Sept/Oct 2014

Ladies!

Please shed some light! So stupid with this!

I had a Beta done on the 19th Feb -- 32065.0 & then I did one again today -- and the levels was 52450.0 I am about 8-9 weeks pregnant EDD 7th October!

Does this sound normal? It said on one website it will take 8 days to double or 202 hours. And I am only on 144 hours. Don't want to be paranoid about this.. but cant help!

jinxedsa - welcome, hope we can all be here for the entire 9 months

Firefly - I hit 6 weeks yesterday and no MS so feeling good *fingers crossed*

AFM: I'm counting the days/hours/minutes/seconds to my first appointment on 28th March, it's so far away! Physically I'm feeling fine, I'm eating healthy and I want to walk at least 20 minutes every other day, it's so unpleasant in this Cape Town wind and heat though. The "full bladder" feeling I had at 5wks seems to have subsided, now I'm more aware that someone is growing in there.

Hi Everyone

I am new at the whole posting on forums thing.
It's really great to be able to talk to other ladies who is experiencing the same wonderful experience.

My due date so far is the 19th September. I have another Dr. appointment tomorrow so will see if it has changed.

I hope that I will be able to stay on with you girls for the whole 9 months.

To all the other ladies congrats on your pregnancy. May it be a happy and joyful experience.

Firefly: I told basically everyone in my life already, I started showing real quick and the excitement was just to much to wait.

Hi everyone

Momzee, wow, what a story, a true miracle that you were told that you'd have issues because of PCOS and still managed to fall pregnant so easily. It's happened super quickly for me both times too (pregnant 2 weeks after we started trying) although we did try once for a few months with no success and then decided to put everything on hold while we went overseas for a year. I believe it was God's timing, He knew that that wasn't the right time for us. As for the emotions, they don't quite go away, 9 months of pregnancy then post-partum hormones and even after that you might feel emotionally compromised because lack of sleep does that to you! Lol


Congrats Imza! I'm with you on the boobs. Plus I'm still breastfeeding my toddler, which makes it worse! Am planning to wean him in the next 3 months though, hopefully I can catch a couple of months of full night sleeps before the next baby gets here!

Congrats Gain-a-baby Hopefully you'll skip the morning sickness, it absolutely sucks.

Kayla, I've been through the morning sickness mill, I really feel for you. I did it all too - acupuncture, hypnosis tracks, ginger, eating, acupressure... waiting it out was the only thing to do but I felt better by about 13 weeks or so, so good luck! Good luck on the new doctor.

Giggles, yay on the heartbeat, you are so lucky to be symptom free

Khikkins, my gynae is at parklane but I haven't delivered there and I don't plan to this time either. I'm going with a midwife like I did with my last pregnancy. I chatted to my gynae at my annual appointment last year and we agreed that a midwife was a better route to go, she actually suggested that Genesis would be a better fit for me, lol.

Afm, I am meeting with a midwife this Thursday to see if I want to go with her. I've had recommendations from 2 people about her so I'm hoping we're a good fit. We're hoping to announce the news to our family over the weekend (my family on Thurs night and DH's family on Saturday). I had a t-shirt for my 19 month old printed that has a picture of a tractor and says "One day I'm going to drive a BIG tractor, but for now I'm going to be a BIG BROTHER". Have you guys already shared your pregnancy news?

imza - Congrats and good luck with your pregnancy

momzee - what an amazing story, don't feel guilty, our bodies are so different even to our siblings and we can only truly empathize and show support and love. 12 weeks God willing I will get there

Hi ladies!!

Was just thinking about something now...

I was diagnosed with PCOS 12 years ago and was on the Pill for 11. Got married last year September and went to the Gyane (fertility specialist recommend by sister, who struggles immensely to fall pregnant) in October. I told him I don't want to struggle in two to three years' time to fall pregnant and whether I can drop the Pill so long. He agreed and said I must give it two months to see how my body copes and if my cycles will start on their own or not. So I finished my last packet of pills in late October/ early November.

My first period was 12 days late, but came on its own!! A first for me who, in high school, would skip anything from 4 to 10 months at a time. My next period, was late as well, but I did not worry, taking into account my history. Turns out my complete bitchiness towards my SO was not PMS, but pregnancy hormones.

I do realise that I am so very lucky to have fallen pregnant this fast and I thank God for that!! Especially when I read all the stories on this forum. I feel immense guilt that it happened so fast for me, the one person who has been told since I was 17 years old that I would have difficulty conceiving.

What makes it worse is that my sister, 6 years older than I, still had no luck in conceiving after about 3 Artificial Insemination attempts and two MC's. She prefers not to have too much contact with me nowadays...

Anyway, just felt like sharing that today! I am very emotional today and teary!! Thought it would have been gone by now.

Twelve weeks on Tuesday and still hoping and praying all goes well!

Have a nice day everyone!

Hello Ladies!

Just found out yesterday (from HPT) that am preggies with my second child, after years of infertility. I bought Clear Blue Weeks estimator and it reads that i am 2-3 weeks/ 5-6 weeks(28 days cycle).

I have PCOS and so dont even recall when last I had my period (don't judge ).

My breasts are killing me!!!!! other than that no obvious symptoms. Maybe too early.