Yesterday we met up with our midwife - she was lovely, we feel quite happy with her. We talked through lots of things and did lots of paperwork. The midwife recommends that we go with shared care, she said that due to having PCOS and conceived through IVF it puts us at higher risk. Apparently IVF babies tend to stop growing sooner than natural babies, and having PCOS puts me at risk of pre-eclampsia. So we have decided to go with her recommendation. She was also saying that im unlikely to go over - may even be a week earlier however they won't let me go over because of the risks so thats good. She also gave us forms to get our antenatal bloods done, along with referral to have our combined screening done at 12weeks. I felt really good when I left, felt excited at the prospect of needing to even use a midwife and making plans for this baby's arrival!!!
Today was our followup scan at Repromed (now known as Fertility Associates as have changed names). Again, I was super nervous. But yay, everything was perfect!!! Bubs has been growing nicely, nice strong heartbeat, and well... perfect!!! Our specialist said we can still have scans if we chose however there is no longer a need for us to be going there, we have officially graduated!!! I can't believe we have made it here!!! Still need to keep taking the metformin for basically my entire pregnancy but I can stop the pessaries now - I think I will just carry on with the packs I have, can't hurt anyways!!
So its been a great last few days - a perfect way to celebrate my husbands birthday today!!! We have also made our first big purchase, a cot - we love it!! Can't wait for hubby to put it together. Both mw and specialist have said my EDD is a day later than we had so now our due date is 26th May 2012.
Eek, so super excited about it all!!!
Here is a pic of bubs - hasn't he/she grown ;)
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