Shannon, I'm so pleased that your HCG was up.... I was thinking about you all weekend and wanted to write sooner, but unfortunately my nausea is still un-relenting... and I am soooooo tired!!!!!
Wendy, keep your chin up- your HCG is looking good. Try to stay calm and not stress yourself or baby out too much.
Teresa- congratulations.... I'm so happy for you... you're ahead of me, so have to let me know EVERYTHING to expect!!
Paige, how did it go at the doc's today? Did you manage to persuade him to give you suppositories/pessaries instead?
I have to admit I am now so desperate to start showing, so I don't look so silly peering down at my tummy and stroking it lovingly.... I think they must almost be ready to commit me at the moment!! That of course, and the legendary boob bashing that I think we're all upto! I have noticed that the tenderness does tend to come and go.... the only thing I can rely on is my need for sleep and generally feeling nauseous. But as DH says, it's all for a good cause....
Take care and let me know how you're all getting on- time for bed for me.....
Tanya x
NC-IVF in July 2004. BFP, looking forward to a little bouncing easter 2005 arrival!
me 30 yrs; DH 30 yrs
Shannon: So relieved to hear your levels are looking great! Yippeee.
Wendy: I'm glad things are calming down on your end too, after going through so much we just need everything to hang in there!
I went for another scan today...and there is ONE baby (I must admit I'm a bit relieved), and I actually saw the heartbeat fluttering away...which was very cool. My 4 yr old actually got to see it as well. I begged the Dr. to switch me from the shots to the suppositories and since he saw the heartbeat he agreed (I'm thrilled). Though he wants me to overlap them for the next 2 days....only 2 more days of Progesterone ouchy shots yippppeeeee! If I have any left, I think I'll inject DH in the *ss just so he knows how it feels .
I go back next Tues for another Proj level check and scan...then I think I'll be discharged to my OB/GYN. I just need everything to hang in there!
Hello ladies and congrats to you all. I just joined the boards prior to getting my BFP and am so grateful to learn about all of the similar experiences we are going through! I'm 5 weeks and go to the doc on Thursday to find out if there are twins (or more!?)
My major side effects are MOODINESS, fatigue and I was really queezy at first but that seems to have gone away. How is everyone else doing with irritabilty?
Again.. congrats to you all and thanks for your input.. It really helps!!!!
Paige,
Congratulations on one heallthy baby... Did they say how many weeks are you ? I don't get discharged until my next scan at 11 weeks (next wed)!!! Although I got to see my gno at 7 weeks, and was sent to the hosipital for all the blood work and got my apt. for the 19th week scan to hopefully find out the sex !!
I have to continue with the progesterone until 12 weeks my poor bum bum , but its all worth it!!
PixieGini,
Congrats !!! do you know what your hcg was ?? You mentioned fatigue ...hhhhhuuuuummmmm that is my biggest side effect, I am always tired in when I wake up in the morning !!!
Tanya,
I know what you mean about wanting to show, I am 10 weeks today and have been in maternity clothes since about 7 1/2 weeks... They are so much more comfortable but still a little BIG!! I think that some people just see me as a little over weight as of to being PG !!! But in a couple of more weeks and I am sure they will notice!
Wendy,
Hows it going ? Still nervous ? Remember everything you feel so does your baby !!! I remember my doctor telling me that when I asked him if I need to take my asmtha meds and he said of course because if I can't breathe neither can the baby !! I know it is easier said than done but pls try !! Enjoy being pg !!
How is everyone else doing ??
-Teresa
10 weeks PG !!
TTC 20 months
Me 28 Dh 31 low sperm count
IVM/ICSI 1st try
IVM (Invitro Maturation) Natural Cycle (no meds)
PREGNANT !!!
EDD March 21, 2005
Thanks for your reply! My HCG levels were 280 11 days after and up to 477 the following week. The embies were put back in after 4 days. I'm not sure of what the likelihood of twins will be I'll be happy with whatever I end up with.. as long as they are healthy and happy!
I have been following the discussions here and was so glad to find this thread, but hadn't dare to join you before.
Congrats to you all with your BFP!! I share your joy and mostly the fears. I have had my transfer of 2 embryo's on 2-Aug and had a BFP on the 16th (and have repeated the test 5 times since then!)
I will have my first ultrasound this Friday and am completely freaking out. I have been to the hospital twice after transfer with a lot of pain and was told I have a mild hyperstimulation syndrome (which does not feel mild at all), but feel much better now. Despite having symptoms of PG - that come and go like many of you - I still do not believe or trust this PG. The doctors are also not following my HCG levels, no blood tests at all.
