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PCP/TTC/ATP
Its wednesday! Any updates or general ramblings to share?
QOTD: Vaccinations. Thoughts? For/Against? Other?
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Re: PCP/TTC/ATP
Well, this weekend is huge for us on two counts. First is that we'll have completed our foster training class! We'll be licensed and just waiting for that first call!! SO exciting.
Second is that we'll likely have our first insem(s)!! Another so exciting
And I feel great about it because last night we came up with a plan for the number of IUIs we'll do. If we get the smiley on Saturday, we'll have to stick with just one insem (on sunday). However, if we get the smiley on Sunday, we'll do two (one sunday, one monday). I really like this plan b/c it takes advantage of the weekend. In future months, if O doesnt happen around the weekend, we wont be able to make two trips up to Boston during the week.
Sam, am I correct in remembering that if the kit changes on the weekend we call on the day we want to do the IUI? And we call after 9am? (yes, this is me obsessing over the details! lol)
QOTD: we havent decided and I selfishly want to hear your answers
The thing is, i know there are a number of harmful things in vaccines that I certainly dont want to put into my child. However, if we didnt vaccinate and heaven forbid they got very sick from something preventable, i'd never forgive myself. Also, do public school require a record of vaccinations? How do parents who opt out get around that? hmmm, definitely something i need to do a lot more research on...
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We have a Drs appointment on Monday. My Dr is on vacation so I will be seeing another one but that is ok since i need to see them all since any one of the 5 could deliver me.
The baby is moving around more and more. He/she seems to be most active between 4 and 6 pm. I am pretty tired this week and need to get into bed earlier. Progress reports are due friday so that seems unlikely though.
My stroller is on a ups truck to be dellivered today! I am very excited. There was a great sale online that we couldn't pass it up. It was 50% off and we just had to bight the bullet. We also registered this past weekend and picked out a paint color (thanks Brit we took the paint samples to baby depot for a comparison).
I am a pro vaccine person. I think the risks of getting the diseases outway the risks of the vaccines. As a teacher I see many kids on the autisim spectrum and I think a lot of the increase in cases is due to an increase in diagnosis not an increase in the disorder itself. Also the diseases the vaccinces prevent are on the rise due to children not getting vaccinated. I got whooping cough a few years ago and let me tell you I understand why they don't want kids to get it. I was so sick I had to go home to my parents house so that they could take care of me and was out of school for 2 weeks. After I got it I thought they really should have a booster for that and a year later they started giving one! I of course had my own booster of sorts...thanks kids!
Elise - I'm so excited for you and A!!! Finishing foster classes and an insem - holy cow!!!
My update: It's CD1 of my first month tracking
I've decided to temp for the first month - I just like the idea of getting reassurance that I am in fact ovulating. I'll probably only do it for a month or two since it's such a PITA. I've been obsessing over OPKs, which ones to buy and the logistics of using them. I know with Clearblue Easy, you can test first thing in the morning, but if I do that, I'm going to want to be testing again in the afternoon in case I surge late in the day - I don't want to miss it! And then it gets tricky because I drink a lot of water all day at work, and therefore pee a lot! So I'm actually keeping track all this week at work of how much water I drink and how I often I go to the ladies room! I need to figure out when I'll be most likely to be able to hold it for 4 hours! And then I'm worrying about drinking too much water because they say that can affect your test results...! All this stress and we're not even really ttc yet! So I'm just trying to relax and take this month at comes - see what happends. Luckily I've got three test months to figure it all out before we start in August.
