Babies due after IVF

Thanks love!

Things are great now, and no pain or anything- hardly feel pregnant except for my bump! So, rest assured it does get better.

Cant wait for the 20 week scan- dying to know what we are having!!

Things definately get better after 12 weeks, when the sickness goes and also the baby moves out of the pelvis!

Its still hard for me to actually believe I am pregnant- it has been so long, and such a hard road, but I have started to show so I am sure these feelings will subside!

Where did you have your IVF?

*looks around for Margs' slow ass pregnant self*

*lurker*  Hi ladies congrats to you all on your successful IVF.

Just thought I'd share that my aunty's first child was an IVF after unexplained infertility.  It was quite a surprise then when they got pregnant again a couple of years later.  They hadn't been trying but hadn't bothered with contraception either in the certain knowledge that they couldn't concieve naturally.  It shouldn't have been as much of a surprise a few years later when my aunty, who's 2 kids were now school age and who was looking forward to going back at work, found out she was pregnant with bubba #3.

So after several years of "unexplained infertility" they had one IVF baby and 2 'surprise' natural conceptions. 

*lurker out*

Welcome Margs- congratulations!

Well done for all the hard effort along the way and you must be so excited!!! Do have you have any embryo's on ice? When are you due?

We had treatment at Fertility Associates, and were on the waiting list for public funding but didnt want to wait any longer so paid for the round ($10k later!).

Hi All
We were at Fertility assoc as well, and also couldnt wait till end of the year and paid the round (ouch!) - but all worth it. We had only one embryo make it to D-day but I think all the goodness was in this one little bean cos we got a BFP!!

It would be awesome if this sorts my endo and we can get preggers naturally next time, I wouldn't mind the surprise in the least!!

EC! It's awful!

Ack - I had about 30 Summagirl, so I was feeling a bit on the abused side by the end of it. The drugs were really good, but it was still awful. DH said it was hard to be there - he said that he could tell every time I was really hurt because my heart rate would go through the roof!

I've been exercising, but not like I did pre-pregnancy. We used to walk from home to the park with the dogs, around the park or tracks and home again - about an hour and a half or so every day of varying intensity. Now though we drive to the park and I have 2 days off a week from going at all, and we amble around. I'm still getting pain, so I take it pretty carefully, and we do very easy walks.

I think it's probably sensible all things considered to take it easy in the first trimester - these pregnancies haven't come easily to us, and I don't see the point in risking them for the sake of a bit of exercise. If I was you I'd just consider housework, a bit of gardening etc, enough for the mo!

Besides ... my nana was a maternity nurse and she said that the less fit you are, usually the easier the birth (because your muscles aren't tight and therefore resisting!)

I haven't really had cravings I don't think ... just food-related odd behaviour I've been seriously off some foods, and I had a few days where I was drinking lots of milk ... I was completely busting for a McDOnald's hamburger/cheeseburger for WEEKS and also Indian food ... although I won't go down that track again because No. 9 was not impressed! That's about it. Oh! I am eating more eggs than I ever have in my life, but that's because they seem to stay down and keep me full for a while.

As for believing your pregnant? I'm still not convinced that I'm not just getting fat!

EC was awful for me too they got 12 as well.

How long did was it from the time you got your BFP till your first scan so you can see the heart beat??

My first scan was at 6.5 weeks and there was definately a heartbeat. Just looked like a little bean and the whole thing was beating!

Finding out gender in 4 weeks, so that is exciting!