First Timers TTC. Safe space for brain dumps, questions, whinges and celebrations. Part 2!

Hi @TinyDancer91! Do you mean Tuesday as in the 11th Feb (tomorrow)? That’s really exciting. I think the hardest thing about birth is that you have no idea how it will go on the day but my friend had an induction and it went really well and she had a very uncomplicated and relatively not painful birth. Also, as others have said, babies are rarely as big as the scan.

I can only think of girl names, here are some suggestions:

Agatha
Aurora
Avery
Beatrice
Caroline
Eleanor
Emily
Everly
Daisy
Felicity
Lucy
Madeleine
Olivia
Ruby
Violet
Zara

Haha no problem if you don’t like those but I believe they’re not too common but also not so ‘unique’ that they’re silly. I like the names from Livelaughloathe and Ditzydaisychain too.

Congratulations on little Bella @Livlaughloathe! How old is she now?

Also congratulations to @Ditzydaisychain on her little boy! I think I’d already said congratulations but I’ll say it again :)

As for me, I had to wait a full cycle before I could have a transfer just to check everything had gone back to normal. So my transfer is this Wednesday (12th). I feel mostly not that hopeful after how last time went! It would be nice if it did work though!

Hey @TinyDancer91, how exciting. I have been thinking of you and that you would be due anytime now.
Try not to worry too much about size in the scans, as I don’t know anyone whose baby was as big as their scan said. I ended up having a c section because he was apparently over 10lbs and then he arrived and he was only in the 7lb region. You’ve got this and you will do amazing.

We didn’t have a name when he was born. For two indecisive people we really struggled naming a baby 🤣.
Not sure how classic some of these are, I loved so many girls names but found boys names hard.

Ada, Bea, Bonnie, Clara, Dahlia, Felicity, Harriet, Helena, Ismay, Lorena, Nancy, Penelope, Sacha, Tilly, Violet, Winnie

Wishing you the best of luck. Let us know how you get on 💕💕

Hello @TinyDancer91 ive not posted here for a while. I did in fact have a little girl last year but I still like to see how everyone is getting on and have been very happy to keep hearing of your pregnancy! You are so close now! I did actually have an around 95th centile girly at 9lbs2. I didn’t have an induction so I can’t comment on that but I had a very uncomplicated birth so I hope that offers some light reassurance about big babies. She did measure big at one point during the pregnancy and it made me a bit worried too but then she didn’t at a follow up scan so I parked it. Sometimes I think you’re better off not knowing! Because the worry about it in anticipation is much worse than the reality in my experience. The scans aren’t always the most accurate anyway. Your body is made to birth your baby. You’ve absolutely got this!

Here’s some names that spring to mind (hopefully on the right track):
Thea
Rosa
Tabitha
Amelie
Margot
Maeve
Maya
Iris
India
Scarlett
Grace
Lottie
Cassie
Lily
Wren

We have a Bella but I know lots of people don’t like names that are shortenings. Isabella is pretty but very high in popularity. It’s so tough!

Wishing you luck! Xxx

Fingers crossed for January @Feliciacat. In the meantime I hope you can grieve and start to recover physically and emotionally.

I think we will transfer again during my January period. I believe all you need to do is to track ovulation and then go for the transfer after that. I think frozen transfers are a bit more likely to work but I don’t know if that is because people get frozen embryos PGT-A tested. I’m not getting any of mine tested. Maybe it’s because of the embryo survives the thaw then it’s a strong embryo. I guess I’ll find out.

Completely understandable @Feliciacat if you wanted to take a break from the thread, but it is a very supportive place and I've always found it a cathartic place to open up.

Very sorry again for your loss, no wonder you're devastated.

Will you go for another transfer next month, or wait a bit?

I think I was speaking from a place of devastation when I said I’d leave. I’m back on the thread now. Thank you for your kind words.

I do have two more frozen embryos so at least I don’t need to do ivf again yet. Or if I do, I know what it’s like now. Our second cycle is already paid for. It’s £2500 per transfer though 😬 We have to transfer both before we can move onto the next cycle. I’m such an expensive wife!

@Feliciacat I'm so sorry. Wishing you all the very best. We'll still be here if you want to come back and vent x

@Feliciacat I'm so sorry.

