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::Graduates Checkin::
Hey Lovelies. Please share your updates, bellies and babies. Any meds to donate to OOP...please contact Ashleyann.
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LOL Those cookies sure do look yummy!
Happy New Year ladies! Praying that there are a lot of wonderful BFPs for you all this year!
LG, I REALLY want those cookies, thats not fair!
Not much going on here, I was half baked on tuesday which is just crazy, and we are planning our c/s for the 16th of May, which will be here before I know it. We have finally picked up a few things for Alynn so the pile of baby stuff is slowly growing. Starting in a few weeks I will be seeing my doctor every week, going in for NSTs and getting regular growth u/s, even though my blood sugar is well controlled my doctor isn't taking any chances. Now I just need to keep my blood pressure down, and I am already retaining water which isn't a good sign.
Here is my 20 week bump, I am huge already!
Hi ladies! Rooting for everyone that is cycling or doing treatments this month. 2011 is all of your year! Lucky #11!
Not too much to report except that I'm now officially in the 7th month of pregnancy, yippee! Things are chugging along with baby. More updates can be found in my blog (link in siggy) if you want to follow. We also started the nursery and will be going with purple and sage green as our colors, with a slight fairy theme (only in a couple accessories). I'll post pix when we finally make some real progress. The bedding is in my blog though. Here I am from Tuesday:
Hey Ladies! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Year! I missed everyone, but I've been catching up as quickly as possible. Sending tons of love, hugs and good luck to all the ladies who are cycling. Praying for lots of good news in 2011, hopefully very soon.
Had an OB appt yesterday, Rocky is now measuring 4 weeks ahead.
He'd been consistently 2 weeks ahead (tall vs. fat) since the anatomy scan but now that he's gotten so far ahead we're scheduling a growth scan. That has me a bit anxious. I'm just hoping he doesn't come in January, anytime in February is fine with me, but I want him to keep cooking a while longer. We'll see what happens.
Here is a pic from a few days ago at 33 wks. A bit of a hard angle to see how enormous I am, but trust me, I'm huge. I'll take a side angle next week to prove it!
Finished the nursery last night, feels great to be done with that. Here are a few pics. I know many of you have seen them already on FB, but thought I'd share here as well.
LO#1 - 19 cycles, 3 IUIs, 1 m/c, gonal-f, ganirelix, ovidrel, progesterone
Totally worth the wait!
Getting ready for #2
Back on Met, PCOS diet, prepping for treatments 1/12
Good luck to the wonderful ladies of 3T
Always cheering on my girls Gymnst1013 & MrsJohns
My Chart / Info for Newbies
LO#1 - 19 cycles, 3 IUIs, 1 m/c, gonal-f, ganirelix, ovidrel, progesterone
Totally worth the wait!
Getting ready for #2
Back on Met, PCOS diet, prepping for treatments 1/12
Good luck to the wonderful ladies of 3T
Always cheering on my girls Gymnst1013 & MrsJohns
My Chart / Info for Newbies
Love the bump pics ladies...looking great!
Riley - Your nursery is beautiful!
I can't believe I'm taking part in a Graduates Checkin. I'm just under 6 weeks now, waiting patiently for my 1st u/s on Mon. Jan. 10th. Praying that the little seed is where it should be. If all goes well, I'll have my 2nd u/s and meet w/my RE on Mon. Jan. 24th - I'll be 8 weeks then! I feel good - but I am so dang tired! I have insomnia at night, feel great in the AM, then slowly the eyes get heavy and I'm useless. No m/s yet!
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PLEASE let there be a BFP explosion soon! I need you girls on the other side. I'm having major 3TC board withdrawals and lurk here often! Hugs to you all!
You all look beautiful!!!
Mrs.Mon, thanks for your shout out the other day...following your blog and so glad everything is going well!
Good morning ladies! All those bumps look great. Good luck to everyone who is cycling, I hope this check-in just keeps getting longer!
I am 30 weeks this week. We finally got the nursery cleaned out and we're hoping to assemble the crib this Saturday, and get the ceiling fan installed on Sunday. I've already started washing baby clothes too so as soon as the dresser is delivered this weekend they are being put away.
Here is a picture from this morning. Please excuse the expression, DH was busy, and self portraits with DSLR's are a little harder!
