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Re: welp. this is new.
me three, but I'm not going to pretend I'm not glad somebody else asked
I also had low progesterone and had to use suppositories like the whole first trimester
we all fall down sometimes
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Bad, SB. BAD.
That was a pretty alarming typo.
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Worst mis-type ever, SB.
Sounds like you're in a good place no matter what happens, Mo. Let's hope it sticks around for P's sake at the very least. But what on earth are you talking about here:
It's not like you live in Fitty's dog house.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
If it makes you feel any better, we are holding a baby hostage in an 850 sq foot house. She even gets a crib. So far it is working.
Congratulations! Babies aren't so bad (usually)
For less then ten cents a day, you can feed a hungry child.
The house has three bedrooms. It's just under 1400 square feet. One is a guest room/ cat litter box room. Thankfully, we don't have a lot of guests
The smallest room is pretty small, I currently use it as an office. It's just the mental shifting of what will be done where. I have an eat-in kitchen, but I don't like the breakfast nook table, yet the dining room is all carpeted and I don't want baby goo-crumbles all over my new table . It's just my obsessive brain thinking too hard.
Oh, and I'll probably still be working pretty much full time. So that part blows too.
I figured SB's typo was just something that happened during my hiatus. The typo is better.
I was rH negative and Delilah is positive. I had to get the shot at 28 weeks and again after birth when they confirmed she was positive. Also since I was bleeding early on and they weren't sure at first where the bleeding was coming from they gave me the shot at 12 weeks as well.
The problem occurs if the mother is neg and baby is pos and the baby's blood gets into the mother's bloodstream. The mother will see it as a foreign object and start creating antibodies to protect against it. Therefore in subsequent pregnancies your body can attack a future baby if it is rH positive if the antibodies were created. The shot is supposed to prevent these antibodies from being created or something like that. (I may not have explained that very well but hopefully you get the idea).
ETA: This explains it better than I did: http://kidshealth.org/parent/pregnancy_center/your_pregnancy/rh.html
2/20/2011
Congrats!
First, everything that Lisa said regarding the ultra sound and HCG is correct. HCG is not a good indicator of how far along you are. It is great that they caught your progestrone now. I did shots for the first few months but that's standard with IVF.
The RH shot is given to you if you are RH negative (and P is positive) at 28 weeks or if you bleed at any time during you pregnancy and right after you give birth. The RH factor will not effective your current pregnancy but the ones after. If you end up having a child that is positive your body could try to reject the next pregnancy. But that's what the shot is for.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
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Well, like I said, I have endometriosis,so I take three pill pack in a row, then a week off. In the last year or so, I haven't had my period during the 'off week", but I usually get a little breakthrough bleeding for a day or two. Around thanksgiving (when I probably wasn't even pregnant yet), I started to ask P if he remembered my last period because I couldn't. Neither one of us could. I "think" I was due for one in August, but couldn't say for sure, so I figured I'd wait another week or so and see. Then I had one ever so slight moment of pinkish spotting when I was at a wedding (Dec 17), but I was drunk and almost thought I imagined it the next day when I didn't wake up to a period.
Then it became Christmas, and I didn't want to even think about it so I bought the test (where the cashier and i had a VERY awkward conversation about her kids being taken away from her) after the holiday. It's not unusual for me to take one periodically just because my periods are so wonky. However, if I had taken it when I first thought about it, it probably would have been negative, so I guess it's good I procrastinated.
It's all just a very weird series of events. Like, other kind of ironic things have been happening too, which in retrospect are like "whoa".
It's super early and I don't believe the docs are ever truly accurate. I knew exactly the day I conceived because I used a fertility monitor and had sex when the egg came up on it. But, the doc counts from the last period. So, first I had a due date of Feb 11, then Feb 7, doc was going to induce me on Feb 1 and I ended up going into labor after a relatively easy, problem-free pregnancy what according to their first assessment would've been 3 weeks early. Or not.
When I first peed on the stick, it was like the first day i could get a positive and the doc saw me right away because it just happens to be a high risk doc. I tried explaining that I knew exactly when, this was really early, etc, but no one seemed to care about that info. That's when they told me progesterone low, needed the suppositories every day like 2x a day or I'd prob miscarry, plus there was no HB. Well, most docs won't even see you till 8 weeks because you're most likely not going to get a HB. So, I had to go to Dallas on a business trip, using the progesterone and thinking I'd miscarry. I didn't. Not saying it's going to be the same, but that was my experience. Just didn't have time to type it all out before.
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
Maybe we should dub you Madame CleMoo.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
Congrats/Best Wishes/Good Luck! Choose the sentiment that best fits your feelings at the moment.
I saw the doc relatively early and I don't remember my numbers off the top of my head but I want to say that they weren't even that high.
ETA: Oh yeah, my symptoms didn't arrive until about 11 weeks. Before that I felt a bit crampy and had to get up to pee a bunch of times at night but I only tested because we were trying.
Oh wow. That's insane, really. I didn't have symptoms until about 7 or so weeks. Then I got really bad with the nausea, so I had symptoms but they waited a bit to come out and present themselves. I don't know anything about HcG levels since mine were never discussed and my ultrasound was done at what we thought was 8 weeks, though when we got it done they dated me at about 9.5 weeks.
Just as an aside- my kid was a total surprise and actually happened about 2 months after I had really decided I didn't even want kids. I thought about terminating for a few weeks, that's how freaked out I was. Obviously I ultimately kept the pregnancy and parenthood is pretty cool. But just saying that this crap is way scary when it sinks in and no matter what you end up feeling, it's totally normal.
I hope everything works out the way you want it to. Please keep us updated.
"If you wanna win then you shoulda put a hat on it. Don't be mad when you see a knit cap won it. If you wanna win then you shoulda put a hat on it."- Fenton