Pregnancy Thread
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Falstaff
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our daughter had high bilirubin levels too. we ended up back at the hospital monday and tuesday so she could sit under the lights for 24 hours. all is good now and her levels are below 10.
my wife's milk is slow to come in so we've been supplementing with formula per our doctor. since she had a c-section too, discouraging (for us) to hear that yours has come in so fast Etoille. Hopefully things turn around on that front soon.
my wife's milk is slow to come in so we've been supplementing with formula per our doctor. since she had a c-section too, discouraging (for us) to hear that yours has come in so fast Etoille. Hopefully things turn around on that front soon.
Joeboo
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It took my wife a good week for her milk to come in fully, but we didn't have issues with it since our baby was 10 weeks premature and was only eating 1ml of milk every 3 hours for the first week or so. The tiny bit she was getting was enough initially, it wouldn't have been for a full-term baby.
Of course, fast-forward 10 weeks and our entire deep freeze is filled with frozen breast milk. Shit's ridiculous, we can't buy anything frozen at the grocery store, freezers are jam-packed full. You guys will be overflowing with it before you know it(start eating up all your frozen food to make room now)
Of course, fast-forward 10 weeks and our entire deep freeze is filled with frozen breast milk. Shit's ridiculous, we can't buy anything frozen at the grocery store, freezers are jam-packed full. You guys will be overflowing with it before you know it(start eating up all your frozen food to make room now)
We use those same swaddle clothes too and love them! Still don't have a good swaddle strategy down so our baby works her way loose in the arms sometimes, which causes us to worry about her when we try to get some sleep. Hopefully we will get it down soon. Speaking of sleep, it really doesn't exist anymore! My wife has somehow been surviving off about 5 hours every 24 hours, never more than 2 of that consecutively. I'm getting about 7 but I'm exhausted. I don't know how she does it!
Do any of you use pacifiers yet? How soon can we introduce them but avoid the nipple confusion thing? Our baby sucked her thumb for the first time today (right after finishing a feeding) and she did it all on her own. It was adorable and she surprised us by figuring it out at just 6 days old.
Falstaff
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Our kid chewed on her fist in utero and still does it but no thumb yet. We've given her a pacifier already but don't give it to her constantly.
We were at the pediatrician when she was 5 days old and we gave it to her because she was a little fussy and he didn't say anything about it being too early.
We were at the pediatrician when she was 5 days old and we gave it to her because she was a little fussy and he didn't say anything about it being too early.
we had the same issue with swaddling - Mike's a total swaddle buster and even just swaddling with his hands by his face would keep him up and or cause him to wake himself. Plus he's all about stretching his legs
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So here's what my genius (serious) husband did. Take the blanket you're using to swaddle and at the top (towards baby's head) fold down a 2 inch section along the entire length. Then when you wrap baby up tuck in their hands to the little pocket. This also prevents face scratching without those mittens which you can never seem to keep on well.
We swaddle with a muslin like that then bundle him into a swaddle me.....that was the big breakthrough. Velcro>mike. Obviously that's some layers so we have him in a thin onesie so he doesn't overheat.
In re pacifiers....let me change him and I'll start a new post.
Woefully Inept
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I doubt anyone remembers but a couple years ago my wife and i got pregnant using iui and donor sperm. Unfortunately we ended up misscarrying. Utterly devestating to my wife. Not nearly as hard on me. Prior to this we did 3 iui cycles and after 1 more unsuccessful iui cycle.
Fast forward to now and boy this is gonna be a busy week. Our first ivf with pgd* cycle using my own sperm and not a donor. We should be doing egg retrieval this week. Then once we get viable embryos we need to have them tested to see if any will NOT inherit the familial adenomatous polyposis genetic disorder i have. Then if we have embryos that come back clean its implantation time. Thank whoever that we moved out of texas or our only option would be iui with donor sperm. Ivf with pgd means i may be able to have my own child without the dreadful worry that it will have my genetic disorder. And thats a very special feeeling to have.
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Fast forward to now and boy this is gonna be a busy week. Our first ivf with pgd* cycle using my own sperm and not a donor. We should be doing egg retrieval this week. Then once we get viable embryos we need to have them tested to see if any will NOT inherit the familial adenomatous polyposis genetic disorder i have. Then if we have embryos that come back clean its implantation time. Thank whoever that we moved out of texas or our only option would be iui with donor sperm. Ivf with pgd means i may be able to have my own child without the dreadful worry that it will have my genetic disorder. And thats a very special feeeling to have.
