Trying to Conceive after Still Birth/ Late Loss/Recurrant Miscarriage ~ December 2008

Hi Ladies,

You have been busy, I had lots of catching up to do.

Katie, your photo's are beautiful, how sweet is your little girl. Can you believe that it is all real now? I'm sure you can with all the B/F - lol.

Laney, congrats on knowing it's a boy! It does sound early to know, wonderful news. Hope the leaking is getting better. Our bodies are quite amazing, I'm sure if you work hard at your pelvic floors you can turn things around pretty quickly.

Issy, I hope you are doing ok and little one is growing nicely. TM, thinking of you, you poor thing. An awful thing to wait for. Surely your OB / hospital can't move things on, must be hard to concentrate and be quite upsetting. Take care.

Helen, 15-wks sounds awfully early for movement, I agree with the girls, I am sure things are absolutely fine, but always get a scan if you are really worried.

Sue, love the names Lilly & Blake. Nice that you have them picked out already.

I am just busy at work, can't wait to wind down for Christmas, on holiday from Friday. Am starting to work out my days to TTC next month, quite excited about that. Can't believe how 'into' it I can get with tracking my cycle - quite sad. Anyway I use Maybe Baby which I find really helpful in determining O, does anyone else use it? I don't track temps etc, looks too hard.

Hello to everyone else, Lan, Diana, Tildy, Rozzie, Paula, Tocarra, and anyone I have missed.

Hi girls! Hope everyone is doing well since my last post :grouphug:

Paul, thank you so much for the info. I didnt realise there are other types of P4 tests. My test was to check P4 levels on CD21 which was 7dpo IUI. When I took Clomid last month, my P4 on CD21 was 43 (no HCG trigger or IUI) so I naturally assumed the level would be higher using FSH injections and HCG trigger shot? So do you think a level of 25 could support a pregnancy? Yes, I do get horrible PMS so perhaps I could benefit from the cream. My FS has definitely said I do not need support so I doubt he will give it to me even if I push. I have a pg bt next Tuesday (BFP please :pray:) so will have a more in-depth chat to the nurse about my result or TRY to get in and see the dr for a quick chat. I am feeling really deflated as I really hate the conflicting information between her and my FS. I may give your dr a call for a second opinion, depending on the pg result of course! Thank you so much for offering :hug:

Hi Megan, very excited for you while you prepare for next month. Praying you get your BFP and start the tsunami off! :goodluck::pray:

Firstly ladies, thank you for telling me not to worry about the movement, I know it's only early, I just thought having felt Cooper so early I would feel movement early this time too, but different baby different pregnancy. I have decided to just let things be for a bit longer, I am not even sure if there has been some very very slight flutters since I posted, fingers crossed.
Jo & Lan - you must be close to O day again, hoping for the best.
TM - Has anything started to happen yet? I had found out with my first miscarriage at 6 wks that the baby had passed away, I waited about 3 wks and still nothing so had a D & C, I wonder to this day whether that was the right thing to do. It is such a horrible time, hugs to you.
Stickybaby - How are you going? Big hugs to you too.
Megan - I am glad the Maybe Baby works for you, it was hopeless with me! Honestly once you know how to chart it is really addictive and very easy. Problem is with things like Maybe Baby, they can be inaccurate, but from everything I have ever read about temps, it is pretty much written in stone when you o'd, only thing is it doesn't predict O, just confirms it happened. If you have a pretty normal cycle, MB would be fine to help predict it. Good luck.
Diana - Hope you get your BFP too! Bring them on girls!!!!!!!
Hi to all, Sue good luck with your scan on Friday if I don't get back on here in time!

Hey Girls

Megan: I haven't tried Maybe Baby, i chart on fertility friend. I am so used to shoving a thermometer in my mouth every morning now that it really is no effort. Just took a week or so to get into the habit. Glad to hear your planning ttc dates for next month. I am doing the same thing, lets hope we goth get a BFP to bring in the New Year.

