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 especially long journey we call "infertility".
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 appointment is and what for. If I'm missing anyone from this list, please let me know and I will add you.
Mommies to be:
@kelrauh EDD 5/14/17 with 1 boy and 1 girl!
QOTW: Are you planning to do any special photo shoots during your pregnancy? Maternity, sex reveal, newborn?
Re: 2nd Trimester Check-In: Week of January 2nd
Yesterday evening DH and I were snuggling on the couch watching a movie and apparently the babies were very active while he was resting his hand on my tummy. It was nice because they've been little boogers recently and would stop moving every time he felt for them, but this time he got to feel lots and lots of movement.
QOTW: I'd love to do some maternity photos, but right now I'm more focused on our upcoming move and finishing the selling process on our house, so haven't had time to put any thought towards it. I don't think I'd have professional ones done, probably just have my dad take some for us (he is an avid photographer and takes really good pictures). I'm sure there will be plenty of pictures taken of our babies once they're born, so we won't do an official newborn photo shoot. If we did anything like that, it would be me taking the pics once they get to come home with us.
Me - 28, Lean PCOS
DH - 31
Married June 2010, TTC since March 2014
Blog: ourbinarystar.com
FET cycle #3 Transfer July 28th 2016, Triplets born healthy on February 26th 2017 at 33w1d!
I am 23 weeks today! I have my next appointment on Martin Luther King Jr. day. I'm looking forward to it because I have a lot of questions to ask since I've started reading some books. Today the hubs is prepping the nursery for me. He started pulling up carpet (there is hardwood underneath), and he is building some shelves in the closet so I can start organizing baby stuff (we've accumulated a ton of used clothes, and we were lucky enough to have people buy us baby things for Christmas).
QOTW: My husband is a photographer, so we did a gender reveal photo which I posted on here awhile back. He is really excited to do a maternity shoot in March. We will probably do it the first or second week of March. I don't want to wait too long just in case I go early! Plus I still want the cute bump and not the crazy uncomfortable looking bump (I am vain). I'm sure he will take lots of photos of baby once he arrives, so I'm not too concerned about scheduling a newborn shoot, so long as I get a photo of his sweet little hands and feet.
I hope everyone had a great New Years!
Past Treatment: Clomid + Metformin x 3 BFN
Letrozole 5 mg + Trigger shot + IUI = BFP!
Beta confirmed 8/22
EDD 5/1/17
Me - 28, Lean PCOS
DH - 31
Married June 2010, TTC since March 2014
Blog: ourbinarystar.com
FET cycle #3 Transfer July 28th 2016, Triplets born healthy on February 26th 2017 at 33w1d!
@clt2pwm11 Yay for getting the nursery ready! We have hardwoods under the carpet in our upstairs bedrooms too, and I would love to pull of the carpet but DH keeps fighting me on it. He likes the carpet in the bedrooms. Boo!
I am 18+2 today and for the last 4 days now I've felt an increasing amount of movement! Sometimes little flutters and occasionally actual kicks. Not big enough kicks to feel from the outside yet but I can definitely feel them. Whenever I lay down to go to sleep at night I just love focusing on the little dance party happening inside me!
Our AS is on Thursday and I can't believe it's finally (almost) here! I'm nervous, excited, and ready for it. I had a nightmare not too long ago that we found out at the AS that we were actually having a boy and that the lab messed up. Let's hope THAT isn't the case! We have our sex reveal party (just called Sex Party! on the FB invite lol) scheduled for Saturday evening. The forecast says snow, unfortunately, and here in NC nobody leaves the house when it's snowing Hopefully the snow holds off or is light enough that we still get a nice turn out because we have almost 30 RSVPs. A friend and I spent all day Saturday decorating our house for the party! It's going to be Star Wars themed and our cake will say "Jedi or Princess?" Super excited!
Also this past weekend DH and I spent hours clearing out what will be the baby's room, so now it is completely ready to fill with baby stuff. DH's parents want to take us furniture shopping the day after our sex reveal party!
Hope everyone had a safe and happy New Year! So excited for all of our 2017 babies!
