Also! Feel free to post pics of nurseries and bumps.
Calling!!!
@cashewchicken EDD 8/8
@businesswife EDD 8/21
@31magnolia EDD 9/8 (Girl)
@artemis618 EDD 9/2 (Boy)
@mtpbadger EDD 11/13
@vetgirl2011 EDD 11/17
@omarismyhomeboy EDD 12/24
@the_road_to_oz EDD 12/31
@laurelew EDD 3/4
@Kimbrlyg814 EDD 3/4
madasm0530 EDD 4/3
lucyb1954 EDD ???
Re: All trimester - Check in - August 24
I have appointments on Wednesday for a repeat Covid test (JOY!) as well as MW and chiro...
@Kimbrlyg814 Congrats on finding out the gender tonight!
@BusinessWife Thinking of you!
Sharing my pregnancy announcement as a spoiler. I'm not on social media but I still wanted to come up with something cute. I've been texting and e-mailing everyone the news.
Clearly I forgot to change the question of the week. Duh.
@lauralew Super cute announcement! I admit I've generally been to chicken to tell anyone each time until I was showing and they saw me in person. Which is silly because there's no reason you shouldn't celebrate your pregnancy every day!
AFM...
Married 6/18/16 (Me 42, DH 44), TTC #2
***TW***
As of 12/2016: AMH 1.42, FSH 6.1, AFC ~10
Self-benched Nov-Dec 2016 for
IVF #1 Jan-Feb 2017 (OCP, testosterone primed antagonist w/HGH - ER 2/2/17 - 12R, 7M ICSI'd, 3F, 0B)
IVF #2 Mar-Apr 2017 (testosterone primed agonist/luteal lupron w/HGH - ER 4/8/17 - 10R, 8M, 8F, 5B, 1 PGS normal)
IVF #3 May-Jun 2017 (testosterone primed agonist/luteal lupron w/HGH - ER 6/4/17 - 14R, 5F, 3B, 0 normal)
**New RE**
IVF #4 Sept 2017 (natural start microdose lupron flare w/HGH - ER 9/28/17 - 33R, 18F, 10B, 4 PGS normals!)
FET #1 (medicated) of one PGS normal 4AA XX 11/2/17 - Beta #1 11/11/17 (153), Beta #2 11/13/17 (324), mc at 5w1d on 11/19/17
IVF #5 Dec 2017 - Insemination of 9 frozen eggs from 2012 (8F, 1B, 0 normal)
Jan 2018 - Natural cycle ERA (normal/receptive) & stimming for
IVF #6 Jan-Feb 2018 (natural start microdose lupron flare w/HGH - ER 2/3/18 - 17R, 6M, 4F, 0 blasts)
IVF #7 Feb 2018 (natural start microdose lupron flare w/HGH - ER 2/26/18 - 19R, 9M, 9F, 4B, 2 PGS normals)
FET #2 Apr 2018 (natural cycle w/o trigger, w/P4 support) of one PGS normal 4AA- XX 4/5/18 - Beta #1 4/14/18 (67), Beta #2 4/16/18 (231)
Rainbow baby girl born 12/16/2018 (via c-section, induced at 39 weeks)
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TFAS!
FET #3 Dec 2019 (natural cycle w/o trigger, w/P4 support) of one PGS normal 3BB XY 12/16/19 - Beta #1 12/24/19 (139), Beta #2 12/27/19 (482)
@artemis618 Best of luck tomorrow!
@mtpbadger It sounds like you are having a nice productive week this week.
@Kimbrlyg814 How did everything go yesterday with finding out the gender?
@laurelew it went good!! I was shocked but am so excited! We are having a BOY! I could have sworn it was a girl! But in the last 4 years we’ve been trying to start our family, I’ve always wanted a boy and wanted a boy as our first child and he is coming! 💙
@Kimbrlyg814 - Congrats on the baby being a boy!!! We thought this one was a boy and it also turned out to be the opposite.
@mtpbadger - I'm the same way. Big singer and dancer/shoulder mover, but for me it actually keeps me focused on whatever I need to do. I guess it allows me to get out of my brain. And awwwwwwww to DD feeling the baby kick. That is so precious!
I suppose I should pack my hospital bag...