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Thank you. And the best part? My wife's insurance fully covers the ivf and PGD. Both are several thousand bucks each. So glad we moved from Texas to back home here in the east. They would cover 0% of ivf cost. That fucking state is 50+ years behind the times with many things. Anything fertility related being one of them.
Anyway we just got done with today's ultrasound and depending if a few grow a bit more we have 10-14 viable follicles. Shit is about to get real this week.
Anyway we just got done with today's ultrasound and depending if a few grow a bit more we have 10-14 viable follicles. Shit is about to get real this week.
Yeah and if Texas passed a fetal personhood law you wouldn't be able to do ivf at all
I know several folks with various IF conditions - my sister was diagnosed with anovulation so she's been through IVF as well. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you guys that ER goes as well for you as it did for her and her husband - they xfered 2 blasts and one stuck first time and my niece was born feb 2012 - and they have 11 (!) frosties for a future xfer!!! Keep us posted!
Gavinmad
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My best friend just found out hers is a girl, which is pretty exciting cause she already has a boy. It's very difficult for her to get pregnant, so her first conception was nothing short of a miracle, this second one was the product of a bunch of pills and injections and whatnot. Funny thing is that I joked with her about how she was totally gonna have twins, and then a month or so after I made that joke she said at one of her checkups they found an indicator that she'd had two eggs attach to the uterine wall, but the second one didn't take. Pretty funny how close she came to actually having those twins!
I'm actually really disappointed I won't be around to see this one born tho.
I'm actually really disappointed I won't be around to see this one born tho.
Pretty much this. Mike's hands were always in his face in utero (see further the swaddling hand thing) and once born it was no different. I didn't know how early you could give a pacifier and moreover I didn't want him to turn into one of those babies who NEEDED it to the point where weaning later was going to be hellacious. After an especially bad Monday night, I broke down Tuesday morning and gave him one. Really helped - because basically he wanted to suck all the time and it was this perpetual cluster feeding situation where he was on the boob every hour for 20 mins. (which may have been why my milk came in fast actually).
We saw the pediatrician at our scheduled appointment later that day and she stated that the AAP RECOMMENDS pacifiers when you put baby to bed (*the guidance is at 1 month but if youre not having feeding/latching issues sooner is fine she said) because it decreases SIDS risk. She said that babies have a need to suck independent of eating and that I couldn't be a human pacifier.....and that it was preferable to thumb sucking because you can wean off the pacifier (rec @ 9 mos or it gets a lot harder) - but you cant take thumbs away and once theyre hooked on the thumb its an average of age 6 before theyre off.
So we use the pacifier as a tool. Only at night only when needed/last resort. Seems to be working - theres been two nights where he hasn't needed it at all. If he's a little fussy we work through it with other methods but if its where he's real upset and those other calming techniques aren't working then we'll use the pacifier.
chaos
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The Database has so many pictures of my kids at this point that I have no fucks to give.
Yeah pregnancy was the opposite for my wife and I both gained a lot of weight with the back to back pregnancies. We are just now getting that taken care of, such a pain in the ass.
Yeah pregnancy was the opposite for my wife and I both gained a lot of weight with the back to back pregnancies. We are just now getting that taken care of, such a pain in the ass.
opiate82
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Insurance not covering infertility treatments is pretty common. Even up here in liberal WA they usually don't cover any of it. My wife and I are 3.5 years into our journey of trying to conceive and only have one miscarriage to show for it. That includes several years of clomid, a year of monitored cycles w/ HGC and 5 cycles of IUI, none of it covered our insurance. So far the doctors can't give us any good reason of why we are having such difficulties, my sperm is fine, and other than her cycles being a little off there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with her. Our next step is IVF but that is $15k+ (not covered by insurance) and we just don't have that kind of cash available right now, mainly because we burned through so much doing the HGC and the IUI. Shit is expensive.
We are just doing clomid right now and saving for IVF, but I am really hoping we get lucky so we don't have to do IVF. When we had our miscarriage we were only doing the clomid. I fully expect having a kid to make me broke, but I didn't count on going broke just trying to conceive the damn thing.
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Oh I know that's why I'm glad we were able to move back to RI/MA since it is covered here. In Houston we went through 5 rounds of IUI with 1 miscarriage.