Ltttc graduates!

[Bravemom]

Peace you made it ,you bloody well made it

 

[peacebaby]

Haha yeah can't believe it.... Thank you for all comforting and encouraging words

 

[Bravemom]

Haha yeah can't believe it.... Thank you for all comforting and encouraging words

Always here for you Hun ,

 

[crystal443]

WOO HOO, you did it Peace!!!!!!!

 

[Barbi]

Congrats to you both Hockey and Barbi

Barbi the 1st tri is always so stressful but try to stay positive. The risk factors can sometimes be so arbitrary. Have you heard of the Harmoni test, it's a non invasive blood test for 3 trisomies and said to be 99% accurate. With low PAPP, I believe Lady H was told the same and her little girl is perfect! Stay hopeful and strong!

Hi Peace,

Quick question, I see everyone is congratulating you on something, I am not sure what yet, haven't read back far enough, but are you now due to have the baby or have you had the baby already? Either way, congratulations from me too.

Regarding the Harmony test, yes I have heard of it, I don't know if it is available in Australia, I'm sure other ladies who are from Aus could answer that for me, but so far my hospital has not offered that test. I think that might be because they prefer to do the amnio or cvs and I am not interested in doing either of those. I also cannot afford to do any other tests that may cost me money as I am not working currently and my partner and I are living on one wage, a source of great deal of stress for me. I also do not really want to find out for sure, my gut feeling tells me she is fine and even if she turns out to have DS, we are going to keep her regardless, so there is no need for me to find out.

I am having a morph scan on the 22nd of this month. I have already had one of those scans done on 15 April last, which turned out to be a week too early in terms of gestation. The scan revealed an echo focus in her heart, which is normal if you are not at high risk, but because I am at high risk for abnormalities means it is considered to be a soft marker for DS again. We are therefore going to have four to six weekly scans and the first one will be done next Wednesday 22 May. These scans will also monitor her growth as well.

 

[crystal443]

Barbi, the Harmony test is available in oz, Monash offers it in Melbourne not sure where you are in Australia. The cost is $850.00 and there is no medicare rebate available for the test.

 

[Barbi]

Barbi, the Harmony test is available in oz, Monash offers it in Melbourne not sure where you are in Australia. The cost is $850.00 and there is no medicare rebate available for the test.

Wow, $850.00 is a lot, although I have heard of it being closer to $1000. I don't think it would be worth doing the test for me if I wasn't going to terminate the pregnancy in any event. My man and I will keep her regardless if we found out she had DS for sure. I'm in Adelaide Crystal, not sure where you are based right now, have seen from some of the posts that you are in Capetown? Or are you in Melbourne still? Not sure, blame it on baby brains. Lol, talk about baby brains, last week I was playing poker out one night, had not played for a long time, one of my hands was a 9 and 7 of clubs, the board came out with 9, K, 7; of course I thought I had two pair and took it all the way to the end, then discovered I had 9 and 6 in my hand, one pair only. Everyone at the table said it happens to the best of us, I just said I have a good reason why, I'm growing a mini me inside of me, so blame it on baby brains.

 

[Milty]

Congrats Peace....now you can go for a long walk!

 

[crystal443]

Barbi, if the results don't make any difference to you then there's no need spending money on the test especially without even a medicare rebate I live in Melbourne but we're headed to Cape Town the end of June for a DE cycle

Hopefully you weren't playing poker with money You have a very good reason to have played that hand

Milty, hope you had a lovely Mother's Day!!!

 

[Barbi]

Barbi, if the results don't make any difference to you then there's no need spending money on the test especially without even a medicare rebate I live in Melbourne but we're headed to Cape Town the end of June for a DE cycle

Hopefully you weren't playing poker with money You have a very good reason to have played that hand

Milty, hope you had a lovely Mother's Day!!!

Thanks Crystal , good luck with DE cycle. Poker was at the local community club and doesn't involve money. You cannot play with real money anywhere except for the casinos in Australia, so lucky it wasn't at the cass.

 

[LLbean]

Peace the princess listened to her aunties and stayed put until she was better "cooked" now she can come right? Yey!

 

[Barbi]

Go to ticker factory and create one then add the code to your signature....a tally there are many ticker sites to choose from. Do a google search

Thanks LL for your direction on how to do this. Just testing to see if what I have done has worked.

