January 2012 ladies who took a bit longer to get pregnant - Page 6

[Sweet.Bee]

I've updated the front page!

Wow, Emaya, I'm glad you're feeling well enough to eat so many different types of food. My nausea has gotten even worse this week (it feels like it kicks up a notch every Monday on cue), so no food we have looks good. About 3/4 of my food choices end up as bad ideas, either through increased nausea or intestinal discomfort. Oh, well. If I remember correctly from last time, the nausea should go away in a week or so, and then I only have to be careful not to be in a car/train/etc for too long or I'll throw up. Especially not winding mountain roads. 

I'm trying not to worry about the lack of quality food getting into me (I still can swallow my vitamin, luckily). Last time, I ate nothing but toast and cheese for 2 weeks straight because that's the only thing that would settle my stomach (sadly, this isn't helping this time), and my son still turned out great. 

[Starr]

Starr

Due Date: January 21, 2012

# of months TTC: 88 months (not that is not a typo )

First Appt: June 6th

Belly Pics: Not gonna happen until its a definite baby bump and not just belly fat =)

[Sweet.Bee]

Starr, I've added your bio. Wow, 88 months. You are a super star! Really amazing!

So, I managed to eat an actual dinner tonight. Well, if you count egg pancakes as dinner. 

[Dea]

Hi everyone!

I used to go to the TTC forums a lot with #1, but I was so lost in my own head it was hard for me.  Finally after trying so many things (ending with menopur and an IUI 3X) we had our BFP!  Then with #2, we knew the prescrition so to speak, but that still didn't work, also need a bunch of preocedures/ sugeries to get my uterus ready, and then used menopur and cyranel and an IUI for a BFP, then with this one, 3 more surgeries and menopur and femara, and BFP.

Granted this one took less time, but I totally know what it feels like to try and fail, try and fail.  It sucks.  

I'm happy that there are so many graduates from the TTC boards, sometimes I don't feel like other people in my life understand what it's like to want to be pregnant so much and have it so hard to achieve. 

[MommyMatsumoto]

OMGosh!  Congrats!!  
 

Originally Posted by Starr 

Starr

Due Date: January 21, 2012

# of months TTC: 88 months (not that is not a typo )

First Appt: June 6th

Belly Pics: Not gonna happen until its a definite baby bump and not just belly fat =)

[Emaya]

Welcome Starr and Dea! 88 months, goodness gracious. 

I'm off on a four day weekend (it's called Kristihimmelfärd here in Sweden. "Christ goes to heaven day". And we get two days off) and won't have internet access for a while. Keep eating, Sweetbee! See you all soon.

[Sweet.Bee]

Emaya, today is a holiday for us, too. It's called "Auffahrt" (ascension) here. But we don't get tomorrow off, so you're lucky. 

I'm not sure what we'll do this weekend. It's supposed to rain the whole time, and our car is in the shop, so I guess not much.

I was able to eat a bit more today, but I'm still feeling icky.

[Sweet.Bee]

How is everyone feeling?

My belly is really growing. I'm already wearing maternity bottoms occasionally, and I'm only 8 weeks. The nausea is worse in intensity, though it comes and goes throughout the day.

[MommyMatsumoto]

Well, I'm totally feeling like crap.  I only vomited once so far (2 days ago), but can only eat things like plain, dry Cheerios or tortilla chips.  I even had to take my prenatal vitamin right before bed for fear that I would be seeing it again.
 

I think I'll be wearing maternity clothes soon enough as well.  I'm 7 weeks on Wednesday and my bottoms are already tighter.  There's only 2 pairs of jeans I can wear other than cotton bottoms so I'll be pulling out the maternity bin soon.

Originally Posted by Sweet.Bee 

How is everyone feeling?

My belly is really growing. I'm already wearing maternity bottoms occasionally, and I'm only 8 weeks. The nausea is worse in intensity, though it comes and goes throughout the day.

[chilichiki]

EDD:  January 31, 2012

Birth date guess:I don't know why, but I have a feeling this is going to be a Groundhog's Day Baby!

TTC for: just over 2 years

# of children: one very excited three and a half year old son

Boy/girl guess & actual:  I have a feeling its a boy (twins-though thats just my crazy dreams) My husband and son say girl.

Next prenatal appt: June 9th can't come quick enough!

Belly pics: Not yet!!

