Oh wow Topaz! What fantastic news! Huge congratulations to you too! Woo hoo! You've made my morning!
Looks like luck is on the up on this thread. Who's next?
Good luck Cranberry - sounds like you got the timing right so there's no reason to be pessimistic. You have every chance of success - and our girls are certainly proving this can work.
Fingers crossed for you.
Good luck with the scan on Wednesday EPTC. I bet you're excited to find out the gender.
I still kind of wish we knew, but we'll find out soon enough now.
Dollface, Metformin can help to regulate cycles and trigger normal ovulation in women who have blood suger issues and/or PCOS. I have PCOS but my blood sugar/insulin is fine - though simply having PCOS means I'm at a slightly higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes in the future so they are linked. It's a diabetes drug but they found out that ovulation induction in anovulatory women was an unexpected side-effect when they did the trials so over time it's also become used as a fertility drug. It does have nasty side effects but I found these wore off after a few months each time I started on it and it did help massively with weight loss. Plus I just don't have regular cycles, or ovulate, without it. One of the benefits is that it just triggers a normal ovulation so there's no greater chance of a multiple pregnancy whereas with something like Clomid you're stimulating the process so there's a higher chance of releasing two or more eggs.
Still no baby for my client, but I saw her yesterday and she's feeling quite upbeat, if uncomfortable. As for when to book your doula, I've had clients call me even before they were pregnant before now, including one woman who wasn't willing to start trying to get pregnant until she knew she could book me. I won't take a formal booking for someone before 12 weeks but if they contact me earlier than that I will happily 'hold a space' for them. I've also been booked as late as 39 weeks though so it varies a lot and I work closely with another local doula so we can back each other up if we end up with clients with due dates close together. I prefer not to book clients due less than 3 weeks apart but every doula is different in that regard.
This client will be my last though (apart from informal repeat bookings) because once the baby currently kicking me in the ribs is old enough I'm going to go back to school to become a midwife.
Best wishes all round,
Gina. x
But wanted to wish you luck!
xx
