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Hi Everyone.. extremely busy at work so just stopped by to say have a nice weekend. Oh Geez LM3 - Im sorry to hear that but as long as you ok with it, good for you & it was nice to meet you & ttc with with you. Are you going hang around here once in a while?

Hello all - can't stay long (as usual at the moment - sorry!!) but I just wanted to say that my mum's visit is going really well. She bought LOADS of stuff for 0-3months (I don't think I'll need anything!!) and we also went and ordered the buggy and carseat today (they'll arrive next week before she goes so that's great that she'll get to see them.) I've also ordered an electric b___st pump (I'd normally go for the cheaper options but I've read that they're much more efficient than the manual ones) so all is going well. Also, 3 people came to visit today who can't come to the shower tomorrow - one with two sleepsuits, another with a baby bath towel and bib, and the last person with a bag full of lotions and potions which is FANTASTIC as that's an area I have very little idea about! Anyway, I'm really excited about the shower tomorrow but better go and get some rest as I've agreed to make some of the food (with my mum's help!) in the morning and we also have to decorate! I'm now just praying for good weather - so keep your fingers crossed. Sorry this is such a "me" update - I have read all your posts and wish I had time to reply to them all individually but I'll be back to my old self next week when things have settled down for me a bit. Thinking of you all - BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG HUGS {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} XOXOXOXOXOXOX

It's just past 4am here, and I'm too tired to go through and respond to posts, so this is going to be an "all about Tracy" post! I had a very hectic Friday. I got a new car not that long ago, so I took my old car yesterday to Carmax (huge used car dealer) to get an appraisal to sell them the car, got the offer on the car, and intended to go back this morning with my mom to sell them the car (she owns it), and not even two miles from leaving the place, my car broke down on the interstate!!! That Eclipse has been so good to me and it's not even an old car, so it was just wicked timing. Well, since I am PG, everybody and their mother pulled over to help, but there was one guy who stayed through it all, actually went to get the part that the car needed, and fixed it right there. My mom then met me at Carmax and we got rid of the car ASAP!!!!! Thank God that is over. I have no idea why I am awake right now. I just wasn't comfortable and got up to pee, but couldn't fall back to sleep. I will check back in later when I am more awake. I am going to try to lay back down with the TV on and see if I can fall back asleep. Hope you all are well.

hey all i was absent just a few days and i didnt think i would ever finish reading to catch up ......like i have said before i dont get on much during the week just weekends but yall are so busy during the week that it takes a while to catch up........anyway this is like tracy and hopeful more of a me post but here it is ........still having the pelvic pain off and on so when i had my appt yesterday he said it was normal ligament pain dont worry bout it......and my blood sugars are still looking good.....(tracy dont throw something at me but) i dont have to take the glucose tolerance test this pregnancy YIPPIE!!!!!!!!!!since i had GD in my last pregnancy, controlled by diet and walking.......my Dr started me first visit at 7 weeks sticking my finger 2 times a day now he has dropped down to 1 time a day fasting (first thing in am before you eat) and they look real good so far so i dont have to take it this time since i check it everyday......i am so gald i was so dreading it.........i gained 5 pounds so that is 8 total (remember untill my 22 week checkup i was loosing each visit 14 total then at 22 i had gained 3 lbs and now the 5) and i will get to meet my baby boy on may 30!!!!! the Dr went ahead and scheduled my c-section at yesterdays appt...iam so excited to know his birthday........no this is not an elective C but due to problems in the labor of my DD .........tracy sticking your finger is not as bad as it sounds i have gotten so used to it ......now insulin would be a different story to me....so i will keep it checked and walk and eat right all day , everyday to keep far away from the insulin.........but it is all for that baby because high blood sugars can harm you as well as the baby and can be fatal if untreated in the baby, so anything i can do to help him out........oh i am measuring 27 weeks and i was only 26 and 2 days at my appt ...anyone else measuring ahead??? or the more i walk the more i seem to have BH contractions but again he said it was normal but it just seems early this time to have them ....sorry to everyone i didnt address directly but there was so much...i addressed tracy because i know quite a bit about GD since having it with my last i do love you all take care and bye for now..........

