Hi new bfp comers. As we are ending our October 2ww, we hope to se many many bfps to come. Welcome and good luck everyone!
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Hi new bfp comers. As we are ending our October 2ww, we hope to se many many bfps to come. Welcome and good luck everyone!
Thanks for starting this thread, yogi! I can't wait to see how many people get to join this thread.
Okay, I don;t know if all of you are thinking what i am thinking, but I am now wanting to know what all the early gender determination tests are.... I want to know asap, but at the same time, I don't want the information to be wrong. I just stumbled into the Panorama test, but I haven't researched it yet or the many other options available.
So, what tests are other considering?
You are very welcome Christi!
When I had my chemical recently I started looking into that. I have gone in the other due date threads and they have mentioned what testing is available but some are pricey if not covered by insurance. I hope some old timers chime in to give their inputs :) I am dying to know too. I hope to join you all very soon !!!
The four non-invasive prenatal tests are MaterniT21, Panorama, Verifi, and Harmony. I'm not sure if all four can tell gender though. According to the chart on this site, they don't all test for sex chromosomes, but maybe they do now since the info on the site was from 2013.Quote:
Originally Posted by Christi
So many non-invasive prenatal testing choices for Down syndrome: what do they do & how much do they cost?
Hello all! I would be the .01 percent that any of those tests would not work on LOL. But yes all the ones mentioned do now test gender accuracy rates vary on each lower for girls. Hell I am outside of the accuracy for pregnancy tests it seems. Happened both times now! Id love to know the gender that early because waiting til the 17 plus week mark for a gender scan just drives you crazy! Needles scare the ever living daylights out of me so no more of those then necessary for me! In my neck of the woods I would be surprised if anyone up here even does this. Up here its you NEED this epidural or you NEED this c-section because I have a vacation I am going to be late for. They are going to hate me :D
Hi Ladies,
Can i join you? Im in shock as we werent trying so we got a suprise oppsie.
On 1st August nurse changed my pill to a different pill said it was exactly same as other just different manufacturer or something anyway my cycles are normally 30-33days and i got no period so i thought it hadnt worked (nothing stops my periods except pregnancy. On about cd39 no af and bfn i decided to stop pill to see if period would start and on cd42 period arrived so i started pill again and carried on as normal. Yesterday Cd24 i just got a feeling that i was pregnant and needed to wee on a stick, expecting it to be blank and not really knowing why i was doing i did it any and low and behold a bfp!
In total shock and confused at when it happened. I held my pee this morning for trip to Sainsburys and got digital date one and bfp 1-2 weeks it says so i think its this month but hubby thinks the period i had wasnt a period and i was pregnant...i really dont. Im worried tho as daily i have been taking my pill and just hope i have done no damage :(
Congratulations HappyLea!
When coming off the pil you tend to ovulate sooner than later and I can tell you from my past experiences. So you did get AF when yours stopped the pill. I have also heard if you are able to catch that egg its good for a pink sway. Good luck and congratulations to you! Try not to worry and enjoy your upcoming months :)
Thanks yogi, both hubby and i have been racking our brains today and when af arrived 12th sept i started pill back up and used contraception when we dtd but then going on from there i got unwell a uti/kidney infection on 26th sept dr prescribed anti biotics. I think this must be arround time when conceived as i havent been on pill for long and certainly not had it for over 10 years (coil had to be removed as it moved about 5 months ago) and i didnt even consider my pill when taking the anti biotic. I found pack and it says it can make it less effective. Doctor didnt even mention it either. I do think its this month and a shorter cycle for me. Does anti biotics sway either way???
Some antibiotics do interfere with birthcontrol. Which were yours taking?
I was taking nitrofurantoin, its only thing we can think of for this month as i never missed a pill. Im worried pill may cause damage but reading up on internet i read it should cause any affect on baby :/
Ok i just looked it up on internet and on net doctor said it should be ok only 2 types effect the pill....now im confused!!!
