Hi Nikola, Dagny and everyone,
I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed the dog stories and the bra stories! It's very cheering to have some non-pregnant things to read about while I am still waiting for my fisrt scan and trying to be a bit less obsessed about pregnancy and what might happen! and I look forward to getting big and trying out your toilet roll measuring techniques!
love
juliana
Its the rules of posting on this side.......you talk about any old bollox! I think everyone is so relieved to get on this side and be pg, that you want to talk about anything other than the tmt. So we have to make things up to entertain ourselves!!
Obviously some are rather more silly than other.....Tracey! I think Dagny and I try to keep a sensible balance.
I remember reading people like Shell measuring herself with toilet roll and I had only just found out I was pg, I was desperate to start measuring myself. That seems like just a couple of weeks ago. So the time will pass really quickly I promise you. Once you get this wretched first scan out of the way and then you hit 12 weeks, the rest of the time start flying by and you want it to slow down and let you enjoy being pg for as long as possible!!
Your scan must be soon......even I feel like its been ages!
Hi Nikola,
It HAS been ages - i am 6 weeks 2 days now and have another week to go. i am very happy at one level but at another i still cannot enjoy it as much as last time - a m/c does this to you i guess, so i hope after the scan it will feel more 'real'.
Juliana don't listen to Nikola all the time - admittedly I have always been silly - have I told you about my singing knickers.................?
Maybe not but Dagny and Nikola do encourage me to be worse and they can be silly in the extreme that I have to try and outdo them - not always succeeding I hasten to add - I mean Nikola and her Sooties for a start!
I know exactly what you mean about time dragging and the fact you had a m'c - I mean just look at my history. It does drag but try and occupy yourself -you then reach a milestone and then zoom off it goes again. I am currently finding it can drag waiting for my 16 week scan which will be nearly at 17 wks and then look back and think I was waiting for my 7 wk scan and here I am at 14.3 days! Time is a strange one. Hang in there - we are all here when you want a laugh or cry!
Love
Tracey
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ttc 9 years. 38 yrs old, dh 8 hrs younger!First IVF in Aug 2002 and had ectopic.2nd IVF neg.3rd FET and negative.4th FET and positive but sadly lost our little boy at 20 weeks.5th FET and Alice Isobel and Emily Charlotte born 5th Aug 2004!
Hope you don't mind me joining your thread!
How are you feeling Juliana? Have you got any symptoms yet? I'm a week and a day behind you apart from weeing lots and feeling tired I don't really feel pg! I'm a bit of a nightmare with the pg tests as have now done 4 - dh is tearing his hear out and is worrying that he'll need shares in clearblue!! I seem to feel more tired in the morning when I wake up what about you?
Have got 1st scan on 27th which seems like weeks away. I think this wait is longer than the 2ww.
Have just read back through this and all I've talked about is being pg - sorry!!!
Nikola, Dagny & Tracey we need you to talk some more b*****ks!!!
i think I might join Alisons thread about no 2's cos I love talking about poo!! I'm not a weirdo honest
Hope your bumps are all well
Dawn
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Hi Dawn,
I am feeling more and more symptoms, my breasts seem to have become huge (there is that popular word again), I have dizzy spells and feel very very tired. No real sickness but i do feel nauseaus and react very strongly to smells (coffee seems terrible, i normally love it). and i am all bloated (coming closer to the subject of poo!), i suspect the pessaries make it worse - maybe someone on this board told me. as for the weeing, up twice a night sometimes more...so I guess i have at least some of the symptoms. i must say they are much stronger this week (week 7), last week i also worried that i did not feel so pg, but this week i am dizzy and queasy often enough to be more convinced...
we are very close with our dates so it will be nice to share news, your scan is 4 days after mine if i remember correctly? (mine is 23rd)...
i know about the compulsion to do pg tests, i did them several times when i was pg last time and was reassured every time, such a nice feeling to see it +ive, my dp was looking with some amusement at me...
take care and feel free to introduce any other subjects to this thread!
hey Tracey,
I am dying to know more about your singing knickers! But seriously, i think you are great, getting through what you did and keeping your sense of humour! i am worried that even the early m/c i had has left me a bit too apprehensive to be really happy about being pg now. i must learn from you how you do it, although as you say with time passing it gets better and every next scan is a milestone...
Hi Dawn and Juliana
Don;t worry about talking poo - according to Nikola I talk S***E all day long anyway which is rich coming from her! You can talk pg anytime you like and if it helps you to keep doing clear blues then go for it!
Juliana I have my days when I drive poor Nikola up the wall - bump not growing etc - boobs not sore enough - I keep remembering last time when I (looking back) had stopped growing and the pains I thought were baby moving was the uterus contracting. Last night I have fizzy feelings inside and it is too early for flutterings so went off on a mini panic - Have not dared tell Nik yet because it will be lecture time. How to get through it??? I guess the answer is you will always be apprehensive but try and have times when you enjoy - as you reach the milestone you got to before and pass it then try and enjoy it - mine unfortunately is 20 weeks which is ages but hey ho! We have all gone through too much I reckon to not try and enjoy it and accept you will worry but as long as it is not all the time!
Take care you two and speak soon
Love
Tracey
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ttc 9 years. 38 yrs old, dh 8 hrs younger!First IVF in Aug 2002 and had ectopic.2nd IVF neg.3rd FET and negative.4th FET and positive but sadly lost our little boy at 20 weeks.5th FET and Alice Isobel and Emily Charlotte born 5th Aug 2004!
What kind of fuzzy feelings??? Its probably wind!!!! If you want proper reassurance dh has offered to be your doctor and get out his machine and gel (ooo-er) and you can listen to the heartbeats. You'll be able to hear them now at 14 weeks! You can listen to mine if you want!
