IVF Graduates thread!! - Page 89

[blueyezz4]

Originally Posted by rcr 

Blue - Did you do the interlipids after you found out your were pregnant? I am a little concerned because neither of the REs I am considering want to do them. One (my old RE) says that she can't because it is considered experimental and she would have to go through a review board at the hospital that would cost $1,500. Although I think that if I pressed her I could have Dr. Fisch order it (she mentioned that). The other one (in California) seems to not want to do it at all.

rcr - Sorry i wanted to post earlier when you first wrote about the intralipids but things have been crazy busy around here lately.  Anyways, you had your testing done for the NK cells through Sher right??  So they sent them to like Reprosource or somewhere legit??  If you have elevated numbers I would be very leary to do a transfer if they won't treat you for them, but that is my opinion. I had mine done though a allergist dr who was willing.  So my RE sent the order and he was willing to infuse them.  Maybe you could do that have Fisch send an order and find someone one else that does regular infusion do it.  I did have intralipids done when i got pregnant once a month up until 24 weeks i think it was.  No big deal at all.  I'd order it from Freedom (28$) and it would come to my house and then next day i'd take them to the allergist office and the nurse would infuse over like 3 1/2 hrs or so.  Let me know if you have any other questions.

[Tear78]

Blue, didnt you have an us today? Happily following you! We have to start getting things ready, too. Holy cow! :-)

RCR, it's so good to hear from you! You could always fly out here and go to my clinic. They're awesome and they do Intralipids and donor embryo transfers. And i think theyre a lot cheaper than many places. its called cny fertility. i don't know how realistic that is, but you were flying to Vegas so I threw it out there. Plus. Could visit!

Blue, I'm feeling pretty good, thanks for asking! I'm starting to feel like my body and brain can't quite keep up at work, and I'm clonking out with Anika pretty much nightly. I'm 31 weeks now, so I really do have (hopefully) a ways to go yet. My us is next Wednesday. I'm trying to go one day at a time and ignore my growing senioritis at work. ;-)

Ok...must go back to bed now. Love you ladies!

[blueyezz4]

Tear - No, actually it was last Friday!!  That's okay i know it is hard to remember.  I have a hard enough time remembering my own things.  LOL  There are pictures on the page before this one.  All went well thanks!!!  Hope that all goes well w/ your u/s Wed.  Keep us in the loop!!!!

Rcr - when i was looking for places that would do my intralipids i called all over and finally found that you have to find a place that does IVIG which is commonly done at an allergy/immunology office so if you can figure that one out you might have better luck.  When i talk to them you can tell them that it is simpler than doing an IVIG iv which they will like and if you can get Dr. Fisch to send the order to freedom and to them to do it that will kinda take the responsibility off of their backs which they will also like.  I'm excited for you to get things going!!!!!

Hope - how's that new baby doing and how is everyone else adjusting?? Hope things are going well!!!!!

Aura , and all others that asked - The walls went from like a celery green to a blue. I remembered to put the pic below w/ the old color on top and the new blue on the bottom.

How is everyone else doing???  I think we need some updates on how everyone is doing!!!!!!

AFM - had my OB appt yesterday w/ my first NST (non-stress test) and I passed the test (or should say the boy passed his test since they are looking at his heart rate when he moves around) and i didn't have any contractions which is good.  They only bad part was that I was in a seated kinda reclined position again and almost passed out again.  Good grief.  The girl had to lower the head of the bed/chair thing so i could lay down and get on my L side fast before I really passed out.  It took some time this time to get back to feeling normal again.  My BP was like 94/62 Ugh!!!  My OB said w/ the rest of this pregnancy to not lay/recline on my back what-so ever b/c it's only going to get worse as he gets bigger and puts more pressure on my body.  So next week when i have the test again i have to either sit or lay on my L side she said.  I was awake last night from like 3am until 6:30am b/c i just couldn't sleep for some reason and then the bean was kicking/punching away which didn't make it any easier to sleep.  Carpet came today and looks great.  Oh and my OB told me that the Ultrasound reports actually said that he is a little bigger than normal and is in the 63rd percentile.  DH was pretty big when he was born and he was a triplet and 4 weeks early and weighted 6lbs 1oz and was the biggest of the 3 of them.  So we will see.