DD: sounds like the same test, I had to do mine on CD21 as well. I couldn't really say if 25 is enough to support a pregnancy, all I know is that my levels were similar and I feel so much better on the cream. I would certainly be asking a few questions anyway. My dr wants me to use it well into the 2nd trimester, maybe even the third. It is usually only a problem in the 1st trimester however because i get so much morning sickness right through pregnancy he thinks my body struggles to produce progesterone. With both my miscarriage and when I lost Charlie, my morning sickness stopped about a week or 2 before so I'm just connecting the dots. I'll have my fingers crossed for next tuesday~

Gotta run and finish dinner. I'm on the ttc countdown now and getting very excited... anxious... and down right terrified!

Hey guys, just wanted to share the news that I'm not sacked! They finished the lay-off negotiations at my work yesterday, the ones that have been going on since they announced them in October, so today we all got these envelopes that were either empty or had a "Sorry, we can't keep you" letter in them. I don't know if anyone in my department even got laid off, as rumors are that it's another department that isn't generating business, but we have to wait a while to get that confirmed as they're only allowed to tell us about ourselves right now. He told me though that my name was never even on the list of people being considered for lay-off, and that I was one of the reasons they laid off 32 instead of 37, by having told them right away that I was pregnant, because it meant they knew they'd have one less personnel cost most of next year. Anyway, tonight after the midwife appointment we're going to treat ourselves to dinner out and celebrate Kebab at 25 weeks and me still having a job!

I've never seen that Maybe Baby service, but I think Fertility Friend and temp charting really were very easy. The hardest part is simply getting into the habit of taking your temp before getting out of bed, but that doesn't take long -- I got pregnant on my first month of charting and it was hard to STOP taking my temp! I always got the thermometer into my mouth before I was awake enough to know what I was doing.

Just two day of work left before 2 and a half weeks of Christmas vacation, can't wait! And since the next two days are mostly Christmas lunches and parties and such, I feel like it's almost vacation already!

That's great news Tildy. sounds like dinner is a must, keeping your job and 25 weeks. It probably doesn't seem like it to you but wow that time has flown. It doesn't seem that long ago that you were getting ready for your 12 week scan!

Oooh, that's good news Tildy. Dinner with dessert must be had! I like chocolate cake with fresh cream. Oh but I don't think you can have fresh cream when preggers? Must be a relief to have your holiday knowing there's job to come back to! Check out your ticker - 25 wks!

So Paula, exactly when will you start TTC? I'm really happy that we're trying together.

Speaking of TTC buddies, where is Jo? I'll look up her Facebook. It's been a week since she's been on here.

Diana, I always catch my breath when I see a pregnant woman or someone with a young baby. I'm glad you were able to breathe through it and enjoy the party. When's game on for you?

Saw that Katie has mastisis. Ouch! Are you on panadol or cabbage leaves?

Helen, you are very mature to sit and wait. I'd be panicking uselessly and upsetting myself. When's your next appt?

Megan I used a Maybe Baby for my very first pregnancy and it kind of helped but sometimes it would fern for no apparent reason. I like temping more and was even addicted to it for about five months but I've been banned from doing it since TTC-ing so I'm flying blind (while scrutinising my CM very closely).

I think I O'd today. I've jumped David two days straight (graduating from every second day before fertile CM - very scientific) and he thinks he's got no swimmers yet but... watch out for tonight!

Hi and hugs to everyone - especially Sue for the big gender revealing scan tomorrow!!!!!

hi girls you are a very busy bunch will try and get better with personals as i get to know u all.I went for my 6wk check today and we are all good have also spoken with our ivf doc and he told us to dtd and try the old fashion was untill i get my periods and then we will look further, i'm rather excited about this and also scared as all crap because of the outcome and the problems we had last time.I just have to say how amazing all you ladies are in here you have given me so much insperation(sp) over the short time i have been reading all you posts so a big THANK-YOU for making me feel apart of you all.

Hi lovely ladies.

Thanks Paula, will try and get in to see FS on Tuesday and hammer questions at him about the cream. I suppose it would be too late in my cycle to start now but perhaps next time (or maybe not if I get my BFP next week!)

