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[filipenko32]

Afternoon everyone! Just caught up!
Jen I love your hair! You look very pretty!
Bumpy how you feeling today, I have a feeling this is your forever baby, just like a had a feeling embo's, heart's, Davies and Andrea's! Read back for proof!! Are you going to test today? Lol I'm taking out my testing addiction on you! want to see those lines getting darker!
Heart how lovely about telling your work friends your post made me so happy! Go for it with Facebook! It is your turn to be normally pregnant and to enjoy every minute! Go for it!!! Amd here's some grape juice for your celebration
Hopeful - great shopping trip!! but I'm afraid I had tears in my eyes reading your post as well it was emotional in a great way!
3x welcome! I've met you before I think, virtually! I really hope this is your forever baby and those lines are AMAZING for 6-9dpo!!!! I am not pregnant by the way, I'm just a groupie and everyone is so nice on here I couldn't leave! AND I'm PUPO
Davies, how you doing cold wise? Did you ever resolve the argument with dh about telling your step children? How's the airport shop? Are you still feasting on oranges?
Croy how are your headaches?
Puppy, embo how are you both?
Pretty, how you doing?
Pip, thinking about you
Does anyone ever get horrendous spots AND dry skin after a miscarriage? I look like a always at this time when my hormone levels are nearly zero. It drives me mad. Before I started getting pregnant my skin was perfect, even when I was a teenager pretty much, now I'm paying for it!!

 

[Pretty Please]

Oh no fil hopefully they will go soon - ive got dry skin though its freezing !!!!

I've got to venture out in 10 mins and it's soooo cold to St Marys allowing plenty of time on train to vic and bus to st marys another scan. God I hope bubs is alive all I feel is very tired that's all.

Bought myself berghaus down long jacket on amazon looks crap like a square bin box - now I've got to return it and pay for postage

How's the exercising going fil - still doing running in the cold?
I bet snow is on the return ..........

 

[filipenko32]

Pretty GOOD LUCK to you, I am sure you're going to be just fine! I just hope the wait is not too nerve racking for you . I can't run in this weather my face feels like it will fall off so I've just been doing my fitness DVD at home but not everyday . Going to start early morning swimming tomorrow too as no bleeding anymore. My skin is perfect when I'm preggo! Keeping everything crossed for you x x x

 

[jenny25]

Aww thanks fili I get spots a lot due to pcos more so now but my skin feels more dry and my hair is so oily I'm like please pass some oil to my face lol

Omg I forgot to say I was at my friends as she done my hair an they have 3 dogs a st bernards a canadian mountaineese sp and a jack Russell well the big st bernerds dog is massive and when I was up standing he would come over and cuddle his head into my stomachs and sorta lean into me I was like awwwwww xx

 

[filipenko32]

Jenny Davies has a St Bernard and I just think they are SO loveable! I want one . The puppies are so cute. I don't have pcos but dr Shehata did pick up on my skin after my last pregnancy and queried pcos. I def don't have it though. Or can you have a mild form of it? How were you diagnosed? I mean what test did they do?

 

[Embo78]

Sorry to jump in but I just found my baby's heartbeat on the Doppler! I was starting to think I'd NEVER find it!!
174 bpm and the most beautiful sound in the whole world

 

[filipenko32]

That's great embo!

 

[Embo78]

Thanks Fili! Can't stop crying! Happy tears x

 

[filipenko32]

like that?

 

[Pretty Please]

Contrats embo ! Good sound

 

[Embo78]

Exactly that Fili!!!!! Perfect!

Thanks pretty

 

[ttclou25]

Great news embo! xx

 

[heart tree]

I haven't had my laptop so I'm sorry I can't respond as much as I'd like. Typing on my phone is no fun.

Congrats to Em and Jen! That thumping sound is one of the best sounds to ever exist! So happy for you both!!!

Prety good luck on your scan today. Thinking about you.

