Pg With My Rainbow Check-In

Mrs Nice · July 2012

Hello Ladies,I hope I find you all well and positive this week! If you have any questions you would like answered, please don't be shy! You can also ask the PAL ladies. Bake, little buns, bake!

When you first found out you were Pg, how many times did you POAS? Be honest!

What was your first reaction when you got your BFP? How did you tell your S/O and what was their first reaction?

Open Topic. What is on your mind this week?

weddedwife · July 2012

I only POAS once. I waited til 18 dpo so I knew it was right.

I told DH on a Sat. morning. He was making breakfast and I set the table. I laid it across his placemat on a napkin and waited til he came to the table (which took forever!). He saw it, grinned and said, "You're kidding!" We were so shrewd had missed our window that cycle.

Once the excitement of that moment wore off (and it was literally like, one minute) the worry already began to set it. There was this settling into seriousness, like- ok, here we go. It didn't seem real for quite some time and I know we both felt detached from it for a while. Not until I hit around 9 or 10 weeks did it really start to sink in.

I'm just trying not to worry this week. Our MFM told us this week that while it's good that things seem ok for now, she really thinks we're going to "hit a wall" at some point in this pregnancy, whether it's with PTL or IC. She just hopes its later rather than sooner. Based on the fact that PTL and shortening cervix were already presenting at 15 wks, that doesn't look too good. I'm just trying to take it day by day but I am truly scared we may lose this baby too.

weddedwife · July 2012

PS Mrs Nice- I'd offer to help w the check-ins while you're gone but...I'm so uncertain w this pregnancy. I'm worried something may go wrong at any moment and I wouldn't be around to do them. (Morbid, I know- but that's where I'm at.)

Heatherhah · July 2012

When you first found out you were Pg, how many times did you POAS? Be honest!

I POAS 3 times at least. I had the little wondo and 2 digital.

What was your first reaction when you got your BFP? How did you tell your S/O and what was their first reaction? I didn't really expect to be pregnant that month we were actively trying but I was sick with a high fever during O and I just didn't feel pregnant. I found out on easter Sunday at 4am. I went ina t 4am and POAS and went back to bed but I checked the stick within 2 minutes and it said pregnant right away and I woke up DH and he and I cried and snuggled. it was very sweet. Then a few weeks later reality hit us and the stress came over me. Being PGAL is so hard all the time not one day do you feel safe at all.

Open Topic. What is on your mind this week? Just stessing everyday about the fact that I don't feel her moving much if I am actually feeling her at all. This is my 4th pregnancy this far along I should know what I am feeling. But it seems I can't figure out movement with just plain gas LOL. This whole process is so hard I want this baby so much and hope and pray she comes home with us!!

careyalis · July 2012

I've lost count of the sticks I've peed on...7 maybe? And then I started peeing on leftover opk's because they are supposed to show up positive for pg too.

It wasn't a happy excited feeling, but more of a relief. DH and I just crawled back into bed and he held me for awhile. I had been praying and asking Avery to help us get pregnant on the earliest possible cycle where we wouldn't miscarry. I feel like I got a sign in numbers that she is watching over us and this baby will be okay. This baby's due date is in March 2013 and all of Avery's important numbers included 3 and 13, so that brought me some peace.

One sil is about to have a little girl on the 1st and another one just found out she is pregnant and due about the time when Avery was due. I'm having a hard time with these because I feel like all these new grandkids are going to overshadow my little girl. I'm really having a hard time with the fact that the first one is a girl. I am really scared that I won't be able to be in the same room with her without getting upset, and I really want to be able to love her.

Auki13 · July 2012

When you first found out you were Pg, how many times did you POAS? Be honest!

I POAS 2 times.

What was your first reaction when you got your BFP? How did you tell your S/O and what was their first reaction? My DH was with me when I took the test and he looked at it before I did, so he knew before me (by like 10 seconds). I couldn't imagine not having him there with me when I did it. I was just too nervous.

Open Topic. What is on your mind this week?

I have my a/s tomorrow morning and am a nervous wreck. We found out at our a/s last time that Annabelle had anencephaly and wouldn't live. We did have a scan at 12 weeks this time around that showed what looked to be a perfectly rounded head, but they couldn't confirm anything until the a/s tomorrow. At this point I am pretty confident that this baby doesn't have anen, but once you enter the world of baby loss all the possibilities feel like they could happen to your baby. Ugh. I just want today to fly so that I can see our little bug tomorrow.

Mrs Nice · July 2012

weddedwife:
PS Mrs Nice- I'd offer to help w the check-ins while you're gone but...I'm so uncertain w this pregnancy. I'm worried something may go wrong at any moment and I wouldn't be around to do them. (Morbid, I know- but that's where I'm at.)

