Getting Fit Before Baby

[MissDoc]

Urs-- So so happy to hear your updates. ESPECIALLY THE BFP! ahhh! Congratulations. You must be to the moon with excitement. How does your partner feel about it?

Swimmy-- Ooooh, it's go time! Eek, that is so exciting. I hope the timing is just right and everything goes smoothly!

Krissie-- Holy cow! Congratulations on your amazing birth-- you are a rock star momma... natural childbirth is no joke! I want to go natural again if we get lucky enough to have a second but I had major tearing and rough recovery the last time so it makes me nervous. Your daughter is beautiful! Does it feel wild to realize you have a daughter now? A sweet little boy and lovely little girl. What a precious family!

Fern, hope things chill out for you soon and pregnancy is on the horizon!


Nothing to report here, other than tomorrow's my bday. Still avoiding health changes like the plague, lol, need to get with it! Whoever said breastfeeding makes the weight fall off, shame on them! I've been breast feeding 8 months and am still 20 lbs up over pre-preg weight. Breastfeeding makes me ravenous all the time. And if I exercise, I get even hungrier and just replace the calories I burned by eating more. Ugh.

 

[krissie328]

Urs- fantastic update! Congrats again.

MissDoc- it was one heck of a ride but if we have another baby I would do it again. My recovery was so much better this time.

It has been crazy thinking about the fact we have two and one of each. It was always what I wanted and its hard to beleive it. She has fit in so well and it such a sweet and content baby. I can honestly say I would be willing to go for a third if things line up in a couple years and DH agrees. But at this point I'm finding it unlikely to happen, which I'm sure I'll be okay with too.

 

[swimmyj1]

urs - i knew it! yay!!! so excited for you!!!!! can't wait for more updates

Doc - hahaha i was thinking the same thing about breastfeeding!! i put on more weight while breastfeeding than when i was pregnant! I was sooooo mad lol hungry all the time. I didn't get anywhere until after I stopped breastfeeding it was so frustrating but i get their nutrition is more important. I'm sure the weight will come off once your done nursing.

krissie - i'm just so happy for you, everytime i see the picture of them together it just looks so complete I always thought i would want 2 boys or even one of each but its funny how things change because now i would be more than over joyed with 2 girls hahaha but thats me getting ahead of myself.

AFM - i forgot how much i felt totally crazy on clomid lol. I can't stop obsessing and its driving me nuts. I keep going over my previous cycles over and over. ones without clomid and ones with trying to get the timing right. (this would be soooo much easier if i had more regular cycles hahaha. As it stands I'm going to "implant" on feb 15th. That would put me on CD 16 and hopefully i ovulate that night or the next day. on clomid i ovulated anywhere between CD 15 and CD 18. Sorry for the rambling. I for sure can say that if we do a donor again i'm going to do it with the clinic no at home lol. The clinic has the freezers needed to keep samples until needed.

 

[swimmyj1]

hope everyone has a wonderful valentines day tomorrow

 

[Fern81]

Hi swimmy fx for you especially with those clomid hormones! I remember those!
So we have decided that unless we win the lotto we are one and done lol. I don't think I'll have a hysterectomy until next year (medical aid fund issues) but until then, welp we barely have sex as it is and I'm infertile so we're good. I am really VERY VERY happy with baby G! And am saving up for the metabolic diet. I think that's the best thing ever.

 

[Fern81]

Urs and irym- news!!

 

[krissie328]

hope everyone has a wonderful valentines day tomorrow

Happy Valentine's! I hope your insem goes well. Ftx you catch that egg.

Fern- it is such a hard decision to decide to be oad. But when we had decided that I was looking forward to it.

 

[swimmyj1]

Fern - what is the metabolic diet?

I’m annoyed I’ve come down with this respiratory sickness and I think it has completely messed up my temp charting this month. I think I’ll disregard the unusually high temps. I tested 3 times with an opk that day so no way I missed my surge and ive never ovulated that early even on clomid. But of course it has me worried I missed my opportunity.

 

[krissie328]

Aww swimmy that is so frustrating. I really hope you haven't missed it.

How are you irym and Ursula? So excited to hear how your pregnancies are going.

Afm, things seem to be settling in okay. My bp is still higher but not dangerous so hopefully it will continue to go down. I'm trying to lose weight and eat low carb and lower sodium so hopefully those together will get my bp under control.

Alice is such a sweet baby. She isn't sleeping well at night and having ds at home I can't sleep during the day with her, so I'm very tired. I hope her sleeping sorts itself soon. I think with ds he was 5 weeks when it switched. But I feel so blessed that my son is such a good boy and has taken to her so well. He keeps telling me he wants a big baby sister because he wants to play tractors with her.

 

[Fern81]

Naaawww disregard those temps Swimmy. We were moving around so much between here, my parents, guest house etc because we are STILL having the flood damage from Oct last year fixed; (and of course baby couldn't be here when the floors took forever to be sanded and sealed) plus I started taking my bbt again to see if my cycles have started regulating again after the failed FET last year, because of course I would love to have normal healthy hormone levels back. Around days 13-16 my bbt SPIKED through the roof and I thought I ovulated. I wasn't sick. On cd 16 it went down to 36.1. Ok, confusing. On cd 18 I clearly recognized ovulation pain on my left side for the first time since G has been born. Quickly took an ovulation test and it was very very positive. So I packed away my thermometer; clearly other factors were influencing those temps. You know your body better Swimmy. I think you are right and it was just the illness. Fx fx!