I guess the net and doctors will always tell you to use a backup birthcontrol but what your doc is confirming is that what you took would not make your birthcontro less effective. I am thinking you probably ovulated earlier than you thought. Have you had blood work done. Maybe you are farther along. I wouldn't worry too much on being taking the pill and not knowing you were pregnant. I was on the patch with my middle daughter and skipped one week because I lost my patch but resumed the following week. She is a perfectly healthy 9 year old now. When I stopped my bc two months ago I ovulated on cd9.
Thank you Essence and Nahri for the information on the prenatal testing, I will be trying to figure out the cost of each of the different tests and share whatever I find out with everyone. I have a high deductible insurance policy, so I will have to pay for a lot of the early tests out of pocket even if they are "covered" by my insurance. So I am really just weighing the cost of taking one of the tests (Harmony, Panorama, MaterniT21, or Verifi) as compared to the cost of doing the "traditional" Quad screening and nuchal translucency test. If the tests are only a couple hundred bucks, then it might actually be more cost effective for me. I'll share whatever I learn from the companies.
Congrats HappyLea on your "surprise"! I'm sure that it is probably fine, even though you did take some medication for a week or so. I think the first 3 weeks are just cell division and not the organs are not forming yet (I can't remember what it is called exactly, but it is something like "preorgangenesis" so medications don't really effect it much (thankfully).
Good luck to everyone!
How are you all feeling so far, any symptoms???
I have sore breasts, that feel very heavy atm but nothing else.
I still think i am is disbelief but another bfp this morning.
The only symptom I have is colostrum coming out of my boobs. Other than that, nothing yet for me, but I'm only 4 weeks, so it's not really that surprising. I had HORRIBLE morning sickness with DS#1, so I am really hoping this pregnancy is not so bad. My coworkers have not missed the sound of me vomiting in the bathroom for 9 months, that's for sure.
What is heavy atm?
I was fine til the second trimester with DS. Ive felt the strong urge to puke all week but haven't yet. I kinda feel like I did when I was on BC back in the day it made me so sick it wasn't funny til the docs figured out it was too much estrogen and I was fine. My boobs are KILLING me. If I didnt need them to BF I would totally give them to a needy person just to get rid of the problems lol Even though I know each preg is different this one is starting different than DS's did so I can only hope its a good sign from swaying. Either that or this kid already hates me and is sending evil vibes at my stomach lol
Christi, it meant my boobs feel very heavy at the moment x
Fingers crossed the morning sickness holds off for all...lol!
I didnt really have much morning sickness with any of my boys, felt nauseous and sick few times but nothing too bad.
Every morning i am still testing, still in disbelief but still bfp. Haven't phoned my gp yet as still dont think its sunk in for us yet.
I just ovulated last night and let bd was on Monday. It is Thursday here now, so we will see. I was hoping for an extra month since I went lax on my exercise and eating habits for about two weeks and was extremely stressed while my husband was out of town and that was the same week our kids started back to school. Anyway...I am hoping for next month and kmfx that this month there is a bfn because of that.before that rough patch of three weeks, I lost 14 lbs and I continued to lose even while dh was gone even though I wasn't doing my hour of cardio every day.
Any thoughts on sways that did get a girl but also inadvertently dropped all of your good LE habits at the time of conception? Just curious and looking for hope I guess...sigh.
My OB does the panorama test. Insurance covers it for us since I already had one loss from DS and I am now over 35. They do tests that are for gender specific diseases, as well. So that is why they do find out the gender in doing these tests. It's of secondary importance, but they will know when they test.
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Well i got my doctors appt tomorrow, hopefully he will be able to shine some light on if this suprise was conceived in August or September.
I think its September but hubby thinks August.
