Assisted conception success - due 2018 xx

[star25]

Congratulations again on your little girl 3c!

I felt movement with Madeleine at 21 weeks, I thought I have felt something this time but probably too early

We're going to butlins for 5 days in sept (a holiday camp in the U.K.) it's a 'just for tots' one so aimed at under 5's with characters and shows from the to programmes she likes, definitely not a holiday for us haha but it's going to be so nice to see her having so much fun , we haven't planned anything abroad this year, went to Disneyland Paris on Dec and Greece last year , would be nice to go somewhere not too far like Spain but we'all see if I can actually be bothered with the hassle of it lol

 

[xx Emily xx]

Star we're going to butlins at Skeg in sept! Just for 3 nights!

 

[star25]

Haha Emily, a nice easy holiday, we're going to Bognor as it's closest to us and dh brother lives there, looking forward to getting away and my 20 week scan is 4 days before we go!

 

[dancingnurse2]

Baby A has posterior placenta and Baby B has anterior. I feel baby A(boy) often especially starting in afternoon. Baby girl I only feel once in a while.

 

[Kjw26]

Star-your dd is absolutely adorable!!

Dog mommy-glad your ms is easing up!

3chords-glad everything is going well! It's so scary to know some of the early results because it's another thing to worry about but it sounds like things are going great now!

So excited to hear all of the upcoming gender reveals!

We just had another ultrasound today and all was well! They are both on track and hb were both around 174. Such a good feeling getting to see them and they were both wiggling around today I go next Tuesday and will likely graduate from my clinic! They requested a referral to a local high risk specialist so really hoping I don't have to wait too long to get into them. And I start tapering my meds this Sunday and completely off by the next Sunday woohoo!

 

[star25]

Thank you kj
That will be good news for no more meds, glad the scan went well, how many weeks are you now?

 

[3chords]

Kjw - so nice to taper off the meds. I am certain that they, especially the progesterone, make my nausea way worse.

I started tapering this week - down to 1 estrace pill a day (from 2) and down to 0.75ml of PIO. Will taper down to no estrace and 0.5ml PIO next week and then I am off the week after. My clinic actually tells us to go cold turkey but that has always given me major migraines so now I taper PIO.

 

[Kjw26]

Star-I'm 9w3d so my taper will start at 10 weeks. It makes me a bit nervous but they reassured me that it will be fine and I trust them. I really can't wait!

3chords-that is awesome you are tapering this week too! Such a good feeling. Migraines are the worst so I don't blame you! And cold turkey would scare me even though I know they know what they are doing I'm glad I have a bit of a taper too. I'm really hoping it does help the nausea!

 

[koj518]

Wow! this thread became really active!!

Ko I hope you are done with MS. Mine hasn't been terrible but I've had two mornings where I felt like if I did throw up I would feel better <<< hate that feeling. Do ivf babies stats show more boys?

It was a topic on someone else's thread recently. I can't remember who! but apparently there are more boy IVF babies than girls!! But I think someone also said there are more girl ICSI babies which is what I did so there's that too..! Do you have any guesses for yours yet??

I think I've felt movement 3 times but pretty sure it's too early so probably just gas!

That's amazing!! this is your second so you're probably feeling movement!!

Thanks for the heads up and invitation star! Hi everyone else.

I am still very cautious because we had funny betas, then a gestational sac measuring small but somehow have made it to 10+6 today. I am waiting for my Panorama results this week, hopefully they will come back low risk and we will also know the sex then.

This was from a fresh transfer of two day 3 embryos. I have a 21-month-old son who was a result of a FET of two day 5 PGS normal embryos. He is a gorgeous little thing, I'll come back with some pics.

My due date is February 20 but I will have another scheduled c-section so will go about a week earlier. I also have an anterior placenta, AGAIN, but it is well above my c-section scar which they said is good news.

Congrats and welcome!!! I've heard that the way they stitch you up after a c-section is likely to give you a tilted uterus and in my observations on these boards, I think a tilted uterus is likely to give us an anterior placenta!! Welcome to the club!! haha!!

3c, I've got a feeling boy too!

So excited to find out what everyone is having!!

koj- I'm sorry the Doppler still didn't ship, how annoying! And usually Prime is so reliable... I'm sticking with girl for you!

Are any of you guys planning on going on a little vacation before baby comes? We don't want to spend too much money but DH and I were thinking of maybe doing a long weekend away in October for our anniversary or something like that. If we're able to take the dogs it wouldn't cost too much (their doggie daycare is INSANELY expensive).

I wrote this on my pregnancy journal, but I got my doppler and it's great!!! I totally recommend it!

As for vaca, all of our free time will be used packing and unpacking this summer. haha

Our Panorama results are in and we are Team this time. One of each, not bad.

With my anterior placenta I felt movement as early as 15-16 weeks last time and never really had an issue with strong movement. But I was told that it was because of all my "uterine interventions" (multiple surgeries) - people who have had their uterus cut into in several places are apparently highly sensitized to feeling anything coming into contact with the wall. I had a 5-hr surgery to remove 16 fibroids so my uterus has been pretty sliced up.

Aw!! congrats!!!

Star we're going to butlins at Skeg in sept! Just for 3 nights!

Have so much fun!!! (I had to google what Butlins was.. haha!)

