Katie I am glad to see your ticker saying 29 weeks too! It is so wonderful to see those weeks tick by. On that note Tildy and Rozzie's tickers seem to have jumped on ahead too! Fantastic!
Rozzie - I just want too wish you a very peaceful day tomorrow for Edwards EDD. I hope you find comfort and love in whatever you choose to do, even if it is just lying on the couch! Look after yourself and DH, I will be thinking of you.
Jo - How are you going? Have you had to have Madison's farewell yet? That is yet another unbelievable thing that no parent should endure, I send ALL of my love and strength for you, as you need it far more than me at the moment.
Hammi - How are you? Now that a week has passed by after Hamish's EDD?? I am OK, although I am still doing the 'I would be just over 41 weeks now, if I were still pregnant'. I have too learn to stop that, but the sad realization is that it will never stop, because there will always be anniversaries of some kind, I just have too learn to live with that.
Rozzie - I hope you were able to find a way to remember Edward on his EDD yesterday. I am sorry this message is a day late, but DH was using the computer all day yesterday doing an assignment. I hope the day was a peaceful one, and you were able to remember Edward as the beautiful boy he is and will always be.
Helen - it is only natural to count the weeks and think where you would be. I still find myself working out how old Nathaniel would be - in fact he would be 4 months and 2 days (assuming he came on his EDD). I feel like I have been pregnant forever. Even the couple of months in between the two babies, I still felt pregnant or acted is as we were TTCing. I only drank a couple of times, but mind you one of those was a complete reversal to my old party ways from years ago...as sick as I was the next day it made me feel normal again.
Jo - how are you? I continue to thnk about you and your lovely family and of course Jack and Madison.
Hi Sue - I am so sorry to hear about your little frostie. I am so disappointed for you and can understand that this must be a hard thing to work through. I hope taking the month off will help you build up your spirit and give the hope you need to try again in October. Take care
Sue, I'm sorry little frostie didn't make it. I think it's a good idea to have a break. Distract yourself with something else other than baby-making for a month. How about some pampering? Hopefully Oct will be your month. I think I'm going to start TTC then too. How fun, a TTC buddy for me :-)
Katie are you going on maternity leave next week. I remember you said you'll go in Sept. It'll be so exciting when you get to the 30s on your ticker. What preparations have you made for your baby girl? Have you already got things from Nathaniel? Did you buy things for this bub?
Helen, I'm doing OK. I'm now in full Prepare Body for TTC mode starting with - what else - a blood test today for thyroid, iron, folic etc. I still want to see my BBT doing the right things so hopefully it will all sort itself out in Sept. I've managed to stop counting pregnancy weeks but unfortunately there'll always be anniversaries that will remind us of the babies we don't have in our arms :-(
Where are you Roz and Tildy? Hope everything is tracking along nicely for you.
Rozzie - I am so so happy that all is well. That was the best news!!!! What did you end up doing for Edward's EDD???
Jo - still thinking of you and hoping you are ok.
Katiegirl - I love seeing your ticker go up. It is so reassuring. How are you feeling?
Helen - thank you for all the baby dust. I will keep all of it for when I go to IVF in October.
Tildy & Danek - hope all is well with the both of you.
Well I had some heartbreaking news. My DH best friend and wife started TTC the same time as us and they already have a little boy. Well they told us on the weekend that they are having their 2nd in Feb. I was really happy for them, but it broke my heart. They are the typical try one month, get pregnant - successful.
Though I am happy for them, it still broke my heart, especially after Wed and little frostie didnt come through.
They told DH by phone on Sat (which was good) and we went over there on Sunday for lunch (which gave us time to absorb it). I really struggled to go as I didnt know how I would react. Anyway it turned out well. I went into their house and saw the wife and gave her a hug and said "congratulations, I am so happy for you" and we both, yes both!! burst into tears. She has been feeling so guilty that they are able to conceive easily and succeed. So even though we feel really bad, they also do....
Hi ladies. Sorry I've been away, but I forgot to subscribe to the new thread.
Sue -- I'm sorry to hear that the frostie didn't make it. I know you were looking forward to that opportunity. Try to have a relaxing month and take care of your body and soul. But I know it's hard to not think about babies and TTC -- it consumes us. I understand your feelings about the friend's pregnancy as well. It's not easy for us to see everyone else "passing us by" and not just once but sometimes twice. It has been an epidemic here, where only one couple in our circle of friends had a child before we started to TTC, and in the short time since we have now become the last who are not parents or ready to pop. Those closest friends, the ones who already had a child, had their second in June, and she was confused when I still refused to tell her what names we'd picked out for our baby. I explained that it's possible that she will have another before we manage to have one, and I think that's when she realized the difference between how she thinks after having two uncomplicated pregnancies, both of which she became pregnant on the first month's try, and how someone in my situation thinks.
Hammi -- good for you on your decision to start TTC soon! I'm proud of you. We'll be here for you.
Helen -- yes, it is natural to count those weeks. I do it when I see a big pregnant belly walking around, and I think, "I would have been bigger." And I understand that it doesn't stop after the EDD. Some day we might think, "he would have been 5 years old today," but hopefully we will be able to hug our little earth babies after thinking that.
I've been having it a bit shaky. I had a big, sudden bleed on Friday and went into emergency. I have a haematoma that she says was likely caused by my placenta being placed entirely over the inner cervical opening ("placenta previa" if it persists, but it's usually not detected this early at all). Baby looks fine, doctor sounded optimistic, placenta previa usually corrects itself before full term (otherwise a C-section is mandatory), but I'm so scared. It's just more and more deja vu. With Beiron I had a haematoma at 14 weeks that caused this kind of bleeding, all the doctors said it was just bloody fine and dandy... but it wasn't okay. And as I understand it from my constant idiotic googling, an early haematoma is more dangerous. So I'm terrified terrified right now, after being pretty okay with it over the weekend.
Edit to update on this: my midwife has booked me in for a follow-up on Friday and another in a couple weeks, so I am really getting the frequent flier miles between here and the clinics! I feel better today, less panicky.
And I have a question that's been bugging me for months, guys! What does the D in DH, DD, DS etc. stand for?
Last edited by Tildy; August 25th, 2008 at 09:56 PM.
I have too learn to stop that, but the sad realization is that it will never stop, because there will always be anniversaries of some kind, I just have too learn to live with that.
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