Diagnosed with PCOS March '10 - Started 1000mg of Metformin
After 3 unsuccessful Clomid cycles, FSH+Ovidril+IUI+Progesterone=BFP!
Time to make Emilie a big sister!
May '16 2.0: Letrozole+FSH+Menopur+Ovidril+IUI+Progesterone=BFP! first beta-45.44, second beta-148
oh thanks hon! Yes that's our family room.
21 week twin bump my husband took randomly yesterday. It looks smaller than the week before, but I'm really starting to FEEL like I'm pregnant with two. Streeeeeeeeeeetch.
Looking great, ladies!
RG- love the nursery and I owe you some emails!
I am also hoping for lots more 3TC BFPs in 2011!!
Things have been really hard here but are getting better. I haven't been able to get on-line much. Callie has had reflux pretty much since she was 2-3 weeks old. It took us a while to figure out what was up with her. Basically, she wasn't napping and then would be up fussing until 10 or so at night so I just haven't had time to do much. I finally figured out what was up with her around Christmas, so we brought her to the pedi last week and she does have reflux along with or caused by a dairy and soy allergy. So, I'm now off all dairy and soy. Totally worth the sacrifice but I really miss milk and butter! They gave her some Zantac to decrease the acidity of her stomach acid until she outgrows the reflux or the allergy. Things have been soooooo much better. I felt so bad for her because she was obviously in pain. Hopefully, she will outgrow her allergy by 6 months, only time will tell. Most babies outgrow it by the time they are one.
Anyway, a new siggy pic from Sunday rooting for the patriots and the pic below is from her first time in her highchair.
Hi Ladies! Love the belly pictures!!
Riley - You look so great! Glad baby is growing so nicely. You did an amazing job on the nursery. LOVE it!
Here are my beautiful guys at their little 2 month photo shoot. They have started giving me little giggles, which absolutely melts my heart. Hope everyone is well!!!
Bennett giving big flirty smiles to the TTTC ladies!
Hi Mrs.J! Callie is a little sweetheart! You are doing such a great job! Bennett has reflux too and I know it's hard. I've found that when I am really diligent about giving him his meds exactly on time, he does much better. Before I was not great about spacing the doses exactly 12 hours apart, so he still had episodes of belly aches, but now it's much better. Anyway...PM me if you want to talk about it. I know how hard it is to see your LO in pain.
They are gorgeous!!!
SO cute!!!
Riley, your nursery is adorable! I love the artwork and the bird pillows.
TTC since 1/2008
Good morning, ladies! Best of luck to all of you
I miss you guys and check on you almost daily.
I haven't checked in since before the holidays. We had our anatomy scan right before Christmas and found out that we are Team Blue all the way. Both boys were measuring right on track for size and their brains, kidneys and hearts looked great. Such a relief!
I had an OB appt this morning to monitor my BP. I've been running on the "high end of normal" and have been monitoring it at home on my own. As of right now, it's holding steady in the high-normal range, so my OB isn't going to put me on meds just yet.
Also, at this morning's appt he measured my belly. I'm measuring about 6 weeks ahead of a singleton pregnancy at 27 weeks. Here's my belly shot if you've made it this far:
And MsJohns I'm sorry about the reflux. I hope it gets under control soon.
Thanks for sharing your pictures!
TTC since 1/2008
Hey guys, I hope everyone had a great holiday! I was pretty busy over the holidays, but was checking on my phone. I keep routing for all of you ladies and hope 2011 is the year of BFP's.
As for me things are pretty good. I am feeling so much better. I still get sick every once and awhile, but not everyday!! heartburn is awful though and my back is starting to hurt (already). Dh bought me a snoogle and it makes sleeping so much better!! I guess it is time to start taking some belly pics of myself. I will try to take one for next weeks check in.
We made a few purchases so far--we got a used 2008 Honda Odyssey (bought it early since the deal was so incredible) and just bought the City Select stroller--it is pricey at $500 but I found an online deal with free shipping for $317. so I couldn't pass that up!!
On to you guys--everyone looks gorgeous!! and i love the photos of the babies. Mrs J--i hope Callie's reflux issues go away soon. She is adorable. and Omega--the boys are so cute. I love the smiles.
Monica - you look great!