Baby A has posterior placenta and Baby B has anterior. I feel baby A(boy) often especially starting in afternoon. Baby girl I only feel once in a while.

such a big difference between a singleton and twins! I'm still at the stage where I can't tell if it's movement or gas

We just had another ultrasound today and all was well! They are both on track and hb were both around 174. Such a good feeling getting to see them and they were both wiggling around today I go next Tuesday and will likely graduate from my clinic! They requested a referral to a local high risk specialist so really hoping I don't have to wait too long to get into them. And I start tapering my meds this Sunday and completely off by the next Sunday woohoo!

woohoo! glad to hear everything is going smoothly!!! How exciting to be able to graduate from clinic and stop meds!!!

afm - got my doppler yesterday and was able to hear the sweet sweet heartbeat! It took me a while to find it. (I should've paid more attention to what my midwife was doing!!) but once I found it once, it was very easy to find the second time!!!

 

[star25]

Ko, how exciting you found the heartbeat! I'm going to try again tomorrow
It's interesting about more boys ivf and girls icsi, half mine fertilsed with ivf and half icsi so I don't know what one I am!
Haha googling butlins, it should be fun, a nice easy place to go with Madeleine

 

[dogmommy]

3c congrats on your girl! Another girl for this group!

Kj that's great you had a nice scan. And whoo hoo for tapering meds!

Koj so happy you got your doppler and was able to hear your little bean!

Star sounds like you got some great plans to look forward to!

Scooby I am going to get the Panorama test in three weeks. But I'm not sure when we well do the gender reveal I would like to wait till Thanksgiving so I can have both families together but I'll see if I can wait that long!

I would like to do a trip before baby comes but I also want to save my paid vacation for maternity leave so maybe a long weekend!

 

[scoobybeans]

It's awesome to see this thread so active now!

3chords- Congrats on your baby girl!! I was right again, woohoo! 15-16 weeks isn't bad at all for movement. I only had a polyp removal but maybe that's enough? Haha, wishful thinking! Vegas in November sounds perfect.

star- Your trip sounds fun, DD will love it!

dancing- So cool that you can tell who is who in there.

kj- Hooray for a great scan, and also for tapering off those meds! I bet that doctor will bump you up the list since you're already pregnant with mo/di twins.

koj- I think the discussion about boys being more common with IVF/girls being more common with ICSI was on my LTTTC journal. (Although in my case I had ICSI and ended up with a boy.) So glad you like your Doppler and you got to hear the baby's heartbeat!!

dogmommy- Eeek, exciting! Thanksgiving would be a long wait, I don't know if I could do that lol. I hear you on banking vacation time. I don't think I've taken a day off in months!

AFM, I woke up early this morning with a terrible leg cramp. That hasn't happened to me in years, so I looked it up and I guess it's more common in the 2nd & 3rd trimesters. It said more water and exercise could help. Anyone else get this? Any other tips? Honestly I don't think I can drink any more water than I'm already drinking, I'd float away! I thought I read that potassium helps?

 

[star25]

Scooby I had this so bad with dd, always random times in the night would wake up in agony with it, never did manage to stop it!

Very tired today but had a bad night with dd
Had a dream that I was having a boy last night too!

16 week midwife appointment on the 23rd this month at home and I'm going to book the gender scan for 26th Aug, can't wait! I am definitely feeling boy but then I thought that with dd

 

[3chords]

I had leg cramps as well and sometimes even worse, foot cramps. Wakes you up almost screaming some nights. I read somewhere that taking magnesium supplements helps but didn't ask my dr about it so I didn't bother. I'd instead wake up DH to push on my foot (push toes towards body) which helped get rid of it but that was the best I could do.

This was at least tolerable compared to the horrific heartburn. I have anxiety just thinking about it. Last time I had unbearable 24/7 nausea until 16 weeks. Then a glory period from 16-20 weeks when I felt great, healthy, not even really pregnant until I looked down at bump, slept well. At 20 weeks things started to go south...first I got carpal tunnel, mostly at night my hands would go completely numb and keep me awake. Then the leg cramps. Then the awful heartburn which was there no matter what I ate. Everybody told me I would have a baby with a head full of hair...which was true but man I'd take a total baldie over that!!

 

[star25]

Hah 3c funny you should mention the heartburn, I got some gaviscon tablets today in preparation, some evenings I can feel it starting and this was my worst symptom with Madeleine, it was actually unbearable and I'm dreading it again!

 

[3chords]

Hah 3c funny you should mention the heartburn, I got some gaviscon tablets today in preparation, some evenings I can feel it starting and this was my worst symptom with Madeleine, it was actually unbearable and I'm dreading it again!

Ugh mine too. I tried everything - Gaviscon, Tums, Zantac. The max dose of Zantac (150 x2 per day) was the thing that worked "best" but even that was honestly just a band-aid solution. Each tablet was meant to work for 12 hrs...well it "sort of" worked for 8 and then not at all the for the last 4. I shudder at the thought of it.

 

[koj518]

Scooby - I get leg cramps too!!! at random times during the day and sometimes even while I'm walking!!

3c - I've been feeling loads better since week 16 so I'm on the same track as your DS pregnancy!! It's like someone flipped a switch!!

star - I also had a very vivid dream a few nights ago that I was having a boy!!! so weird!!

dogmommy - wow! that's a long time to wait to tell!!! I would totally cave!!

 

[Kjw26]

Ko-so cool you can hear the hb with your Doppler whenever you want!

Scooby-leg cramps are miserable! Magnesium helps too! Hope it eases up soon.

 

[3chords]

Can we do a summary of when everybody is due, etc? Maybe star can put up on first post as I always find it helpful to keep track. I will start and people can add.

3chords - February 20 - Team

 

[koj518]

koj518 - January 13 - Team (I find out 8/16!!)