Me: 34, DH: 38 ~ TTC since 2014
IUI #1-3 (Nov 2015, Feb 2016, May 2016) = BFNs
IVF ER (July 2016) = 7 PGS normal embryos
FET #1 (Sept 2016) = BFP! DD born 5/30/17
FET #2 (April 2019) = BFN
FET #3 (July 2019) = BFP! DS born 3/27/20
Me: 34, DH: 38 ~ TTC since 2014
IUI #1-3 (Nov 2015, Feb 2016, May 2016) = BFNs
IVF ER (July 2016) = 7 PGS normal embryos
FET #1 (Sept 2016) = BFP! DD born 5/30/17
FET #2 (April 2019) = BFN
FET #3 (July 2019) = BFP! DS born 3/27/20
We finally announced our pregnancy on FB yesterday. I had been too nervous to do it, but our families were urging us to do something. It's crazy what IF and losses will do to your brain and emotions, but I'm glad it's done.
QOTW: No professional maternity photos for me (we have plenty of other photos), but we will get professional newborn photos taken. With DS, there was a photographer at the hospital who would do a little photo session right there in the room when your baby was 1 day old. We did that, and I'm SO glad we did! The photos were amazing, and how many times is your baby going to be 1 day old??? We used one of them for the birth announcement, and I love looking at all of them - he was so little and sweet! I kept thinking I'd take some "nice" pictures of him once we got home (I dabble in a little photography), but the craziness of having a newborn, major BF problems, recovery from giving birth, etc. got in the way. So I'm really glad we did the ones in the hospital, and I'm hoping we can do something similar this time around, too!
TTC #1 since March 2011
1 medicated TI cycle & 4 clomid IUIs = all BFNs
DS1 born 2/14
TTC #2 since December 2014
May 2015 unassisted BFP ended in m/c at 7wks
April 2016 FET #1 = BFN
June 2016 FET #2 = c/p
August 2016 FET #3 = BFP!
DS2 born 4/17
Me - 28, Lean PCOS
DH - 31
Married June 2010, TTC since March 2014
Blog: ourbinarystar.com
FET cycle #3 Transfer July 28th 2016, Triplets born healthy on February 26th 2017 at 33w1d!
I'm spending this weekend getting the nursery painted. I had to practically get a notarized permission slip from my OB before anyone would let me do the actual painting, but she says it's fine as long as the room is well ventilated and I'm using regular old latex paint. I started last weekend with the ceiling and am hoping to get the rest done today. I'm doing a white ceiling with white coming down the top foot or so of the walls, then a beautiful honey yellow color on the walls with scallops on the top going into the white and a thin band of a tealish blue below that. Hopefully this goes well. I'm starting on the scallops this morning....
I am all about the newborn photos. I dabble in photography myself and have some beautiful shots of some of my nieces, as well as an awesome maternity shoot with one of my sisters with her first baby. I'm just nervous that I would be too busy/overwhelmed/forgetful and not get any pictures taken or not have pictures that are amazingly awesome, so we are definitely getting some pro shots done. I found a bunch of photographers in the Seattle area and just need to pick one. It is a spendy thing, but I am very photo-focused in general and must must must have these! This is my miracle baby and I want to treasure every moment I get with her and remember every stage in her life.
Chemo killed my ovaries (along with a BRCA1 mutation, which causes DOR)
4/30/13 ER just prior to chemo: 8 embryos frozen at 2pn. 2 survived to blasts/1 PGS normal
4/16 ER cancelled on CD7: 1 follicle on L/ 0 follicles on R
FET #1 7/13/16 BFN
Super shocker +HPT 9/19
Baby Alyce arrived 5/8/17
Went forward with donor eggs from my sister for baby #2
ER 4/24, 5 eggs fertilized/1 survived to blast and was chromosomally normal.
FET 2/15 (my sister/donor's birthday!). Beta 10dp5dt:172; beta 12dp5dt: 425
My TTC/Cancer/Random thoughts blog: http://www.dinktodiapers.blogspot.com/
Chemo killed my ovaries (along with a BRCA1 mutation, which causes DOR)
4/30/13 ER just prior to chemo: 8 embryos frozen at 2pn. 2 survived to blasts/1 PGS normal
4/16 ER cancelled on CD7: 1 follicle on L/ 0 follicles on R
FET #1 7/13/16 BFN
Super shocker +HPT 9/19
Baby Alyce arrived 5/8/17
Went forward with donor eggs from my sister for baby #2
ER 4/24, 5 eggs fertilized/1 survived to blast and was chromosomally normal.
