Due June 2006

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Due 1 June 2006.

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Didds!! That baby is gorgeous!! I'm def getting a 4d scan now.

CONGRATS AGAIN

im gonna get a 4d scan too

thanks you lot. its amazing what it shows. i love it.

i managed to get on the phone to the midwife and now have an appointment the 21st. i will hopefully find out results of all the bloodtests then. i was supposed to get a scan at 12 weeks, but when i got the letter from the hospital it was scheduled at 14 weeks (this friday). so i think i have missed the boot for the nuchal fold scan. we'll find out on friday, i guess. i'm also very annoyed about the receptionists doctor's surgery as they are so rude all the time. a few weeks ago i asked about results from my urine sample and she said "yes, you had an infection, but the GP gave you anti-biotics, so it should be fine." i explained that the midwife found protein a few days after i took the pills and the receptionist said that was normal and most pregnant women have protein in the urine (!). i wanted to shout at her and moan that i have problems with my kidneys and recurrent UTIs that hardly ever clear up with anti-biotics and that she shouldn't just dismiss it as she is not qualified to judge on if i should be tested again. anyway, i left it, but i could of course still be walking around with an infection.

(again, sorry for ranting, i am just a bit cross today, must be the hormones)

i'd love to get a doppler! and a 4D scan!

lilacbump - i'd have gone mad too, stupid woman, what a jobsworth. i'd sort her out.

thanks, diddle. i was worried i was overreacting. luckily i haven't got any symptoms of an infection, but i still would have wanted it tested to make sure.

Funny how GPs receptionists think that they have all the answers isn't it, I reckon they feel some of that GP knowledge rubs off on them the longer they work there...although I can't fault my current GPs receptionists to be fair.

Blood tests - last time I had mine done at about 17 weeks and then had to see the mw to get the results - didn't see the mw till about 21 weeks, she didn't have the results, finally got the results well after 24 weeks - so couldn't have done anything if it had been bad news anyway. There seems to be a degree of 'no news is good news' round here....

Hi everyone
LilacBump, sorry you've been having a bad time, these people can be so frustrating.
Diddle- the scan picture is amazing! All my hospital seems to do is print outs of the scan. Did they give it you on disk?
Have just got doppler in post from EBay and a so nervous about using it! What if I can't hear anything?

abbey - how many weeks are you now?
you will hear something and if not its because baby is curled up hiding away. I think the key is not to press to hard on your tummy, and i found no sound at the thicker part of my belly in the middle, but got a better reading from the sides of my abdomen, by my bones.
good luck. go on, its addictive.

Diddle, I am 14 weeks on Friday-is that the same as you?
I have found a sound low down on either side of my abdomen, like a heartbeat and really strong, but doesn't sound like horses hooves like the websites keep telling me! The display shows it as being about 120-138 bpm. I took my pulse which is around 85 bpm,so it must be the baby's mustn't it? But definitely no horses hooves!

Thanks for the advice on the card - I will use the number lilacbump!
I thought I was being hormonal but I am sure my GP surgery must be worse than all of yours put together:

MW said call me anytime, didn't take he quite at her word and called in normal office hours and was given extremely short shrift regarding my query on tiredness - apparently you are supposed to know that feeling like you have been run over by concrete elephant is normal?!

I haven't got the card as I mentioned below, haven't had any blood tests as was told I had to wait to 16 weeks, so nuchal fold scan also out of the window as no contact from MW to tell me I needed one!

I called the surgery yesterday to get an emergency appt and was asked whether it was an emergency and whether I needed to see my Dr? What did she think I was going to say - yes I get up at 8.00am for fun and really I wanted to see Will Young but I suppose if the Dr is free...

I am starting to think that I possibly live in the 15th Century and that during the labour I will have to send for my Aunt's cousins wife to deliver the baby and be offered a thick branch to bite down on for pain relief!

Okay I have finished my rant now!!! On the brighter side - my work finally caught up with my bonus which I should have got 3 months ago - extra money for Christmas - Whoopee!!

Question: I always have one! Cot or cotbed? Do we have any opinions?

