October Mommies-2-B Club!!!!

[waitingforMia]

HEy guys!!
Jomae: Yes lots of crazy vivid dreams!! Very fun. I KNOW I am having a girl. Actually it is a joke btwn dh and I b/c he wants a boy 1st, and I have always known I would get a girl 1st, so we play around teasing the other saying well when the baby girl comes... But we know we will love whatever we get.

Katie: I was looking this week for stories online of feeling the baby move. Most said 5 mos. But that the felt it earlier and thought it was gas!

Rio: I just have been so busy with work and then so tired at home to post! But I agee I miss all the posts!

Well I weighed myslef today and I have lost 3.5 lbs in 3 weeks. 9lbs since start of IVF. I just cant eat much at all. half a taco at lunch. If I force myself, my stomach hurts bad. ANy suggestions?? I am taking my vitamins... Just wish I would stop losing weight (for once in my life).

[geckogirl]

Hey Girls,

Sorry I haven't posted in a long time. I have been really busy at work and this week our little dog got sick AGAIN. She ended up in emergency on Tuesday night because of her heart/breathing issues. Anyway, she is fine today and at home. I guess she is training us for having a child!

I have been feeling GREAT! I am no longer sick but my energy hasn't come back yet. I still get the stretchy pains in my uterus, but they aren't as bad as they were in the first trimester. I am anxious to see my ob on the 28th just for the reassurance of hearing the heartbeat. My stomach is getting bigger though, so I know all is well. I guess we will be doing the second trimester blood screening for downs, etc... It is the only test I want to do and I really hope it comes out ok. I am still having wild dreams and night sweats too. This week I dreamed that our baby was a girl and we named her after my grandmother, yet early on I had a dream about taking a small boy fishing. How's that for intuition!

Mia - I wish I was losing some weight! So far I have gained 9 pounds. If I keep going on like this, I will be as big as a house by nine months. I would talk to your doctor about your stomach pains though. You should be feeling hungry and gaining weight by now. Perhaps they can suggest something.

Jomae - I am sorry you are still dealing with that peski uti. I hope they get you the proper meds soon!

Katie - I haven't felt the baby move yet. I think in a few more weeks. I can't wait! I am sure it will be amazing.

Rio - When do you need to decide about the amnio? I am having the expanded blood testing at my next appointment which is right before I am 17 weeks. If it comes back with poor odds I guess I will have to have an amnio but I thought they could only do them until 18 weeks. Doesn't leave me much time!

Mellie- Great test results! Now you can sit back and relax and enjoy the rest of your pregnancy. Congrats! Will you be having a detailed u/s in the next few weeks? I am having one on May 12th which should show any possible birth defects and the sex if he/she cooperates. I am looking forward to that. I will be about 19 weeks by that u/s.

Take care everyone!

[weezie]

Hi ladies! Sorry I haven't been around lately. I just needed to take some time off and come to terms with having one of the twins die. It was very hard carrying around the baby and just "waiting" for it to be absorbed. I went to the OB yesterday and he did an u/s (30 minutes) and we got several pics of the baby. None really good. But it was fun to watch the little one bounce around in there and suck its thumb. The twin has been absorbed and I will carry the sac, probably till term. You can still see some remnants and of course we couldn't get a pic without the sac being there too. Just a morbid reminder I guess. Anyway. I finally figured out the way to smoothing things over with DH.....I put him back on his Chantix (smoking medicine). He quit 9 months ago and since we moved home he has been having 1 - 2 a night with the neighbor. So I figured the craving was subconsciously working its way back in his brain and he was becoming a major JERK! Ever since he has been taking his meds, life is much better. I wake up at 5am to make him a huge breakfast to eat before taking his meds, but I suppose its worth it. Besides I have NOT been sleeping for the past 2 weeks. I go to bed at 10 and I'm up at 1 or 2. And by up I mean around the house, working, playing with the dog, doing whatever. It is very exhausting. Hopefully it will pass. I have an appointment with the perinatologist May 6 (level2 u/s) and then 2 days later me and DH are off on our cruise. My OB has instructed me to NOT eat healthy on the cruise. WooHoo!!!!! He worries about how and if they wash the fruit and veggies on board.

Things with all of you seem to be going fairly well.
Sassy- I am sorry about the twins. I'm just thankful that your 3 other beans are doning fine and now they can thrive
Rio- Good luck with your decisions. I'm sure having to decide whether or not to have the amnio is difficult.
Mia- put some weight on girlie! you are making us all look bad. Chocolate ice cream? mmmmmm..... Something must seem appealing. If not check with your OB.
Gecko- sorry about your doggie. But I'm glad she's back home with you. 9 pounds isnt' bad. I have gained 13 lbs!!!!!!! 9 while I was stimming and 4 since the pregnancy. I talked to my OB about whether or not I was overweight and he didn't seem to be concerned. And once again I got the okay to walk and swim and golf. I guess I'm just a little gun shy since losing the baby. But I have committed myself to walking 30 minutes a day 3 days a week, starting today!
I will catch up with everyone else soon. I have to get some work done. I am so behind and I can't afford to lose this client.

