Beautiful Babies Due in 2011 (Combined Group)

[lou71]

Lou -- I did both of them again - and both said "BOY"

LOL... you are soooo having two boys Leora! Many congrats, they look fantastic!

[to_have_fun08]

both mine said boys. I keep telling hubby its a boy just cus my boy was the expanded blast that we transferred and my beta numbers were kind of high for a singleton so i say he was the overachiever.

[Happy Bunny]

My belly got lower! It looks like Brooke dropped when she flipped head down. At first, I was concerned that she seemed to drop early but, according to the internet, it is not too early for her to move down. She's actually a lot more comfortable now, except for hiccups on my bladder!

[lou71]

both mine said boys. I keep telling hubby its a boy just cus my boy was the expanded blast that we transferred and my beta numbers were kind of high for a singleton so i say he was the overachiever.

Sounds like good reasoning to me! I'll be adding you to the "boy" list. Can't wait to see if it's right. Do you plan to find out before the birth? I am hoping I can find out at my Level II on May 12th. So exciting.

[lou71]

Chinese Gender Prediction Results

As of 4-25-11
Right 70%, Wrong 30%

GIRL
Klinger –Right!
Lou
Anacris—Right!
KarenScorpio -- Right!
HopeisallIhave
Happy Bunny – Right!
Rio – Right!
KJM
Baby_blu – Wrong
WaitingKay


BOY
Mellow – Wrong
Karin1 – Right!
SD
Dlk – Wrong
Gina – Rightx2!
Leora – Right x 2?
Annashope -- Right!
diedraj -- Wrong
Sonya- Right!
Blair
to_have_fun (Chris)



The link again in case you didn't try this one.
http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/PredictSex.htm

[leorira11]

btw Lou -- these things always have a 50%ish chance of being right.... but with fraternal twins (like most of us will probably have), they have a 75% chance of being right for one of the babies! (With fraternal twins, the odds are 50%-b/g, 25%-b/b and 25%-g/g) The chances of having one boy or one girl is 75% when you have fraternal twins!

[leorira11]

babies are making me scatter-brained -- so many short posts instead of putting my thoughts in order for one long one!

Just a funny story -- I woke up Saturday morning with a really bad UTI (even to the point of red blood in my urine). The doctor was closed, so we went to the hospital. I was checked out, babies are both fine, and given a Rx for antibiotics. I know from past UTIs that there is a drug (called Sedural here) that instantly relieves the pain and urgent frequentness of UTIs.... with the bizarre side effects that it turns your urine (and some other bodily fluids) BRIGHT ORANGE. I love the relief, but it seriously is weird. Anyways, apparently, it's safe to take while pregnant (class B) and I was in agony, so I got a Rx for that too...

D thinks it's hysterical when I turn orange (my eyes turn orange too from the meds) in general... but he had a funny thought.... what if the amniotic fluid turns orange too? Maybe our babies will be born BRIGHT ORANGE like Ooompa Loompas!

I doubt it... but it's a good laugh!

[vicky1707]

Hi ladies,

I was kindly invited to join this board as me and DH got a fantastic BFP on 20th April It was a 5 day blastocyst FET - our 5th attempt. We had 2 eggs transferred. We still dont feel it's real. We only do a HPT and that's it until our first scan on 12th May to detect the heartbeat. I feel like I should be having a blood test to really confirm it and I'm too scared to do another HPT! The nurses at our unit have always said that if the HPT gives a positive it's definitely a positive, and vice versa! So they seem pretty sure. When i went to the unit the next day at the test to get more medication there was just a leaflet about early pregnancy and that was it! I didnt see a nurse or anything so they must be pleased with the test result. The line cacme up straight away - even before the 3 minutes and it was a big dark line and has stayed ever since!

I'm feeling all kind of emotions. I'm so happy and excited but so scared and nervous at the same time.

I'm still only feeling like AF is arriving soon. I've been having the few headaches and I can not stop weeing. My boobs are sore and swollen but seem to get worse on the night. My stomach feels swollen as well. I've had no morning sickness.I have had a little constipation as well (nice!)! I think because I'm not having the usual pregnancy symptoms (like morning sickness) and I dont actually feel pregnant I'm thinking something is wrong!

Did you ladies feel pregnancy symptoms every day?? One day I feel different and the next day I feel fine! I thought the 2ww was a nightmare but waiting for our first scan is really driving me crazy! LOL

I've read that our bodies are already used to the side effects of all the IVF drugs that we don't feel any different - is that true?

I think I'm just thinking too much into it!? I'm sure you ladies will have felt like this?!

