Winter Cycle Friends 2009/2010 - Everyone Welcome!

[hjw]

Steph - oh honey, I'm keeping everything crossed for you that your uterus and cervix behave as they should for a good few weeks yet. I guess all you can do is take it a day at a time, you're so good at knowing what your body is telling you to do. The good news is that you're already almost at 29 weeks and the babies are both measuring ahead, so even if they came soon (which hopefully they won't) they'll be in really good shape. My cousin's wife went into premature labour on Friday and their little baby girl was born very early at 26 weeks weighing 1lb 14oz. She's doing well - she's obviously in an incubator and hooked up to drips etc, but amazingly she is already off the ventilator so it just shows what's possible. And that's a good three weeks earlier than where your two are right now. Yippee for getting the last of the furniture, knowing how organised you are I imagine you're all set already and have the nursery all finished off! Funny how you're craving a cold sandwich - I start drooling at the thought of the fresh baguette and the blue and soft cheese selection I'm going to send DH out to buy after Zorba is born. I'm going to spread it all out on the kitchen table and just fill my face with all the currently banned cheese until I physically can't eat any more!

claudia - hahaha, yes I will have to see if I can get DH to take a belly picture. I feel huge!! I think that's partly because even though I'm measuring at the right number of weeks from the outside, what's inside is on the large side and so I feel as if I'm totally full of bony baby - Zorba constantly keeps sticking legs and arms hard against my stomach which doesn't help. I crossed the 3 stone weight gain mark about a week ago, so your 15 lb gain seems tiny by comparison! I bet you still have the cutest bump in the world - do you have a recent picture to post?

katie - sorry to start you guessing about whether Zorba is arriving if I go AWOL for a few days. I must remember not to do that until the actual day arrives! Won't be very long before we're all wondering that about you as well, hurrah for being in the number of weeks beginning with a '3'! Naughty Gracie, hurting Mummy's fingernails, sometimes they just have no respect for us do they! Ummm, bears in your garden? Holy cow...

gi - my Dad is good, thanks, he and Mum are still on their Mediterranean cruise and get back on Saturday and having a great time by all accounts. How's that nursery coming along?

babyluv - glad you had a good birthday and shower. How are you finding the bed rest? Hope it's not driving you too crazy...

angela - any decisions on where you're going to go on vacation? We went on our last holiday abroad at 20/21 weeks and it was a really good time to go, when you're feeling confident about the pregnancy but not getting so big that you can't make the most of it. Sweetie, I'm so mad on your behalf with how insenstive your FIL is being - I'm really not good at dealing with people like that with any tact and so my personal attitude would be "well, if a baby girl for a grandchild is not what you want, I suggest that you don't have anything to do with her, and that will suit me just fine". I can't believe anyone would take that attitude of wanting a baby of one sex anyway, let alone someone who knows your history.

lou - I'm thinking of you today and praying to see you on here later with good news. Good luck!!!

AFM, all is OK with Zorba, although the greedy thing must be drinking the amniotic fluid like crazy because he/she has an episode of hiccups at least once a day, which is very bizarre to feel! I'm 37 weeks today, so officially considered full term should baby decide to arrive anytime from now. This last week I've started getting really sore groin muscles around the inside of my thighs right at the top - friends tell me that this is my pelvis starting to get a little bigger to allow the baby through, and that they had it for the last few weeks of their pregnancies too. Otherwise, no real change, although I'm getting a few more BH contractions - I'm still doing the perineal massage to try and minimise the chances of tearing, still drinking my raspberry leaf tea, still watching my posture to try and stop the baby from dropping into a back-to-back position, and generally spending large portions of the day wondering when this baby will decide to put in an appearance!

One final funny story from the weekend - we met up with friends for lunch at a pub on Sunday. They have three boys, an almost five year old and twins aged 2. We all went for a walk along the canal after lunch and I had to catch up with the group because I went to the toilet first. As I walked up to them, our friends said to the five year old "look, there's Hazel coming now, she's got a baby in her stomach you know". To which the response was "yes, I knew that already, because she's so fat"! Kids, gotta love them...

H x

[lou71]

Hi girls,

It's a BFN this time for me again. I'll be moving on to a FET with my two frosties. I'm really sad right now.

