Due: 6 Nov 2021
November 2021 Moms
jackie_dunny
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Weekly Check-in 3/14
jackie_dunny
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I figured I’d start one of these fresh for this next week. I started them on a Sunday because we currently don’t have any prompts on our board organization for Sunday’s but let me know if anyone else wants to do it on a different day of the week!
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of:
Upcoming appointments:
How are you feeling?:
Rants/Raves:
Questions:
GTKY: what was your favourite food when you were a child?
Me: 29 | DH: 28
Due: 6 Nov 2021
Due: 6 Nov 2021
Re: Weekly Check-in 3/14
Nov 8/5+6
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a lavender bud
Upcoming appointments: 4/6
How are you feeling?: good! Boobs are hurting everyday but I don’t mind it. I feel like I had a lot of mild symptoms at first and then I stopped noticing them so much except for boobs and sense of smell so I’m glad to have something reliable lol
Rants/Raves: this week will be a hard one for me. It’s the 10 year anniversary of my dads passing on Friday and this week is just full of other anniversaries (last time I saw him, last time we spoke, etc.). This anniversary will be especially hard not only because it’s the big 10 but obviously now that I’m expecting, it’s hard not having him around for this
Questions: Does anyone else’s upper back and neck feel really sore? It doesn’t feel like a pregnancy symptom necessarily but my shoulders and neck have been really really sore for the past couple of days
GTKY: what was your favourite food when you were a child? Ooh I’m not actually sure if I had one specific favourite growing up. I was a very picky eater which is weird now because I LOVE food lol probably either Dino nuggets or hot dogs
Due: 6 Nov 2021
How are you feeling?: TIRED but my youngest still isn’t sleeping through the night so there’s that. And I keep waking up at night starving.
Rants/Raves: I’m super excited in general- looking forward to Mass later
GTKY: what was your favourite food when you were a child? Oh I loved most things ummmm probably crab or steak haha
@jackie_dunny I’m so sorry about your father. My grandma who I was incredibly close to past before I could tell her I was pregnant with my oldest. It’s so hard. I like to think she helped Pick him out though ❤️ Also- my boys love those Dino nuggets too haha
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: sweet pea
Upcoming appointments: 3/31
How are you feeling?: More or less the same. Some breast tenderness and sensitivity, some extra fatigue
Rants/Raves: Since I don't drive nearly as much as I used to, I've needed to jump start my car multiple times but what really irked me was when it had only sat for a couple days before the battery didn't have enough juice to start it. I'm NOT a car person, but luckily my FIL is and he changed the battery and did an oil change for me today! So grateful for all the time and money he saved me.
Questions: None right now.
GTKY: what was your favourite food when you were a child? Probably mac & cheese. Heck, I still love mac & cheese.
As for the sore upperback and neck... is it a muscle tension soreness or like an aching? My shoulders and back are always tight. I try to roll them out with a tennis ball when it gets really bad.
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: poppyseed
Upcoming appointments: 4/14
How are you feeling?: exhausted, nauseated, sore nips
Rants/Raves: Well, my number one pregnancy symptom has arrived, guys. My husband is officially annoying AF. Happens every time.
Questions:
GTKY: what was your favourite food when you were a child? French fries. Still up there, honestly.
@jackie_dunny I’m so sorry you’re struggling this week. I’ll be thinking about you.❤️
@doodleoodle lmao you make me laugh
Due: 6 Nov 2021
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: idk, something super tiny 😆
Upcoming appointments: labs checked this morning
How are you feeling?: pretty good. Nervous because it is all still so early. Minimal symptoms, but they are definitely there so that makes me feel a bit better
Rants/Raves: add me to the "everything my husband does annoys me right now" list. Thankfully, that usually eases up in the second tri for me.
GTKY: what was your favourite food when you were a child? Hmmm, my dad's chicken and dumplings was and still is my favorite food. We make it anytime we are missing him. ❤
@jackie_dunny I'm so sorry you are having a rough week ahead. The anniversaries are always so hard. Does the neck pain feel like stress tension? It could just be in anticipation of your week. Sending you comfort ❤
@jackie_dunny I'm sorry this is a hard week and that you don't get to share all of this with your dad. Take gentle care of yourself this week
Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: 6w4d
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: A chocolate chip
Upcoming appointments: Tomorrow!! Fingers crossed for a healthy heartbeat
How are you feeling?: Today was the first day where I have experienced nausea all day as opposed to just the evening. I'm not complaining yet but I am struggling to eat when I am nauseated even though I know it will make me feel better.
Rants/Raves: The freeze in February killed all of my shrubs. I had hoped they would start coming around but things are starting to bud and bloom and my poor shrubs are brown. I guess the upside of that is that I can re-do my little garden area with new colors.
