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Bee- Wow!! Sounds like some dangerous furniture you have. Oh my!! Be careful. ALso, I hear ya about getting big. All I know is this little guy must have got so huge in the past few weeks. I went from hardly showing to not being about to see my "you know" anymore. Its crazy how fast it happened. I think if he doesn't come out soon, he is going to be a huge baby. FOr ones that don't know what sweeping the membranes is.... well, its not actually inducing for it only works if the baby is ready and sometimes it can take more than once..... What it is, is the doctor while feeling in your cervix will sweep the membranes off the wall of the sac to the cervix. My doctor doesn't want to do it until 39 weeks because of the very slight chance that during the process they might accidently break the sac. It just helps most not go past the due date (which isn't even always the case).... also, most doctors wont do it unless you are already dilating, which I am. Plus I already lost my mucus plug and had the bloody show... so, sweeping my just help things move along a bit better. Oh well!! I just hope that I don't have to worry about getting it done on Tuesday due to giving birth before then. :) I've been so crampy this morning since I woke up, I keep thinking that any time now I should start bad contractions... but, nothing too bad yet. Its weird how excited I am to feel pain. LOL... I told hubby that I cant wait until I hurt so bad, because that means I am getting closer and it will be over soon. ___Coda- you ovulate for 2 days... so, you can release more than one egg during that time. My friend was on clomid and ovulated 4 eggs not long ago, but only one was mature... but, that one didn't even take. She keeps ovulating more than one egg but still not having luck conceiving... Her eggs aren't mature enough and the ones that are, just arent taking. It takes much more than ovulation to conceive. ___Helene- I am so excited for you! Good luck at your appt. ___Tansy- well, lets hope it doesn't come to having to search for a fertility doc. :) THe reason I asked is because of the problems you've had with your cycle and such.... along with not giving birth yet, and having m/c(s)... that it may be something to look into. I know I never had regular cycles (EVER!) I would go 3 months without AF quite often... I would also only ovulate a couple times a year if Im lucky... Sometimes I would even bleed twice in one month.. There was no such thing as normal for me. I was considering having the endo. test done also to see how it is if I didn't conceive. Yet, after many years of this... I finally found out after my last loss, that I just wasn't producing enough progesterone. Weird how one hormone can screw up so much. Now my hubby is afraid (jokenly) that now I will be a baby making machine since I know what I need. LOL... ___Oh Helene- did you get my post about the book??

Hi to all. well I said that I wasn't very patient. I tested yesterday(yes I know it was probably to early) and got a BFN. Af isn't due until Sat but I just couldn't wait. My bb's just keep getting sorer and I'm nauseated a lot. I haven't ate breakfast yet because I'm not sure it would stay down. I hope it was just to early to test and that these just aren't pms symptoms!! Dawn-How are things going? Helene- How are you? when does summer break start? I know my son is counting down the days. Daniella-I know it seems like it takes forever but he will be here soon. isn't it funny how you spent all these months wanting to keep him inside and now you can't wait for him to get out. Everyone take care and have a good day.

Goodmorning Everyone -- I left work early on Monday and decided to stay home yesterday. Just not feeling well. Head cold moved into my chest. I got up yesterday morning and then went back to sleep pretty much from 8am - 1:48pm. I could not believe I slept that much. HELENE -- Friends of ours just had a boy they named Theodore after the grandpa. They will call him Ted too. What about the name Theo instead of Ted. I like the name Theo. Just a thought for you. So you have an appt tomorrow and will be ten weeks on Friday. How exciting :-) Let us know how it goes. DANIELLA - Sorry your appt did not go as planned. I really think your boy is going to come all on his own. Sounds like he is down there and ready just need the right thing to bring on the delivery. I do hope that your doctor will be able to deliver him too. You should tell her that she HAS TO come in for your delivery that you do not trust the Fruit Loop at all. She might just do that for you. ***As for me, I am feeling a bit better but had a very bad night last night with DH. Pretty much I was ticked that he did not want to BD yesterday. He said he would when he got home. Well I knew that was not going to happen cuz on his days off he does all kinds of projects and just wears himself out. So we got into it big time last night - Tears, the whole nine yards. I am impatient and excited and want this to happen as soon as possible. Apparently DH does not have the same sense of urgency. Not even close. It was a crappy crappy night and no matter what DH has this way of making me feel like I am the bad guy. Anyway, we will see what happened this month. I had a + OPK on Sunday and Monday and that is when we BD where it actually counted (If you know what I mean?) If it did not happen this month then maybe I will let him do all the initiating next month. I wont tell him shit about what my body is telling me and show him that things do need to be timed out for things to happen here. UGH just so frustrated. Anyway, all for now. Dawn