Anything else:  We were lucky enough to conceive our son with little to no effort.  The pregnancy was very difficult.  I was diagnosed with hyperemesis, lost 30+ lbs during pregnancy, and had a PICC line for the majority of the time.  We waited until our little guy was a year and began trying again to no avail. After some back pains drove me to the doctor, I was soon diagnosed with a septated uterus and endometriosis. After many doctors visits, I had surgery to repair my lady parts as best as possible last November and we have been trying again ever since then.  The next step was to try fertility treatments (next month as a matter of fact!), which I was sure was inevitable. 

I graduated from college at the beginning of May, married my husband May 21st, and found out we were expecting on May 27th.  May treated us pretty well :o)

[Sweet.Bee]

chilichiki, I've added your bio! We got pregnant just days before we would have started all the infertility stuff at the RE, too. I hope your pregnancy goes by more smoothly this time.

Sorry about feeling icky, MommyM. I'm close to vomiting constantly, but I haven't yet. I almost threw up my prenatal this morning, but only a bit of water came out when I gagged. Last pregnancy, I had this constant nausea for a few weeks with no vomiting, then the nausea tamed down to only sometimes, and that's when the real fun began. I'd just get a whiff of something, then throw up all of a sudden. Or if I were in the car too long, we'd have to pull over so I could run out. Ugh.

[contactmaya]

Nausea set in. Feel like crap, but im happy about it i guess...

[contactmaya]

ps. congratulations chilichicki!!!

[sweetest77]

Chilichicki  congratulations!  Hope you feel better this time around...

ContactMaya and MommyM - sorry you're feeling icky!

Sweetbee - I feel like I want to put on some maternity bottoms already (I'm halfway through my 6th week!)  I'm so bloated.  I was so happy when I discovered I still had a pair of capris that were a size up from my current size (I thought I had donated them because they were too big!)  I also found two pairs of bigger size capris at the thrift store last week...

AFM - Wednesday can't come soon enough.  I need some reassurance that there is actually a baby in my belly!  I'm trying not to, but I keep imagining the worst.  I'm hoping and praying that we see a heartbeat on Wednesday.  I'm feeling tired and queasy off and on throughout the day, but not enough to reassure me (although I didn't have MS with my first two, so it's kind of silly of me to expect it this time around!)   Also, I can't stop worrying about being so old (will this baby be healthy and how will my life change if it's not).  At the same time I'm so excited to have a baby in my 40's, I truly can't think of a more amazing blessing for me and my family!   

And how's this for a strange symptom... my butt is really sore - I feel like I've taken up running again (I haven't).  It is a deep pain coming from the bones I think.  I'm also feeling ligament pain in my groin when I move around, so I'm wondering if my butt pain could be from loosening ligaments?  So weird (I don't think I had this with my first two, I'm pretty sure I would remember!)  Can't wait to ask the Dr. about it, ha!

Hope you all are doing well, thanks for letting me vent!

[chilichiki]

Thanks for the welcome!

P.S. It's soooo nice to know that I am not the only one feeling ridiculously bloated and huge this early in the pregnancy!!

On a side note, I constantly feel like I have to have a bowel movement...but its just not happening.  I am taking fiber and other stuff like that to try and help.  anyone else having this problem??

[Emaya]

Hi all! Back from our trip now. It was beautiful in the archipelago, with nothing to do on an island but grill, chill, and swim. Two weeks left of work until long summer break :) 

Welcome Chilichiki! Glad to see a new face. The pure joy of things finally working after so long trying is even sweeter shared with other women who have lived through the same thing. The problems you had in your first pregnancy PICC, hypermesis, are unfamiliar to me. What are the chances that you'd have trouble again? Hoping for the best! 

Sorry to hear that Sweetbee and Anna and contactmaya aren't feeling so well. And Sweetest and Chili are both having butt problems (in totally different ways)! It'll be interesting to hear what your Dr. says about that. Chili, no constipation here. Even after having taken the iron pills for a week that are supposed to cause it. 

