ok so who wants to get pregnant in 2011? (closed group)

[Dew]

NY, DH is meeting urologist on June 3 so we'll know more then.

 

[sarahincanada]

hey dew, forgot to mention 2 people in the over 35 folder just got BFPs after using the soft cups....one of them is 44! Im a little icky about using things like that but I could have hubby place then for me.

 

[sarahincanada]

baby aspirin helps to build uterin lining, make implantation easier, and prevent possible blood clotting in the placenta that forms once pregnant, which is a common cause of early MC. I quit it the other week just, since placenta shoulda been done forming.

I had such light, short periods that were NEVER red, that I read about it being a uterin lining issue. Then bam bfp. IDK...maybe, maybe not, but i'd like to think it helped me!

thanks for the info, I have pretty heavy periods so Im probably ok. sometimes I look at all the blood and think where does that come from!!!
I can only just remember to take my multivitamin so I think I will just stick with that!!

 

[Kylarsmom]

Sarah, just wanted to stop by and say hello! How are you doing hun!?

 

[sarahincanada]

Sarah, just wanted to stop by and say hello! How are you doing hun!?

Hi Kylarsmom!! Im doing great thanks, on my 2nd cycle since my polyp removal so wish me luck!! how are you doing, when is your due date??! doesnt seem that long ago you got your bfp, time goes fast. You will be trying for your 3rd when Im still trying for my 1st thanks for checking in, I do pop on your thread every now and then to see if you updated

 

[NDH]

Sarah, fajitas sound yummy! When I make fajitas they're really simple and yummy - just garlic and lime juice! That's it but soooo good. Mushrooms, peppers (capsicum here), onion and chicken and then salsa (for DH), cheese and sour cream on top. I don't think they have bullseye here, but if they do I might have to try your way. Also ketchup is really different here, so that might affect the flavour too.

NY, what a relief the mold problem isn't as wide spread as thought, or the really bad kind. I hope your scan is perfect and the rest of your renovations get finished without any more hitches. I hate spiders too, and there are a lot of horrible ones here, but fortunately we haven't seen many. That might be because we have a gecko living in the house? I've seen him in the nursery a couple of times. Don't mind him. And he survived the extermination fortunately. The cockroach problem seems to be mostly resolved. Saw just a couple last night and none the night before. I can deal with a couple of them, just not the numbers they were before.

Hmm I wonder if I had a uterine lining issue. Never thought about it before but my periods were always very short and light, and more brown than red. I would have an occasional heavier cycle, and the one before I got my was a heavier one with more bleeding. Could have been yet another factor working against me.

 

[Dew]

baby aspirin helps to build uterin lining, make implantation easier, and prevent possible blood clotting in the placenta that forms once pregnant, which is a common cause of early MC. I quit it the other week just, since placenta shoulda been done forming.

I had such light, short periods that were NEVER red, that I read about it being a uterin lining issue. Then bam bfp. IDK...maybe, maybe not, but i'd like to think it helped me!

thanks for the info, I have pretty heavy periods so Im probably ok. sometimes I look at all the blood and think where does that come from!!!
I can only just remember to take my multivitamin so I think I will just stick with that!!

I have always been wary of using medication especially anything that could mess with my hormones and monthly cycles so I have serious doubts about aspirin too, however, I do see plenty of women talk about it and just found this article online, reading this I am tempted to try baby aspirin this cycle, may be not daily but on alternate days, probably will buy tomorrow. Sarah, I also have 2 days and 2 nights of heavy periods, 1 medium and 2 light/spotting days. When AF is 2 days late, it is worse and I pass big clots which is natural because lining is formed/matured 2 extra days. OK here s the article....

https://www.houstonfertilityspecialist.com/articles/art_aspirin.html

 

[Dew]

hey dew, forgot to mention 2 people in the over 35 folder just got BFPs after using the soft cups....one of them is 44! Im a little icky about using things like that but I could have hubby place then for me.

Yeah me too, icky about putting things inside for the fear of causing irritation or infection, has anyone else on this thread used them? Can we buy them in store in the US. If I have to use them this cycle, I don't have enough time to order online. Let me read more about these online. Thanks!

 

[sherylb]

Someone on my SMEP thread used soft cups this cycle and got her She may be one of the ones Sarah is referring to though. Glowstar.

