Beautiful Babies Due in 2011 (Combined Group)

[karenvancouverisland]

hi all,

leora, i'm so glad all is well with your babies what a scare you've had. i had a "large" hematoma with this pregnancy, and my last, and bled quite a bit, and then all turned out well.

lou- in my experience the back pain gets better, i believe it's just your uterus and everything around it stretching out to accomodate changes.. mine did come back in the 3rd tri with my son, more in the form of pressure from carrying the weight of my belly on my small frame. you look great BTW! and i'd just get into those maternity pants now- i hated that feeling of putting strain across my stomach knowing what was in there.. buy some cute pants and still show off your amazing figure!

and sonya/ dandme, thanks for your comments back the other day yes, i'm a worry wart and it doesn't serve me well.. i appreciate you speaking to it and your reassurance.

and on that topic, i'm in serious doppler withdrawals as my obgyn is on holidays, may go see my family doctor to get reassurance this week if i can fit it in around work/ priorities around my son..

best wishes to everyone here!

[HopeIsAllIHave]

Leora - I am SO glad to hear your babies are doing well!! What a scare. I can't imagine how worried you must have been. But so glad to hear the bleeding has subsided and you and the babies are doing well. Keep resting, girl, and don't worry about not having a job right now. I know how it feels though.. my DH makes a good amount of money, but I feel helpless not being able to contribute. I've been taking on measly tasks such as being my BIL's assistant to take care of the tenant's needs around the apt complex. It's not much.. maybe 7-10 hours/week with a lousy pay, but at least I feel like I'm contributing somewhat.. at least toward the increased costs of food these days, since we're trying to buy as much organic food as we can. Anyway, you just worry (or not worry) about your 2 beautiful babies growing inside you right now. When the time is right, you'll find the perfect job!

Lou - first of all, you look amazing! Where's this weight gain you've been talking about? I guess you must've been a size 0 before this pregnancy, huh? Then I can imagine you being uncomfortable in your jeans. Sport those maternity pants, girl! Oh, and I've been meaning to comment on your last u/s picture. What an amazing shot!! I love it! When is my baby going to look like that?? Is that u/s done transvaginally or was it an abdominal u/s? When do they switch over to the abdominal u/s? because mine still appears to look like a blob and I was measured at 8w4d yesterday despite being 9 weeks.

AFM - Thank you Lou, Stephanie, Sonya, and Karin for the reassurance!! I really appreciate it! I took Lou's advice and called my RE's office to schedule another U/S, which I had yesterday. Apparently, they can only legally see me for 9 weeks of my pregnancy, which was spot on yesterday, so they were able to fit me in to ease my mind. However, the baby was still measuring 3 days behind, but again, I was told that was no reason for concern. I'll just have to take their word for it. The baby's HB was 178 this time.. quite a jump from 7 weeks, which was 127. It sounded nice and strong, but it's not too high now, is it? gosh, I'm always worrying about one thing or another. But I still wasn't able to see "much" of my baby.. the NP pointed out the head, the back, and "maybe" a limb, but it still pretty much looked like a blob to me. I keep going back to look at Lou's amazing U/S at 9 weeks, was it Lou? And it looks perfect and adorable!! I did see the baby move slightly though; that was kind of cool! Anyway, my nausea is horrible these days. Seems like I'm nauseous 80% of the day, which is NOT fun, but I guess good for reassurance. I even started vomiting this week.. twice so far and both times it was because I got less than 3 hours of sleep the night before. I guess there's some correlation there.

Sorry, there are so many of us on this thread, it's so hard to keep track of everyone and do personals. I definitely need to do a better job at it. I hope everyone is having a safe and uneventful pregnancy. Much love to all you mommas!

[MamaBoo]

HopeisallIhave: I read that a the heartbeat is more of an indicator of gestational age than size. The heartrate rises steadly for several weeks before it drops a bit and settles to a more regular rythem. When I say regular though, I do not mean it will stay strictly the same. It does however stay a bit more steady. I too worried when my baby's heartrate rose in the early weeks until I looked it up and saw that it was actually a very good sign.

[lou71]

OK, my Gummy Bear just gave me a scare. I went to use my doppler to check on him/her and I couldn't find it. That hasn't happened yet. I gave up after a nervous 5-6 minutes and told DH who was rolling a pizza crust for dinner. He said "let's try again" and so I laid back down and we tried again. After again not finding it in 5 more minutes we were both very worried. We've always found it withing a minute or two. I ended up doing a lot today. I played 2 hrs of tennis at the club, did grocery shopping and other errands, and then went to the gym together to get some weight training in. I was careful and didn't think I was doing anything harmful but when we couldn't find the hb.... I started to worry even though I've heard over and over from medical professionals "exercise cannot cause a miscarriage." I got up and went pee and then DH said "do you want to go to the emergency room at the hospital?" And I said we should try once more at least. So we did.... and waaaaay over to the right, behind my heartbeat, we could hear that familiar gallop. WHEW! I realllly need to learn not to freak out so easily. Not fun!

