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Hello all! Now I’m back from Tenerife! It was a lovely break, lots of relaxing, pool action, a boat trip, Medieval jousting (!) and a gorgeous day trip to Teide and some towns and villages round and about! Now it’s bump back to reality! And speaking of bump, I’ve now told all my family as it’s becoming increasingly difficult to disguise and I’d have felt weird if half the population of my town knew but not my family 😂. I also got a letter yesterday to inform me of a data breach - looks like the screening midwives initially emailed my NIPT results to the wrong patient, d’oh!

We're doing well thank you! She's enjoying kicking my insides and being transverse 😅

Err... that's huge news I was not expecting! You know what though, soooo glad it's the right choice for you. I can only imagine the stress and choices leading up to that! So what are you looking for in life now, you enjoying the freedom from it all? X

Hey @LaTable I hope you and baby are well! 🤰🏻🥰

thank you so much for checking in, I’m sorry for taking so long to get back to you, I haven’t been on this for months.

Well I do have a big update actually..

I left my husband and we are now divorced!!

Not quite the outcome I wished for however I couldn’t be happier😘

10 weeks already time flies @Chocolateeggsarebetterthannormalchocolate
Yea the all day nausea is fun... sometimes all I thought was please can I just throw up to get the feeling away. One of the worst things.
But you're managing okay?
Glad you managed to get a private scan so you could tell your parents, they must be excited for you 🙂

Morning @LaTableI'm 10+2 now. Had a private scan at 8+6 so we could tell our parents, and our 12 week scan is bang on 12 weeks. I'm nauseous still from waking up to going to sleep 🙃 How are you doing?

Hope your holiday was good @curliegirlie
How are you going @Chocolateeggsarebetterthannormalchocolate?! How far along are you now? 🙂

I just try to remember that testing early has no impact on the outcome**

Glad the results were good! Hopefully the next midwife app can give you the numbers?
Also hope they actually managed to get bloods from you and all was well yesterday x

Thank you @LaTable! I got the NIPT results yesterday - all fine, but slightly annoying that you don’t get the numbers with the results now - and yep, scan tomorrow. Plus ALL the bloods as my veins still weren’t playing ball when they tried to get the ones done I should have had at booking, at the NIPT appointment. I was damn lucky they managed to get enough for the NIPT! Hey ho!

Hope your results from the nipt came back with positive news. Good luck with your scan tomorrow @curliegirlie

Wait, I thought your scan was today not yesterday? Hahaha
Good luck to us when they hit their teens 😅😅😅
Perhaps curliegirlie may have 3 girls too, we can all band together in solidarity hahaha
But glad all is well and healthy @Laria19! 😊

@LaTableno idea. I think it took a couple of weeks with DD2 so I think I’ll be unlikely to have them before the scan, which will be on the 18th

I didn't realise midwifes even know how to take blood these days!
Although clearly they don't 😅😅
How long will your results take do you know @curliegirlie? Assuming well before your first scan?

Fabulous about your 20 week scan @LaTable! I had my booking appt on Tuesday. The MW was lovely, but completely failed to successfully take my blood, so I’m basically having everything else done at the same time as my NIPT next Weds 😂
@EMC2022gentle congratulations- I hope the tests keep on getting darker!

@LaTable I'm sure its fine. My last tests looked stronger but didn't progress. This started really light but seems to have some progress so that is probably more important.

Delighted to hear baby girl is doing well. I have a boy and I feel like I am destined to have an all male household plus little ole me. I'm sure my husband would say I have enough sass for the lot of us anyway 😂

Eeeee! It's so lovely seeing you girls get your bfp!
@EMC2022, looks lovely for 11dpo! Mine was even lighter at 11dpo im sure of it. Congratulations!!

Had my anatomy scan today, baby is growing right in track all happy and healthy. Another blinkin' girl though 😅😅 the hormones and sass in this house is going to be insane....

Thought i might give you all an update. I got my first squinter Monday night and today's test is attached (11dpo). Hoping its dark enough 🤞Definitely seems a lot lighter than my previous pregnancy tests at the same DPO so feeling some anxiety around that.

NIPT is more accurate than the combined test. On the NHS it’s usually offered if someone gets a high chance result in the combined test, but I asked to skip straight to it, as I’m 42 with a child with Down’s syndrome, so it seems pretty much guaranteed that my CT would come out as high chance. So now my 12 week scan will just be a dating scan. Sadly, they don’t tell you the sex if you have the NIPT through the NHS (or at least they didn’t back in 2017).

Oh gosh, that is a little scary demi repeat of March. Glad it's all resolved itself though!
Forgive my ignorance of nipt testing, is this just the regular screening they do to go along with the nuchal thickness?
I keep reading people finding out their baby's sex with it too but surely that's not a regular thing in the uk? Am I just so far behind on the times?😅
Ohh scan before you head away, perfect! Is it feeling real for you? How're 1st trimester symptoms treating you?

I’m good, thanks. I had my booking appointment today. My MW couldn’t find my veins 🤣. So I’m going to have the bloods I should have had done today, taken at my NIPT next week instead. I had a bit of a scare last night when I bled just after sex (PTSD from March….), but it was just brown spotting this morning and disappeared very quickly so I think it’s ok. My dating scan is on 18th July - so in about 2.5 weeks time.

Hahah, wait till your breastfeeding and grazing, cow status really ramps up then 🤣🤣
Just gone 21 weeks I think? 22 weeks anytime between Thursday and Sunday 😅 I'm terrible at keeping count this pregnancy

I am nauseous alllllll day (it started with just mornings but ramped up to all day since Friday 🙃) and I'm exhausted. Like, I wake up in a morning and feel like I've not slept at all. I'm grazing all day to try and help the nausea so I'm officially a cow! Haha! So jealous you've got a scan soon, how many weeks are you?

Not had my scan yet no, couple more days to go for that.
Getting the pre scan nerves now, and although I still feel baby move it's not as much but I reckon that's because with the heat and trying to get as much done before the kids are off school, plus dogs barking at nothing and insects in a child's bedroom on the nights (she is petrified of them) means lots of sleepless nights lately, and so I'm napping any time I stop for a sit down 😅😅

Yay for getting to 6 weeks , how are you feeling?