Calling All Women of Strength!!!

[mommyin10]

A strong woman works out every day to keep her body in shape…
But a woman of strength builds relationships to keep her soul in shape.
A strong woman isn't afraid of anything…
But a woman of strength shows courage in the midst of fear.
A strong woman won't let anyone get the better of her…
But a woman of strength gives the best of herself to everyone.
A strong woman makes mistakes and avoids the same in the future…
A woman of strength realizes life's mistakes can also be unexpected blessings and capitalizes on them.
A strong woman wears a look of confidence on her face…
But a woman of strength wears grace.
A strong woman has faith that she is strong enough for the journey…
But a woman of strength has faith that it is in the journey that she will become strong.
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Leighanne:Jaedyn Michael Born on 2/10/09  Now is 16months 20lbs and 30 inches long
Vortex: On 4/20/2009, Sahana was born! (Check out her pics!!!)
Joyce: 5/28/09 Daniel Joseph was born, 8lbs, 8oz and 19 3/4 inches long.
Jessie: 6/11/09 Zachary Kaden arrived at 5:43am. 7 lbs, 12 oz and 20.5 inches long
Armyprincess: 7/24/09, Jeremy Michael was born 9lbs, 3 ozs & 20 inches
Stacey: 8/12/09, Jake Harrison was born a healthy 6lbs! Check out his handsome pics!
Arlotheslug:  Home loving her little girl!!!  See her beautiful pics! :)
Kaylee_Frye: Hayden Elizabeth was born 9/12/09; 6lb 12 oz and 19.5 inches!
Luvkayln: Adalynn Noel was born healthy & beautiful on 12/7/09! 6 pounds, 15 ounces!!!  Check out her beautiful pics!
Dnikkki: Welcome Peyton Therese!!! Born 2/2/10 at 9:47 p.m. 6 pounds, 6 ounces & 19 inches long!
Mommyin10: Richard Clay, III & Ava Kathleen were born 2/18/10! He was 4 lbs, 5oz, born at 12:15 a.m. She weighed 3lbs, 14oz, born at 12:16 a.m. At 4 months, Ricky weighs 12 lbs, 6.5 oz & Ava is 11 lbs, 1 oz!
Sbumblebeeo: Shelby Rachel arrived on April 1st, 7 pounds, 1 ounce, 20 inches long! :)
Help4baby:  Twin boys were born on April 30 6 lb 5oz & 7 lb 4oz

kmcarino: BFP!!! 40 weeks with a healthy BOY!!!
ad_06: BFP!!! 34 weeks with Conner Jamison!!! :)  
krichard:  BFP!!!  Beta is Wednesday!!!
trh0819:  BFP!  Congrats & Welcome =)

Michelleinhawaii: BFP!!! Send prayers & positive thoughts :)

Rachjas:  you are in our thoughts and prayers!!

Waiting for an update:
Candie    
Hannah
pyar
Nino7
BabyMadd

Taking a Break
Lina  
mrspace

Guesito:  doing meds for IVF! Mock transfer 7/1, Retrieval 7/18!

Jmh2005:  CD8
Keyan: CD13
Sammy_J: CD14 started stims, will do IUI or IVF
PrincessJam: CD14 Started meds, doing IUI
Luvkayln: CD38?
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dnikki:  Yes, ours are so close!  Ricky & Ava were born on Feb 18, but they were 6 weeks early.  The pediatrician doesn't take too seriously the percentile charting, but still has to do it.  They are only in the 7-10 percentile as far as their length & weight because they're preemies, but what's funny is Ricky's head measures in the 50 percentile! :)  He just has to catch up to it! They're doing great, reaching all their milestones.  The pediatrician says they can't be compared equally to their peers til approx age 3.

krichar:  Yes, I'm hoping everything's okay with our little guy.  The doc thought maybe the feeding tube did something while in the NICU, but he didn't lose his voice til a few weeks after coming home.  It's really a cute, raspy voice so long as he's okay ;)  I know I'll hate to see him go through with the scope, but it'll be good to do & know what's going on.  Your beta is Wednesday!!!  Yay =)  How are you feeling??