Thanks for all of your support. I don't know what went wrong. Everything seemed to be going so good.

[angelaezra]

Hi girls,

It's a BFN this time for me again. I'll be moving on to a FET with my two frosties. I'm really sad right now.

Thanks for all of your support. I don't know what went wrong. Everything seemed to be going so good.

Lou – I am so very sorry to hear of your BFN. I just want you to know that we are your biggest cheerleaders and we believe and know it will happen for you soon. You and your DH have been through a lot this year and really deserve a healthy baby. So, if it is not meant to be this time it will happen really soon. I truly believe that, now it’s time for you to also. I know its hard today with the bad news you received but next time will be your time!

Angela

[gi]

Hi girls,

Ah Lou i am so sorry big (((((hugs))))), i understand how upset you are at the moment and really hope you get your miracle soon xxxx

Hazel oh yum cant wait to get back to eaten "forbidden" foods but not anytime soon! Ha we will all be wondering where you are if you go missing for a few days I am glad your dad is doing ok and hopefully he and your mam had a nice relaxing holiday and create some memorable memories for her, its great he is embracing what time he has left and i am sure Zobra will be spoiled rottten! Its fantastic news that your cousins little girl is thriving despite been so early she is a little warrior it gives us all hope if our little ones arrive early.

Steph yoohoo for getting your furniture, oh how crazy it is to think your babies are nearly here but they may keep coooking for a little while longer.

Angela oh your FIL makes my blood boil with such insensitive comments and whats the bet he will dote on her when she is born and forget all he said. You and dh have been thro. so much and after 4 losses who gives a damn what you are having as long as he/she arrives here healthy kinda reminds me of someone who was on this site a while ago! You just enjoy your precious little miracle and i am so thrilled to see your ticker near the 22 wk mark another milestone for ye!!

PA hope those headaches subside a few of us got them around that time too i am lucky enough to be on aspirin anyway so they kept mine at bay.

Natasha uggh you missed be so annoyed with your docs. Have you anyidea when you will be coming off the progesterone i was 17 wks when came off though never once was i ever tested to ck levels.

Babyluv glad to hear you had a nice birthday and reaching the big 30!!! Jason and I spent most of our 20's ttc ( started at 22) and i we didnt enjoy them as much as we should have so when Kayla is born we are so going to enjoy life again it will be great waking up everday happy and stressfree and not worry about infertility.

Katie did you get another night free of acid reflux or did we speak too soon!! Is there any chance you can keep yourself a little bit elevated in bed to prevent the acid going back up thro. your stomach i was watching the Baby Whisperer the other day and she gave tips on how to ease it in babies and i am sure its kinda same concept with adults, she said to avoid lying totally flat on your back.

gi xxx

[natasha10]

lou- im so sorry to hear your bad news. i hope you get your BFP on your next FET.

gi- no i have no idea when im getting off the shots. the RE said for me to stay on them for a few weeks longer like three weeks ago because they weaned me off and checked my levels and the placenta wasnt making enough yet on its own so now im weaned off again and this dumb ob office i had check my level hasnt got the results yet. i told them i'd die by the time they tell me. yes its very fustrating. they called me earlier and told me it takes a 3-5 business days to get the results. it was only blood my gosh. this is outrageous i never waited this long for some blood results. it just sounds so simple yet they are making it so difficult.

[PA_FA]

OK I'm going to try to do personals. I feel so behind...LOL Today was the first day I haven't had a major headache in 3 days.

Lou- I'm so sorry about your BFN. Someone on here once said, "Never give up on something you can't go a day without thinking about." I think that's really good advice. I know it's hard but we all deserve that dream. I KNOW you'll get yours. XOXO

Angela- I just have no words for your in-law. I want to kick him for you...hard! I have a jerk for a father in law too so we'll see what he says when we find out the sex. If it's a girl, I'm sure it will be something very similar. He really wants a boy to carry on the family name. It dies with my DH. Did you decide on where to take vacation? We went to Niagara a couple of years ago and loved it. It's so beautiful there.

Steph- OK babies....listen up....you HAVE TO STAY IN THERE! It's HOT in TX! You are NOT ready for this kind of heat! Stay in mommy's belly for a while longer and I promise you'll both be much happier!