Pop Congrats on the great scan. It's so wonderful! The situation with your mother is difficult. You aren't being ungrateful. You deserve to make this the perfect pregnancy and nursery. Does she know how you feel? I agree with the other ladies. Could you sit her down and kindly talk about your feelings. Tell her how much you appreciate how excited she is but that you only have so much space for baby things and now you'd like to take over picking things out. You don't need to tell her you don't like the things she's picked out. Make the conversation about you and your feelings. Don't make it about her and the fact that she's hijacking this dream. She's clearly excited which is understandable. She probably has no idea that this is affecting you negatively.

To all the girls who have had tears, I bow down to you. Women are the stronger gender by far!

Hope you all are staying warm!

Another busy day at work today. Will try to log on when I can.

 

[filipenko32]

check out my avatar girls! gone with the gloomy old candles! Just PMA from now on! Do you know that it was Kermit and Miss Piggy who were the first couple to be televised in bed together? Wonder why there were no Kermie babies?

 

[3xscharmer]

petitpas - I am on baby aspirin even though my tests where normal, even with a 10 day lp, last miscarriage my progesterone was over 30! My doctor does believe one of us has a genetic issue that is not affecting us or our healthy child. As far as genetic testing, we would have to see an RE and we kinda feel like we know we can have a healthy child so we want to try on our on...okay, okay actually that's only part of it, DH is against RE completely. I've talked to him about it and he just isn't for it at all, he doesn't see why we need to see a specialist. I gave birth to my daughter less than 15 months ago and the only thing I took with her was baby aspirin, so I don't know what's wrong.

 

[3xscharmer]

congrats on the Hb's girls!! Wonderful sounds and very reasuring!!

Fili - pretty sure we've crossed paths before lol!! Sorry about your skin, mine does all kinds of weird stuff after m/c's and during pregnancy! I'm trying to be pma too! Did not know that about kermit and ms. Piggy - hmmm, good question why aren't there frog/pig mixes? Bet they'd be ugly though lol!!

 

[filipenko32]

3x have you ever had a karyotype done for you and dh?

 

[3xscharmer]

Fili - no, what is that exactly!

Forgot to add that the reason my doc is leaning toward genetic is b/c most of my m/c's are between 5-6 weeks and even though some of them have made it to 10-11 weeks, even those babies stopped growing at 6 weeks too. so you could say that as far as fetal growth, I never make it past 6 weeks, that's when she started doing the blood clotting and thyroid and progesterone tests and when they came back normal she told us she felt that it was most likely genetic.

 

[3xscharmer]

sorry for all the posts guy, just looked karyotype testing up and see exactly what it is...but according to what I've just read, apparently most docs don't test for it b/c there's not really anything that can be done about it and those that do pursue IVF have the same odds of those who don't...my doc told me herself she thought it would be trial and error for us...she is a midwife though and said for any other testing I would have to see an RE and that's when DH and I started having our disagreements.

 

[filipenko32]

Thanks for the info about the skin 3x. Yes we have def 'met' before. I have some info which might help you. All my osses have been around then too and my last loss was chromosomally normal. It was tested and sent away after I had a d and c. So now one doctor in particular thinks it is my body as I am relatively young 31-32 (when mc's happened) and the loss was normal. I think you should have been offered that if you ever had a d and c. You can even have them done with normal losses as long as you collect the products of conception in a certain way. A karyotype tests to see whether you and dh have normal chromosomes yourselves or are carriers of genetic diseases which can cause mc's. You will def be able to get this done for free after 5 miscarriages im sure! Tracie who posts on here can tell you about her experience of translocations but it is very rare and unlikely you have this according to recurrent mc stats only 1-2 % of recurrent miscarriers carry a genetic problem or translocation (correct me if im wrong tracie). However I definitely think you should have had this done or been offered it by now. Hope that's helpful and congratulations on your pregnancy, hoping youve just had bad luck and this is your rainbow sticky bean! x x