Pregnancy after LT TTC #20

[~TT40~]

Thats fantastic Lise!!!

Sent via my vortex manipulator!

[grub17]

hey ladies!!!

just doing a quick stalk and ran into this thread... aaaahhhh how i remember thee olde days! lol.

Just wanted to wish you all heaps of healthy luck and hope your special bubs arrive soon... From a mumma who's been through this long painful journey twice (i know, how lucky am i!) a few words I wanted to share.

Yogi - google is NOT your friend under any circumstances. trust your instinct and if there are any issues, it won't change anything important like, oh, you have a beautiful little bubba who you love more than life itself! My 2nd bub was huge 10lb3 - as i went through a birth centre with only 1 scan at 20weeks it wasn't picked up... but i'm sure if i had a private ob with their scans, I would have been told she's huge and i'd need a c-sect and i'd need a special diet and i'd need to deliver early etc etc... turned out no GD, she came at 41 weeks herself within 3 hrs, no drugs and no tears. *puffs out chest* So i'm sure all will be fine! some people have big bubs, some have small bubs... that's the way it works i suppose!

meredith - omg how awful you are having this bleeding. i hope it settles soon and you don't reach 13 week mark but the 40 week mark!!!

lise - hi lovely!!! little boys are so super cute lol

Sorry for my small hijack girlies. belly rubs to you all!!! stay healthy and take care of yourselves.

ox

[JBM]

sending some good luck vibes from the other side .... thats when the baby is out of the tummy ... lol

hope you get some of the luck that is ...

yogi and meredith especially

good luck

[Maruschke]

Congrats Lise!

I'm going for the NT scan on Friday. Can't believe it's been 12 weeks already! Time flies!

[Yogi Bear]

Hi ladies, hope everyone is enjoying a safe & happy pregnancy!

Grub, thanks so much for stopping by and offering your advise...and great advise too, yep google can be your worst enemy sometimes. I have stopped searching the net for info & peace of mind cause as you said at the end of the day i love this bub no matter what! When i look back at this pregnancy so far the "scares" we have had have only been indications...in actual fact everything has been going along pretty well i think, bub is looking fine, lots of movements and growing at normal rate, just a little small thats all. I have been healthy all along, no gest diabetes, no high BP, no other complications etc...i just have these 'possibilities' hanging over my head, but hey there is no point worrying about something that might not (and probably wont) happen at all! thanks again xxx

lise, congrats on good scan results...and congrats on a little boy!!

Teirae, thanks too for your support how are you going? are you getting organised for bub? I have only just recently felt comfortable buying stuff, just small things for now like a few clothes and wraps etc...will worry about the bigger purchases later i think.

JBM, thanks for popping back in, you are most welcome anytime & please give us an update on your precious little boy. give him a cuddle from me...

Am off to have CTG done tomorrow...hope bub prooves to be a happy & content baby?

Much love to all

Yogi xx

[lise]

Thanks ladies, we're pretty happy with our scan results. Now I just need to work on DH's agreeing to 'my' boy's names!

Maruschke, good luck for your scan on Friday!!! Yay for 12 weeks and for seeing your little one Will you tell people after your scan, if you haven't already??

Yogi, good on you for having such a positive attitude! It can be hard at times but sounds like you're in a great head space Forgive me for my ignorance, but what is a CTG? Is it to measure bub's growth? As for buying things for the baby, took me ages to buy anything for DS, and then I went out and pretty much bought everything big in one go! How many weeks are you now? My only suggestion is that many stores have to order big items in as they don't have them all in stock. We had to wait at least six weeks for the first of our furniture to arrive, and I was so impatient for it to come so I could set it all up

A quick question for everyone - how much weight have you put on and when have you put it on? I know how much I put on with DS all up (20kg ) but can't remember when I put it on. I'll be 19 weeks on Friday and so far I'm 3kg lighter than when I fell pregnant (I lost weight in the first trimester due to ms)...

Anyway, hope you're all well, belly rubs xx

[~TT40~]

A quick question for everyone - how much weight have you put on and when have you put it on? I know how much I put on with DS all up (20kg ) but can't remember when I put it on. I'll be 19 weeks on Friday and so far I'm 3kg lighter than when I fell pregnant (I lost weight in the first trimester due to ms)...

Anyway, hope you're all well, belly rubs xx

Ive only put on like 5kg so far. apparently that is 'low' but eh, i'm sure Ill catch up later in the 3rd tri

[lise]

Tei, I DEFINITELY put on lots of weight in the third trimester with DS!!! I lost it all through breastfeeding by the time DS was 10 weeks though so that was a bonus. I think it also had something to do with the fact that DS was such a bad sleeper and would only sleep cradled in my arms, I spent all my time sitting on the couch starving, but scared to move in case DS woke up

[JBM]

i only put on 10 kg with Hunter !!! .. i put on 14 kg ... then 16 kg and 19 kg with ds 3 !!!!!!! ouch

every preg is different

good luck

[~TT40~]

im getting so impatient and restless.... I dont want bub to come now! but I want my baby!!!!