KarenVancouver -- Thanks for the advice on back pain. It did get better today but was really achy and sore for a while. Have you thought of getting your own doppler so you can freak yourself out at home like I did? No, j/k... it is really nice to have as long as you DON'T freak if you can't find it once or twice and just "try again later". When I hear my baby's hb, a sense of calm comes over me and I feel happy and content. I didn't have that before I bought it. I bought the Sonoline B 3mHz from ebay that others recommended. It was about $60 + tax and came with two tubes of gel.

Ashley -- I'm sure your bean is perfect. Don't worry at all about the size. A healthy hb is far more indicative. If your RE isn't worried, then you shouldn't either. Yes, that was my u/s I posted at 9w4d. It was done at RE's office and was transvaginal. I think they can do abdominal u/s after about 12 weeks but I'm not for sure on that one. My RE said they can see me until 12 weeks so I'm going for weekly u/s to "ease my mind". I have an appt on Monday and I'm thinking that might be my last one. Or maybe one more....lol. It's awesome to see the baby move, isn't it? My little one must have been dancing because he/she was verrrry active and moving arms and legs at the same time for a while. So cool. No, haha, I wasn't a size 0 before pregnancy. I was a 2/4 in pants and a 6/8 in fitted tops/blazers due to my "C" cups and muscular back/arms/shoulders. I just happen to have very narrow hips. Probably not a good thing for having a baby, eh? My bust is 36" and my hips are 34" . I don't like that I look "top heavy", but whatever, I can't change that. I am only 5'4" tall, but my weight is a healthy and muscular 130-133 lbs. I do keep my body fat down around 15-16% (FYI-- anything under 14% isn't recommended for conceiving). When I started working with my trainer, I weighed 137-140 lbs but had a body fat of 26% and wore a pant size 6/8. So with the help of my awesome trainer, I made some serious changes in how I looked in about 12 weeks. Pregnancy is and will change all that I'm sure. It's going to be a fun challenge to see how much it takes to get it back afterwards. And I am totally hiring back my trainer, who is also one of my good friends. My OB weighed me with clothes and shoes on in the afternoon at 140 lbs but at home in the morning without clothes and shoes, I weighed 134 lbs. So I guess I've gained 1-2 lbs so far. But my pants and jeans feel awful and tight!

[lou71]

Nicole- I do plan to go back to work full time but at 72 hrs every 2 weeks instead of 80. I'll be taking every other Friday off. DH works every other weekend, I don't, but he's off wednesdays and every other friday. I heard the baby's heartbeat loud and clear with my doppler at 9 1/2 weeks. Most people have said they heard it by 10 weeks. The only time I had trouble finding it was last night. There's literally an area about an inch in size where you can find it.

[leorira11]

oh my - I'm so worried. I had another u/s at the IVF clinic today after being released from the hospital on Friday. I've had NO bleeding, which I'm really happy about.

The problem now is that the babies are measuring a bit behind.

on Wednesday (6w1d) they measured 5w6d (3mm)
on Friday (6w3d) they measured 6w1d and 6w0d (4mm)
today (Sunday) (6w5d) they measured approx 6w1d (tech said we shouldn't measure again so soon after Friday so was reluctant and only did it quickly because we asked) (5mm)

The doctors are trying to reassure me. Babies can measure small - different techs/machines can change results - these are tiny measurements so a little difference seems like a big difference - there's nothing we can do anyway.

Because of the bleeding, I'm on bed rest for the next 2 weeks (at least). I go back next week for another u/s.

I'm sooooo worried. My last miscarriage started the exact same way (baby measured on track at 6w, then behind at 7w and then the hb stopped by 8wks). The doctor told me I shouldn't worry. The only thing we can do is wait and see.

I'm so worried. I can NOT lose babies #4 and #5. I just don't how I will go on after that....

I'm trying to stay positive, but I'm overanalyzing every twinge and ache. I remember that with my last twin pregnancy (in which the babies developed perfectly but were just born too early) I had aches and back aches and cramps and all was fine. Now I'm so worried....

