PAIF Check-in Week of 9/17

[codex320]

This check-in is for anyone who is pregnant (in any trimester) after struggling with infertility.

First time checking in? Congrats! We are glad to see you over here. If you’d like to be added OR updated, please TAG ME (goofynewfy) in your post and answer the following:

1. Your EDD
2. How many, if you know, beans you have cooking?
3. Boy or girl (if you know) or team green if you're not finding out?
4. What treatment got you your BFP?


For everyone else:

1. How far are you now?
2. Symptom check:
3. What and when is your next appointment?
4. Anything you’d like to share with the group?


PAIF Roster

Welcome to anyone joining us this week and congrats to our grads!


October LOs

codex320 - IVF with ICSI
Due: 10/17
Carrying: 1


November LOs

bethkate - FET#2 with ICSI + CCS
Due: 11/4
Carrying: 1(girl)


laurensc927 - FET#3 with ICSI + CCS
Due: 11/23
Carrying: 1 (team green)


December LOs


kensie5226 - IUI #2
Due: 12/1
Carrying: 1 (boy)



February LOs


@pinklantern - IUI#6
Due: 2/4
Carrying: 1(boy)



March LOs


Dogpaddle29 -FET#1 after IVF#1 with DE
Due: 3/9
Carrying: 2


longhornwino - surprise BFP on natural cycle
Due: 3/18
Carrying: ?


Rama - letrozole + ovidrel + TI
Due: 3/30
Carrying: 1(team green)

[Rama]

How far are you now? 12,3
Symptom check: On and off nausea, fatigue (still), some random mood swings
What and when is your next appointment? Next Monday, regular OB visit
Anything you’d like to share with the group? I'll probably have to go in today because of something that happened this weekend. It was pretty scary, but everything is fine. The ER just wants me to follow up.

[codex320]

Sorry this was a day late. I was packing so much yesterday and trying to help out with moving. I was exhausted. Also, I will fix the formatting.

Rama , I'm glad you are doing ok!! I hope it wasn't anything too serious.

1. How far are you now? 35w 6d
2. Symptom check: just tired.
3. What and when is your next appointment? on Wednesday for U/S, GBS test, and regular check? Don't let me forget to grab the signed forms that I need for my work! I keep forgetting them.
4. Anything you’d like to share with the group? Moving is such a pain in the butt. We (my husband and his friend) moved a bunch of stuff into storage yesterday. The next big spot to tackle is the garage. The baby stuff is still in a pile. I want to start washing things but I don't know what to do with it all. I still need to call the realtor and have them come to the house but it's a disaster right now. Too many things to do.

[Rama]

codex320, It turned out to not be serious, which was kind of a mindfuck on its own. Spoiler for trigger.

SPOILER: Click to show

Friday/Saturday around midnight, as I was getting off my computer to go to bed, blood shot out THROUGH my underwear and hit me in the foot. Went to the bathroom, passed a giant clot (like maybe 1.5" x 3.5"), but bleeding almost immediately stopped. We went into the ER per an advice nurse's instruction and they found literally nothing wrong. All my labs were great, ultrasound showed baby with a great FHR (168) and measuring at the right size. No SCH. Just...nothing. So, in a way, it was relieving, but also very, very unnerving. Certainly does nothing to help my anxiety.

[kensie5226]

1. 29, 3
2. Feeling it. really overdid it this weekend and am sore to show for it. Not going to lie pregnancy with a toddler is a whole different ball game.
3. Regular pop-in with the OB on Sept. 27.
4. Not really.....

[kensie5226]

Rama, I'm glad all is well, but I'm sorry for the scare.

[longhornwino]

1. How far are you now? 14+1 and carrying a little boy!

2. Symptom check: Nausea and fatigue. A head for the last four days. High BP now, apparently.

3. What and when is your next appointment? Last-minute appointment tomorrow to check on my BP. It got up to 140/93 today, and I have general high BP symptoms. Since I developed pre-e last time, they want to keep a close watch. I'm super nervous, honestly.

