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 overindulgence

I don't do it often I tend to just go to every loo I get near, but my worst pregnancy symptom is feeling 'damp' all the time, every other minute I think its blood.

you probably need the hand gel state if that's what you're doing . though I would i could but my trousers are too tight I couldn't do it without looking like a dirty old man. My preferred tactic is walking into a pub and looking like I'm looking for someone before ducking in to the loo to check myself out

sass the link is to the nhs website, most people have immunity but it can cause increased fluid in the baby if you catch it between 9-20 weeks so they hospital would want to keep an eye on you.

I do it the same way as midge

--i carry hand gel--

slapped cheek

Hello everyone had a pita few weeks, hope everyone is well. Will read up on what I've missed later.

Af arrived on Sunday, 3 days early

sorry for the waiting pebs, it sometimes feels like I've been waiting for something or other constantly for the past 18 months too. waiting to ov, 2ww, waiting to ov again, then waiting for 12 weeks when pg, waiting for mc to be over, waiting for first proper cycle afterwards, then back to waiting for ov. It's depressing and it sucks and I'm sorry you've got more waiting ahead. I hope when we get our babies this nonsense will all be forgotten.

I'm not too sure about all the risks with slapped cheek sass but I've been tested for it as a precuation as someone my husband works with has come down with it, it's highly unlikely I have it as dh has no symptoms but they were taking my blood anyway so took a bit more to test. I do know that most adults are immune to it already and even if you do get it it probably won't affect your baby. I'd go to the dr and they'll do a blood test to see if you're immune, if you are no problem, if you aren't and you do get it as far as I know they'll monitor your baby closely as a precaution. It can be serious though so def see your dr asap. My midwife told me the best way to avoid catching bugs etc is to wash your hands LOTS so I've got one of those antibac handgels that I had always thought were just for paranoid hypocondriacs

Peb, your time will come. I know it seems like ages, but you will get your baby. You have to believe that, it's the only thing that keeps me trying.

evening ladies

just a quick one to park my arse on this preggo chair just to warm my bum and keep the chair toasty for tas

i will check back in tomorrow

Sorry Leedy, I guess it's good you're being monitored. I do hope it comes down back to normal or at least what's normal for you.

Sorry sass I don't know about slapped cheek. Maybe someone else will do.

These consultant secretary's need a slap sometimes. Why don't they ring back??

I rang the private hospital. I wanted an appoinment in early June as i am off work but there is no clinic that week due to bank hol so I will just wait for nhs. If it's after the end of June I will just get any private appt I can.

I am chuckling at the knicker checking. I was racking my brains trying to think how you were doing it but I couldn't have imagined in my wildest dreams lol!

The last two years seem to have flown by but I can't believe I am still waiting for a baby. I did have a six month break from pg and ttc in the middle of the two years but still.... I feel like I am the only one waiting for tests etc.

Hi everyone,

boris How irritating. Just be irritating back until you get the answer you want. And deserve. :-)

Martha glad my advice was helpful. Joyful-until-otherwise-notified is the best we can all be. Not that I've been following that theory myself! Not sometimes anyway.

I hereby confess to the occasional desperate Public Knicker Check myself. Swiftness and an innocent face is the key. :-)

leedy hope your BP improves its performance to the machines will leave you alone. jaffa I'm so glad you are having a fantastic holiday, after the last few weeks.

So to add to my list of concerns (MC and upcoming genetic screening being at the top), my son has Slapped Cheek disease. Also called Fifths Disease or Parvo Virus (or sommat like that). DS is a little rosy in the face but will be fine. However.... this virus is bad news for prego people. Can cause deformities in the baby. I am trying HARD to resist the urge consult Dr. Google as I'm sure it will just cause further insaniacal metalling. Anyone here know anything about this type of scenario? You'll probably present it better than Dr. G!

Ah hum. Great, I do not want AF or pmt but now you all say it it is obvious that I have been experiencing classic pmt for me. Thanks for replying everyone.
joyful sorry about your disappointing AF. Gutting isn't it?

Yeah, I think my "baseline" BP is at the high end of normal, so it doesn't take much for it to enter "medical professionals start flapping" territory.

boris, I rage on your behalf. Very annoying. And cakey, my first AF after my miscarriage was very heavy. Also featured turbo-charged PMT, for added fun for all the family...

whyalwaysBoris sorry about the appts. Hope you're able to get it sorted soon.

Hello Ladies

So sorry to read about mumtum, pixie, yikes, whatcakeydid and any other lady that has found herself here. Whenever I read about people's MCs, it takes me right back to the very minute I heard those words (sorry, it's bad news).....I do hope your pain is quickly replaced with joy.

