Tammy - CONGRATULATIONS! Hope all is well. My best friend's son is named Zach and I think that's a darling name. Can't wait to see pics!
Jomae - That's great that you aren't retaining water. I have started to do that. Anytime I walk for very long my fingers swell. At my last dr's appt I weighed myself in the am like always and noticed that I'd gained 3.5 pounds since I weighed myself before my previous appt two weeks prior. When I got to the dr's office they weighed me and said I had gained 8 pounds since my last appt
Fortunately, I knew that most of that was water b/c I have been keeping track of my weight first thing in the morning, but still I was pretty shocked that I could acquire so much water so quickly.
An early Happy Birthday to Katie on the 16th!
Rio - I had to laugh when you said that you forget how big your tummy is. When I walk out of the bathroom stall at work I keep bumping my tummy with the door !
I just keep forgetting to account for all this tummy! As for your question, I think we'll go for a new cycle. We have 1 frozen blast graded 5BA out of 6AA. I am very concerned about going through a fresh cycle soon b/c of my diagnosis and I will turn 38 next May which is when we'll probably be doing this. I had a big struggle getting to retrieval between a cancelled cycle and 2x failing to suppress on bcp, so I want to get that cycle going as soon as possible.
You must be so excited for Thursday! I'm so happy for you that you're about to meet your little one!
Loopie - If those cleaning fairies show up please send them over here next! I could use them.
Weezie - Sounds like you're on your way! So any stomach hardening is a contraction? How can you tell the difference between a stomach hardening b/c of a contraction and a hardening b/c the little one is sticking his or her body out far? Did you talk to your dr? Any news?
Gecko - So you're about to get a date for inducing! That will be nice to know. Glad to hear all's well.
Katie - Glad to hear all's well with Parker. Guess he likes it in there and isn't in a hurry to change his living quarters.
Corny - So Abigail is starting the bottle soon? That's great! I can imagine it would be hard to start doing nursery stuff w/all you've been through. But once you get started it's incredibly fun. My mentor in grad school did research on preemies and I remember working on a follow-up study (when the babies were age 18 years) of some of the former "preemies" and one Mom told me that when her little boy was born and was sick she was so afraid and my mentor told her to buy some booties for the baby. She said that she did and it gave her such a sense of peace somehow to go and buy him something. She remembered that moment all those years later! I'm so happy to hear that you're about to start all the fun stuff!
Suga - Babies are stressful and twins must be so much more so. Good for you for establishing such good communication w/DH. I'm glad for you that your mom will be there soon to give you some relief. Resentment is tough. I don't blame you for envying him his sleep. It's gotta be hard to keep your emotions in check when you have such little sleep.
Yikes! I wrote a lot! I haven't posted lately and had a lot of catching up to do.
Things are fine here. I am having occassional pains in my hips. I suppose this is my ligaments loosening but I don't really know. I'll have to ask the dr. Otherwise, I'm just getting bigger. I haven't noticed any contractions but after reading some of what you girls have said I'm not sure I'd recognize them. I don't think my little girl has "dropped" yet.
Hope everyone's well!
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