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!

Ari thank you for the link! I may pop over too as this little one was a SO baby!! I'm keeping everything crossed for you!

Duggs I'll be thinking of you on Wednesday!

Village good news on the scan!! I bloody hope it works this time!! I'm good thank you! 17+ 2 today!! Can't believe it!! I feel like I'm nearly at the end lol!!

Waves to everyone

Xx

Hey folks just a quick bit of advice.. It looks like I may have shingles as have weird rash on face. Had huge headache on Sunday and rash arrived over night. My acupuncturist mentioned shingles. I've done some research and immunosuppressant drugs that weaken the immune system can bring shingles on. Don't think it is harmful in pregnancy but hadn't heard anyone else on here these past 3 yrs mentioning anything about ever getting it from being on pred etc? I've emailed Louise anyway to see what she might say and will go to GP to see what he says.... Interesting!

Duggs my DD had chickenpox when I was 7 weeks pregnant and I panicked totally. What they told me about shingles is that it is usually mild in pregnancy and any risks are theoretical and very, very low. I'm thinking of you and hope you manage to get the rash seen today.

Crikey duggs, I'd not heard of that one - but actually it does make sense. My OH's father who is pretty run-down at the moment for a variety of reasons actually broke out in shingles a few weeks ago, and he was told it was due to the fact that he was so run-down - effectively his immune system is shot to pieces. So I can see how the same thing could happen if you're on immunosuppressants. Given that if you've ever had chickenpox the virus stays in your system for life, it's a sobering thought that this could happen to any one of us, it hadn't occurred to me. Hope you're feeling ok (as much as you can be), and that they can give you something for it!!

Oh, and what do I think of twins? It terrifies me! How on earth to deal with two babies - but worst is the cost! Frightens me silly! I must be the only person on here who actually doesn't WANT an early scan, I much prefer being in ignorant bliss this time! :)

I don't know about in pregnancy Duggs but hopefully what the others say is true and they're not too hideous. My mum had them last year and did say they were very painful though.

Ari a very close friends had ID twins (no fertility treatment, no history in the family apparently they are more common as we get older) when she had been in two minds about having a second child! Her first was only about to turn 3 when they were born. She has found it very very hard going and has appreciated returning to full time work to get a break :) But loves them dearly of course.

Aw duggs painful. Hope you get sorted. When I had chicken pox again last year the doc mentioned a jab so hope you could have that?

Pleased to say harmony first scan went well. Baby measuring bang on for 10wk+3 and got some nice pictures including a freaky 4D one. So weird. Next scan in 2 wks with the harmony results. Hope everyone doing ok today.

Congratulations duggs on good scan. Commiserations on the shingles though, if that's what it turns out to be. I had it a couple of years ago (wasn't pregnant) and it was very unpleasant.

village good luck with the triggering.

ari congratulations! Hope there are either one or two happy sacs in there when you have your scan....

Wow Duggs, this is great stuff!

Feeling really stressed and worried since yesterday evening. Totally irrational, can feel the baby moving a lot. I think it might be work advertising for my maternity leave cover and this crazy fear that it will jinx it. Sorry to offload, I can't tell anyone in RL. I look really pregnant now and everyone just talks as if I am relaxed and looking forward, whereas I worry every day, just more so these last two days. And then I worry that all the worry isn't good for the baby.

Just hold on to those movements, Pixie, they are your baby's way of telling you everything will be alright! I don't think I had a day of not worrying, and especially if I had been doing happy pg things (like buying a pram, say) I would then over-worry to compensate for daring to think things would be fine! But they were fine, and they will be for you too

Duggs, what great news!

Thanks Iggi it's good to know it happens to other people too. Totally get the 'overcompensating'. Thanks for being there.

duggs that's fantastic scan news so far! Thanks for the Fetal Medicine Clinic info, really useful (fingers crossed I'll get that far.) Hope your shingles aren't too painful and will go soon!

team, 17 weeks, wonderful! You'll soon have reached the 20 week milestone!