Tildy, congratulations on not being laid off! Hope you had a lovely dinner.

Lan, oh how Im praying you catch that egg this month! Jump away tonight!!Sounds sick when I say will be thinking of you but you know what I mean... I am still in the game, have my pg bt on Tuesday but I am so worried about my progesterone levels not being high enough so now I am not very confident.

Sue, you must be so excited. Can't wait to hear all the beautiful details.

Helen, did you make an appt to see your OB?

Megan, so when are you jumping bones this month?

Katie, hope all is healing in that department. Christmas with Anna, how wonderful.

Dee, another jumper! Good luck hun. Hope we all get our BFPs close together.

Have our work Xmas party today so will not be able to check in until tomorrow - don't know about you girls but I hate it when I am away from my computer and not able to communicate with you for a while... I get seperation anxiety!

Lots of love and big hugs to everyone.

Dear girls,

Well I am back from the morphology scan.

Everything look really good and bubs heart was beating very strong and arms and legs moving all over the place.

Well we are having a little girl. Which is so exciting.

But the best part is that all organs were present and looked good.

So excited now.

xxx Sue xxx

So exciting to hear, Sue! I'm so happy that you've come this far and have gotten to see your little girl flailing around in there. The next few weeks are sure to bring a swift increase to the kicking and punching in there!

Spreading around lots of baby dust for our many TTCers!

YAY Sue great news!!
and no to those ladies that asked have I been to the DR, I took Corey for a check up today, (she squeezed us in as this is her last day before hols) she just said it is still very early, and wasn't concerned at all, and I had decided to just leave things be until after Xmas anyway.

YAY!!! So glad Sue's bub is perfect and a little girl, how lovely!!!!

Oh wow Sue, your premonition was right. Lily's here! Congrats!

I'm going to the coast for a week so in case I don't get on before Christmas, I wish all of you, my wonderful friends a Christmas watched over by all our angels. For all the TTC-ers, I wish for BFPs for us all. For all the expectant mums, I wish the safe and speedy arrival of your earth babies. For our new mummy and resident champion, Katie, I wish you a wonderful first Christmas with Anna in your arms and Nathaniel in your heart.

Love to you all.

Congratulations Sue - so lovely to read that you had an excellent scan. It must have been lovely.

Lan - thank you for the Christmas wish - and you are right I will have Anna in my arms and Nathaniel in my heart. Such a lovely way to word it - thank you.

I hope the Christmas period is kind to you all. I know it is a hard time of year for mothers of angels, but know that your little ones are taking care of you. This time last year I thought I would never smile again, and yet here I am a year later, still missing my darling baby boy but blessed to be able to hold his sister. It will happen for all of you, keep faith that happy times are ahead. You are a special group of women and your babies are lucky to have found you. :grouphug:

Good morning beautiful ladies.

Sue, a little girl and an excellent scan! How wonderful. Am so very happy for you and we can't wait to welcome Lily into our lives.

Helen, glad you feel more confident and I am sure bubs will kick away madly for you very soon.

Lan, a Merry Christmas to you and David and more importantly, a prayer that the new year brings your much deserved earth baby. Your message was so lovely, thank you. I am certain all our little angels are watching over us. Enjoy your week away.

Katie, a big thank you to you too for your lovely message. It is so encouraging coming from you.

Lan you have a wonderful time away, you have a lovely way of wording things, and I am crossing my fingers ( everything I own) that we will all be holding our earth babies next year. Have a wonderful Xmas if we don't hear from you.
Hi to all I really have to fly this morning, hope all is well, Jo - are you OK?

Sue... how exciting that little Lily put on such a show for you. I can't wait until it is you posting your pics of holding her in your arms with a big satisfied grin on your face.

I don't know about everyone else but I have been praying that 2009 is a great year for all of us. I love to picture us all chatting still next christmas and maybe all of us moving to a new thread entitled 'earth angels in our arms at last!'.

Fingers and toes crossed hey!