I asked Gp about 20 times aswell.Can't be too careful I say. Anyway I hope they start to work soon as I really want to just feel better. All is going ok with bub so thats always a good thing.
Hi to everyone else out there. I hope you are all doing ok.
Hi ladies,
Monnie, how exciting that you are starting classes!! Yippee, you must feel things are really happening now.
Sammi, Yay that your test went well and double yay that youre telling everyone. We are already doing that as we have had a scan already and all is well. It is soo exciting but I also feel really awkward telling ppl. Weird. We have only had one person ask if it was IVF and that was to DH. He just said yes straight up but I dont know what I would have said. I like the reaction "would it make any difference?" That lets them know you think it is rude. (and it is!!!).
Poor Mako with your nasty cold. My DH has had one for 3wks now and I am sooo glad I havent got it yet. Terrible when you cant take anything except paracetamol. Hope you get better soon.
I just read the post above about Ellie, that is just the saddest news I have heard in ages. I hope I can contact her somehow. I feel just terrible for her.
I had my scan last week and all was well. Heartbeat at 125bpm which is normal. It was 1 day smaller than its actual age but that is normal too apparently. I loved getting the pictures of the scan and only wish we could have had the embryo pics too but the printer wasnt working that day... oh well, no biggie.
Hope everyone is going well and growing like mushrooms.
Sazz.
Hey guys
Sammi...yay on your scan...and on spreading the wonderful news! I found that some people also reacted 'funny' to our news, predominantly because we are LTTTC! Strange, hey? You would think people would just be excited...
Mako...sorry to hear you are still unwell...get well soon chickie!
Sazz...yay on your scan!!! Such wonderful news!
My news...today I went to my Ob. expecting a routine check-up...
All along I've told him I've wanted a natural birth...I've read alot about active birth...booked in for an active birth workshop...absolutely love the concept of it...and so want to have the opportunity to have one...
EXCEPT...today I was told, that because of my history of fibroids and fibroid surgery in the past (embolisation), I probably have to have a c-section...I was devastated...cried all the way home...
The reason I may have to have a c-section is due to scarring of the uterus...which could then rupture in vaginal birth...causing problems for both me and the baby...
I just need to keep reminding myself that at the end of all of this, it's about a beautiful baby...not necessarily the birth we always dreamt about...
Ultimately...it's not a huge huge deal...just something I need to deal with...went to the antenatal class tonight...it was great, except alot was about a vaginal birth...which I think is wonderful, but just not great timing for us tonight!
Oh well...apart from that news...baby is doing well, I don't have GD (yay!) and this pregnancy in itself is a miracle!!!!
All of our pregnancies are beautiful miracles, hey?
Yay Sazz on your great scan last week. I have to agree with you on getting those little pics of bub. My MIL comes over after each scan to have a look at her grand bub to be and she always asks if she can have a copy too lol. She's so sweet. I think she has secretly started a baby album already.
Monnie I'm so sorry that you may not be able to have the active birth that you've been dreaming of hun, but at the end of the day try not to be too disappointed because it really doesn't matter how these precious bubs arrive as long as they are healthy and their mummys are healthy too. To me thats all that matters.
I have been told to expect bub to arrive up to a month early due to a medical condition too. All I'm praying for is that I get as far along as possible and that my bub is ok.
Djttc I hope everything is going ok with you hun. I haven't seen you around for a while.
Hi to Sammi and Danni I hope you are both doing ok.
Mako - hope your cold is getting better!
I can't believe you might go a month earlier, I find the time is flying as it is I can't imagine in the bub came early!!!
Monnie - I'm sorry to hear that you wont be able to have the birth that you were hoping for but like you said all our babies are a miracle & at the end of the day no matter how they get here as long as they are healthy is all that really matters.
Have fun at your classes.
Sam - I'm thrilled to hear your scan went well, such a relief isn't it?
No one has actually asked us about if we did ivf but I'm not worried at all, I usually tell people we had a little help because I'm just so happy I'm pg I couldn't really care less what they thought but it is very rude of them as it is a very personal issue which no one can understand unless they have been through it themselves.
Sazz - glad everything is going well with your bub.
I have just been so busy lately (and tired) & would love to get on here more but sleep seems sooooooooooooo exciting lately.
I am still suffering with reflux but I'm guessing I'm gonna be stuck with it all the way through so I just have to live with it I guess.
Other than that I already have this huge belly which is the strangest thing for me as I have never had one. (my family think it's hilarious & always want to see it).
We went baby shopping on the weekend & ordered all our bubs furniture & it was just so exciting & so much more real, I loved every minute of it even though we came home quite broke, oh well.
Jo - 27 (treated endo)
Dh - 34
Second chlomid / IUI March 2007 - :bfp:
Hey Jo
How exciting...getting all your baby furniture ordered...well done!!!