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thank you so much!
i will definitely be looking into and researching that!
is it like meditation?
 
i am still very worried about miscarriage or complications as well
but i figure we will cross that bridge if it appears on our journey
rather plan for the positive and not the negative
positive energy helps to bring positive results
That's a really great way to think/feel. I'm trying to stay positive as I belive positive vibes bring a positive outcome..though this is harder some days than others!! Xoxo
 
thank you so much!
i will definitely be looking into and researching that!
is it like meditation?

Yes it is I guess. It basically teaches you not to think about the pain but to focus your attention on what your body needs and to concentrate your energy on your uterus instead of getting worked up and making a lot of erratic movement and noise which drains you and uses up much needed energy.
I was Instantly drawn to the poster when I went for my 20 wk scan and it was right up my street..people I told mocked me a bit but when they heard I'd had a near 9 lb baby with only a little gas and air they weren't laughing then!! Haha xoxo
 
i totally agree with you on that one Happy happy
one day i am freaking out and so worried and scared
and the next i am totally happy excited and positive
well more like one half of the day versus the other haha
i think thats part of the mood swing aspect too

but one thing is for sure im always impatient
cant wait for first appointment/ultrasound
cant wait to see my tickers move along and give me new info on baby size and development
cant wait for 12/13 week ultrasound and hoping i can get a good picture of baby
so i can put the nub theory to test since its suppose to 97% accurate and post a thread on the gender prediction section and see what others think (if i ever get a 12/13 week ultrasound not sure if my midwife does one another thing i need to write down so i can keep track of what to ask at that first appointment i can already tell im going to be reading back in this thread when im writing everything down probably tomorrow)
cant wait to have a bump
cant wait to tell family (and i can very scared mixed feelings about that one as you probably read earlier)
cant wait to get maternity clothes
cant wait for doctors to predict gender
cant wait to buy baby items
have a baby shower
feel baby move
and of course give birth and hold baby and breastfeed and take baby home ect

^not necessarily in that order of course haha
 
oh wow 9lbs that is chunky monkey for sure
i bet was super adorable though!
did she lose much birth weight?
very unusual for your first to be that large
i feel inspired by you and i admire you for pulling through it so well
i can only imagine
(oh no here comes feeling scared again haha jk jk)
 
I can't wait for all those milestones either!! So excited! !
I feel, once we hopefully get our 12wk scan all will be super!!
Haha she was actually 8lb 11.5oz but who's splitting hairs...she was a chunk and cane out very fast once the head was delivered resulting in a 3rd degree tear. ..ouchee. .she fed for 45 mins straight away!! I think she was 8lb 7 or 8 when she came home at 2 days old but was 10 lb 6 oz by 3 weeks!! She's 2 yr old now and on the 98th percentile for her height and weight and absolutely gorgeous...totally unbiased of course!! I loved giving birth and can't wait to go through it again!! Xoxo
 
Ahhh our due dates are only a day apart. .In theory..I'm 6 weeks today! ! Xoxo
 
I can't wait for all those milestones either!! So excited! !
I feel, once we hopefully get our 12wk scan all will be super!!
Haha she was actually 8lb 11.5oz but who's splitting hairs...she was a chunk and cane out very fast once the head was delivered resulting in a 3rd degree tear. ..ouchee. .she fed for 45 mins straight away!! I think she was 8lb 7 or 8 when she came home at 2 days old but was 10 lb 6 oz by 3 weeks!! She's 2 yr old now and on the 98th percentile for her height and weight and absolutely gorgeous...totally unbiased of course!! I loved giving birth and can't wait to go through it again!! Xoxo


that is such a beautiful story!
you are making me even more impatient!

oh yeah and i cant believe i forgot the biggest milestone im impatient about
getting out of the first tri so i dont have to worry about miscarriage anymore (as much i know its still a possibility in second tri just very unlikely/rare as i understand correct?)

thats not very much lost birth weight at all
probably because she fed so well straight away
breast feeding bottle or formula bottle?
 
Ahhh our due dates are only a day apart. .In theory..I'm 6 weeks today! ! Xoxo


well technically i think im about 4 days behind my ticker
because my LMP was the night of the 26th or the day of the 27th of april (we were not trying not preventing for the first time last cycle so didnt obsess. go figure!) but i have 30-31 day cycle and i dont temp and that month since we were not trying not preventing i wasnt tracking EWCM. according to all the online ovulation predictors i should ovulate on the 17th or 18th day of my cycle (which is what we had been going by for the previous three months :wacko:) which would have been the 12th or the 13th of may but the only day we DTD was the 15th and that would have been cycle day 20! so i must have ovulated close to that day because if i ovulated on the 15th that would only give me a 11-12 day luteal phase because my expected period was the 26th or 27th of may. which is short right? so couldnt really get much shorter? anyways i hope we DTD close to ovulation because we really want a boy (shettles method male sperm fast swimmers die quicker female sperm slower swimmers live longer so DTD day or two before O = more likely chances of girl DTD very close to O = more likely chances of boy) my initial gut feeling is boy and so was OHs and some of my friend's but now im really thinking boy because some of the old wives tales point to boy (skin clearing up no morning sickness although may be just too early hairy legs, and some others i cant think of) and chinese gender charts say boy both with my lunar age and my regular age. plus i just feel like its a boy now. weird

also i use the "thanks" button as a like button sometimes haha
 
Ahh sorry but the whole experience of being pregnant and giving birth then being a mummy is amazing!! Yeah, losses after 1st tri are a lot less common so we can learn relax a little then hopefully!!
I breastfeeding fed initially, for the first week but then got mastitis really bad, my health visitor said it was the worst she had seen, so I reluctantly switched to formula as she was a big baby and needed a lot of feeding which I just wasn't upto.
definitely going to try and breastfeed our next baby though but won't put as much pressure on myself as, as long as baby is happy and healthy, how they are fed is irrelevant xx
 
oh no!
i would be devastated if i couldnt breast feed and even more devastated if i had to use formula!
you are so strong!
what is mastitis?
sorry im so new to all of this
 
