IVF Pregnancy Club - now IVF Baby Club!

[CloudyIvy55]

Hello again ladies!

The IVF Pregnancy Club thread was so helpful for me throughout my pregnancy — there’s nothing like the support of people who just get it. Now that our babies have started to arrive, I thought it would be nice to start a follow-on thread so we can keep chatting, sharing advice and supporting each other as we adjust to life with our little ones 🥰

@SarahAndQuack Wow! Didn't realise you had a date! How exciting. Will you be 40 weeks at that point? I'm having extra scan tomorrow, seeing midwife Wed then extra scan and see consultant to book in the birth for next week also. I'll be 39 weeks by then. Yep, we're close! I might get an elective on sane day as your induction!

Is anyone else having any tummy troubles? Everything i eat is going straight through me ATM. Very churny. Sorry if TMI!

It could be a sign of you body clearing out to get ready for childbirth! Have a read up on it.

Great to see so many of you getting to the point of meeting your bundles of joy soon!!

Callie is 5 months today - how did that happen!! She has a bit of a cold and is out of sorts. I was away for the weekend and for the biggest smile off her when I came back 🥰

@dubkitten Thanks, will do. Can't believe she's 5 months already, love her little trainers! Xxx

YAY I CAN OFFICIALLY COME OVER HERE NOW

Yes @pastelheartwelcome to the other side!! 🥳🥳 how are you getting on?

Anyone else worried about the heatwave forecast this week. Met Office is predicting 37 where I am! How am I going to keep baby cool!?

@CloudyIvy55 sorry for delay, we were discharge from hospital on Thursday (after a week in hospital!) and have just been in our bubble since.

I do have a suspected DVT in my leg so I’m currently on blood thinning injections (had a nightmare at the hospital on Friday- was left for 6 hours in a cubicle with my baby and offered no food or water and I couldn’t leave to get anything for myself)

other than that we are all good! Feeding and sleeping is going well. He’s going 3 hours between feeds in the day, with an alert period and good sleep in between and then 4 hours in the night but straight back to sleep after his feed.

had a couple of harder days feeding wise this week when my milk came in and he found it hard to latch and then my nipples were so sore and cracked for a day so was hard to feed but come out the other side now… I hope!

how are you?

and yes I am worried about heatwave with him, think it will
just be in nappies at home in front of a fan for a few days xx

Also, not sure if anyone has been using the Huckleberry app but it’s 10/10 and saved me a few times this week. Can track sleep, feeds, nappies etc honestly so good!

Sorry another also…

happy Father’s Day to all your partners too, I bet this one is extra special 🤍

Glad you are home and settled @pastelheart sorry to hear about the DVT .. hopefully that is all fine with the blood thinners and you feel ok .. Awh that’s so nice he is sleeping/ feeding well .. super happy for you and happy Father’s Day to your man and everyone else also .. I wasn’t sure whether to get a card as I still don’t wana ‘jinx’ it so av got a thank you card and some thank you gifts to give him as he’s been so good doing all the gardening /housework helping me cook etc and he’s still working full time so he really has been so amazing this whole pregnancy to me and bump .. so it’s ’thank You’ based to show my appreciation rather than Father’s Day .. I got a Father’s card a few years back when I was preg before and that was one of our losses so I’ll just hold off till next year hopefully he can get a proper Father’s Day card when she is here .. 🤞🏽🙏✨💛..

I get my sweep tomorrow .., so hopefully that works .. was your one sore @pastelheart when you got your 1st one ? Av never had one before so don’t know what to expect .. not even sure if I am dilated at all down there yet so will find out tomorrow, do I need to be dilated before they can do it ?

hope you all survive the heat .. luckily I live in Scotland so I think 25* is the hottest we get 😅 still hot for us up here though !