** 1st Tri Check-In 10/3 **

[river]

Welcome to the PAIF 1st tri check-in. This check-in is for those who are somewhere between BFP and 13w6d. It will be posted on Monday each week to make for an easy transition as people move to second tri.

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 in your post and answer the following:

1. Your EDD
2. How many, if you know, beans you have cooking.
3. 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?

QOTW: Name(s)! Have you and SO decided already, or will it be a long process? Will you tell people?

For the wonderfully amazing ladies heading from here to second tri, congratulations! Please tag me in your last post and I'll remove you from the roster. Have fun!

First trimester can be a very nerve-wracking time and even though spotting can be quite common, it doesn't help the nerves! If you're dealing with spotting, check out the PAIF spotting poll where our ladies share their experiences with spotting in pregnancy.
www.goodbyecb.proboards.com/thread/11024/spotting-poll-helpful-show-newbieswww.goodbyecb.proboards.com/thread/11024/spotting-poll-helpful-show-newbies

First Tri Roster:

April LOs

rslh10 - IVF w PGS and FET
Due April 5 (will go by March 16)
Carrying: 1

jennykat - FET
Due: April 5
Carrying: 1

fishchicks – injectable TI #1
Due: April 9
Carrying:2

mustloveerica - FET#1
Due: April 14
Carrying: 2/TBD

meepmeeps - DE IVF
Due April 17
Carrying: 1

trytobearunner34 - DE IVF
Due April 20
Carrying: 1

May LOs

setsuna17 - IUI
Due May 15
Carrying: 1

river - FET of 2 blasts
Due May 19
Carrying: 2

fightersince83 - FET #1 while TTC #2 (3rd FET total)
Due May 21
Carrying: 3 (!!!)

June LOs

Ashburn – IUI
Due June 12
Carrying: 1

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

[river]

1. How far are you now? 7w3d

2. Symptom Check: mild nausea, some cramping, bloated feeling all day every day

3. What and when is your next appointment? Friday for another u/s; 2 appts left with the RE

4. Anything you’d like to share with the group? I'm feeling pretty good overall, and enjoying each day that that continues.

QOTW: We have a spreadsheet of names, but haven't landed on boy names we absolutely love. I'm not telling anyone, bc I know people love to share their opinions. I don't care if every {insert name here} you knew is a jerk/annoying/whatever.

[fightersince83]

How far along: 7 wks 1 day
Symptoms: tired, food aversions, nausea (but surprisingly not constant), reduced appetite, swelling already-this concerns me
Next appt: Friday for u/s. I'm thinking I need to contact my OB so I can get referred to an MFM. We had a good one for my DD's AS so I'd like to request him. We had an AWFUL one for our NT scan with DD. I'm gonna wait till Friday to discuss it with my RE.
Anything to share: nothing new still wrapping my head around identical triplets.
QOTW: we had one boy name with a back up first name. We have a lot of work to do now. We'll be keeping the names to ourselves. We did with DD too.

[rslh10]

1. How far are you now? 13+5 so I guess this is my last check in here. I cannot believe it.

2. Symptom Check: Nada. I have been puking more frequently which is weird, but nothing else going on.

3. What and when is your next appointment? Ugh. 10/20...forrreevverrrrr away.

4. Anything you’d like to share with the group? Not much to share. Just enjoying the little kicks I'm feeling.

[river]

Oct 3, 2016 13:30:01 GMT -5 jennykat said:

Well motherfucker. MH the dumbass decided to announce on FB without telling me. WTF. I am LIVID.

Oh, I'm so sorry. You have every right to be livid. Out of all of the IF shit that we can't control (and that includes our SO's), telling people or not should be a mutual decision. 

[fishchicks]

Oh jennykat, I'm so sorry. That's really inexcusable, especially from the one person closest to you. I hope your DH does something to try to show he understands your point of view.

[fishchicks]

1. How far are you now? 13 + 1, so add me to the 'one last week' club.

2. Symptom Check: Wow, @wineandcupcakes, I thought it was just me. The nausea isn't as constant, but I'm much more likely to puke now. I've also had a splitting headache for nearly two weeks, but I think that's a sinus/allergy issue because I haven't been taking my allergy meds.