~peace

[riogirl71]

Gecko - You can do an amnio from 15 weeks till 20 weeks so you have plenty of time. I have been reading up a lot about it and the big issue is the tests just give you odds, amnio tests for everything and also other health issues not even looked at in u/s and blood tests. We will see how our AFP goes, since it combines with my NT results, I am thinking they will be at my age but not better. I am leaning towards amnio, I heard UCSF is really good and DH called them and they said only doctors do the amnio they don't let residents do them and their odds are much lower than 1:200. Which I also read that these days if you only count procedural related miscarriages it is only 1 in 1600 (they count any miscarriage after amnio for the 1 in 200). I go back and forth. The sucky part is I have to decide on the spot after level II u/s. We get AFP blood test on 4/23, leave for vacation until May 19 then bam - UCSF! Good luck on your screening test! hope your puppy feels better!
Weezie- good to hear from you! Glad things are going well with DH! And glad to see your bean is doing great!
Mia - you have been losing weight and I have been finding it! I lost 10 lbs during stimms and gained 10 lbs back so far you really should ask your doc...
Katie - I read that the chances that you feel your bean are better lying down at night 1 hour after having dessert! I did that the other night and I felt some different things, I really concentrated and I felt a distinct little push, very slight, I would have never felt it if I had been moving around or not paying attention. It was unlike anything I ever felt before. So I am thinking it vould be the bean or maybe I am delusional and it was gas they say it can be as early as 14 weeks but that it would go unnoticed because it is so slight...
Jomae I have a strong feeling it is a boy and I have a 50% chance of being right!!! we would love either!!!
So I have to vent. We have my SD a lot right now since we will be gone for 3 weeks. We told her about the baby and she seems fine. Now she has been acting up a storm. I feel like I am living in a Mexican soap! The crying, the drama, the fits, I am supposed to be the emotional one! She has been a complete brat, lying, messing up the house, freaking out, being passive aggressive, poor DH is embarrassed by her behavior and we are trying to stay calm and collected, what a challenge! Thanks for letting me vent!!

[cincinnatidreams]

Just wanted to drop in and say hi. Everything is going well. I had my nuchal test... but unlike some of you all I got was a phone call from the nurse. She said that all the results were negative and with my age alone my chances of downs was 1:194 but after my screening my chances are 1:2,832! I was hoping they would go up but truly God blessed those results. We did the u/s also, the baby was so rowdy that we couldn't get a good look at the face but we are pretty sure we saw a nasal bone. The n/t was 2.18. The baby measured 5 days big!

I have a feeling I am having a boy. We transferred 2 8's and a 10 cell. Only one took. I did some research that says that boys divide faster than girls, which leads me to think that my 10 cell is the one that took and it's a boy. My friend transferred a 10 and an 8, one took and it was a boy ...so they back up my theory.

I have another appt at the perinatal doc for another u/s on May 22nd and I have an appt with my ob on May the 8th. If the ob doesn't do an u/s, hopefully I can find out on the 22nd of May. I will be almost 20 weeks by then. 4 weeks 6 days until I find out what we got!!

Have a great weekend!

[Mellie_1233]

Cinci -- Congrats on the good test results. J ust to add to what you were saying about boys' cells dividing more rapidly than girls -- there is some research that indicates that pregnancies resulting from blastocyst transfers are more likely to be male than pregnancies from 3 day transfers. The difference isn't huge, it's about a 60-40 split, but it's statistically significant. So those of us who had a 5 day transfer may have a slightly higher than average chance of a boy. You can google "blastocyst and sex" to get articles on this.

[jomae]

Hi Ladies
hope everyones ok your all so quiet

Sitting on the couch relaxing the other night i felt the baby move just a small flutter but none the less with ds i didn't feel him move to 20 21 weeks but now that i know what it feels like its easier to recognize anyone else starting to feel anything

I'm really starting to show to now my sister in law told me i've lost my waist today not that i had much of one to loose but i'm definately feeling rounder or thicker or something i guess it's just an arwkward feeling it will be nice when people see me and cna clearly say oh shes pregnant not look at me and say boy look at how fat she's getting and besides i want to start wearing my maternity clothes.

Gecko glad your feeling good now hopefully your energy will pick up also.
i expect your stretching pains will get worse if anything now with the rapid growth of bub hopefully you don't get siatica that can really hurt

So Mia will you find out what you are having i think its the fun part to be guessing what we are having although i'm seriously considering finding out dh wants to know and is at me to find out but i just don't know you cnat take back knowing once you know. i don't know about your stomach pains but i know with ds i lost 5 or 6 kilos in the first trimester but it gradually came back on i don't knbow that my appetite really came back until after he was born i think as long as you continue to take your vitamins and you start to put on weight in the next trimester you'll be just fine

hi Weezie i'm glad things are smoothing over for you and Dh especially at this hard time i know how you feel being there myself with my last pregnancy you just have to remind yourself that it was nothing you have done it just wasn't meant to be i think its more of what could have been which makes the loss harder to accept anyway i hope your taking care of yourself and aren't stressing yourself to much.

