Keith's BPG II

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@AliciaWhiskers @CornishMaid1 @Ginandtonic31 @Cauliflower82 @Welshpugmomma @Mrbay @Zest11 @RRoonilWazlib @Weenumpty

Hope this works xx

@Mrbay even when I get to pre pregnant weight I'm still a stone up at least from ivf too!
That cherry fabric was only £2.99 a metre! The shorts used half and now half for the top. So if I screw up it isn't the end of the world.

I keep missing out on the chat despite having ‘watching’ on 🤷🏼‍♀️

@Ginandtonic31 BEST shorts ever! Absolutely adorable - I LOVE them! Excellent work.

@Mrbay sending you lots and lots of luck 💕

@Zest11 oh my goodness - I can’t believe you’re nearly there! I hope you’re doing well and taking lots of care of yourself.

Not much to report here - 16 week jabs were horrific, poor baby had a temperature. This month I am tackling sleeping on the big cot... have you guys transitioned from Moses basket or next to me or similar to the big cot yet?

How’s everyone handling the easing of lockdown?

@Ginandtonic31 - I'm sure that you still look fab!!

Hey @Cauliflower82 - glad to hear things are going well for you 😊

I'm still trying to resist testing as I am only 4dp5dt so still too early but it is dragging!!

@Cauliflower82 we've just had 16 week jabs today. Why were they horrific? We've just given her the last dose of calpol to keep temp down but will check her in the night and if she has a temp will give her an extra dose.

Not thought about transitioning yet! Think we will be keeping her in the next2me until she is too big/starts climbing out 😂

@Cauliflower82 @Ginandtonic31 we had jabs today too! She cried for around 7 seconds and then starting grinning at the nurse. My baby is a nutter.

I still have Nancy in the snuzpod and just this evening my mum said 'well when you move Nancy into her own room, you could always get your childhood single bed and move in with her'. Ha ha. So basically I don't ever want to not sleep next to Nancy again!

@Mrbay it's tough. Try for another few days or you'll get yourself into a right old tizz. When is OTD?

I should have been more specific - the effects of the jabs were horrific, high temperature and exorcist like projectile vomiting. Little pip is doing much better now though - bless him.

As you can see from the time, we are very much still not sleeping through 😂 😬

Anyway the nurse from 111 told me that the second and third dose of the meningitis jab are more likely to cause a fever than the first - I didn’t know this so just in case anyone worries if theirs gets a high temperature, some info.

@Mrbay are you getting a blood test or do you have to poas? I only ask as I remember holding out poas as I’d never seen two lines - a weird lucky/unlucky thing - I can’t think of the word 😂 but I’m sure you’ll get what I mean.

It was our embryosnniversary yesterday - I hope you’re celebrating yours in June next year.

Superstitious - as soon as I sent it I remembered.

@KittyKatSmile 😂😂😂😂😂

@KittyKatSmile Georgie did the same! Massive cry as the needles went in then stopped and smiled and came home, had her nap and started giggling 😂 slept well through the night and she's up and normal today. I've a nutter too! My mum has this theory and I don't know but she thinks sometimes with IVF, because they choose the strongest sperm (if ICSI) and then put back strong embryos it results in a strong baby 🤷‍♀️

Oh I'm the same! When she's in her room she's in it!

OTD is a week on sunday so a while to go last fresh transfer I bled from day 9 so I may test on Tuesday to see if anything comes up.
I know @Cauliflower82 - I'm doubtful I'm ever going to see those 2 little lines again. It's just POAS but might get bloods done at the private hospital but will wait and see.

@ginandtonic31 - I think that she may be on to something there!

@Mrbay day 9 is when my clinic wanted to blood test so I poas the day before at night. So day 8. It was definitely a positive.

So maybe Monday then!

Hi all, I hope everyone is doing well. I'm sorry to hear how horrid those jabs are. I can't believe so many of you have 16 week old babies.

@welshpugmomma Is it just a week now until you come back?? I bet you are soooo excited!

@cauliflower82 so pleased to see you on here again, it's so frustrating when notifications don't come through!!

@Mrbay OTD seems like a long time away so I don't blame you for testing early. I hope the next few days/week are okay for you.

Well I have some news. Our baby boy was born on Weds evening weighing 8lb11oz. I am so in love with him. The last few days have been so busy. Xx

@Zest11 I can't believe you just snuck that in there at the end!

