Welcome Chrissy! So great to see new faces moving in here from the LTTTC thread LondonMiss 30 minutes for a heat pack!! Wow... DH's can be so...silly (to put it nicely)!! Thats why most of the time its way easier to just do things yourself rather than asking a male to do it for you! Shame about the scan but thats great that you get to go back. Hopefully bub will cooperate next time. Renee i hear you on the waiting till the 12 week mark. To be honest though until you start to feel bub move frequently you always worry about every little niggle and pain. Im sure you will be fine though so enjoy the fact the YOU ARE PREGNANT!! Kyra any news??????
Spent yesterday going through ALLLLL the clothes we have bought Tiana and putting all the newborn/lil sizes in one pile and the bigger stuff in another pile so that i know what needs to be washed first. So exciting seeing all the tiny and cute things. However, i cant believe how much we have I think she will need to change every hour to wear all she has at least once!! LOL
Londonmiss, interesting that they don't charge you till you see a pic - and that you tried everything to get the little bean to turn over but to no avail Hope you see her face on Tuesday's scan!
Hi Paula, newborn clothes are so gorgeous. I am resisting the temptation to go shopping until the 12thw week at the very earliest. I'm on 2 weeks bed rest from a ruptured blood vessel and clotting, and only just borrowed some baby books this weekend gone.
Hey Renee, have you had a transvaginal scan yet? If not, when are you booked for one? I have had three so far - and I have one picture but it's very hard to make anything out. Every time I spot or cramp or get a twinge I panic. I don't think I'll stop worrying until I hold my jelly beans in my arms!
Hello Lise, I hear you when you say the first trimester is dragging. I am counting the days till 12 weeks. Only eight weeks to go. Bet you can't wait. Have you found out the gender of your bub or do you want it to be a surprise?
Hey ladies, can I ask how many of you have not had any morning sickness? I know it's only very early days for me but I've got nothing so far - and again I don't know if it's true or not but I thought if you were pregnant with twins given the higher hcg levels you would be more likely to get morning sickness? Any comments appreciated!
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Oooh LondonMiss, I really like the Emerald Pea****, but definitely not the place for a pregnant lady with all those stairs!! DH and I went to a pub yesterday and although we had a table he couldn't understand why I was ready to go after my two waters...!!
Paula - I make DH do that too, our baby has more jeans already than I do! Do your family and friends buy you lots of stuff because they know it's a girl?
Renee - I'm hearing you on the toilet!! I swear the Chicklet thinks my bladder is her own peronal trampoline and I seem to constantly need to pee only to get there and have the smallest trickle, it's driving me nuts
Brunette - we found out at our 20 week scan it was a girl, but then our OB confused us at our 28 week scan by
saying she thought it looked like a boy...! We're ignoring her and going with what the sonographer says And re the morning sickness - I had a couple of days about week 5 or 6 of feeling slightly nauseus but that was it. So don't think that because you don't have any there's something wrong, just enjoy!!
We had another OB appointment today and I must say I'm feeling rather pleased with myself and the chicklet!!
My belly is exactly the right size for 32 weeks and she's still in the right position - head down, bum up! And she's even started to engage, although there's still a looooong way to go obviously, lol.
Anyhoo, time for more reading. Figured I'd better do some re labour before classes start tomorrow. Have a good night all and hopefully Ky will be popping in soon with good news
Brunette i havent had any sickness at all this whole pregnancy and have actually felt brilliantly. Even when i was pregnant with twins for the first 8 weeks i still felt perfectly fine. Most say im lucky but believe it or not i have actually heard of lots more women that havent been sick at all than women who have been sick. I totally hear you though as i used to say i wanted desperately to have ms so that i knew all was well.. silly i know.. hang in there, im sure you will be fine. lise woohoo on all being well at your appointment and on bub behaving as she should
Felt lots and lots of movement yesterday that lasted allll day long which was brilliant! I was sitting at my desk all day staring at my belly and watching it move. Today she has been on the quieter side but still letting me know she is there
Hello all. Just back from a much more successful scan... Little Miss even gave me a wave she was in a better position, and much more active. She looks just like DH and absolutely nothing at all like me, but that's cool! I can't get over how much placenta and cord there is in there, it's like the seaweed forest in the lake in Harry Potter 4. Cord does seem a design flaw to me, I mean it's just asking to get wrapped about the baby isn't it??! When I'm GrandMaster of the Human Race and doing a redesign (which will include detachable babies and breasts so you can go for a run) I'll think about a better way of doing that. It goes without saying that I'll be looking at 'birth canals' for a potential redesign!!!