Congratulations to all the ladies who just got BFPs....

Manda thank you for the advice you gave me weeks ago now, about combining vits in one rather taking seperate ones and not to take the thread back, you look absolutely fab in the Newlook ad. Sorry about your DD.

I haven't been on since as I have been having one Dr's appt after the other. When I had my MMC, it was noticed that my blood pressure was high and I have been undergoing various tests for it. Had an ECG that was borderline (whatever that means), now waiting for a kidney scan. To top it up, I really thought this month, I'd get a BFP but AF seems to have appeard a few hours ago which has left me so disappouinted AGAIN. I am now on antibiotics for inconclusive UTI. Been having a lingering pain on my right said for days now and been peeing so much in the last 24 hours so Dr thougth she'd better give me medication, just in case.

Enough of my long me post.

MissC and Midget, thank you for the big laugh after such a gloomy day.

Peb can't even imagine all you've been through. I pray you end up with a baby sooner than you even know.

Bollocks, posted too soon...

whyalwaysboris these secretaries are useless. I'm also a clinician and somehow manage to make the important phone calls, especially when I know someone is anxious, our receptionist on the other hand.... really irritating and reflects badly.

leedy sorry you are running from pillar to post with the BP, I'm sure its for the best. It's important that your BP is compared not only to what is normal for the rest of the population but also with what is normal for you. As mine is on the low side, what is high for me and need attention might actually still be low for other people.

Public knicker checking...interesting, not one I have tried yet, but so often tempted. I am so wet at the moment I do have to check quite a lot. Which is ironic because the bleeding when my mc started was so minimal that had I not actually seen it I would not have noticed it IYKWIM.

welcome yikes and pixie: more support and humour here on ttc and mc than anywhere else.

cakey cramps most likely AF on her way. My periods were definitely different after the erpc, lighter but longer, less painful, but I'm sure it's different for everyone.

mrspear I'm please your hip is feeling less awful, one less thing to worry about.

I am also laughing like a drain at the serious technical instructions for public knicker checking.

No knickerwatch here, though that's almost solely because I seem to have spent every waking minute having my blood pressure checked. Annoyingly/as usual the blood pressure clinic midwife is fairly "ah sure I've seen worse" about it while the random non-bp-specialist doctors that come to sign you out of the clinic keep doing the FACE OF CONCERN and muttering about getting an early start on beta-blockers. Tomorrow I get to have a machine strapped to me for 24 hours, beeping randomly. Oh, and I have a chest infection. Joy. Still it is all distracting me from the prospect of my NT scan next week.

AT LAST! the secret of public knicker checking revealed in all its glory!!! I remember midget mentioning it a long time ago and then going very quiet about it. I actually thought you were leaving the country to avoid revealing your secret!!!

And no I don't have the ovaries to try it! Though maybe sitting at a desk might work. Knowing my luck I'll get my hand stuck in my trousers and it'll all become very undignified!

manda Sorry your DD is so poorly. But enjoy thriller tonight, I'd leave DD (she's a teenager right?). Hope you have a lovely calm peaceful birth. (but not tonight at Thriller)

On the way to the airport. MissC I salute you. Approach number 2 requires no tissue so slightly more gross but better than metalling... Hand into pants (round the back or front. (you choose, it's versatile), quick finger wipe, then wipe into the back of hand or wrist. I like wrist. Seems somehow more Hygienic (ahem) End of metalling. This approach is held in reserve for when no other options available and sudden dampness causes sky rocketing levels of metalling. Glad I'm leaving the Country, the shame.

pixie sorry you found yourself here. Cone back when you are ready For us x

Been smiling at public knicker checking! Thank you for all your kind thoughts, especially oneday. I hope you had a good break.

I am having a lovely time on my holidays. It has done me the world of good to get away. I am hoping when I get back, I'll have a date for my 16 week scan. I think that will be a huge milestone for me and my metalling ways.

Sorry about your DD Manda. I hope you are late and the measles and newborn don't collide.

Waves to everyone x

Hi everyone

Brain is in a fog today.

whatcakeydid could af be returning. I bled for over a month with my last mc then 1 week after it stopped af returned. Fabulous!

i second martha pebs and go with your heart and what you can afford.

martha glad your Monday went OK and you liked the reversal idea

My hip well the doctor says it is a combination of being a mum to a toddler and things stretching - it has got better as in it is not such agony.

Sorry that more ladies find themselves here