[Mummy Duck]

Hi Im 39yo and almost 8 weeks pregnant. Was hoping to share the journey with some other mums on EB/EK.

I cant seem to keep track of the DIGs as they get so many people.

Any older mums about?

[Bibendum]

I'm 42 and in my 4th week now - a bit nervous, as I've had a series of chemical pregnancies, two in the past two months... This is the first that's made it far enough to get past my period due date - good results from a blood test now, so hopefully this one will stick...
So happy to share the ride - and hope I can do it all the way this time :-)

[Mummy Duck]

Oh Hi Bibendmum best of luck and I hope we can both make it together.

I can totally relate. I fell pregnant in June and miscarried at 11 weeks and then fell the following month after a D&C.

I also had a mc the cycle before I had bd.

So Im praying to take this ride to the end.

Do you have any other children? I have a bs13yo and bd almost 2yo.

Are you taking asprin or any other meds that are given to mums with early loss issues?

[nellr]

hey guys, just wanted to say hi and wish you well... i'm 40 and 38 weeks pregnant (so a bit too 'far gone' to hang out with you lol).

Enjoy the ride, i have found this pregnancy soooo much easier than my last, and that was five years ago. Hope you have the same experience!

Good luck!

[Bibendum]

I have a seven-year-old son from a previous relationship. I met my husband when I was 38 - he's younger, and I had thought he must not want kids if he were willing to go out with me ;-p (my confidence wasn't the best after my ex...). It turned out that children were really important to him - but that he was willing not to, if it meant he could be with me... So more time passed while we tried to get ourselves on the same side of the planet... Then we started trying in July 2010 - but both of us with horrific work schedules that always seemed to put us in different places at the "right" time... We've obviously managed it a bt better in the last few months... ;-P. Including this past month, when I had the world's most horrific cold the whole time we were trying... ;-P.

I was waiting for an appointment with a specialist to discuss the recurrent chemical pregnancies when I discovered I was pregnant again... So our first appointment was a bit different than planned, since I was already pregnant...

At the moment I'm not taking anything - we're still waiting on the outcomes of a large number of tests she ran on Wednesday. But HCG is 211, and progesterone is 83... So I'm hopeful... But scared.

I keep taking HPTs and trying to work out if the line is getting any fainter... ;-P. And every time I go to the toilet, I'm a bit surprised not to find blood... (I don't actually feel as morbid as this sounds writing it out - I feel more surreal, as if I'm not entirely sure this is happening... And I think I'm trying to sit on an underlying euphoria and not get my hopes up too high...)

Very sorry to hear of your losses... :-(. Here's hoping for both of us...

Nellr - thanks for the well wishes - I've been wondering whether this pregnancy would be easier or harder than my last one... I hope the birth is as much easier for you as the pregnancy has been!

This post has been edited by Bibendum: 17/11/2011, 08:00 PM

[DrDC]

I'm currently 27 weeks pregnant and will turn 42 the week he/she is due. This is my 4th child but my eldest (14yo) I required 2 years of fertility treatment to fall , my 2nd is adopted and is now 8 years old. I have a 4 year old "surprise baby" (no treatment - long given up expecting)....and this one.....the "oh my goodness, I thought I was menopausal" child!
Unlike my pregnancy 4 years ago, which was a breeze, though ended in a c/s for foetal distress, this one has been challenging. I have been MUCH tireder (but then I do work 4 days/week and have 3 active boys!); and physically I have had a number more issues than previously. I'm on thyroid medication and on Saturday I have to do a glucose tolerance test because my glucose challenge came up 0.1 higher than normal range (poop!)
BUT now I'm past the petrified stage, I'm starting to get excited (hubby still struggling though - he likes his sleep and we've only just started getting it again...me, I think sleep is over-rated!). I'm hoping for a VBAC but am comfortable with whatever happens. I'm doing calmbirth classes for the first time (I have a friend who teaches them and I definitely need some calm in my life!)
I'm not sure how to stay in touch using this forum, but I'm happy to share with you as we go along!

[MrsWidget]

Hi I'm interested in joining too. I'm 41 and 11 weeks pregnant.

Hi I'm interested in joining too. I'm 41 and 11 weeks pregnant.