MrsJ - sorry about the reflux, but she is adorable!
Omega - I'm glad the boys are doing well. They are so cute!
Riley - Love the nursery! I'm glad that Rocky is doing well, but I hope he stays in for at least 4 more weeks.
JL - can't wait to see the belly pic next week! And, I've found that Pepcid is my new BFF. I take one in the morning before breakfast and another around 6:00 before dinner.
Ladies, all your bellies look soo cute. Riley-the nursery looks amazing!
Callie is gorgeous. Sorry to hear about the reflux. I hope the meds do their job.
Omega-I can't get over how much Bennett is filling out! They are both too precious.
Love & luck to my 3TC girls. Congrats to Omega-The boys are here!
If there's one thing I've learned while waiting my turn,
it's that in each life some rain falls but you also get some sun.
After 2 years & 2 losses, our little man arrived 8-2011.
I had a scare the other night with some bright red bleeding. Thankfully, we were able to get into the RE the next day and saw a heartbeat! Just waiting around until my next appointment on Jan. 17th.
Lurking & stalking around here like crazy. Ready for that bfp explosion that I know is going to happen in 2011!
Love & luck to my 3TC girls. Congrats to Omega-The boys are here!
If there's one thing I've learned while waiting my turn,
it's that in each life some rain falls but you also get some sun.
After 2 years & 2 losses, our little man arrived 8-2011.
Update:
My twins are modi. Last week I was told that Baby B isn't developing well. His bladder wasn't formed all the way and he was 14% smaller than Baby A. Today they saw no change. The fluid around both babies is on the low side but in a normal range. Both are normal size but Baby B is 14% smaller if he gets to 30% we will be in some problems, and are very active. Heart rates of 150 for A and 138 for B. The fluid around Baby B is 2.5cm if that drops down under 2cm we have problems. It's like we are borderline with everything.
My MFM told me that this is an early stage of twin to twin transfusion. They told me I am to start drinking 2 cans of ensure per day to get my protein up. They explained about draining fluid from baby a to avoid preassure, and then the last option of needing surgery to burn off the blood vessels they share. They said I would be sent to a specialist in Miami for the surgery (worst case senerio). This follow up u/s took what felt like forever. I started getting hot flashes and getting sick while on the bed, I nearly passed out.
Hi Ladies! I feel like I've been MIA forever.
Here's me at 19 weeks. I feel like I'm huge already! Other than the normal pregnant annoyances, things are going great. We had our anatomy scan right before Xmas and found out we're having a GIRL!!!
Keeping my fingers crossed for everyone. ((hugs)) to those that need 'em.
I guess I should start posting as a grad! I haven't had much to report but now I'm starting to actually feel pregnant. I went to my first OB appt on Wednesday but I only met with the nurse and had my blood drawn. I go back on Friday the 14th and will meet with the doctor. I'm hoping to get an u/s but will most likely only get to hear the heartbeat. Which will be awesome since I haven't heard it! We saw the heartbeat twice at early ultrasounds w/ my RE but I can't wait to hear it beating away!
Me (32) Dx PCOS, DH (32) SA = Normal/mild morph issues
TTC#5 July 2017 - 3rd cycle TTC = BFP on 11/12/17 at 9dpo Beta #1 = 96 at 13dpo - Beta #2 = 207 at 15dpo
3 rounds of Clomid + TI and 3 rounds of 7.5 mg Femara + IUI before our BFP on 11/8/10 at 12dpiui
TTC #2 3rd cycle of Femara 7.5mg+Ovidrel+TI = 4 follies = BFP on 10/12/12
TTC#3 July 2014 - Metformin +TI = BFP at 9dpo - Twins, one baby lost at 5.5 weeks
Macy Annabelle born at 37w4d on 4/29/15. Diagnosed with Cri du Chat and passed away on 6/6/15. Forever in our hearts.
TTC#4 3rd cycle of Metformin + Femara 7.5mg+Ovidrel+TI = 3 follies = BFP on 12/24/16
aww....you just made me tear up a little. I love this board
TTC since 2010
lots of IUIs and 1 IVF all BFNs
FET currently on hold
I second this very well said sentiment
Hey, ladies! I'm so glad to "see" all of you, I feel like I missed a few weeks. The babies are friggin' adorable - I'm glad you were able to figure out the issue with Callie, Mrs J. And Omega, the boys are too big, my gosh! So handsome.