CONGRATULATIONS!

We are going to need some details but in the meantime hope you're all doing well and managing a little bit of rest.

@Mrbay thinking of you and keeping things crossed xx

@zest11 congratulations lady! Amazing can't wait to hear more!

@Zest11 ☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️ Best news ever!! Congratulations 🥳 oh I’m just so so happy for you.

Congratulations @zest11!! SO happy for you.

Thank you all for your well wishes. I just really can't believe how in love I am with him. My heart breaks!

He will be a week old tomorrow! I don't want him to grow up! We have been enjoying him so so much in this short time and have loved spending time together as a family of 3. It's madness how the day can be taken up looking after such a small little baby. I didn't understand it before but now I do!

Things haven't been easy physically though as I ended up with a forceps delivery, episiotomy and I have a lot of pain down there. There is an infection now and I have antibiotics so I'm really hoping they work soon. It's just a rotten thing to happen as I'm so desperate to be physically able to get up and tend to the baby.

I hope everyone else is keeping well. Any updates?

@Zest11 it’s so great to hear such a lovely update about your new family of three. It sounds like we had very similar deliveries. Although I didn’t have an infection afterwards, I can tell you that I was in so much pain afterwards too and it subsided a lot by about the time Pip was two and a half weeks old. I hope you start feeling loads loads better really soon. The midwives kept telling me to use badedas bath foam - I have no idea if I’ve spelt that correctly and it did help for the time I had a bath.

Hey!

I didn't want to say earlier in the week, but the 4th transfer has failed yet again.

I am so frustrated as IVF is still a mystery and I feel that this round has been wasted, only had the one embryo make it to day-5 the other stopped growing around day5/6.

I've been researching like a mad woman as it feels that as the patient you have to take control of your own outcome.

I'm not looking to move clinic and I've decided that I will give my final NHS cycle a whirl but there has to be some changes as I cannot go through another failure. The worse part has not been the loss but the telling people as everyone looks at you with such hopeful eyes. I don't want their pity plus I just want to be able to give my parents a grandchild as my brother sure isn't going too!

Sorry for the rant, I am fed up with being a woman today!! bloody fibroid!!!

Hope you are all well :)

@Mrbay I am so sorry to hear your news. I've been thinking about you and obviously hoping for a different outcome. Do your clinic assess your treatment as standard? I would be pushing to be sort of reassessed and tweaked if necessary although of course they may just say it's luck (fucking shitty luck).

In the meantime i would recommend a large glass of wine or gin and maybe some blue cheese or rare steak.

I'm so sorry, it's utterly shitty xx

@Mrbay I am so so sorry to hear this. It's truly unfair. I am so very sad for you. When I was doing some of my own research I came across this website which I found helpful. www.fertilityfriends.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=283000.0 If you are thinking of changing clinics then chuck everything at it. There are some private clinics like CRGH which accept NHS patients, you just may have to contact them to find out how you go about getting referred.
As Kittykatsmile says, treat yourself for now. Really hot baths, rare steak etc.

@Cauliflower82 Aww thank you for replying. I remember you saying about your birth too, it's quite traumatising, but just grateful for his safe arrival. I will have a look at that bath foam, thank you. That's reassuring you said things improved for you after 2 1/2 weeks, I really hope it's the same for me.

@KittyKatSmile (I still cannot type your name first time without automatically putting Keith!) - yep they are pretty standard with their protocols but do listen to suggestions and are literally up the road from home (20min drive). they have been taken over by Care so I think the Director still wants to keep a sense of independence and likes to stay with the protocols that they see good results from - just not in my case!!

@Zest11 - I've been looking but it is such a minefield out there! I've gone through the link you shared like a madwoman! Poor consultant isn't going to know what hit him!

I've requested my notes, as I need to fully understand what is happening and be my own spokes person as I only have to worry about myself where the clinic has 100s to worry about!

The clinic would good today, not their normal service but I expect that they are not operating on a full team yet - the nurse suggested counselling, starting to think people like I need some help! I just needed a few days to cry and eat crap and then I'm ready to go!

Feel like a bit of shit friend and my best mate gave birth on Sunday and I just don't want to face her yet, nor do I want to talk about what is going through my head - I think she wants to know but I am just changing the subject!