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

[NDH]

Oh Preethi - so sorry to hear about the accident but thank God your little girl is all right!

Sarah, good luck tomorrow with your follie scan! Here's hoping for some good ones (but not too many lol).

So far all my appointments have been with my GP who is qualified to do prenatal care. My antenatal appointment is at the end of the month and at that point I'll start having appointments with the midwives and/or doctors at the antenatal clinic at the hospital. I won't have continuity of care there as they like you to see everyone as you have no say over who assists with the delivery (but hey going public I don't have to pay a thing so I'm not complaining). If I do get accepted into the midwife led birth centre as I hope to, then from that point I should only see one or two midwives who will assist the birth. The midwifes at the birth centre like to do continuity of care, and it's still covered by medicare as a public hospital (the centre is in the hospital actually) but they only have 4-6 beds so they're really selective of who they take (ie. very low risk women).

 

[NDH]

Oh, the mouse was caught last night. We bought and baited two traps and the cheese had been stolen from one of them before bed last night even (cheeky thing, we were still up!) which DH rebaited, and this morning the other trap had it's bait stolen and the third time was not lucky. At least he feasted well before his demise. Unless of course it was a joint operation...

 

[Dew]

Sarah, sending your way lots of good wishes for a satisfying follie scan tomorrow.....will be waiting eagerly for you to come online and update us on how it went

 

[Dew]

NDH: yay! For catching that cheeky cheese loving mouse

 

[babyhopes2323]

Glad the mouse was caught NDH, hope you get to be delivered by the midwives you want.

Ny, the only reason i say i want marcus or her is because you see someone for so long and then get to know you etc and then to be delivered in the end by a stranger makes me uncomfortable. i have decided to stick with this lady by the way, but will be informing marcus's nurse to let him know that should i have a premature one then we will be coming to him as they have an NICU unit.

i always find babys hb is still a bit low in my abdomen so dont like to put my seatbelt around there :dontknow:

 

[flyingduster]

Preethi; eep! I'm so glad you and your lil girl are ok, but how scary... And I'm glad your'e going with the lady doc, but I agree it'll be a good idea to keep Marcus on side just in case...


Sarah; oooo how exciting! I can't wait to hear how the follicle scan goes! I am a bit of a geek and find the whole biological process really fascinating!! hehe.


Sheryl, I've not put on ANY weight either, still exactly the same as I was early on (hadn't weighed myself for ages before getting preg, so can only go by the 4-6 weeks-ish when I started paying attention!) but I have heaps to loose so I'm not at all worried about bub; I can FEEL that s/he's strong!


In fact it's had a HUGE growth spurt in the past day or two! I threw up yesterday morning, and then the rest of the day my tummy was seriously in the way!! Like, where *did* all that size come from!? Also I was unable to feel kicks on the right or front, but I can now... It's growing!!!

And, the best bit; we played 'tag'! hehehe. I was laying in bed before getting up, feeling around in my tummy. I can feel through the fat easier now (both because I've probably lost body fat, and bub has grown!) so felt a big hard lump... pressed on it to feel it more, and then felt it hold briefly, then sink away (omg, creepiest feeling!!) and then 'boom!' I got kicked right where I was pressing! I laughed aloud at it, and felt around to see where it'd moved to, sure enough I felt the hard area elsewhere, pressed, felt it sink away, and got kicked over there instead! hehehehe. We did it a few more times before I had to get up for work, but it was very very cool to have such obvious interaction with it... It was one of those moments when I'm overwhelmed with love and utter mind-boggling awe at how on earth my body is doing this! I soooo can't wait to meet him/her in only 17 weeks!


I'm currently feeling utterly miserable and cold right now though, just the end of a long week I think, and this surge of hormones from a baby-on-growth-spurt has sent my emotions into mayhem too! I'm probably going to run myself a hot bath soon and relax a bit with baby though, it should help!

 

[NDH]

Happy 23 weeks Amy! One more week til V-day wow!

 

[Huggles]

That's so cool about the movement and interaction flying!

 

[babyhopes2323]

Happy 23 weeks flying, awesome news about the kicks and stuff, must be really wonderful !

 

[Dew]

Flying: your baby is very active and already playing along with you, that's really sweet

 

[Dew]

Preethi: glad you finally picked the lady over Marcus, I have always liked her better going by the way you described them both hopefully you will have full term delivery and not have to visit Marcus again.

 

[MummyCat]

Thanks for all the well wishes! Preethi so sorry to hear about your bad day!! it wont be long and your baby girl will be kicking you so hard you'll wonder how you didn't feel it before!

Amy... lovely news hun!!

As promised... here are my scans. Very blurry sadly, one of them bubs is upside down.