[Mummy Duck]

Thanks for the wishes Nellr and please keep us posted on the last few weeks and birth. How excititng!

Bib I would ask your doc about what meds you can take just in case. Im on asprin due to mc's and my doctors attitude was that it cant hurt so worth a try.

Dr DC your over the hump and on the home straight. This pregnancy is also a suprise baby as my last child was 9 cycles of fertiltiy/IVF treatments

Mrs M how lovely to have another mum to join us.

Im struggling with morning sickness the last few days. Its really giving me a hard time. Im only eating soup at the moment and having some success at keeping that down. Lucky for bub Im no string bean so neither of us will starve to death This is my 5th pregnancy and Im hoping to make it my 3rd take home baby. Looking forward to getting past this first trimester. I cant wait for that damn scan.

[Bibendum]

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on Saturday I have to do a glucose tolerance test because my glucose challenge came up 0.1 higher than normal range (poop!)

I had this exact same result in my last pregnancy - failed the screening gets by a hair, had to take the diagnostic test, failed that by a similar margin, and so got diagnosed with gestational diabetes. Fortunately with the tests so near the cutoff, I never actually had trouble with blood glucose, without even modifying my diet (mind you, my diet that pregnancy was pretty restricted because so many thing made me nauseous - but, if I could manage to keep it down, it never seemed to give me high blood sugars... ;-P). By the end, they decided that the situation wasn't serious enough to require much additional monitoring, and let me go back to working just with my midwife, which was what I wanted at the time.


All of which is by way of saying that if you do "fail" the GTT as well, but only by a bit, hopefully you won't find it too difficult to manage. This should be even more the case now than it was eight years ago when I went through it, as they've lowered the numbers considered diagnostic - which means that falling just in the wrong side of the cutoff might be easier to manage with just diet and exercise than it might have been in the past.


I'm expecting, though, to fail this test again - and presumably to be asked to take it early, since I had the diagnosis last time. I weigh less now than I did then, by a fair amount, but my hairline fail last time would be well over the limits now... So I'm sort of expecting it to happen...

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Hi I'm interested in joining too.

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Bib I would ask your doc about what meds you can take just in case. Im on asprin due to mc's and my doctors attitude was that it cant hurt

Im struggling with morning sickness the last few days. Its really giving me a hard time. Im only eating soup at the moment and having some success at keeping that down. Lucky for bub Im no string bean so neither of us will starve to death This is my 5th pregnancy and Im hoping to make it my 3rd take home baby. Looking forward to getting past this first trimester. I cant wait for that damn scan.

Yeah, I had actually wondered about this - just accidentally, since I was miserable with a terrible cold for weeks earlier in the month, I was taking aspirin for that... I think in higher doses, though, than what is normally recommended for fertility purposes...

I should maybe have mentioned that I was also diagnosed a few months back with a severe vitamin D deficiency, and have been taking supplements for that, as well as the standard folate... My regular doctor doesn't seem to think this would have any effect on my ability to hold onto a pregnancy - but it's a pervasive hormone used for so many biological processes, and she commented when the test results came back that they were the lowest she'd ever seen, so it's hard to think it wouldn't have had some effect...

On the morning sickness front, it hasn't hit here, yet, other than a few seconds once a day. But it didn't hit me last time around until week seven or eight either - and then stayed the whole rest of the pregnancy... About the only thing I could consistently eat was a particular kind of soup, occasionally supplemented with peanuts and pink lady apples... ;-P. I'm hoping if nausea hits this time, it admits a more varied diet... ;-P

DrDC - best of luck with the VBAC and the calmbirth classes...

[ka7]

Hi ladies

I think I'll jump on your wagon too. I am 39 and 15weeks preg with number 4.
This is my 4th IVF pregnancy due to 'unexplained infertility'.
I have been so lucky with my IVF treatment having success with 1x egg collection resulting in 11 grade 1 & 2 embryos. The first transfer resulted in my eldest and 2 frozen emby transfers resulting in successful pregnancies although we had an embryo succumb during thawing both times.

I am not totally addicted to EB and probably will not post/check in every day but look forward to sharing this pregnancy with you.