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MADIGAN - ARE YOU OUT THERE?

41 replies

Schmauskin · 28/11/2006 22:53

Just wonderec how IVF is progressing for you? Had another scan today - 11 follicles on one ovary, 4 on the other, so looking good for egg retreival next week. Feeling ok, but tummy aching and feeling quite swollen... Do let me know how youre getting on it'd be good to compare notes!

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Madigan · 19/12/2006 17:52

Hi Schmauskin - sounds like you will be definitely be doing your next cycle in the US ... Anyway - ARGC's tel no is 0207 486 1230 - if you call them they will send you an info pack. Have you decided whether to do a blood test? Lots of love X

Schmauskin · 19/12/2006 18:02

Ta everso - will give ARGC a shout (did you see them on the BBC IVF programme last night?) It would be great to have a consultation and get their view on our situation. My DH is going to L.A. on the 15th Jan, and DD and I are joing later, so I could start a cycle, and DH could fly in when needed!! Hmmm, blood test... I hear what you're saying, but my period is quite normal, not light or brown, so I'm convinced I'm not pregnant. If I continue bleeding for my usual 5 days, it must be my period, right? So maybe I'll leave it until after Crimbo and see how things are then. All I want to do this evening is have a big fat glass of red and then 'Hello' mag with chocolates, in a long, steamy bath! Have you bought 'What To Expect When Your Expecting Yet' ? I thinks it's the best book on pregnancy I read when I was preggers!

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ShouldKnowByFriday · 20/12/2006 11:33

A VERY BIG WELL DONE AND CONGRATULATIONS MADIGAN!!!!!!! I am so pleased you are finally pregnant!!!!! What a wonderful Christmas you are going to have. Keep us up to date. When is your baby/ies due?

Madigan · 20/12/2006 12:15

Hi Schmauskin and SKBF -

great to hear from you SKBF - hope you are doing well??? I only got my BFP last Friday, so its early days yet... but all is going well so far. Due date will be 24 August, by my calculation, but will be confirmed at 6 weeks scan (on 29 Dec).I will also know then whether it might be twins? I am v excited!!!

How is your pregnancy going???

Schmauskin - no, I have not got that book ... will order it online now ....
yes I watched the programme on Monday - it was v uplifting.

ShouldKnowByFriday · 26/12/2006 14:28

Hi Madigan. Merry Christmas. I am now 17 weeks and feeling much better now that the nausea has subsided, it did a while ago and what a relief. At the end of December I will have 4 and a half months to go which I know will go quickly and then back to being slim again!!!!!!! Can't wait. Have tons of thread veins on legs, one is a mass that looks like a bruise so am getting myself off to somebody who can get rid of them when I can. Next summer is going to be very busy indeed!

SO excited for you and wondering if you are going to have twins as well. Look after yourself and keep posting.

Madigan · 04/01/2007 16:53

Its twins!!!!! it was confirmed on scan yesterday. totally thrilled!!!
Hope you are still doing ok SKBF - I wondered, at what point did you start to "show"?

ShouldKnowByFriday · 04/01/2007 22:12

Hi Madigan, have congratulated you on bubbly's on-line diary thread but congratulations again! That's amazing!! I think you had IVF, how many eggs did they put back? Thank goodness you haven't ended up with three and need a reduction. I am coming up to 19 weeks and I think I started to show at about 10/12 weeks, I can't really remember now. With my first pregnancy we announced it at 5mths and my second we announced after the cvs at 12 weeks although I still wasn't showing by then. With this pregnancy we announced it after the cvs at 12 weeks and while my tummy had popped out ( remember there were 3 at that stage) my baggy shirts still fooled people. As this is your first pregnancy (I think) it does take longer to show as your tummy muscles haven't been stretched. After a full term pregnancy each subsequent pregnancy shows earlier. You will find an array of books on the market on pregnancy and the 2 that I found fab was 'Pregnancy' updated by Malcolm Gillard which is very sensible straight forward advice and 'What to expect when you're expecting', can't remember the author. When I was pregnant for the first and second time I liked buying Pregnancy and Birth which was a good read in bed. I have bought one copy when I was 12 weeks but have found the last thing I want to read when preg for the third time is about being pregnant so gave it to a pregnant friend. Am now feeling alot of movement, in particular possibly a foot under my right rib which feels really odd!!! Every time there is a movement its a nice reminder. You have all this to look forward to. I think you went to the ARG, are you being cared for on the nhs or privately? Are you in London?