NICOLE - Glad that a/f has finally shown up for you. Sorry it is so heavy and bad but like others said, it is probably a good sign that your body is flushing out the old and getting ready for a future pregnancy. CODA -- Sounds like you are having some serious growing pains. Some things you just do not hear about. I know when I was pregnant I had this shooting pain in the middle of the night. I told my sister in law and she said how she had the same thing and was looking in her books to see what it might be and nothign mentioned it. Turns out it is just things growing and shifting inside. We certainly do go thru allot to have a baby. Our men definitely have the easy end of the deal and I so wanted to tell my DH that last night. How he obviously can not appreciate what I am going thru every month with the waiting, wondering, hoping, being disappointed. Not to mention the skin breakouts, bad periods, etc. etc. They have not a clue and he can sit there and tell me that he does not have a time frame in mind. Well dammit, I do not want to go thru this every month for months and months if there is anything we can do to make it happen faster. He just does not get it. B&K - I hope you did test too early and that you are having pregnancy, not pms signs. I did decide that I will NOT be testing early this time around. I am going to wait until at least the day I should be expecting a/f. I learned my lesson last month testing too early and feeling like crap cuz it was a BFN. -- Dawn

i am sorry ur dh was being a bit of a prat dawn men just really dont get it they dont have to deal with the hormones or the ticking clock.i ended up going to see my doctor yesterday because i just felt off i have a temprature and been sick last night so probably have a bug doctor took blood and a urine sample so we shall see. also the pain in my side is related to my back he said that it was all just pushing on my siatic nerve which is why i have pains down my legs and in my arm . he said i should expect a ruff time because of my back.i go to see a back specalist on the 1st and he will tell me how to make things easyer during pregnancy! anyways thats my up date

Dawn..Sorry to hear about DH I hope things get better and it works out. Daniella yea will be careful of the attacking furniture..good luck with what evers going on at this time.

Oh Dawn - you're having a rough time of it!! And you're sick too! I had that crud earlier last month and you really do have to sleep it off. DH got it from me and boy was he pissed! He didn't get enough extra sleep and he was sick for like two weeks. This was a miserable household. Isn't it funny how when we get sick, we take care of ourselves, but when they get sick it's the end of hte world! Maybe one baby IS enough!! ; ) (JK) How is the BBT going? My best friend from HS convinced me last night to start but I've just realized that I've forgotten again to pick up the thermometer. UGH! B & K - keep your head up - there's always another cycle around the corner, and you DID test too early. Test again on Sat. - you never know. Are you doing the BBT thing, as well? Good luck!!! Helene - Good luck to you to at your Dr.'s visit. Can't wait to hear your news! Daniella - you are just intrepid - I really admire your great attitude b/c I'd be about ready to strangle someone if I were in your shoes. Can't wait to hear good news! No news on this front - ov. on cd 16, then a/f on day 32. I was in a foul mood for days 29-32 waiting, waiting, WAITING. Drove me nuts. I'm finally back in the saddle for the month. Plan to start tracking BBT, taking Robitussin for plentiful cm, opk, and reading Taking Charge of Your Fertility. I'm armed. I'm ready. Fingers crossed. Hope all are well!

Hi! not to be rude, but I m just logging in quick to say hi. The supps are in and i don't want to be sitting upright right now. Plus I am so friggin exhausted. Had a very long day at school, and it just wiped me out. I have my apt tomorrow but not until 4:45 which depresses me because i really ant to be home earlier so I can just nap or something. I threw up in the shower this morning - threw up in the sink on Sunday morning. DH heard me that day and was like - can all this yakking be goo for the baby. I laughed like anything and told him women have been puking for centuries and babies are fine. He was like- isn't it's head getting bounced around? I said - hone it is the size of an olive right now!

Goodmorning Ladies - CODA, BEE and ALLIEB, thank you for your thoughts and for listening to me vent about DH. I did allot of that yesterday. On this forum, to my good friend who has been with me the most thru all this and my next door neighbor who had the D&C in Nov. She told me a great story last night. She and I are on the same time frame for ovulation this month. She and her sister were on their way out of town last Saturday when she realized she was getting some serious fertile CM. She said she called her DH and told him to get ready that she was coming home to BD before they hit the road. She got home, told him to take his pants off and he just stood there like - are you serious? She said yep, take them off now. I laughed so hard. I said I guess her DH responds better under pressure then mine does. CODA -sorry to hear you have been having these problems with the C-nerve. Hopefully this doctor can recommend better sleeping positions and maybe some stretches to keep your back more limber during this pregnancy. it is still so early for you to be going thru such pain :-( BEE, I meant to comment about your recliners yesterday. That cracked me up. I am not fond of recliners for that reason in particular. You practically have to use full force to get them to close and stay closed. I prefer the couch myself. ALLIEB - Yes, I have been doing the BBT for the last couple weeks. Since I only just started it I am not sure I am seeing a pattern or sign of anything. My temp has been somewhat higher since the weekend when I had my + OPK though. I am going to try not to think about any of it too much until May 8th. That is my deadline to get my next a/f and I will not even think about testing until then. Going to hold off on getting that book too. I think my body is getting back on track and if not this month then maybe next it will take. That will be 6 cycles and that seemed to be the magic number for Helene and Coda. For now - Dawn