Married 6/18/16 (Me 42, DH 44), TTC #2
***TW***
As of 12/2016: AMH 1.42, FSH 6.1, AFC ~10
Self-benched Nov-Dec 2016 for
IVF #1 Jan-Feb 2017 (OCP, testosterone primed antagonist w/HGH - ER 2/2/17 - 12R, 7M ICSI'd, 3F, 0B)
IVF #2 Mar-Apr 2017 (testosterone primed agonist/luteal lupron w/HGH - ER 4/8/17 - 10R, 8M, 8F, 5B, 1 PGS normal)
IVF #3 May-Jun 2017 (testosterone primed agonist/luteal lupron w/HGH - ER 6/4/17 - 14R, 5F, 3B, 0 normal)
**New RE**
IVF #4 Sept 2017 (natural start microdose lupron flare w/HGH - ER 9/28/17 - 33R, 18F, 10B, 4 PGS normals!)
FET #1 (medicated) of one PGS normal 4AA XX 11/2/17 - Beta #1 11/11/17 (153), Beta #2 11/13/17 (324), mc at 5w1d on 11/19/17
IVF #5 Dec 2017 - Insemination of 9 frozen eggs from 2012 (8F, 1B, 0 normal)
Jan 2018 - Natural cycle ERA (normal/receptive) & stimming for
IVF #6 Jan-Feb 2018 (natural start microdose lupron flare w/HGH - ER 2/3/18 - 17R, 6M, 4F, 0 blasts)
IVF #7 Feb 2018 (natural start microdose lupron flare w/HGH - ER 2/26/18 - 19R, 9M, 9F, 4B, 2 PGS normals)
FET #2 Apr 2018 (natural cycle w/o trigger, w/P4 support) of one PGS normal 4AA- XX 4/5/18 - Beta #1 4/14/18 (67), Beta #2 4/16/18 (231)
Rainbow baby girl born 12/16/2018 (via c-section, induced at 39 weeks)
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TFAS!
FET #3 Dec 2019 (natural cycle w/o trigger, w/P4 support) of one PGS normal 3BB XY 12/16/19 - Beta #1 12/24/19 (139), Beta #2 12/27/19 (482)
And yes, you need to pack your hospital bag. Lol. My SO and sis have been on my case to pack mine and I have a week. Wishing you all the best tomorrow. Please update us when you can!
hitched 5/2009 -- Me 34, DH 39
TTC #1:
dx with POCS 7/2009
TTC on & off since 1/2012
September 2012; Surprise BFP - MC
June - December 2013; Clomid/Femara + Trigger + TI = BFN x 4
April - May 2016; Femara + TI = BFN x 2
July 2016 - December 2016; Gonal-F + Ovidren + IUI = BFN x 3
May 2018 - IVF #1; 8 snowbabies. transferred 1 embryo - CP
August 2018 - FET #1 -- Healthy Baby Boy
TTC #2:
July 2020 FET; beta 1 310, beta 2 1278
- How far along/EDD? 11wk1d, EDD 3/17/21
- How are you feeling this week? Doing okay! I have had two days this week where I felt like a vaguely normal person (at least as far as nausea is concerned) and I'm grateful. The nonstop nausea was killing me. Now just to rid myself of the insomnia...Also, I don't know how people convince themselves to do this more than once!
- Rants/Raves? Questions? When did folks feel comfortable publicly announcing?
- Any upcoming appointments? Not until 14 weeks!
- GTKY: What's the one movie you've seen so many times you can't remember how many times you've seen it? If movies isn't your thing, what song makes you want to get up and dance every time you hear it? Oooh, love me some Stevie Wonder...Superstition for sure gets me up.
So grateful for other AMA people on here! In Utah, people start having babies at 20 (or earlier). I feel old! I used to live in NYC and I feel like I would feel so normal if I lived there still.@the_road_to_oz Ugggg, I am SO sorry. My nausea has been crap, but you sound like you've just had a rough rough go of it.
@laurelew Awwwww, what a cute announcement! Love it!
I finally told my family last weekend, and the news spread like wildfire. I might as well have put it on social media! Oh well. There's some people I had wanted to tell myself (I have an aunt who experienced infertility) which is frustrating, but I also know they're happy for me. My OB is awesome and let me come in for an extra ultrasound yesterday -- I was feeling nervous after stopping all the PIO and feeling like the nausea was subsiding, but lil girl was jumping around like a bean! All was well! Counting down the days until 12 weeks!
And it's a...
<div class="Spoiler">GIRL!!! 💖💗💖💗💖💗💖💗💖💗💖💗💖
<img alt="" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/5020794/uploads/editor/lb/cdfp9fjlezgb.gif">
Delivered via successful VBAC at that! 🎉 True testament to, "different baby, different labor," as it was a completely different experience from mine with DD, and took us all a bit by surprise! But mom and baby are all doing well, and we couldn't be happier or more grateful! ☺️</div>
@lucyb1954 Once I started telling people this week it got a little easier. I was really nervous going into sharing our announcement. My dad and sister have known since day 1. A few of my aunts and uncles knew through my dad beforehand because they would ask him for updates and he was like, I can't lie to anyone. So he would tell them and then swear them to secrecy. To their credit, no one let on to me that they knew before this week, lol. I'm sorry that you weren't able to tell the few people you wanted to share the news with personally. I have a colleague who has also been going through her own AMH struggles who I reached out to last Friday to give her a heads up. Since I didn't post on social media, she might not have found out otherwise but I still wanted her to hear the new from me first. Sadly she told me I was the third pregnancy announcement she had heard of that week. I know that feeling only too well.
