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[Anaïs]

Hundred: Good to see you here! So your FET worked!

Everyone else new: welcome aboard! I hope uneventful pregnancies to all of us to full term!

[hundredmiledog]

Thanks everyone, for warm welcomes!

 

Welcome ewok! PM me if you ever want to chat about the post-beta waiting.  I'm never sure if I'm happier with a BFN or  BFP, the BFP starts an terrible anxiety cycle...

 

Melissabonbon, I am already starting to feel the afternoon exhaustion.  I remember by week six of a past pregnancy I actually had to fight the urge to lie down on the ground and sleep at times.  ugh.  Hang in there!!

[hundredmiledog]

Yep Anaïs, I got a BFP Monday, and the line gets darker every day.  Hope this one's sticky!! 

 

UGH the name debate.  DP is a big fan of obscure, Lord-of-the-Rings-sounding boys names.  So I am hellbend on having a girl - if I could only control that!

[Anaïs]

I found acupuncture helped a lot with my morning sickness and gave me some temporary energy boost if anybody is up for it.

In terms of fatigue, no suggestion there. I myself thought aoubt lying down under my desk at times

Hundred: when is your beta? cannot wait for your bw!

Anxiously waiting for US next Tuesday. It feels like light years away.

I am also doomed on the names. We can never agree on things....He also likes that stuff, Lord of the rings, Harry Potter....boy stuff....ARGHHHH

[Melissabonbon]

Welcome Ewok - here's to your little embie staying nice and sticky and safe and sound this time around!

Anais - I did acupuncture pre-transfer so maybe I should go back - good suggestion - it might help with fatigue. I've been a little resistant because it hurts a little and I'm a little needled out from the whole IVF experience but I think the benefits may outweigh in this case.

I hear you guys on the boys' names issue. Why are there so few to begin with and why are there so few that aren't crap?! My DH and I can't agree on any...he is a Brit so all the British names are out because they've all been ruined by someone he's known and the same goes for me with the North American names!

Well today my goal is to try to remember and enjoy the fact that I'm pregnant a bit more. I can feel the anxieties creeping in and I want to balance them out with some good stuff. Funny how I get anxious if I have too many symptoms, like I've been quite crampy, and then I get anxious when my symptoms like the cramps go away! I feel like I keep climbing this ivf mountain - and the climb is stressful - and when I finally successfully get to what I think is the top, I look around the corner and realize there's another summit to climb. I don't have time to enjoy the last success before the new fears about getting to the next peak set in. And when I reach that point, I realize I am not at the top again and so on and so on... Now it's getting to that first ultrasound in two weeks! Then it'll be getting to 12 weeks...

Wishing everyone a great day! Raising my glass to being pregnant, with all the highs and the lows

[labori]

Due date is on July 4th. God's willing. Blessings to each one of you guys.

[canuckschick]

Can I join ? After crying my eyes out and being sure that our FET cycle failed again , I got a bfp a few days after . My first beta came back 944. FC gave me due date July 8th

[Rhodi]

Canuckschick. Congrats on your pregnancy. Wishing you a happy and healthy 9 months.

 

JULY DUE DATE BUDDIES

Name                                             Due Date

Meliss19                                                Late June

Anais                                                      July 4^th

Labori                                                    July 4^th

Happymom14                                      July 5^th

Canuckschick                                       July 8^th

Melissabonbon                                   July 8^th

Rhodi                                                    July 9^th

Ewok                                                     July 11^th

Hundredmiledog                                July 17^th

[Anaïs]

Welcome Canuck!!!!! That is a very strong beta!!!

[~hopingforbaby~]

Congrats to all of you on your BFP's, such an exciting time!!!

 

I hope you all don't mind if I join you, I got a surprise natural BFP over the weekend.  Due date is July 7th, I meet with my family doctor tomorrow to confirm everything.  This will be #2 for us, our DS was conceived via ivf w/icsi and was born in Oct/13.  If my being here offends anyone please let me know.

[meliss19]

Anais - I feel silly but what is an NT scan stand for. I know my sisters went for a 12 wk scan but it's all so new to me I'm not sure what is involved in each one - hence why I want a doctor! I know my 7 wk is to check for heart beat/ viability and that I will go back for 12 wk scan but not sure what's really involved.

