Rats Successfully Smacked, the 'No Brookers' uneventful pregnancy and pain free birth thread :)

[MeconiumHappens]

Hello :)

In between hitting reply and hitting enter the last thread vamooshed!

Scan was awesome. Baby all lovely and wriggly, arms and legs, fingers and toes. Just amazing stuff! Baby waved at us too :)
Husband totally in awe, has made it seen real to him now, i think he was amazed that its an actual identifiable baby, rather than the prawn of our 7 week scan.
Baby H too small for nuchal though as only 11 weeks and 2 days and not cooperating so have another scan next thursday for nt. Bonus- extra pictures!

Well done Meconium on the new thread. I panicked just now when my post wasn't accepted on the old one. Have you had your scan today?

Yay for scream's scan. Fantastic news. I hope you can start enjoying it all a bit more now and very exciting that you'll be able to make your big announcement to your colleagues on Monday.

Oh well if the dating is calculated purely on crown-rump length then no wonder my date was brought forward so much. DS has always been on the 99th centile for height and at my 8 week scan the sonographer commented that this baby was long too. As long as they don't bring it forward any further at any future scans, I don't want to be induced prematurely purely on the basis that I have tall children. I'm surprised there's not more science involved in it than that.

Cross posts.

Another great scan update. Fantastic news Meconium and bonus scan next week. What date are you due?

Great news Meconium and Scream! Lots of wriggly little beans out there [hgrin]!

Menconium, firstly, fab thread title! Secondly, congrats on the scan! :D Lovely to hear that it looks considerably more baby like at 12wks from 7 - our last one was around then (nearer 8 mind), and although DH was over the moon to see the heart beat, I can't wait until he can see something more baby like :) Bonus scan is fabulous too!

Scream, congrats to you too - and I'm glad it made your awful week melt away.

2nd May by today, but they didnt actually date me today. Will wait til next week. Very excited that get another little peek at baby.

Dating is indeed based on crown-rump measurement at 12 weeks, based on that most babies grow at a very similar rate up to his point apparently. Nothing is fool proof, but then neither are ov tests/implantation/bfp timings. (mine was all waaay off!)

phew, thanks for the new thread, I tried to post and lost it. Floundered about for a bit.

Glad your scan was good.

Yay! Scanathon over. phew.

Oh yeah, my scan is 8th December Scream it's a 19 week one.

Hello all, not so scared to catch up now after my spell offline what with 5 posts.

Really exciting with all the scans today! Stats thread if there are any more updates

Also, this is the third thread! We should start numbering them and when we get to 20 we might even have a postnatal thread

Oooh a postnatal thread. That's too exciting to think about.

I do wonder where some of the old faces have disappeared to though. I hope we didn't bore them off! DenyEverything hasn't been around for ages, I hope everything's ok.

Evening all

Great scan news today - well done to all concerned! And yay for an extra scan Meconium

Oooh, imagine, a postnatal thread - that would be so exciting!

And hanks for the new thread Meconium - lovely title

Scarlet I often wonder what happened to Aubers did she post again on the antenatal thread at all?
She must be really rather advanced now, seeing as I am unbelievably 19 weeks now! I feel like a fraud and actually I am 8-9 weeks.

Aubers never did post again , but I know she posts on other threads, and started that very funny AIBU from a toddler's point of view.

Phew! Found you all! I've been wandering MN all alone for a whole HOUR!

It's entirely my fault for stupidly maxing out the last thread without even realising! D'oh!!

Soooooooooooo glad to see Meconium has also had a good scan!! The scanathon is complete! I'm also super jealous of your extra scan next week, that's great news! I don't think I can wait until 20 weeks for my next one, I'm thinking about booking in a 16 week gender scan. I was a little disappointed with how rubbish my sonographer was today, and how she (and her random friend who wandered in for a chat whilst half my "lady bush" (to quote Biscuits) was on display, managed to almost spoil what should have been a magical experience. Obviously it was still AMAZING, but the private scan was just sooooooooooo much nicer, the sonographer at the private centre (who is almost certainly an nhs sonographer on other days of the week) seemed much more experienced. (When I asked this one to point out the nub - so I could try out the nub theory old wives tale she informed me with a perfectly straight face that the nub doesn't appear until 20 weeks. Er? No! The nub vanishes long before 20 weeks!)

Wow, I so cannot even imagine a postnatal thread right now! I do hope we have one though, I think I'm going to need you ladies even more after the little man one arrives!

hahah maybe she thought nub was 'code' for something else! What exactly i dont know, what grows at 20 weeks
What was your lady bush doing out? Maybe she was taking about your nub? hahaha! My bladder was so full that she was scanning baby just under my belly button so no where near anything involving nubs or bushes, more the better.