Oh, have found it!
Its doing 160 bpm and I can hear it really clearly!
Wow! According to my mum (nurse) the other beat was mine where the aorta bisects(or something!) But I found the heartbeat right in the centre, down from my belly button. Is there any instruction about how often you can use these ultrasound things?

Sorry Hannah, missed your message in my excitement. Could you try and see a different GP? I swapped surgeries when had HG and new one much more sympathetic.

mrsbabookaloo, in answer to your poll: not feeling sick anymore. only ever so slightly when i'm very hungry. only threw up once so far and that was because of a tummy bug. lucky me, huh?!

gosh, hannah, sounds like we've got similar reasons to be frustrated with the NHS at the moment. i really am not very impressed. it all went so smoothly with DD (well, apart from the labour).
i'm buying a cot (got rid of DD's as thought we wouldn't have a baby again). DD will be bought a new big girls bed when the baby gets to the age of moving into a bed and it can have DD's excellent ikea extendable one. it makes sense to me anyway

oh diddle fantastic i bet your soooo proud xx

sorry im so lazy and pasted the same post twice

abbey - i found the babys i hope, took a bit of searching, but the screen reads, from 90 up to 143 and just flicks between the readings, stupid thing.

Does anyone know if it would be possble for me to pick up my own heartbeat down there??
Baby was hiding last night, was right down by my pelvic bones, but its moved up today and it was on the other side yesterday as well, so i presume it babies heart i'm getting.
Maybe as i'm worried about the screen not working i should count the beats, and see if its fast enough to be baby. It better be.

mrsbabookaloo, I am 13 weeks and still feel sick in waves throughout the day, but not at all as bad as I was. Haven't been throwing up at all though, apart from when I had a tummy bug. I hope your sickness stops soon, it must be horrible.

Hannah, sorry to hear your having a bad experience with your GP surgery. Maybe changing would be an option. I changed surgeries in the beginning of my last pregnancy, as my GP wasn't very sympathetic and always unavailable. Ended up with an amazing doctor and an "in house" midwife who could always fit me in.

About cot/cotbeds, DS is still in his cot, but we will get him a junior bed after christmas (hoping they will be on sale ), and the new baby will get the cot.

diddle, its possible to get your own heartbeat down there, i can hear mine down there, sometimes with babys so it sounds quite rhythmical
i don't have a display so i always count heartbeats over 15 secs and then x by 4, its always between 150 and 160. ive rea normal is anywhere from 120 to 170

Diddle - I just had a look at your scan pic, That is one cute baby! He/she looks very comfy! A doppler and a 4d scan very !!

I had my nuchal scan on Tuesday and tbh it was a bit of a shock that there is actually a baby in there. This is a surprise baby, I wasn't planning anymore, so there was moment of "You are in there then! how did that happen"?!! Don't think I really truly believed it 'til I saw it!

CURLYCAPERS - oops sorry not shouting now, when they do the nuchal is it any different from a normal scan? or do they just measure more? Its so surreal isn't it. i'm sure the baby is just in the sonographers tv and not my belly

Diddle, you can hear your own heartbeat really clearly down on both the left and right hand sides of your abdomen because the aorta goes down there (it may not be aorta, but my mum said there was a god reason why you would hear it there)
If you follow your belly button down to the top of your pelvic bone, that's where I get a really clear very fast heartbeat. I timed it on the clock, as I didn't trust the monitor- it was getting readings just from me moving it about! Mine reads from 135-160

Good reason, not god reason! Although I suppose it depends what you believe...! Rubbish typing as usual.

righgt well the majority fo my readings have been down the sides. wonder fi it was me or baby now.\gonna go have a another try. hope babies alright

hmm have done some counting now and the heart rate i got was my own i though it sounded slow, but on my doppler sometimes it registered at 143, so who knows. maybe sometimes i get it and sometimes i don't. gonna try now again and again until i find it, heard lots of tapping sounds by my belly, could be wind or baby punching me

Diddle- They only measured the crown to rump length and the amount of fluid that is under the skin in the back of the babies neck. Also had a quick check that everything was visible(stomach/kidneys/etc) But it wasn't like the dating scan at about 20wks where they measure everything and check that everything is complete.
Don't they push hard on your tummy with the scanner thingy? I was getting close to telling the woman to stop.