When did you give birth to your singleton?

shantala · Post by **shantala** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:03 am

Hi All

There has been talk before that maybe IVF babies come earlier than "normally conceived" babies. My nan (bless her) called from Germany the other day and said that they are discussing this topic over there, too.

I think it's quite interesting and for a bit of fun, I thought I would ask you, when you gave birth to your singleton? (I thought I better exclude multiples as they tend to come earlier anyway and therefore it would be difficult to compare).

Happy poll-ing!

x

JustinesBaby · Post by **JustinesBaby** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 6:55 pm

FionaA · Post by **FionaA** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 1:08 am

Oooo good question, I will be interested in the answers as am running out of time to do stuff! Fee

shantala · Post by **shantala** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 8:52 am

thanks for the replies and votes! keep it up ladies (and gents!)

justine - congrats on your two babies!!!

fee - wow, not long at all now!!! hang in there!

xx

Welshgirl38 · Post by **Welshgirl38** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:00 pm

bonita23 · Post by **bonita23** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 2:28 pm

I gave birth to my IVF/ICSI girl a month ago. My water broke at 36 weeks and I had her the next day. Totally unexpected. She was a good size, 6lbs 12 oz, but because of my group B strep and my spiked temp she went to the NICU. There we found out she had feeding problems, where she was incoordinated as far as sucking swallowing and breathing and was having cyanotic events. She also became prety jaundiced and had to have phototherapy. She came home after 8 days in the NICU on an apnea monitor. She is doing really well now and eating like a champ.

I plan on being prepared to have my baby at 36 weeks next pregnancy! I am stopping work at 34 weeks the next time!