Punkin, thanks for the info and pep talk on the GD. It does help to hear anything and everything from those who have experienced it. I wish I could exercise on top of watching my food, but I'm not allowed, and wasn't allowed in the first trimester either. My mom said she had sugar issues when she was PG with my older sister, she thinks because she gained a lot of weight with her. Plus, my mom says we as a family are just sensitive to sugar in general, which is totally true. I've never liked eating too much junk, or drinking alcohol (turns into sugar in the body), and I'm allergic to milk (lactose-milk sugar). We don't have diabetic problems, just a lot of food sensitivities. I was seeing a personal trainer and nutritionist before I got PG and he even said that Scandinavians tend to have food sensitivities, which is what my bloodline is. That really must be a cool feeling to know what day you are going to have your baby. Part of me wants to ask the doc for a C-section, but I know how insane that sounds, so I just don't. You never know, they may have to do one on me anyway. I think I'm just so scared of the pain of childbirth that I'd rather skip it! I have had numerous surgeries, so I know what recovery pain feels like and that doesn't scare me. It's so funny because I read your post last night before bed but was too tired to post back, so I went to bed and had a dream that my due date was moved up by 3 weeks due to baby's size and development. So instead of May 20th, I was told to expect to give birth around April 30th!!! I WISH!!! That would leave less than two months until I get to meet her. Hope you all are having a great weekend. I am bored, so you know I will check in later!

hi all... PUNKIN, I measured 2.5-3 weeks ahead at my last dr visit. She thinks it might be because of the uterine fibroid. No BH contractions yet (I'm at 27-28 weeks)... TRACY, I'm really sorry the house fell through - I know you really liked it. And that was a crazy story about your car! I'm glad people were so helpful. By the way, I saw your shower games thread... My MIL really wants to do the diaper game, but everyone I've talked to about it is horrified at the thought (including me and my SIL)! Pretty funny... HOPEFUL, how was your shower? COL, glad that it sounds like you are doing better. You may be right about my mom's reaction, but unfortunately she has a long history of saying/being very cold to me. She never realizes how the things that she says hurts me. And if I ever try to express how I feel, then she gets all hurt and always wants me to apologize for what I say. (And I really don't say mean things to her.) She just has a double standard... she should be allowed to say whatever she wants because she's the mother, but god forbid that I try to explain my point of view. She's very manipulative. I end up in tears just about every time I talk with her. After her comments the other day, my dh is putting his foot down and doesn't want my parents to stay with us if they do come visit. He's probably right... I know my house isn't up to her standards (you could eat off the floor in her house, it's that clean!) and it will only be stressful if they stayed here. There are a ton of nice B&Bs that they could stay at and be much more comfortable. But it's probably a moot point anyway - it sounds like visiting after the baby is born is just not a priority for them. At least she has given me a good example of how not to act as a mother. And at least I have my MIL as a good example of a wonderful mom!

Val, I'm so sorry your mother is the way she is. I have a sister who is the same way. It's difficult to have a relationship with people who are one-sided and combative. Others say it's because my sister is jealous of me, but I just know that she is a perfectionist and has to be right all the time. Her opinion, etc....is always best. I think it's a good idea that your parents stay elsewhere if they do make it up to Oregon, just because you don't need the extra stress, especially if you are trying to b___stfeed. You need to stay relaxed as much as possible. Well, all is not lost on the house we want until somebody else buys it. Hopefully tomorrow brings good news for my FIL and the sale of his Vermont home, because then that helps us get to an agreeable price on the home we like. We'll see. Savannah isn't in the moving mood today. I hate days like this. My husband always tells me I worry too much, but I just can't help it. She will bounce off the walls for days on end and then not move much for a day or two. How many more times am I going to have to repeat this cycle of worry over the same thing? My husband thinks I am over reacting.

