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melissa721
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For those of you with sisters who are moms...
melissa721
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Do you find yourself interrogating them about their pregnancies? I keep asking my one sister all these questions bc I'm hoping to predict how things will turn out for me although I know everyone is different. Neither one of my sisters took very long getting pregnant so I am hoping I won't either.
However, my one sister did have to have terminate her first pregnancy very early on. I don't remember what the problem was bc it was so long ago but the OB told her it was highly likely should would m/c. So although they didn't have problems with their other pregnancies, it worries me that she had to go through that.
bfp 1 - m/c 1.31.11 @ 10 weeks
bfp 2 - baby born via c-section on 5.4.12 @ 37 weeks
bfp 3 - blighted ovum/d&c on 4.13.13 @ 8 weeks
bfp 4 - 3rd IUI, very late BFN with super low P, c/p
bfp 5 - natural bfp while on lupron, baby born via RCS on 4.27.15 @ 39 weeks
bfp 6 - surprise! baby born via RCS on 11.13.16 @ 38 weeks
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Re: For those of you with sisters who are moms...
Neither of my sister's have been pregnant, but my SIL has 3 children. I asked her stuff, not everything, but a lot of stuff.
I don't, for two reasons:
1) She's a step, so we aren't biologically related. Nothing about her pregnancies would make anything for me more or less likely. I'm curious about her experiences, but no more curious than I am about the experiences of other women I'm not related to, and
2) We aren't close, so she doesn't know we're trying.
That said, if I had a bio sister who was a mom, I think I'd be interrogating for sure.
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My younger sister is 7mths pregnant with her first. And I drive her nuts
She is totally opposite of me - no planning, no "trying". She has never lost a moments sleep over any of it!
She lets me do research for her, mostly to appease me, mind you. So she's not much help
But I'm having fun experiencing it all with her!!
I used to be very close to my sister, but sadly, we've grown apart in recent years. I hope to god I do not have experiences like her because her first pregnancy was very scary, she was on bedrest, and she hemorrhaged during birth. She also had trouble TTC and was much younger than I am now. Plus, she had two miscarriages inbetween #1 and #2.
I would never tell her we're TTC and I'm not sure I'll even tell her we're pregnant-I might just let my mom spread the word. Who knows, maybe we'll grow closer because she'll feel like now I have something in common with her, but I doubt it. Luckily, I have a lot of friends who are pregnant or have recently given birth and I can ask them general questions.
My sister knows we are going to be TTC and she will actually be working on #3 like 3 months after we start trying. I asked her tons and tons of questions and she even gave me the "What To Expect When Your Expecting" Book, because it has a lot of good Pre-pregnancy info.
She has been super helpful, helping me look at dr's, giving me suggestions. It has been super helpful!
Well my sis is my identical twin, and also the only biological relative I know, so I have really been thinking a lot/asking a lot of questions about when she was pg with my nephew.
She had a m/c before Vaughny - that is how she ended up getting the tests that led to her finding the MTHFR mutation, and I have been doing somethings differently since before we even started ttc because of that.
I know no pregnancy is exactly the same as another, and obviously we have two different daddies in the mix - but I found her whole pg so facinating and exciting. And now when people say Vaughn looks like me, I realize that it might actually be true.
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I did before I was pregnant and now that it is out in the open that we are trying for #2 due to the m/c, I am asking questions again. 2 of my 3 sisters have had m/c's as well, one had an early one like me and the other had 1 late first tri loss and 1 early 2nd tri loss. I worry that this could happen to me as well. Both of the older sisters do have 2 kids each, 1 of each gender, so that makes me wonder if I'll have a boy too, although I know that THEY have absolutely nothing to do with determining gender.
Now that our youngest sister is expecting her 1st, I get tons of questions from her and I love talking with her and giving advice that she asks for.
This exactly. She had a very easy pregnancy. I know it's unlikely, but it would be nice to have the same! haha!
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Trying for a baby since 4/10
DX: Infertile 6/11 Me: LPD, all other blood work clear.
DH: low sperm motility,low count.
Met with RE start clomid + TI + IUI 5/12= IUI cancelled due to positive Cystic Fibrosis carrier test. DH tested Neg. for Cystic Fibrosis,
6/12 Clomid + TI +IUI=BFN 8/10 IVF consult.
IVF #1 Started BCP 9/2 Lupron 10/11 stims 10/27 ER 11/6!! 5 eggs retreived only 1 mature. FERT report shows none made it.Cancelled cycle.
IVF #2 BCP 11/18 Lupron 12/14
Stims start 12/29 ER 1/8 ET 1/11 put in 1 grade B and 1 grade C. Beta: 1/20 = BFN
IVF# 3 7/13 BFP ended in chemical pregnancy
9/15 diagnosed with PCOS and insulin resistance gearing up for IVF# 4 Dec/ Jan
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My sister hasn't been pregnant yet, but I have some sister in laws that have. DH has a big family. I have asked some of them about stuff, and they've actually just volunteered a lot with out asking. I've found out a lot about birth, the importance of mom time and couple time, breastfeeding, pain, and pregnancy from them.
Some of them have had some trouble ttc, miscarriages seem to run in the family, and I have really tried to be there for them. I have a really good family. Everyone is there for each other and there is a lot of love and support when things are good and when they are really tough.