Guesito:  You're getting so close!  I'm glad you're having a trial/mock transfer.  I honestly believe that gives the docs a more accurate "road map"! =)  I'm excited for you. I can't believe my retrieval was last July 9!  It's almost been 1 year!!!

ad_06:  I think my babies had what they called choroid plexus on their brain... does that sound like what Conner has?  I was told it looks white on the u/s, but it's common early on & then they close up.  Well, you get to see your little guy tomorrow; right?  I can't believe you'll meet him so soon! =)

kmcarino:  Yes, I hope no news from you means you've gone into labor!!! =)  We're all thinking of you!!!

[shellbell75]

Hello I had a success pregnancy form my first ivf and I am now starting a 2nd ifv day 2 tomorrow.

[bfromthed]

we are 7 weeks today 33 more to go! Anxious for Thursdays u/s and bloodwork to be sure the little one is doing okay...no more spotting or cramping just a little heartburn and even my bbs are not as sore just a little sore on the sides...I will keep you ladies posted after my appointment please continue to pray for us as I will do the same for all of you. God Bless! Sticky vibes and baby dust to us all!

[bfromthed]

Thanks for the well wishes! re's office called I go back on the 29th more bloodwork, u/s and to actually see the dr. Good luck to everyone so much going own...baby dust and sticky vibes to us all!
God Bless
Beatrice

[luvkayln]

bfromthed- Congrats sweetie!! So happy for you!!! :)

[bfromthed]

The u/s showed one little perfect bean! The heartrate was 123 bpm I do have "free fluid" in my uterus they are thinking there was a twin that didnt make it. I do have to take it easy because the free fluid can cause issues they are hoping that my body reabsorbs it. I am waiting until after 12noon when re does his rounds to find out the next appointment. Thank you for the prayers as I breathe a small sigh of relief! God is so good!

[bfromthed]

beta came in at 6998 re wanted it to be at least 10000 by now :-( u/s in 1 hour feeling really depressed right now!...according to af I should be 6 wks and 3 days today

[bfromthed]

All: Asking for prayes as my u/s is tomorrow...was told last wednesday that they saw twin sacs but no heartbeats...also in the last 2 days my pregnancy symptoms are fading and Im getting more nervous and upset by the minute. I had a beautiful day yesterday as we celebrated out wedding anniversary and today I woke up already thinking about tomorrow. I have to have another beta at 7am then the u/s at 9am.

[GUESITO]

You will be in my thoughts and prayers.. Trust me I can totally relate. Im sorry you are so worried just relax and leave it in gods hands.


AFM- Just returned from my RE, had (2) follies size 14, (2) size 9 on left and a few smaller on the left, Im only on day 2 of stims so RE claims im doing great. He also said that he wanted quality not quality that we would stim for another 2 days and that my ER would most likely be this Sunday 18th. I have one more appt on Fri 7/16 to look at follies one more time and trigger shot should be on Fri as well. OMG this is getting real!! Im a little concern about not having so many follies but since this is a minimal stimulation cycle It was predicted. Lining already at 7.5, Ok gotta go rest this 8 hr drive roundtrip to my RE is killing me.  Oh my RE was nice enough to give me 600 iu's of Follistim to replace what dh lost.

[bfromthed]

Back from ER they said "they beleive that I had multiples that tried to implant" at least 3 as they show 2 "deflated" sacs around one sac that measure 5 weeks and 4 days...beta is 5211...I have to go back for u/s and bloodwork on Monday they also did not see anything in my tube which is great BUT they did see a cyst measuring 44mm thats huge and what is causing so much pain...also they said Im not out of danger for a blighted ovum so it all is truly in God's hands as I am emotionally drained...Thanks so much for the well wishes we will continue to pray that a embie is in the sac by Monday a least the sac is in my uterus where it belongs

[krichar]

Hey guys...sorry i have been MIA, just trying to wrap my head around everything. DH and i decided that seeing as we have do much left over meds that are going to expire...we will try the au naturale way using the estrace and progesterone. I have looked into it and asked around there is no harm in us trying. The meds don't affect future FET's and won't hurt me physically. I have a feeling the issue jas something to do with my lining. All my other treatments never worked and they only mentioned it come IVF...They even pushed my first FET back due to my lining and upped my meds this last cycle to thicken it up. So i figure if i continue on the meds my lining will thicken and we may have a chance if we time it right...Wish me luck!!