Nothing's really new here with me! I have a blog if anyone wants to keep up with it. Sometimes I feel like I should have something more exciting to say, though, so don't update! https://alreadyafamily.blogspot.com/
I wish you all nothing but health and happiness in 2011. *hugs* I think of you all the time and check in whenever I'm on the bump, even if I'm hesitant to post sometimes.
It took 5 failed IUIs and a failed IVF, but our FET worked!
My pregnancy after Infertility Blog
Our baby girl was born on April 27, 2011!
Thanks for saying this Pappsy. It rings true for me, too.
Mari, you and your little ones are in my T&Ps. I am so sorry you are going through all of this. I hope things improve for you LOs soon. ((HUGS))
Ladies, I love all of the pictures and updates!
~SAIF/PAIF/Everyone Welcome~
Me= 37 and DH = 41
Dx: DOR, Endo, APA+ (really high beta 2 glycoprotein antibody and high everything else tested), heterozygous MTHFR mutation, positive for lupus anticoagulant, high FSH, low AMH and both tubes blocked (per HSG on 3/8/11)
IVF #1 - long lupron (with HGH, intralipids, lovenox and BA); 4 retrieved, 3 fertilized; ET 2 blasts and 1 frozen = BFN
IVF #2 - a version of antagonist with EPP (with HGH, intralipids, lovenox and BA); 6 retrieved, 4 mature, 3 fertilized, 2 blasts and 1 frozen blast transferred on day 5 = BFN.
IVF #3 April was postponed to May, May was canceled. June/July was canceled. Had a cyst aspiration and then began IVF #3 in August. ER on 8/22; ET on 8/24 with AH. +HPT on 9/5. Beta #1 (11dpo) = 3; Beta #2 (15dpo) = 29; Beta #3 (17dpo) = 60; Beta #4 (19 dpo) = 118. Heartbeat at 6 weeks 6 days =132. Lil is here!
TTC#2: Trigger + TI = BFN; Clomid + Trigger + IUI = BFN.
IVF #4: BCP + MDLF + Lovenox = 7R, 1F = Transferred 1 6-cell embryo on day 3 = BFN
IVF #5: MDLF + Lovenox = 4R, 1F = Transferred 1 10-cell compacting embryo on day 3 = BFN
IVF #6: (New RE): Long Antagonist November 2014 (transferred two 8 cell grade 1 embryos and froze one blast) = BFN
FET#1: BFN
Aww. 3T is the first board I click on when I sign on to the bump. Always, always rooting for my girls.
Mari, thinking of you and your boys. ((hugs))
Love & luck to my 3TC girls. Congrats to Omega-The boys are here!
If there's one thing I've learned while waiting my turn,
it's that in each life some rain falls but you also get some sun.
After 2 years & 2 losses, our little man arrived 8-2011.
Oh, Mari HUGE hugs ! With the "twin to twin transfusion" do they mean that 1 twin is sucking/draining the fluid/blood from the other? Is the specialist in Miami OH or Miami FL ( since you are in IL I figuered I'd ask which)?
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." -- Dale Carnegie
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." --Thomas A. Edison
Hi Ladies! I'm so glad to hear everyone is doing well. Mari- I'm praying that you won't need that surgery. You've been through plenty. Lots of thoughts and prayers to you!
3T Ladies- Another year has started. It's a chance to forget about how crappy the 2010 IF is and move on to 2011. I'm a major 3t stalker. In fact, I'd like to remind girls to post SAIF in their siggy if they want feed back from grads. I'm very, very careful not to respond if I don't see that.
OMEGA! Those boys are just adorable! And Riley- I had a panic attack seeing your nursery that looks like it belongs in a magazine! I hope mine comes together that well!
Well, for me all is good. I passed my GD with an 85 for the one hour. Still anemic, so they upped my iron and I'm enjoying the digestive benefits of that! Pic next week and more info in my blog.
XOXOXOXO
Miami, Fl...
Exactly this. You ladies are such an inspiration and keep me going when I think "this is NEVER going to happen for me:(" Thank you for still caring about us and keeping us posted on how you're doing:)
I love love love all the belly bumps and baby pictures!:)