POAS: Showers Quickies and Rainbow Babies 🌈 💛💜

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Ok here goes!
Advanced apologies if I miss you in the first message 😆

@MrsJGrealish @bringmearainbow @TheBirdintheCave @emhope @Indianna2006 @LuckyMoonstone @Alexis7890 @bunnykins123 @calimc83 @curliegirlie

@bringmearainbow Today was just a nurse consent appointment on Zoom. When AF comes on Fri or Sat I can book in my scans.

I'm hoping I feel differently once the time comes to actually put an embryo back.

I hope AF actually arrives on time and we didn't mess everything up by dtd last week :/

@bringmearainbow I think after reading so much about pred that with covid risk they steered towards other immunosuppressants these past 2 years/3 years god it's been so long with covid. Now it's not an emergency situation they will use pred again. I could be wrong but I think with the covid risk they avoided it.

For me, I'll do the CD3 tests, get some more info, I won't dig deeper I don't think. Xx

Oh my nephew was born on Thursday morning by the way! :D We're meeting him on Sunday. He is so cute and looks so much like my brother 😍

Ordered some tests today as I'm 10/11dpo. Fingers crossed I'm not pregnant and we can do the transfer as planned. I'm really scared we've messed up 😑

Hey girls. Just reading an having a catch-up. I have been following.

@TheBirdintheCave hope you can go ahead with transfer. You’re sooooo close now!!

have you all been having nice weather where you are?! Hope so!

hope the pregnant girls are coping in the heat 🤰🏼 @FfoxRedN @LuckyMoonstone @bunnykins123

I'm getting heartily fed up of the indent/evap lines on these One Steps....I can see the faintest, thinnest line on the top one (FMU), but I think it's just where the dye is hitting the edge of the indent again sigh

11dpo, so AF due tomorrow or Thursday....

@curliegirlie Do you have any other tests you could try?

@Indianna2006 I was really struggling last week but thankfully the recent nights have gone a bit cooler. Still got the fan on though 😅

Ladies I know I've been quiet on here but I could do with some advice or know if I'm being a complete bitch 🤣.
Throughout this whole pregnancy DH asks me multiple times a day how I'm feeling. I've asked him to tone it down a bit loads of times as it just feels like I'm a walking baby maker and nothing more. Last night, after being being asked for the third time in the day I lost it (I had been feeling fine each time I was asked). Explained that it feels like being pregnant is all I am at the moment (and there is other stuff going on in my life which he knows about) and he just got defensive, said he couldn't win and now is just short replying me. Is there anyway I can get him to see my point of view? He's probably anxious but I can't be asked another 600 times before this baby is out! (Sorry for the rant!!) xx

I'm not sure what to suggest :/ I think sitting down and discussing his anxiety (definitely what it sounds like) around the pregnancy is a good idea though. I can imagine how annoying it must be :( Sorry you've had to put up with that.

@FfoxRedN oh dear. I think maybe you're being a little hard on him. What @TheBirdintheCave is suggesting sounds like a good idea. Like you say he knows what else you're going through and maybe half those 'how are you feeling' are in relation to that. Sorry if this isn't what you need to hear. As you get closer to labour this will get worse so best sit with him now. X

@FfoxRedN I can see both sides to be honest. It’s nice that he is asking after you, I sometimes have to say to DH ‘you haven’t asked me how I am for ages!’ 😅 but I also know what it’s like when you get fed up of being constantly asked. DM asks me alllllll the time how I am and every time I say fine because I have nothing else interesting to say about how I’m feeling 😆 can you ask him what his worries are and see if you can get him to calm down with them as a bit?