 

[Huggles]

Preethi: How much is baby's HB, why do you think it's low?

She said she thinks she hears the heartbeat low down in her abdomen, not that she thinks it's low as in slow.

 

[Dew]

Preethi: How much is baby's HB, why do you think it's low?

She said she thinks she hears the heartbeat low down in her abdomen, not that she thinks it's low as in slow.

thanks for clarifying Huggles. Just not aware of various aspects of pregnancy so couldn't think that way.

 

[Dew]

Mummy: Great scan pictures of baby thanks for sharing!

 

[babyhopes2323]

Lovely pics nonetheless mummy !!

Dew, hope youre doing ok, and sarah cant wait to hear about your appointment.

thanks for clarifying huggles. x

 

[babyhopes2323]

Dew, basically when i use my doppler i still usually find the HB in my lower abdomen, thats why i said so. xx

 

[sarahincanada]

hi everyone!! Im baaccckkkk
had my appointment at 8am, then went for massage, chiro and reflexology! what a tough day.

ok so my follicles....I think I will leave you all in suspense and have you guess how many I have ready to pop!! whoever is the nearest gets a prize.

what, you dont like that game?

I think I hear groaning all the way around the world so here goes...

I....








HAVE.....






DRUMROLL PLEASE.....








4 FOLLICLES READY TO POP!!!!!!!!












OMG I dont know what to think!!

so I have 2 each side, she said that it was up to me but she is ok with me continuing due to my age as its very unlikely they will all be good eggs or all fertilize and implant. She said twins is 10% likely and any more about 1%. So I have to do the ovulation sticks, and if I dont get the surge by Sunday I have to go in Monday and they will inject me to bring on ovulation.

I felt so happy leaving the appointment, this week Ive been very blah about the whole TTC thing and this has made me a lot more interested. Thats a great chance of getting pregnant! and if I dont then I would be fine moving onto treatments as theres something not right if I cant get pregnant with that many eggs! If we try 3 months thats possibly 12 eggs so a years worth of tries in 3 months!

so now the big decision is: when to BD. She said she thinks I will probably get the surge on sunday, so do today and sunday/monday. but she also mentioned something about 'saving it up' and not doing every day...almost as if they prefer the BDing you do on the day of the surge being a collection of a couple of days sperm. So if I BD tonight and then get the surge tomorrow thats every day, so should I miss tonight?? I shouldnt overthink it, regardless there will be sperm up there. what do you ladies think? Ive always thought the more BDing the better, as the worst case scenerio its the same amount of sperm just spread over days, but I believe you end up with more sperm the more you BD. sorry Im babbling and not making any sense. I think I will BD tonight as it is scheduled in our every other day schedule.

so thats it, I was so happy as she said they hope for 2 follicles, perhaps 3, so I responded VERY well. I do believe that I have always ovulated fine and this has now just enhanced it.

wish me luck this weekend. fathers day is really hard for me after losing my dad 8 years ago and so how special would it be to conceive on fathers day this year but I can get my hopes up, 4 follicles is no guarantee!

 

[Huggles]

That's so cool, i was going to guess 4!
that's how many my cousin had as well!

I think if she suggested bd'ing tonight and then when you get the surge, then i would say bd tonight. IF the surge happens tomorrow, then do tomorrow as well, but if it only happens sunday at least the sperm will be fresh. If you don't bd tonight but the surge happens sunday then you will be using old sperm. So i think do tonight and then whenever you get the surge.
Also, and this is probably going against what she said, i think that if your hubby has super sperm then there's definitely no problem with doing it every day. We did it twice a day, every day, and got pg, so you should be fine if you get the surge tomorrow already.

So glad the appointment went well! Hope this is your month!

 

[sarahincanada]

That's so cool, i was going to guess 4!
that's how many my cousin had as well!

I think if she suggested bd'ing tonight and then when you get the surge, then i would say bd tonight. IF the surge happens tomorrow, then do tomorrow as well, but if it only happens sunday at least the sperm will be fresh. If you don't bd tonight but the surge happens sunday then you will be using old sperm. So i think do tonight and then whenever you get the surge.
Also, and this is probably going against what she said, i think that if your hubby has super sperm then there's definitely no problem with doing it every day. We did it twice a day, every day, and got pg, so you should be fine if you get the surge tomorrow already.

So glad the appointment went well! Hope this is your month!

thanks huggles! did your cousin get pregnant the month she had 4 follicles? theres someone in the assisted folder that had 4 and got a bfp. I feel lucky as so many people only have 1 follicle after clomid, so I have a great chance but obviously dont want to get any hopes up. but makes it a more exciting month! they gave me requisition to get a blood test in 2 weeks.