FET 2/15 (my sister/donor's birthday!). Beta 10dp5dt:172; beta 12dp5dt: 425
My TTC/Cancer/Random thoughts blog: http://www.dinktodiapers.blogspot.com/
TTC #1 since March 2011
1 medicated TI cycle & 4 clomid IUIs = all BFNs
DS1 born 2/14
TTC #2 since December 2014
May 2015 unassisted BFP ended in m/c at 7wks
April 2016 FET #1 = BFN
June 2016 FET #2 = c/p
August 2016 FET #3 = BFP!
DS2 born 4/17
QOTW: Are you planning to do any special photo shoots during your pregnancy? Maternity, sex reveal, newborn?
No professional shoots for us since we are on a tight budget so that I can do the SAHM thing again. I took tons of photos when DD was a baby so I'm sure I will get plenty this time around too. I've been having my DH take some photos of me and my belly every few weeks for my scrapbook too.
BFP Oct 2011 - DD born July 2012
TTC again since July 2014
First IUI 9/26/16: BFP!
EDD 6/19/2017
It's a girl!
Born 6/26/17, 9lb 5oz
@wifeinraleigh28 If we had nice carpet, I would've left it, but it was gross. I registered for those soft connecting foam mats to put down on the floor so Charlie will have a comfy place to play. That was my one concern about hardwood.
Past Treatment: Clomid + Metformin x 3 BFN
Letrozole 5 mg + Trigger shot + IUI = BFP!
Beta confirmed 8/22
EDD 5/1/17
@AandDM2014 and @clt2pwm11 how do the babies know when DH hand is there? I can have my hand resting on my tummy and she will be kicking so hard, I grab his hand and she is perfectly still....how do they know lol!
@BlueEyedDreamer we made our FB announcement yesterday as well, I have been nervous but also wanted to be sensitive to those on my list who may be struggling with IF. I included some info on our IF journey (inspired by @kelrauh thank you!). It was awesome and several people who I had no idea struggled shared that they were familiar with the journey.
QOTW: We have maternity photos scheduled for mid to late February and our hospital does the new born pics as well.We will have the same photographer taking our maternity pics taking more once we are home and she does a great package where you pay for a "newborn" package and get pics taken every few months!
Me 39 DH44
1st DE FET 5/16-BFN
2nd DE FET 7/18-BFP
8/17 Baby HR 140/min EDD 4/6/17
qotw I'm doing newborn pictures. Dh has been helping buying accessories and outfits that represent us really well to use for the shoot so I'm excited.
QOTW: We don't have anything planned as far as photos go. I literally have 1 photo of myself pregnant from my pregnancy with my son. It was taken about 2-3 weeks before he was born and then I went into labor at my baby shower, and never got any there so I'm determined to be better about it this time around. I'm not all that into formal maternity shoots, but I had a friend do a "fresh 48" photo shoot and it was gorgeous. A photographer came to the hospital within the first 48 hours after birth and got some beautiful images. I'm contemplating something like that this time around even though we have a ton of images from DS's birth and (unfortunately) from while I was in labor. My husband had his own photo shoot as I was getting wheeled around the hospital and it wasn't pretty!
Me - 28, Lean PCOS
DH - 31
Married June 2010, TTC since March 2014
Blog: ourbinarystar.com
FET cycle #3 Transfer July 28th 2016, Triplets born healthy on February 26th 2017 at 33w1d!
Chemo killed my ovaries (along with a BRCA1 mutation, which causes DOR)
4/30/13 ER just prior to chemo: 8 embryos frozen at 2pn. 2 survived to blasts/1 PGS normal
4/16 ER cancelled on CD7: 1 follicle on L/ 0 follicles on R
FET #1 7/13/16 BFN
Super shocker +HPT 9/19
Baby Alyce arrived 5/8/17
Went forward with donor eggs from my sister for baby #2
ER 4/24, 5 eggs fertilized/1 survived to blast and was chromosomally normal.
FET 2/15 (my sister/donor's birthday!). Beta 10dp5dt:172; beta 12dp5dt: 425
My TTC/Cancer/Random thoughts blog: http://www.dinktodiapers.blogspot.com/
QOTW: my hubby is a photographer so will def do both maternity and newborn shoot. He wants to take some pics right after birth even, not sure they allow that but it could be nice for just us to have that moment in a picture...
I see you ladies have been nesting and preparing your nurseries. I want to start this week too!
