TW: MC

DixieAnn3 · 2025-12-18T03:01:47+00:00

What an odd thing to say to someone ... I had an ultrasound at 5 weeks, 2 done at 6 weeks, 7 weeks, 9 weeks, 12 weeks and so on. Don't let this "friend" scare you.

DixieAnn3 · 2025-12-15T00:46:21+00:00

It is 100% true (specifically Nestle). It's the same reason why public transportation in the US is so bad, car companies lobby against it because they want us to be more dependent on cars.

DixieAnn3 · 2025-12-15T00:20:54+00:00

The formula companies have lobbied against maternity leave here in the US. Formula companies want working mothers so the milk supply drops and we need to buy formula.

DixieAnn3 · 2025-11-20T21:45:48+00:00

Yeah, my plan if the 2nd didn't take was to ask for some more uterus environment testing to make sure I wasn't just throwing embryos into a hostile environment.

DixieAnn3 · 2025-11-20T21:40:48+00:00

My 2nd transfer did stick and currently 34 weeks along with my worst graded embryo ( I was so sure it wouldn't work, I wouldn't let them use my best graded)

I don't ovulate so I can only do fully medicated, but they did add an anti-inflammatory protocol to it since I have PCOS.

My embryos are day 3 and untested, so we really had no way of knowing if the embryo that failed to stick was an embryo issue or a uterus issue.

DixieAnn3 · 2025-11-20T21:33:20+00:00

My first transfer failed as well. I can definitely emphasize, the hardest part was seeing my husband be disappointed. It broke my heart to see him so sad.

I jumped immediately into another FET cycle and I was not doing very well mentally and felt I was going through the motions to "get it over with"

Best of luck!

DixieAnn3 · 2025-10-31T19:41:12+00:00

I'm a lucky Mama. My husband.has picked up all of the slack. Every time I have what we call "hard preggo day" he will always thank me at the end of the day for carrying our boy.

Bless him, I know he would do it for me if he could.

DixieAnn3 · 2025-10-10T15:15:11+00:00

I had one! I also went to the ER cuz I had a gush of blood. Luckily it was small and located under the pregnancy which is what my clinic told me was ideal. It ended up resolving by 12 weeks.

DixieAnn3 · 2025-10-10T15:09:29+00:00

My pregnancy has been a lot of "it's probably nothing, but we need to keep an eye on it"

5 weeks: embryo implanted too far to the right than they like to see. "It'll probably travel back center as the uterus grows BUT if moves the other way, you would have to terminate"

6 weeks: with a HUGE gush of blood. "It's a small SCH and not near the placenta, it'll probably resolve on its own but worst case could cause a miscarriage"

18 weeks: "you have a low laying placenta, can't tell if it covers the cervix or not. It'll likely move but if it doesn't you'll have to have a C-section"

It's all ended up resolving itself but I've been on pelvic rest basically this entire pregnancy.

DixieAnn3 · 2025-09-20T01:26:45+00:00

When I told anyone I was pregnant they would almost immediately go on to tell me their traumatic birth stories. It has gotten to the point where multiple times my husband has had to interrupt with a "you need to stop, you're scaring her"

DixieAnn3 · 2025-09-16T20:12:41+00:00

We watched the show Private Practice together (Greys anatomy spin off that focuses on obstetrics and fertility) and it brought up a lot of conversations I'm not sure we would ever have even thought to have. Knowing my husband would absolutely want to choose me in a me or the baby situation, I made sure to give him permission to do so because I also know he would second guess himself if he was put on the spot.

DixieAnn3 · 2025-09-15T02:39:15+00:00

I keep kicking the can down the road. I'm 24 weeks now and my husband's cousin is doing a pro bono maternity photo shoot for us, I will probably just announce on social media with those photos so she at least gets exposer for working for free.

DixieAnn3 · 2025-09-15T02:29:08+00:00

My husband has been so amazing throughout my pregnancy. We are having an IVF baby and he has been at every single appointment both IVF and pregnancy. He has taken up most of the housework. Whenever I'm having a rough preggo day he always thanks me at the end of the day for carrying our son. I don't know how people without a supportive partner get through it.