[deborahbgkelly]

Blue- How wonderful! You must be getting excited. AFM- My nausea has dissipated quite a bit so I'm actually functioning again. Yay! The switch to Zuplenz combined with frozen lemonade seems to have done the trick. I get slightly queasy once in a while but no multiple trips to the toilet. My pup decided to do yoga with me the other day. It was pretty cute and funny.

[Tear78]

Blue, I saw those pictures! Lol. They're awesome! Seriously, lately, ive had a brain sucker sucking out all my smarts. seriously. im at meetings and im like, ok...sloooooooow dooooown. what are we talking about? please tell me other people have experienced this in pregnancy? lol. I think I got confused because I knew you had your NST yesterday and I didn't know what that was. I. Glad you guys did well! I get really woozy within a minute of lying on my back now, too. I'll be trying to help dd sleep, and I'll doze for a minute and wake up feeling panicky and short of breath and have to quickly go onto my left side. Sorry you almost passed out again! Are you still on bed rest, btw? How are you doing with that? As I drag myself through each work day I sometimes think how nice it would be to just stay in bed, but I know that I would go nuts if I really I had to do it. Thinking of you! I'm so glad to see you getting all big and round and decorating your nursery! Btw, dds room is almost the exact same blue. :-)

[hope4light]

hey all! Im posting,from my phone so can't really catch up on personals but wanted to let you all know I've been keeping up on you, late at night lol. Tf2b _ yeah, congrats!

We are doing good, adjusting well. Little guy has witching,hours in,the middle of the,night and dh has been gone since Tuesday so I'm a bit tired lately. Dd loves ds and wants to hold him all the time. Shes had a couple bouts of jealousy but shes doing,great.

[hope4light]

Dang dup posts... So I will mention that bfing is going great, and ds was back to birth weight by a week old!

[deborahbgkelly]

Tear78- Blood is going to baby not to mama, so totally normal. Also, it doesn't go away after baby is born. I hear it just gets worse and mine didn't completely go away after the boys. It definitely is magnified during pregnancy though.

[laura-belle]

RCR -- Yay, that is moving fairly quickly .

Blue -- I like the new colour! No fun on the passing out bit though--I worry about that.

Deborah -- Cute dog . Glad you are feeling better.

AFM -- I went to the Gestational Diabetes class on Tuesday. Their dietary advice sucks a lot--not a shock really, but still. The dietician told a room full of not terribly overweight pregnant women (I was probably the heaviest) not to worry about getting enough calories, then recommended eating enough carbs to keep me going for 3 days in normal circumstances. Not impressed. I have my meter and the numbers I need to meet though, so... Other than that, not much is going on here. I am feeling him move a lot more though .

[rcr]

Blue - thanks for the info about the interlipids. My local RE is going to look at my info from Fisch and see what she thinks. I don't know what to do. I think that she may do it if I press her (well, not do it herself, but I could ask Fisch to do it). But if Fisch orders it it can't be done in my state, because there is a law that only doctors in my state can write orders (I found that out when I was doing cycles in Vegas), so I would have to fly to Vegas. I guess I will just wait to see what she says. Thanks for the info.
 

[Tear78]

Knock, knock. Where is everybody? Our u/s went well and the little guy is measuring a bit ahead actually according to the u/s. hopefully everything will continue to go smoothly and we'll get our vbac. We're 32 1/2 weeks so it feels equally right around the corner and ages away. How is everybody else doing?

[shesaidboom]

Hi ladies! Sorry I've been so quiet lately. Things here have been okay. I'll be 12 weeks on Tuesday. I was put on medication for nausea and it has made a huge difference. I'm still nauseous 24/7, but am only throwing up a few times a day and can keep food down. I've also gotten a lot of my energy back! For a while I couldn't do much at all without getting completely exhausted. I've heard it's normal to feel best in the second trimester, so I'm hoping that rings true. I will be having an IPS screen on Tuesday and my GP promised me that this time we will actually get to see the baby on ultrasound and get pictures to take home. Sorry for not posting personals, I will catch up on everything I missed after hitting the submit button.

[deborahbgkelly]

Hi- I've been feeling really sick today and also have some other stuff going on, so I'll fill people in more later in the week.

[Carlyle]

Originally Posted by Tear78 

it feels equally right around the corner and ages away.