Madigan · 05/01/2007 10:43

Hi SKBF -

in answer to your questions -

I did the IVF at ARGC and they put back 2 embryos (the legal limit) - so both have obviously thrived !!!
I am being looked after by ARGC (with weekly blood tests/scans) until 12 weeks. I am going to have the babies at St Marys in Paddington, and am going private. Am seeing the consultant next week, which I am excited about.

Glad to hear you are doing well. and thank you for all your advice !!

XX

ShouldKnowByFriday · 08/01/2007 19:48

Just wondering how you are Madigan. It sounds like you are being well looked after at the clinic. What is your due date and which consultant are you seeing there? I am also going to the Lindo Wing. A little tatty but the best of care.

Madigan · 09/01/2007 11:51

Hi SKBF -

I am fine - feeling v well actually.
I am going to be looked after by Mr Teoh at the Lindo Wing - am meeting him for the first time this Friday. Who is your consultant?

Hope you are doing well.

ShouldKnowByFriday · 22/01/2007 19:56

Hi Madigan

Just wondering how you are?

Madigan · 11/04/2007 16:47

Hi SKBF - wondering if you have had your babies yet? Really hope all is well !!!

I had my 20 wk scan yesterday .... and all is fine with baby, so am v pleased.

Bubbly - how are you??

Lots of love X

bubbly1973 · 20/04/2007 08:51

::warning::...this post may bother anyone still ttc as this isnt really about ttc, its a catchup with madigan and skbf as i dont know where else to put this post where they would find it (sorry)

hiya madigan and skbf, i had to do a search on your name madigan to find out how you are as i couldnt find anything (couldnt find you on any antenatal threads)

when is your due date? i saw your post on toxa(thingymajig) andi hope you dont mind me saying this (am going to say it anyway though lol)

you remind me exactly of me when iwas pregnant...looking back and analysing my behaviour, i could see that i seemed to not quite believe i was lucky enough to be pregnant and thought someone or something would take that away from me, so for each thing that i thought would be a danger to my baby i just couldnt get that worry out of my head

for eg, on my first born, i remeber threating over the fact that i was in a room that by one machine it had a warning on it about radiation....i was no where near that machine and had only put my head through the door of the room (size of a hall actually with machine at other end of room!) but i worried for days and had to tell midwife, and it was only then that i felt at ease that i was fine

then with 2nd baby, my eldest had chicken pox, i KNEW i had it as child and chances of me catching it were slim, but i still had to phone my mum to double check, then as if her word wasnt enough, i HAD to make docs take blood test to see i was immune!....and then i didnt believe them when they said i was,

i see that i did all this because i just thought it was too good to be true that i was having a baby!

so sorry for this long post, i just want to say...enjoy your pregnancy, as soon it will be over and you will have to share your little bean with the rest of the world!!

how are you feeling? hope you are well

skbf, when is your due date? and how are you feeling carrying those twins...hope you are coping with everything from looking after your children to impersonating a penguin!

Madigan · 28/04/2007 02:30

Hi Bubbly
Lovely to hear from you and hope you are well.
I have got over my toxo fear now ... had another test!
Yes I am being slighly paranoid about things, but am feeling a bit better/more positive now - but I am sure it is as you say, I can't quite believe that I am pg (23 weeks now)! Seems too good to be true after all this time ....
Shall we stay in touch on another thread ... which do you suggest?
Lots of love
Madigan X

ShouldKnowByFriday · 30/04/2007 20:27

Hello Bubbly and Madigan. It's good to see your posts! I do look and walk like a penguin with very swollen feet! I have my c-section booked for next Thursday which is the 10th so then it will all be over. I must say I am dreading twins and the work that 2 will entail but I have no choice and I just hope that I love them and feel it (ttcing and what i went through) was all worth it. I read a few multiples threads and started to feel sick with dread of 2 at the same time as there is therefore no one to one time with baby which is a shame. So I go in early Thursday morning and I will be back in my bed after the op by 9am with my new status of mother of 4. Just hope I can cope. I feel very heavy and have little energy which is scary but that is typical of a twins pregnancy and the fact that I am 42 1/2 and have 2 pre-schoolers.

Madigan I have been wondering about you and am pleased that all is well. Make the most of the remaining weeks and I hope you get time to put your feet up. What is your due date I wonder? I had my other 2 in September and October which is actually better for the school year. Do update us.

Bubbly, I still of your online diary and how much help it gave me as I headed for the injectibles route so thank you once again.

God, its only 8.25pm and I could collapse into bed already! DH is away for a few days so I have time to myself which is nice.

Take care both of you and will announce on here when I am out of hospital. Also wonder how Evans is who said she would take a break from ttc'ing - I wonder if she is pregnant now?

bubbly1973 · 01/05/2007 08:27

hiya girls, how about this thread?

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