Names - we have had a boy and a girl name picked out for five years. However, I feel like rethinking them as I was attributing those names to the baby I carried before mc. I think I still like the names - we shall see.

Melissabonbon- I hear you. You think ugh symptoms and the moment ur not cramping or peeing twice an hour you think oh no! I'm trying to remind myself to enjoy some of it. I think we are guarding ourselves.

Canucks - welcome!! Congrats on your bfp!!

Hopingforbaby - welcome!! Congrats on the surprise natural pregnancy! I think your experience of having one already can def help us! I got my bfp while on suprefact, before my FET. Was a huge surprise. I actually cried when I found out bc I was so worried about the harm i had done w taking the suprefact. Only time will tell. I hope it becomes a healthy baby!

[meliss19]

Also; is anyone else having any food aversions? I Get really hungry but the thought of pretty much everything makes me feel like getting sick. I am making myself eat as I need to. But am I just weird or does anyone else have anything similar?

[jlynn16]

Congratulations everyone! I'm hoping it's ok to join in. July 3rd is our expected due date. ☺️

I just got confirmation today that our lil one is in utero & things look positive (this after 2 ectopics & numerous early miscarriages). It's still early but so far so good. We've never made it this far without complications so I'm a ball of nervous but excited energy.

[canuckschick]

Congrats jlyn:)
I have zero symptom except I get so hungry and have headaches . Is it normal not having any symptom ?
We have our first u/s next Thursday and DH wI'll be out of town . I'm so nervous

[meliss19]

Welcome jlynn! So happy you had confirmation of that. allows the mind to relax on that point!

Canucks - I am no doctor but I have read a lot of success stories with women with lots of symptoms as well as with no symptoms! Every woman and each pregnancy is different my sisters first was awful morning sickness and my other sister was happy go lucky!

[Rhodi]

Jlynn & Hopingforababy. I have added you to the list. Wishing you a health and happy 9 months.

 

 

JULY DUE DATE BUDDIES

Name                            Due Date

Meliss19                     Late June

Jlynn16                        July 3^rd

Anais                            July 4^th

Labori                           July 4^th

Happymom14             July 5^th

Hopingforababy          July 7^th

Canuckschick               July 8^th

Melissabonbon            July 8^th

Rhodi                             July 9^th

Ewok                              July 11^th

Hundredmiledog          July 17^th

 

No food aversions for me yet. I am actually a little worried that I am eating too much already lol. Had a super long nap today . . . so sleepy but constantly interrupting night time sleeping with a need to pee. I don't know how I am going to keep on top of work with this crazy fatigue.

 

Anais - the wait for the ultrasound is *almost* as agonizing as the TWW. I still have over two weeks to go that feel like an eternity.

 

Although i am holding out on buying any baby things until 2nd trimester, I am already scanning our home to assess the changes we will need to make to accommodate the little bub. DH saw me looking into a room today, and knew exactly what I was up to. LOL.

[ewok]

Can I join ? After crying my eyes out and being sure that our FET cycle failed again , I got a bfp a few days after . My first beta came back 944. FC gave me due date July 8th

 

I'm so happy for you!

[ewok]

Thanks for the warm welcome ladies!  I really hope this time, but will be very nervous until my 7 week scan.

 

jlynn, do you have a cause for for multiple miscarriages and ectopics?  I'm curious, our stories sound similar, not something I've seen often.

 

We're not talking about names yet, way too early...   And some many of the names I liked were picked by close friends & family over the last 8 years, that I think it may be hard.  Another negative side of infertility I guess.  I would also love a name that can be easily pronounced in both languages, so that does complexity things even more. 

 

I'm protecting myself a lot, but once I a while I steal a look at the baby room stuff on Ikea!

 

And I booked my pregnancy appointment Monday morning already.  Here you don't need a referral to book these with most doctors.  You just have to call in very early in the pregnancy if you want to have some choice.  Otherwise you take whatever is left, or the hospital coordinators find you someone.  I live about 2km from an hospital, but did NOT want to deliver there (I hate 2 of the ObGyn that work there, and would not want them doing let's say a C-section should I need it), so I called early to find a doctor working at another hospital (30 minutes from home).  This is a very new hospital with all private rooms where you give birth and stay the whole time.  Very popular, and with the 10-12 weeks window for the first appointment falling over Christmas, I'm lucky I found someone!

