November 2011 - holding hands, making plans & having scans

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Thread 2 for the chatty lot. Welcome from the first thread and hopefully some newbies too!

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Hello all

Well I had my first MW app today. She was really nice and spent a quite a lot of time trying to re-assure me everthing was fine (short history 6th pregnancy 2 previous MC's, 1 MMC not consecutive and 2DD 5 & 3). She gave me a due date of 1st of November so still in the right club!! I have to book my Dating/Nuchal scan with the hospital which I am V. excited about. I have been worried as I have not had much MS and at my 6 week scan the doctor could not find a heart beat - I'm worried in case it is another MMC. She really cheered me up and said maybe it s a boy as all pregnancies are different! That would be nice as I read the Shettles method before trying and we aimed for the right time in my cycle to optimise our chances of a boy. I'll let you know in 8 months if it worked!!

Laabama I was so sorry to read your news, take good care of yourself sending good thoughts your way.

clipclop and bumps now I hope you have some good news

right on time I am sorry you are having a rough time hope it improves soon for you.

P.

Piply, the Shettles Method never worked for me but if you have a girl and I have a boy, maybe we could arrange a swap?

bumps, really hope it was just a blip and your little bean is still hanging in there!

well amazingly they found a strong little heartbeat! am stunned, i was so convinced it was going to be over.

I know i'm not out of the woods yet, but it was amazing to see the liitle heartbeat.

I am still wiping small bits of blood, so i just pray it all calms down now and hope it's just cause the little bean is bedding itself in well!

thanks for all your support ladies

x

Yay babyclipclop

So busy at work but really happy to hear your news!!

oh hello,

I am a november due too.... I'm off to see my MW next monday but read yesterday they normally due an internal examination... really?? I don't want them disturbing little maty!

katy

whoop dee whoop clip clop REALLY pleased for you

Laabama So sorry to hear your news. I hope you have another chance soon. Thank you for the kind thoughts for us all.
Clipclop Yay! I too, had thought it must be over, but it's never over till the scan gives the answer.
Rightontime and bumpsnow FX that it all goes well!

I've moved my 12 week scan forward 6 days. I was given Thursday 28th, but was told the best possible date for it is 12+4, and I would only be around 12+0 then. So put it off till next available date, which due to royal weddings and bank holidays creating a logjam is now Wednesday 4th May. Seems absolutely ages away. I have my first midwife app tomorrow, so that's something to occupy me.

I've read that the extreme tiredness starts to ease off around 10 weeks, so if I can just crawl through to the Easter holidays, it should get easier.

KatieN

Welcome! Sorry I'd missed you joining us in my last post! I don't think the midwife will do an internal. In any case, you are perfectly entitled to refuse permission. Often very early scans are done transvaginally, as there is no clear view otherwise, but I can't think of a good reason for a midwife to do an internal at a first app.

afternoon all.

clipclop that's great news, so pleased for oyu.

katy this is my 3rd pg and my mw has never done an internal examination especially not on a first app. just had mine today and we just talked (mostly about my mc mind) but she was reminding me about the blood tests i'll need to have and scans etc.

i have my booking in app on 12/4, we're making sure everything is ok at my scan on tuesday first.

katy Welcome! At my mw booking appointment I had do a urine sample, blood was taken and I was weighed and height taken. I've only had an internal exam because of bleeding and the external scan didn't pick up the heartbeat. They always ask for your permission beforehand.

Laabaam, so sorry to hear your news, as everyone else has said, nowt that we can say will make it better for you, but hopefully next time will your time and that time will be really really soon too!

Clipclop so glad the bean is okay, must be reassuring :)

Right and Bumps, fx for you both, let us know how you get on.

Am I the only one still not to hear from the MW? I had an appointment with the doctor three weeks ago and phoned yesterday but they definitely referred me but asked me to call tomorrow if I haven't heard anything still, don't want to nag, but I want to know everything is okay and see my bean!!!

Laabama - really sorry to hear your news :(

Clipclop - great news :)

I have first MW appointment tomorrow morning so hopefully with find out about a date for 12 week scan...

PS Welcome Katy

Welcome Katy!

Yay! clipclop! So happy for you!

Thank you ladies.
Clipclop - so pleased for you!

laabama I'm so sorry to see your news. Lots of love and gentle steps now.

clipclop pleased everything was fine for you :)

Scary moment last night when I woke up in horrific pain all over my abdomen including right down low. Woke up with a start, thought the worst and rushed to the toilet expecting blood (of course there was none, me, dramatic much?!!) and then went on to have horrible dodgy tummy. 3 times during the night. IBS flare up I think and a bad reaction to last nights garlic bread is all I can put it down too. Going to blandify my diet now, because last nights wake up only fed into my neuroticness!! Knackered today after such a rubbish nights sleep.

Saw the midwife today, who was lovely and said that any time I feel the need to see her for any check up or reassurance then just to ring her, or make an appointment in her clinic time at the GP. And that I can see her as often as I like throughout this pregnancy!

She is visiting me at home on Monday to finish my green notes because we ran out of time today.

Caz Hope things settle down soon for you. Sounds very scary.

