Re: One more pregnancy update

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Thanks for the update and the sage advice for the new moms-to-be. Your due

date is my husband's birthday and his astrological sign has done him well.

Good luck with finishing the book in time. Happy Holidays, Elaine

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Thanks for the update and the sage advice for the new moms-to-be. Your due

date is my husband's birthday and his astrological sign has done him well.

Good luck with finishing the book in time. Happy Holidays, Elaine

[Guest guest]

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Glad to see your message - was wondering how the baby was, how the move

went, etc! I bet you are all happy to be in your new house for Christmas!

Glad you're feeling good and can't wait to hear what this baby is. Do you

have any " feelings " on whether it's a boy or girl? I knew which it was with

all three of ours.

Good luck with the book deadline!

One more pregnancy update

> Hi everyone,

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> and Carmel inspired me to update folks on my pregnancy, too. I

haven't been very active on the list (other than keeping my eye out as a

moderator) because we recently moved into a different house and, as many of

you know, I'm a writer and have a book deadline with a literary agent in

January: my baby is due Feb. 14!!! So things have been very, very very

busy, to put it mildly (we also already have two children, ages four and

six).

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> For those of you new to the list or thinking about becomign pregnant, I

truly despaired when I was initially diagnosed at nine months post-partum

with my now four year old. While I had never been particularly bent on

parenthood prior to having my first (sort of a 'why not?' baby), once I had

one I wanted three !!! I had enough complications and eye problems that

I thougth I might never have another child. For me, the key factor was

time: I really would've risked some health problems had I plunged ahead and

had a baby right away but I gave my recovery a full two and a half years or

so before getting pregnant. It was hard to abandon my sense of what was

'right' and wait, but clearly, having a baby before my thyroid was regulated

would not have been as smooth as this current pregnancy. Waiting ws indeed

a real issue for me because of my age -- I was 35 when I had my now four

year old.

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> I was hypothyroid and on a stable armour dose for over a year before I

became pregnant this time. Since then, things have gone incredibly well --

I recently upped my armour a bit, but my TSH has remained around .5, with

the exception of a few weeks where it bounced up to 2.1 and we had to

increase my dose a tiny bit each time to get my FT3 higher and TSH lower.

That said, the tinkering was all wtihin the normal range and the physical

effects of the higher TSH were minimal annoyances, rather than the full

fledged hypo onset that I tend to get even at that level.

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> Anyway, I now have eight more weeks to go and am feeling really great. We

don't know if it's a boy or a girl -- we knew with boht others and are going

to be suprrised. No names yet, either. I haven't a single name that has

grabbed me as the 'right' one.

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> That's it! I do hope the pregnancies on the list are helpful to people

who are being diagnosed in the midst of their childbearing years -- I once

read a comment by a doctor who said that she thought autoimmune diseases

were particularly cruel to women because they often came at a crucial time

in women's reproductive lives. For me, personally, that was one more

psychological layer to cope with at the time of my diagnosis, as well as a

real logistic issue. If I had not developed Graves disease, I would've gone

ahead and had a third baby at 37, instead of waiting till age of 39 to

conceive (riskier in that the odds of being able to conceive with ease keep

getting smaller -- although I got pg. easily -- and chance of abnormalities

increase).

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> Best - B

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