Cheers to BFPs in 2-0-1-6!

[Sheece]

Angel & Abe - fingers crossed it happens to me too then!

I'm on CD 10 today, just started temping again , was really nice not temping for a while there! But I figured I better make sure I don't ovulate before my ultrasound on Friday.

OH and I are off on a trip next weekend too, so hopefully my body decides to grace us with ovulation then!

 

[broodymrs]

I had a love/hate relationship with temping. In the end I just temped from end of af to o was confirmed then just waited ten days to see if af showed up

 

[Sheece]

I think that's what I'll do Broody this cycle. Hopefully its not another 50+ day one though otherwise i'll be temping for a whole month anyway lol

 

[Whimsical88]

Abe its great that you have cut out so much. i wish i had the mental strength for that. sorry about AF but atleast you having a shorter cycle. it would be even better when it regulates and you know your AF date. but im sure as you lose more weight, the cycle would get better.

angel sorry you had to do that test. and to make a pregnant women starve like that. so horrible. did you get your results though? im sure you will take that week off, no way you will go back, and if you do, i would be shocked beyond words. its bad that you have a class you like and you have to be out for 3 months but dont worry, that bundle will be keeping you so busy that you wont have much time for thinking of work.

sheece, i do wish you get surprised. i also think you will be temping till AF because you have multiple dips and you wont really know when your AF will come. i think we all try without trying. im ntnp and some months i feel like im trying even though i want to not to. its just that we want those bfp too bad to waist a month.

 

[Angel5000]

I haven't had a call from the doctor, and they said if the results were bad I'd get a call within 24 hours. So Friday evening I logged into my online account and my labs are posted (which means doctor has reviewed them and they always call with bad news before posting). From what I'm understanding on the lab paperwork, all my numbers are in the normal range, so looks like all is good here.

Either way, the fact that I had to do the test made DH and I review our eating habits and we've been eating like crap lately. We've decided to try out the company Blue Apron for a couple weeks and if we like it we are going to keep that up. Maybe not every week but once or twice a month. It will force us to make healthier food options, and give us new ideas. We get stuck in the same "what should I make today" rut and that makes it hard for us to do anything but junk.


Whimsical - We'll see. I'm really hoping she arrives a couple weeks early and I Don't have to worry about going back. My doctor said anything at 37weeks or after is considered full term and perfectly safe/normal delivery. But if she doesn't come early I'm planning to try to go back. Otherwise that's a week of sick leave I have to take, which is tricky considering the only pay I get is from my sick leave (and I only have 12 days left!). Blah. What a mess. A lot of the teachers at my school worked up until a day or two before their delivery date, it's a common teacher thing because the only paid leave we get is whatever sick days we have.

 

[Whimsical88]

its good news that your results were good. i think now its just counting down to baby. i can not believe its been 30 weeks. wow. happy 30 weeks by the way. so lets now get all baby talk. are you BF? natural of c section birth? that whole placenta thing is something you are doing? hows DH now knowing soon he will be a dad?

i guess if you dont have baby then you will have to suck it up and go back to work. its sad that you dont get paid other than sick leave. every bit counts. i dont have sick leave because of the ops i been for, ate all my sick leave. now when i am sick, i have to come to work, and when i can not manage, i have to take annual leave.

 

[Sheece]

Glad your results were good Angel! Blue Apron sounds like a really good idea. They don't have that here (Australia) but there are a few similar things, but they are quite expensive I've been looking for discount vouchers or something hehe

 

[broodymrs]

Yay for no gd. We really need to improve our diet too but our delivery options are so expensive. My brother gets hello fresh and gusto and they spend a fortune.

 

[Angel5000]

I've got my 30 week appointment today. I'm so over these appointments! after going in the last 3 weeks I'm ready to just be done with doctor offices for awhile. I also switched clinic locations, which makes me a little nervous just because I'm comfortable with my other clinic and even though I'll see the same doctor the office staff is different and I've never been to this location so I don't know exactly where their office is, etc. Seems silly, I'm sure, but I don't like changing out of my comfort zone. I didn't have much choice though since my doctor works at 2 clinics and she changed her hours so she was only seeing patients until noon at my clinic and she does afternoons at the other location.

Otherwise things are good.


Whimsical - Yep, now just count down to baby. I'm going to try to BF if I can. I know that my mom and sister both had trouble producing enough milk so there's a possibility I'll have issues, but we'll see. I do want to try to BF. The goal is a vaginal birth but probably with some pain meds, I don't think I can do it completely natural. I'm trying to avoid c-section but if they determine I need it I will, I just don't relish the idea of being cut open. I have no plans to do anything with the placenta. I don't quite understand the whole thing and it sort of weirds me out. DH is doing fine. He's getting excited. He loves babies and he can't wait to have her here.