They saw the gestational sac and the yolk yesterday. No embryo but they said it was too early at 5w4d to see. However, I started bleeding an hour after that scan.

Had to eventually go to A&E for blood loss last night. The blood loss slowed after 7 hours and I’m back home now. My blood count is fine. There’s nothing they can do gynaecology wise at this point. They’re going to move my viability scan on 4th Dec to 27th Nov. But it will be an appointment to check I’ve cleared the tissue rather than to check how the embryo is growing. I’ve had a miscarriage unfortunately and just need to wait for the bleeding to stop.

Im leaving this thread for obvious reasons but I wish you all success and happiness.

@Feliciacat keeping my fingers crossed for you that it works out 🤞 you can only take it one day at a time.

I'm 34+4 now and doing ok. In lots of ways this stage is the easiest now I've got omeprazole. My only niggles are hip pain / back pain / piles. I felt a hell of a lot worse in first 20 or so weeks to be honest! Hopefully this continues. It's also nice to feel her moving even now she's getting big enough to hurt me in my ribs and hip simultaneously 😂

Just hoping she will be ok and I can bring her home safe and sound. Next growth scan is a week on Wednesday

Hey @LucyLoopyLu! Thank you for asking! I’m five weeks now and I’m having a viability scan at 7 weeks. I’ve been testing each day and the line has got darker. Clearblue said I was 2-3 weeks yesterday which is about right (embryo created on 26/10/24). Hopefully if I use a how many weeks next week then it’ll say 3+. I’m on knicker watch as they call it because I’m afraid something will go wrong.

I do have headaches, nausea, dizziness and fatigue. Plus my nipples keep feeling itchy. I’m hoping these are all good signs.

How are you guys doing? Some people don’t have long now!

@Feliciacat very exciting news (sorry for late reply)! How are you doing / feeling? X

@Feliciacat I am so excited for you! So pleased for you and Mr Feliciacat.

Also thank you for your well wishes 💕

We got 2x5AA and 1x4BB. They transferred one of the 5AAs on Oct 30th and I did a FRER today. I will retest on Monday but tbh I had to test now as I thought I was going insane with how I was feeling and acting. I’m so over sensitive and I feel really tense in my head and nauseous. I’m glad it’s pregnancy and not insanity!

@Feliciacat it's been lovely to see your update! Great news. Hope all goes well with your transfer 🤞 hopefully 2 more in the freezer as well will give you a great chance. Keep us updated if you can

Thank you @TinyDancer91! I’m really glad that you’ve got your long awaited dream too!

Out of the six, we have two definite, two borderline and two that didn’t make it. One will be transferred today and if we can have two more in the freezer then that will be a great result I feel! Will update on two weeks with whether a BFP or BFN. If a BFP then I think we’d have a full house on this thread.

@Feliciacat that's fantastic but mysy be so frustrating that you might not have needed the IVF at all if they had just sorted the endometriosis!

I have massively hijacked this thread; my apologies. However, I believe I’m the only ‘OG’ who hasn’t conceived so I hope if anyone searches for my post history then they’ll find this story.

My day 3 update is that all six of my fertilised eggs are thriving! They’re all at 6-8 cells (where they should be) or some at even more! The embryologist said it’s very unusual to have had no attrition and that’s it probably is because it was only endometriosis acting as a barrier to the eggs getting to the fallopian tubes. Now I’m having ivf then there’s no problem!

I am also taking Proceive Max sachets, Proceive Omega 3 andCoenzyme 10 with ubiquinol (600mg). I’m making my DH take the same supplements as me (minus the Omega 3) and we’ve both abstained from caffeine and alcohol for the last three months.

@Feliciacat we have some name ideas, but not concrete yet. Two months to go, hopefully we'll settle on something.

Yes, it's very exciting. Have got most baby stuff, but haven't set it up yet. Getting woek done on the house, which is nearly finished now thankfully, and then will set up baby stuff. Can't wait for that!

Let us know how the update goes today! How many will they transfer on Wenesday (or does that depend on today's update)?

@CatCaretaker thank you. Yes, that’s so weird that IUI just worked when everything before didn’t. I wonder what it was. It’s amazing it did work though. Life is strange sometimes!

Do you have any names picked out? I bet you’re so excited!