Ah come on in Scream - have a sit down - all that chasing around will have worn you out!

I was wondering about the 'lady bush' being out too! At the 8 week scan they just pushed my waistband down a bit, this one she wanted my trousers round my knees and my underwear also really low! Considering that at the last appointment I came out clean, and this one I came out with gel all over my top, trousers and underwear, I can't really see what she was trying to achieve with this! I think she was just really junior or useless

Thanks for the seat Biscuits

Hi all! Massive congratulations on great (and wiggly!) scans. Its great, isn't it?

Regarding scans - its simply rump to head measurement that is used to determine 'age'. Babies all grow relatively uniformly in the first trimester.

By the 3rd trimester growth is much more individual, and things like eventual weight and height start to factor in. So a scan in late pregnancy would not be very good for dating a pregnancy.

At the end of your pregnancy they measure your bump with a tape measure at each midwife appointment. It should be roughly one cm for each week of pregnancy apparantly. However, its notoriously inaccurate and many people are told their baby is measuring big or small, only for the opposite to pop out!

I hope I've remembered that all right (DS is only 9 months old, but it seems like ages ago now!) and that it helps those wondering.

The sonographer I see is very keen to have your trousers pulled down, and late on the midwife would to palpate. This could lead to some escapement of the lady bush. Ahem.

Welcome home Scream it is awful wondering around lost!

I supposed it depends somewhat on the effect of a large bump on one's ability to landscape the garden. I thought i would be able to rely on my husband with some assistance in this area, nothing fancy, but a little pruning etc. He point blank refused any involvement. Am wondering if beauty salons offer a pruning service as opposed to a waxing service...hmmm.

You could always Veet? Pruning service lol

I tried to post in the last thread, but then it came up with the thread was accepting no more messages! I'll C&P my last post that I was going to put there and then catch up here.

Great news on the scans, jaggy and scream.

Went to bed at 7pm last night, feeling terrible, so wasn't around to read your news. I was sent to the GP by DH yesterday and she gave me prochlorperazine. It barely worked last time, but I'll give it a go for a week and see. One of the hyperemesis threads here had a link to a good website that might interest/help anyone else suffering: www.helpher.org/mothers/survival-guide-downloads/survival-strategies.php

Too, I think dating is just done on crown to rump length. Apparently (I can't remember where I read this so don't take this as medical gospel!), the growth of the baby up to 12 weeks is very consistent despite things like height of the parents. It is after that you get wider variation.

My due date was moved back 6 days with DS. As I had 24 day cycles then, that fitted better than the LMP date which the midwife just calculated as if I had 28 day cycles. As for DC2, I'll tell you in 4 weeks.

In the meantime, brooking for Too's results and everyone else. Happy vomiting! [henvy] - that's a nauseated face, rather than an envious one!

Great news on a real baby, Meconium. MrMeconium must be excited to know you are not giving birth to a prawn! (My 8 week scan looks fairly similar to a scan of someone's gall bladder with a gall stone in it. )

Bartlet I'm sorry to hear you're not feeling great :( I hope they find the right prescription to knock it on it's head, and in the mean time we'll all be No Brooking for it to pass quickly!

Purple and Meconium I've been wondering exactly the same thing about pruning! Lol! Obviously it's too early to be a prob, but right now folding myself over to tie shoelaces is already a little uncomfortable so I can't really imagine what everyday bending tasks will be like with a big bump later on! I second the suggestion for Veet though, I think the in-shower one is supposed to be really simple - hopefully you can do it with your eyes effectively closed!

I caved and booked a gender scan for 16 weeks. Mostly so that I can see the baby again! The gender confirmation itself is far less important to me, I really do feel at a very fundamental level that it's definitely a boy, and I'm certain enough not to care when we eventually get confirmation. There's nothing scientific in my feeling at all, so it will be interesting if I'm wrong! I'm really not sure where this feeling is coming from!

Does anyone know the limits for having your 20 week scan? Jaggy's date is so much earlier than mine that I got a little worried, and when I checked it's actually been set for 21+2. Is that normal? I don't know what tests they do at that scan.

Found you, found you (said Waybuloo style)!!!

Yay scream and meconium great news.

I have 20 week scan on Friday which will be 20+5 so I'm hoping it's okay for later than 20 weeks scream!! Anyone else getting scanned next week?

DH also has a job interview on Wednesday somewhere 3 hours away from here. Whilst the thought of moving pg with a toddler is scary and the thought of leaving behind all my friends (and bizarrely my consultants) is sad it would be lots nearer both our families to an area we know. Feeling excited and scared all at the same time! Anyone else thinking of moving? We moved round the corner when dd was 8 weeks old which was stressful enough, must be mad...