TTC or pregnancy on prednisolone or similar part 12

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This is a positive thread for all those diagnosed with High or Very High NK Cells and looking to start TTC or already pregnant on Prednisolone and/or Intralipid treatment.

Newcomers very much welcome!

duggs that is fab scan news!

Team really sorry to hear you're feeling down - Monday's appointment will give you the reassurance you need! Just get through tomorrow! I don't know that cause of your late loss two years ago, but just remember this is a different pregnancy... Sending you positive thoughts xx

Iggi I always feel panic when I lie down for a scan now, pulse racing, heart thumping, sweat beading - even when it's just an ovarian scan and I'm not even pregnant! Don't think that feeling ever quite leaves you.

Hello all esp those old timers who remember me :)

Yay Duggs that's great news. Free I'm sorry to hear you mc'd but hope you can get full information soon.

As for me - our gorgeous little girl arrived yesterday. She's currently snoozing in my non-phone arm. To DH and me Mr S is a hero. Quite simply she wouldn't be here without him. It hasn't quite sunk in yet that she's finally here - and I'm a mum! :)

Hang on in there guys. It can happen. Even after some really shitty despondent times. I hope that doesn't come across as patronising - I hope my story can give some hope to those having a hard time of it. I've had an emotional rollercoaster of the last 4.5 years but I'm now staring in awe at my own baby daughter.

Loads of love and best wishes to you all xx

Oh Choccy that is amazing news, I am so pleased for you. And what a gorgeous day for you to be enjoying your new daughter on. Happy happy day, Huge huge congratulations!! So pleased!

Choccy huge congratulations xx

Congratulations choccy enjoy every second. I'm sure she is even more precious after all you have been through.

Lovely news choccy! Remind me, was your baby a super ovulation success??

Ahhhhh CHOCCY!!! HUGE Congratulations on the birth of your little girl. So lovely to hear after all your heartache. Another Pred Thread baby to add to the list! Go and enjoy the sleepless nights and huge tugging on the heart strings xxx (PM us and tell us her name! Hope the birth went ok).

Charlie. Mmm. Better be the same thing yes. Let us know how it goes. At least you know you have tried your best.

Thanks for all the info on the trisomy, am intrigued about what the more information will say when I eventually track it down. No I haven't had any karotyping actually.

Fabulous news choccy! So happy to hear
Enjoy you so deserve it. I'll bet your dad is smiling down watching you all x
Free you've had DS so doubt you'll need karyotyping as test for genetic carrying issues. There is nothing sinister or surprising about a trisomy over age 35, just a numbers game. Would be interesting to know which one it was 16 is most common for heartbeat not developing at early scan is vvv common and doesn't mean much re your next attempt.

Doppler just arrived and found the heart beat! I checked for my own first and listened to the BPM and sounds etc so that I could differentiate. Then I managed to get the baby's which sounded like galloping ponies and I timed it at 160bpm. PHEW. This has helped no end. I actually was stressing again as went to the loo yesterday no. 2 and there was blood (I am constipated) but luckily i worked out it wasn't from the ahem "front". Sorry for the TMI but I freaked.

Anyway - I hope everyone has an enjoyable day, what weather eh? Whee!

Choccy huge congratulations how wonderful!
Tum. That must be so reassuring - lol at your tmi but the sight of red is so alarming - I can imagine your huge relief !

I'm due to ovulate any time now - been getting twinges. Been using opks three times a day as last month cycle seemed all messed up. Anyway tested yesterday morning and lunchtime which was negative. Last night before bed got a positive smiley face. Husband working away !! but back today. This morning fmu test was negative ? Gonna test again at lunchtime as a lot of people say not to use fmu? Will be worried if negative - anyone else had this? Also tmi alert but no ewcm yet? Could this e the meds. Sorry for me me post but getting concerned. Last month don't show positive opk till day 20!!

Choccy that's wonderful news! Congratulations to you and your DH!!

Tum that's brilliant! I'm about to order one today! Which one did you get??

Quick question! Has anyone else had what looks like milk come from your nipples at this early stage?? I'm 14 weeks! I was so shocked! It didn't happen in my late loss pregnancy!
Feel much better today! And DH is back! Thank you for all your supportive messages!!

Waves to everyone!
Xx

Choccy am made up for you, congratulations
What a happy day

Sorry Free wasn't implying you should have had it done, just that where I am it is part of the standard rmc tests, so I had it done in my ore-Shehata days. It's the only thing they bring your DP in for if memory serves. Presumably the additional info they have is to tell you which trisomy it was, and I know some people are told if it was male or female but I wasn't told that.