Katie- ICK for bears! We had one around here last summer. They had the helicopter and squad cars out trying to get it to go back up in the hills toward the Poconos. LOL And shame on those bunnies for teasing your dog! My stomach turned thinking about ripping nails to the quick. OUCH!!!!!!!

Hazel- I am all over the forbidden cheese too! Oh and a big bottle of red wine! Yummy!

Babyluv- HAPPY 30TH!!!!!!! (Sorry it's late) I like my 30s much better than my 20s. (Even if I was younger and hotter back then. LOL)

Sorry for those I missed. I can't scroll down any more to see past posts. OOPS. I need to keep up more.
Well AFM, the OB took me off progesterone supposetories last week. Yeah for getting off those icky things but I'm scared because he didn't test my levels or anything. I even called 3 times to ask different nurses questions because since I had always been low it scared me to just stop without checking the levels. They "guaranteed" me that the placenta would have taken over by now and the baby will be fine. I certainly hope so because I will completely freak out next week if there is something wrong. I have my next u/s on Mon Aug 23 with the OB. Not as fun as the perinatal center. The OB has OLD equipment and you can't see much.
I've had a major headache from flying. Not sure if it was from being too dehydrated, lack of caffine, or both. Anyhow, I have to wear the maternity uniform at work now. Not sure if I told you all that last week. OH it is NOT cute. The top comes down almost to my knees because I am so short. I could try to squeeze into the regular uniform but it would just look like I was fat and not pregnant. I figure it's definitely better to look pregnant than fat. LOL
Here's a giggle for you all...
So I was flying with this hoochie last week to London. She asked how far along I was. I told her and she was like. WOW you are huge already. Hmmm.....really cause I've lost 7 lbs. I look huge in the stupid uniform and I have big boobs to start off with. I told DH what she said...he said, "Don't worry honey. You look beautiful and you ass is WAY smaller than hers and she's not even pregnant." I love my DH. Sometimes he truly knows what I need to hear.

OK I am off on another trip tomorrow. I am so tired...I really just want to sleep across the Atlantic. Have a great week girls!

[katie99]

Hi everyone -

Sorry that I ended up not posting yesterday, I had all kinds of errands to get done and Chris was off so why does it take like 3 times longer when DH comes with me? Maybe because he has to stop and look at everything in every store? its like shopping with a toddler! Good practice I suppose, lol. Then we came home to realize that Gracie has yet another bladder infection - grrrr, this is now the 3rd one and she's just 15 months old. So off to the vet again, this time he said lets try a higher dose and continue it for 3 weeks. Well the next time it happens, and it will - the vet said we have to do the surgery ( labiaplasty ) but that he'd like to wait longer since she's still growing, but I did get to ask him alot of questions about it, like how bad will this hurt her? He hesitated just a tad too long for my liking and said "well she'll be uncomfortable for 3-5 days afterwards" which we all know in Dr speak means - PAINFUL. I cant believe we need to do this to her. I absolutely cant stand the face you get when you pick her up - " I was happy to come here, but now I really hurt and want to go home" It makes you feel like a monster. Wow I dont think I'd survive a child having to go through a surgery. I mean kids & animals you just cant explain why you took them to a place they leave in pain, right? So for now, its all about hiding her pills in ham, or cheese. But I feel awful cause I know whats going to come next time. ugh
Then I finally got a chance to check in over here and Lou's results just made me so damn sad that I just didnt feel like posting at all.
On a high note its been 3 whole nights of not being woken up by acid reflux - I'm thrilled about that!

Angela - What is the problem with your father in law? oooh, that post irritated me! What does it matter which gender you get as long as they're healthy? I dont get the obsession with a boy? You would think that after trying so hard and for so long just to get pregnant that he's be thrilled for a Grandbaby instead of complaining. How was that supposed to make you feel? Gee, at this point they wont even remember acting this way when they're busy cooing over little Gabriella, but you will. I was glad to hear that your DH wont let them spew this sort of nonsense without calling him on it. At least he will be your buffer zone from the craziness your FIL was expressing. Lets just focus on happy things - like your upcoming shower. Wait, your FIL wont be there will he? ugh, I hope not. and until your FIL can see how he's been sounding - caller ID can be your life- line - big hug xoxo

Steph - What are you up to twin mama? Hopefully not too much, but resting and taking it easy. Have your BH calmed down any? I know you're super uncomfortable, but you just have to keep those liltte ones in there a bit longer honey. I cant wait to hear how much they wegh now, ugh the wait for the next u/s - why is it always so long? - xoxo

Natasha - hee hee your post to Steph made me laugh! Ugh it sounds like your OB doesnt have an in house lab and had to send it out for results to take that long to get back. frustrating!