The metabolic diet: well (at least what it means over here) there is a specialist in my city who takes a blood sample, sends it to Germany and then a specialist over there tests a bunch of hormones eg thyroid, adrenals, pancreatic hormones etc. They tailor make an eating plan for you body's needs. Eg a person who has hypothyroidism vs one with pcos vs one with adrenal fatigue all have different nutritional needs. Then you also get counselling for 12 weeks because it's a holistic approach; optimal health needs a healthy mind, body and soul etc etc. My bff will be doing it now; I can't afford it right now so I'll first see and find out exactly what the process entails from her point of view.

Aaaawww krissy I'm so glad your family situation sounds so amazing right now! Hope she sleeps better soon. Xx

 

[Ursaula]

Thank you to everyone for the congratulations! It makes me happy. My partner is trying to not be over-joyed as I'm still first trimester. He even THINKS we won't buy anything for baby until I'm about to pop, HA!

Krissie: I love your updates about your little man. He sounds so excited for his new sister. Too cute. Glad your bp is lowering. Praying sleep comes soon for you, too!

Swimmy: Illness really throws of BBT so I agree, disregard those temps. Other than the temps off, would everything else have been in place? (EWCM, CP, etc?).

Fern: I've never heard anything like that. Do they take allergies into account when making plans?

AFM: Nausea and vomiting. I'm 7 weeks 3 days. I can't keep anything down. Soda crackers, even just water. I'm making an appointment for help with my gp. Do any of you gals have advice until then? I wake up multiple times in the night for it as well. My breasts have gotten huge and hurt and I'm starting to pee more, always freezing. I just need help with the morning (24/7) sickness. My mental stability has declined, however was told if I'm feeling this poor physically it should decline some. I agree with that but I do see my psychiatrist in a week now. My first ob/gyn appointment is March 1. Will she check for a heartbeat? My next ultrasound is March 7 so I haven't seen baby or heard a heartbeat yet.

 

[swimmyj1]

Urs - sounds like that is a strong pregnancy you’ve got going on!!! I lost weight my first tri due to nausea. Only thing that helped me was hard candies .... I would suck on those on and off through out the day and it kept the nausea at bay. I would think they would try for a heart beat but might not be able to get it yet. My dr couldn’t get lizzys in office until 12 weeks. They did an ultrasound to recheck for a heart beat at 10 weeks.


Fern - it’s ashame that it’s so expensive to do the testing because that sounds amazing! It would be great to find out exactly what your body needs.

Krissie - hang in there hun I’m sure sleep is not happening much at all right now not much help for the here and now but you will blink and she will be sleeping through the night. Hopefully she follows the same pattern as your DS.

Afm - I’ve had 2 days of strong + opks and lots of Ewcm. I implanted the donor today so hopefully I hit the timing ok. Weird thing is I didn’t have any ovulation cramping like i usually do. I had that cramping around cd13??? Guess I’ll just wait and see what happens sense temping is out lol. I’m gonna start progesterone in 3 days just to be sure I’m post ovulation.

 

[swimmyj1]

I’m so annoyed at wondfos the evap lines are horrible!!!

 

[krissie328]

Wow that is super convincing swimmy.

 

[Ursaula]

Swimmy: When do you plan to start testing with hpt other than wondfo? Or are you hoping to hold out unless something is obvious?

AFM: I caved and ended up at the doctors. Severely dehydrated and my blood pressure was low. I'm now on a vomiting/nausea med (Diclectin?). It helps quite a bit. My brain chemicals are crazy. I've had a very hard week mentally. Relieved I see my psychiatrist tomorrow.

Thinking of you all.

 

[swimmyj1]

I'm going to test on Saturday or sunday. If I don't get a BFP by 14DPO I'll stop the progesterone. I forgot how horrible nauseous it makes me ugh stupid false symptoms lol.

Krissie - how has it been going? getting any better with sleep?

urs - glad they could get you started on something, sorry you have been feeling so ill (but on a plus side yay for a strong pregnancy from the sound of it!!) Glad that you are getting in with your therapist tomorrow its good to be able to talk things out

 

[krissie328]

Urs- so sorry you are struggling.. I hope the meds help.

Swimmy- good luck testing. Ftx for your bfp!

Afm, sleep has been better. I'm certian Alice had silent reflux. I've found holding her upright for 15-20 mins after eating and elevating her to sleep has almost eliminated her grunting and noise. Which means mommy can sleep between feeds.

I also feel soo much better. I've been cleaning my house and it feels so nice.

I'm getting ready to get quotes on redoing my master bathroom. I'm so excited. It's a small space but its a gut job. I want everything redone so it's gonna be a project but I'm looking forward to using it as it has not been usable the 3 years we've lived here. I'm hoping it can be done the last week of March. Happy birthday to me!

 

[swimmyj1]

I’ve decided if I don’t get pregnant this cycle I’m gonna talk with my dh and use our tax return for a nice vacation and to redo our kitchen floors lol. So at least then I will have something to look forward to either way Hahahaha.

Not doing well at all regarding healthy food choices and they cut the hours of my gym daycare. Hopefully as the weather gets warmer me and lizzy can get out and hike!!! I had a really rough night at work, having an unresponsive 5 month old is not something I will ever get use to seeing

 

[swimmyj1]

10dpo and negative I forgot how depressed ttc can make you lol

 

[MissDoc]

Swimmy, sorry for the negative tests so far. Especially after that darn convincing wondfo... no fair! Hope the next few days bring a positive test though.

Krissie, so glad you're feeling better. Reflux is sooo awful. Mine had it so bad... his temperament was night and day different once he grew out of that.