Pregnancy after LT TTC #15

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Lots of water here today, but luckily for us we are on high ground so have no flooding and we didn't lose power like we normally do in stormy conditions... But the humidity has kicked in again it is so yucky....

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Hi Kelly, we are on high ground too. Only a few hundred metres from the river but high enough that it would need to get to over 30 metres high before we would be at any risk... though our dam is close to the house (uphill from it) and looking dangerously full. The rain has been filling it up faster than the overflow shoot can allow the water out so hope it will be okay.
We lost power last night. About midnight it went out and then around 3am it came back on and went off and back on about 10 times only a few seconds apart before going back off again until 8.30 this morning. It's quite un-nerving having no power so therefore no water (as we are on tank water and have an electric pump) and no phone etc. Very relieved when it was back on this morning. I really feel for the Queenslanders who may be without power for a long time still.

Lori
DD - 14
One little fighter hanging in there.

Hi,

Oh My God - you miss a day or two in here and the world seems to spin in double time.

Lori - wow - congratulations on dodging that bullet! I hope you are sitting very very still and not moving a single muscle. What a story you have to tell your little one when they are older. He/she might end up being a real little dare devil and will always be scaring the hell out of you - this might just be a warm up! I am hoping and praying that everything will be okay on Tuesday xx

Kelly - how cool to see your little boys kicking each other! Good idea hitting the sales too - I always found it hard to get the size right for a year's time. DS would never fit into the summer clothes until the following winter and vice versa - so I didn't end up saving as much as I thought. Second time around I guess it would be easier to judge. Must have been pretty fun too.

Possums - yay - all still going so well in your belly. Woohoo

Nothing going on here. Just waiting for another 3 weeks till scan. I've enquired about going through the midwives here for my pregnancy care but not sure what they'll say yet as with my first pg I had gestational diabetes and a threatened premature labour so they might consider me high-risk and not take me. Otherwise I guess I'll just go to the hospital antenatal clinic. I would love to go to a private OB but had no problems with the public hospital last time and figure I've spent enough money just getting pregnant that I might do this bit on the cheap. Anyway ladies, till next time xx

Lori - such FANTASTIC news :-) my thoughts will be with you on Tuesday.

Lori what fantastic news!!! As you & the others have said you definitely have a little fighter there!! I know it will be a very anxious wait til tuesday but try to rest up and chill and i'll be sending lots of positive energy your way for your miracle bub to pull through this....thinking of you xxx :hug::pray::hug:

well, i know i said i wouldn't have anymore BTs but....i was getting too anxious so i took myself off to my GP on tues and (thank GOD) my levels are still on track. They were 21 120 at 5w4d....does this seem a bit high??
This pregnancy is feeling a bit different from all the other failed ones and i'm hoping thats a good sign, with the others the hcg did not double every 2 days as they should but they struggled to double 2.5 then 3 day. This one is still bang on doubling every 2 days so i'm praying that this one is finally a strong healthy pregnancy :pray:

Ive also finally booked 7 wk scan for 25th...the next hurdle!

I want to send out my special thoughts & prayers to all the flood victims up north. I'm finding it hard to comprehend the scale & devastation, i cant even begin to imagine what they are going through. :grouphug: Usually we're hearing about bushfires at this time of year....but now floods! What a crazy crazy planet we live on!

Stay safe ladies, and count our many blessings
Yogi xxx

Wow Yogi thats huge! My levels at that point were about 1700. Altho i didnt think mine were as high as id like but he is still in there!

Still no news from Renee????

this forum is soooooo busy, as some newbies have said, so difficult to keep up. CK lovely to put a face to a name! lovely photo.
Lori...I am soooo relieved for you, awesome fantastic wonderful news!
RENEE coooooeeeeeee??!!!
All good here, our little man has been sooo active the last 24 hours, tummy rippling all over the place. I was unsettled yesterday listening/watching/reading all the heartbreaking & harrowing stories from the flooding, so maybe that contributed but DH and I were playing tag with him again....we push/rub belly and he responds. ;-) Can't believe how far along I am now. I was at the Target sale today too.....had to show restraint, but still got some good deals.

Hi everyone!!!

Wow! Lori what amazing, wonderful news!!!!!!! All the best for your next appointment on Tuesday too.

Airline - I know the target sale was really quite good!

Yogi - awesome levels such wonderful news.

Kaybee - Hope your appt goes well and the midwives are able to see you.

Kelly and Lori - Hope your both still dry and the rain stays away for a while.

AFM - am having a panic attack, after being out today DH offered to get pizza for dinner. Just after I had eaten I small piece of ham and pineapple he tasted it and refused to eat any as it wasn't right. I'm so worried, I thought the pizza ovens got incredibly hot and we had eaten it fresh i.e., not left over or sitting out for ages. I'm now freaking out and praying everything is ok. We lost a baby at 13 weeks some time ago after I had food poisoning and it was a missed miscarriage. I have a scan on Thursday.......

Aimee i understand that its a worrying thing but try not to stress.... Most publications on the whole diet thing say be careful but if it does happen not to panic, it'll be ok hun.

Aimee: Thanks for thinking about us and the water. We are lucky that we haven't been cut off from civilisation (Ballarat) but if we lived in the next town over then we would have been stuck. Just hoping some of the water recedes by next week as we are going away to Swan Hill & Mildura and we have to drive through areas that have had roads cut due to flooding... and try not to stress too much about the food thing, I know it is hard but you will be surprised what our body can put up with..

Still no news from Renee, she must be having newborn snuggles by now...

How are all our other yummy mummies doing???

