Katie, maternity leave from September? That's so close. I want to squeal with excitement for you. You and Jo wouldn't realise this but I get a ridiculous amount of joy and hope from tracking your pregnancies. Every time you guys talk about good scans, passing milestones and of course your little girl's kicks, I get a little spark of hope that things will be OK for me too.
I think you need to give notice to your employer for them to pay out whatever leave they owe you. Plus you'd want to give them that courtesy in case you need a reference or something in future.
Jo, congrats on finally getting your ticker up! It's almost halfway already. Very excited for you.
Helen, what are you going to do for Cooper's EDD? We're going to stay in an out of the way cottage in the Hunter Valley and not see or speak to anyone for a few days. Just 100% Hamish time.
Rozzie, yes, look forward to what will be rather than what ifs. I'm glad your body is doing all the right things. I hope you'll get your BFP soon. At least now you'll get the care you need.
Katiegirl & Hammi - I am not sure yet what we will do on the actual day, but we have planned for the weekend away just the two of us, Nana and Poppa will look after Corey for a night. I have mixed emotions about leaving him, as the only time I have ever been away from him was the 3 nights in hospital when Cooper was born.
I got Cooper's birth certificate the other day too, after having to send a 'NOT HAPPY' email to Births, Deaths, and Marrigages. I stated that I was VERY unhappy that they could just whip out a death certificate within a week of Cooper's funeral, but I am still waiting 10 weeks after for his birth certificate!!!!! Hence I got a phone call the next day and wouldn't you know it "We are posting it out to you tomorrow". I felt so angry that I had to fight for my baby's acknowledgement, but I guess there will be those sort of frustrations forever.
Well I had skin biopsy done - didnt hurt a bit!!!! actually it didnt, but I could feel the pulling... Anyway don't get my results back for 4 weeks. The Professor mentioned again that he doesnt think I have mosiac turners as I am too tall and people with mosiac turners are quite petite and short. So fingers crossed.
Jo - ticker yippee, I am so glad things are going well.
Katiegirl, hows bubs?? still kicking away?? I can not wait until I get to have that feeling.
Rozzie - I am so glad you got some answers - though it is very frustrating when you hear things like that. I must admit, I dont really trust the medical world, thats for sure. Even my Professor says "defiantely go with your gut feelings, as it is probably right".
Tildy - How are you???
Hi to Hammi, Helen, Jen805.
Well everyone, have a fantastic day. Yippee its Friday.....
Hi everyone, I'm new to this site but have posted my story under stories on late loss/stillbirth 'TTC after loss'. In short, my angel son was born sleeping at the end of January this yr at 22 weeks, I was almost 23 weeks when i found out that he had passed on only a week back (at my 4 weekly checkup with my OB) and it came as a total shock because i wasn't experiencing anything out of the ordinary, only a little nauseas. His autopsy results took almost 3 mnths to come back, which didn't bring any closure anyway because his death was unexplained. Oh and his death certificate took almost 9 weeks to come back and his birth almost 12 weeks - I was soooooo angry!!
Nelson was our IVF baby and we were blessed to have fallen pg on our first round.
We are trying again as we have 5 embryos frozen and hoping and wishing that one of our snowbabies will go on to become our earthly baby, someone we can hold. I miss my dear son terribly and i have my usual sad days where i have a complete breakdown and the only way i get back to normal is when i actually talk to pple about him. I feel very angry that no body seems to ask about him anymore. He may not have been real for them but he has and always be real for me and my DH.
Sorry for the vent but i feel extremely blessed to have found this site and talk to others who've been through the same thing.
I'm currently doing a FET (frozen embryo transfer) cycle and if all goes according to plan, should have a transfer by the end of this month.
I have missed out quite a bit on this thread so i will try and do some personals when i get time to read up a bit more (at work at the moment)
Hi Sue - I am so sorry to hear about the passing of your son Nelson in January. It is a terrible and lonely experience, but as you have found we are all here to support each other. We all understand that your lost your much wanted son and that is a tragedy that you never fully recover from. Each day does get easier but the pain and loss never go away.
Jo - just realised you added the ticker - very nice! Well done and very brave.