***TW*** *Birth stuff*
<div class=" Spoiler">First, I was just overjoyed I had delivered my baby!!! Then, since I was the one holding her, I had to check under the cord and ended up being the one to tell DH it was a girl! Lol so you never can tell how it's going to go in the moment! ☺️</div>
I think I'd mentioned that I just went for the scheduled repeat c-section option and I'm really happy with that decision. Baby boy was almost two full lbs heavier than DD (6lbs 11 oz) at 8 lbs 10.5 oz! We expected bigger, but not 86th percentile bigger. Of course it was really nice not to have to go through all of the induction and labor business (which sounds even less fun with a mask on if applicable - although I think all the mamas have to get COVID tests), I got to schedule with my own doctor who "fixed" my incision because he wasn't satisfied with what the on call OB had done with it last time (even the nurse called his work "beautiful" haha), and I got a competent anesthesiologist (except that I got super nauseous despite getting Zofran with it after it wore off and puked a couple of times yesterday afternoon - then was zonked on Benadryl - and they also gave me some other anti-nausea medication), but I'm awake now and was able to keep food down late yesterday afternoon . We're still working on latching consistency (he's a chomper), but seems to be a good eater so far
Married 6/18/16 (Me 42, DH 44), TTC #2
***TW***
As of 12/2016: AMH 1.42, FSH 6.1, AFC ~10
Self-benched Nov-Dec 2016 for
IVF #1 Jan-Feb 2017 (OCP, testosterone primed antagonist w/HGH - ER 2/2/17 - 12R, 7M ICSI'd, 3F, 0B)
IVF #2 Mar-Apr 2017 (testosterone primed agonist/luteal lupron w/HGH - ER 4/8/17 - 10R, 8M, 8F, 5B, 1 PGS normal)
IVF #3 May-Jun 2017 (testosterone primed agonist/luteal lupron w/HGH - ER 6/4/17 - 14R, 5F, 3B, 0 normal)
**New RE**
IVF #4 Sept 2017 (natural start microdose lupron flare w/HGH - ER 9/28/17 - 33R, 18F, 10B, 4 PGS normals!)
FET #1 (medicated) of one PGS normal 4AA XX 11/2/17 - Beta #1 11/11/17 (153), Beta #2 11/13/17 (324), mc at 5w1d on 11/19/17
IVF #5 Dec 2017 - Insemination of 9 frozen eggs from 2012 (8F, 1B, 0 normal)
Jan 2018 - Natural cycle ERA (normal/receptive) & stimming for
IVF #6 Jan-Feb 2018 (natural start microdose lupron flare w/HGH - ER 2/3/18 - 17R, 6M, 4F, 0 blasts)
IVF #7 Feb 2018 (natural start microdose lupron flare w/HGH - ER 2/26/18 - 19R, 9M, 9F, 4B, 2 PGS normals)
FET #2 Apr 2018 (natural cycle w/o trigger, w/P4 support) of one PGS normal 4AA- XX 4/5/18 - Beta #1 4/14/18 (67), Beta #2 4/16/18 (231)
Rainbow baby girl born 12/16/2018 (via c-section, induced at 39 weeks)
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TFAS!
FET #3 Dec 2019 (natural cycle w/o trigger, w/P4 support) of one PGS normal 3BB XY 12/16/19 - Beta #1 12/24/19 (139), Beta #2 12/27/19 (482)
@artemis618 - Congratulations!!! That’s wonderful you that you got to pick your surgeon!
@Kimbrlyg814 Finding our the gender is so exciting! Congrats on having a boy!!
@31magnolia You are so close! I’m so excited for you. I’m starting to get a little nervous now that I’ve made it to 3rd trimester.
@mtpbadger It’s so cute that your DD was able to feel the baby. Is she super excited about being a big sister?
@lucyb1954 We told our parents after the first ultrasound, but didn’t tell anyone else until second trimester. (I did have to tell work early) You can definitely add me to the AMA group. I’m trying to look for a pediatrician and no one can give me advice because their kids are all teens!