Morning ladies! Happy monday! Val - Im so sorry about your mom.. . i am sure that is very difficult having a baby & not having your mother BUT atleast you do have a nice MIL. Tracy - online at 4am are you nuts???!!! That was messed up about your car. Atleast you did have people come to help. & I didn't know you named your DD already! Try drinking some OJ to get that girl going. If your really worried call your ob. They'll put you on a monitor. I usually freaked out about that in my 9th month & i went a couple times for monitoring for rea__surance. Punkin-congrats on your weight gain & your Due Date!! may 30th sounds like a great day to have a baby! H&E - glad to hear your visit is going well & your getting some good stuff. The lotions & potions stuff are a great gift. Thats what usually I give for baby showers. People tend to forget that stuff & you do need alot of it. Me - im cd10 & getting ready to o.. having some o pain but have a slightly negative OPK (both lines are aaalllmost the same color) but should be tomorrow. Do you ladies know if ovulating around cycle day 11-12 is too early? I O'd on day 11 last month.

Harvard study suggests ice cream aids fertility for some women; experts skeptical 27/02/2007 11:23:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Printer-friendly page (AP) - Ben & Jerry might help you get pregnant, but not in the usual way. A diet rich in ice cream and other high-fat dairy foods may lower the risk of one type of infertility, a study suggests. It sounds too good to be true and probably is, some doctors say. But the findings are bound to get attention because they are from the well-known Nurses Health Study at the Harvard School of Public Health and were published Wednesday in the European journal Human Reproduction. Researchers found that women who ate two or more low-fat dairy products a day were nearly twice as likely to have trouble conceiving because of lack of ovulation than women who ate less than one serving of such foods a week. Conversely, women who ate at least one fatty dairy food a day were 27 per cent less likely to have this problem. Even the researchers say women should not make too much of these results, which are based on reports of what women said they ate over many years - not a rigorous, scientific experiment where specific dietary factors could be studied in isolation. "The idea is not to go crazy and start to have ice cream three times a day," said the lead author, Dr. Jorge Chavarro, a research fellow at Harvard. "But it is certainly possible to have a healthy diet with low saturated fat intake by having one serving of high-fat dairy a day." Others urged caution. "A good healthy dose of skepticism is good for people," especially when the results are so hard to swallow, said Dr. Patrick Remington, a University of Wisconsin-Madison epidemiologist. After all, the Nurses Health Study also found that menopause hormones could ward off heart disease - something doctors believed until a more scientific study disproved it several years ago, he noted. The new research doesn't even apply to most cases of female infertility - not ovulating is to blame only one-third of the time. The study also found no link between infertility and dairy foods in general - something that bothered another statistics expert, David Allison at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Instead, researchers only saw a link when they separated non-ovulating women who ate yogurt and other low-fat dairy products from those eating more high-fat varieties. When they looked at specific foods - and this is where the numbers really get tricky - they found that women eating ice cream two or more times a week had a 38 per cent lower risk of infertility than women consuming ice cream less than once a week. Researchers adjusted the results to reflect differences in weight, exercise levels and other factors, but many specialists said they suspect weight is still mostly responsible for the results. Weight extremes - being too thin or too fat - raises the risk of any sort of infertility, said Dr. William Gibbons, who runs a fertility clinic in Baton Rouge, La., and is president of the Society for a__sisted Reproductive Technology. Other research shows that women eating lots of low-fat dairy also eat other low-fat foods and try to lose weight, said Dr. Zev Rosenwaks, director of Weill Cornell University and New York Presbyterian's fertility services. His interpretation of the new study: "It's not that having high fat is protective. It's that being on a diet may be bad for reproduction." The Harvard study, funded by the university and a long-running federal study, involved 18,555 women, ages 24 to 42, who became pregnant or tried to from 1991-99. Among them, 3,430 reported infertility, including 2,165 who saw a doctor for it. Of those, 438 said an ovulation problem was to blame. The women filled out questionnaires every two years on what they ate and how often. Those who ate more high-fat dairy foods were more likely to consume alcohol and to already have had a child, and less likely to exercise than those eating low-fat dairy products. Researchers said they adjusted for these factors and still saw the link to ovulation-related infertility. If women do eat more high-fat dairy foods to try to boost their odds of conceiving, it would be important to cut calories elsewhere to avoid gaining weight, doctors said. They also should switch back to low-fat dairy foods once the baby is born, to limit saturated fats.