Mrs P, please don't worry about worrying. We're always told that it 'may not be good for the baby', but all I can say is that I go almost certifiably insane with anxiety during pregnancy and both my DCs are the most chilled kids you could ever hope to meet. With DD I was so stressed in the third trimester that I was being monitored weekly. She throve and was as calm as a cucumber even during her birth. I'll never forget her big blue eyes looking at me sceptically just minutes afterwards, as if to say, 'So, what was all the fuss about, eh?' You will both be absolutely fine x

Ari best of luck for your scan!! Exciting!

It's hard being obviously pregnant and people treating you like a normal pregnant person after having had multiple miscarriages MrsP. TBH it stays with you a long time - the temptation to add 'if it all goes well' onto every sentence. You just have to say it silently as other people will never understand. I was also saying it silently when once I had had DS! And somewhere deep down I still think a silent 'if he's still here' when making plans. It's awful. But you learn to live with it and keep the anxiety to a minimum most of the time.

Ahh that's a lovely image of your DD Village and her big blue eyes :)

Free they're still blue, a bit of a mystery as no one else in the family has them! She really was so calm after being born (and in spite of my nightmare anxiety-ridden pregnancy) that she looked as if she'd just arrived after nine months lolling on a lounger in the Bahamas. Keeping all the pregnant ladies in my thoughts x

It is quite interesting hearing all your thoughts and feelings. This is my 7th pregnancy now and no DC so far will be 5 yr journey if this one arrives in October. However, I have this annoying and (I think potentially dangerous) tendency to veer too much the other way and think things will be ok when they usually (and so far before this one) haven't been ok at all. I kind of get jealous of people who are more cautious and realistic as it seems they protect themselves, where I seem to naturally look on the "bright side" whether than be stats or just wishful thinking. I am dying to share my news and each milestone I seem to tell another person - then feel totally guilty and like a fraud when they are delighted I seem to stand back and watch with disbelief and think "well yes if it stays" muttering under my breath for who's benefit I'm not quite sure?! Either way the pain and hurt is there but I guess whatever approach we have the outcome is pre determined like most things in life. I suppose at some point we have to let of but I wonder if we ever do and not yet being a parent I guess I don't know the half of the worry that brings ( and joy of course or no one would bother

You are like me in that, Duggs. But don't see it as a negative thing. If you hadn't been able to have renewed optimism each time, you'd probably have given up on this journey before now, and never got as far as you are now.
Village, blue eyes are a recessive gene so you both must one hidden away.

I see it like a helium balloon that I was always tugging down - the balloon being my optimism and positive feelings that "this one's the one!" and my need to weight it doing being my fear and anxiety and telling myself not to be so stupid as to imagine I'd get another baby. (I would also imagine ds1 being taken from me too as I wasn't "meant" to have dcs, as someone once kindly told me ).
I don't think your optimism is misplaced at all Duggs, good scans (plural) being a good indicator of success IMHO.

Oops, 'tis Iggi.

brown you're quite right, my grandfather had them and I think DH's mum did too.

duggs I think your optimism is fantastic. Whatever is going to happen is going to happen; much better to be sanguine about it and to have less mental anguish along the way if at all possible. I'm usually optimistic about the whole journey of ttc and pregnancy (against all the odds) until I actually fall pregnant, and then the mentalling strikes. I always say 'this time I'll remain cheerful, upbeat, rational and a functioning human being' and then, by about week 5 - kerpow! Total lunacy descends.

Iggi what a vile thing for anyone to say to you! I like the image of the helium balloon... I will try to imagine holding that balloon in future, though it might need a bit of a boot up the backside once in a while in order to stay afloat.

Likewise love the balloon Iggie. Thank you Village, Diggs and Free for explaining what it's like for you as well.

Also can't believe how cruel people can be Iggie. Really upsetting when people don't understand this misery isn't fate speaking.

I can laugh at it now ('twas my dm!) I've heard all sorts, worse than that unfortunately! Sometimes people just haven't a clue a) what to say and b) how bad it actually feels emotionally and c) how long and bad the physical process can be.
Tv soaps have a lot to answer for in this regard I think with their half-hour miscarriages.
Hope everyone has positive days

Your DM

Oh Iggie you are very forgiving!