Hi Rio i'm sorry your sd is giving you trouble again don't you wish you could wake up in the morning to find her with a big personality change for the better of course vent anytime.

Hey cin congrats on the results you've done well are you finding out what you are having or a you leaving it for a suprize

Sorry if i missed anyone mums on the phone were trying to organize a trip to tasmania with them so i better run

chat later jomaexxx

[kholtan]

Sorry to jump in on your page mommies but I just had to see what you were all up to! I was a "Due in October" mommy last year and seeing your page and reading where everyone is brought back so many sweet memories. Although my babies were born in August, I still love to see what you October mommies are doing!

Good luck to all of you and I hope you all have healthy and happy pregnancies!
Kimberly

[cornybaby]

Hi all! Glad to see everyone is doing well. I've been reading but haven't had much to add these days. I haven't been released from the RE yet, so I'm still getting spoiled with the weekly u/s. I've finally hit double-digits and will be 11 weeks tomorrow. Yay! The twins are doing great but we had quite a scare this past Saturday. We were at my Dad's house for dinner and I was having some bad lower back pain. Sure enough I went to the restroom and found I was bleeding heavily...I mean, it was like Niagra Falls. My brother was there and he's a Dr. so he called the hospital and was able to rush me through the line at the ER where I had a lot of tests done and an u/s. The babies looked great, heart beats were strong and they were moving all over the place. They were unable to tell where the blood was coming from, so the put me on strict bedrest for a few days. The ER doc called it a "threatened abortion" and said I have a 50% chance of everything being fine and a 50% chance that this was the beginnings of a miscarriage. When I called the RE Sunday, he didn't seem to be concerned at all and said he would just see me at my next appointment, which is this Friday. So until then, it's just a stressful waiting game. The heavy bleeding has stopped but I am still spotting. At this point we are just saying our prayers and hoping this was just a random one-time event.

It sounds like everyone is doing well. I keep checking photobucket and showing DH all of your pictures. We can't wait to be out of the first trimester...we almost made it with no concerns...until Saturday anyway. Well, that's my story...please keep your fingers crossed for our little babies. I hope you all continue to be well...

[riogirl71]

Corny- I am so sorry hun What a scare! Please keep us posted. I am sending you lots of positive thoughts and prayers! Hang in there! Your miracles will be fine!

kholtan- congrats on your babies!!!

Jomae how cool you felt the baby move, I feel something the size of a grapefruit moving around to one side then in the middle!

I go for another scary blood test on Wednesday - I need all the prayers I can get for healthy baby results!!!

Hope you girls have a great week!

[KatieG]

Hi mama's!! Well its hard to hear all this scary stuff going on. Im praying for everyone right now and I know everything will work out. Nothing new here just waiting for the days to pass faster. Im peeing more frequently during the night. I hate that! but its worth it. Corny is it odd your doc was not concerened and doesnt want to see you before friday? Thats nerve racking but your best to stay calm and positive. (i know easier said then done)

Rio same for you im sending your good thoughts and prayers for Wed. Do they do an US also or is it BW wed and US monday?

I went to baby R US this weekend and looked at bedding for an idea. I did see some cute stuff so hopefully ill be able to start shopping in a few weeks. I about choked when I saw the price of some of these cribs. Im pretty sure it will be Target .com for furniture. But hey It looked ok online.

Well hello to eveyone else hope all is well.

[riogirl71]

Katie - I have u/s (not level II, just regular) and BW (expanded AFP) on Wednesday, if the baby cooperates we can find out the sex! If not, my cousin's DH is an OB and he said he would look at the baby while we are on vacation! Try IKEA! They have $99 convertible cribs, that's definitely cheaper than Target and BabiesRus. I think they do internet orders too! Glad to see everything is going well with you!

[KatieG]

Im so excited for you Rio I hope your bean is coroperating. I find out on the 30th and I think the time is going by soo slow im just excited. I can feel my bean sometimes like you when im real still and laying down and looking for it. Can wait till its an all the time thing.

[Rinnie]

Hi Rio, Weezie, Tammy,Loopie, Jomae, Mia, Katie, Corny

I'm just checkin up on you...wow what a journey you're on.
So sorry about your twin Weezie, but your other bean will just be stronger.

Anyway, I'm starting up again and start stimming next week....remember that? I've done the TCM for 3 months & my FSH is much lower, so I have faith!! So send me lots of baby dust.....

Good luck on all your tests and keep posting...I've learned a lot about what to expect, thats for sure.

Best Wishes

Rin

[KatieG]

G/L Rin and you seem to have a great outlook on things g/l and keep us posted!!!