Crikey...you've really got things worked out!! I didn't do any charting, temping etc. Just let nature takes its course. .she took her time but we got there in the end!!
My LMP was 25th April and I'm pretty regular 28 day cycle so I'm around 6 weeks today :))
Hopefully my blood tests will give a more accurate result .. requested samples to be taken to confirm pregnancy is progressing xoxo
 
It's were the old milk builds up and blocks the milk ducts. There are various things you can do to ease the discomfort but my breasts were so sore and swollen they were bright red, hot and shiny...admittedly not my best look!! I tried warm showers and cool cabbage leaves but nothing ease the pressure, I cried for days and felt a failure but even my midwife said the 1st week is the most crucial time to breastfeed, which I had luckily managed so I just had to admit defeat. I could have tried again but I was so scared of being in so much pain again..plus mastitis combined with stitches from the tear and being home alone with a newborn was just too much. Using a bottle ment my DH could get involved too which was super important as he works long hours all week and works for himself so couldn't take time off when she was born xoxo
 
we let nature take its course for the first couple of months
but i never knew it took people so long to get pregnant sometimes i thought it was like an instant thing like first try boom like it is for animals pretty much
and you always hear about people getting knocked up
when we got into it i knew nothing about cycle lengths and EWCM and ovulation dates ect.
but i quickly researched it online after those first few months
and began to obsess and tried to do everything right except temping
actually my OB at my pre conception visit said if we dont get pregnant in eight months she would refer us to a fertility specialist. so if we didnt get prengnant in june we were going to get referred
well this last cycle i decided to stop "trying" stop obsessing stop symptom spotting and everything and just go with the flow not trying not preventing and let nature takes its course
the dog i grew up with for 10 years we just had to put down because he was dying of cancer he had a huge tumor and smaller tumors and wasnt doing well after a stupid vet went to operate on it cut into and THEN decided he was in over his head and sewed him back up. anyways about a month a half to two months after that operation he stopped eating and was dry heaving stomach acid alllll day long and was hiding outside behind the shed and didnt want to come (he knew it was time and so did we) in so at 1am in the morning on the 15th my mom my OH and i decided to take him to the emergency pet hospital and had him put down so we picked up my dad (they are divorced but have a good relationship with each other still and my dad loved gilbert) and took him in and put him out of his suffering. i held his paw until he breathed his very last breath it was the first time i had ever gone through something like that (where i was present when a part of the family passed and helped them through it) and was very hard and still is. so that probably caused me to not think so much about ttc too. anyways though that same night when we got home from putting him down was the only night that month that me and OH DTD so we must have conceived that night. i always believed that old life has to pass before new life can enter the world. my mom and dad tried for 9 years to have baby went through miscarriage after miscarriage and fertility drugs everything and the month my dads mom passed they conceived my oldest sister ashley naturally. this baby was gilbert's gift to us

oh no im sorry!
yeah i would probably do the same thing if it was so painful and i already had so much to juggle
im surprised there isnt a procedure they can do to clear out the old milk
or is it a like an ongoing thing old milk continues to build up and clog

i will hopefully be breastfeeding the majority of the time but definitely pumping too and letting DH bottle feed her at least once or twice a day when he gets home from work
 
Baby feva, really hope that you get the numbers you need next time, just remember no pregnancy is the same, sometimes they aren't text book but work out just fine.

Wnt2- hope you feel better soon.

Welcome to our newbies xx
 
Oh gosh that's so tough but I also believe the same, that as one life ends another is created. We were going to wait until this Christmas, which would have been over a yr ttc after our mmc, until we sought help with ttc but luckily it's happened! !
I think the milk just builds up which is why you get the fever etc and the old milk is just getting older and your getting more engorged etc..i don't know the exact ins and outs of it to be honest I just know it bloody hurts!!
that's the route I wanted to take with my DD and what I hope to do next time round so I get to hopefully breastfeed but DH and DD can get involved and bottle feed what I can express after I've established a beast feeding routine with baby xx
 
well im hoping this time around your breasts cooperate!
if not just beat them into submission haha just kidding
fingers crossed for you that you get to fulfill that goal with this baby!

im headed to bed right now though
its 1:30am here and the only reason i am still awake is because OH doesnt have to work tomorrow so he is up playing his game haha
but im having trouble keeping my eyes open now
goodnight! i know its morning for you so i hope you have a wonderful day
 
welcome!
glad to see you have decided to post
im headed to bed though (for reals this time)
its a quarter till 2am
but i will be here tomorrow
hope to see and chat with you then!
 

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