QOTD: I'm for vaccines, but leery of the aggressive schedule. I also think more research needs to be done to make sure that components of the vaccines don't potentially cause harm. But vaccines are one of the great medical advances of all time, and they save children from deadly diseases - that I can't argue with.
sahm ~ toddler breastfeeder ~ cloth diaperer ~ baby wearer
Updates: I took my last dose of clomid last night and I must say that (knock on wood) I've had very minor, if any, side effects. I've had head aches when I first wake up but that's about it. Friday I go in for my CD10 appt. If everything looks good we'll trigger and have the IUI over the weekend. Or if the follies need more time to grow, early next week. I'm wayyyyy to excited about this first cycle - the let down in going to be huge. But I only get to experience the first cycle once so I'm going to enjoy it :-)
QOTD: I'm pro-vaccine, but K is more hesitant. Ditto Mrs.F.
I think we called the morning of at about 8. I have to ask S. You are calling the service and the midwife oncall for iui will call you back. I think you need to call by 8. Good luck. It would be cool if you got to do you first iui on Monther's day!
I'm right there with you. I'm so excited, that i'm worried about how excited i am - crazy right?
eh, what can you do? hopefully neither of us will have to worry about any let down!
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glad i asked! thanks
and yes, it would be really cool if we got to do our IUI on mother's day. even cooler if our child was concieved on that day!
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provaccine, and pro spreading them out as much as is reasonable.
nothing new here. we're trying to decide when the earliest we can realistically do this is...
sahm ~ toddler breastfeeder ~ cloth diaperer ~ baby wearer
QOTD: I have to talk this out with Trav a bit, but I'd like to do a delayed vaccine schedule. I'm definitely not going to not vaccinate my kids, that just seems irresponsible and unfair to those that will interact with your child. But I think delaying the typical vaccination schedule to give only one aluminum-containing vaccine at a time, and only one live-virus vaccine at a time is a great way to get the benefits of vaccination without overwhelming your baby.
Ex: Dr. Sear's Alternative Vaccine Schedule
2 months: DTaP, Rotavirus
3 months*: Pc, HIB
4 months: DTaP, Rotavirus
5 months*: Pc, HIB
6 months: DTaP, Rotavirus
7 months*: Pc, HIB
9 months: Polio
12 months: Mumps, Polio
15 months: Pc, HIB
18 months: DTaP, Chickenpox
2 years: Rubella, Polio
2 1/2 years*: Hep B, Hep A (start Hep B at birth if any close relatives or caregivers have Hep
3 years: Hep B, Measles
3 1/2 years*: Hep B, Hep A
4 years: DTaP, Polio
5 years: MMR
6 years: Chickenpox
12 years: Tdap, HPV
12 years, 2 months*: HPV
13 years: HPV, Meningococcal (once Meningococcal vaccine is approved for age 2, Dr. Sears will move it there and delay Hep B by 6 months)
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Update: Our nanny (of almost 3 years) is moving away to be near her new boyfriend. We are devastated and scrambling since we'd already worked out our preschool/nanny schedule for next year. Now we are having to rethink our preschool choice (we weren't crazy about it, but our nanny (a certified Montessori teacher) was going to work with them at home and they were just going to preschool for socialization. Now we don't know what we'll do. All preschool applications were due in Jan and decisions were made in March! We don't want to do full day preschool/day care at this point (too much culture shock at once.) Who knows how it'll shake out. We know it will be fine - but right now we can't stop crying when we think about it (we are all really attached to our nanny - she is like family.)
Re: immunizations. We went ahead with the reccomended schedule. I work in a pediatric clinic and there was no way I wasn't going to not immunize at all. Of course, I was nervous their entire 2nd year and looking like a hawk for signs of autism - thankfully, I think we are in the clear. But I do have 2 friends who have sons on the spectrum.
2brides-- That is awful that your nanny is moving away! I hope you all do okay with the transition... I can imagine it will be difficult.
Update: We are in the last week of our first tww. I can affirm that it is hard to not get excited about the first round-- we'd more-or-less given ourselves over to the excitement last week/early this week. Things have been a little more mellow since we got the low progesterone news and (simultaneously) most of my budding symptoms seemed to go away. Sigh. But we are looking forward to finding out the result at the end of this tww.
