Pregnant after IF
MrsBwIVF
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*** 2nd tri check-in - 07/20/2015 ***
MrsBwIVF
member
This is a weekly check-in for those in their 2nd trimester: weeks 14 through the end of week 27.
Congrats to all the strong ladies who have made it this far! It's such a great feeling and we've all accomplished so much! We are now 1 week closer to the end of this epically long journey we call "infertility".
I am hoping I'm not too alone one this board. Please post below a little about yourself, how many beans you have growing inside, if you have found out the sex(es) and what your EDD is. Please also let us know how far you've made it on your journey and when your next appt is and what for.
QOTW: Has anyone started planning or even working on their nursery?
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@MrsBwIvf- EDD 12/21/15 with two beans- waiting on anatomy scan to hopefully find out the sexes
@andimegie325- EDD 1/10/16 with one bean- waiting on anatomy scan to hopefully find out the sex
@somewhereinafrica- EDD? with one bean- awaiting on anatomy scan to hopefully find out the sex
@MarnieF- EDD1/12/16 with one little lady!
@Emcarl24- EDD 1/21 with one bean- awaiting on anatomy scan to hopefully find out the sex
Re: *** 2nd tri check-in - 07/20/2015 ***
Next app't isn't until 8/12 - when I will be 19 weeks. It's an awfully long wait. (Last app't was 7/6.). Feeling good, slightly less crazy, thank goodness the hormones are easing up a bit. And I'm eating pretty much all food again, though I'm still leery of eggs.
QOTW: Yoda will be sharing a room with her big sister, so the nursery has been done for almost a year (DD1's birthday is 8/8). It's not so nursery-ish, walls are green and we have "real" art, not kid-centric art, on the walls. We wanted a room that wouldn't have to be repainted and redone as they got older. Yoda will start in a bassinet in our room, then move into a pack 'n' play in the nursery until big sis moves from the crib to a bed.
Qotw: I've had major reservations about doing anything too preemptive during this pregnancy to avoid "the jinx" and while we haven't started readying the nursery, I definitely went and built the registry and started planning. I'm definitely with @marnief and not doing a baby theme, but keeping it as something that will be able to grow with them. Friends and coworkers jokingly call me the other Martha Stewart, so I'm sure no matter how the nursery turns out it will be great! I can't wait to see pictures of everyone's rooms and ideas!!
We are waiting to co ordinate with my 19 years old brother coming over for a visit and we are collecting him from the airport in the city I need to go for the scan. He is excited to be one of the first to know.
Feeling a lot better although we experienced a serious tragedy with the awful passing of a young friend of ours and had a terrible week last week. The stress took its toll today and I was in bed most of the day and was crying a lot. I know it's not good for the baby but it's also very hard getting a handle on my emotions after such an awful experience. This weekend is my birthday and we have plans to go to the mountains and stay with friends so hoping this helps to get me calm again. Although I feel terrible focusing so much on myself after all that's happened but I know it's important and thankfully the family where repatriated home yesterday so feel able to start focusing on my own grief instead of theirs.
I have definitely started thinking about the babies room (plural due to my adoption of my daughter due home the same time pretty much as baby bean!)
Both will share a room however both will start in ours. Our house set up means our current lounge area will be the room as the other rooms in the house wouldn't work as they are separate from the main building where we sleep ( African village housings a little complicated!)
My plans isn't to make it super 'nursery-esque' I have already started getting a custom mosquito net made and a ceiling fan for that room. Super practical stuff but important. I am being handed down a lot of my stuff so will be getting most of it in September.
QOTW: we haven't started on the nursery at all. We are hoping to move in the next couple months, and it's making it hard to plan, not knowing what sort or space we'll have.
I have a sub chronic hematoma under placenta which had come away. Slightly.
Baby is alive and well. But they have said it's very 50/50 if the placenta will stay.
I'm blessed my baby is alive but I'm scared about what lies ahead. Anyone experience this?