 

[Barbi]

Well it doesn't look like I have done the right thing, I copied the codes into my signature, saved and I assumed it would just insert it, but guess not. Will look into it further.

 

[Barbi]

Lets try this again.

 

[crystal443]

Barbi, your tickers are working

 

[Barbi]

Barbi, your tickers are working

Yay, I was hoping it would. Just one thing, my ticker says I am 22 weeks 1 day, when I am actually 21 weeks and three days according to my calculations and the amount of days remaining on the tickers says 130 days, which in fact makes it correct to my calculations being 21 weeks and 3 days, not 22+1. Anyway, I am sure that I am just being pedantic with this as I always am. I'm studying at uni and have an 3500 assignment due by next Monday and of course that means I am stressing about getting the work done, which usually means that I focus on everything else other than the task ahead with my studies. I do this every time and when I get the work done I say to myself why I couldn't do it sooner. I just never do.

On the pregnancy side, does anyone have serious cravings for particular foods or drinks? Mine right now seems to be I cannot get enough of the stuff, of course I do try and go with decaf, but as my partner points out, there is more caffeine in coke, which I also cannot stay away from. Oh well, I'm sure things will be ok if I do eat as healthy as I can.

 

[Sus09]

Hello ladies!

I cannot believe I have not been here for over a week time flies!

I am busy trying to sleep train Lia and get her to be interested in food. My child is a poor sleeper and a poor eater! hard work. I get serious screaming every night as Lia is in her big cot and I totally shattered I hope it gets better. I have been doing it for 3 days and so far no improvement. They say it can take a couple of weeks to see some results.

Other than that, yay, more ladies on this thread

Peace, I am so happy you are now full term, now we are just waiting for your little one to arrive

Milty, Ll, Bmom, Jax, Wana, Crystal, and everyone else Hope you are all doing great.

 

[crystal443]

Peace, how are you feeling? Any signs she's coming anytime soon?

 

[peacebaby]

Hi ladies

LL yip she listened to her aunties

Barbi, in 2nd tri i craved Coke too. I tried to balance it out with lots of water and fruit & veg. Your tickers look lovely!

Sus, love the new avatar..she looks so grown up already

Crystal, who knows what my body is up to. I've had lots of BHs today and was speaking to a La Leche league leader who is a mom of 5 including twins, she said some BHs are like the real thing for lots of women. The midwives said i could go out for walks now but after 7+wks of mostly lying down i am hopelessly unfit! She did add 'stay close to home'.

everyone!

 

[Barbi]

Hi ladies

LL yip she listened to her aunties

Barbi, in 2nd tri i craved Coke too. I tried to balance it out with lots of water and fruit & veg. Your tickers look lovely!

Sus, love the new avatar..she looks so grown up already

Crystal, who knows what my body is up to. I've had lots of BHs today and was speaking to a La Leche league leader who is a mom of 5 including twins, she said some BHs are like the real thing for lots of women. The midwives said i could go out for walks now but after 7+wks of mostly lying down i am hopelessly unfit! She did add 'stay close to home'.

everyone!

Hi Peace

She won't be long now, I can feel it, despite never having given birth before, how far overdue are you now? Or is it only just due? Not sure. In any event, she'll be with you soon. Lots of luck .

On the cravings, I try to balance it out with lots of good food, especially fruit and veg, and try and drink my quota of water for the day.

Yesterday was a hard day for me, I was facing bankruptcy because my bank was being extremely difficult over a personal loan and visa card. I finally had the saving grace (Anglicare) give me a hand and I'll be seeing a financial counselor with my partner next Friday to sort things out.

I haven't worked for four weeks now and it has been eating at me for all that time. Yesterday's Australian Budget came out and gave me the biggest fright when they said the Baby bonus is being scrapped. I just thought that's my luck, I could have tried to have a baby so many years ago before now and now that I am pregnant the bonus is scrapped. My mum rang this morning all enthusiastic saying that only applies to people who get pregnant after 1 July 2013, but cos I'm already preggas I will still get the bonus. Guess I am lucky. On the work front I am going to work for one day as reception relief on Friday and couple of hours handover on Thursday. It's better than nothing I guess, could be better though.

I am looking forward to my scan this time next week, hope all is ok with her. My last scan was done too early and I am hoping that the results will be better this time.

Have a nice day everyone.