I've been up all night, I just could not sleep at all. For no apparent reason either. Ho hum. I am tired now, and think might put my feet up with my bag of goodies from the scanning place. Hope you are all well and sorry for the lack of personals x
Brunette - i actually don't have a scan booked at all, i go to see my GP today and will bombard him with questions im sure. I fell naturally in the end so my IVF clinic did my inital BT's and that was all.
Londonmiss - I'm glad that bub was better today and you got a good look. Power to you if you can redesign the female body and make it more "user friendly"
I have my first docs app this morning which i am excited about. I am still feeling average, i just wish i would be sick and get it over with, rather than feel like it all day.
Renee - hi I felt like that too. It was MUCH better if I made sure my stomach was never empty, so even half a glass of skinny milk or three dry apricots would make all the difference in the world. Hope it helps!
LondonMiss, great news you got a good vision of your DD. Are the pics in 3D now?
Hope you get all your questions answered at your GPs today, Renee. I always take in a list of questions when I see my FS (probably give them the poops but that's just the type of personality type I am!)
AFM, I had another scan yesterday. Was starting to feel really positive about things. Good and bad. I was two days shy of 7 weeks. Had another transvaginal scan (losing count now). This time could easily see both twins' hearts, egg yolks, sacs etc. Approx both now same size, about 8-9mm - how tiny. Bad news is still lots of blood/clotting and still giving me 80/20 take-home rate. He has told me he wants me to do bed rest until week 12 - another 5 weeks! He has told me that means only getting up to go to the loo and that's about it. We're moving house this Saturday. Now I'm having to take most of my leave I wanted to take after the bubs were born, but more worryingly of all is now I'm going to worry about them till week 12 - and then until they're born. I am so scared and don't want to allow mysef to get anymore attached because it's going to devastate me if they don't make it. Sorry for depressing post.
I hope you all had a fantastic mothers day yesterday.
Miss K - what a beautiful sister you have. Sorry DH wasn't more understanding, maybe he just doesn't want to get his hopes up just yet. Try not to let it get you too down, you have that little miracle inside
Londonmiss - that would be so annoying, your poor DH!! I agree about kids in public though. We would always just have to sit still and eat our meal with maybe a colouring book if we were lucky. but nowdays it is a joke. We went out not that long ago with friends who have a 2 1/2 yr old and they bought one of those green shooping bags full of trucks, toys, colouring in things, puzzles as well as the portable dvd player and he hardly played with anything, he just wanted to chase the other kids around!!! I swore i will not be like that!
Lise - GL with the scan hope it goes well.
wishes & wantbaby2 - Hi hope you ladies are well.
AFM - I am really struggling with morning (all day) sickness. I envy you ladies who weren't sick. I have started going off food all together, don't worry DH is still making me eat when he can, just want even a slight reprieve. I have a Doc app on thurs so maybe there is something she can give me to help relieve it a bit. Other than that all seems good.
Sorry to Miss K for DH being a tad insensitive with his comment! I bet your sister made you feel a lot better - what a sweetie. My DH said happy mothers day first thing in the morning and I just started crying! Still so worried about whether these two little precious bubs are going to be okay - so our DHs probably can't win, hey?
Renee, your all-day morning sickness sounds awful, you poor thing. I am always ravenous. I am going to be as fat as a fool if I continue the way I am, especially as I'm on bed rest - not that I care; as long as I eventually get to hold my jelly beans in my arms. Hope your doctor can help relieve some of your symptoms on Thursday.