[auraleigh]

hello ladies!

blue, i LOVE the color.  it looks beautiful! how are you feeling?  i didn't realize your dh was a triplet! that is so cool!  and a huge triplet, at that.  

deborah and shesaid, sorry to hear you are both not feeling well.

tear, you're so close!!! is he head down? you'll be in labor before you know it! 

hope, so glad to hear all is well!  i'm so happy he's feeding like a champ, and how sweet is it that your dd loves him so much!  hopefully once your dh comes home you'll be able to catch up on some sleep.  

laura, did you get anything good from the class at least?  my peri wants me to do another glucose test because my last ob gave me one knowing i was on metformin.  and i guess the metformin totally negates the test results.  duh.  so glad i switched from that stupid place.  they are worthless.  i've been off of it for almost two weeks now, so once they feel it's totally out of my system i'll have to do another 1 hour test.  blech.  how are you feeling?  how has your blood sugar been? 

i had my anatomy scan on friday and all looks good.  we're having a boy and a girl!  i've already picked out names, it feels so nice to have that out of the way.  we may change our minds a million times before they come, but i have a feeling these names will stick.  our little lady is head down against my cervix (impatient like me) and is in the 34th percentile for weight.  her brother is breech and high up on my left side, and he's in the 51st percentile.  I was concerned about the 15% difference in size, but the dr said because she's a girl it probably explains why she's smaller, and he will keep an eye out, but isn't concerned.  it was really funny to watch them moving in the ultrasound, especially when they went to measure her skull and all we kept seeing were little feet kicking her in the face! i can't believe it's starting already!  heheh

[blueyezz4]

Aura - Yay!!!!!!  A   & !!  How awesome!!!  Glad everything looked good!!  Are you keeping the names quiet until they are born?  That's pretty much our plan.  I'm hanging in there, see my AFM for more details.  Hope you are feeling well.  I have to say, enjoy the 2nd tri b/c it's for sure the best time of pregnancy!!!!

Carlyle - always love seeing your name pop up around here!!!

Deborah - How many weeks are you again?  Hope all that nauseousness goes away once you hit the 2nd tri!!!  Also, hope that the PIO welts go down too.  I know i had mine for like 2 months before they finally went away, but they did.  It is crazy b/c i get progesterone shots once a wk from a home nurse and her technique is so much better than DH's (she has way more training I should say) and it hurts for a bit and then goes away that day and no welts what so ever.  She kinda pushes the skin to the side to get to the muscle and then inserts the needle all while i'm standing and i kinda lean on the leg/side I'm not getting the shot on and then really slowly injects it and then when she pulls it out she does that slow too and i think when she jabs it in there it is slower than DH was taught as well.  All of those things help. You aren't still on PIO are you?

Shesaid - sorry to hear you aren't feeling well.  Are you drinking lots of cold water and eating salty things like pretzels?  Those were my go to saviors!!  I also had to keep eating even though it sounded awful it seem to help if i could try and keep things in my stomach.  Hope your 12 u/s goes well.  Is this for a downs screening or what??

Tear - so glad to hear that he is doing well and measuring ahead!!  How funny that both of our boys are overachievers already!!!!  LOL Must mean they are going to go places in life!! Or so we can think!!!  So do they think you are just carrying differently or why are you measuring small then on the outside?  I have  a long torso so i think that is why people keep telling me that i look small.  All i can say is that clothes hide  A LOT!!!!!!!!!!  I feel huge when i look at my naked belly.

rcr - any luck w/ the intralipids??????  Just checking in on you and hoping things are going well.  Keep us updated!  You know we are all cheering for you and soooo soooo want this for you!!!!

Hope - how are things for you????  Hope all is getting into a routine at home and that he is doing well.  Who is your pediatrician by the way?  When you get some free time (who knows when that would be) you should try and fill us in on your birth story.  Would love to read how it all went down and how your labor went.  Thinking of you and hoping things are good.

Laura - hope you are doing well and having luck getting that sugar under control.... yuck but it will be worth it!!!

Kewpie - any news?  The house done yet? How are the babes?

Keria - haven't heard from you in awhile either!!  How are things?

Tenzi, Belly, Rena, Lyndi - Hope you ladies and babes all are well!!

Hi to everyone that I missed.... i'm sure I missed a few.

