*PgAL/PAIF check in 5/3*

[sophiegrace]

Hi!
Super sleepy and rainy over in my end, hope y'all have a bit more sunshine today.


Although we are a smaller group it seems as though we have an unfair amount of us who have not has an easy journey. This weekly thread is to get out your thoughts and release your fears in a safe area. Trigger warnings are not necessary.

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How far along are you?



How are you doing physically?

Mentally?



Any appointments this week?



Any questions, comments, or topics you would like to discuss this week?



QOTW: What, in your eyes, is the perfect date night?


tgrimes1980 - PgAl, MMC 10 wks

peanutmuse – PgAL/PAIF, m/c 1/13, 6/13, 9/15, IUI for DS1, TTC 23 cycles for this pg

sophiegrace - PgAl, loss at 25 wks

legitlizard - PgAL, early loss, Crohn's

robinbird - PgAl, MMC 13 wks

danib - PgAL/PAIF, loss at 5.5 wks

shedreamsincolor – PgAL, loss at 16 wks

kleigh – PgAl/PAIF, CP

goldenlove3 – PgAL/PAIF, TTC 31 cycles, one ectopic, Pg after IVF FET #1

calindi – PAIF, 22 cycles + Follistim IUI #3 for TTC #1, 11 cycles + Follistim TI for TTC #2

hangry – PgAL, loss at 8 wks

artmusiclife – PgAL/PAIF – TTC since S12, early loss N12, 5 IUIs, IFV w/ICSI &PGS, F16 FET resulting in this BFP

@sarahwithanh – PgAL/PAIF - TTC Aug14, MMC 12

opheliainwaders – PgAL – 2 losses both around 12 weeks

vinolove - PgAL, loss at 6 weeks

mommytoava - PgAL, Ava born 12/2010 gained her wings 2014

[sophiegrace]

How far along are you? 13 weeks

How are you doing physically? Rough, but better. My digestion system shuts down around 4-5 every day and my stomach blows up like a balloon. It hurts so so bad.

Mentally? After some excitement post NT scan last week I'm starting to become numb again. Hoping the next two months just fly by and I'm still here with a healthy baby.

Any appointments this week? If my headaches and BP behave, no

Q/C/T? Not that I can think of

QOTW: I wasn't sure how I was going to answer this, but tgrimes inspired me...TAPAS! By far one of my favorite things ever. Coupled with a warm night so we can walk back to our hotel and enjoy ourselves a bit longer, maybe stop for some ice cream all the way. We don't have tapas in our sleepy town so this would all have to happen during a weekend away.

[sophiegrace]

I've been thinking of you @sarahwithanh and wondering how you've been feeling. 10 weeks was very very strange for me in terms of MS. Some days I felt ok mixed in with feeling the worst I ever felt. The ok days that followed the bad ones were a huge terrible mindfuck. I didn't want to be sick, but it was all I had to hold onto the possibility of a healthy pregnancy. If that makes sense at all. I hope your appointment goes well and I'm so sorry you have to go by yourself.

As for your butt pain, could it be sciatica? I had to do stretches last time that helped tons when it got bad enough.

[shedreamsincolor]

How far along are you? 11w5d

How are you doing physically? Blump is in full force over here. I have to be very careful about what I wear to work as I'm not announcing to anyone (except my boss, who already knows) for at least another month. Could be a little tricky but flowy summer dresses will help!

Mentally? Up and down. I am thinking of asking our midwife to order an ultrasound around my loss milestone (even if we have to it out of pocket) as I feel like this is the one thing that may ease my mind a little. Plus if the same damn thing happens (growth stops around 14 weeks for no apparent reason with actual loss at 16 weeks) I want to know so I'm not freaking blindsided like last time.

Any appointments this week? Not until 14 weeks

Q/C/T? Nope.

QOTW: Quiet dinner out just the two of us, then a long walk or sitting by the lake at my parents' cabin. We're pretty boring but it has been forever since we had an entire evening together and this sounds amazing!

[artmusiclife]

How far along are you? 12w6d

How are you doing physically? extra tired and nauseous because of a dog bite (not from my cute sweet love bugs in my profile photo) and stitches and antibiotics. sad face.

Mentally? much more confident. first trimester is almost done, and i'm excited to share the news.

Any appointments this week?

Any questions, comments, or topics you would like to discuss this week? If you would like to read my story about my announcement to friends and almost immediately subsequent dog bite, here is the link to my post. http://link

QOTW: What, in your eyes, is the perfect date night?

Indian food and a walk on the suspension bridge where I used to go on dates in high school.

[sophiegrace]

Whoa artmusiclife, that's so terrifying! Just curious, I just got an infection control cert this week...what antibiotic did they put you on? Dog bite is typically augmentin, but I feel like that all changes with pregnancy and that's never ever taught in these courses!

Your reveal was just perfect!! I'm so glad you have that video to always look back on.

[sophiegrace]

May 3, 2016 19:13:33 GMT -5 @sarahwithanh said:

May 3, 2016 19:02:07 GMT -5 sophiegrace said:

I've been thinking of you @sarahwithanh and wondering how you've been feeling. 10 weeks was very very strange for me in terms of MS. Some days I felt ok mixed in with feeling the worst I ever felt. The ok days that followed the bad ones were a huge terrible mindfuck. I didn't want to be sick, but it was all I had to hold onto the possibility of a healthy pregnancy. If that makes sense at all. I hope your appointment goes well and I'm so sorry you have to go by yourself.

As for your butt pain, could it be sciatica? I had to do stretches last time that helped tons when it got bad enough.