Thanks ladies, he is definitely anxious so I've said we can get an interim private scan if he wants, even though that gives me more anxiety to be honest.
Im not denying it comes from a well meaning place, but it does then get exhausting having to describe all the ins and outs, for him to still not really understand, maybe I'll default to I'm fine, or it's going to be a long 23 weeks. I will talk to him more when I get home. xx

@FfoxRedN it's a difficult time but hopefully he'll understand. I also wouldn't put yourself through unnecessary stress with extra scans. Once baby is here I found no one asked how I was 🙈. Same with my niece. She haemorrhaged under community midwife care and they thought all was normal until she was found lying in a pool of blood 6 days after delivery. Hope all goes well xx

@curliegirlie @TheBirdintheCave have either of you tested? Any news? Xx

@MrsJGrealish oh gosh that's awful!!! At least I know I'll be safe then if he keeps asking 😊 x

Ffs I have gestational diabetes 😩 what a ball ache

@LuckyMoonstone oh no! Does that mean you have to limit sugars now? 😫😫😫. xx

@FfoxRedN yep, four blood tests a day! That’s not what bothers me, I’m fine with needles. But having to overhaul my diet when I absolutely do not have the energy right now to think about it is the last thing I need😩 it does need doing, I need to eat better and cut down on the junk. But it’s so hard to think about making healthy choices when I’m tired and hungry and running around after a toddler. And it’s not just sweet stuff, it’s all the sugar in carbs too.
Also now they are absolutely going to talk me into an induction, I just know it 🙄 and I want that even less than I want GD!

@LuckyMoonstone Augh I'm sorry that's the last thing you need :(

@FfoxRedN All negative so we're good to start the transfer process when AF starts tomorrow (hopefully) 😬 Feeling a bit better about it now.

@LuckyMoonstone I can only imagine how stressful that feels! Bless you, I think I'd be going to the ready made salad department or low carb ready meals 😣. Do whatever you're going to find the easiest especially getting your head round it all 🤯.

@TheBirdintheCave I'm so glad you're feeling better, I really have everything crossed for you that it's successful 🙏🏼. xx

@FfoxRedN yeah ready meals are a good shout because you can see the nutritional content straight away on the pack, gotta beware of the sugar that goes in them though! Tonight we had chippy for tea because that’s what we planned, so I decided to go through with my last nice meal 😂

@TheBirdintheCave yay glad it’s all ready to start for you now, you know us lot here will be your biggest cheerleaders every step of the way 🙌🙌

Hi everyone - sorry for being distant recently. I'm having awful problems with my phone (which means the app doesn't work) and even though I have a new phone to set up, our Wi-Fi doesn't work as we are in limbo between providers which has taken 6 weeks so far (still not resolved) so I haven't been able to update my phone yet as it needs Wi-Fi. Le sigh. Anyway I'm just catching up on messages so bare with me...

@bringmearainbow I didn't take pred but took hydroxychloroquine. I think pred I actually the stronger of the 2 when you are diagnosed with autoimmune issues? I was also given cyclogest (didn't take it though as my levels were always ok) and was advised to take aspirin (didn't take that either!)

@TheBirdintheCave that's such good news you can get started - how are you feeling? Excited? Relief? I've got everything crossed for you.

@FfoxRedN I would sit down with him and explain your point of view. You recognise it comes from a good place but he needs to understand that it isn't helping your anxiety and he should be assured you will tell him if something doesn't quite feel right. I second @MrsJGrealish says don't have more scans just to satisfy him. Do what feels right for you. As you progress, bump will grow and hopefully he will chill a bit more as it's more obvious. How many weeks are you now?

@LuckyMoonstone oh poo, sorry about that. Mines on 97th percentile but I don't have GD. I have to do the finger prick tests for 2 weeks just to check though. I eat utter crap so suspect that plays a part (DD was big too!)

@curliegirlie those are horrible indents.

@MrsJGrealish how are you doing? Hope all is well!

@bunnykins123 yes I'm good lovely! Glad you don't have GD (imagine the size 😳 if your DD was already big)

I'm very much 'ce la vie' now (I did A level French, can you tell 😂) if it happens brilliant, if not I'll be fine. Still horribly addicted to OPKs but I haven't placed a new order 💪 xx