Hello Ladies! I have been back and forth from this board and the November due date board. But I feel at home over here. Just wanted to give some updates. I am 11 weeks today. We got to hear the HB on Weds and it was nice and strong..169 bpm. It was the most amazing thing I have ever heard. I am still feeling really good. I never had morning sickness, I just get tired more easily then I used to. Other then that I feel great! It is going by so quickly. I seems like it took a century to get to this point, and now it is flying by. We don't want to know the gender of the baby we want it to be a surprise. Since everything has been so planned up until now, we want to at least have that as a surprise. I know if it a girl I want the middle name to be Hope, as I had never given up my hopes that we would conceive, what ever way we had to.

So that is it so far. I will be hanging around here for awhile. You girls have helped me through so much. Thank you!

Looking forward to all your BFP's!!!

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Heather
Age: 32, DH Age: 34
*Unexplained infertility
Sept 07 IVF#1
-Sept 26th-ER (4 eggs retrieved, 2 fertilized)
-Sept 29th-ET (4 cell & 7 cell)
Oct 15th BFN
Mar 08 IVF#2
-Mar 7th ER (13 eggs retrieved, 8 fertilized)
-Mar 10th-ET (8 cell & 7 cell)
1st beta 616!! BFP!!
2nd beta 1904!!
3rd beta 4809!!
April 9th-u/s- heartbeat 124 bpm!! 1 little bean!!!
May 7th-heard heartbeat 169 bpm!

Glad to hear all is well, so glad you are doing well. Please keep us updated on your pregnancy!

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Heather, isn't that little heartbeat the most incredible thing you've ever heard? I have goosebumps from reading your post! Congratulations Momma!!! I'm so happy for you. Please keep us posted on your progress. I'm living vicariously through all you preggo ladies (in a good way) - and smiling for all of you from head to toe!!!

I LOVE the idea of Hope for a middle name if its a girl. That's such an inspired choice! Wishing you a healthy and happy 29 more weeks!

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Heather thanks for updating us and I'm glad to hear that things are going well and you are feeling great!! Looking forward to more updates
Hope is a beautiful middle name very sweet!

Janay

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JANAY-34
DH-34
TTC#1 since 2000
DX endo, MTHFR
IVF#1 BFN
IVF#2 fall 08
starting DHEA in Sept

Heather, I'm so glad you're doing well! I've followed your story from the beginning and it's nice to hear of a smooth uneventful pg after all this IF business! Yay!

Take care and keep us posted on the happenings....I think your idea of being surprised of the gender is a great idea....I don't know if I could do it but you're right--everything is so planned out w/ IVF it WOULD be nice to be surprised for once!

Good luck Momma!

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Angie

Angie 35
Brian 33
DSD Caitlin 11
ttc our #1 for 5 yrs

angel baby 10/26/02 unknown pg till m/c @ home
angel baby 01/22/07 @7 wks 2 days
angel baby 08/01/07 @7 wks 2 days
angel baby 11/07/07 @5 wks 5 days

Hey Heather! Glad you checked in! So happy all is going well for you............KUP!

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Me (35) & DH (30)
TTC#1 since Oct '05 with Three Angels in Heaven
5 IUIs (7/05 - 2/06) Angel lost at 8wks (12/06)
IVF#1 (9/07) - Low Beta - Angel lost at 6wks
IVF #2 (2/08) - Low Beta - Angel lost at 8 weeks
FET#1 (4/08)
IVF#3 (6/08) Tx cancelled due to poor lining
FET#2 (8/08) Tx cancelled due to poor lining...AGAIN
13 Embies on Ice

Heather, I too considered this home compared to the Due In board. Sometimes I felt so different from the other moms. Here we all "get it".
Congrats on your first trimester. Keep us posted:-)

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Renee



me (39) dh (42)
TTC since 4/03
IVF # 1 - chem. preg.
IVF # 2 - BFN
IVF # 3 - BFP -Caden James born 2/21/07
IVF # 4 (FET) - BFN
IVF # 5 - BFN

I'm glad to hear everything is going well! Avery Faith got her middle name for the same reason.

Thanks for the update. KUP!


~m

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YAY!

Yep if I had a girl I was going to use the name Grace, Faith or Hope for the middle name

I think all of us IVF SISTAS, need to use one of those for a middle name

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Stacie
DS~Jake
DS~Elijah

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL????????

Ya, its a little tougher if it is a boy to use on of those LOL..but if it is a boy the middle name will be Scott, which is my husbands middle name. Now we just have to agree on 1st names.

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Heather
Age: 32, DH Age: 34
*Unexplained infertility
Sept 07 IVF#1
-Sept 26th-ER (4 eggs retrieved, 2 fertilized)
-Sept 29th-ET (4 cell & 7 cell)
Oct 15th BFN
Mar 08 IVF#2
-Mar 7th ER (13 eggs retrieved, 8 fertilized)
-Mar 10th-ET (8 cell & 7 cell)
1st beta 616!! BFP!!
2nd beta 1904!!
3rd beta 4809!!
April 9th-u/s- heartbeat 124 bpm!! 1 little bean!!!
May 7th-heard heartbeat 169 bpm!

Great to hear from you Heather! Please keep us posted, and pamper yourself today... next year you'll have a newborn to take care of!

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Me (31) DH (38)

IVF #1 with PGD.... ET cancelled 3/5 due to PGD results
IVF #2 with PGD.... ET cancelled 4/17 due to PGD results
IVF #3 with DE.... ET 7/28

IVF #4 - DEFET
ET 12/5/06 (3 beautiful 5-day embies)
Beta 12/14 @ 9DP5DT.... 360
Beta 12/16 @ 11DP5DT.... 909
Beta 12/20 @ 15DP5DT.... 5,250
1st u/s @ 5w6d on 12/27.... 3 sacs , 1 .... Beta 51,476
2nd u/s @ 6w6d on 1/3.... 3 beating away!
Proud Triplet Mama -- June 2008