The 'We are brooking no arguments whatsoever for an uneventful pregnancy and pain-free birth' thread

[Biscuitsandtea]

Ladies, our previous thread was getting full so here is a lovely new shiny home for us all.

I've put some comfy cushions around and plenty of pregnancy safe snacks and drinks. The Segway park is in the corner over there next to the stack of glittery vom buckets (plenty of extra buckets too for all the newbies).

In the corner over here you'll find our library of leaflets including sections on early pregnancy private scan clinics, pushchairs and car seats.

Hope you all like it very much :)

Tentative congrats to Musical - still no sign of Love? Hope all is well.

Fishcake, not sure what the screening appt is for. On the tea front, I think you are allowed 4 cups, but you have to watch out for the difference between cups and mugs. I always drink out of mugs and I'm not sure how many that allows me - some cups are tiny! I've been aiming for 2 mugs of tea before switching over to decaff.

www.patient.co.uk/health/Pregnancy-and-Caffeine.htm

btw carreine has been connected to low birthweight babies so i'm aiming for well under (1 measly cup of tea) but don't think you generally need to worry but this is my particular little issue

I am doing NO caffeine... Def link to birthweight, and I think it's also associated with higher levels of mc in early pregnancy, but I think you have to drink shed loads!!! Don't take me at that literally, this is just what I remember a friend saying, or reading at some point last pg.

musical, I'm sorry you have not got anything conclusive yet but an egg sack on a normal scan seem quite positive. fx for the blood test results.

I just can't give up my morning cup of tea but have cut down to only very occasional coffee in the afternoon when I am super tired. To be fair I went off coffee completely for the first trimester and just the smell made me gag so really that bit was rather easy :)

Where's love? I hope it is good news.

Also has anyone hunted down Aubers recently. It has gone very quiet from her.

Musical I think it sounds positive I am still not brooking! I am starting to worry about Love though I hope everything is all right!

I have seen Aubers around, I think maybe she has lost the thread or she doesn't like us anymore.... Probably just lost the thread as this was a lovely shiny one nearly 400 posts ago!

Oh, I went to the GP today about my back, I am to see a physio at some point and shovel these pain killers down and I need lighter duties at work which is going to be really hard to implement and I worry they are going to be pissy.

How is everyone though>

I hope love is ok too....

musical, I know I said on the other thread, but I still think it's positive and I hope you hear good blood test results very soon to reassure you.

I am looking at smart phones, argh!! exciting!!

oh no purple, what do you do? I hop they can arrange it somehow, you only get one back...

I'm worrying about Love too...

Yes, it is positive - it's not ectopic, which was my primary fear! If my hcg level has risen from Saturday (when the bleeding started) I'll know everything's ok and will be a happy bunny...

Purple, I'm sure work will manage to find you lighter duties - they have to! When my back was at its worst (I have a bulging disc in my spine), my work reviewed the conditions I was working in and checked everything was suitable for what I do, and that the work load was suitable. And that was in a non-pregnant state! They have to help ensure your environment and work load is suitable for you - pissy or not!

dream - thanks - I'm sure it will be, but the niggling doubting worrying bit of me is still in panic mode until the results come back. They're probably back already as it's quite a quick process - will ring them in a couple of hours if I haven't heard from them.

I concieved... It is hormones mostly, I have either been pregnant or breastfeeding without a break for three years and I think I have a bit too much relaxin.
However, I walked a lot on Friday and did my pelvic bone in and then woke up with a bad back on Monday morning after being sore all weekend from my pelvis. I may also have foolishly indulged my DH in some recreational bedroom activities when I was feeling a bit better on Sun. Which shan't be happening again!

Why do they call it 'morning sickness'? Sort of implies that it will all be settled by the morning. I'm fine in the mornings at the moment, but the last few days I've been getting more nauseated over the afternoon. My poor DS is being left to play on his own while I sit on the sofa!

Love, I do hope things are okay. You have certainly been in my thoughts today.

As have you, musical. Glad to hear that things are in the right place. Hope they get back to you with results soon.

Bartlet I think it to give us hope and something to aim for, same with the by 12 weeks it will have ended lie. Mine has reduced in severity now I am 15+4 but I was throwing my guts up last week so hope I am not counting my chickens too soon!

purple, like the "ginger nuts will help" lie too? I am a doctor as some of you know (not stealth boasting, honest, but demonstrating that I might know a thing or two), yet when I was in hospital with hyperemesis on a drip (again not stealth boasting, but I was proper unwell), the consultant, yes, the consultant, asked me if I had tried ginger nuts!

What I was too unwell to say was, "Do you think I have got to this stage and NOT tried ginger nuts? I have eaten (and thrown up) my own body weight of ginger nuts! I have tried every single old wives' tale about morning sickness and still ended up here! Do you really think ginger nuts haven't occurred to me?!?"

PMSL at the dimwit, consultant to, oh dear. Also I don't think there is anything to boast about being on a drip or having hyperemesis sounds hellish. No one would accuse you of that!
Also being a Dr just shows how hard you have worked and should be respected, although I am known to give my GP a hard time occaisonally...

The count's in: From 17,000 ish on Sat night to 30,488 this morning! Hurrah!

Very very happy. Although with a healthy looking yolk sac and high hCG levels, wondering what all this bleeding is about? DH's boss suggested a placenta in an odd place, that keeps being irritated... something to ask about at the next scan.

Where's Love?

Great new Music maybe it was just getting nice and snug in your womb lining? So pleased for you :)

Sorry, I have been tied up at work since scan! Thanks so much for thinking of me! It was fine, the baby was kicking around! They couldn't tell why the bleeding had happened (it's stopped now) but did say the placenta was a little (but not very) low so could have been connected. There wasn't any blood in the uterus that they could see. Phew, and thanks for all the help and reassurance.

Musical, I'm sorry yours wasn't more concrete positive news but still good news to see a sac and a yolk. Brooking hard for blood results.

Ginger nuts? Frickin' ginger nuts?! Really!

X-posts, Musical! So glad to hear that. Great results. I second the baby just having a really good snuggle down into your apparently extremely juicy (sorry) womb lining.

Thank god for that, all clear now that you have checked in Love hooray for healthy babies :)

have been checking all day to see how you too have got on and it sounds like good news for both of you hurrah!

off to go and lurk somewhere else now

Love, I have just sighed a big sigh of relief! I've been checking this thread far more often than my posting suggests, hoping for good news. Great news. Really pleased for you.

So glad to hear everything's fine Love! How bizarre - but I've heard that's the case with many bleeds - they just can't work out why it's happened. The important thing is that it's clearly had no effect on the kicking baby :)

Purple maybe! Although I thought I had an implantation bleed in early Sept (which I thought was AF!)... who knows. I was also running up and down a long, windy spiral staircase on Saturday (a church tower), which may not have helped. Whatever it is, fingers crossed it stops happening! All I care about is the fact that whatever it is hasn't stopped minimusic from getting on with it.

Bartlet - the cheek of some people!

Must say the EPAU was a bit of a grim experience, huge delays (didn't get out until nearly 12 despite 9.20 appointment), oddly cheerful music (lots of Madonna) and lots of clearly very sad and worried ladies. What I did think was good was that it seems they do the "normal" 12 week scans somewhere else (I had mine in a non-hospital unit) so all the worried women didn't have to contend with people cooing over scan pictures. Really sensitive, I thought.

But the grimness doesn't matter when there's a lovely kicking baby in there, obviously!

Great news for both of you!