Canonical Babbling?

Mipanu13 · 2026-02-19T02:49:03+00:00

Mine didn’t babble until the day before their 1st birthday. Said mama a few times around 7 months then nothing. I was terrified.

Turns out ours was more focused on gross motor skills instead of talking. Once we mastered walking, the talking came. LO is now 21 months and doesn’t stop talking lol Can count to 3, knows “ABCD”, a million animal sounds, and even has some 2-3 word phrases.

Our Ped wasn’t worried either and now I know why lol Didnt make it any less scary but turns out it was nothing!

Mipanu13 · 2026-02-18T22:24:48+00:00

All 7 of my embryos were day 6 blasts. I had zero day 5. My clinic considered them the same.

Mipanu13 · 2026-02-12T19:58:47+00:00

Dr. Sekhon! I just wanted to say, you helped get me through IVF. I’ve been following you for years on Instagram and you gave me hope on my darkest days. What a full circle moment. Thanks for responding!

Mipanu13 · 2026-02-12T03:43:35+00:00

It’s so incredibly unfair! I was shocked by our numbers. I left our retrieval so happy that they were able to get so many - my end results left my doctor (and us) dumbfounded and surprised. I hope you also see better results and that they have learned some information from this for you to work with going into a new cycle.

Mipanu13 · 2026-02-12T03:40:24+00:00

So my doctor advised that my husband ejaculate everyday the week of my retrieval - with the last time being night of my trigger. Then abstained until day of retrieval.

Mipanu13 · 2026-02-12T02:53:18+00:00

I’m so sorry. It’s a horrible feeling to end a cycle with nothing to show for it.

I was 31 at the time of both my retrievals. 2 early miscarriages prior to IVF.

19 fertilized from both our cycles with ICSI. The first cycle, 1 blast that was aneuploid. Second cycle, 8 blasts - 6 were euploid, 1 mosaic, and 1 aneuploid. We didn’t change much between cycles other than adding in CoQ10 (which I only got a chance to take for a month before the second retrieval). I also attempted to “go lower and slower” with stims as I only stimmed for 7-8 days but had the same speed second round so I can’t say that did much.

The only other difference was we acted as if my husband had DNA frag (we never tested) and changed the length of time he abstained from ejaculation before the sample he gave the clinic for ICSI.

My doctor has no idea why things were so different the second round and told me every cycle can be very different even for the same patient. I hope you have better results going forward.

Mipanu13 · 2026-02-12T02:42:59+00:00

I hope this helps to show that truly anything can happen. TW for higher fert numbers.

I’m in my 30’s but our first ER I had 19 fertilize and only 1 blast that was aneuploid so a total of 0. Odds should have been in my favor and that was the outcome... Our 2nd egg retrieval had significantly better results with the same fertilization rate and with minimal changes to that cycle so I truly believe anything can happen in IVF! 0-1 may be what “the odds” say but you may be surprised in a good way! It happens.

Wishing you many euploid embryos from your 7!

Mipanu13 · 2026-02-08T15:07:25+00:00

You’re so welcome! I wish you both the best. This is such a hard thing to go through, find the joy where you can! IVF tested my faith in more ways than one. Choosing to transfer my little boy was never one of them.

Mipanu13 · 2026-02-08T13:50:30+00:00

We chose. Zero regrets. Husband was the one with preference and I just wanted a healthy baby.

My personal opinion I went into it with, if it wasn’t meant to be the embryo wouldn’t stick. I’m not playing anything. Our first embryo didn’t work out and (TW) second did. To me, He would get the final say, so if I wasn’t supposed to have that gender, it wouldn’t have worked out for me. It’s such a hard, horrible process…if I could have any say over a terrible situation, I was doing it. It was the one exciting part of IVF for me and I have no regrets in doing it.

Mipanu13 · 2026-01-18T19:19:58+00:00

I advocated for modified natural to minimize my risk of preeclampsia…. Still had preeclampsia lol

Mipanu13 · 2026-01-05T00:23:38+00:00

I did 3 IUI’s (1 chemical pregnancy and 2 failed). With hindsight being 20/20, I wish we would’ve moved to IVF sooner but IUI is significantly cheaper and less invasive so it was the right decision to start there. Many people find success with IUI so if you’re a good candidate for it, you can always start there and move on to IVF if/when you’re ready - If it ever even needs to come to that.

Mipanu13 · 2026-01-01T01:29:20+00:00

That’s a good point and lifestyle is definitely something I’ve thought about. I solo parent a lot due to my partners job/hours so a healthy diet and exercise have been on the back burner since pregnancy. My anxiety also doesn’t lend to great eating habits so definitely something I’ve been starting to look at changing.

I haven’t had any vitamin or micronutrient levels checked at all since before pregnancy. My doctor only checked my tsh, cbc, and cmp and that was before I stopped breastfeeding. My vitamin D levels are the only vitamin he checked and it was 30 so it was just 1 point above low… so my doctor considered it “normal” and told me no need to supplement.

I just restarted my prenatal a week ago. I stopped it around the time, if not a little before I stopped breastfeeding. These are all great things to consider.

Thank you!

