so here it is, a new home for us newly updiffed ladies or still seeking that golden egg after a mc part 3

Sorry to interrupt but saw pants in here so thought I would say hi. Congrats on bring pregnant and hopefully it all works out for you. My dd was born 3 weeks ago and is doing well despite being a tad early. She is gorgeous and ds loves being a big bro.

Anyway if you are in need of a name change I need to have a think. We are still in the sore bits thread.

Good morning Everyone! Horray for No evident problems emma now let the conception commence!

Hearing the heartbeat at 13 weeks harassed that is the earliest I have ever heard! I convinced myself I could feel movement the other day..........until I did a huge fart glad everything is progressing well for you.

Bonjour yellow think positive!! how are you getting on not telling the relatives you went with? Did you decide to take baby asprin in the end?

wombat I am amazed you have to pay a year in advance for rent! so do you just pay once a year then? or keep a year in advance permenantly?

Hi star $59 for a scan! wow whats that ? like £40? don't worry too much about not being able to see anything yet.... it's so early! There is someone on the January thread [peeping tom emotion] who had a scan 5-6 weeks and saw nothing, then went back at 8weeks and saw a sac with nothing in it, was told to expect the worst. Then she went back at 10 and first scan they found a bean, but no heartbeat, she wouldn't give up and asked for an internal and there it was beating away!! Scary hey! Hope despite the mentalling you are still having a great time! Try not to worry about coloured discharge.......are you hydrated enough in that heat?

So sorry about AF mrsb get yourself to the docs!!! Have some wine for me tonight! it is friday! 6 weeks dry now for Me what an achievement!!

So my sickness is ramping up a bit at the moment, I am having to tell so many lies! Yesterday in a meeting I had to ge my emergency sausage roll out, mid-meeting, I tried to discretely break bits off and sneak them in, but just succeeded in putting crumbs all over the floor Ha!
DD is wondering why I am not eating the same as them, I sat with a bowl of cornflakes last night while they all had chilli [boak emocion] when she asked why I said "i am on a diet"! I am proper showing too still no date for the scan, I may call the unit today and nag..........

He he at emma's slightly immature follicles - can you get someone sensible in to get them to grow up a bit? Glad there are no blockages etc.

Will you be getting the scan tomorrow star?

Not surprised you are mentalling yellow - did you take some good books with you for distraction? And sparkly is absolutely right - sickness and other symptoms do come and go. How is the ulcer cover-up going? No doubt you are very au fait with cover stories with your job

Croissants and pain au chocolat for all in light of yellow's jaunt to France x

Thanks for the thoughts, no blockages everything normal - he did say i have slightly immature follicles (what were they doing... pictures them throwing food and blowing raspberries...) but I think it was because I am at the beginning of my cycle CD8 and I think they mature as you get closer to ovulation...

Harrassed that's great news on the HB - must have been a really nice day as a result :)

Star thinking of you - but you can't usually see anything at 6 weeks - I know it doesn't help the mentalling though.

Wombat good luck with the move!!

Morning!!

Guess what??? ...... I heard the heartbeat yesterday!! Not bad for seeing as I'm only 13 weeks today, so I'm all happy and smiley about that. Dd was there but was decidedly underwhelmed....probably wondering what was wrong with me. Anyway I went about my hayfever and he wasn't keen on giving me anything unless it was really bad, but I'm on my asthma inhalers at the moment and apparently if you take the brown one in through your mouth and then breathe out through your nose it helps. On the downside my bp is on its way up already. It was 120/80 at 8 weeks and is now 144/85, so not ideal. He tested my urine and that's clear. I did have this with dd, and was being tested for pre-eclampsia at 20 weeks, but it all settled down eventually. Very strange!! Obviously I'm trying even out Sparkly's low bp!

mrsb I really think you should try the gp......

yellow stop mentalling, that sounds very normal especially as you're getting plenty of sleep. The hormones come in waves I was told, and your body gets used to them. It'll be back!!!

wombat a YEAR up front?! Goodness..... Exciting though .

emma glad you're getting tests done, must be a good feeling that they're doing it.

star just to second everything that Wombat said. It all sounds very normal! I had a 6wk scan and was warned that I probably wouldn't see anything but we had a lovely hb. But since then, following my 12 wk scan, my dates have come forward nearly a week, so I was prob closer to 7 weeks than 6 iykwim.

sparkly with you on the pendulous boobs!!!

I had some lovely Birkenstocks delivered yesterday.......and it's bloody raining

Think happy, sunny, frenchy thoughts Yellow, sickness comes and goes and will be less if you're well rested. It'll be back! x

Just a quickie, this is 3rd message I've written but due to bad signal they keep getting lost. Not feeling sick today, hoping it is cos I am sleeping a lot, feeling quite mental as have too much time to think.

Waves to all

Bugger re: AF mrsb - can you get another GP appointment and maybe a referral based on your irregular cycles? Thanks for popping on - good to hear from you.