On top of it all - today and tomorrow is a big happy Jewish holiday (called Purim) where we all dress up in costumes and get drunk. There are lots of fun parties going on in the next few days. Everyone is asking why I'm not going. Some people know I'm pregnant, but now that I'm having trouble, I don't want to tell more people. Maybe I'll just say I'm 'sick'. Somehow, for me, pregnancies going wrong always coincides with some big religious holiday (I miscarried last time over Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur).

[leorira11]

hmmm.... now I'm researching via Dr. Google. Several site say that the easiest way to 'date' a fetus is to add the length in mm to 6 weeks, since the fetus is supposed to grow 1mm everyday after week 6. So.... 5mm at 6w5d is perfect.... so why did the u/s machine calculate 5mm to be 6w1d?

[lou71]

hmmm.... now I'm researching via Dr. Google. Several site say that the easiest way to 'date' a fetus is to add the length in mm to 6 weeks, since the fetus is supposed to grow 1mm everyday after week 6. So.... 5mm at 6w5d is perfect.... so why did the u/s machine calculate 5mm to be 6w1d?

Oh Leora sweetie... Please try not to worry too much. My baby measured 5.13 mm and the u/s machine calculated 6w4d. My RE measured twice and got something less the first time. He said even a fraction of a mm changes it so at that size, anything within 5 days is ok. Your babies are growing! That's a good sign. You and they will make it.

[Reenie100]

JustlikeHannah-You're right, the recovery time will be much longer than for a vaginal delivery. However, that being said, it's now 6 days after the C-section and I'm able to walk around with the aid of medication. In fact, while you are in the hospital they will attempt to get you moving the next day or so after they remove the catheter.

The first time you do something, it will take a lot of energy to do it (e.g. sitting up on the side of the bed, going to the bathroom for the first time, taking a shower for the first time, walking around for the first time) but each time you do it, it gets easier. We took the babies to the pediatrician for their first post-discharge appointment yesterday and I was able to handle that.

I will try to post some pictures of them soon.

[margi26]

Hello ladies,

Some of you know me from the Fall & Winter IVF boards....I was going to make myself wait until u/s to join you ladies, but, here I am. Hopefully not too early and jinxing myself! But, I figure as I have questions, even this early on, that you ladies would be the best resource for me.

Those that don't know me can see from my siggie, it has been a fairly long journey for DH and I, but here we are finally! With strong beta #s and hopefully a strong bean in there (or 2). We did a 5dt of 3 beautiful blasts and 2 morulas that looked good and were only 12 hours behind he said. The other 3 morulas didn't make it to freeze.

My EDD is 11/22/11. It is exciting to see it in print.

My next beta is Tuesday (3/22) and then first u/s is the following Tuesday (3/29). I will be 5w6d at that point.

Wow...it still feels unreal.

I will read and catch up with personals soon.

[riogirl71]

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Waitingkay

THIS ONE IS ESPECIALLY FOR MARGI! I COULD NOT BE HAPPIER THAT YOU ARE HERE!!!!!!

Everyone that is not on the list - please let me know your EDD, how many and flavor of your bean if you already know!!!!

[to_have_fun08]

Margi - I am dying to see how many you have baking in there. I want to think maybe 3 but ill be on the cautious side and say only 2. I am so happy for you.

Leoria - Glad to see the bleeding has stopped. Don't worry about the babies being a day or two behind I bet your 2 little beans will be fine.


So when did everybody's pregnancy symptoms start. i am 5w1d and the only thing i notice that I am a little more tired and that my boobs are sore every once in awhile. Also bloated on and off. I know a lot of people don't have symptoms so i am trying not to worry about things. 10 more days till the u/s.

[Waitingkay]

Hi all!

Reenie - Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kjm - How does it feel without the progesterone? I'm looking forward to this moment although I may be scared too..Does it change how you feel physically?

Lou - You look wonderful! I'm so bloated that I look huge now. My belly has no memory of my Pilates abs...

HopeIsAllIHave - I still feel no symptom, sounds weird I know but I kind of wish I'd have some of yours, just to know everything is okay.

Leora - I think of you. You have been through so much, I can only imagine the scare you guys had after dealing with the past as well. Like everyone said I suppose the best now is to relax, both mentally and physically. Looking forward to great news from you.

Riogirl - My little one is due in November. I'll have my first U/S on Wednesday. We are so hoping everything's okay

Kay

[mellow4]

Margi So Glad To Have You Here With Us!!!! Can't wait to hear how many you've got growing. I'm so excited for you.

[karenthescorpio]

Leora- Hang in there. All will be ok. I, too, had bleeding episodes with my last preganancy (twins). You are in good hands and being watched closely...which is great. Lots of water and rest. Sending you thoughts and prayers.
Karen