Grad Check-In 8/15

ronniesgirl1981

Hello lovelies! Give us some details and take our poll: What's the birth plan?

poohniki

Hi! Sending lots of hugs and good wishes!!

I just graduated from the RE today!! Very exciting. I have my first OB appointment on the 27th and another scan at the RI on the 26th. I still can't quite believe any of this has happened. 

I am 8w4d today and our scan was amazing! Our little baby has arms and legs!!

kz's_girlygirl

I'll be having a planned c-section because I have a TAC (a permanent cerclage).

I'm 22+2 weeks and enjoying starting to feel movement from little baby girl every now and then . I'm counting down to 24 wks and starting to feel a little bit more like this baby will really be coming home with us in December.

pblge

Holy hell, am I a grad now? Maybe not yet, and I definitely don't have any idea about the birth. )

@poohniki - YAY, what a cute LO!!! Happy dancing for you!

@kz's_girlygirl (the tag of futility) - What a great bump!!! Congrats!

dp21

@pblge Congrats!!!!!!  

Hey everyone, I'm 19 weeks 1 day!  We bought a recliner today for baby room, got a nice leather rocker/recliner.  I also bought some clothes off of craigslist, what a steal! 

We finally came out and announced on facebook, amazed by all the support and likes   It's great to have people happy for us. 

We also found out the gender yesterday but are keeping a secret until gender reveal shower in Nov! 

Can't believe we are almost halfway there! 

Milagros315

Hi everyone! I haven't posted on the grad check-in yet, but I'm still lurking and keeping my fingers crossed for everyone. It's been so great to see IFers moving over to PAIF

I'm 17 weeks 5 days today. We're having one baby thanks to our second IVF cycle (April Snuggle Bunnies). This week we got the results of our NT scan/genetic screening and they were negative which is great. On Monday, we'll have the anatomy scan. We're obviously praying that we have a healthy baby, but we'd be happy to find out the sex as well!

Poll question: I said undecided. We're definitely doing a hospital birth, but whether I opt for meds or not will be a game time decision. My stubborn side wants to go without just because we've already had to rely on so much help, but my practical said is thinking - fuck it, we've already used nearly every possible intervention, why stop now? I'm planning to just stay open-minded and go with whatever feels right at the time

ekc0630

Things are going better with us.  We are now 24 weeks 2 days!  We did lose one baby at 21 weeks.  That was really tough but his brother is a fighter and is moving around like crazy now!  That makes me happy.  It is tough thinking we lost one but when I look at the bigger pictures I NEVER thought we would have a baby of our own.  We were blessed with 2 for 21 weeks and one was just not strong and healthy enough.  We now have our one miracle baby.  Good Luck to all of you!

Poll question I said medicated in the hospital but I think I would prefer a C-Section.  We will see though

DreadGamerWife

32 weeks along. We are almost done with the nursery and starting to make plans regarding once LO arrives and her first few months. I still think back to where we were last year - just finished our first IUI and now we are almost there. Amazing to think about all we have been through.

Margritli

I am kind of newbie grad, still crazy nervous in the first trimester, but I lurk a lot over here and think about you all a lot. I am 10 wks today with twins. We had our first "normal" (as in not IVF-related) U/S on Wednesday. Part of me still can't believe it worked. I will be glad when I get to the point where I can feel our little beans moving around in there and hope I can let up on the worrying at some point. It is not completely decided but very, very likely that I will have a c-section. I thought that I would feel differently about that, but this journey has taught me a lot about accepting things as they come.

FishyMom

poohniki said:

Hi! Sending lots of hugs and good wishes!!

I just graduated from the RE today!! Very exciting. I have my first OB appointment on the 27th and another scan at the RI on the 26th. I still can't quite believe any of this has happened. 

I am 8w4d today and our scan was amazing! Our little baby has arms and legs!!

@poohniki I did not think just a love it was enough!! So cute! I cannot tell you how happy this names me to see!

BeckyP005

@pblge‌ how did I miss this! Congrats!!

pblge

@BeckyP005 - It JUST happened, and I'm not going to PAIF until I've seen a good heartbeat (or, um, two....). How are YOU?!?!?!?!?! No ticker?! How many weeks--I can't count that high? Everything going well for you??

BeckyP005

@pblge‌ I can't figure out the damn ticker!! All these yrs and finally pg and I can't get it to work!! 13 wks on Monday. Still feels so strange

I should of intro'd on PAIF because it seems I recognize more pp but I'm over on the 35+ board. I think I'm the oldest lol. I lurk there so I can't wait until you intro!!

Whoa just read further down. Twins??!!

dp21

@BeckyP005 Congrats!!!!!

cls78

I am 14 weeks 5 days. I can't believe I am in the second tri already! I had a OB appt this past Mon and my OB is happy with how I am doing so far. I have a appt with the MFM at 16 weeks and hopefully will find out the sexes!!!

As always cheering for all the IF girls!

vpine

Tomorrow I will be 12 weeks, Tuesday is my last ultrasound with RE which makes me sad, I got used to seeing my babies weekly on screen and getting pictures. I've been off all meds for a few days, I'm so glad no more PIO injections but the bruising and knots are still there.

I want to point out that RE doesn't release you until 11 or 12 weeks BUT mine and others do NOT check for abnormalities or down syndrome. I hadn't thought of that until last week and that makes me upset, I have OB appt next Friday, the OB wouldn't see me until RE released me. Even though RE tells me down syndrome is an age factor (very little chances before age 35) it still makes me worry, I don't want to tell people yet that I'm pregnant until I know that everything is okay.

Good luck to everyone on the IF board!

poohniki

@Ashris13 Thanks! How are you doing? I didn't see an update for you.

@Pblge - congrats! I can't wait for your into on PAIF! or your intro @BeckyP005

And Thanks everyone! Your support has always been so amazing!! 

twistsandturnsto2

Hi ladies!
I haven't checked in with y'all for a while now but things are going well! D is 2 months old now and I cannot believe how fast he is growing and changing. It's so cool to see! I never really spent much time around infants so there is quite the learning curve, but it feels natural all at the same time. Here are some pics of our cutie pie

QOTW: I always planned on going into the hospital and just going with the flow. If I needed meds, great. If I could go without, great too. I did end up with an epi and boy was I glad I did!

Sunny B

ThoseThreeWords said:

Baby Words (aka Sammy) was born healthy on 8/8 after almost 24 hours of pain med-free labor and then an emergency c (since this was the poll topic).  But he is so worth every moment, every pain and every tear.

I wish all of you strength and success in your upcoming treatments.

Aw, Congratulations! I'm SO happy for you. Love his name

jaztastic

@poohniki & @pblge Im so happy for you two!! Congrats!!

@ThoseThreeWords Yyyaaaahhhhhh!! Glad all is well.

AFM: 15 weeks, and still have moments of denial. I cant believe Im pregnant finally, and then I cant believe there is a baby actually growing inside of me. At times its so weird to know you are sustaining another life, but is also the most amazing thought. 

My plan is hospital vag birth, med free... but Im not afraid to give in if necessary. 

jaztastic

IFinTN said:

@jaztastic is that you jaztaz??? I know it is;)

LOL yes!! I changed my user ID and picture... Its me