Wishes, it must be nice to know definitively the gender of your bub, especially with buying of clothes and decorating the nursery.
Lise, GL with your scan on Wed to confirm bub's gender. Hoping for a boy or girl, or no real preference as long as healthy? And thanks for your offer to post to my heart's content to you from my bedside.
Londonmiss, sorry can't help with your 4000-word essay on Dracula; my degree was on political science - boring!
AFM, We moved into our new house on Saturday. Yay! We had mini-movers for the heavy stuff, but couldn't have done it without my mum and DH. I felt very sheepish as I could do nothing but point a finger and try to organise - which by the end of the day was not going down very well with DH. Hmmmm. I can't remember whether or not I posted that I had some fresh bleeding Thurs afternoon, so off to FS for another scan. New lot of bleeding but twins heartbeats seemed strong. I am now off Clexane - thank god. Bleeding is a bit better but still there - sorry TMI. I am seeing my old FS on Wednesday for a scan abd have been told to allow one hour for the appointment; he is so thorough. My new FS is off to Greece for a four-week holiday. I am so lucky that my lovely previous FS is seeing me.
Hi girls,
Been stalking for a while and thought I would post a little hello. I'm pregnant with my first after IVF. I have PCOS, Endo and a blocked tube. Had the lap and drilling and started IVF last month. So excited when it was a BFP!!
Just hanging out for our first scan in a week. I'm hoping seeing the little heartbeat will help me calm down about the lack of symptoms so far. After the struggle getting here, I just wish I felt more pregnant! That comment will probably come back to bite me in a couple of weeks!! I'm 6 weeks on Wed tho so hoping everything kicks off from there! Although I like the theory about boys being less MS! DH Would love a little boy. Not sure he'd know what to do with a girl!
What the devil is going on in the LTTTC pages! You must have had a month with about a 75% pregnancy rate!!!! Sorry - meant to open with hello Glenny and you are very welcome! Congratulations on your news. Let me know your actual due date and I'll amend the chart - I was waiting to hear from Kyra but looks like I've got loads of changes to make anyway.....!
I scared myself a bit last night, I got really really breathless when I was in bed, just could not catch my breath. Ended up sleeping the front room propped up on cushions on the chair arm and much much more comfortable. I seem to remember someone a couple of months ago saying that sleeping more upright was more comfortable - I wonder if this was for breathing reasons? I think its' cos I'm so damn short, I've run out of chest cavity. Also TMI I have a very explosive stomach - not sure what I've eaten. But as you can't take anything for it, I'll just get on with life and dash to the loo when no ones looking....
ps had my second Coles online delivery yesterday - now that is a genius pregnancy idea - no more lugging bags about. I can't recall if I told you about the first one - The man (who was hot) put all the bags in the kitchen and then asked if "there was anything else he could help me with" with a smile and I swear a wink..... well, what a thing to say to a hormonal pregnant woman. I haven't stopped laughing since!!!
Thanks London Miss- we have had a couple of BFP's lately. Although did any of you feel really emotional about telling the other girls on your LT TTc thread? I was part of the IVF thread and felt really bad about telling the girls I was UTD after only one cycle. I know they were all thrilled for me but couldn't help feel a tad guilty as some of them are on their 6th +.
It's kinda emotional as well as I miss sharing things with them. I still read my old thread but don't like to update about me as I don't want to be insensitive.
Anyway- I'm due on Jan 5th. 6 weeks tomorrow!!!!!!! Have been having pre menstrual-like "twinges" the past couple of days, not really cramps. I was told to expect them while on the progesterone pessaries but they're still freaking me out a little. The last thing I want to feel like at the moment is like AF is going to arrive! Made me do another POAS last night just for reassurance and test line is def darker than control line and it came up first, so feeling a bit better.