[Yogi Bear]

Hi lise, i've put on about 9kgs so far i think, but i packed on a few kilos at the start with doing ivf(that tends to bloat me up quick!) I'm now over 30 weeks and been trying to eat more lately since being told bub is small, lots of protein and snacking on heaps of fruit & nuts. My Ob hasn't weighed me since my very first visit so i guess she isn't too concerned about my weight, also i personally dont know how it could be a good indication of growth of baby cause how could you ever tell if the weight gain was on you or the baby? I could eat heaps and heaps and put on weight and the baby could still not grow properly...anyway, i'm still going to give it a go! Had the CTG yesterday and all looks fine with bub. Its stands for 'cardiotocography' and measures heartrate against bubs movements, they look for a slight increase in heartrate when they move. I was totally freaked out at the beginning as when there was a big movement the machine went quiet for a while, i was thinking the baby's heart was stopping!!! The midwife then came in and explained its just the sensor losing contact for a while when it moves a lot, and that my baby was doing just fine. I started crying as it brought up a lot of emotions and feelings about my previous miscarriages and not hearing any heartbeat. While i am so grateful and happy to have this wonderful miracle growing inside me now, I still think of my precious angel babies who never got to make it this far. They sacrificed their lives for this little one now and i'm sure they are watching over their sibling from heaven.

...sorry to be sad there, i know i shouldn't really talk about it here but thanks for listening. xxx

Teirae, i know exactly how you feel! While i am so excited and impatient about meeting my baby I also want them to stay inside for as long as possible. my ob keeps saying to me i wont make it to full term, but she still cant give any indication of when...i guess noone is going to know (unless they can predict the future!). I think she is confident i'll make it to 34 weeks, then i'm hoping we can take it day by day, i will be really happy to make it to 37weeks. time will tell.

Well, now my next hurdle is another growth scan next tues...grow baby grow!

Hi to everyone, have a great weekend

yogi xx

[Yogi Bear]

Oops, just remembered about your scan today Maruschke...good luck!

Meredith, how are you going? Hope you are feeling better now and the bleeding easing up? When is your 12 wk scan? Thinking of you xxx

Coral, Loops and all the other glowing pregnant ladies out there....belly rubs to you all, hope all is well

Bye again

[Maruschke]

Yogi I hope your precious girl hangs in there til 37 weeks or more .

Scan today was great... bubba is all fine, and we saw a pretty obvious penis, sonographer was fairly confident. Woot! I guess now it's time to relax and enjoy this pregnancy.

[lise]

Woo hoo Maruschke!! So glad your scan went well, and congrats on a little boy

Yogi, what a journey you've had hon :hugs: I'll be sending lots of growing and 'staying put' vibes your way to encourage your bubba to grow as big as possible before they decide to make an appearance.

Tei, I know how you feel, I was the same with DS! And then after he was born I missed being pregnant, lol

DH is off to Moscow tomorrow for a week with work so it's just me and DS. I'm sure everything will be fine but I don't like thinking that he'll be halfway across the world

[Loops12]

Hi Lovely Ladies
Sorry again for being MIA, lately Ive had terrible back ache at night and I've hardly slept.
Apart from that everything else has been wonderful - I've been loving all the movements etc and bubs is all well.

Yogi and Merideth ~ sorry to hear about all of your anxieties etc- but so pleased to see your bubz are hanging in there! You'll get there!

Lise ~ very happy to see your post too and that everything is going so well Ive put on only about 3.5kg so far.

Maruschke ~ Yay for your great scan results and for Blue!

JBM and Tei ~ good to see everything is well with you both, I know the feeling I dont want bubz to come too early but I can't wait to see him or her.

Take care everyone and lots of

[MeredithD]

hey ladies,
sorry I've been soooo slack lately but with DS just starting school and lots going on, I haven't even managed to get on to lurk.
Will not have time to do proper posts now as have to go out but have read up on how you are all going.

Lise - so happy your follow up scan went well. I hope you can enjoy your little man now. I think I'm likely to have the same stresses as you soon.Given my age, I know I'm going to get some bad risk numbers. I really, really don't want an amnio so praying the actual scan is good so I can base my decision on that.

Yogi - so glad your little one is doing so well. Just keep growing little one!

Marushke - thanks for thinking of me and your PM. So happy for you that the scan went well and you can now look forward to buying some blue stuff for the house! Boys can sometimes be a bit of a handful in the younger years but everyone tells me they are much easier than hormonal teenage girls!

Aggh running out of time so will have to come back and finish persies later.
I am doing ok. MS easing off. Bleeding has been on and off but not so bad last week or so.
Have 12w (closer to 13w) scan tomorrow so beginning to get quite anxious. I'm bound to get high risk numbers given my age but really don't want an amnio. Just have to come to some agreemjent with DH on the whole subject. Just hoping our little one looks good on scan so perhaps we can just ignore the numbers.

[lise]

Loops, almost in the third trimester, on the downhill run now

Meredith, hope your scan went well today, have been thinking of you all morning. Just because you're 35+ doesn't mean you'll get a bad result - my bloods were good but it was the actual nuchal fold measurement that pushed us over, the measurement alone was 1:32. So as long as you get a good measurement you'll be fine

Not much happening here, DH is still away so getting a little tired looking after DS alone. He's not sleeping that well at the moment, usually he sleeps till about 7:30/8 in the morning but he's waking around 6ish which I'm not enjoying

Hope everyone is well xx

[Cattie]

Hi Ladies, I hope you don't mind me joining... today I feel like I'm about to have a meltdown and thought maybe this group might understand...

After about 20 months of ttc, and in all that time there was nothing, we finally got our bfp last week! We were of course very happy but also very cautious. I think after so long of ttc, we kinda developed some natural emotional protection from disappointment or something which prevents us from being too estatic? Anyway, I started to get a bit excited but the last couple of days, I've just been so anxious about m/c. I feel like it is just too good to be true. I'm not sure how I'm going to survive 9 months of this, or I guess the next 8 weeks or so until we're in a safer zone. Then I start feeling guilty for not being happy and just enjoying this moment we've waited so long for!

Anyway sorry about that, but it feels good to get it off my chest. I'm looking forward to getting to know you guys more. I think the only one I've 'met' is Maruschke - big belated congrats on the pregnancy hun, a lovely baby boy for you yay!!