October Sticky Beans!

[krissie328]

Yay for 37 weeks.

 

[Angel5000]

Sam - oh wow I really like the way that system is set up. Makes it so much easier to take a bit of time off when you are doing 8 week sessions like that! Those sound like contractions (probably braxton hicks). I'm getting the same thing, only without the pain. My doctor says they're very normal and can happen several times a day, even several times an hour, as long as they aren't increasing to something like every 5-10 minutes. She recommended making sure to increase water intake to help, and try changing position if possible. Of course i laughed when she said to try laying down and see if that alleviates it because I can't exactly do that in the middle of teaching. Make sure to mention at your next appointment, especially since you are having pain with it, but I think it's normal at this point.

Heike - yay for reaching full term!!

Krissie - I really hope the clomid does it for you this cycle. Keeping FX crossed!

 

[cupcake.]

Well, baby girl seems to have made herself quite comfy in there now!
After looking like she might be here any minute last week, things have calmed down now.

She's around 47cm and 2900gram now and there's no telling when she'll be here! Uugh, getting so impatient and now she's decided she doesn't want to come out anymore! Ah well, most important that she's healthy

 

[krissie328]

Already a feisty little one Heike!! But absolutely the best thing is for her to keep cooking. She will be here soon.

Jess and Sam- definitely increase water. It will help a lot.

Shan- how are you feeling?

Afm, started clomid last night. I am starting to lose my optimistism that clomid is going to work for us. I am going to give it a go this cycle but I am really feeling like it might be time to move onto something else.

 

[lvksa]

Jess - it is definitely a benefit of working in a place that is women only. It just means everyone sort of gets it and that makes being pregnant and working so much easier. I ended up calling my doctor to check in because I continued to have the contractions every hour or two. She just said its normal and if the pain is strong do what you can to make yourself comfortable. Luckily, I am not having trouble dealing with it . Changing position or lying down doesn't do anything for me, haha.

Krissie - will do ❤️�� -- don't lose hope, this could be the cycle you need for it to work. You're in my prayers.

 

[Angel5000]

Today I'm so emotional. I haven't really been very emotional this pregnancy, but It's only 6:35am and I've been crying since I woke up. Not sure how I'll make it through the entire day of work, just hoping I Don't have a break down in front of class!


Heike - sounds like you've got a stubborn one there!

Krissie - Hoping that this cycle works for you. Is there a back up plan if clomid doesn't work?

Sam - Yes, that is definitely nice about being at a place that is women only!

 

[krissie328]

Jess- it is understandable. I hope you feel better soon.

Afm, no idea what the next step would be. I plan to meet with my doctor soon and discuss it. I have four rounds of 50 mg clomid left and 1 round of femara so I might exhaust those. We don't have the extra right now to really pursue much fertility treatment so outside of maybe injects we probably won't pursue anything else for a couple of years, if ever.

I am hoping my doctor will add in a trigger shot but I have no idea if he will. He is just a regular ob/gyn so I don't know how much fertility stuff he deals with outside of oral meds.

 

[Kaiecee]

I'm out again this month starting to take a toll

 

[krissie328]

I totally get it Kaiecee. I'm right there with you.

 

[Angel5000]

I'm having some pretty bad hip and pelvic pain. It's progressively gotten worse over the last week and now any sort of walking (or anything that requires moving my legs) is very painful. Mostly centered in my hips and pelvic bone (think near bikini line). I'm not sure how I'm going to go another 2 months if this doesn't stop.... sleeping last night could only happen with my body pillow folded between my legs, which was fine until I went to roll over and the pain of rolling over woke me up. A lot.

 

[krissie328]

I've heard of that Jess. Some women report physical therapy helps relieve some of the pain. I'm sorry you are going through it.

 

[cupcake.]

I'm sorry jess that sounds awful
I agree a lot of doctors here prescribe physical therapy to help with the pain.