I have my Ob appt today, I hope they measure me this week (they generally won't cause it's twins) but my tummy is so tight and now I'm getting pains in my ribs where they are getting stretched out plus I'm now getting breathless all the time as my lungs are getting squished as well. I'm so curious to see how big they measure me at as I have been measuring myself to be about 12 cm bigger than my dates, I think I might have a couple of strapping boys growing in there... Pity that I'm not that big so I have no idea where they are going to go, nature is amazing.....

Aimee- how are you? hope you are ok. try not to stress too much. I know I am a bit the same, worrying when I think I have eaten something I shouldn't have accidentally or whatever. I understand your anxiety, but hopefully all is fine.

airline- everything sounds great..playing tag, love it!

yogi- wow, well done. those levels do seem high. To give you comparison, here are my hcg levels so far this pregnancy: 4w2d 365; 5w2d 3900; 6w2d 19050; 7w2d 49,150
not long now until your scan!

kaybee- glad all is going well. how'd you go with the midwives?

dreamrise-lori, I really hope things are all going well still and no more bleeding. good luck for your scan x

kelly-oh just came back to add this as I think we posted at the same time- good luck with your appt today! nature certainly is amazing :-)

a big hello to everyone else!

afm- 8 week scan tomorrow! excited and also pretty nervous. Had some slight brown spotting on and off but all my levels are right on track, so my nurse said it was nothing to be concerned about. Still feeling queasy etc.

Possums. i am so excited to see you posting in here. good luck to you again, in case you missed my 1000 other good lucks. this will be me this year posting in here that is. .

good luck to all other ladies too.

JBM - I hope this is your year to be in here too!! :)
Possums - Goodluck for tomorrow - I am sure everything will be fine and look forward to hearing some good news.
Kelly - I know nature is amazing. Last week my little buglet was stretching my tummy out so much and my ribs were killing me. Twins (obviously!) take more room. I am 5 foot 6and I wonder how people who are so much shorter fit their bubs in!!
Aimee - I am sure you will be fine - I had food poisoning at 29 weeks from fish and didn't feel my DD move the next day so went to hospital for monitoring and my OB told me not to worry and that if it was Listeria he could give me antibiotics (which he already knew it wasn't by my symptoms). In other words, you have done the right thing and the chances of anything being a problem are so miniscule it's not worth worrying about, although we all understand this can be easier said than done.

HI to everyone I have missed!

AFM - Another boiling day - 37 -so over this hot weather!! Just bought a double stroller for my DD and the new bubs, I highly recommend looking online as I just bought from a NZ online store a Baby Jogger City Mini Double for $485 delivered, when it would have cost me $849 to buy in OZ. Ridiculous difference as it's cheaper for me to buy new in NZ than to buy second hand here!

JBM- would love to see you in here very soon...thanks for all your support xx

Lairdoz- wow very hot weather for you. Well done on the smart buying, worth knowing

Hi girls

Sorry for the late notice but i have had a pretty rough week. My beautiful baby girl Ava Maree was born last wednesday the 12th Jan at 12.24am. She weighed a tiny 10lbs 7oz!!!!!! My waters broke at 2am on the tuesday morning and were mecconium stained quite thick, so i was told to come straight up to delivery. I was then induced as my contractions hadn't started naturally. My labour really didn't progress munch from there. It took till 4pm for them to declare established labour and i was still only 2cm dilated. By 6.30pm i was 3cm and in quite an amout of pain. We discussed an epidural not to help with pain but to try and relax my body to dilate more on its own, so that was given. By 11pm i had only gone to 4cm and had too much induction drip for them to continue it so i was told C/section was the safest way for bub to come into the world. Half way through the c/section they put me under general anesthetic as feeling was starting to return. SOOO after all that ava was born and checked then wheeled straight out to DH which i was happy about. I have had a tough time since as well as my milk is still not in due to the c/section and amount of blood loss i had. But every midwife had a different opinion in hospital and i was told just to keep at it (she also has a tongue tie which isn't helping). On friday 3 days after she was born she had not stopped screaming for days as she was so hungry they put her on formula and i am expressing till my milk comes in. She is still quite unsettled from it i think, although she had been a gem today. I have only just managed to get back online so sorry for the delay.

Woo hoo Renee!! Congratulations. 10 pounds! Wow. Hope the BF gets established soon. So thrilled to hear your news - have just been busting to find out what's been going on with you!

And, I'm losing track, but congrats and welcome to all the newbies. It is fantastic to have so many BFPs.

Lori, also, wonderful and incredible news and just thinking of you, and hoping that things will be uneventful from now on.

Possums, GL for scan tomorrow. Tell us about it. I had brown & pink spotting for 4 weeks, nearly most days, let's say from week 5 til week 9. It was horrible - I was in such a state, but it was absolutely nothing to worry about.

Juniper, hoping your baby turns. I might have missed a post or two? Has she turned? Also your *no leg cramps* vibes are working! Keep sending them. I have had two beautiful night's sleep in a row, which have been a God send.

To all the Queensland and country-Vic girls and anyone affected, just hoping that you're all doing ok. What a strange and terrifying thing is going on. It's just difficult to fathom.

AFM, fine except super-sleepy all the time and lethargic and brain-dead. Will go for nap now.

Take care all,
WW

RENEE - CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! not sure how quickly you'll come back on as you sound like your hands are full, but so happy for you. 10 1/2 pounds wow!! Beautiful name, wonderful news xxxxxx

Great news Renee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats. Ummm and wow what a girl!
I spose thats the one good thing about having this blastid GD, they wont let me go over :)