@madasm0530 Sorry about the nausea. It is really not fun,but hopefully it gets better soon!
AFM
@31magnolia. I was in early labor throughout the day Wednesday, but nothing too sensational. But that evening we decided to start timing things. They felt strong, but a bit varied in length, some being very close together (like 2-3min) but short, and others lasting a minute or more. So we decided to go upstairs and lie down to get some rest... Sure enough, a couple strong contractions happened while lying down, and next thing I knew, it was a pop and a couple gushes as my water broke! It all escalated pretty quickly from there, and baby was born in just under 12 hours lol
@artemis618 Congrats to you too! You got yourself a big baby there, kudos on choosing the c! Also so glad to hear that you and babe are healthy. TBH, lately I have been hearing from some friends that their birth experience didn't go as they wanted...and all I keep thinking is you and baby are healthy!!! What more can you ask for???
Anyways lots of to you ladies in these early days!
@vetgirl2011 Oh yasss thank god for some more AMA folks! Need it in my life right now. Esp since I have to go see maternal fetal medicine for a check up. I keep my regular OB but she sends all her over 35 patients to MFM for a check in to be safe. I appreciate it but still makes me feel kinda old. I am not sure when to tell work. I hit twelve weeks next Wednesday (anxiously counting down the days) but I swear I'm so anxious about things still I won't tell them til it's hard to hide it! I have a 14 week US, maybe I will tell them after that. It def has been hard to hide so far, just because the nausea is so awful. I still WFH but some days I barely get any work in and feigning migraines etc is only getting me so far.
@31magnolia How you feeling??? I can't believe you are coming up this week! Any thoughts on birth method? Other than not being that into either option lol! It's hard for me to imagine right now, I'm just so focused on getting through the nausea. After a good couple of days this week, yesterday evening and today have been difficult and with all the emotions hanging around I feel seriously mopey about not feeling like myself and not being able to do the things I used to. Plus as I mentioned, the hot flashes have been getting to me blargh it all!
@laurelew I told a friend at work that I was pregnant because I wanted to reach out to her before we announced. She also has had her own IF struggles -- I think it was a little bit less of a trigger for her because she knew we moved on to DE and she seemed genuinely happy for me. We're both on social media so I did want to make sure and break the news to her beforehand. But I know she's anxious to be out of the IF waiting game...she's in a same sex relationship so it's doubly hard on her that they can't even try every month and have to purchase sperm every time. I think we will likely start telling people between 12-14 weeks. I don't know if I'll ever really feel safe telling folks until I have a baby in my arms, lol!
That reminds me of one of my nieces haha. I don't know how my sister explained that she was going to have a new cousin to her, but she somehow ended up thinking that my husband and I were each going to have babies (two babies) and we had to break the news to her that it would be just one baby to share haha. I'm not sure how we would have explained twins...too confusing probably.
Summer 2015 - no BFP yet, labs normal, referred to RE
Fall 2015 - Summer 2016 - Further testing all normal. 3 IUI's -- BFN. Recommended move to IVF. Planned cycle for fall 2016.
September 2016 - Surprise natural BFP. MMC @ 8 weeks. RE expressed confidence that we just needed the 'right' embryo.
Fall 2016 - Spring 2017 -- Break from TTC
June 2017 - Started IVF; egg retrieval for freeze all cycle. 9 mature eggs retrieved, 5 fertilized. 2 4BB embies on ice.
August 2017 - FET transfer both embies. BFP. Twin pregnancy confirmed by ultrasound. EDD 4/28/18
September 2017 - Twin B stopped developing; Twin A doing perfectly! Graduated from RE @ 10 weeks
March 2018 - Baby Girl born via C/S due to pre-eclampsia -- strong and healthy!
TTC #2
January/Feb 2021 - Freeze-all IVF cycle
March 2021 - FET of 1 PGS normal female embryo. BFP! Beta #1 156, #2 472, #3 1241, #4 5268 EDD 12/5/21 - Christmas baby!
"When all is lost then all is found."
QUESTION: those who've gone through this before, what do contractions feel like?
@lucyb1954 - haha. I'm going in with the mindset of vaginal, unless they tell me no. Right now, I'm wondering if i'll make it to my scheduled Wednesday date! Oh, and I told my mom and sis the day the pregnancy stick was positive. I told two very close friends who were there for me during the journey the day the beta came back really high. I told all other family at 13 weeks (after NIPT and hitting the 2nd trimester). Work ppl found out at week 30. Lol. I was able to wait so late since no one is going to the office.
@vetgirl2011 - Thank you!!! I definitely wished I had started the nesting phase before 38 weeks!! Lol. Now I'm scrambling to get everything done.