No worries. When next Thursday comes and someone is available to post a check-in, then great! If not, take a break. I will post again when I get back.

Petunia844 · July 2012

When you first found out you were Pg, how many times did you POAS? Be honest! The first night we found out I only took one because DH was there with me and he's rational... in the days that followed....umm... maybe like 4 more??
What was your first reaction when you got your BFP? How did you tell your S/O and what was their first reaction? Just super emotional, we were watching a movie and decided I would test that night, so I was trying to hold my pee as long as possible. Then we paused the movie, I went and peed on it and gave it to DH to see it first. After he showed it to me I think I just said "Oh my God" about 5 times, then the waterworks started. I was so sad for Peyton, so excited for this new LO, and so TERRIFIED. The main thing I remember saying to DH was "You have to help me!"
Open Topic. What is on your mind this week? Just trying not to dwell on my milestone...even though it's still about 5 weeks away it seems like it's coming up fast... I can already feel the anxiety from it. Just trying to focus my energy in a positive way, work on the nursery.... trying to stay excited.

philfemgal · July 2012

When you first found out you were Pg, how many times did you POAS? Be honest! I got my + this time 12 DPO. I had taken tests on day 10 and 11 and got negatives. On day 12 I took one in the morning--a wondfo--and thought I saw something after about 3 minutes but it looked not pink and just shadowy. So I thought it was an evap line. By about 10 minutes later though there was a very light line that did look pink. But i wasn't sure I should trust it. I took a digital test to check and that was negative. So I didn't want to get my hopes up and took that to be a -.
What was your first reaction when you got your BFP? How did you tell your S/O and what was their first reaction? I told her about the evap/pink line and showed her the test and right away she was like "umm, I think this is positive." I got annoyed with her for trying to give me hope. TTC had just been soooo stressful that I felt like I couldn't let myself be hopeful. She dropped it but suggested maybe I should test again that day. I did while she was napping that afternoon--this time with a frer--and got a clear pink line within about a minute. I woke her up and told her she got a "gotcha" (our name for when one of us is wrong and the other is right) and that the wondfo had been positive.
I think we both felt very relieved to get the positive. Like at least we are done with the TTC part and wondering if I will still be fertile and all that. Of course actually being pregnant brings a whole other set of worries. Since my period was due for another couple days I kept testing to make sure I still had a line the next few days. At 14 dpo I still wasn't getting a positive on the digital and the line of the frer hadn't really gotten darker. So we started worrying about a very early chemical pregnancy. I stopped testing for the weekend and then on 16 dpo did get a darker line on frer and a positive digital. I also got a beta done that day and it was over 400 and then was 1400 48 hours later.
Open Topic. What is on your mind this week? I'm sort of struggling with what to think/how to feel about the pregnancy. Part of me wants to be hopeful. Another part of me thinks it is silly to be hopeful and best to protect myself emotionally by pretending it is not happening. I am a planner, though, so I find myself thinking about when I should tell my work, and how my maternity leave would work, and whether we can afford for my wife to take some unpaid leave, etc. It's really hard to just pretend it's not happening.

nuttycoconut · July 2012

When you first found out you were Pg, how many times did you POAS? Be honest!

3x. I got a BFN at 9dpo. Then at 10dpo I had a +. I poas again at 12dpo and had another + so got my betas drawn at 14dpo. What was your first reaction when you got your BFP? How did you tell your S/O and what was their first reaction? Even though I did IVF I was in disbelief. I had the negative at first and low progesterone so I convinced myself that it didn't work. I called my DH at work and sent him a pic of my pg test because I just couldn't wait for him to get home. Open Topic. What is on your mind this week? I've been resting at home and healing after my transabdominal cerclage. My family has been taking good care of me. I'm thinking about work starting in a few weeks and am getting nervous about setting up my classroom and getting up on ladders doing bulletin boards and all of the manual labor that comes with being a teacher.

littlepenguin2012 · August 2012

Hi Ladies- we were out of town for a awhile and then I was having some issues so I have missed a few posts- sorry.

When you first found out you were Pg, how many times did you POAS? Be honest!

I think it was at least 6... I did the early result ones first and didn't trust them so I had to try again a *few* more times. I didn't tell DH how many I used, because I think it was a little nuts. But I did take a picture of all the tests to put in the baby book

What was your first reaction when you got your BFP? How did you tell your S/O and what was their first reaction? Shock. For both of us. We ended up getting PG on the first cycle we could. It took more than 6 months with Lucian (after being told we couldn't get pregnant and should "just try" for a few months before we considered other options).

Open Topic. What is on your mind this week? I have been having some really bad headaches and it makes me so nervous about the pre-e coming back. My dr. is watching it and I have had all the tests done that they can do, but I am still so nervous and worried. I will get test results back on Monday and I am trying really hard not to think about it until then.

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