Questions: Anyone else having a ton of vaginal discharge? I feel squishy all the time
GTKY: what was your favourite food when you were a child? Peanut butter and jelly with grape jelly and no crust... I was a simple kid
Our Journey for #1
2017 -- Discovered MFI but didn't move forward with treatment due to expense and grad school
Spring 2019 -- Started with RE and confirmed MFI
Fall 2019 -- 3 cycles of Clomid and TI, 3 BFNs, discovered hostile cervical mucus was also contributing
Spring/Summer 2020 -- 3 cycle of IUI, 3 BFNs
Nov 2020 - First IVF with 3 little frosties, had to change to freeze all due to OHSS
Feb 16, 2021 - FET #1 - BFP! Beta #1 100 Beta # 2 541 EDD 11/4/2021
@doodleoodle haha, you have a one year old right? Are you nursing still? I ask because I am (never thought I would make it past a year, yet here we are at 17 months)
@KNB1027 aw that sucks about your shrubs. I'm hoping to garden more this summer too
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Estimated Due Date/Weeks + Days: Nov 23rd-ish / 4 weeks (different calculators put the EDD between the 22nd-24th)
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: I think it was literally a speck of dust
Upcoming appointments: None yet, I'm going to call my OBGYN on Wednesday probably
How are you feeling?: Great, no symptoms other than no period yet. That's how it was with DS until I could feel him moving as the next big symptom. It freaked me out as a paranoid FTM, but now I'm hoping for the same
Rants/Raves: I'm so excited! I'm reminiscing on all of the wonders and being able to do it again. I mentioned in my intro that I didn't think this would happen this cycle and that's true. I was lazy and didn't temp (used CM instead), started temping after I thought I O'ed but then saw a dip and intense spike way later. It made our BD timing O-5, so I was gob smacked at the BFP. MH didn't believe me at first.
GTKY: what was your favourite food when you were a child? I'm loving the "international" spelling of favourite here (sorry my American is showing, I'll act cool now). I used to eat anything and everything, my favorite was probably my mom's cooking so just Caribbean food, meaning a ton of rice, beans and meats.
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: apple seed
Upcoming appointments: mid to late April
How are you feeling?: okay, 3rd pregnancy... scared. There’s a lot going on right now.
Rants/Raves: nothing much to report other than a freak blizzard here and I had to drive to work. Apparently hospitals don’t close. Haha!
Questions:
GTKY: what was your favourite food when you were a child? Oh man, Mac n cheese, grilled cheese sandwiches, quesadillas! Anything cheesy!
Due: 6 Nov 2021
Due: 6 Nov 2021
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: embryo is the size of a pea
Upcoming appointments: April 14- the wait is killing me. I seem to have a far away 1st appointment compared to everyone else.
How are you feeling?: Mostly like normal, just bloated. Everything is so tight even though I haven’t gained weight. I’m tired in and off. No morning sickness yet which worries me, but it seems it hasn’t happened to a lot of us yet. I thought I was slightly nauseous earlier, but might be imagining it.
Rants/Raves: none?
Questions:
GTKY: what was your favourite food when you were a child? Spaghettios probably. Mostly ate whatever mom made unless it was sweet potatoes, grits, or biscuits. I’m a bad southern.
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: a small bean still (or an apple seed?)
Upcoming appointments: dating u/s on 3/26
How are you feeling?: pretty crummy. I'm nauseous all day and don't sleep well at night. I just started taking some B6 to see if it will help with the nausea.
Rants/Raves: I'm happy to feel symptoms because it's reassuring but I'm like ugggggggh
Questions:
GTKY: what was your favourite food when you were a child? Xia jiao/ha gao! Steamed shrimp dumplings you get at dim sum (I grew up in Asia)
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: idk - small
Upcoming appointments: March 29
How are you feeling?: Sleep is not going great. More annoyingly, I'm nauseous all.the.time. I was just about to start researching what I can do to curb the nausea because this is getting real old, real fast. I'm just glad I'm WFH because this would be so much worse to deal with in the office. I was only nauseous for a day here or there with DD and only ever threw up once, so this is new territory for me.
Rants/Raves: No food sounds good except for carbs. Don't get me wrong - I love me some bread, pasta and potatoes, but I feel I should be getting a bit more nutrition than that lol
Questions: Nope
GTKY: what was your favourite food when you were a child? Mac & Cheese. Honestly, it probably still is one of my favorite foods (and one of the few that actually sounds good to me right now).
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: pea
Upcoming appointments: April
How are you feeling?: Not having much in the way of symptoms but I've been having a hard time focusing lately.
Rants/Raves: Been having some rough nights with my 2-year-old and I don't think it's related to teething (and it started before DST). Hoping to be through this phase soon!
Questions: No
GTKY: what was your favourite food when you were a child? My mom's homemade lasagna
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Appleseed
Upcoming appointments: next Thursday for another US
How are you feeling?: The all day nausea has begun and I’m still tired all the time. I had some bleeding but seems that everything it good for now.