Hazel - Yum! a baguette with blue cheese or maybe brie has my mouth watering too! Oh no, now I want that! Aw, Zorba has hiccups how sweet is that?
I've read about babies having hiccups in utero, but I guess Savannah hasnt yet, or maybe I just cant tell? she does these really fast rabbit type kicks sometimes - they amuse me to no end. Whew! your cousin's baby is doing fantastic for being so tiny! 1 lb 14 oz? thats so liltte! so to not even be on a vent is a miracle in itself - yippeee for that! ah, the things kids say, right? well at least he didnt say it looked like you swallowed a watermelon or something! ah, honey just hang in there it wont be much longer now til little Zorba decides to make his/ her entrance - so exciting! xoxo

Gi - Oh yes! 3 nights so far of normal sleeping! well, as normal as pregnancy sleeping can be with the waking up every 2 hrs at least - lol. I am like the pillow queen, but I've always slept with 2 extra firm pillows under me - I could never sleep flat. You should see me on vacation when the pillows arent big or firm enough - I'm like doing bed aerobics all night - left side, right side, stomach , back - all night long - fun, yes? How is little Kayla doing? is she acting like a jumping bean in there? Has Jason taken on the furniture yet? I'll bet you cant wait to see the nusery in all its glory! Hi to your mam!

PA- FA - Yay for no more progesterone! my levels werent too high either so Dr Rose kept making me new appts to come in after the insurance refused to cover it - he charged 205 dollars to test P4 levels - if you're desperate to know you could always go that route, but by 14 weeks your placenta should be making enough of its own by now. Hey, you know better than to not drink enough water especially while flying, dont get yourself dehydrated please. And I'm sure that your maternity uniform is cute - you're in it!

OK girlies - I will take nusery pics this afternoon, but for some reason ( maybe hormones? haha) I'm not loving it as much as I first did - maybe because now all the furnitures in there and it looks so much smaller? Gee, next week when we pick up the glider I can only imagine where that is supposed to go? hee hee

[Stephanieford78]

OMG!! I just wrote a crap load to everyone and my internet explorer had a runtime error and lost everything! GRRR!! So Let me try this again. Sorry, but this time it won't be a lot.

Katie - Sorry to hear about Gracie. It's never fun to take our babies or fur babies somewhere they will get hurt, but we do it for the best. We spoil them after with tons of love and goodies and that is what thy remember. Glad your nursery is done though I hope the wall decals grow back on you because I don't see that coming off easily. lol Can't wait to see pics! I am doing well over here, don't worry about me. Taking it easy as I can.

Pa - Thanks for trying to set this kids straight. lol Hopefully they listen. I can't believe that hoochie you had to fly with. Good for DH for saying what h did. My suggestion is that next time you fly with her, I would out of the blue look at her and say... Hmm, did you gain some weight? lol I love taking those little shots at people who deserve it. If I see an opening, I take it. Like my ex neighbor was one of those hoochie people. She was talking about how she didn't like the movie Bejamin Button. I simply said, Yeah, that movie is meant for mature minded people. Basically taking the chance to call her stupid. lol She didn't get it. Love it!

Gi - I am hoping these kids keep cooking, even though my body hates me right now. lol How are you doing over yonder?

Lou - Just like Katie, I couldn't post yesterday after reading your post. It's so not fair but I will keep sending you baby dust! Just know that when your heart breaks, so does mine. Much love to you friend!