Last night I took an hpt just to see if the trigger was out of my system. It was (test was negative). Even though I prepped Sylvia ahead of time that it would likely be negative and that that is not a bad thing at 9dpo/IUI, she was still very sad to see a negative test. It's made me reconsider somewhat our plan to test on Sunday/Monday in advance of my Monday beta. S originally just wanted to wait for the beta (so as to avoid the let-down of a rare false positive hpt), but I really wanted to test at home, together, in advance of the beta since the beta results will come via phone while I'm at work and she's at home (it's her day off). Now I don't know what to do. Did you test before your betas?
QOTD: We have only talked about it in brief, but I suspect we'll end up going with a delayed vaccination schedule (but yes, definitely vaccinating).
IUI #3 gave us the best 2nd anniv. gift ever: 2 babies! (born 03/09/10)
Peanut and Little Man are getting so big! 2 years old already!
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I have nothing new to add- we're still at least year out. We're slowly crossing things off the PCP list.
QOTD- I'm in agreement with SSG, but I also wanted to add something a lot of people forget/don't consider. When healthy children don't get vaccinated, they can infect children who can't get their vaccines b/c of special needs or sickness. For instance, little ones with spina bifida don't get vaccinated. That concludes my PSA :-)
We had a growth ultrasound yestersday because my OB thought that maybe she was a really big baby. Turns out she is only 7lb 4oz right now which puts her in the 52 percentile for 38 weeks. It just turns out she has really long legs. The rest of her measurments are actually a little behind, but her legs are a week ahead. So at this point we are not going to be scheduling an induction which I was a little worried about. The doc says she is very comfortable where she is and doesn't look like she will be early.
As far as vaccines, I am all for vaccinating, but not on their schedule. I don't think for example that they need to be vaccinated for Hep B before they leave the hospital when I wasn't vaccinated for it until I was in my 20's. I don't want to overload her. I would rather take her to more appointments and do less at each.
Good luck to everyone in the TWW and who will be there next week!
~Kennedy
Chrsitine - We did test before the beta - on DPO 12 (or was it 13?) We wanted to test together and the likelihood of a false positive is really low.
Good luck!
we only did poas tests, the only betas we had were the month of the bfp.
we're doing well. this saturday is the official start of the second trimester. we can't believe we're already almost there! c is feeling a lot more relaxed about it and was actually looking at some baby stuff online on monday. she was trying to find a diaper bag that isn't all flowery and girly, and she found one that she really likes but it's expensive! we'll see... we also went and looked at a few cribs and things just to get an idea of what we might be looking at.
her work pants aren't really fitting right so she's had to put in an order for new ones, and her lower belly feels really firm. it's pretty neat, actually. she's also feeling much less tired than she had been--although not completely over it yet. oh! and i also signed up for upromise. i'm still trying to figure out exactly how it works, but i figure it's a good time to get started.
qotd: we are pro-vaccine.
Skip Hop makes some very cool non-frilly diaper bags - http://www.skiphop.com/category/DB.html
sahm ~ toddler breastfeeder ~ cloth diaperer ~ baby wearer
Not much new in the TTC world for us... Our consult with the fertility Dr. is next weekend, the 16th. We are also contemplating going straight to a sperm bank but want to see what the Dr. says first.
Vaccines... My 5 year old daughter has had all of them done on the regular schedule. I was against vaccinating when she was born but realized the importance of getting it done. She has no signs of autism (thank goodness!) and is happy and healthy. She does get a mild fever and injection site reaction (depending on what shot it is) but that goes away after a few hours.
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I'm so excited for the foster class finale and insems coming up!
I've been charting again this month and hoping to ovulate on schedule.
I ordered Fertilitea and started taking probiotics. I'm also looking into acupuncture. I'm looking at community acupuncture to save money and I'd ideally like to go at least 2/mo until the first month and then maybe bump it up to weekly. We'll see if that works out.
AOTD: We've discussed it and I think we're going to be doing a delayed vaccination schedule, most likely similar to Dr. Sears's recommendation.