Good morning ladies, looks like everybody is busy. TTC#3, the 2 times I got pregnant, I ovulated CD10, and the OPK was 2 days off. Good luck. My updates, OMG, my morning (all day sickness) are killing me, they are non stop. I am so tired, but not sleepy though. There is this smell in my nose that I can't get red of it no matter what I do. Talking a shower is a problem; I can't stand the shampoo smell, FUN FUN FUN. I am still spotting, more that one week now, I am surprised I am calm about it, but mind you, what can I do other than being calm and wait and see. For those of you who had nausea, any advice? It's too much. Tomorrow is my firt ultra sound, wish me luck. Ttyl

Good morning Ladies, Just read that article on MSN .news this morning, sounds like there were some interesting results!

TTC#3....I always ovulated early, sometimes even on cd9! I thought that wasn't enough time to have my eggs mature, so that's one reason I am convinced injectables worked for me. They could control and monitor the growth. Yep, I named my wee-one Savannah Skye. I had a doctor's appt. on Friday and her heartbeat was at 148 and I have another appointment today to have another FFN test and ultrasound. She has moved little bits here and there, so I'm not terribly worried, plus I know that she is about the size of a 30 week old, so her movements may start to slow down as she grows bigger. I used to freak out, but now since she is bigger, I can feel even the tiny movements that before I could not. Oh, and about being up at 4am......yeah, not my choice of times to wake up, but I peed about every hour to two hours that night and just couldn't go back to sleep at that point. This morning I was woken up at 4:20am by my noisy neighbors hanging out on their balcony partying! I was fuming! I am so sick of living here. I know I keep saying that, but I also keep getting little reminders like that which make me hate it more by the day. We had dinner last night with DH's parents. It was nice. They are so good to me and DH. I feel blessed every time I realize that I married into such a functional, warm family. (Total opposite of my own!!!!) Like, Val, my own mother hasn't even so much as looked for anything for this baby or expressed any further interest in my shower, said she'd give me money for my birthday and just hasn't given me anything, and then does stuff like bake me a cake with whipped cream for the frosting when she knows I'm allergic to milk. It's just annoying. This is not all about me and wanting things....it's about her offering things up and saying she is going to do things and not ever doing them. Well, I am going to hop into the ahower and get ready for my coochie check!

COL, Just wanted to say it sounds great that you are having pregnancy symptoms even with you spotting..I think that is a great sign., I had the same situation with my last pregnancy.. Hang in there! Good luck with your ultrasound tomorrow. Off to the shower with my little since he deposited his breakfast all over me!!! Look forward to catching up with everyone soon!

COL, just saw your post. The first thing you need to do is change your shampoo! I remember that I bought Infusium and once I got home to use it, I hated the smell. I put up with it for a while, then had to change to something else. I still have the bottle and cannot get myself to use it. Nothing really helped my morning sickness except I liked drinking club soda with lemon or lime. That, and eating protein like eggs and soy pudding. Luckily, it only lasted a month, so keep your eye on the long run. I know Val probably has some good tips for you. She suffered for a long time! Good luck on your U/S tomorrow. I know you are fine, but you will feel much better about things when that's done. OK, now I really have to go get ready for the doctor.

Thanks ladies for your info on early Oing.. I'm not usually this early.. last 2 months o'd day 11.. my cycles are so different from 24 to 32 days long.. in my 20's it was every 28 days.. its lovely getting older! Thanks LB - im getting some ice cream tonight!! col - GOOD LUCK on your u/s!! +++ thoughts to you.. maybe you have a low lying placenta thats making you spot. I've had a co worker who spotted for a long time because of that. Tracy - im with you on the noisy neighbors.. We have sharing walls & i can hear everything! 11pm & shes jamming to her stereo.. UGH! My landlord is selling my place so I am now in a bit of a rush but still have to wait til my name is off of the mortgage I had with my ex husband. Which will take oooohhh about the same amount of time.. not panicking yet!

Tracy - what was the injectable you did? what did they do for you?