Quick update - done 2 opks this afternoon and both negative - don't understand what's happening. If it was positive last night surely it should be today. Wouldn't have even seen any positive if I hadn't done the extra test last night so would have missed that completely. Bit confused.

Choccy Yay! Wonderful news, many congratulations to you and DH! Perfect day for your daughter to be born. I feel so emotional for you after all of the heartache you have been through and now your little girl is here.

Mattsmama can't really help on the opk I'm afraid as I never once got a smiley face, we just had to dtd every other day to cover all bases! Exhausting

Mattsmamma in my OPK experience I read you need to test between 2pm and 8pm for accurate reading. If you got a positive yesterday this was the LH surge in the urine which occurs 24-36 hrs before actual ovulation so just get on it. Don't worry about looking for another .... That was it. Get those sperm in there and waiting ... Just get to it today and tomorrow and next day for good measure.

choccy So damn pleased for you and DH!! Happy day indeed! Would you share her name with us, if you get a chance to pop back on at all? Guess you are done with the omeprazole for good now ;) (ps I'm still not taking it! :) )

Mattsmama - I'd echo duggs - I'm an old hand at OPKs; I've always found my surge comes after 3pm and only ever on the one test (very occasionally I've seen it repeated on next morning's CBFM test but never the following day's OPK). You get your surge (the smiley face) and then the surge subsides with ovulation following some 24-36 or so hours later. So, as duggs says - get to it! :)

Belly, Duggs and Arian - thanks ladies! Gonna be busy few days ha ha. Duggs and Arian - that is interesting about the opks - and thinking about past cycles and positive opks mine have all been later in the day.

Ah Choccy - fantastic! Congratulations - I love hearing the birth stories!

Tum - well done on finding the heartbeat straight away!

Mattsmama the only thing I found with OPKs is that I could get a positive then a few days later I could get another positive. It's like my body tried to ovulate, doesn't quite do it then has another go a few days later (common with PCOS). So might be worth an extra few sessions in a few days.

I also found my surge for OPKs was in the afternoon or at least late morning.

Choccy congratulations. Very exciting hearing your news.

So lovely to hear your news, Choccy.
Mattsmama, my surges are usually in the morning, and although my positive OPKs usually last 2 or maybe three days, I have occasionally had one that was so brief it was gone the next day. Do you chart your temperature? That's the surest way to know if you ovulated. I would treat it as a positive but keep on testing.

Congratulations Choccy, enjoy your precious daughter. Hope you have a great babymoon.

Duggs*, so pleased for you!
free, I had a trisomy miscarriage last year, the only one I've ever had tested, and I know how you feel. It was a real shock for me, even though logically it was the most obvious cause of miscarriage in someone of 42. I found it shocking and yet the cause was almost mundane. I don't think I was expecting them to be able to find a cause and that it would be just one more mystery to add to the others. But it can happen to anyone, and the fact is, a percentage of anyone's eggs are abnormal and that increases with age. You have the living proof that you can produce perfect eggs, as do I. In the end, I was just grateful that my body knew what to do, and that we didn't have to go through all the anxiety of finding out later, all the testing, making sure, decision-making, etc. And I also hold on to the fact that even that egg was nearly perfect, just one tiny error - with big implications yes, but it might be perfect next time.
Anyone who's interested in melatonin for egg quality, I now have been taking 1mg melatonin for about 5 days and going well. Good sleep, yes, but I was sleeping well prior to this anyway. Not brave enough to go up to 3mg as recommended though. What I am pleaed with is that this cycle I haven't had a false LH surge from day 8 which I have been getting lately.
Going to ring up for my FSH results this afternoon, after my sister's early menopause. Gulp.

free my last miscarriage around the same time as yours was also a trisomy (21) which was downs. They also found another part of a chromosome on trisomy 12 so I have an appointment with a geneticist today to discuss what it could mean. Both DH and I had karyotyping in 2011 which was clear but I was told we might have to have more indepth karyotyping done as the nhs only test for 'normal' chromosome defects. Could explain all my losses. You would think that after having had so many losses they would test more indepth anyway! Really worried about what they might say. I guess egg donation might be the only way forward for us if I am a carrier of something sinister.

brown good luck with the Fsh results.

Thanks, Sue. I hope you can get some answers today, but obviously ones that will still mean you can try with your own eggs. You have your DD after all, so you would have thought there can't be a problem with all your eggs.

FSH 13.1. Not great, but could be a whole lot worse.