Sryan - glad to hear the biopsy did not hurt too much.
Hgirs and Hammi - I am glad to hear that you are both taking time out to remember your angel babies. I think the EDD can be so difficult, that it is being kind to both your baby and yourself to actually give yourself a break from the ordinary. I will be thinking of you both in the coming weeks.
Well I am sick again...developed a cold yesterday with runny nose, sneezing (really testing my pelvic floor strength!) and a head about to explode. I have emailed my naturopath to see if there is anything I can take to help. I haven't taken the day off work because I have already had so many sick days in the last week and a half. Talk about bad timing! So hopefully will get better over the weekend. I am feeling sorry for myself.
I am so sorry to hear of the loss of your little angel Nelson and I look forward to getting to know you and wish you all the best in your next FET.
I too conceived on my first IVF Cycle, but unfortunately had a m/c at 12 weeks. We only have one frostie and am awaiting some test results and then will be going back for another cycle of IVF.
Katiegirl hope you feel better soon. You poor thing..
Hi Katie.....Thank you for the welcome. Congrats on your pregnancy hope you feel better soon, seems to be that there's a lot of flu/cold going around at the moment prob due to season change.
Hi Sue! Thanks for the welcome. I'm sorry to hear about your loss too It is so difficult because we try so hard to fall pg only to discover that we need assistance and then when we succeed, this happens Would you be going back to do a FET or a full stim cycle?
We havent totally made up our mind. In one way it probably would be better to do a full stim cycle (as we only have 1 frostie) and apparently "fresh is best". But I can't stop thinking of the little frostie and maybe that one is the one.....
We are giving ourselves a couple more months off as I am going to a naturopath and getting myself back into shape and ready for another cycle mentally and physically.
But I know we don't have much time (as I am 38), but I have had 3 miscarriages in a row and mentally need a little break.
Sue's do you know what percentage little frostie successfully unfreeze???
A newie to this thread but I've been posting in other areas. You might know my story - I lost my baby Alex in late April at full term. Hubby and I have certainly had ups and downs in the last few months but we are thinking about taking the plunge again.
At first the only thing that I could think about was getting pregnant again but now that we are seriously thinking about this - I'm suddenly terrified. I want to do it but - as I'm sure you all know - the thought of losing another child is unbearable.
Anyway, hoping to get back into a regular cycle again but my body seems to be all over the place at the moment (Its only been 10 1/2 weeks). I'm considering going on the pill just for the month to try to get regularity happening again - as we'll probably avoid TTC this month because if we were successful the due date would be around Alex's birth date.
Hopefully I can catch up with all your TTC stories as this journey goes forward.
Also - just so you all know I'm really bad with the acronyms so will be constantly asking you what things stand for.
welcome Sue, I'm sorry for your loss. It's hard when everyone gets on with their lives and you're left still mourning. I understand what you mean about no-one talking about it, I'm pretty sure my dad has never even acknowledged it or mentioned it to me, it's all done by my mother!
I went to the GP today as I needed a new referral for the OB. I told her I didn't think I was ovulating as I'd had 2 periods and never got a + on an OPK... I asked for a blood test to confirm which she gave me, then she convinced me that I was probably not ovulating because I was too stressed and was putting too much pressure on myself. I'm stressed because I'm worried I'm not ovulating!! Anyway, I got home and finally got a positive OPK!!! It's day 13 and last time we conceived on day 14 (I know because we only saw each other once that month due to work- we were at my parents' house too, so everyone knew!), so everything times up nicely, hopefully I'm back into my normal cycle, and the 1st AF probably wasn't a real one.
It's been 11 weeks though and I can't tell anyone new without breaking down... when I told the doctor why I was there (she's a new one) I just started crying... how am I going to be when I return to work??? I wore maternity uniform too so EVERYONE knew I was pregnant... I don't particularly want to cry, a crying woman in the military doesn't usually go down that well!!! Anyone have any tips?
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hope you feel better soon, seems to be that there's a lot of flu/cold going around at the moment prob due to season change.
It is so difficult because we try so hard to fall pg only to discover that we need assistance and then when we succeed, this happens 
Would you be going back to do a FET or a full stim cycle?
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