POAS girls: Fertility super slueths 🔎

@Happinessandrainbows good god! I think I would have refused on the spot if the midwife told me that!

@FfoxRedN thank you! I've been a nervous wreck for all the significant milestones (7 week, 10 week and 12 week scans) and 16 week midwife appointment! I just want to feel the movement now so I can relax a bit. I confess I did rent a Doppler today which I'm sure has band news written all over it but I can't spend hours, days worrying anymore!

@MrsJGrealish haha do you think he might subconsciously know already? He has spotted to bigger breasts and who's husband gives them water out of choice?! Tell him when you're ready, I didn't tell mine until 5 weeks and that was only because we'd arranged to meet at the pub after work so I handed him the digital test. Was quite a moment in hindsight!

@Indianna2006 thanks lovely! You must be so ready to just pop now. How's the sciatica? I feel like I'm getting a bit achy in the ol' buttock area and wondering if this is the beginning for me...

@LuckyMoonstone straight away. Maybe like a second. But to reassure you, before I let her put the probe on the tum, I asked what happens if she can't find it. She said she would immediately send me to the hospital for a mini scan (not sure if that's a proper ultrasound - I didn't ask). She said in the many years she has done this, she has only had to send 1 person to hospital and that was fine too. Felt very reassuring at the time. When she found it, to me it sounded like fuzzing. She was like 'oooo you hear that!!' I responded 'err not really, is that the heartbeat?!' It then became clearer and we listened for a couple of minutes. Was lovely actually and in hindsight I'm so glad she did it but may not have felt that way if she couldn't find it. I completely understand the anxiety about the 16 week appointment given your experience previously though. How many weeks are you now? Would you consider a 14 week scan as a buffer between 12 weeks and 16 weeks?

@LuckyMoonstone she said that if she doesn't hear anything, it wouldn't have to mean anything bad but she couldn't send me for a scan.
Every hospital/trust might be different though. Maybe see how you feel on the day ❤️
Do you have the same midwife this time or is it a different midwife looking after this pregnancy?
Is your next appt coming up soon?

@Happinessandrainbows but if they couldn’t hear the heartbeat, I don’t know how they can just leave you to worry for 4 weeks until the 20 week scan, it’s utterly horrible.
Last time I got to my 16 week appointment, I said no to hearing the heartbeat as I had a private scan booked a week later so I didn’t feel the need to. If I had accepted, they wouldn’t have heard anything becuse little did I know that my baby was already gone 😔 I often wonder what might have happened if I’d said yes, if I would have been sent for a scan and found out sooner. Or just been left to wait a week and gone to my private scan already thinking the worst.

@LuckyMoonstone my midwife said that finding heartbeat at 16 weeks is actually easier than at 24 weeks and that they used to routinely use Doppler for as early as 12 weeks and had no issues. I was a bit worried but she reassured me and encouraged to try at my 16 week appt. She also said if she couldn't find one she wouldn't be able to send me for a scan as they're actually not meant to use Doppler at 16 weeks.

@bunnykins123 was it easy to find the heartbeat? I’m so scared to say yes at my 16 week appointment in case she can’t find it and I end up being left to worry for another 4 weeks 😕 did she say what would happen if she didn’t find it, like send you for a scan?

@MrsJGrealish deffo a very good pink line!! Eeeeek. Come on little bean 🤞🏼🥰
@FfoxRedN for now you are both pregnant. And all you can do is breathe and keep re thinking that line and mantra 🙏 each new pregnancy is a new chance.

@bunnykins123 ah so glad you got to hear heartbeat 🥰 cooking away nicely in there x

@MrsJGrealish DH is the same. You do you, whenever feels right to tell him (I wish I'd waited now he's doing my head in). Xx

@calimc83 hope recovery is still going well, does little miss have a name yet?

Thank you so much ❤️

DH doesn't know yet I need to wrap my head around it. He knows AF still not here. But I can't cope with him freaking out alongside me. Well for however long this lasts 🤞🙏 He's literally just handed me a glass of water though normally it's do you want wine 🤣

I'll hand him a digital when I tell him I think 💕 he has trust issues with anything other than clearblue (which is why I buy them) Xx

@bunnykins123 aw thanks so much 🥰. I'm so glad you're doing well too, wonderful news that you've heard the heartbeat too xxx

@MrsJGrealish I am glad we have each other to get through this 🥰 xxx

@theblueflowers how are you lovely? I was thinking about you the other day. 💕

@FfoxRedN oh god progesterone, good luck with the 💨 😂 honestly I'm so happy for you! I'm good thanks, 17 weeks now 🫣 had my midwife appt today and heard the heartbeat which was so nice (I was trying for persuade her not to as I was convinced something was wrong!) it feels a bit surreal tbf. God, men. So unhelpful, ignore those comments. It's not remotely faint and you do not need to wait for AF not to arrive. 🙄🙄

@MrsJGrealish OMG!!!! This is too much! 💕💕💕 have you told DH?!

@MrsJGrealish @FfoxRedN I am literally so made up for you both, I have a little happy tear at the corner of my eye!!!!

@MrsJGrealish omg that's amazing!

@MrsJGrealish Wohoo lovely that's a excellent line well done for all the wee saving 💪🏼

@MrsJGrealish omg! That's a beaut of a line, no mistaking it!

@MrsJGrealish im so happy for you! Does DH know?

@LuckyMoonstone I bloody did! I have the test in various stages of development too. I hope no one ever looks at iCloud 🙈

@FfoxRedN I was needing to pee so much I felt sick 😷 thank you lovely and @Alexis7890 xx

@MrsJGrealish omg you did it 🥳🥳 amazing!!!

@MrsJGrealish awwwww yes!!! Perfect! Congrats lovely 🥰 xxx

Saved up my pee all afternoon and I think I have a genuine non squinter 😳 literally peed on the first test I found

@Alexis7890 thank you ☺️ x

@MrsJGrealish yeah he did seem concerned it was gonna travel up my arm 😳. I hope it's been caught in time 🙈. Thanks for your advice lovely xxx