Thanks! It's definitely a mindfuck. I am hoping tomorrow is ok because I've had 2 good days and I'm due for a bad one. Tomorrow I have to work 2 hoUrs later than normal and a bunch of district bigwigs will be there. I also can't just pop out to puke as I wI'll be assessing all day. I am hoping the zofran will help me hold it together. As for the pain, I'm not sure what it is. Maybe sciatica but I feel like it's early for this. It started maybe 2weeks ago and didn't occur every day. Ithe really seems to originate from my tailbone which is why I think it has to be something to do with my old injury.

Hope your day went ok and the zofran did the job! I know it saved me quite a few times the past few months. Wow I can say that now! Few months? I love it. I was once told that tailbone injuries are very hard to heal so maybe all the internal shifting is making it flair up? Idk, either way I hope there's a way to get relief. I was thinking of trying the chiropractor out, but I'm not sure.

[artmusiclife]

May 4, 2016 21:11:55 GMT -5 sophiegrace said:

Whoa artmusiclife , that's so terrifying! Just curious, I just got an infection control cert this week...what antibiotic did they put you on? Dog bite is typically augmentin, but I feel like that all changes with pregnancy and that's never ever taught in these courses!

Your reveal was just perfect!! I'm so glad you have that video to always look back on.

I am on amoxicillin. What do you think about that with your certification??  I told every nurse/doctor/in-take person/xray tech/pharmacist in the ER that I was pregnant, so hopefully they listened.

[sophiegrace]

May 4, 2016 21:27:26 GMT -5 artmusiclife said:

May 4, 2016 21:11:55 GMT -5 sophiegrace said:

Whoa artmusiclife , that's so terrifying! Just curious, I just got an infection control cert this week...what antibiotic did they put you on? Dog bite is typically augmentin, but I feel like that all changes with pregnancy and that's never ever taught in these courses!

Your reveal was just perfect!! I'm so glad you have that video to always look back on.

I am on amoxicillin. What do you think about that with your certification??  I told every nurse/doctor/in-take person/xray tech/pharmacist in the ER that I was pregnant, so hopefully they listened.

I know amoxicillin is the safe and immediate go-to when pregnant and since your healthy and immediately cleaned out the wound I'm sure exactly what you need, I was just curious. Augmentin is a combo med of amoxicillin with clavulanic acid and pretty strong. I think that's a go-to for bites when non-pregnant just because of the strange bacteria that can be found in dog/cat/human mouths. Dog bites are the least likely out of those three to cause infection, human mouths are nasty and cats have teeth that cause a hard bite to properly clean out. I'm definitely no doctor, just trying to expand my knowledge. I'm often asked in the middle of an exam what my opinion is on what antibiotics to choose in different situations and I got sick of cocking my head and shrugging so I took the course. Haha.

[mommytoava]

How far along are you?
9w2d


How are you doing physically? Just feeling nauseous a lot but no morning sickness

Mentally? With Mother's Day coming up just really sad, it will be the second one without my daughter.



Any appointments this week?
No, my next appointment is Monday


Any questions, comments, or topics you would like to discuss this week?

[sophiegrace]

vinolove, PREACH! I feel that anger a lot. Good luck at the NT scan, can't wait to see an update with some great news!

[LizInFL]

danib I'm not a loss mom, but just popped into this thread and saw your comments about the meds you are on, etc. Hope it's ok that I'm posting. Anyway, I just wanted to share my experience in hopes that it will ease your mind somewhat. When I was 22 weeks pregnant with DS, I was hospitalized for 10 days. I won't bore you with the details, (all's well that ended well) but I was on morphine or dilaudid (when the morphine stopped working) IV's non-stop for 10 days, then took dilaudid in pill form for a couple weeks, then moved down to Flexerol and naproxin for the rest of my pregnancy. I also had every test or MRI known to man in the course of trying to figure out what was going on. It was nerve-wracking, for sure, but everything turned out fine and DS was a perfectly healthy baby and is a developmentally normal toddler.

I was worried, but the stress from being in so much pain wasn't good for baby either, and it was still early enough in the pregnancy that the drugs would be long-gone from his system by his due date.

[LizInFL]

May 5, 2016 17:27:46 GMT -5 danib said:

Thank you LizInFL . I know the doctors have been very careful to weigh risk/benefit here, but I am the type of person who only takes medication when I HAVE to (aside, of course, from my very necessary meds that I will need forever) so this all feels so weird to me to be taking so much while pregnant. I'm glad things worked out well for you, I'll remind myself of that when I get anxious.

I understand. I am typically very healthy and the only drug I take with any regularity is for psoriasis. (I'm the type to suffer through a headache and just drink a Coke, haha.) So it was definitely weird to have access to/a need for all those drugs, and especially while pregnant. I think the only time I'd ever taken an Rx painkiller was for wisdom teeth surgery in college. But in my case, the pros of taking them far outweighed the cons, so I just had to keep that in mind. 

Hope you can get out of the hospital and are feeling back to normal soon. 

[peanutmuse]

How far along are you? 12w1d right now, but measuring that far on Monday, so...

How are you doing physically? Still kind of a hot mess.

Mentally? Doing better

Any appointments this week?
NT scan and genetics counseling on Monday
12 week appt on Tuesday
MFM appt on Thursday


Any questions, comments, or topics you would like to discuss this week? Nope. Well, not discuss, just mention. Most of the time I am ok with the PgAL now. Except when it comes to thinking about becoming really public. Then it hits again.


QOTW: What, in your eyes, is the perfect date night? Dinner and drinks. Boring, but that's really what we like to do.