 

[babyhopes2323]

Ny, nice to hear from you again, sorry about the state of the house and it does get irritating when people dont turn up, ive been waiting for weeks for this hand man to turn up to drill a hole to connect my dishwasher, he says hes coming today, but we will see.

yay for your scan tomorrow,. id be excited regardless of whether i knew the sex. but i can understand your worries, you are lucky that you are feeling flutters, i feel nothing. nothing at all, and have to use my doppler everyday to assure myself that things are going ok and i look at my bump every morning to see if it has grown, yes.. i am paranoid too,my anamoly scan is on the 7th of june so 5 more long days!

sarah, baby aspirin has seemed to work for a lot of people, lets hope it works for you too. xxx

dew, i tried soft cups, well not after sex but before because i wanted to know how to insert it and boy it hurt !! but i guess there is a knack and way of doing it, each to their own, hope it works if you plan to try it., xxx

sheryl, yay your appointment went well, its silly how they wouldnt scan you and you have to pay 100 USD for a scan !!!

over here, they scan you at every appointment, just in case and to give you peace of mind as well. i hope you get scanned soon, xx

NDH, hope you are doing well.. and your pregnancy is going fine,

flying... HI !!! xx

wonder where mummy is !

 

[flyingduster]

Baby, I only felt bub the night before I hit 20 weeks, and the more I read the more i see that it's normal to not feel anything until even later than that! Especially with your first and with an anterior placenta! I think my placenta is high and to the right, cos the ONLY kicks I feel are down in my pelvis (almost bladder-ish area) and on the left; I don't feel a thing right across the front or on the right AT ALL... I know your placenta is low and anterior, so it's quite possibly blocking a heap of movement if it covers a lot of area!! Thank goodness you have the doppler, and 5 days isn't far until your scan! How exciting to get the gender then tooo!!!!

 

[babyhopes2323]

thanks, last time she checked me she told me it was not considered low because it was measuring 2.2 or 2.4 or something, but i guess i will feel it in due course of time.

 

[Huggles]

ny - we also only do the gd test at 28 weeks here as I think that's when you're most at risk of it starting. And i think we also start with the one hour one and only do the 3 hour one if we fail the first. Haven't actually had it done before as i never got to 28 weeks last time, but that's what my friend said when she had hers.

Hope your house gets sorted soon!

 

[babyhopes2323]

I just phoned my doctor and i have to repeat the test at 28 weeks, they do it here at 17or 18 or 19 and again at 28 weeks. both times it is the three hour one.,

 

[sherylb]

I was rather disappointed when my doctor asked me if I had felt movement and I had to say I have so much flatulence I wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Plus my uterus is still really really low so I am not sure how I would be able to find any movement.

If I had to pay for the scan at the hospital it would be $350. Maybe I will just wait until 22ish weeks and get the 4D scan and pay $150 instead of $100. Either way I would get a DVD of my 20 minute scan, 9 printed pictures, report for the baby book and gender determination. With the 4D instead of 2D I would also get a CD rom of all pictures and they say it's between 75-125 pictures.

Though I did intend to call the college today and see how they do things during the summer. I am pretty sure I could get a free at least 2D there without all the extras.

 

[nypage1981]

Sheryl thats weird they asked you about movement so early, I didn't know you could feel it that early. Im thinking of a private one between 20 and 40 some time since here we just do the 20 week then I dont think we get another. I could be wrong though.

Baby- I wouldnt worry, i felt mine once in a while starting around 18 weeks but that was super rare and now at 20 weeks the flutters are very often but not like a soccer kick or anything. Oh can't feel yet, only me! So we still do doppler like every other night for him otherwise he goes insane

I screwed up my scan time and had OH stay home this morning until I realized its actually at 2 this afternoon. Oooops. Serious baby brain lately. I've messed up some time and schedule things pretty badly.

Dew- my doctor was indifferent to the whole baby aspirin thing. He said it could have helped me conceive and after conception it was wise to keep taking unti lplacenta was formed. A friend of mine after a couple MC took baby aspirin until like a week before birth. I was scared to quit but felt I didn't need it anymore and docs agreed. Hope it works out for you. If I remember correctly I actually did have one period on it, and that one was substancially heavier, and redder. Then next cycle BFP so I think it helped implant and clean me out and help my lining. Also, B vits don't really m ess with you hormonally, they just help with the uterus and for men they help with the sperm.....some docs do actually have you take it during early pregnancy for morning sickness. Didn't help me for that though.

Everyone's fajitas sound yummy! I want them now. I just made a huge bowl of spinach salad and chopped veggies. My plan is to make the healthy food more readily available for me to grab so im more inclined to eat it. If its not washed, chopped up, and mixed at the moment, i grab something else instead!

