Well I had an Ob appointment today and I got to hear bubs kicking away and a nice strong heartbeat. We also went through the morphology scan and the Ob was saying everything was good.
Oh and I found out today that the placenta is sitting at the front of my stomach and thats the reason I cant feel bubs all the time and only when I lay on my side and bub is on its side that I feel her.
I will have to wait a little longer to get movements all the time!!! bugger.
Rozzie - I also have a few little/dont care issues as well. My hips at night are a killer and I am getting indigestion as well - and I am only in my 2nd trimester!!! I spoke to the Ob this morning about the hips and he just said "wait a bit longer and it will get worse!!!).
Beata - what do you have to go through when you have your fibroids removed????
Zachary's Mum - I am so sorry you are going through a rough time. It is so understandable and I am glad that if we helped a little, thats what this website is all about. to you....
I'm so glad everything is looking good, yey ! Too bad about the hips hurting, I'm guessing only, is it because everything there is stretching slowly ?? If that's the case, you poor thing... But, just think about the end result, a beautiful baby girl and it will all be so worth it. You can do it !!!!
Re my operation, the fibroid is going to be removed with an operation called myomectomy where they'll go into the uterus like a c cection and remove the big lump. Then they'll stich it up and I'll have to wait about 3 months ( so the uterus is healed ) to do another cycle of IVF . I'll be off work for 6 weeks ( yey !! ). I have one blast bub on ice...I'm praying this one latches on like Joshua did....The doctor told me with my next pregnancy, I'll probably have a c section at 38 weeks as there is a risk of the uterus bursting if I attempt a vaginal delivery. Bugger, I would have loved to experience it again with a full term baby, but at the end of the day, a healthy and happy baby is all that counts.
Well I wish you all the best for your operation and definately 2009 will be your year to conceive a little bubs. I will have all my fingers and toes crossed for you.
I have been down the IVF track, its can be quite daunting isnt it. We were successful first time as well, but unfortunately and this is my gut feeling and I know I am right..... I am on a drug called metformin for insulin resistance and my Ob (not the one I have now) told me to stop taking it at around 9 weeks, which I did trusting him, unfortunately my little bubs stopped growing at that stage and I MC @ 12 weeks.
I also had a little frostie, but unfortunately it didnt come out of the unfreezing stage, but I got pregnant that month naturally.
Oh Sue, she definitely is a little miracle. I'm sorry you've lost your litlle bub at 12 weeks, that terrible doctor ! You know what they say about gut feelings, they're hardly ever wrong.
The irony in my IVF journey is that initially we've had to do it because when my DF was still married to his ex wife, he had a versectomy 10 years ago ( she had lupis and they almost lost their son - he was born at 32 weeks ) so when we decided to have kids he had the reversal done, but it wasn't succesful and the sperm count was almost zero.
So we did one cycle of IVF and I got pregnant the first time, but then my fibroid palyed up and I lost Joshua because of it. My doctor ( which I never balmed, as I know from reading heaps of material on fibroids, they rarely cause a problem ) was as shocked as me at what happened. I also think ( and this is MY gut feeling ) that the IVF drugs made the fibroid very angry and it grew so big in the end that it's blood supply got cut off and it started to degenerate, sending my poor uterus into spasms ( then contractions ). I think every woman is different, and women react differently to certain things, and obviously my pregnancy hormones and the IVF drugs just made the fibroid play up.
I will feel so much better once it's removed, although I always pray that we get pregnant naturally, by some miracle. Hey, they do happen, look at you !
Beata, I always think of Lily (Sue's miracle girl) whenever I need some hope. I was reading our old post the other day and saw the one where Sue said that she just lost frostie and we were all so down for her but then she and her DH got preggers all by themselves. I hope your operation goes smoothly (it's a big and scary one!!) and that you'll get a BFP as soon as your body has recovered.
Theresa, I'm sorry you are missing your boy so much. You have every right to and I don't know what to do to make you feel better. Only that I understand your pain and wish with all my might that Zachary is holding you tight when you need him the most.
Everybody, I've finally heard from Jo (Madison's mum, not Luke's mum). Sounds like she had the same crappy December we all did.