WelcomeKaty

Yay for your beans HB clipclop

I think there has been some confusion with my post. I posted I haven't posted for a while so I am sorry if I have missed anyone else having a tough time. Not that I am having a tough time.

Things are all pretty normal here. MS seems to be there for 2 out of 3 days and then I feel normal for day 3.

twojacks I haven't heard from a MW yet either. I saw my doctor 2 weeks ago on thursday.

I have been looking at newborn pics of my 2 ds's today. If I wasn't PG already I would be broody!

I have developed a liking for fruit-ella. Had it with DS1 which helped with MS but didn't want them with DS2. Now going through a pack a day!

Hello everyone. I've been lurking the past few days so thought I'd better come out and introduce myself. I am terribly superstitious about not jinxing anything, but with everything you lot have been going through, I thought I might be in good company!

I am 9 weeks tomorrow after a mmc in September last year. I also have a DS who's just turned 2. The mmc really messed with my head in this pregnancy, although I realise from what I have read on MN in the last few days that that is totally normal. At 6+1, I was so convinced I wasn't pregnant any more I was all for ODing on caffeine and red wine on a mission to "force" a mc, but fortunately a good friend who has been there herself talked me out of it. Since then the pregnancy symptoms have returned with a vengeance and the insomnia (partly hormones and partly stress, I guess) has declined a bit so at least I'm not half-deranged with fatigue. I'm still dreading the scan at 12 weeks and will be expecting the worst, but hoping for the best and trying not to make myself crazy before then.

That's plenty about me. I'm not a big chatter as I struggle to get online long enough to write but I will be reading and keeping in touch and keeping FX for everyone as we all need friends at this time!

Laabama, you poor thing, please, please take time to grieve for your own hopes and dreams as well as your tiny wee one and be kind to yourself and your DP. I hope the days that follow are as gentle to you as they can be. And I hope you have the happy ending you deserve very soon. Take care x

Clipclop, a very different message, just yeah! I hope things are smooth sailing from now on.

Well at 6 + 2 I had our first midwife's appt today - a very different affair from my first dreamy pregnancy given I had nap deprived DS buzzing around the waiting room and the clinic, I don't think I took half as much in as I was handing him balloons, cars and snacks during the appt to avert a crisis.

Looks like I'll be medium risk so probably with the consultant, but some chance of using water for pain relief, the mw was already pushing for continuous monitoring but said I could certainly use the bath at times. I'll just make sure they're bloody long times and refuse to get out She said it bodes well I got to 7cm without needing gas and air, and was very unimpressed that no one ever spoke to me after my cs about why I'd just had major abdominal surgery. Said it was against NICE guidelines.

Other than that wait for them to call with scan dates and to arrange a booking in appointment at home. Gosh it's starting to feel real, what with appointments and burps. Hope everyone is doing okay.

hi cassandraB and congratulations. feel free to come and go as you please.

caz i remember in my pg with ds having horrendous pain which turned out to be trapped wind. it was awful and lasted for several weeks. i'd get the pain and then want to pass out i'd get so hot and faint, until i.....released it.

right glad you're not too bad. i'm still being sick 1 a day. this morning it was the dog that started me off, it threw up and before i could clean it i had to throw up. poor ds wathced both the dog then me.

right i'm off to bed, bloomin knackered and no idea when ds is going to wake up. Sleep well everyone.

Welcome , Cassandra!

Hi everyone, it's taken me ages to catch up!

Laa so sorry to hear your update and I hope you have lots of support in real life (((hugs)))

Chip glad you got some reassurance, take care of yourself now!

My nausea seems to be very hit and miss after I thought it was kicking in properly last week. It seemed to be afternoons right up until bed time, then I didn't really have anything towards the end of last week and today I was sick before leaving the house and a bit dizzy on the way to work (think it's standing up on the tube during my commute!) but have been ok for the rest of the day. Am not trying to second guess anything and just making the most of the days when I feel fine!

I've done my self referral for the hospital now so am waiting to hear back from them. I've gone with the closest hospital, which just happens to have a lovely new (ish) midwife-led birthing unit. They have lovely double en-suite rooms with birthing pools and stools and it's only a 10-15 minute drive away. Hopefully I'll get to meet with a midwife in the next few weeks and see the centre for myself.

Am off to bed shortly as I have an early start tomorrow and am training all day so will be on my feet, trying to organise a group of 50 people! I think I may take my kindle and read myself to sleep

Whereabouts are you Truffkin? I've been looking at Homerton hospital and it's got new stuff too. I have no idea which bits I'll use but it looks spacious and light and lovely which is a relief coz I thought it might be grim.

laabama I'm so sorry. :(

clipclop how amazing, fab!

Sorry not to say more, am too tired!

(Btw, whoever mentioned GD, I think it's very early to be testing. I had several tests last pg cos my sister had it. I didn't, but the tests didn't begin till week 18 I thibk)

Smiling I'm in North London (not far from you!) and have referred myself to the Whittington. I've read mixed reviews so have decided to see for myself. There is a midwife unit in Barnet that looks lovely on the website, but I can't refer myself there until further along as I'm outside of the catchment area.

Am wondering if there are a few London pregos can we organise a bump-comparing meet up once we are past the first trimester?