Pregnancy after LT TTC #19

Yogi bear that is fantastic news!!!! i just read your ticker that this was number 17!! wow you have been through alot and deserve this so much!!! goodluck with your 12 week scan, i was always nervous at every scan and it is so hard to imagine things could possibly work out after all we go through but just remember you deserve this and its finally your time to enjoy this beautiful time in your life xxxxxxx

ME, HIM AND BUB- thats great news also, all the best with everything xxxxx

Thanks ladies, i hope she does too but im just focusing on meeting her now regardless of her arrival, so excited :)

Oneday - we're all excited for you too :) Guess we'll just have to wait for your surprise announcement!

JBM - Yeah, I'm looking a bit preggers lol. At least that's what most people have started to tell me. Although I have had a couple of people just this week who've been a bit surprised to find out, which is pretty nice lol! How much longer do you think you'll keep working? Sounds like you need a break :)

afm - still very slowly getting organised. We picked up a pram the other day, but have nowhere in our house for it to go! We've got a verge collection coming up soon, so we'll be spending the weekend doing some sorting and hopefully get a fair bit out of the house! One day we'll get the room ready...

Fantastic news Yogi ~ hope all continues well!!

Hope everyone else is well

I'm freaking out again as I have sore lower back on one side and semi-strong AF type cramps

Loops i know how hard it can be but stay positive, i had lower back pain and some cramping at the start of my pg too, actually i had lower back pain for about the first 6 months nearly everyday. xxx

Kass its so exciting buying everything isn't it :) our pram is set up ready to go and i find myself pushing it around the house every now and again lol!!

AFM still cant believe its so close till i will be holding our little girl in my arms!!! i dont know where the time has gone, but so so excited!!!!

Thanks Oneday ~ your reassurance helps a lot - hugs
Wow that's so exciting, all the best hun!

Hope everyone is well :bellyrubs:

Hope you're feeling better today loops. I had a small amount of spotting at ~8 weeks, and at 16 weeks my back seized completely - I had to be helped into bed! Both were pretty scary, but everything turned out ok. It's so hard not to stress, but chances are everything is fine :) When is your next appointment?

oneday - lol - my dh is keen to do the same thing :) So far it's still in it's box though - I don't want it getting dusty!

hey all you beautiful women with little miracles inside you!!!

I'm starting to feel stuff =) feeling exhausted (not completely yet..but deff more than normal)
I've been thinking too... we t/f 2 little ones, but we don't find out until a few weeks if they both stuck or just one. I didn't want ppl to know there might be 2, but when they asked me the direct question 'how many did they t/f' I couldn't lie. Now I'm worried, cause yes 2 would be awesome and I do hope they are both in there... but what if they arent? I'm afraid because everyone will be disapointed if there aren't 2 and there is only 1. but i dont want to them to disapointed i want them to still be insanely happy for the one. =( the thought of saying 'there is *only* one' is bringing back those feelings of dread when i had to tell people it was BFN...
did anyone else have 2 t/f but only 1 stick. how did you feel, how was the responce around you? did you still grieve your lost one, or did it not matter at all because there was still that one inside you??

thankyou girls! *hugs and belly rubs*

Thanks ladies for your well wishes and support :grouphug: its so nice to share this with people who truly understand the anxieties & excitement after all we go through to get here. Hopefully we get through this first semester ok and i might feel like telling a few close friends, the ones who have supported us through this journey over the years. My family on the other hand have been quite unsupportive and, quite honestly, disrespectful towards what we have been through and DH & I are actually looking forward to NOT telling them, we will try and leave it as long as we can (until i get too fat to blame it on just fat fat weight gain!!) Sounds spiteful but this is just so precious to us that we only want people who appeciate it as much as we do to share in the joy IYKWIM??

Oneday, you are absolutely right, it doesn't matter how are babies make it out to us as long as they are ok safe and healthy and happy in the end. A few years back I had my heart set on a lovely natural waterbirth, focusing on the experience of labour & childbirth....now, my perspective is totally changed. We know we will be blessed to just have this bub come to us no matter how. It looks like i may be high-risk now with my bicornuate uterus with risk of preterm labour & breech/c.section delivery....but i just dont care how bub comes out as long as as they are OK. (although the premature risk is worrying me :shakehead:)
Not long now and you will have your precious girl in your arms and that is all that matters xxx

Loops, the cramps and twinges are a good thing i say! I actually looked for them myself for reasurrance that good things were happening in there, as i didn't really have any other symptoms. I would describe it as a 'presence', like a tingling, stretching, tightness. As long as they are not really severe with bleeding as well, then sounds perfectly normal to me. So excited for you, its finally happening.

Hi to all the lovely ladies :hello: How are our new mummas going?
Have a great weekend
Yogi xx

Teirae - I've only ever had single transfers so I can't say how I'd feel exactly, but I truly don't think anyone will be disappointed with 'only one' - they'll be thrilled with your extra special bub!

Yogi - I'm sorry your family can't be more supportive :hug: Shame on them.

Thanks lovely ladies - as I said with Oneday, your reassurance means the world to me and definitely helps :)
I'm feeling much more positive today - even though I have the aches and cramps and things I'm feeling more confident because of your feedback and also the fact that I do feel tired, boobs tingling and sore still and a fullness feeling in my tummy. If I didnt have these feelings at all I'd be worried that I didnt have symptoms lol. The other thing I do have is * cough * goey mucous which I also know is good.

My next OB appointment is the 7th Oct just after I'm back from leave so I will ask her then If I can get another scan. I might try and have one at around that time. Which would be around 9-10weeks and then I could have the next one after that at 13 weeks instead of 12 maybe - does that sound sensible?