Rozzie, how big are you? All over big or just tummy big. I hope I'll get to see you again before you have your bub so I can see you in full bloom. I told David that you're one week away from entering 3rd tri and he dedicated a song on Guitar Hero to you and Alec and bubs :-) To think that when we saw you, I think you were just 14wks.
Sue did you get to see Lily or just listen? I'm currently reading Francesca Naish's 'The Natural Way to a Better Pregnancy and she's totally against ultrasounds which has put me into a bother as I was planning to totally assault the ultrasound machine like Katie did to keep my sanity when I finally get my BFP. How to balance being an earth mother hippy type with being programmed as a freaked out paranoid mother type?
Speaking of BFP's, I'm going to buy a pee stick on Fri which will be CD29 and test on Sun if AF doesn't show her face. BB's are still big and feeling very tired today. More signs? Please?
Everyone else must be on holidays. I want to hear from Helen, see if her naughty bub has kicked up more of a storm.
Lan, thanks hun, I'm looking forward to getting that fibroid out but pooing myself at the same time about the pain and recovery !!!! But you know what they say, no pain no gain !
So glad to hear you BB's are still heavy..good sign I think. I can't believe I won't be able to check on how you went until I come back from my holiday next week ! Fingers crossed hun, I hope AF stays well away..GOOD LUCK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wishing you millions and trillions sticky vibes
Lan -- now I'm all excited and nervous for the weekend! I really hope AF stays away and that we get a long-awaited and well-deserved BFP in here. It's been a while!
So is Jo (relatively) ok? It's nice to hear she's still among the living! Did you tell her we were all asking after her?
Beata -- my SIL had 4 miscarriages in a row because of fibroids. I do not believe she had one big one like you have, but rather lots and lots of them. Every one of her miscarriages was in week 12. But after she changed doctors and they gave her a good work-up, removed the fibroids and put her on aspirin to keep them from growing back, she had her little girl that is 3 years old now. So I have no reason to expect anything less for you!
Sue -- figures that your placenta would be in the front so that you don't get as many kicks as you'd like! But it's nice with a great scan -- I haven't had one for 7 weeks now I just realized, so I'm hoping I get one when I next see the high risk OB in week 30.
Theresa -- I know what you mean about never having experienced this kind of turmoil. I know you feel like you're not coping well, but I don't believe you're coping any less heroically than a person in your situation can be expected to. I have my "light at the end of the tunnel" coming in April, but I'm starting to cry more and more every day, sometimes sinking back into that same black pit that I thought I'd crawled my way out of. It's not fun to feel "broken," but I really think that you're not handling it any worse than you should. I know it's maybe both comforting and depressing to hear me say that your despair is normal and might last a while... but the important thing is that you don't feel like a failure for not being chipper and happy.
Paula -- now you're 3 days pregnant!
Rozzie -- I'm sort of waiting for the third trimester to hit like a ton of bricks. I've been having lots of tiny little issues, but no major ones, except for this constant bull**** with my sinuses. I have a bit of hip pain, a bit of shortness of breath when I go up the stairs, etc... tiny, almost unnoticeable quibbles that merely serve to remind me that Kebab is in there. My belly certainly doesn't remind me, as it still hasn't gotten big enough to make a noticeable difference! I'm sort of like "What, I used to weigh 115 kg, and this is all you've got? Bring it on!"
I've been going to a chiropractor for the hip pain and it's really gotten a lot better -- but typical! I'm in for some major hurt later tonight, as I fell on the stairs this morning when I got up to let the cats out! I bounced down 3 or 4 of them on my butt, and DH came SPEEDING from the bedroom. He said "I was just lying in bed thinking that I should probably be letting the cats out because you might be tired and clumsy and fall down on your stomach and something will happen to Kebab, and right then I heard you fall!" So I'm banned from cat duty from now on! But everything seems good -- it's been 5 hours and nothing hurts, nothing is bleeding or leaking, and Kebab is kicking away... sheesh!
DH and I are in an interesting situation before New Year's... our closest friends seem to be splitting up after 8+ years together, and the female half of the couple seems to have been in the hospital after a suicide attempt. So we're quite full up trying to figure out our best course of action in order to be supportive and fair but not pushy or too self-sacrificing. I know I can't fix her, but I hope that I can offer her a hand to hold or a person to sit next to and drink coffee, which is what I would have wished for my friends to do after losing Beiron but I didn't really get much of.
to you....
to everybody else.
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