[bfromthed]

re called himself and stated "I will take the blame for this..it is hard for me to determine if your numbers are rising appropriately because they have had them drawn so close together since my er scar"....he wants me to wait until Monday to have them redrawn this will be the longest 6 days of my life...I am not going to tell dh..he also said "it just seems like they are rising slowly...but enjoy my anniversary weekend" Someone please tell me how am I suppose to relax now...according to my last af I should be close to 6 weeks now I am totally confused on where my numbers should be

[bfromthed]

Good luck you are getting close!

[leighanne143]

ad_06- i am almost positive that is the babies position.  look it up.  i just remember being told that Jaedyn was anterior during my 4d ultrasound

[ad_06]

So I went for my non stress test today, everything looks good. My Ob came to the hospital to check me and see if I was doing anything. She really didn't say a whole lot, I heard her tell the nurse that I was -2 posterior ? and then she told me to do lots and lots of walking cause she wanted me at 3? I know I am not dialating yet, but does anyone know what the posterior thing is????  Then she told me she'd see me Thursday if not before. So I am hoping this happens soon :) So I went for a walk today.....hehe it about killed me! I will keep you ladies posted!

[bfromthed]

I understand that frustration but relax there is nothing that can be done now but to get what you need...breathe you need to be totally relaxed as you prep you body...thank you for the well wishes

[GUESITO]

bffrom- I can certainly understand your anticipation :) you numbers are beautiful so no worries.

AFM-OMG Im so mad right now...Things where going too good to be true... dh went to administer Follistim and got the incorrect dosage, instead of reseting the pen he just pushed and we lost 500 iu's out of 900, which means another $900 out of our pocket. Im so furious because I told him not to press it that we will lose meds and he didn't listen and did it anyways. I better get to bed before I freaking kill him, He still thinks I have enough after wasting more than half, I was barely making it with 900 iu's..Im so Pis*ed right now!!!

[bfromthed]

I hope all the bugs clear and everyone feels better soon!

As far as me more b/w in the am hoping they are at least 5000 by now that way I should be ready for u/s by next week...my old re would do u/s at 6500 but the new re wants to wait until 9000...wow the anticipation of wanting to see the little blessing....I will post after results in the am

[leighanne143]

dnikki- jaedyn is sick too.

i have only had one hour sleep in the past 24 hours.  Jaedyn was throwing up all night and his fever went up to 102.4.  poor little guy went to the dr.s this AM and has a viral infection.  the joys of motherhood when they are sick.

[Keyan]

Happy Monday everyone

Dnikki: Oh I am sorry you guys are sick...hopefully Peyton won't catch it!!

As for me, AF decide to show yesterday, so I am CD2 today. The good thing I won't have AF to bug me during our trip, but I wasn't able to meet with the doc, because he is out of town and won't come in until Friday, which is the day we are leaving...so on to August! In the mean time I am at home, on bed watching movies and not doing much...my favorite type of a day!!

I hope everyone had a good weekend!!

[sbumblebeeo]

dnikki-  I hope you all feel better soon!  I see you said that you are steaming everything.  Do you have one of those Shark mop things?  I saw the H2O mop and was thinking about buying it.  Do they work as good as they say on the commercial?

I posted some new pics of Shelby Friday.  She's soooo cute!

[GUESITO]

Hope you guys  feel better :(
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To all- AFM- Stimming away w/  225 iu's Follistim &  40 iu's HCG Micro dose(This was a first for me), next u/s wed 7/14 last us revealed Lining at 6 already and all good to go.


Have a great day ladies!!!!

[dnikki0928]

Just a quick check in...DS had vomiting most of the day on Thursday, was okay Friday and Saturday and developed diarrhea yesterday...ohy vey! He seems fine this morning. BUT DH woke up at 2 this morning with diarrhea and vomiting, and I woke up at 430 w just diarrhea...We are trying to keep Peyton healthy and hopefully she continues to stay healthy! I've been a cleaning fanatic since Friday and wiping down and steaming everything. Hopefully Peyton will not get this and after DH and I recover it will be out of our household! Have a good day everyone...

Hugs, Love and SSBD to all :-)

[bfromthed]

Thank you re had the beta rechecked today because of the spotting and its fine up to 2856 i am instructed if it gets heavier to return to er or if cramping becomes persistant

[GUESITO]

How scary... Well Im glad everything is ok your numbers look awsome. Just relax and enjoy your weekend wuth hubby.