How very frustrating for you star and not surprised you are mentalling - early spotting of all sorts of colours is very common and doesn't necessarily mean the worst. I also think that at 5+6 (if doc is correct) that you wouldn't see anything more than the sac. Fingers crossed you can get to see someone for a fanjocam on saturday - sending hugs and umbrellas x

Good news on your internal bits emma - do they / can they look for any blockages etc. at this stage?

Loving having Thursdays off - just waiting in for the removals companies to come and give me some quotes. WE are due to move to our new villa on 6th July -eek! Signing over a huuuuge cheque today as you have to give a year's rent up front here - odd system, I know.....

So here you are!!! Been looking for the thread. Had to find the old one and go to back page for a link.

Still in Florida and at the moment it's 10.30 pm and we're having one huge thunderstorm outdoors. Don't like it but the others are freaks and have been outdoors 'watching' it!!

Hope everyone's good. Only had a quick flick through. Hi Kool4cats :).

So....... managed to find a scanning place here that would scan me without the need for me to be under the care of a US physician. Was gonna book in when i thought i'd be 7 weeks which would be tomorrow (today for you guys) but the Dr was heading to Europe the day after i phoned so they said if i wanted to be seen, it would need to be that day. For $59 we thought why not so headed out there. I thought i would be 6 weeks but she seemed to think that going by my LMP, i would be 5+6. Anyway, couldn't see much...only a gestational sac and she only had a transabdominal machine, not a probe so couldn't do an internal. Basically, came out no better off.....big hummppppfff!!!! She has said that if there are enough patients requesting scans, she will be getting a locum in on Sat so may pop for re scan as so much cheaper than in the UK.

Worm i've started severe mentalling now. Had a run around Windsor Hills where we're staying and half hour after getting back i went to pee and i had pinky red when i wiped. A bit of brown and then yellowish coloured spotting followed but then i've seemed ok since. I am so freaked out and already feel resigned to the inevitable. I can't even hope this is implantation as i'm 6+6 so a bit late on for all that. Not sure if the run could have triggered it even.

Hope you're all well. Will try a better catch up when back in Uk as hard to read leisurely on the 1 in demand laptop we have with us. xx

Looks like all present and correct, I have 2 ovaries and a womb (although he did scare me at first when he couldn't find the left one!)... roll on SWI and blood tests!

Oh yes sparkly - I have pendulum pain too, particularly when releasing the monsters out of their bra at night - they're practically begging me to let them free and when they do, they are sooooooore!

I think your first AF post mc is generally a bit screwed up marathon but hang in there, it's your body getting back to normal. I'd love to take credit for the accupuncture suggestion, but that's actually yellow who has had some interesting results from it.

Talking of you yellow, I think today is your due date, so thinking of you lots and hoping that you are having a lovely start to your hol and the sickness isn't toooo bad, but bad enough so you don't worry

Great that you are having so many tests etc. emma - i really hope you get some definitive answers from it, or even better your bfp x

Waves to all. Definitely getting more of a bump, but it still looks like too many pies.....

Pendulum pain, that well known pg symptom! Unfortunately I was "blessed" with a couple of wasp stings so will never know

BTW Sparkly, they've changed the advice on peanuts now, Snickers all round...

Good luck at the TVU Emma!

You are funny Sparkly - I may just try it and let you know whether it has any effect...
I live on peanut butter, I can't understand the need to avoid it - not like brie and oysters where you can do serious damage...
I didn't get sore boobs, they just got bigger and bigger - then the bump will push them up and you will be wearing them under your chin :o

I have a TVU today to check that all tubes and ovaries are there and functional... blood tests are at the end of the month to check that operation ovulation occurred (I hope so as we are going to try like bunnies this month)...

at harrassed mentioning kinesiology. No-one mention aspartame!

Cough medicine stickies up the ewcm does it not, it's probably like that pre-seed. I'm not sure it's the healthiest option, necking a pint of Benylin, but I've heard it works, and you will also be sniffle free.
Wellie, are you feeling a bit homesick? It's raining here, and the energy bills are soaring. Have one of those lovely huge icecreams at Sydney harbour, glance around at the glistening water, opera house and harbour bridge, and have a smug little grin to yourself!
Just sat scoffing peanut snacks, might as well pop in a brie-covered oyster whilst I'm at it! Feeling more positive today and breakfast before I set off has prevented any more fainting episodes.
My boobs are only sore once released from the bra, when they swing painfully and pendulously downwards - is this what you mean, or should they be hurting in a different fashion? I don't want to miss out on a symptom!

Hi all!

Thanks for the link emma, it all sounds quite tiring, especially if you need to keep it up for months (literally ). Interesting about the cough syrup though, I'm going to give it a few months as she suggests and then think about trying it. I think my hormones are all over the place as AF was on its way out but has now returned with a vengeance. Breasts are super tender too so I don't know what's going on.

harassed is Vit B6 p5p to regulate your hormones? I looked into kiseology and we don't have any practitioners nearby. Might try accupunture though, was that wombat's suggestion?

wellie hope you're feeling better.