Last night i was feeling very crampy with lots of lower back pain. I was so hoping that maybe something would start during the night but no haha

 

[Angel5000]

I'm going to talk to the doctor Tuesday and see if she can recommend some physical therapy or chiropractic or something.

 

[cupcake.]

How's everyone doing?

Since last night, all throughout the night and still now I've been losing ridiculous amounts of plug! There wasn't any blood with it ever but it's so incredibly much and just keeps coming out everytime i go to the bathroom.
I really don't want to get my hopes up again but those amounts of plug, seriously haha
I really hope it means little girl is getting ready

 

[krissie328]

She will be here before you know it Heike!

Things are going so slow here. I've been feeling really down about ttc and everything lately. Waiting to o at this point in about a week-week and a half or so. I'm not feeling very optimistic so I'm just hoping I can manage to bd at the right times.

 

[Angel5000]

Doing okay here. We got our floors in this weekend! Now that I see how lovely they are I wish I had done the bedrooms too! That's on our list for a year or so from now. We didn't have the money to swing the whole house, nor did we want to have to shuffle that much furniture around all at once. I already feel like I Feel a difference in my asthma though when we're in the main part of the house. It was really gross when they pulled up the carpet tos ee how much dirt and dust was under the carpet, and then they pulled up the carpet padding and I could see how much nasty crap had got below the pad onto the subfloor and, seriously, I can't believe all that hair, dirt, and dust was just sitting there! Yuck.

On another note -we went to the roller skating rink yesterday for my niece's birthday. I obviously did not get on roller skates, but was watching and a lady asked me when I was due. I told her January and her eyes got wide and she said "Oh my, I'm SO sorry. You look like you should be due any day now!" Yeah, lady, tell me about it!


Heike - you're so close!

Krissie - Hoping for the best timing for you this cycle!

 

[cupcake.]

I'm so sorry krissie, i'm having everything crossed for you!
But i remember how awful it feels to be in a funk like that and just have no hope, i felt like that all the time when i had all those anovulatory cycles

Jess, yay for new flooring, especially if it makes your asthma better! How's your pain?

 

[krissie328]

Thanks ladies.. it's so hard.

Jess- that just creeps me out! I want to get new flooring in my living room. I'm hoping this summer to do that. I'm sure it's nasty under the carpet. Did you replace it with carpet or do something else? We were thinking a laminate fake wood with a really large and plush throw rug.

 

[Angel5000]

The pain was great on Friday. We had no school in honor of Veteran's day & with the flooring mostly going in Friday I spent the day in my room, on my bed, with the dogs, not really moving around. So I felt great. Yesterday we were running errands and I was up and around more and the pain was bad again. Today it's off and on. But I'm not moving a lot. It's really bad if I try to balance on one leg so putting on pants is excruciating if I'm not sitting down. Going to probably spend the next few weeks teaching sitting down. WHich I HATE but not much I can do about it. I'll ask doc on Tuesday for recommendations.


Krissie - We replaced the main house (all except hte bedrooms) with a higher end laminate fake wood. We are going to get a nice large throw rug for the living room. I really wanted true hardwood but really couldn't manage the cost so we went in when Home Depot was having a sale on the laminate and the installation and was able to get some pretty nice laminate for a good price. Next year we will replace the bedrooms. We've debated about whether to use carpet again in bedrooms or switch those to wood too and I think after seeing how nasty that floor was, and doing some research, we've decided to do laminate wood for the bedrooms. Health wise I think it'll be better in the long run. It'll be colder (and we live in a cold climate) but that's what rugs and heaters are for.

 

[krissie328]

That's what we plan to do. We want to do laminate in the whole house except the hall and upstairs bedrooms. We do want carpet there. And then slate tiles in the bathrooms and kitchen.

Carpet can be so gross so I can't wait to get rid of it. Hopefully we can do it in two phases, upstairs this summer and downstairs the following winter or summer depending on if I get pregnant.