A complicating factor is that I work/study at home (academic research) but have not been able to open a book the last weeks. I have no concentration at all and am completely absorbed by this (last) IVF/PGD. Anyone with a similar experience out there? How do you guys cope with work now?
Of course the most important is the PG (and I hope so much it works out this time!) but how to maintain some sense of sanity in the meantime??
Teresa, thanks for the advice, I don't know if I feel nervous its more like paranoia I think, I am constantly asking Martin to look at my chest, you'd think men would never get fed up of that request, but I think its wearing a bit thin. I am looking forward to my scan on the 8th and will relax more after that or if I get morning sickness in the meantime. I think its really easy to forget at 5weeks not everyone has sickness or really sore chest. I am exhausted though so I am enjoying my rest being off for the rest of the week. Like you I am dying to look pregnant!
Pixiegini, nice to see you over here. I can't believe you get to go for a scan this week when we tested on the day and I have to wait another 2 weeks. I know what you mean about not caring how many you end up with, I feel the same.
Paige. its fab you got to see the heartbeat, your 4 year old must have been amazed as well. Glad to hear you got your own way with the suppositories at last, they are not that bad.
Tanya, it won't be too long before you start to show and as for the tummy stroking, I do that as well. Hope you are getting plenty of rest, is the sicky feeling spoiling your sleep?
Shannon. How are you getting on, are your symptoms still coming and going, I was reading on a pregnancy website that that is pretty common. When is your next appointment.
Hi Wendy! Good to hear from you, I am glad you are doing well. I laughed when I read your post about your husband getting tired of looking at your chest! My husband finally flat out told me that it is unfair of me to ask him to continuously look at or touch my breasts as the doctor has told us no sex until after the scan and it just makes it that much harder on him! By the way, it does seem that your scan might be scheduled a little late because you and I have our scans scheduled for the same date and I believe you are a couple of days ahead of me!
My symptoms are a bit stronger but still do come and go -- funny that I am only happy when miserable with queasiness! It really gets me in the middle of the night, which I should be somewhat thankful for, I guess!
Patricia, I work from home as well. Some days I am completely thankful that I can be laying on my couch with my laptop and not have to deal with getting out and going to work, but on the other hand, it makes it very easy to become obsessed with "pregnancy research" or posting on this board. The past two days have been really busy with work, so I didn't really have a chance to be too nutty! But today is a bit slower, so here I am! It is really hard to think about anything else -- I wonder if we are going to be like this for the entire pregnancy!
I went to the bathroom last night and there was the smallest amount of brown discharge, which of course got my heart racing. I didn't freak out too bad, though. After all the posts from others about bleeding in the first trimester, I decided to relax and just be thankful that it was brown. My transfer was on August 7 -- so maybe a bit of residual implantation bleeding? Anyway, I made myself go to the bathroom six more times before bed and there was nothing and nothing this morning, so I am guessing nothing to be alarmed about! It is really just one thing after another, isn't it? When I was pregnant with my son, I was so young and did not have any idea how fragile pregnancy is! After I had the +ive test, I just took for granted that nine months later, I would have a baby! I have had so many disappointments since then, that now I know much better. I just keep praying and telling God how much I really want this little one (or ones as the case may be!)
PixieGini! Nice to see you over here! Your hcg levels sound great! I can't wait for my scan, but it isn't for another two long weeks!
Paige! How exciting to see the heartbeat, that must put your mind at ease now!
Hope everyone else is doing fantastic! Like the rest of you, I can't wait to start showing either! A girlfriend gave me all of her maternity clothes, and as my pants continue to get tighter, I am seriously thinking about moving into them, even though I really just look chubby, not pregnant!
Love to you all!
Shannon and Scott
No tubes
First IVF cycle
14 year old son from previous relationship
Welcome, I am one day behind your dates. You will feel much more calm after your scan on Friday, I wish mine was sooner. I know what you mean about concentration, work is not too bad, although I am not there this week, as you don't have anything else to distract you but at home its a nightmare, I am constantly on the internet and reading, pregnancy stuff that is. I am doing Social Policy with the Open University and have only 1 essay and an exam left but can't seem to open my books at all, will see how it goes but after my little bleeding scare on Monday its just not that important, certainly not worth worrying too much about.
Shannon, its exciting we scan on the same day, maybe there is a difference between FET and full IVF or maybe different hospitals do different things. They did say that I am completely freaked they can bring the scan forward a week but then they would need to do another one on the 8th for the heartbeat, so unless anything else happens I will just wait. We can either drive each other mad or keep each other sane.
Hope your spotting has gone, the hospital told me brown stuff was ok.