Honestly I'm lucky I get sick leave. A lot of jobs don't provide that, or give less than I get, so I'm trying to be positive. Most teachers build up their leave before taking maternity but I changed states 2 years ago and the leave isn't transferable between states so I lost something like 30-40 days of paid leave when I left Texas to move to Washington. And then my leave last year was all used up because of all the appointments I was having with testing and then with the high risk appointments.


Sheece - most home delivery options are spendy. Blue Apron was one of the cheaper options and it's still pretty expensive, but it is cheaper than us coming home and going "I don't want to cook (or don't know what to cook) so lets just order out". lol. We're only going to manage it one or two weeks a month though. Some weeks we just don't like the selections and some weeks we just don't want to pay for it.

Broody - Oh yeah, it can be really expensive. With just the two of us we can be on the cheaper plan and we're only doing it 1-2 times a month instead of every week. Otherwise there's no way we could sustain it. But in the end it's cheaper than what we're doing right now which is deciding that neither of us want to cook because we don't know WHAT to cook so we just order out. We'll see how it works though and if we keep it up

 

[Whimsical88]

good luck with the appt. hope baby is doing well and you dont have to do anymore appt till when baby decides she wants to come.

i read somewhere there is something to take for making more milk. maybe google it, alot of people do have that problem. if i do come across it again, will let you know. i never knew you could make yourself make more milk. learning all the time.

vag births just scare the life out of me. i mean the whole head through a pin head gap just makes me freak out! but it would be wonderful if you can do it. its better than being cut (coming from a person that was cut twice).

that placenta thing, i just dont know why you would want to do it. its weird for me.

if only you could have cashed out those sick leave days at the other job, would have made some difference. as far as eating places like you guys have, we dont have it. maybe in the bigger cities they do but not in the areas we live. i have to prepare every meal and most days are 3 meals a day so its the hardest thing ever to always decided what to cook. most times we just go fried and unhealthy.

 

[broodymrs]

You might be surprised with your milk supply. My mum had supply issues but I was the opposite. My family actually called me mummy moo cow while I was bfing! I could have fed a small country! Also the more you feed, the more you produce. I think fenugreek and oatmeal helps with supply.

With the birth, coming from someone who had a long labour and emergency section my advice would be just go with the flow. I loved the birthing pool and pethidine, hated being induced and the epidural. And the section wasn't bad at all. I think when you have a set idea of how you want things to go that's when you can sometimes end up being disappointed.

 

[Sheece]

Whimsy, I read "pin head gap" while I was eating lunch and just about spat it back out again, hahaha too funny.

Well I hope this isn't a bad sign .. the hospital attached to where I'm getting my ultrasound done on Friday caught fire yesterday!! I don't know if it was effected, but it was on the same floor as the fire. I guess I'll get a call if it's cancelled!

 

[broodymrs]

Oh no! Hope you can still go!

 

[Whimsical88]

broody its was fenugreek that makes more milk. im not sure how you supposed to have it but Angel heres some homework for you if you do end up needing it.

sheece, i sure hope your appt is able to remain. it was 2 more days then answers. i dont think you may be affected much. may be that you will have longer waiting periods if they try to share space but lets hope it does not affect you.

Broody pethidine?? whats that? wana tell me whats it like having the epidural?

because i had a laparoscope and 2 laparotomys done, i know what a c section is like and how it would feel. i know the pain, the body restrictions but vag birth i know nothing. i am not pregnant. just asking.

 

[broodymrs]

Pethidine is an opiate so you just feel all floaty and nicely numb. It helped me get some sleep too.

Getting the epidural didn't actually hurt but dh nearly passed out as he saw the massive needle and they actually asked him to hold something to help out! He just went grey and slumped to the floor, meanwhile I was hunched over trying not to move during contractions as they stuck a huge needle in my spine. Men! 🙄

Once the epi was in I had a button to press to top it up and I overdid it and ended up not being able to move at all. They had to come and keep changing my position for me and when they lost Dyl's heartbeat I was just flung about like a piece of meat as I was completely paralysed. For months after the birth, sometimes even now the injection site goes numb and really itchy on my back.

 

[Sheece]

Well I haven't got a call from them so I'm presuming its all good for tomorrow hehe. I'm going to take the whole day off work and do some shopping before hand too, so productive day. And a bonus long weekend is never a bad thing

Broody, woah. That sounds full on! And of course your DH nearly passed out ha ha men are funny.

 

[Angel5000]

Wow Broody that sounds crazy!

Sheece - good luck at your appointment! FX nothing happened and your clinic is still open and running well!

 

[Sheece]

I just got a confirmation text so all seems well for tomorrow! Booked in for a haircut too, bit of pampering before hand will help hopefully hehe

 

[Whimsical88]

oh broody thats scary. i hope with this c section you have a much better experience.

Sheece fx everything goes well and you have a way forward. (p.s. im sure the shopping and hair cut will make you feel less stressed going to the doc after.)

 

[broodymrs]

Sheece sounds you have a nice day planned. Good call taking the day off. Enjoy and hoping for good news from your scan