I am feeling totally and utterly exhausted. More so than last time, I think. I am also ravenously hungry, and if I don't satiate my hunger immediately, I start to feel sick and faint and am almost unable to stand. i'm getting just slightly concerned about the amount of weight I will inevitably gain if I keep this up and don't have energy to exercise. Today I ate: Full-fat yogurt with bananas, nuts, raisins, and granola, juice, tea, a cheese sandwich, three bananas, two apples and two kiwis (desparate attempt to stave off hunger with something healthy), couscous salad, butter-fried cod with potatoes and dill sauce (two different lunches -- one at 10.30 and one at 1 p.m.), a chocolate ice cream cone, a small bag of almonds, half my daughter's dinner (broccoli, cauliflower, pasta, chicken), then my dinner (tomato salad, brown rice and baked tofu in a yummy sauce), and Coco Crispies for desert. It's 8 p.m. now, and if I'm going to stay up until 9:30 or so, I'll need to have another snack. I don't generally struggle with weight, but I do generally get a good amount of exercise.  Well, for now I'm just going to have to listen to what my body wants (or the hungry little critter inside my body) and see what happens.

How are you all doing on the romance front? (Obviously, too personal a question for many -- so just ignore if you like!). I'm not feeling the slightest bit romantic. I'm not sure if it's the hormones, or the energy level, or both. I also feel like I spent the last 18 months trying to keep a healthy and warm love  life going on even as I had to "force" myself to get in the mood on certain fertil days (even if I wasn't really feeling it), that maybe taking an extended breather right now is good for me to get my mojo back working properly. If things go the way they did last time, I should be back in the ring soon and dh had better watch out!

[chilichiki]

Emaya- sounds like a fantastic vacation! I'm envious.  I'm also envious that you are able to eat food and actually want it!  My stomach is on strike at the moment.  Looking at food or smelling it just turns my stomach.  My doctor has advised lots of small meals close together heavy in carbs, but as of right now I just can't handle it.  Today I have existed on a handful of crackers and seltzer water. Yuck.

Don't know if the hyperemesis will return with this pregnancy.  Apparently its unpredicatable, so we will just have to wait and see.  If i can get through the first trimester without being sick all the time, I should be in the clear. Fingers crossed!

As for romance...uck, its the farthest thing from my mind!!  My husband tries to cuddle with me every night and I end up scooting away.  I feel bad, but I am so sick to my stomach all the time the last thing I want is someone close to me. I want a clear path in case I have to book it to the bathroom.  However, when I was pregnant with our first child and the sickness had gotten mostly under control, I found I was attacking my husband everytime he entered the room! Haha...

[Sweet.Bee]

sweetest, looking forward to your update today!

chilichiki, the hormones during pregnancy are supposed to slow down digestion. I had that issue for a week or so, but it's gotten a bit better now. I guess fiber is supposed to help, but you also need to drink a lot of water.

Emaya, I think if your body wants food, then eating can't be too bad. I'm starting to feel hungrier now, but the nausea is still there, so sometimes I'm hungry but feel too icky to eat much. I even gagged on my prenatal 2 days ago, so now I have a psychological hangup about them. I gained a lot of weight last time (started out borderline normal/underweight, though), so I'm of course also worried about the gain. But I'd rather gain a little extra and have a settled tummy.  I ordered some pregnancy exercise DVDs which should come soon, so I'm hoping that will help balance any extra weight gain. Maybe you could try the same?

Regarding "romance" (tee-hee!), my poor husband has been living like a monk. I just feel too sick. I guess I'll get friskier when my nausea goes away, which I hope is soon. I'm fighting a cold right now as well, and even the slight swelling in my throat has made the nausea/gag feeling worse.

[Starr]

We had our first appt. and everything went great! I feel such a relief. The Dr. who did our ultrasound is also the one who did our IUI to get us pregnant so she took alot of time doing the ultrasound and showing us the yolk sac, heartbeat, and so on. Heartbeat was a strong 136 and there is one baby. We got pictures and everything and from here on out we can see a regular Dr. which is such a relief not to have to drive 3 hrs one way to get there. I also broke down and bought a pair of maternity jeans and they are soo comfy I wish I bought more. I had pretty good luck at Old Navy maternity. I am still nauseous but its mostly in the evenings so it doesn't affect me at work which is nice. When I lay down at night on my side it feels like my stomach is stretching and tight. Hard to explain but just really weird.

[sweetest77]

Starr - so happy to hear you got great news!

I'm leaving for my appt. in about an hour.  I was a nervous wreck yesterday... I'm doing better today.  I've been feeling nauseous and tired all morning.  It's a relief to have some symptoms again.  I'll check in this afternoon, hopefully with good news...