I was also looking in my wardbrobe today thinking I should buy some trousers with an elasticated waist for work as I am also getting a bit chubby. Think I might go and buy a softer slightly bigger bra as I can hardly bear to wear one, which is fine at home but not for going out!!
Hi Shannon, you are right not to worry about brown discharge. I was also told that it is no problem. And thanks for your support. Yesterday I really freaked out, I guess the history of M/Cs and failed IVF/PGDs all came together and the enormous fear that this time it would not work out as well. I was glad that my mother called yesterday and I could ventilate all this, besides writing here. I have been exhausted the last weeks and the doctor told it is a mix of the hyperstimulation syndrome together with symptoms of the early pregnancy. I am glad with having symptoms but on the other hand am pretty frustrated of having so little energy. For now I have surrendered to it and am trying not to get to such EXTREMELY high levels of anxiety - that should not be good to the baby/s anyway... And I also wonder whether we will be so obsessed during the whole PG. But I don't think so. It is more the question of going through these dreadful WWs. And how are you doing now? Keep tight until the 8th!
Hi Wendy, you are right I think I will be much more calm after the Friday scan. But this was scheduled more to follow the hyperstimulation than the PG itself (for that I have a scan planned for the 6th). So we will probably not see a heartbeat, but are happy for any little thing we will be able to see. And I agree with you, at this moment the PG is more important than the study. How are you now?
And I have a begginner's question: how to count the PG? Should the start of the 2nd week be the date of the pick up or of the transfer?
I've read that the 2 week count is the 2 weeks prior to Egg Collection, which would be ovulation (in the normal world). So we should get our due dates out there...I've already calculated mine 2 xs so I know it's April 15th. Boy, that sounds like a long time away doesn't it?
Hi Page, thanks for the explanation. This means I am entering the 6th week today (further than I thought) - good news then! You are some days ahead of me. Congratulations with your scan! April 15 is far away but the most imptt is to get further away from these early weeks. You are doing great!
Patricia
Hello girls
congrats to you all on the treasured BFP
I'll be 7 weeks tomorrow....extremely tired all the time, irritable,nauseous,boobs painful one day and not the next and wanting to pee every hour!
Had a scan last Monday and was shocked to be told that we were expecting twins
Really pleased but scared at the prospect as well. Battling the nausea eating ginger nut biscuits before getting out of bed in the morning and eating regular small snacks every 2-3 hours and trying to combat a craving for salty foods and sausage rolls....oohhh flakey pastry!
Weight isn't increasing surprisingly ....despite what I'm stuffing my face with.
On the whole really excited and keeping fingers crossed to get through the 1st 12 weeks.Very apprehensive. When do you tell people other than close family and friends?
Thanks
janem
me 37 with Endometriosis,DH OK
1st attempt IVF Jul 04 positve with twins
I am also 7 weeks tomorrow! We must have had EC on the same Friday. I'm feeling pretty good. Trying to get on the treadmill 3-4 times per week helps with the energy levels I think. Although midafternoon is when I crash and want to sleep.
CONGRATS ON TWINS !!!!! My Dr.s thought I may have had 2 in there when they were reading my HCG levels, but it's only one.
Most of my family and friends knew I was going through the ivf cycle. All friends figured it out when I quit drinking! So pretty much everyone close to me already knows. With my daughter, I told everyone at 12 weeks.
Janem! Congrats on twins! I am so excited for you!
Paige, I was surprised when you told us you have a singleton with your hcg levels as high as they were!
We are keeping our fingers crossed for twins! We really want more than one, and ivf is so expensive here, we would love to have two for the price of one!
I know what you mean about being so tired! I am so lucky to work from home! I took two naps today! Of course I will have to work this evening to make up for it, but it was sure nice being able to rest when my body was yelling at me that it needed a nap!
How is everyone else feeling? I feel so fat! My clothes just aren't fitting me, but I feel like it is just way to premature to go into maternity clothes! I just can't believe the pooch on my belly and the size of my chest! None of my shirts will even button!!!
Speaking of getting fat -- what have you all heard about eating seafood? Is it okay? I know sushi with raw fish is not a good idea, but what about other seafood items? I could go for sushi, even the items with the cooked fish, like eel or california rolls!
Look forward to hearing your stories!!
Shannon and Scott
No tubes
First IVF cycle
14 year old son from previous relationship
I have noticed that the tenderness does tend to come and go.... the only thing I can rely on is my need for sleep and generally feeling nauseous. 
But as DH says, it's all for a good cause....
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at first but that seems to have gone away. How is everyone else doing with irritabilty? 
I have no concentration at all and am completely absorbed by this (last) IVF/PGD. Anyone with a similar experience out there? How do you guys cope with work now?