MARCH-CYCLE BUDDIES

[Quita]

The Ostermilk Mother and Baby Book

A Guide to Mothercraft 1969

[color=blue]"It is just as well to avoid rich and indigestible things such as curry, cream and strong tea.

Alcohol, if it is drunk only occasionally and not much of t, does no halm, NOR DOES SMOKING IN MODERATION. On other hand, am excess of either alcohol or nicotine can reach the baby through the mother's blood and affect his growth ans so should be avoided".[/color]

So there you have it. I hope you have all cut down to just one pack of fags and two gin's a day - but are avoiding curry and the demon tea! LOL

Miss Piggy, I know 2 weeks is bad enough!

Anie, Well done thats fantastic news 14 !!!!!

Amanda, Loving your motto - think I will join you on that one.!

Nimble, I had all sorts of discharge and then spotting which totally freaked me out - but it all turned out to be good. You are nearly there honey. PMA PMA PMA BFP

Stephine, hope you feel better soon. 10 fertilized thats amazing!!!

Sonya, Jill and Natalie, The cramping is good sign, your womb is stopping your embies wandering off helping the embryo's to implant.

I am still getting crmps on and off which has supprised me. Hope yu are all resting a lot letting all your energy go to your womb's. Stay warm and drink loads. x

I'm ok can't wait for Saturday so I can tick off another little milestone - five weeks.

Love to you all Quita xxx

[kia1973]

Hi ladies,

AMANDA - CONGRATS ON YOUR BFP HONEY ENJOY THE NEXT 8 MONTHS. xx

i'm sorry i haven't been posting alot lately, but i have been following you all every day.
My SIL and children are here to stay for the week, she wnt to come and look after me when DH had gone back to work, sure it was DH idea just to ensure that i stayed in bed and was not doing anything. its strating to get to me now, that is all i do is lay on the sofa and get waited on hand and foot by all, the only place i'm able to walk to is the loo!!!!

so glad every one is moving along nicely, as for symptoms ive had none at all, no cramping and my boobs are not as sore anymore!!!! just reading all the post about cramping makes my wish i had some just to know something was going on in there!!
this is so hard and to have to wait so long to test!!!!

will come back later and do personals, thinking of everyone.

sha xx

[nimble]

WWOOHOOO Amanda thats fantastic news and numbers are looking great too.

Really pleased for you

yeah - I've hit the half way mark - only one more 1 week to go !! Mama - I agree these have got to be the slowest weeks ever !! If feels like a life time ago that I had ET..... roll on next wednesday.

at work so will post more later

an impatient 2wwer xx

[nicolamark]

I had 17 follicles today. and been told that a huge amount for 8 days of stimms so now i am worried about ohss and excited as i have so many follcles.

ive read so far that it develops after 3-4 day after EC, but my tummy is so full and bloated. i bought some size 18 and size 20 trousers ready for when i get preggers, as i dont want work people to notice.....and when i was at work yesterday, i wore size 20 trousers, and still had to undo top button yesterday!! OMG!!! Im freaked by the size ive gotten too, normally im size16.

So all is all, feeling ok and positive but a little concerned over ohss, could any one shed any light on it etc....

[MISSPIGGY]

Nicki I had to wear maternity jeans both times pre ec and after et.If your like me you just grow huge. Dont worry the doctor will look after you.What size were your follys?

[MarciaL-OurHope4Baby]

Morning and Afternoon ladies

Amanda our number is great, here's a chart I found for you.

GL hun

Number of women reporting a number for this day
Beta Scores for Successful* Single Pregnancies
1)Days
Past Ovulation 2)Median HCG 3)Lowest HCG 4) Highest HCG 5). No. of
..............................................................................................Women
..............................................................................................reporting
.............................................................................................a number
...........................................................................................for this day
10****************11*************3********103**********62
11****************27*************4********152*********270
12****************47*************4********208*********608
13****************77*************4********575********1048
14***************115*************3*******2088********1726
15***************163*************3*******2088********2124
16***************241*************5*******2744********2293
17***************356*************5*******4591********2349
18***************528*************9*******6234********2266
19***************771************16*******6164********2116
20**************1099************41******10000********1933
21**************1620************41******16224********1717
22**************2196************58******19861********1461
23**************3152************17******22500********1273
24**************4415***********144******26102********1088
25**************5764***********218******36984*********909
26**************7430***********290******36924*********775
27**************9179***********351******41625*********637
28*************11819***********429******53812*********551
29*************14103***********440******69566*********464
30*************16670***********539*****116260*********399
* Pregnancies are deemed successful if a heartbeat is detected

[nicolamark]

sorry i forgot to say the sizes!!! all between 9-12mm!!! GOOD huh???

[nicolamark]

Nimble aka jackie!!!! i have a feeling a BFP is on its way to u honey!! x xx

CONGRATULATIONS to AMANDA!!! well done you!!

[Mrs B]

Hi ladies AMANDA congrats on your big news and COOKHOLMES congrats to you as well, Ihope everyone is holding up on there 2ww. As for me i have had a rough couple of days on monday eveing i started to feel really dizzy and shakey then i sat down for dinner i felt a whoosh down below ( sorry tmi) ran upstairs and there was quite alot of blood and it was dripping out of me and i was having AF pains, I called my clinic and they told me to go to hospital at thi point i was so upset i really thought it was all over. They couldn't scan me until the morning so i went home because by then the bleeding had slowed down and i didn't really have any pains, anyway i went for a scan the next day and i couldn't belive it when they picked up the heartbeat you could see it flickering they also saw another sac bt it was alot smaller and the didn't seem to think it would make it and maybe that was why i was bleeding, i have to wait for my scan on the 10th to find out. The doctor said bleeding can happen. I just belive it i was so scared i think i nearly stopped breathing when i saw the blood im still having cramps and im on bed rest again. This really is a crazy rollacoaster im 6 weeks today.