Rants/Raves: Daylight Savings Time was invented to torture parents of toddlers. Also my son just said “I wish I was a better listener.” Me too, bub, me too...
Questions: Anyone else getting unreasonably upset at work at stupid things people do? I yelled at one of the House Supervisors and she was so upset because I never get mad (it wasn’t her fault, she was giving me some bad news). I totally apologized and told her I was super early pregnant because I think she was going to cry 🤦🏻♀️. I need to reign in these hormones I guess.
GTKY: what was your favourite food when you were a child? Chicken nuggets and mashed potatoes with gravy. Also birthday cake.
ETA: Store bought white cake sounds so freaking good right now. Thanks @artsiefartsie and @mkp0903 hahaha!
Me 35, DH 37
Unexplained infertility and TTC since December 2014
February 2016 - May 2016: 3 IUI's -- all BFN
August 2016: IVF #1 (Lupron, Gonal F and Menopur) -- 12 retrieved, 9 fertilized, 3 frozen and 1 x day 5 hatching blast transferred -- BFN. Sent remaining 3 embryos for PGS testing -- 2 didn't survive thaw, 1 was abnormal.
February 2017: IVF #2 (Gonal F, Menopur, and Ganirelix) -- 12 retrieved, 6 fertilized, 3 sent for PGS testing and all were abnormal
March 2018: IVF #3 (Menopur, Follistim, Ganirelix and HGH) -- 14 retrieved, 12 fertilized, 4 sent for PGS testing, and 3 were PGS normal
May 2018: FET #1 -- BFN
August 2018: FET #2 -- BFP!!! healthy baby girl born May 2019!!
July 2020: FET #3 -- embyro did not survive thaw
September 2020 - IVF #4 (Menopur, Follistim, Ganirelix and HGH) -- 1 PGS normal
October 2020 - FET #4 -- BFN
January 2021 - IVF #5 (Menopur, Follistim, Ganirelix and HGH) -- 2 PGS normal
February 2021 - FET #5 - BFP!!! Due 11/6/2021
Our Journey for #1
2017 -- Discovered MFI but didn't move forward with treatment due to expense and grad school
Spring 2019 -- Started with RE and confirmed MFI
Fall 2019 -- 3 cycles of Clomid and TI, 3 BFNs, discovered hostile cervical mucus was also contributing
Spring/Summer 2020 -- 3 cycle of IUI, 3 BFNs
Nov 2020 - First IVF with 3 little frosties, had to change to freeze all due to OHSS
Feb 16, 2021 - FET #1 - BFP! Beta #1 100 Beta # 2 541 EDD 11/4/2021
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: I have no idea haha. Tiny.
Upcoming appointments: none yet
How are you feeling?: tired. Lol.
Rants/Raves: my H is taking me for a birthday get away without the kids. I’m so excited. RANT- TW—— my BFF was due four weeks ahead of me and just found out she’s having a miscarriage 💔. End TW
Questions: nope
GTKY: what was your favourite food when you were a child? Vegetable beef soup lol
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Blueberry
Upcoming appointments: Finally booked one for March 31. I've been kind of hesitant to go all in on this because of a previous mmc
How are you feeling?: Nauseated and soooooo tired
Rants/Raves: Need to eat because nauseated; cannot eat because making food makes me nauseated.
GTKY: what was your favourite food when you were a child? Steak! Unequivocally. I can't believe my parents could ever afford to take me out to eat.
Due: 6 Nov 2021
Our Journey for #1
2017 -- Discovered MFI but didn't move forward with treatment due to expense and grad school
Spring 2019 -- Started with RE and confirmed MFI
Fall 2019 -- 3 cycles of Clomid and TI, 3 BFNs, discovered hostile cervical mucus was also contributing
Spring/Summer 2020 -- 3 cycle of IUI, 3 BFNs
Nov 2020 - First IVF with 3 little frosties, had to change to freeze all due to OHSS
Feb 16, 2021 - FET #1 - BFP! Beta #1 100 Beta # 2 541 EDD 11/4/2021
Interesting Baby Fact/Baby is the size of: Appleseed
Upcoming appointments: had one this morning... there are officially 2 babies in there! It was surreal seeing her label them baby A and baby B
How are you feeling?: still in shock with the whole twins thing. Even after a week, it still hasn't completely sunk in, but I'm not sure if it will until they're here.
Nausea hit this week which I didn't have with my previous 2 pregnancies so that's throwing me for a loop but my RE suggested trying B6 and unisom so we'll see if that helps.
Questions: any nausea suggestions, throw them my way
GTKY: what was your favourite food when you were a child? Mac n cheese and still is! Any time we go to a restaurant and my husband sees it on the menu, he makes a comment that he knows what I'll be ordering haha