Any must-haves you have already decided on or purchased?
TTC since March 2015 with known PCOS and MIF
IVF in 2015. FET nr 3 in 2016 - BFP. Healthy baby girl born in April 2017.
Trying for nr 2
Me: 34, DH: 38 ~ TTC since 2014
IUI #1-3 (Nov 2015, Feb 2016, May 2016) = BFNs
IVF ER (July 2016) = 7 PGS normal embryos
FET #1 (Sept 2016) = BFP! DD born 5/30/17
FET #2 (April 2019) = BFN
FET #3 (July 2019) = BFP! DS born 3/27/20
BFP Oct 2011 - DD born July 2012
TTC again since July 2014
First IUI 9/26/16: BFP!
EDD 6/19/2017
It's a girl!
Born 6/26/17, 9lb 5oz
Me - 28, Lean PCOS
DH - 31
Married June 2010, TTC since March 2014
Blog: ourbinarystar.com
FET cycle #3 Transfer July 28th 2016, Triplets born healthy on February 26th 2017 at 33w1d!
Enjoy your birthing experience. Sometimes there are hiccups in your birth plan and you have to roll with the punches and your birth plan may not go as you planned. Just go with it and trust your doc. It's like a wedding. Something will always go wrong and you can't dwell on it!
@AandDM2014 - You can remove me from the list!
Best of luck everyone!
10/2009 - TTC#1 Stopped BCP! Let's DO this!
7/8/2016 - FET #2 with Grade B (8 cell - 3 day embryo), fingers crossed this one sticks.
7/19 - Beta was 74. BFP!!!!; 7/21 - Beta was 182; 1st U/S on 8/2; 2nd U/S on 8/16
We're not doing any formal photography--I didn't realize it was so normal! It literally isn't something that had crossed my mind! I'm learning so much in this thread about all the different types.
So we are very lucky in that my FIL is very well versed in laying hardwoods - he and my hubs put in hardwoods in the nursery this weekend! They are BEAUTIFUL. Planning on getting a sheepskin rug for playtime. They are putting the same hardwoods in the guestroom next week, so I still am unable to set up nursery since we'll have to move all the furniture into the nusery while they lay the floors... but I'll survive! Can't wait until everything starts coming together!
QOTW: undecided! My lack of decision making will probably result in no maternity pictures lol. Apparently our photog from our wedding will do them for free though - so maybe that will get me motivated! Probably will wait until I'm around 30 weeks (Currently 25+2). I have a photog friend that has offered to do newborn photos, so I will most likely take her up on that offer!
Me: 28 DH: 33, Married May 2014
3 failed IUIs Dec '15 - Feb '16
IVF April/May 2016 - 1 failed fresh transfer. 11 snow angels.
Lawson arrived on 4/24/2017 at 7lbs 15oz, 21 1/2 inches long!
Surprise pregnancy!! Baby #2 due 10/11/18
Me - 28, Lean PCOS
DH - 31
Married June 2010, TTC since March 2014
Blog: ourbinarystar.com
FET cycle #3 Transfer July 28th 2016, Triplets born healthy on February 26th 2017 at 33w1d!
QOTW: as of right now nothing planned prebaby but I would definitely love to do some kind of newborn shots. Either myself or professionally.
https://www.target.com/p/stork-craft-hillcrest-fixed-side-4-in-1-convertible-crib/-/A-21553351
The price is right (I'm actually ordering through Amazon because it's cheaper), it has good ratings, and it converts to a toddler bed. I'm still deciding between white and gray. It's a no frills crib, but I'm a no frills kinda gal! I'm still in search of a dresser that I can throw the changing pad on top of. I'm looking for something used that I can paint to match the crib but no such luck yet.
@babylonghorn16 How exciting! I bet the floors will be beautiful. Hubs is re-sanding ours in the next week or two and then staining them thereafter. Then I can really get in there and set everything up.
Past Treatment: Clomid + Metformin x 3 BFN
Letrozole 5 mg + Trigger shot + IUI = BFP!
Beta confirmed 8/22
EDD 5/1/17
I will be doing a maternity photo shoot either in late April or sometime in may. I'd also like to do a mini photo session at the hospital too (someone other than the company they contract with). I don't care for the company the hospital uses. Their work always seems so rushed & their picture quality has gone downhill in my opinion.