Hope your all well xxx
OMG. Maybe you ladies that have had more than one pregnancy can shed some light. It feels like my ovaries and surrounding is being scooped out by a melon baller!!! I never had pain like this with DS1 even when I got the round ligament pain later on when I started showing even that just felt like a dull cramping and every once in a while like a badly pulled muscle. It hurts when I COUGH! Round ligament pain, uterine stretching, fetal attachment, serious problem is what my bit of research has turned up. Obviously not that far a long yet. Do I call the doc?
Nahri, you know what you are experiencing better than anyone else, so I think this is one of those things where you have to trust your intuition. If you think something is really wrong, call your doctor. If you think that it is just the misery of normal pregnancy settling into your body (ie, everything stretches out a lot easier with subsequent babies), then you can bring it up at the next appointment. Trust your gut!
Happy, looking forward to hear how far along you are after the doctors appointment! Good luck!
3boys, I think it is more important that you have been doing the diet for a long time, rather than a cheat right around the time of conception. Honestly, I've been lax on the diet myself, but I did keep the protein low... The fat however, well, that's a different story. I lost 10 lbs. total, but I was not a strict le dieter, I was more of a vegetarian who didn't eat very healthy type dieter. Junk food (especially chocolate) was the death of my le diet. But then again, junk food isn't good for my body, so hopefully that lowered my maternal condition. 😛 if you have looked at the sway spreadsheet a number of people still got their girls even though they were loose on the diet.
Good luck to everyone getting their desired genders!!
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Im honestly on the fence about my gut intuition. I have felt just totally off since that colposcopy 2 weeks ago with the addition of pregnancy symptoms on top and trying to figure out what caused what because they are all so similar. I figured easier stretch the second time would mean less round ligament issues but maybe an easier stretch means more pain the second time. Im gonna email my doc and give her the run down see what she says at the very least I just didnt expect pain this early this time. I still worked full time and HARD manual work with my first one until the last 10 weeks aside from 2 weeks of massive heartburn that made me throw up I was golden! So this pain thing at barely over 4 weeks is definitely a new one for me
Nahri, You should go to the Dr to get checked. I don't mean to scare you,but if it hurts that much it could be something else like ectopic. I hope it's nothing at all and probably is not. If it weren't such a serious thing. I'd never mention it, but it won't hurt to get checked out if you're only 4 weeks. I think it would be a good excuse to get an ultrasound yo see your little one, too and likely, all is well! I'll be thinking of you.
Thank you Christi! Huge sigh of relief here! I love sugar and I bake a lot. I also am a firm believer in a higher fat diet(good fat) so I'm definitely not a strict dieter, either.☺️
Well, Dh "forgot" that I wanted to skip this month.grrrr.. Well it happened to be four days ago that we last bd so I think the sway went well. Plus Dh is super exhausted, been working for a month straight literally without one single day off. Three of those weeks were military inspection on his pretty intense job out on a hot Tarmac and insane hours working per day. And super screwed up sleep schedule. So he's been super stressed went from 100% humidity and 100 degree heat working outdoors for that only to come home to cold, windy weather and excessive hours at his outdoor (and lots of driving)job also. Hoping that ALL helped to lower that sperm count a bit and favor girly sperm!
My Opk was super dark test side today. Looks like I'll be finding out something a week or two...and I'd bet a billion dollars it'll be a bfp. I leave it in God's hands now.
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I thought I would join you all early, it seems to be lucky for me to think ahead.... I o'd 2 days after I joined the 2ww. I am having some good strong signs that something may happen soon. I will be away for the weekend so I hope to have a bfp tuesday before I go online.
Here's to hoping all works out for everyone due in JuneJulyAugust!
Nahri did you see the Dr yet. I had really bad pains with DS1 but it turned out I naturally develop large cist in the first month. The Dr said it is normal in some women but needs to be watched in case fluid builds up and goes to the lungs. But for my body makes the cist so an egg can not come out and has no choice but to attach. around 6wks they popped and I felt like I was going to be sick and I couldn't stand up or sit down with feel the pain. I hurt so bad I went to the ER thinking my appendix bursted. I wasn't trying to get preg then so it was a hugh shock to see a 6wk fetus. It wasn't as bad with DS2 and 3 but I still felt the pain for a few days.
