** 1st Tri Check-In, Halloween Edition! **

[river]

Welcome to the PAIF 1st tri check-in.

This check-in is for those who are somewhere between a positive test 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?

For the 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-newbies

QOTW: Happy Halloween! What is the most unsettling, scariest, or creepiest thing that’s ever happened to you?

First Tri Roster:

May LOs
Caligoldengirl – FET on PGS embryo
Due May 14
Carrying: 1

setsuna17 - IUI
Due May 15
Carrying: 1

river - FET #1 of 2 blasts
Due May 19
Carrying: 2

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

airbear916 – EPP IVF #3
Due May 29
Carrying: 1

June Los
ttcbabyj – IVF #2 w/ ICSI & PGS, FET #2
Due June 3
Carrying: 1

cateyes – FET #1 with donor embryos
Due June 11
Carrying: 1

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

[river]

WHAT??? YES OF COURSE!! @katerli, I'm so excited to see you here!! Congratulations!

[cateyes]

Oct 31, 2016 16:50:32 GMT -5 @katerli said:

Hi river can you add me to the check in?
1. Due: 7/7/17
2. How many, if you know, beans you have cooking: I am finding out in 2 weeks
3. What treatment got you your BFP: IVF & FET#3

No symptoms yet, but hoping they come on soon so it feels real

I missed this and I AM SO FREAKING EXCITED FOR YOU!!!! This is awesome!!! Congrats!

[fightersince83]

Welcome @katerli
I'm 11 weeks 1 day now
Still have nausea/vomiting, achy & tired
11/7 I FINALLY get to see the MFM
DD turns one tomorrow. It's nuts. We have a parties set for Sat & Sun. Nothing really planned for tomorrow which I feel like a bit of a slacker, but this weekend will make up for it.

[river]

1. How far are you now? 11w, 3d
2. Symptom check: tired all of the time
3. What and when is your next appointment? MFM on Friday, then nothing til the 22nd
4. Anything you’d like to share with the group? I might have started showing a bit? There's a layer of fat there, but I'm definitely feeling fuller and my pants were much more snug than usual. I'm hoping to get through something at work in two weeks without letting the cat out of the bag, so I might need to buy something that covers it up a little better...

Creepiest thing that's happened to me... I'm a bit of a cemetery nerd, and love to visit historic cemeteries when we travel. We were in New Orleans, exploring St. Patrick's Cemetery, and my camera just stopped working. It's the most open and brightest of the cemeteries I've been to there, but I had a bit of an uneasy feeling. My fully charged, new DSLR just stopped working. I told my husband we needed to leave, we hopped on the streetcar, and it worked again. I'm sure it was a glitch, but the timing freaked me out.

[Caligoldengirl]

@katerli congrats and welcome!!!

1. How far along? 12 weeks 1 day
2. Symptom check? Soooo tired all the time. I feel like I'm sleeping my life away. Also, kind of nauseaous at night.
3. Next appt? This Thursday is our 12 week appt.

QOTW: the scariest thing to happen on Halloween was a haunted house. I exited the house thinking the experience was over, but once outside zombies came out of the house and chased me with fake chainsaws! It was the worst!

[airbear916]

Congrats @katerli!

1. How far are you now? Exactly 10 weeks today
2. Symptom check: I've had nausea on and off. Sunday was awful but yesterday it wasn't too bad. LOTS of migraines! Still feeling tired but doesn't seem as bad as a few weeks ago.
3. What and when is your next appointment? Friday I go to the genetic counselor and have the NIPS bloodwork done.
4. Anything you’d like to share with the group? I've been so bloated since my retrieval that I haven't been able to comfortably button my pants. My belly is definitely getting much fuller and bloated to the point where I've only been wearing leggings. Yesterday I got a belly band and so far it's working great and I can now wear my regular pants unbuttoned. Yay!

QOTW: Probably the haunted house we went to a few years ago. It was REALLY scary. You had to crawl on your hands and knees in the pitch dark through a tunnel to get out of the haunted house. I'm so claustrophobic so besides being terrified of someone jumping out at me, I felt like I was going to have a panic attack being so closed in. Haven't been to a haunted house since! lol

[ttcbabyj]

@katerli!!!! Welcome and congratulations!!!!

1. I'm 9 weeks, 1 day.
2. The nausea is off and on. Sometimes my appetite is none existent. My night sickness came back last nigh. It was a rough night. The heartburn is real!
3. My next appointment is 11/22.
4. I ordered my Doppler! I'm so excited to try and listen to the heartbeat. I have a referral to an MFM and genetics. My OB kind of poo pooed the idea of a preventative cerclage since I don't have a loss history.

QOTW: DH likes to scare me all the time. Well he used to like to scare me before this event. I was working at the kitchen table and I didn't see him come down the stairs and into the kitchen (he was crawling on the floor). Then he slowly stood up from behind the kitchen island. In that moment I thought he was the grim reeper or a demon, I really thought I was about to die. I screamed at the top of my lungs and threw a mug at his head. He needed 5 stitches. My neighbors called the police. It was a hard sell to tell the police he scared me and I threw a mug at his head. The officer kept asking my husband if he wanted to press charges. :/

[airbear916]

ttcbabyj,OMG! What a story! Too funny. I bet your hubby learned his lesson.

[ttcbabyj]

Nov 1, 2016 14:39:22 GMT -5 airbear916 said:

ttcbabyj,OMG! What a story! Too funny. I bet your hubby learned his lesson.

He has never scared me again. He was so apologetic. His face was priceless as I let out my scream. It was like my brain could not register his face.

[teachermomtobe]

river, Can you please add me to the check-in?

1. Your EDD: June 15
2. How many, if you know, beans you have cooking: 1
3. What treatment got you your BFP: FET

Hi everyone! So happy to recognize some of you! We had our 2nd ultrasound today at 8w1d and everything looks good. Heartbeat was 174 and we were released from the RE today. I have an intake appt with a midwife in my OB's practice on 11/16.

[airbear916]

teachermomtobe,Congrats and Welcome!

[river]

Woohoo!! Congratulations, teachermomtobe, it's great to see you here!

[river]

I had my MFM appointment today, and it went great, despite my stupid IF brain. HBs looked good, measurements were right on track, and the neural tubes were fine! We did blood work for the cell free DNA, and those results will be in in about two weeks. I have appointments set for my growth and anatomy scans and a cervical measurement at 22-23 weeks.

Oh!! And they will not let me go past 38 weeks. If babies are in a good position, they'll induce. I was happy to hear that they won't go straight for c-section... That brings my new due date to May 4th!