All you bump buddies, hope you've got loads of sickness, sore boobs etc (in a good way of course )

Argh pressed Enter!!

wellie I'm sorry you're feeling a bit down in the dumps, it must be tough with dd approaching.

I tried the cough syrup emma. It was before I got my very first bfp in Dec. Not sure if it worked, but I was giving anything a go!! What really worked for me, and still is, is kinesiology. Worth a google...... I started taking Vit B6 p5p mid cycle, and my next af was totally different. Not clotty or painful, and seemed like nice "clean" blood iykwim! I got a bfp the next cycle. Unfortunately I had a mmc in Jan, waited for af, got another bfp and then mc'd very early on. This time I got my bfp straight after last mc! I've been seeing my kinesiologist really regularly, at the beginning every 2-3 days, and it's worked.... so far.

wombat I do have an alternative, a red strapless maxi dress, but really fancied wearing the first one. I was also planning on wearing the red dress to a christening....... but I can wear the black one I think, maybe! I need a new strapless bra too, I only bought one 6 weeks ago.

Here's the link for the smep - looks like hard work: www.pregnancyloss.info/sperm_meets_egg_plan.htm

We may give it a go, although I don't think we will start as early as day 8 as I tend to ovulate slightly late (around 18-20).

Interesting about the cough syrup though - has anyone tried that? before you ask it is ingested orally not en-fanjo!

Happy anniversary! But bugger re: the dress harassed - do you have an alternative? And noooo, I don't really have a spreadsheet but wondering if I should as I seem to have to go back a few pages sometimes to remember where everyone is at... think that might be a bit stalker-ish

Glad you found us wellie - sorry to hear you're feeling a bit blue today and no wonder with all that's going on for you. Sending British ex-pat hugs x

Forgot to say that the spotting seemed to be a one-off incident on Fri night and nothing since - phew.... think it might have been the sex which is a shame as it's not like we're at it like rabbits or anything, unlike worm and mrsb......

Happy anniversary! But bugger re: the dress harassed - do you have an alternative? And noooo, I don't really have a spreadsheet but wondering if I should as I seem to have to go back a few pages sometimes to remember where everyone is at... think that might be a bit stalker-ish

Glad you found us wellie - sorry to hear you're feeling a bit blue today and no wonder with all that's going on for you. Sending British ex-pat hugs x

Forgot to say that the spotting seemed to be a one-off incident on Fri night and nothing since - phew.... think it might have been the sex which is a shame as it's not like we're at it like rabbits or anything, unlike worm and mrsb......

Ha! Found you! Thanks mrsb!

marathon the smep plan can be found using Dr Google but briefly is - SWI from day 8, every other day and start POAS on ov sticks from day 10 - when you get a positive opk, SWI that day and for the following 2 days, then take a night off, then SWI for one more night.

We tried it one month but the opk's were impossible to read and we got tired!

mrsb hope you are feeling better, hi kool nice to meet you, I wasn't on "Jue in June", only found mn after I mc'd but yes, isn't it weird how quickly June has come round

great to see you emma I admire your positivity, how are things with your beans harassed and wombat and worm and sparkly??

bit today - less than a week to dd, no jobs coming up and got rejections from a couple today, DM just wants me to come home (btw, thankfully we are not in CHC, we're in Sydney but DSIL's family are in CHC and thankfully they are all ok :)

Waves to everyone!

Mmmmm foood! I'm just starving the whole time, nothing to do with sickness any more really as that's much improved. Just hungry!

yellow have a fab holiday lovely. Bummer being in France and unable to have wine or gorgeous cheese! Hope the weather is good for you.

wombat you are funny! Come on, 'fess up, do you actually have a spreadsheet????!!

worm oooh exciting at scan date coming .

sparkly hope you've partaken of some of the lovely breakfast on offer this morning!

All good here!! It was our wedding anniversary yesterday so I had an early night. On my own haha. I just can't stay awake! Hayfever has hit me with a vengeance, I'm sniffing and sneezing constantly and am fed up with feeling bunged up. So I'm going to try and get a doctors appointment today. There must be something I can take. I'm a tad miffed, as didn't get it when I was preg with dd and then after when I was bf'ing.

Oh I bought a couple of maternity bits yesterday!!! Yikes!!! I tried one of my dresses on this morning that I was planning to wear to a wedding reception next month. The shape is ideal even though it's non-maternity but my boobs are too big now.......

Thanks for the stats yellow and worm - duly noted and recorded! Ooh - exciting re: the postman worm - do let us know when you get it.

Get packing yellow and have a wonderful time! x

Hello ladies

Off to france today, not packed yet and leaving in 2 hours but did proper sick retching this am so having a sit down with some crackers.

For your spreadsheet I am having a scan when I should be 8 weeks at 9.40 am on 24th June. 12 week scan is on 19 July but not thinking that far ahead yet. It is going to be so tough spending a week with the in laws not drinking, lying and feeling sick.

Must go and attempt packing.