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PgAL CheckIn

Welcome to PGAL CheckIn!

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!

How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week?

Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones?

QOTW: Will you be delivering at the same hospital that you had your angel at? Why or why not? How do you feel about it?

Open Topic. What is on your mind this week?

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  • How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week?  4 weeks, 2 days.  Still a little poppyseed. 

    Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones?  Today is the gestation we lost our first pregnancy at, so I am anxious to get past today.  I go in for my third betas tomorrow so I am praying for great numbers.

    QOTW: Will you be delivering at the same hospital that you had your angel at? Why or why not? How do you feel about it?  Yes, I love my doctor and I received excellent care there.  It does make me a little nervous, but also comforted to know I will be taken care of.  The maternity ward is moving next month from the 3rd floor to the 4th so I'm happy we'll be in a different area and it hopefully won't look exactly the same.

    Open Topic. What is on your mind this week?  Just trying to get through these early weeks and keeping pgal brain at bay as much as I can.
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     My Pregnancy/Parenting BLOG TTC since 5/2011, BFP #1 12/3/11, M/C 12/7/11 @ 4wks 2d. Began seeing RE Sep 2012. October 2012 Metformin 1500 mg= ovulation on CD34 BFP#2 11/14/12 9DPO, EDD 7/26/13, DX Gestational Diabetes @14 wks, our angel born sleeping 3/24/13 @ 22wks 2d. BFP #3 7/4/13 8DPO EDD 3/22/14, DX Gestational Diabetes @14 wks. started insulin @16 wks.  Our rainbow, born 3/19/14 @ 39wks 6d., we're so in love!

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  • How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week? 
    11w5d - I have no idea on the fruit. I'm still not tracking that.

    Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones? 
    I might be going back to see my OB next week for my SCH. I have my first u/s with my MFM [I think that's what he's called...I'm still learning the lingo] on July 29; wasn't supposed to meet him until 18 weeks, but my SCH diagnosis moved things up.

    QOTW: Will you be delivering at the same hospital that you had your angel at? Why or why not? How do you feel about it? 
    My hope is no. I delivered Devon at a hospital in my hometown because I was visiting my parents when we found out he was gone - I was nowhere near my home hospital. I plan to stay close to home during my third trimester because of my high risk, so I plan to deliver at my home hospital, which is where my first was born. I've already been back to the other hospital though, and I'll go back on Devon's angelversary next month to thank the nurses for the amazing care they gave me. It's hard, but necessary for me.

    Open Topic. What is on your mind this week? 
    This SCH is freaking me out. I'm trying so hard not to think that things will go bad, especially since baby has grown on track. It's hard though. Ugh.

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  • How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week? 

    8 weeks 3 days. Raspberry I believe. 

    Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones? Next appointment is July 30th, so it will be a while. Though there is a part of me that wants to call and go in now. I hate when pregnancy symptoms subside. But, I keep reminding myself we do not have a history of early loss. 

    QOTW: Will you be delivering at the same hospital that you had your angel at? Why or why not? How do you feel about it? 
    If we deliver in a hospital, yes. Our plan last time was a homebirth, and I am deciding whether to pursue that again. There is a part of me that does not want to deliver in the same place as we delivered Elsie. But we love our doctor and we had a good experience with the nurses and hospital. 

    Open Topic. What is on your mind this week? 
    Are any of you going to use a doppler? Im on the fence. Some days, I think it would help, but i would also freak out if I was unable to find the HB one day. My Dr, said they do not care if I call to come in everyday. But I dont want to abuse the privilege. 

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    QOTW: Will you be delivering at the same hospital that you had your angel at? Why or why not? How do you feel about it? Yes, going to deliver at the same hospital, because my OB only delivers there, and I was really happy with the hospital and the way I was treated there. I actually went back this week for the first time since losing Virginia, I wrote a post all about my anxiety on PgAL. My therapist came with me. We went into the room where we found out she no longer had a heartbeat, and walked around the Labor and Delivery wing and talked to a few nurses who remembered me, as well as the hospital administrator. It was very therapeutic, and I'm really glad I went back to prep myself ahead of time. For any moms who will be delivering at the same hospital, I highly recommend a trip back ahead of the delivery.

    Glad it was a healing experience for you.  I was thinking about you that day. 

    Lilypie - (qptF)


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  • How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week?
    5w6d between the 5 week Appleseed and the 6 week sweet pea.

    Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones?
    My first appt is next Friday the 19th.

    QOTW: Will you be delivering at the same hospital that you had your angel at? Why or why not? How do you feel about it?
    I don't know. My OB has privileges at both hospitals in my area. The one I delivered at has the NICU which is why we went there even though I knew we hadn't reached viability, I was hoping something could be done. I may need to go there again if I go into labor early. I received excellent care there.