I spent all weekend cleaning out our spare bedroom for the nursery. We picked out new carpet and I decided to make them quilts so I have both half done. I figured while I'm feeling good I should get it all done.
QOTW: DH and I have battled over photos since before we got pregnant. He doesn't understand why you get newborn pictures done outside of the ones in the hospital. He doesn't think its worth the money. I'm not big on pictures of me so we won't be doing maternity pictures.
**Trigger warning**
Age: 25 DH: 28 Together since 2011, Married May 2014 and TTC since April 2015
MFI (3% morphology)
3/16 - IUI with femara & ovidrel - BFN
4/16 - IUI with femara & ovidrel - BFN
6/16 IUI with femara & ovidrel - BFN
8/19/16 - IVF -
Me - 28, Lean PCOS
DH - 31
Married June 2010, TTC since March 2014
Blog: ourbinarystar.com
FET cycle #3 Transfer July 28th 2016, Triplets born healthy on February 26th 2017 at 33w1d!
Me: 34, DH: 38 ~ TTC since 2014
IUI #1-3 (Nov 2015, Feb 2016, May 2016) = BFNs
IVF ER (July 2016) = 7 PGS normal embryos
FET #1 (Sept 2016) = BFP! DD born 5/30/17
FET #2 (April 2019) = BFN
FET #3 (July 2019) = BFP! DS born 3/27/20
@wifeinraleigh28 - I am in the same boat with excitement and getting stuff done. I am a major planner so I finally feel like I can plan.
**Trigger warning**
Age: 25 DH: 28 Together since 2011, Married May 2014 and TTC since April 2015
MFI (3% morphology)
3/16 - IUI with femara & ovidrel - BFN
4/16 - IUI with femara & ovidrel - BFN
6/16 IUI with femara & ovidrel - BFN
8/19/16 - IVF -
@AandDM2014 my singleton anatomy scan was about an hour as well (she was also not being super cool operative at the time! )
Me 39 DH44
1st DE FET 5/16-BFN
2nd DE FET 7/18-BFP
8/17 Baby HR 140/min EDD 4/6/17
TTC #1 since March 2011
1 medicated TI cycle & 4 clomid IUIs = all BFNs
DS1 born 2/14
TTC #2 since December 2014
May 2015 unassisted BFP ended in m/c at 7wks
April 2016 FET #1 = BFN
June 2016 FET #2 = c/p
August 2016 FET #3 = BFP!
DS2 born 4/17
Me: 34, DH: 38 ~ TTC since 2014
IUI #1-3 (Nov 2015, Feb 2016, May 2016) = BFNs
IVF ER (July 2016) = 7 PGS normal embryos
FET #1 (Sept 2016) = BFP! DD born 5/30/17
FET #2 (April 2019) = BFN
FET #3 (July 2019) = BFP! DS born 3/27/20
**Warning - Child Mentioned**
Me: 33, DH: 39 Unexplained Infertility
4 IUIs (chlomid) in 2013 which resulted in DS born in April 2014
TTC #2 since August 2015
5 rounds of IUIs (1 chlomid: resistent, 1 femara, 3 gonal f) = all BFN
ER March 9: 26 eggs retrieved, 19 mature and 17 fertilized, 8 made it to genetic testing, 4 normal!
FET #1 5/31 = BFN
FET#2 7/26 = BFP!
If you haven't taken the glucose tolerance test yet, I didn't think it was bad at all. In fact, after fasting all night, when I tasted the cold, clear orange flavored drink I thought it was delicious! Lol And it was a small bottle. My results were just over 100 so I passed. I also got the DTaP and it's not as bad as I expected - it just felt like a bruise for a few days. I've read about bad experiences with both so I thought I'd share a positive one and I hope yours is as well.
QOTW: We're planning to do a newborn photo shoot. I am skipping the maternity shoot - we will have photos from events/parties and that is plenty.
I'll be moving over to the 3rd tri board. See you all there soon! Happy New Year!
**** Trigger warning ****
EDD March 28, 2017
Me: 34, DH: 38 ~ TTC since 2014
IUI #1-3 (Nov 2015, Feb 2016, May 2016) = BFNs
IVF ER (July 2016) = 7 PGS normal embryos
FET #1 (Sept 2016) = BFP! DD born 5/30/17
FET #2 (April 2019) = BFN
FET #3 (July 2019) = BFP! DS born 3/27/20