Hazel - Have you popped yet? lol I can't believe it is literally any day now for you. I never thought it could be possible I could go before you, I am hoping that won't be the case though! When is your appt to find out if you will be induced or not? Oh gosh, kids say the darnest things don't they? If they had a bigger vocabulary we wouldn't have so much to laugh at would we? lol

Natasha - I am sure everything is fine though I am sure that everything is fine. I hope you get your results soon so you can relax.

Angela - I am going to go out there and beat some FIL ASS!! I know the feeling, having to deal with ignorant in laws. I am the kind of person to speak my mind so that has caused a wedge between Andrew and his family. Not like there wasn't one already, but I guess you could say their ignorance in regards to our marriage sealed the deal. My opinion... have a intervention. You and DH should be in the same room with them so they can see your emotional reactions while you explain to their ignorant brains that this life inside you is a miracle no matter what gender! I understand maybe expressing once that they wanted a boy, but repeatedly? That is just hurtful, rude, uncouth and disrespectful! It's ok to yell, scream, cry, vent to get your message across. I totally had to go ape shit at Andrew's mom once. lol As for the registry, lets make it simple. Just give me your registry info... link to the website and how to search for your registry and we will just let people pick from it. I am sure most people will stick to the $25 limit. If you prefer, just send me a link to the items you want on there and I will just post those.

AFM - I am still having BH though I stopped counting them. I figure what's the point? No matter how many I have, they aren't real contractions and they will just keep me in the hospital for a few hours and then send me home. I don't even mention them anymore. If I start to feel any pain with them or bleeding I will go to the hospital though. I had a dream this morning that I started bleeding and something was hanging out down there. I went to the hospital and my OB told me they had to take the babies now. Hell of a dream huh? Hope it doesn't happen that way at all! Anyway, the nursery isn't exactly done yet. It is lacking a lot of color. I still have to put the wall decals up, but the shelves are finally up. They just need some colorful items to place up there to brighten the room up. I got panels to go with the valance for the larger window. They are nuetral though so it kind of brings the room down. Now I really have to come up with a rug to help color the room up. I hate the white walls! I might get a wild hair up my arse and make Andrew paint. lol Maybe a nice pink and blue pastel behind each crib? Just two walls, should be easy right? We will see. The reason the nursery isn't quite done yet is because he hasn' been feeling it lately. The Army doc wrote his dosage wrong to the pharmacy so he ran out for a few days. He really is dependant on those meds. I never really had much faith in those since I took them when my mom died and it did nothing for me. I guess with him and the high dosage, he needs it. So I am hoping that the meds have kicked back on now and he will be ok to help get things done. I did go out to get some school clothes for Alex again. It is becoming a pain to shop with her. This store had longer shorts and capris but she didn't like any of them. UGH! Preteens! She did take a few pics of my belly before we left and took a few of each other so I will post those, including my divalicious 11 year old. lol So the baby bump pics.. I guess we will consider them 29 weeks since they were taken yesterday and I hit that mark tomorrow and we know my babies are measuring at least 30 weeks by now. lol

[Stephanieford78]

Sorry about the one huge belly pic. I have been having issues lately with resizing pictures on photobucket. I gave up trying to fix it. lol

[lou71]

Steph -- Thank you my dear. I do have a quick question for you though. I see your twins are from a FET. Do you recall what quality they were? How many did you transfer? I'm looking for some success stories since I'll be transferring two frosties next. Mine are 4BB quality.

Everyone else -- same questions as to Steph above. Did you have success on a FET? If so, what was the quality and how many did you transfer?

Thank you all bunches!

[angelaezra]

Katie – Yes, we will be driving because every time I fly when I am pregnant I have a very bad experience. Windsor, Canada is only a 4 hour drive for us. I really just need a get away from work and my in-laws right now.

Natasha – I surely hope by now you have received your progesterone level already. One thing that I do when I have my new OB draw my blood is I ask them to make sure it is a next day draw or a stat draw because they will get the results by the next afternoon if I make it there by 10:30am. If I hadn’t done that when I got my thyroid level checked last month I would have run out of meds waiting for the results. Regardless of their reasoning, they should have called you back and told you something. When you finally do speak with someone, I would ask what their protocol for returning phone calls is because it took several days for you to hear back from them, which is ridiculous!

