Just MC and ready to try again? Pregnant after MC and seeking somewhere safe to hide? Come on down to the mosh pit for some serious metalling and cake

Manda that is indeed a different kind of metalling but one I can see how easy it is to slip into (ie mustn't assume it will be ok - mustn't make plans in your head, mustn't tempt fate). Not allowing the actual thought that there will be an actual baby at the end of it all. However, some of this anxiety and this metalling can be tackled with a bit of shopping (I can help with that - I am very good at it).

Do you have someone else that can do washing for you? That bit is a drag.

You never know - DS2 may take the transition to his own space well . Ok so that bit sounds a bit tricky when you are ready to pop and don't have the energy for the push needed to change that. Co sleeping with 4 sounds tricky. Mind you newborns will sleep anywhere if you wrap them up well. They used to stick them in drawers in the oldun days (not closing them of course - that is wrong). Hope the shock wears off so you work on some of my practical suggestions - Supernanny eat your heart out. I think this kind of metalling is probably healthy metalling that normos get when upduffed except they probably get it a tad earlier on in the pregnancy. Normal feelings are good - no matter how late we get them. Here sending you Big hugs, gentle licks and some virtual and emotional energy to get stuff done. Or maybe even just think about what stuff needs to be done.

Tits I found the power of a job interview was enough to shift pregnancy constipation but the fear of a scan didn't manage it. (TMI I fear)

Sunshinesue welcome to the VIP area, let the rocking commence.

Ladies

So, last night at around 1am (this morning, then, really?) I started to metal... not our usual type of metalling, mind. Oh no. It very very sudden;y hit me like a ton of bricks that this baby is due in six weeks... SIX!! ANd I've not bought a single thing, haven't washed a single item (much of DS2's stuff is beautifully as new and put away), haven't considered how sleeping arrangements are gonna work when DS2 still co-sleeps (and is BF to sleep - though thank god he now pretty much sleeps through instead of the multiple wakings it was until recently). SIX WEEKS!

I am not ready. I haven't even considered this baby's arrival and the realisation of that isn't making it happen, it's making me go 'Arrrrrrghhhhh!' and want to hide!

I shall have to see how my feelings go in the next few days. Hopefully the shock will wear off a little and I can get into gear to sort some of the practicalities at least.

Afternoon ladies

Welcome to the newbies, so sorry to see you here but you're all in good hands.

I hope your ear gets better soon GPB, it's not fun having other ailments on top of regular metalling.

I have my scan on Wednesday, I am bricking it

:( GPB - I agree you should get that looked at.

I'd love to GPB! The image of me and someone I don't know sat in the corner rocking made me smile for the first time all day!

I agree with getting to the DR's about your ear. Ear infections are bloody miserable and it's a right pain getting seen over the bank hols.

Oooh, sunshinesue, come and join me - you're describing almost exactly my experience except I'm 5+6 now.

We can just sit in the corner rocking, it'll be fun.

I know, I know! My colleagues and DH are all saying the same thing. I will go down there after work, I just really don't want to. I'm fed up and want to be well again.

Since this morning my ear has actually been hurting less - I think some of the pressure has been released!

hello - can I please come and join you guys? I'm newly pg again (4+4) after 2 mmc in the last 12 months. I've had a tiny bit of spotting which I know is not necessarily anything to worry about but it's all to similar to my previous pregnancies (no children yet). Does anyone mind if I sit in the corner quietly freaking out?

GBP-your ear sounds so painful, please go to the walk in today! bank holiday weekend coming up, no doc surgeries will be open & everyone will have to head there instead- that place will look like dunkirk by sunday so please go now!

GPB get to a doctor! Blood and puss from ear sounds a very bad thing.

That's good news, Pebs.

I completely agree about dog weeks. I can't believe that I've still got another 10 days before my next scan. It's FOREVER.

kirrin, my ear is Not Better. I woke up at 5am today and it was weeping. I thought, yay, it doesn't hurt so much, maybe that means it's on the mend. When I woke up properly at 7, it turns out that it was bleeding, and all signs point to a ruptured eardrum. NHS direct think I should go to the walk in centre AGAIN but I'm not sure I CBA. I'm fed up with being ill, it's been almost 2 weeks now. I had a cry on DH last night - I'm pathetic!

I am a twat and the smiley faces are too bloody small on my gaddam iPhone...

at dog weeks - very true!

pebs good news on getting a date, I am sure they wouldn't have set a date if your results won't be back so hopefully you will be on the road to the referral you need.

kirrin weeks aren't actual calendar weeks when waiting for a scan, they are 'dog weeks' so they actually last 7 times as long. I count the sleeps. Maybe shouldnt admit that out loud.

Martha thanks for the graduation offering. I was rather disappointmeted they didn't offer me the same, but they did offer a receptical for sending back some umbilical cord. And so the research continues. Hope I didn't offend, trying to be flip about a non flip subject doesn't always work on the interweb. I would have donated an ovary or an arm if their research would have stopped other women having to go through what the ladies on this board have. I do t think we are freaky, just unlucky. Ok maybe I sometimes feel a little freaky and broken. Anyway hope I didn't offend anyone, it really wasn't my intention.

I am of course now metalli g a little about the smog of farts. No wonder my womb is so unhospitable! Poor bean may need a gas mask.

Sorry double posting, last one was supposed to be a preview, stupid midget, stupid iPhone x

Morning everyone :)
I'm still trying to sort out who is who - this thread moves so fast!

leedy I have those sort of pains too - I think they probably digestive related but I wish they'd go away as they don't help my paranoia.

midget congratulations on your graduation

GPB hope the ear is feeling better today?

pebs the appointment sounds positive and not too far away - hopefully you'll get some answers.

I have a private scan booked for Saturday and I have a sick feeling every time I think about it - I am so nervous. I'll be 9 weeks and my mmc was at 8+4. I have an NHS one booked for next Thursday but that just seemed like aaages away - I just couldn't wait til then. I feel very sick and very tired which is good but the paranoia is eating away at me.
A girl at work announced she was pregnant yesterday, and I am genuinely really happy for her, but I feel strangely jinxed I have no idea why, it's ridiculous - it's not like we have to take it in turns to be pregnant. I am obviously completely irrational :(

hi everyone

i am feeling ok at the moment. i rang the hopsital and i have got an appointment with my consultant on 30th april. i am hoping the genetic testing results will be back by then but the secretary said even if they aren't i can still get the ball rolling with referrals etc.

glad to see you are feeling a bit better manda.

Just popping on wondering how Mrs Nesbitt is doing. Hope you are alright if you read this. X

I had to post then go back to name check...

I'm 5+4 now manda.

tiago, that's good news about the scan - we'll all get there in the end!

midget, it's a Good Thing that you've graduated - they're obviously happy with how you've progressed!