4. Anything you’d like to share with the group? So much drama with my ILs, y'all. So. Much. We told them it's a boy last Monday. Tuesday or Wednesday (I can't remember), FIL asked if we'd settled on a name. DH told him that we were pretty settled on a name (he could have been more clear, admittedly) and told him the name. Friday was my mom's birthday, and in my Facebook post to her, I included baby boy's name. FIL texted DH pissed, saying it was not okay that they learned his name from a Facebook post. Even though we'd already told him!!!! Flash forward to Sunday. We had a family birthday thing for my mom. Told the ILs we could call afterwards so they could FaceTime with O, probably early evening. They said late afternoon was best for them since there was a documentary on TV they wanted to watch (WTAF?!). 5:30 rolls around and we text to see if it's a good time. They said no, and that they felt dissed because they'd rearranged their dinner (meaning they just cooked for themselves a little later) based on them telling us to call in the later afternoon. DH wrote back and said we felt dissed, too, considering their lecture on Friday and their disrespect for our plans for the day. We never heard back. Andplusalso, the documentary started at 8:30! There were THREE HOURS we could have talked before their stupid TV show. DH is pissed. I'm enraged that they chose a TV show over their granddaughter to punish us for some perceived slight. I just can't with them.

Sorry for the word vomit. Ugh, this isn't helping my BP.

[kensie5226]

longhornwino, I'm surprised they didn't put you on medication this time around. There are so many safe BP meds. Welcome to the big sister/little brother club! Though yours will be closer in age than mine will.

[longhornwino]

Sept 19, 2017 5:47:30 GMT -6 kensie5226 said:

longhornwino , I'm surprised they didn't put you on medication this time around. There are so many safe BP meds. Welcome to the big sister/little brother club! Though yours will be closer in age than mine will.

I'm going in today and am almost certain I will leave with a prescription. BP got up to 153/98 last night, and I just feel like crap any time I stand up.

It's funny because I'm a big sister to a little brother, and so is my mom! Just carrying on the tradition haha

[codex320]

longhornwino, glad they are getting your BP under control. I hope you start feeling better!

[kensie5226]

longhornwino, aw, that's sweet. I'm a big sister to a sister so I that's all I know.

[longhornwino]

Quick update: no meds yet. The doc is hesitant to call it pregnancy-induced hypertension since I'm only 14 weeks. At first he said it could indicate underlying chronic hypertension, but my readings are always spot on. Except during pregnancy. I'm on modified bed rest until my pressures go down or my next appointment on 10/5. I'm supposed to track my readings a few times a day so we can go over them at my appointment, unless my diastolic is above 90 for multiple readings or the systolic over 150.

[Dogpaddle29]

Rama, That is very strange. So glad things are ok. I would have freaked out.
codex320, Thanks for the check in! I couldn't imagine packing and moving at 35 weeks pregnant. I would be a nervous wreck. Hang in there lady.
kensie5226, I hope you can take it easier this week.
longhornwino, Hope the BP gets under control soon. Sorry about the family drama.

1. How far are you now? 15wks 4 d
2. Symptom check: None. I actually felt great this morning and got a little work out in.
3. What and when is your next appointment? Next Tuesday just normal OB.
4. Anything you’d like to share with the group? Renoing a house and not being able to help is really hard. MH has been doing everything himself. I am very used to helping out and getting a lot of the stuff done on my own, but he wont let me hep with anything... So I just wait and feel useless. I am very much looking forward to having a usable kitchen again some time in the near future. I just keep telling myself, it will all be worth it.

[Rama]

Dogpaddle29, Oh, trust. There was no shortage of freaking. Thanks for the kind words. <3

[bethkate]

codex320, I keep forgetting my paperwork too!
Rama, I'm sorry for the scare!

[bethkate]

1. 33+3
2. Just tired and peeing a lot. Feeling pretty good.
3. I had a growth ultrasound yesterday. Next regular appointment is ne t week.
4. I'm now being seen by the MFM for all of my prenatal appointments so I can deliver at the hospital that's more equipped for high risk deliveries (due to my blood clot).

[fatpony]

1. June 6, 2018
2. Unknown, but had 2-3 mature follicles at IUI
3. We're undecided on finding out.
4. 2nd IUI, 7.5mg femara, 200k post wash sperm count. TTC since we got married in August 2014 (with a year break from July 2015-July 2016).



1. 3 weeks, 5 days
2. Symptom check: nothing
3. What and when is your next appointment? beta test tomorrow morning
4. Anything you’d like to share with the group? I'm just super excited to finally join a pregnancy checkin!