Hazel – thanks for the support regarding my father-in-law …

Yes, we have decided to go to Windsor, Canada next week because I think my DH finally realized that it would take us forever to get to Niagara Falls because I would have to continually stop to go to the bathroom … lol.

I can’t wait to hear about your progress with Zorba … d-day should be fast approaching!

Gi – thanks for the advice regarding my father-in-law. You are so right; I am so happy and proud to have a girl, so my DH and I are the only opinions that matter, right?

PA_FA – I hope you do not go through the same thing regarding the sex of the baby that I went through. But, if you do, it is simply ridiculous.

I am sorry for the headaches. I used to get them back to back every day. Someone on here told me that they will get better as my pregnancy progresses and they have. I still get them every once and awhile but not nearly as often.

Katie – thank you so much for the feedback regarding my in-laws. You are absolutely right. But, I have heard this same argument going both ways with people. Some people only want girls and some only want boys, it is really a shame!

Stephanie – thanks for the offer for reinforcements regarding my in-laws … lol. I was so mad the other day that I probably would have taken you up on the offer!

I will send you the info that you requested for the registry.

AFM – I have been sitting here for 2 hours waiting for someone to come and fix my windshield and my side mirror. So I called the company and he says I don’t have an appointment with you this afternoon because you were suppose to call me back yesterday. I said I don’t know what you’re talking about … I didn’t talk to you yesterday. We set up an appointment on Tuesday for 2:30 and now it is 4:30 and you aren’t here. I had to take off from work early for this crap also! He said well I am in Kentucky now and I can come there late this evening … what? Then I said the plastic prongs that hold the mirror in place are broken also can you still fix it. He says oh no you have to go to a body shop for that. WHAT?? I told this idiot that info on Tuesday, why didn’t they figure that out then? Needless to say I finally got home with my rental car and I just want to forget a crazy afternoon.

Other than that, we are doing well. I think Gabriella has been sleeping a lot today. I only felt her move this afternoon at certain times. So, now I am going to listen to her heartbeat with my Doppler and then sit back and just imagine that I am already on vacation … ahhh!

Angela

[hjw]

Hey ladies, hope you're all keeping well. I had a check-up at the doctors yesterday and am pleased to report that my blood pressure and urine still all fine. My stomach (as ever) measured bang on the right size, but one change from last week is that the doctor thinks that Zorba is in the process of moving down and engaging. I don't really feel any different but she wrote 4/5 with an 'up' arrow on my notes, so I guess she thought the head was 1/5th engaged. Otherwise, I've not been doing too much. I met a few of the girls from my antenatal class today for a coffee and a chat today (one has had her baby already, and a second is booked in for a c-section next Tuesday because her placenta hasn't moved out of the way, so it's all starting to seem very real to the rest of us!!). Then I had acupuncture (she's starting to do pre-birth treatments now) which was relaxing as always. My parents are back from their cruise on Saturday, and it's also DH's and my 6th wedding anniversary that day. We can't decide what to do - I've already told him not to bother getting me a card or present, largely because I don't have the energy to walk round the shops to try and find him something! How romantic am I??? Normally we do something to mark the day, but ordinarily it involves a fair amount of food and alcohol, and if the latter is not on the cards this year I'm not sure what we'll end up doing!

PA_FA - poor you, those headaches don't sound like any fun. As a passenger it's bad enough having a splitting headache on a pressurised plane, so I can only imagine how much worse it is to be working with one. Yay for getting off the suppositories, I came off the Crinone vaginal inserts at 13 weeks and my clinic didn't test my levels either, so don't worry, your placenta will have taken over the workload a good few weeks ago. p.s. Love your DH for knowing the right thing to say about your colleague!

katie - poor Gracie, isn't it horrible when our four legged babies aren't well and we can't get them to understand that we're doing what's best for them? Glad to hear that the acid reflux is giving you a break for a little while, long may that continue! Ooooh, wait until you feel Savannah getting hiccups, it's so weird, it's like someone is beating a little drum periodically inside your stomach. I didn't feel them at all until about 2-3 weeks ago and now I feel Zorba getting them ALL the time! So as I say, there might not be any amniotic fluid left in there come delivery day the rate it's being drunk...

