Nurse not any practical advice unfortunately but want to share my thoughts on your xp what a £&*"$%£ and a total )&%(%($%^()££_$. Glad your placement went well today and agree with petitech to gets lots of tlc from those who love you.
Banana - hooray, a scan date finally for you :)
Mummyn2 - glad the bleeding has stopped :) Dopplers are really easy to use and I have to say were great (I found so anyway) inbetween the scan and the time movements were felt. Just gave me that reassurance. I know there are people who don't want to use them due to soundwaves or something like that but for me it was brilliant. Only precaution is when you can't find the heartbeat and it sends you into panic mode!
evs34 - it's so lovely hearing the heartbeat isn't it :) I have a doppler but can't pick anything up at the moment. Trying not to worry as didn't manage until 14wks with dd.
MissHooHaa - I remember clearly over analysing my weeing! I think that the reason you wee more early on is the hormones, which start easing off around 9 wks, and then later on you wee more because you have a baby bouncing on your bladder! In a roundabout way I'm trying to say don't worry about it :)
Thank you all for your kind words for my friend. She has had all the tests under the sun and there is nothing they can find wrong which is hugely frustrating for her. I'm going to take her dd when she needs time and leave my shoulder for her to cry on.
Scan tomorrow afternoon (private one) and now super nervous as last time my friend and I had bad news in the same week. Well, there's always worcester sauce crisps and chocolate to fall back on
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Enjoy your evenings. I'm off to try and do some more studying .. . . now where did I put that book?!