3. What and when is your next appointment? Next Tuesday I have an OB appointment, and then I meet with an Endocrinologist on Thursday, since I've developed Grave's Disease. Fun times.

4. Anything you’d like to share with the group? I told my former boss on Friday, and today she stopped by my office with a present - two adorable pairs of hot pink Minnetonka moccasins. I relocated to Minnesota when she hired me, so it was the perfect local baby gift.

[fightersince83]

Oct 3, 2016 13:30:01 GMT -5 jennykat said:

Well motherfucker. MH the dumbass decided to announce on FB without telling me. WTF. I am LIVID.

😳😡😤

Wow, that's really not okay. It needs to be a joint decision

[trytobearunner34]

river,  Thanks for the checkin!
fightersince83,  I am so excited for you:)  Triplets were my secret dream (my husband didn't share that same dream so we landed where we were supposed to!)
rslh10,  I'm jealous of the kicking and hope the committing disappears ASAP!
jennykat,  I am so sorry your husband took leave of his senses.  Hoping it was momentary and he has been groveling ever since!  My parents spilled the beans (all the way down to our use of donor eggs) to each of their families without our permission.  This is hugely out of character for them and once they realized their mistake felt awful and will probably never tell anybody we're expecting ever again!


1. How far are you now?  11+5
2. Symptom Check:  Love/hate relationship with food (less nausea though mostly aversions), heartburn off and on, and this afternoon I cried three different times which is not like me at all.
3. What and when is your next appointment?  We had our first regular OB appointment today.  She freaked me out because it took what felt like forever to find the heartbeat, but once she found it all was well (160 some bpm).  We will be doing Harmony testing at some point over the next few weeks and then our next appointment with the OB is Nov. 3.

QOTW: Name(s)! Have you and SO decided already, or will it be a long process? Will you tell people?  

Yes, we have had a boy name picked out since a few months after we started dating 12 years ago.  It's his favorite boy name and a middle name to honor my deceased older brother.  The girlsname took more time and only settled on a first and middle name over the last year (we have been TTC for 6 years and have been a waiting adoptive family for the last 2 so the need actually seemed somewhat pressing).  We have not discussed whether or not we will tell. 

[setsuna17]

jennykat I'm sorry your husband outed you! I'd be so angry too!

fightersince83 you do have a lot of work to do! I wouldn't know how to start picking even another name, much less 2! Good luck!

1. How far are you now? 8+1

2. Symptom Check: Nausea for days. Hard core gagging with no vomiting.

3. What and when is your next appointment? Tomorrow! So nervous!

4. Anything you’d like to share with the group? Nothing much. I wonder if my students are starting to wonder if I'm acting weird. Also I realized that I won't be teaching Sex Ed this year in Health and it's because I'll be having a baby! Irony.

QOTW: We have a boy name since when I was pregnant with DD. It is both mine DH's grandfathers' names. For a girl, I have a lot of favorites. Before, I thought I liked certain names but was scared to use them. After it took us almost 3 years to get here, I'm gonna name a future DD anything I please.

[fightersince83]

XP POM

I had my second u/s today. I thought I was 2 days shy of 8 weeks but the RE said I'm 8 weeks today. Lol, pregnancy brain doesn't even let me count right?! Anyway, all the babies looked strong. All measuring approximately the same size as the others and all with heart beats. He said I'll see him in 2 weeks but wants me to get in touch with my OB and see the MFM ASAP. I put in the call as I was leaving the RE so hopefully I'll get a call back from the OB

[sms2524]

Oct 7, 2016 16:23:12 GMT -5 fightersince83 said:

XP POM

I had my second u/s today. I thought I was 2 days shy of 8 weeks but the RE said I'm 8 weeks today. Lol, pregnancy brain doesn't even let me count right?! Anyway, all the babies looked strong. All measuring approximately the same size as the others and all with heart beats. He said I'll see him in 2 weeks but wants me to get in touch with my OB and see the MFM ASAP. I put in the call as I was leaving the RE so hopefully I'll get a call back from the OB

So glad all went well today!!!!!