Steph - my next scan is Wednesday (I'll be 38wks1day) when we find out how big Zorba is by then and what they recommend. Oh, I don't like the sound of your dream at all - I'm starting to have really weird and not always pleasant dreams as well, it must be our subconscious worrying about things. Let's you and I agree to just have nice dreams instead from here on in... Love the bump pictures, and the ones of you and Alex. I think we both have similar sized bumps, I must must must get DH to take a photo of mine at the weekend so I can post it.

angela - dontcha hate companies who make you wait around at home for hours in a delivery window or whatever, then turn up late or without the right tools anyway? I've got to wait in between 1-5pm tomorrow for a repairman to come and look at our tumble drier - just the way I want to start the weekend...

lou - honey, I'm so sorry, I was so sad to hear your result. I just know that it is going to happen for you soon, keep the faith. (((((hugs)))))

[babyluv]

Lou - I am so, so sorry about your BFN. I just want you to catch a break! I know once you have your baby it will all make sense, but it's the waiting and the heartbreak and the WHEN IS IT MY TURN?? feeling. Praying for a great and successful FET cycle. When will that be?

Angela - Ugh, I am SOO sorry about your car!!! What GREAT customer service you got to fix it (note the sarcasm). I really, REALLY hate bad customer service. Like, really hate it. Glad Gabriella is doing well. My girls were a little quiet for a few days (especially Juliette), but now they are moving all over again. Just wish they would keep it up ALL the time, but I do have two anterior placentas so I guess it will be what it is.

Your vacation sounds fabulous!

Hazel - Holy cow, you are ready to go any time now!! Nice big baby, already full term...SO excited for you and I can't wait to see which team you end up on (blue or pink)! And Happy Anniversary early! Our 7th is at the end of August.

Steph - LOVE the bump pic and those with Alex! She's a cutie for sure. Has school started? It has started here, but my kids don't go to preschool until Monday. I'm ready for them to get into a routine again. My mom has been doing a fantastic job with them for sure, but you know when you are just ready for a little normalcy? Hopefully you are getting extra rest with school starting.

Katie - Oh poor Gracie!! I hope she doesn't need surgery. I'm one of those moms who HAS lived through her child having surgery (Scarlett's open heart surgery last year) and I don't wish it on anyone! You get through it and the waiting was WAY worse than the actual surgery, but I'm praying you don't have to experience it with your LO! It's not fun.

PA - HAHA, I love your DH's response to that girl! Now I really want you to post a pic of you in that uniform!!

Gi - How's it going over there??

AFM - Bed rest hasn't been too bad, though I do get a little bored at times. I can't imagine how hard it would be if I was on STRICT bed rest and I really hope to avoid that. I DID get permission from my doctor to get a prenatal massage that DH gave me for my birthday, and it was fabulous! Tonight DH and I are going to dinner and then to meet the kids' teachers. That will be my excitement for the day Tomorrow I have my HR appt and I'm hoping everything still looks good with the twins and my cervix. I haven't really gained any weight since I've been on bed rest, and I've heard it's actually really hard to do. Good news is that I'm not really burning any calories, so at least everything should be going to the girls.

Oh, and I'm not sure if I've told you all or not, but I'm pretty sure we are naming the girls Amelia (A) and Juliette (B) (I still haven't decided how to spell her name, but leaning toward this French version). I am about 95% sure that's what we'll name them and I've been calling them that. DH doesn't really want to decide until they are here, but since he hasn't come up with any better names... and I'm really loving them, so, I think, maybe, perhaps? It's so hard to name them without actually seeing them! I've always seen my kids first!

[natasha10]

hi ladies

lou- i had success on my FET. we had 3 embies transferred they were an A grade, thats all they told me about the quality. i actually had my 1st IVF cycle a month before in april and i got a BFN so i went straight in to the FET and got a BFP in may. it can work for you too. good luck!

angela, gi, katie- still no news on the darn prog. level. im getting really mad. i figured they would of had it the same day with out me having to tell them this is important and i need to no asap. i just cant believe they have me waiting this long. rrrr.. fustrating

otherwise im doing fine and have nothing else to complain about lol thanks ladies

[natasha10]

yay they just finally called me tat stupid office. my prog. level was at 38 so no more prog. shots and baby asprin. great news!! whoo hoo!!