Don't worry about the cramps - someone on here told me they are just 'refurbishment' cramps, your uterus going "oh hello what's this then....". And IVF is a game of luck/ statistics/ timing and numbers, so don't feel too bad. I took great comfort from the fact that other people were getting pregnant - after all if, say, two out of 8 of you are going to get pregnant each month, there's no reason why it can't be you. Most LTTTC only get irritated with people who come off the pill and get pregnant four nanoseconds later and then saying heartstoppingly insensitive things like "oh my husband just has to look at me to get me pregnant" so I wouldn't feel guilty at all!
I have been MIA for quiet a while now and have been meaning to jump back into this tread for a couple of weeks. Firstly a huge congratulations to the ladies who have babies over the last 6 weeks or so!! I hope you have been enjoying those precious few weeks. Also, congratulations and a big welcome to all the new ladies who have recently celebrated their BFPs!!
Life has been a bit hectic at my end, I dropped out of the thread the week or so before we headed off on our baby moon. All available computing time was spent on last minute trip plans. We had a fantastic time in Japan. Such a clean and efficient country, and the Japanese were so friendly and helpful. Travelling pregnant was a little tough... hubbie carried the bags but the feet still hurt by the afternoon. I really missed a glass of wine with dinner...normally it doesn't bother me but it is so much tougher when you are on holidays and dinning out every night. We have slowly been getting back into the swing of things and getting organised for the bub since we got back... I can't believe it is now under 8 weeks to go!
It will take me a little while to catch up and get to know the newbies, although I have seen Lise and Wishes who and they have filled me in on a few of the going on in here.
Lise - hope you are feeling better tomorrow. I will give you a call then. It must be a bit of a shock, although better now than when your bundle arrives...... everything will no doubt fall into place between now and then xox
Miss K, I am getting used to the bed rest - and it's not too bad now that my FS said I could move downstairs to the lounge and also sit behind a computer and even go out once a week if mum can take me to the shopping centre in a wheelchair. Oh, the things I now look forward to! Hee hee. I love our new place. Just frustrating that I can't get in and put everything away where I want it to be and tidy it up, give it a woman's touch. My DH has boxes everywhere and has this amazing knack for leaving them right in the most obvious path! What the? Good news for you about the placenta placement and being able to feel the bub kicking soon!
Lise, sorry to hear that they messed up the gender. Any chance you can take back the girls clothes already bought? Not that I'm sure that is what is top of mind, as you said you had bonded to the idea of having a girl. Hope you're doing okay.
AFM, I am really peeved about my private health insurance. I am going to try to clear things up tomorrow when mum takes me to Medibank Private. I have been insured on what I thought was top-level for about 2 years, but because I am on a single membership and my fiance has his own insurance, if I have more than one child (god willing, my twins will be born H&H) then the second child is not covered, as I suppose it is technically considered a family and not single insurance. Honestly, why did they think I upgraded to cover pregnancy if the child is not covered once born - or if you are having multiples. It's such a rip-off this private health insurance. If we're not covered for this because they say it's pre-existing or something, I am going to go right off tomorrow after all the money we've been paying. My DH wanted to join us up on the one fund a little while ago but I had really good benefits for extras and things. Man, I am so annoyed!
Oh Lise you poor thing! Hope you are feeling a little brighter today. I know it's not the same but can I tell you, as someone who was dead-set certain they were having a girl (even though it was unconfirmed) I was a little shocked for oh about 5 mins when I found out (after I came out of my drug-induced stupor that is) but now you know what? I'm GLAD I have a little boy, he is so beautiful that it doesn't even matter anymore. He is healthy and he is here in my arms and that's all that matters. And as someone said to me, boys always look after their mums! I know you must feel crushed though, but hopefully you will have the strength to get past this one.
Renee: fellow Novocastrian! Which Ob are you seeing? I saw Jillian Spilsbury and she was AMAZING! Can't rave enough about her. Will you be delivering at Newcastle Private? If so PM me if you want any info!
I think she will need to change every hour to wear all she has at least once!! LOL
Hope you see her face on Tuesday's scan!
fellow Novocastrian! Which Ob are you seeing? I saw Jillian Spilsbury and she was AMAZING! Can't rave enough about her. Will you be delivering at Newcastle Private? If so PM me if you want any info!
to all you other lovely babymamas!
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