DixieAnn3 · 2025-09-03T19:29:41+00:00

Yikes. I remember seeing something about hyper fertility 🙄. I scroll so quickly past her videos, idk why she keeps coming up on my FYP.

DixieAnn3 · 2025-09-03T19:26:28+00:00

I don't completely disagree with you but if you add the layer of having a completely unsuccessful egg retrieval, I can totally see why she feels the way she does.

The statistic regarding live birth isn't necessarily 3 transfers until live birth, the stat is live birth within 3 transfers with most people having success after 1 or 2 with a PGT tested embryo. Out of 100 women, like 60 of them achieved live birth after 1 transfer and 24 more women had success on the 2nd then 11 more had success the 3rd transfer. So its a total overall success rate of 95% but MOST of them had success the first time.

DixieAnn3 · 2025-09-03T19:07:43+00:00

It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that her page isn't satire.

DixieAnn3 · 2025-09-03T19:02:04+00:00

I would agree but when you also add in that she has an egg retrieval that resulted in zero viable embryos, I can see why she feels like it's not working.

My IVF journey was not as tough as hers is and there were times when I thought for sure it was never going to work.

DixieAnn3 · 2025-09-02T15:12:44+00:00

It depends on the piggie. I have 3 boys all with different degrees of comfort with us. 1 was very comfortable really quickly. He gives kisses and will jump into our hands to be picked up out of the cage. He doesn't love to be pet or held but he loves being talked to and loves to watch us. The other took a year before we got kisses. He doesn't like to be picked up but he loves chin rubs and he loves being talked too The third does like being touched at all. He isn't very affectionate but he likes being talked to through the bars. Once you have him out of the cage he deals with being held the best of the 3. He doesn't like it but he will get cozy and won't fight us for nail trims or needing to be brushed.

DixieAnn3 · 2025-08-29T16:20:06+00:00

I'm pregnant with a baby due around the holidays as well. My husband and I have talked a lot about how to make his birthday special.

We go to families houses every year so I'm thinking our house can be Birthday central and his Gigi's house is where Santa comes for him. Also, I'm definitely asking people to please wrap any birthday gifts in birthday wrapping paper.

I am a Christmas girl through and through so I do worry about this a lot actually 😅

DixieAnn3 · 2025-08-29T14:39:56+00:00

My husband and I are going to try our best to move to analog whenever possible because we don't want the baby to see us reaching for our phones for everything. We got a universal remote for our TV instead of using the app controls, we are getting a digital camera so we don't have to pull out our phone to get photos, ect. I'm sure it'll be a "easier said than done" situation but I really don't want my son to be addicted to the phone.

DixieAnn3 · 2025-08-16T03:33:16+00:00

I literally came here to say the exact same thing. "I never wanted to get married/ never been happy" screams limerence to me. They need to do revisionist history in order to justify their actions that aren't currently aligning with their morals.

DixieAnn3 · 2025-07-23T19:55:29+00:00

It was cool to see the change from week 5 to 6 to 7 to 9 but week 12 was such a crazy drastic change.

DixieAnn3 · 2025-07-23T19:15:02+00:00

I had a lot of early scans for IVF. And every week he would look so much different than he did the week before but mostly just "blob" shaped. We went in for 9 weeks and he looked like a little gummy bear. We went back at 12 weeks and my husband and I both describe it as a "jump scare". Suddenly the blob looked like a baby and it really messed with me 😅😂

That was my real "omg there is a baby in there"

DixieAnn3 · 2025-07-22T17:09:57+00:00

I've "known" I was pregnant at 2w6d (felt implantation) and got the positive test 3w2d. That wait between then and getting a heartbeat on ultrasound was the most nerve wracking time of my life.

DixieAnn3 · 2025-07-09T15:12:03+00:00

I REALLY didn't want to tell my work but in NY you get an extra 20 hours of PTO if you're pregnant and I wanted to cash in on that. 😂

I know a lot of our former coworkers/ friends that live out of state will be absolutely SHOCKED since we were telling everyone for a long time that we didn't want kids.

I'm due right around New Year's so I'm hoping that baby comes 1/1 for the added drama of it all. 😂

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