[Anaïs]

Meliss: NT stands for nuchal translucency. It is to measure the fluid behind the fetus' neck to look for abnormalities. Here is the link.

http://www.babycente...y-nt-ultrasound

You have to go during a very specific time of your first trimester (around 12 weeks) so that is why I suggested booking it as early as possible so you can make sure. My family doctor (who I do not think competent but still went to a medical school I think) told me to go right in the middle of the allowed time period. I am booked on December 19th (my due date July 4th).

[Anaïs]

Welcome all the new ladies via IVF or non-IVF the more the merrier!

This thread is becoming a full house.

Yes the other 2ww for viability scan is as agonizing as the first 2ww. I would say more agonizing because for the first 2ww, at least you can POAS. I don't own an ultrasound machine (I actually do have the muscle kind but not for gynacological use).

I definitely feel more hungry and do have cravings. When I was pregnant with my daughter, I was living on Vietnamese food.

Now I crave meat. This evening, I badly wanted chicken wings so I had some. I don't eat that stuff often but was weird to feel that kind of urge.

Hope everyone is doing great. I don't know how long I can keep this as secret at work because I cannot hold my tummy any more in the afternoon. It takes efforts to hold it. Oh well we will see how long I can keep it under.

Nice evening everyone!

[Rhodi]

Jlynn, so sorry to hear about your rough experience with you past pregnancies. I hope this is a super sticky one for you . 

 

I developed a little jelly belly just through the ivf process - hormones, bloating, comfort eating, not exercising. People at work certainly noticed my weight gain so I do hope my little bub just hides in my jelly belly and people will be none the wiser until I'm ready to share.

[hundredmiledog]

Welcome Canuck, hopingforbaby and jlynn...congrats on your pregnancies!

 

Re. Names - All of my twenty-something cousins keep popping out kids, and have taken all the good family ones :-( 

 

Melissabonbon, I appreciate the mountain metaphor.  I'm holding out for the beta summit, but I know there's the viability scan after that, and then the 8 week mark (I've never made it past that week), and then the NT scan and second trimester, and then... ?? Just trying to breathe and look at the steps right in front of me. 

 

Anais, my clinic does FET betas super late and I'm scheduled Monday (4 days after AF is due?).  But I think I will lose my mind before then.  I'll probably try and sneak in on Saturday.  I hear you re Vietnamese food, pho is the first and only thing I've been craving. 

[jlynn16]

Thanks for the warm welcome!

Ewok: there is no rhyme or reason to our issues. The doc found that I have a clotting disorder but didn't think this would cause the issues we've had. It's been a complete mystery really. My first ectopic was misdiagnosed & almost killed me at 10 weeks in...I was actually told I wasn't pregnant at all & suggested I was having a hysterical pregnancy. I had HSG 3 times and tubes have always been clear...yet I had another ectopic ???
As for miscarriages, thats another mystery.

Canuck: the lack of symptoms is actually what tipped me off that this time was different! I have some minor symptoms now but nothing that I couldn't ignore...with the exception of being tired.

Many of you were talking about cravings - I'm a complete bad cliche because I can't get enough pickles ☺️

[Anaïs]

I had a super nightmare last night. In my dream, dr.O. who I saw less frequently (I mostly saw Dr. M who is her husband) put a plastic bag over her hand (like how rural vets do when they check cows female organs) and sort of did an us.

She said left sac was a boy and the right sac was a girl and they are both empty. I got up super scared and anxious.

Obviously the dream is just a dream but OMG cannot wait for the viability scan.

[~hopingforbaby~]

Canuckschick, I didn't have any symptoms with DS other than being a bit tired.  Once I had my viability u/s I was able to relax a bit. 

 

Anais, I totally agree with you on the wait for the viability scan being much more agonizing than the 2WW for beta's.  Your mind can definitely play tricks with you. 

 

I am hoping my dr will give me a requisition for a viability u/s at my appt today, I don't think I can wait until 12 weeks.  No cravings for me as of yet.