    Open Topic. What is on your mind this week?
    I am anxious for my first appt. I have this fear that I will get there and there won't be a baby. Even though I have no history of an early loss and I have never had a negative ultrasound.
    Married 11/23/11, TTC starting 10/12, BFP#1 11/30/12, Adoption of stepson finalized 03/19/13,Loss of our daughter at 20w4d due to incompetent cervix 03/27/13, BFP#2 06/28/13, DS2 born 3/1/14.

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    How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week? 

    8 weeks 3 days. Raspberry I believe. 

    Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones? Next appointment is July 30th, so it will be a while. Though there is a part of me that wants to call and go in now. I hate when pregnancy symptoms subside. But, I keep reminding myself we do not have a history of early loss. 

    QOTW: Will you be delivering at the same hospital that you had your angel at? Why or why not? How do you feel about it? 
    If we deliver in a hospital, yes. Our plan last time was a homebirth, and I am deciding whether to pursue that again. There is a part of me that does not want to deliver in the same place as we delivered Elsie. But we love our doctor and we had a good experience with the nurses and hospital. 

    Open Topic. What is on your mind this week? 
    Are any of you going to use a doppler? Im on the fence. Some days, I think it would help, but i would also freak out if I was unable to find the HB one day. My Dr, said they do not care if I call to come in everyday. But I dont want to abuse the privilege. 

    I had a doppler last time and it was a life saver. I went into it with a pretty open mind though, knowing that if I couldn't find it, it didn't mean anything was wrong. I just needed to take a break and try again later. I didn't like when I couldn't find it, but I did a good job of not freaking out. This time it isn't going to help as much since my baby girl had a super strong heartbeat and was kicking just 30 minutes before I delivered her. The problem wasn't her, it was my body that couldn't keep her in.

    But I am hoping my doppler plus all of the cervical checks and measurements I'll get will help.

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    Lilypie - (YesX)

     My Pregnancy/Parenting BLOG TTC since 5/2011, BFP #1 12/3/11, M/C 12/7/11 @ 4wks 2d. Began seeing RE Sep 2012. October 2012 Metformin 1500 mg= ovulation on CD34 BFP#2 11/14/12 9DPO, EDD 7/26/13, DX Gestational Diabetes @14 wks, our angel born sleeping 3/24/13 @ 22wks 2d. BFP #3 7/4/13 8DPO EDD 3/22/14, DX Gestational Diabetes @14 wks. started insulin @16 wks.  Our rainbow, born 3/19/14 @ 39wks 6d., we're so in love!

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  • How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week? 18w5d, bell pepper

    Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones? I had a checkup earlier this week, and my next appointment isn't until 22 weeks. This will be the longest stretch I've gone between appointments. I'm a little anxious about that, but think I'll be okay since baby moves so frequently now.

    QOTW: Will you be delivering at the same hospital that you had your angel at? Why or why not? How do you feel about it? Yes, I'll deliver at the same hospital (although I'm seeing a different provider now). I love the hospital, and the L&D nurses took excellent care of me, DH and my mom when I was in labor. I know it will be hard to return to the L&D floor for the first time, but I am looking forward to hopefully making a new, much happier memory there. 

    Open Topic. What is on your mind this week? Julian's birthday is a week from Monday. I know I'll be okay, but I'm already starting to struggle every now and then and slip back into the flashbacks and "what-ifs". DH and I are going out of town next weekend; I think it will be good to have a change of scenery and explore a new city together. Spending quality time together feels like a good way to honor Julian. I feel so torn lately between wishing desperately that he was with us, but also being so grateful to be carrying his baby brother, who wouldn't have existed if Julian survived.
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  • How far along are you? What size fruit is your baby this week? 

    4 weeks and three days, I believe a poppy seed.

    Do you have any upcoming appointments or milestones? 

    I am scheduling my ob appointment next week. I will see the dr in about three weeks.

    QOTW: Will you be delivering at the same hospital that you had your angel at? Why or why not? How do you feel about it? 

    Yes, I love my dr, I even miss him! The hospital is making me nervous thinking about it. I do not remember the room though because of all of the medications they gave me to sedate me. They moved me out of the L and D floor right away after delivery to another floor so we wouldn't hear other babies.

    Open Topic. What is on your mind this week?

    I am so scarred. I do not know how I will be able to handle it if I loose this one. I lost Arianna at 38 weeks and I am so scarred that something will go wrong this time too.  


    Julius Justin - 11/07/2002 - 10 lbs 22 in 
    Isabella Genavieve - 02/03/05 - 7 lbs 11 oz 22 in 
    Arianna Kaitlynn - 04/10/2013 - 4 lbs 15 oz 15 in

    BFP 08/10/13 
    TWINS!!!! 09/01/13
    Miscarriage at 12 weeks lost baby B 
    Arianna diagnosed with an Ompalocele at 13 weeks
    Arianna our Angel on 04/10/13 
    BFP 07/20/13
    Our Rainbow due 03/18/14 


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