AFM - Can't even believe it, but today we are 30 weeks!!!!  Where has the time gone????  10 more weeks to go!  I think I can do this!!  I am realizing though that the 2nd tri was so nice.  Once I hit the 3rd tri I feel like I'm getting some of the 1st tri yucky symptoms back.  Anyone else have this???  I have found two times this week that if i over do one day (like on my feet too much and skip my 30 min cat nap) then the next day I feel like crap and have to be plastered to the couch the whole next day.  The first time it happened I was worried that I was getting the flu or something b/c i could hardly move and was so tired i just laid on the couch most of the day.  Even sitting up made me kinda feel nauseous and light headed, so i'd have to lay down again.  Then the day after spending the day on the couch chilling i felt fine and then later in the week it happened again and i knew it was my body's way of telling me to take it easy and that i must be over-doing.  So annoying b/c in the 2nd tri i felt like i had so much more energy and could keep going.  I had my 2nd NST last thurs and he was moving around like crazy during it.  The tech said she also thought he had hick-ups too which was only adding to the noise you could hear.  Oh, i wanted to let you ladies know that I spoke w/ my insurance company and they cover a breast pump, so you ladies might want to look into that.  There have been changes in healthcare and some insurance companies are now covering them, so be sure to call and ask b/c you can get one free or maybe some charge.  I was worried b/c we have  a massive co-pay and we haven't met it yet, so i thought for sure we would have to pay for it, but nope.  I have to call after he is born and they will ship it to me in a week they said.  So be sure to check into that.  Not much else going on.  Just been finding fun things to decorate the walls of the nursery and working on organizing his closet now that the carpet has aired out I can move stuff from the one bedroom closet into his.  Kinda excited.  Can't wait for the furniture to come in and then it will really seem more real. Oh and was trying to do research on a pediatrician too!!! Hope everyone is well!!!

[deborahbgkelly]

Blue- I actually have nodules that they may need to drain as a result of the PIO shots. I am not on the shots anymore and told the clinic that they need to put in my chart not to put me on them again. I am on Endometrin Suppositories, but will be starting to wean off next week. I am 9w1 day along today and they start weaning us off around 10 weeks. I have blood-work 2/1 and that determines how things will be adjusted. How exciting to be at 30 weeks! AFM- Had a ton of pain all over today and started to worry. I did some yoga (kitty joined me) and then took a really long nap. So much better!

Edited by deborahbgkelly - 1/27/13 at 6:39pm

[deborahbgkelly]

Rainbow Baby Kelly belly pic time: 9w2d

[shesaidboom]

deborah - sorry you've been feeling so sick. Love the pictures!

auraleigh - a boy and a girl!! That's so exciting. I'm glad everything looks good. How funny the little guy was kicking his sister in the face on the ultrasound!

blueyezz - yes to the cold water, but I didn't know that salty things can help. I'll have to pick something up! Thank you. The ultrasound is a screen for downs and some other trisomies. We weren't going to do it but since we didn't get to see birdie on the first ultrasound we changed our minds.
Congrats on 30 weeks! You're 3/4 done! I'm sorry some of the symptoms are coming back.

AFM - I had the nuchal scan today and DH and I finally got to see something! Birdie was sleeping for most of it, so the tech kept making me cough to wake him/her up. Then he/she was bouncing all over. It was really cute! The quality of the ultrasound and pictures are so terrible though. Much worse than any I've seen around. I don't know if it's due to quality, but birdie's head seems a funny shape to me. I hate over analyzing things, but the forehead seems huge and really curvy. They didn't say anything (I actually had two techs since one was training), but I'm a bit worried about it now. What do you think?

[auraleigh]

shesaid,  i also had a terrible quality ultrasound screen for my nuchal!  the photos we got were probably the worst quality of all the photos i've received so far.  i don't know if it has something to do with positioning?  high enough for abdominal ultrasound but not high enough for good resolution?  i wouldn't worry about the head shape, it looks fine! i was convinced one of my babies had spine issues and it was just positioning and shadows.  at the anatomy scan he looked perfect.  congrats on getting to see the baby again! it's so fun, isn't it?

blue, what's funny is i've told all of my close friends the names already.  and our family.  granted, they could always change, but for right now i think we know the names we are going with.  it feels good to have the names chosen, because it makes the babies feel more real.  sorry to hear you are feeling so exhausted!  please take it easy.  the little guy has 10 more weeks to hang out!

today i was so tired that i was really tempted to call out of work.  so tempted.  but i also know i need all the time i can to use for drs appts and babies.  my stomach is starting to feel huge.  the babies were doing something odd today, maybe twisting, and it was almost painful.  and they're still tiny!  i can't imagine what is to come.  i will say though that i am majorly in love with my snoogle pillow.  it took my insomnia away, and i toss and turn a LOT less than i used to.  and there's still room for dh on the bed!