HELENE -- Thanks for popping in to say hello last night even though you were so tired. Get your rest lady. Now more then ever you need it. I still have some serious schlunk going on with my sinuses. Seems more like an infection now. Sorry to hear about all the puking. I hate puking and pray that I will not have that problem when I get pg again. My mom never had morning sickness and I understand that you might follow in your mom's footsteps in that regard. I can only hope right. Your husband's comment about the baby responding to your throwing up only reinforces just how clueless these men can be doesnt it? Ha Ha ..... So, what do you have planned for your special day this weekend? It is the Big 38 on Saturday right? I wrote it on my calendar. Dawn

Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing OK. I posted this on another thread but was hoping maybe I could get some thoughts from some of you wonderful group of ladies too. My miscarriage was 12 days ago now and almost as soon as I finished passing tissue my pregnancy symptoms disappeared very quickly. As I've said before I've been taking HPTs to make sure the hormone levels were dropping and today the line wasn't visible at all so I know my levels are under 10 mlU now. This really surprises me because after my last m/c my hormones were very low and it still took a few weeks before I started ovulating again. I expected my levels to take a while to disappear this time but luckily they have dropped quite fast. Today I've noticed a few things that have made me wonder if my body is gearing up to start ovulating again almost right away. I've started getting little pains and aches in my breasts which only seem to happen around ovulation (It's different to the pre-af/pregnancy general soreness) and I've had a few twinges on one side of my stomach, in the area I generally get ovulation pain as though it's just starting to 'wake up'. I started getting watery CM late afternoon, the kind that usually leads onto EWCM for me, and by the time I got home (TMI alert) my knickers were soaking! I haven't taken an OPK although I will later. I was just wondering if you thought this was too soon for me to ovulate or whether my body might be gearing up for a return to normality. It's just surprised me that it's happening so soon this time.

HI everyone - so what do you think? Is Daniella off birthin that baby? Exciting exciting!

MELISSAK - We can only hope that Daniella is off having her baby and that is why we have not heard from her. If so, let's hope she emails one of us from her phone as promised so we can update the group on his arrival. :-) TANSY - I am not sure what to make of the symptoms you are experiencing. It would seem quite early for your body to be gearing up for ovulation again but it seems like anything is possible. If you are feeling ready to TTC again perhaps you should get youself an OPK and see what it says. I also think it would be a good idea to see your doctor for a follow up - They usually ask to see you about 3-4 weeks after the m/c and ask for them to do a Beta HCG bloodtest to make sure all the pregnancy hormones are gone. I would trust that more then HPT. Consider yourself lucky if your body is getting back on track this soon. It took me 12 weeks to get a/f back and who knows about ovulation. Good luck -- Dawn

Hi Dawn, thanks for your comment. It seems early to me too, especially since it took a lot longer the last time. My doctor hasn't asked me to go back to keep an eye on HCG levels, several people have told me that this should have been done and I'm feeling concerned that my doctor did not request this. Is it a UK thing that HCG levels aren't always checked, I wonder? I guess all I can do is keep an eye on what my body does next and try an OPK to see if that sheds any light on things. It probably is too early, but it's just got me baffled.

Tansy my Dr didnt want to see me either I didnt go to him until the new pregnancy which turned out to be one cycle later anyway. I do know a few people that have had kids 9 months apart so it is possible maybe goes back to the being more fertile after birth and M/C. Might go that way for you good luck hope it works out.
Yea maybe Daniella is of having bubs if she is hope all is well.

Hey ladies ! Justa quick mnessage as I got home late because of my appt and then was on the phone withthe folks (finally told my dad tonight!). MY appt went well -they just id a "belly exam" no internal (I am finw ith that as I am sick of peopel stikcing their hands up crotch already! sorry - I am just tired!). ANywya, he did an u/s in the office, and since it was not a transvaginal, and Ididn't have a full bladder, couldn't se details. But he showed me that the baby was there and moving and there was a heartbeat flickering so he was confident taht all was fine. He sia dthey don't due another big u/s until 19 weeks hen they did the big one that Coda justhad,so dh wilcome then. But he told me that I cna come in whenever I want and they will do the in office u/s like he just did if I am at all worried. Thta made me happy. He said keep takign the supements until 5/15 and he wil see me next month. SO that is my big news. I will post again on Saturday. Yep it is the big 38, Dawn - no plans- we usually do dinner but not sure what I will be feeling like so not plannign ahead. Tansy - I think Dawn & Bee are right - if you want them to chekc the hcg ask the doc if he will refer you. All he can do is say no. Melissa - ARe you at the reevaluation point yet? Everyone else- hi, I will let you know if Daniella e-mails me before Saturday - nothing in my inbox form her so far. OKay - speel check won't work so ignor all the typos.