[MarciaL-OurHope4Baby]

OMG Mrs.B!

How scary, so glad you're not bleeding so much, so happy you got to see the little , I's sorry he might me loosing it's little twinny.

I thought I'd post this poem for you. I wrote it a while a go that was in the same sort of situation.

Mother To Be

Sit back
Take time to breath connect with the magical cluster.
Think clearly
Melt away, fears and thoughts that scare you once again.
Breathe slowly
Floating thoughts, of cells dividing, never anxious, always gliding.
Feel comfort
Envisage the growth within, the softness of newborn skin.
Remember this
You are a strong woman,
Yearning, warming, loving, you are a mother to be.
No longer scared
Awaiting your moments of bliss.
So relax the mind,
Be good to yourself,
Inhale deeply, with good vibes that you'll hold your so tight.
And look forward to nights of kissing your sweet baby good night.
© ML2005

I was searching for Multiples Beta list, and noticed you posted after me, so I won't post that right now, maybe another day

[Mrs B]

OH thank you that so lovely im still keeping everything crossed as they said on the 10th it might have caught up with the other one which is 4mm so tiny.

[melly]

Well ladies, I went for scan this morning and I have 17 Follies & they are all 9-10 in size. I think this is a bit for only 3 days stimming but RE said all looks good She also said I have a polyp @ the very top of my uterus, I ashed if it would interfere w/cycle or pregnancy and she said No.

Hope all you ladies are doing great!

[MarciaL-OurHope4Baby]

Fantastic news Nic & Melly ,

Did the doc say anymore about your possible PCOS. Hope it's a no for you, can't wait till next week when we'll probably test together to get test resutls near the same time.

Here's my progress for today.

CD23 - Wednesday 4th April,
4th Follicle tracking scan.

Fantastic progress -
Left Ovary = 12 follicles measuring:-

1) 20
2) 14.3
3) 20.5
4) 21
5) 16.1
6) 15.7
7) 14.7
13.2
9) 12.6
10) 12.5
11) 11.5
12) 16.2

With smaller ones around 8mm.


Right Ovary = 12 follicles measuring:-

1) 15.32) 9.8
3) 13.3
4) 11.8
5) 8.5
6) 14.5
7) 11
9.8
9) 11.9
10) 15
11) 13
12) 8.2

Plus some smaller ones around 8mm

Lining = 9.2mm

E2 = a whaooping 6182

They said that the lining is great as they like it to be anything over 8mm at this point. I've highlighted the main follicles they're concentrating on for maturity.

So the plan now is, to carry on taking my Buserelin for today and tonight, being the last one.

I got the call to say how much the E2 was, and I nearly fell off my chair I was so shocked. Hubby kept saying what it is, what is it, so I said hang on let me work it out. So it they're going by 150 per follicle then I have just over 41, and it's by 200 per follicle then I have 30 follices. OMG! I can't believe it lol. I've got to take 10,000iu's of Pregnyl trigger shot at 10pm tonight.

ER is set for Friday morning. I go into hospital at 8.30am, we decided that depending on what the fertilisation rate is we'll decide over the weekend on what our chances are for the 5dt that we'd like to have. So that's it, at the moment we have 30-41 follies to work with, and hopefully a nice amount of eggs out of that lot for , woo hoo

We really can't believe we've gotten this far and had so much progress from my right ovary, that at a push normally gives me 1 or 2 follicles on injectable meds. I've been getting such nice massages from the girls and my boss Jan today, I've been letting them know the progress as I know, and they're all a bunch of excited women right now lol. I jjust hope the swimmers fall in love with my eggies over the weekend .

Sher - Hope your ET went ok yesterday

Good luck to all the sniffers, ladies going for scans, and Baseline scans.
2ww'ers - Keep rubbing those and encouraging those little ones.

Chat to you later girls, going for a nap.

[nicolamark]

Marcia. Sounds goof to me!!! and good luck for EC x x

Melly, WOW we both got 17!!! yeah!!!! i am on day 8 of stimms and you on day 4, bloody heck, girl Im so bloated i feel like that blue girl on willy wonka and the choc factory!!!!
Damn!!! help me out whats her name???
Sitting here in my Pj bottoms as tums so fat!!!

MrsB. OMG you poor darling!!! I cant beleive it, i was reading your post and thought M/C OMG!!! but then it all happened to be good!! thats great babe!!! You have a strong little one there!!!
Good luck for scan on 10th xx

[smattison]

Well the embryologist called this morning and said out of 10 we have 1-excellent/2-good and 3-average..the other 4 are poor. We have to do a day 3 transfer and it is scheduled for tomorrow at 12n. The reason they looked at them today is because last time we tried to wait until day 5 and almost lost them all ( we had a day 4 transfer). I only had 7, now that I had 10 they were going to try again for day 5, no such luck...day 3 it is. We are putting back 3 and I am hoping for twins.

I have a question...with the pregnant girls on here how many have had 3 day transfers and how many have had 5 day transfers???

I am kinda down I guess my high FSH is kicking my butt and making me have not so good quality eggies. I know it only takes one but 3 didn't work last time. Thank you girls for all the support and I kinda down right now...trying to stay positives. My babies are coming home to mommie tomorrow and there is no room for negativity.

Hope all you girls are doing good and lots of PMA...baby dust to you all!!!