Dawn & Juliana its so nice to read someone elses posts apart from me and TS - I think we sometimes take over and nobody else dares join in - please do. We get bored of talking bollox to each other all the time!
I really feel for both of you sat waiting for your first scan, for me it was the longest two weeks of my entire life. It just went on and on and seemed to last for ages. Dawn you are right, its MUCH worse than the 2ww! Even though you know you are pregnant you daren't allow yourself to be too happy and get carried away because, ivf has taught us all to be ready for bad news after bad news - its wierd having something nice to celebrate!!
I'm sure you'll both be fine. Its very normal to feel tired. I was totally exhausted and didn't really move far from the sofa. I kept convincing myself I felt sick so I would have some real symptoms - I wish I hadn't because at around 8 weeks the real morning sickness kicked in and didn't go until I was about 16 weeks!!!!! Being sick every day for two months is not much fun.......you've got all this to come!!!!!
Keep up your fluids, and rest when your body tells you its tired and you'll both be fine!!
My fizzy - very odd - you know how you get quickening before you get kicks - never got the kicks before but.........
Well it is like bubbles in and around my navel and feels very odd like quickening - not quite the flutters yet where butterflies go off but fizzy - hard to explain. and it is not wind either! Far too early for quickening so not sure.
Perhaps it is growing fizzes???!!!!!!
HElp!
Love
Tracey
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ttc 9 years. 38 yrs old, dh 8 hrs younger!First IVF in Aug 2002 and had ectopic.2nd IVF neg.3rd FET and negative.4th FET and positive but sadly lost our little boy at 20 weeks.5th FET and Alice Isobel and Emily Charlotte born 5th Aug 2004!
I had my first flutters on holiday so I was about 15 weeks and it felt like someone tapping their fingers on the inside of my tummy.....a bit like wind but as you say more fizzy. It could be them turning around. They move an awful lot by now, so maybe you are feeling that - its very exciting and NOT something to worry about!!!!
I am glad that our postings have kept you amused during your 3 week wait. We aim to please. I only wonder what Marcus makes of it all?? It is a nice change to talk about other everyday stuff rather than injections and OHSS. I just wish all the girls on the other side could be here too. We all deserve to talk bollox - I mean we go through so much cr@p and having a laugh is top of the menu.
How are you doing on your 3ww? It must be nearly up isn't it? I bet you can't wait to see if it's one or two little beating hearts. I remember like Nik when some of the more sensible girls were measuring with bog roll and I was so envious waiting for my belly to grow and now I can't do my boots up without squashing myself up and gasping for air. Wouldn't change it for the world.
It's good to be a little mad like Nik and Tracey and now Dawn looks a likely candidate to join the motley crew. I think when all our babies arrive we will all have to grow up smartish and join the real world, but for the time being silliness is the order of the day.
Love to all you girlies. My scan is on Thursday - yippeeeeeee
Hi girls,
My scan is on Monday as i am sure I've said before but now time has really slowed down. i am kind of scared, mostly because dp has another 2 kids from a previous relationship and he is not thrilled by the idea of twins. for me 2 is immesurably better than nothing but i worry about him... and then i worry that i should even worry about this when all i really need is a healthy baby(s) there. i had quite a bit of cramps today, more like pressure in the right region (i hope) and also a fuzzy headache which does not bode well for the class i have to teach in an hour. honestly i feel so fragile right now i wish i could do nothing!
anyway i agree with you Dagny that it is a relief to talk and think about other things than tests, ec and et and waiting for the next ivf try. i feel enormously privileged already. and i wish all the girls could be here at this side, sometimes i really think no one should have to go through all this to get pg which happens so effortlesly to other people.
and most importantly, Dagny, good luck with your scan!!!
Tracey, that fizzy feeling should be a good sign! maybe you should go and listen to them on Nikola's dh's machine!
love to all,
Juliana
I just wanted to wish you luck for Monday - about blinking time!!! You've been waiting ages. I'm sure whatever the scan reveals 1,2,3...your dh will be so pleased that you are having a baby together he'll deal with it.
When we found out we were having twins my dh was shocked, but he soon came round to the idea and now we feel really honoured to be having twins.
You'll be fine. Don't forget to post and let us all know how it goes!!
Dagny
Only a day -c an't wait - I am out all morning with my car at the car doctor before I drive to Nik's on Saturday so will rush back - what time? or have you already said?
Juliana - good luck for monday - I am sure DP will be fine whatever - my dh has 2 already from first marriage so I am a wicked step mum - if only they seem to put me on a pedastle - he was thrilled with twins and still is! HE wanted loads of children just not with the lazy moo - sorry won't go on about her - would be here all year.
I am sure the fizzy feeling is normal and spoke to my midwife today who said when you have been pg before you recognize the signs earlier. Also it can happen with twins! It is just then when you have been what we went through before it brings back nightmares - can't explain it and hope that you lot will never find out what I mean!
Enough of that - will not probaby go near the machine thanks N as DH is a bit wary and if we don't find one for some reason then panic stations and we want to enjoy the weekend.
Love to you all and happy bollox talking
Love
Tracey
xxx
ttc 9 years. 38 yrs old, dh 8 hrs younger!First IVF in Aug 2002 and had ectopic.2nd IVF neg.3rd FET and negative.4th FET and positive but sadly lost our little boy at 20 weeks.5th FET and Alice Isobel and Emily Charlotte born 5th Aug 2004!
It's very cheering to have some non-pregnant things to read about while I am still waiting for my fisrt scan and trying to be a bit less obsessed about pregnancy and what might happen! and I look forward to getting big and trying out your toilet roll measuring techniques!