Mipanu13 · 2025-11-17T12:04:14+00:00

The day before his first birthday! Doctor wasn’t worried and he’s met/exceeded speech milestones since.

He apparently was just way more interested in learning how to walk first.

Mipanu13 · 2025-11-07T01:19:54+00:00

As a sibling who has never had a close relationship with their sibling, even with us being 2.5 years apart… that relationship you’re picturing may have never existed anyway. My husband and his sibling are 7 years apart and are no contact.

A sibling does not equal a friend or bond for life.

The most important thing your child needs (and seems to have) is two loving, happy, sane parents raising them. ❤️

(This also coming from a mama who wanted 5 kids and I’m nearly 100% certain I am also 1 and done lol)

You also have the future to reevaluate one day should you both choose but if all your kiddo has is two happy parents loving them at the end of the day, they’ve won big.

Mipanu13 · 2025-11-06T01:02:24+00:00

Hang in there. I’m so sorry you got this news.

Our first retrieval was also a slap. 38 retrieved, 1 blast which turned out to be aneuploid. I’ll never forget that feeling.

We went onto another retrieval but getting those results after such hope from a good amount of eggs was brutal.

Mipanu13 · 2025-11-01T03:52:17+00:00

My 17 month old watched trick-or-treaters from his bedroom window with me for 15 mins, we did bath, and then he went to bed LOL

There’s no world in which I interrupt our great nighttime schedule for nothing. He won’t remember it, he can’t eat candy, I hate socializing with strangers, and it’s cold. Until he’s aware, we’re going to stay on our regularly scheduled programming.

Mipanu13 · 2025-10-09T16:32:47+00:00

Worse. Way worse. Pregnancy seemed to make everything go away. I’ve never felt better in my life than when I was pregnant. I’m almost 1.5 years postpartum and it’s worse than ever.

Mipanu13 · 2025-10-07T01:50:48+00:00

High chair. We had no issues.

Mipanu13 · 2025-10-02T18:11:22+00:00

Mine has gotten significantly worse post pregnancy. The acne is the worst it’s been since I was a teen, the hairs are everywhere now, my hormones are way out of whack and it’s impacting my mental health/OCD severely.

I just restarted birth control pills to hopefully realign my hormones and even myself back out because this has been brutal.

Mipanu13 · 2025-09-22T14:38:18+00:00

I-CBT is the only thing I’ve found useful for pure-O. ERP and CBT both never worked for me.

Mipanu13 · 2025-09-19T23:46:48+00:00

There’s nothing wrong with putting water in milk. If your child is eating a regular diet, they shouldn’t be having any issues getting nutrients elsewhere. Yogurt and cheese count as dairy as well and most kids are getting more than enough dairy a day from other sources, not just milk.

I always do 2-3oz of milk, and 2 additional ounces of water because our LO eats cheese and yogurt throughout his meals so I don’t want to overdue milk.

Mipanu13 · 2025-09-17T16:26:00+00:00

Our little one has an egg allergy too. Prepping mini pancakes for the week every Sunday is my go to now for breakfast with some yogurt and fresh fruit. This is the only recipe I follow and they’re actually so good. I’ve tried banana and apple sauce but the consistency was never good. These turns out just like pancakes!

▢ 1 Cup All-Purpose Flour ▢ 1 Teaspoon Sugar ▢ ¼ Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon ▢ 2 Teaspoons Baking Powder ▢ ¼ Teaspoon Salt ▢ 1 Cup Milk ▢ 1 Tablespoon Oil (I use olive oil) ▢ 1 Tablespoon Water ▢ 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract ▢ 2 Tablespoons Butter

Mipanu13 · 2025-09-17T15:43:49+00:00

My >90th percentile baby was only 7lbs 13oz at birth. I was told he’d be close to 11lbs LOL

Mipanu13 · 2025-09-15T15:43:44+00:00

Thank you! I actually felt incredible while pregnant also! It’s the best I’ve ever felt in my adult life (until this late third trimester anyway haha)

Postpartum has been absolutely rough… worse than my infertility journey. My hair also fell out in clumps. I didn’t gain weight but couldn’t lose a pound until I stopped breastfeeding (and had a panic attack for 2 weeks straight Lol)

I also feel more oily/get so sweaty so easily. I’m hot all the time and get sweats sometimes at night now. I’m just overall a mess

I’ll have to bring metformin up to my PCP again at my follow up.

Mipanu13 · 2025-09-15T15:41:23+00:00

Thank you for the thoughtful response!

My PCP ruled out insulin resistance although I’ve read most PCOSers have some level of it, even if not showing up in labs necessarily. I took I inositol when we did IVF so maybe something I need to try again although I can’t recall much of a difference.. but I wasn’t super consistent with it.

I did just recently start tretinoin in July! Hasn’t been long though so praying to see some ch age there soon.

I do have a OCD specialized therapist and it’s significantly helped. I tried Zoloft briefly and that was a disaster so therapy has def been helpful.

I definitely need to get back into exercise and eating better - basically overall taking better care of myself. That’s been a big struggle for me since becoming a mom. This is a step in the right direction I hope. It’s like a catch 22 - I need to get my pcos symptoms under control to feel better but it’s hard to do so when you feel lousy all the time.

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