Tei ~ I'm glad you are feeling the symptoms hun - hope it continues. I agree with Kass, surely everyone will be happy for you that you have at least one gorgeous miracle and would all be very exciting. Of course if you had had twins and lost one you may feel sad of course but I think you woul be able to move on and enjoy the one still fighting. Everyone is different though. Hugs and thanks for the belly rubs.

Yogi ~ thats very sad for you about your family, but completely agree I'd do the same and keep it from them if it were me. Ive told close family and close friends. thanks so much for your care and support! wishing you all the very best!

yogibear: - my family are a real pain also ? :( but the thing is i have a great sister and we are really close. she is also preggers. 36 weeks. hope all is going well for you. good luck.

teirae: - we had 2 transferred and only got one. my hormone levels were very high and they thought we were having 2. even after my first scan my FS said he thought one was still hiding. we really didn't find out untill 11 weeks that there was only one. i felt a little sad but i am so happy to have one healthy baby.
best of luck to you for your scan.
i have had so many live embryos that havn't worked i didn't really grieve this one but i sometimes wonder what happened to it ?. but as i feel my baby kicking me and look at my growing belly i really don't think of it much at all now.

oneday : hi to you, hope all is well. not long to go now. fingers crossed all goes well. x

kass: thanks for your comments :-). i'll keep working as long as i can as i am self employed and need as much savings for time off after baby. my sis is finishing up work next week and she will be 37 weeks, she has worked full time though and i only do 3 days a week. dunno how she does that.
so exciting pram and baby shopping. we really havn't got much at all. i am undecided with pram. i want to get a baby rocker one of the vibrating ones and a baby sling/ carrier cause i know i'll use these lots. good luck getting baby stuff organised.

loops: hi to you, hope all is going well.


AFM: well we had a big clean up on our block today, mowing etc. we have a hectare so it's a BIG job and after our week away the grass had grown lots.
we are going to be selling and theres lots to do.
yeah BIG life decisions are great while preggers ?! :-) he he he.
lots of kicking and now i am just relaxing
i have made a beef and veg stew this morn in slow cooker and it smells so so yummy, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...............

by the way i weighed myself and i have gained 6 kg so far . is this normal or o.k !! ??

some feedback appreciated.


chat soon to all

Teirae, with this cycle that took it was our first time at putting two back, my DH thought if both took it would be nice specially if one was a girl and one a boy then we wouldnt need to go again but i was actually a bit scared of there being two, how i would cope etc and it was only the one that took and we were over the moon just as we would have been if both did. No one was dissapointed our family and friends were over the moon for us that we had even one bub so dont worry about that.

Yogi bear im glad it helped :) and i know just how it feels to worry about every tiny thing specially in the first 12 weeks xx

Loops i loved having my scans it always gave me reasurance that bub was ok so i think do what ever you need to help ease a bit of your worries. I was also going to hire a doppler as i was always worrying but just never got around to it xx

JBM iv put on about 10 kilos and my DR said thats normal, i think between 10-16 kilos in the whole preg is the average so that sounds great :)

the amount of weight you should gain whilst preg depends on how much you weighed to begin with. if you were at a healthy weight range (BMI between 22-26) you should look at between 10-15kg (12 being average). if you weighed more pre preg you should put on less. and about half of the weight gain happens in the last trimester.

Sneaking in to check up on how you are all going. It is so exciting and also very encouraging to see so many familiar faces (iykwim) so close to their dreams!! Big fat belly rubs to you all!

Just wanted to add that Tantee and I will be joining you very soon :p

Xxx

Tantee, ntl - thanks :) I'm sure we'll be seeing you in here soon. Good luck!

JBM - thanks :) So did your holiday inspire your decision to move, or has this been the plan for a while now? Good luck with the tidy up - sounds like a bit of work! 6kg sounds pretty good to me, I think I've probably gained something similar - guess I'll find out at my next appt - no scales at home!

Loops - Glad you're feeling a bit better :) I don't think it's silly to ask for an extra scan. I think some obs routinely do them at every appt. I'm not sure if a doppler would work at 9 weeks, but that might be another option.

Hi oneday, teirae, yogi and anyone I've missed :)

Good Afternoon Ladies :hello:,

I hope you don't mind me joining in and it's great to see a few familar names in here too :)....

DH & I have been successful with our last remaining snowbub (so lucky) and achieved a BFP - yay!! Was a total shock as I was 100% convinced that the cycle was going to be a BFN. I also had a little bit of red bleeding on the day of the BT (14DPO) which convinced me that AF had arrived (sorry for the TMI).

We are 5w3d today :dance:!

We are so, so excited as this little bean is from the same batch that we had DS1 from, although, I know there is still a long ways to go yet... I am just :pray:'ing that everything goes well.

I am a bit worried about my progesterone levels though as they have risen then dropped and dropped again (BT #1: 70/ BT #2:92/ BT #3: 70.2/ BT #4: 68) :(. I can't help but be anxious as I guess it just comes with the LTTTC territory... has anyone else been in this situation (progesterone fluctuating and then falling) and been ok? My numbers also seem a bit low too compared to others, however, my clinic has assured me that they are still in the normal range. I guess I am a little concerned as I am already on 3 x 400mg progesterone pessaries p/day.

Hcg has been doubling nicely every 2 - 2.2 days. I have another BT scheduled in for this Friday so I am keeping everything crossed :crossfingers: that there will be an improvement in my progesterone levels.

Sorry for the me post :redface: I will catch up with where everyone is at and do some personals next post.


I hope everyone is travelling along nicely and having a good day :).