Last night for "date night" we went to coldstone creamery for ice creamm and I found out thehy have amaretto ice cream. Now, im not sure what it is, but this is the 2nd pregnancy that I crave the drink Amaretto Sour. Its alcoholic- the alcohol is Disaronno. Anyways, obviously I cant have one so eating amaretto ice cream (with cotton candy too was delish!!! And I normally hate ice cream.

Huggles- I love your profile pic of the baby. Such a cute button nose. Hope i get a good one this afternoon too!

Baby- sucks you have to do the 3 hour test all over again! Do they make you drink some yucky grape or orange sweet drink? Just wait until you do it at 28 weeks. Since you can't eat food, the sweet drink makes baby go INSANE in the tummy. I sat at my hour one and watched as an alien made waves across my belly and its really funny. Maybe they dont all do it, but I hope it does something cool again!

Hello to everyone else!

 

[babyhopes2323]

Nyp, yea the doppler is a life saver. by the way we are changing doctors if you have not read my previous posts. i found this lady doc ive gone to before who is close to home and is excellent and phoned me from her mobile with test results. i have already done my 3 hour test and now she will make me repeat it at 28 weeks. i had to drink pure orange flavoured dextrose. it was like super sweet, super warm fanta/ mirinda. it was disgusting. but i got my results and i dont have any sugar at all.

the only problem is im not immune to toxoplasma which means i have to be super careful while eating food from restaurants and have to make sure they are fresh etc.

Sheryl, i feel so bad that you have to go through this, it is so wrong !! having to pay so much, i do hope you are able to get a scan sooner than later .

Nyp, i cant believe your 20 week scan is the last scan you have before 40 weeks. that is soooo wrong! over here the doctor sees you every 4 weeks until the end of your pregnancy and scans you every time. atleast thats what i know and if they see you lets say only after two months or so, over here, you can go within four weeks or three weeks or whatever and they will scan you to check everything is ok and for your own peace of mind.

ive read on so many posts of mmc's etc here that people in the states and UK, uk mainly dont get scanned until 12 / 14 weeks and so they dont know theyve had an mmc, and then its so sad when they find out. id hate for that to happen.

many might disagree and say scans are not good etc, well prove it i would say. i dont want to brag about dubai or something, but here, you are generally covered by medical insurance under your dh when he gets a job and that usually covers all of maternity including labour etc and the stays in hospital and all scans and tests and you get scanned every month to check for regular progress which i think is great !

hope everybody else is doing fine. xxx

 

[nypage1981]

Baby- im jealous! I had a gush of fluid a few weeks back and wanted a scan for reassurance and they wouldnt evne do one then. They were quite rude about it really. We can't get them to order one for practically anything!

Although, working in radiology, they do get kind of worried about frequent scans. Ultrasound is quite large sound waves going into the uterus and are made to bounce off of forming cells and make a picture or sound. This means it can change the formation of those cells if done too much. I had a friend who would scan herself a TON at work and her daughter has hearing problems. Its quite loud sound waves that our doppler and ultrasoun machines put into the uterus and im afraid it could harm hearing or other things. Of course, I have no proof other than my friend's daughter of this, but thats because no study would be done on a pregnant lady of course. I am only going by the facts of the way ultrasound waves work. I am sure, though, that your doctors would never do more than safe and know of high risk people who get them ever 4 weeks also so really, im not saying what you are doing is bad. Just mentioning that yes, it can be a problem. Like I said though, my friend did them often on her own.

yea, I know too well about MMC. I got a few earlyl scans though but just happened to be the few weeks that I didn't have one....the baby stopped growing. Aweful but i need to just move on from that!

Its good they really monitor you with the GD testing! Im glad you dont have it yet, its no fun to have!


Ok, gotta leave for the scan. I am nervous about peeing my pants, or even worse, finding something is bad with baby.....ugh, i hate being dreadful but can't help it! hope to come with good news!

 

[babyhopes2323]

yea i guess you just never know with ultrasounds or anything.. like nothing can be proved really. !! but wow i cant believe that happened to your friend.

P.S here, they monitor you every week if you are high risk. when i had the SCH (blood clot) i was called in every week.

and how rude that they didnt scan you when you had a gush of fluid. thats just horrible !!!!

so excited for your scan, do let us know how it went and upload some pics !! :thumbsup:

dont worry, everything will be A OKAY !!

 

[Dew]

Good luck NY! I understand your worries but it's all gonna be good. Will wait for you to come back and update us.