Just spotted this thread thanks to Talk Talk so hope you don't mind me contributing!
Nahri.... If you are only 4 weeks then ectopic is very unlikely as the baby will not be big enough to cause a problem until 7 or 8 weeks. However if you are concerned speak to your doc and he can give you a placement scan to see where baby is. I have these every time as I am at increased risk of ectopic due to scar tissue from pcos surgery. However they won't scan you until 5 1/2 to 6 weeks as this is the earliest you can see.
It's is much much much more likely to be a cyst on your ovary. This is totally NORMAL in 1st trimester due to your hormones and your ovaries doing all the work until the placenta takes over at 12 weeks.
Unfortunately there is nothing the doctor can do about it. The only option is surgery and this is an absolute last resort.
I have this in every pregnancy and yes it REALLY hurts but sadly thee is nothing you can do apart from take it easy and rest up as much as you can. You need to take care with heavy activity as this can cause cyst to have problems but this is RARE so don't panic!
Good luck x
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Nahri, have you been drs yet? I often get pain when i cough/sneeze or even get up too quickly but i can feel that its a streching pain ( it really hurts) i do think mine is because of previous pregnancies.
3blessed and purple, hope to see some bfp's soon :)
As for me i went to dr yesterday he said i either
- conceived in August and bleed in Sept could have been implantion and i could be about 10 weeks
- september 12th was period and i got early bfp and im about 4 weeks gone
- bleed in September was miscarriage and bfp is hormones still in body
I have to go to early pregnancy unit on Monday for scan to find out which one.
I think my period was September 12th and im early on, i did another digital test thinking that if miscarriage my hormone levels wouldnt go up so if that said 1-2 weeks like last week dr could be right. But the test this morning said 2-3 weeks so surely my levels are going up and not down???
The dr did put my mind at rest about the pill not affecting baby and the antibiotics should have been ok too.
Yeah I saw her she poked around and she said the OB should be calling me by monday (hopefully) to schedule placement scans so we will get a better idea. I usually almost always have cysts and I usually only feel them when they decide to break. Its not as bad as it was it comes and goes now! We just told my bio-mom (I was adopted) today and she cried which I totally did not expect shes not a crier! She cried they day I found her and called her and thats it! My MIL is coming up this weekend and my hubby has been torturing her with "we have a surprise for you" HAHAH
Well i went to early pregnancy unit today and instead of scan they said best to do bloid work. They phoned me up this afternoon and confirmed im pregnant and my levels where 546 and i have to have my bloods done again Wednesday.
If my levels are doubling they will scan me next week sometime.
my blood test is scheduled for the 24th and first US on the 12th of next month right on hubbys bday!
Awww...good luck Nahri x
Had my bloods done again today and my levels are 1038 and they are happy they are doubling. She did say that as she thinks the results coincide with 12th September being a period i am around 4-5 weeks and she has no concerns so i wont need a scan.
Glad everything is well happy!
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I so hate that I have to have blood work done this time. I was all scans last time it was great!!
I too hated that i had to have blood work, fingers crossed for you Nahri x
For some reason this pregnancy i am so worried that i am going to loose this baby, my hubby seems to think im panicking as its a suprise baby and not planned like my others.
I dreamt last night that it was twins....ha ha ha!
How is everyone else doing?
Twin dreams scare the crap out of me! They do run in hubbys family and mine so its a possibility. I don't think I could do 3 kids at one time with all my health issues. But I could totally try so long as one was a girl LOL
Hows everyone feeling this week!?
Hi guys, looks like im joining you (YAY! About time) It seems to work out 28th june, so a week after my 3rd little one, good job I'm never early lol.
Congrats again on your BFP!!