I should be due December time. We still can't believe that in 9 months time our little miracle will be here

I am keeping up with the PMA - we've never achieved a pregnancy so we are enjoying every minute of it!

Hope you don't mind me joining the thread ladies I'll try and catch up with everyone's posts - it may take some time! LOL

Thanks again,
Vicky x x x

[klinger13]

Leora - LMAO at your oompa loompa comment! Thank goodness it doesn't make it blue or you'd be looking like Violet Beauregard.

Vicky - CONGRATULATIONS and welcome!! Don't let the lack of pregnancy symptoms worry you. Some ladies on our thread had terrible morning sickness while some of us haven't had any at all (I would only get a little nausea some evenings so wouldn't even really consider it morning sickness.) Many of us just felt a little fatigued or bloated or maybe the boobs were a little sore, but you'll find that these symptoms come and go. Sorry they don't routinely do betas in the UK, but I'm sure your u/s on May 12th is going to be great. And yes, the wait for the first u/s is much harder than the 2ww. But until then, just keep thinking positive and keep celebrating your pregnancy!

[vicky1707]

klinger13 - Thank you for the reassurance. I'm I trying my hardest with PMA (DH keeps telling me off for thinking too much! LOL). I'm just so scared something goes wrong. I suppose every one of us ladies have felt like that.

But I'm going to make sure I enjoy every minute of being pregnant. Afterall we've waited a long 7 days for this

Vic x

[vicky1707]

klinger13 - Thank you for the reassurance. I'm I trying my hardest with PMA (DH keeps telling me off for thinking too much! LOL). I'm just so scared something goes wrong. I suppose every one of us ladies have felt like that.

But I'm going to make sure I enjoy every minute of being pregnant. Afterall we've waited a long 7 days for this

Vic x

Erm 7 YEARS not days! LOL Baby brain already!

[mellow4]

Hey ladies, I've been reading along this past week, but haven't had much to say...cheering you all on. We've been on vacation for the last week, enjoying our family. It's been a rough month. On a good note, Little Marlo has been kicking and rolling like crazy, which is such assurance after losing Claire just 2 weeks ago. I am having some brown spotting, which has me nervous, and my contractions are a bit stronger than they were. I have an appointment with the Perio tomorrow that wouldn't tell me what to expect when we found that Claire wasn't growing like she should be. I want to yell at him. Anyway, hopefully that can figure out why I am having this spotting, and make sure I am not starting to go into labor.

I have a question for you all. I know most of us are from the States, but wondered if any of you know of anyone that knows about health care in Australia? My husband may be being transferred there, before the baby is due. Looking at a possible move and how to handle all of that. My life is chaos.

[klinger13]

Mellow - I hope your appointment tomorrow goes well and I say give that peri hell!! And wow, australia??? Can't help you there but wow, would that be a lot to digest before the baby comes. Hope someone chimes in with some info.

Vicky - Yep, we all felt that way. It's like we wait for the shoe to drop after all of these losses or failed cycles. I spoke in "ifs" for a long time with this pregnancy but staying positive kept me from going too crazy.

[MamaBoo]

I am not trying to be Debbie Downer (especially since my name isn't Debbie ). I do want to give a cautionary tale about taking hpt's regularly to make sure you are still pregnant. With my first IVF cycle I received a BFP w/very good beta numbers, but started bleeding. We did one u/s before 6 weeks due to the bleeding and RE saw a "sac" on the u/s. I had more bleeding and a couple weird espisodes of a pinkish discharge. I had to wait 10 days between 1st and 2nd u/s to see what would happen. About half way through, I decided to take an hpt to reassure myself. It was still very dark. This hpt was after the bleeding had stopped. I went in to the next u/s w/too high hopes. I had lost the pregnancy. Even then, my hcg was over 600 -RE wanted to make sure it wasn't molar. Your hcg can stay pretty high for days or even a couple of weeks after a m/c. I hope no one else ever goes through this, but I become concerned when I read that people are doing continuous hpt's to make sure everything is okay. It isn't a very reliable way to tell.
I also now don't say "when" this or that happens, I now say "hopefully". I don't like the word "if", but I love the word "hope".

[blairwh58]

Mamaboo- as much as I agree that hpts are not a good way to make sure things are going ok- for me it has been the only option so far. I don't get an ultrasound until may 4 which is still a few days off...so until then I'm going to assume from my very high betas and positive tests that things are going well. Even though I've experienced a similar miscarriage and had higher betas then we only saw a sac and ended up losing the pregnancy. As nervous and anxious as I am about the appointment I'm going to stay positive and go from everything so far that has been telling me I'm pregnant.