March 2013 Mk II - anyone for a wotsit?

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Did it work??

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www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1499521-Due-in-March-2013

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I'm going to get a dr appt tomorrow - which will probably mean nearer the end of the week, then booking appt and scan sometime in Sept? I can't remember what happened 4 years ago with DS apart from getting an emergency scan at 6 wks due to some spotting.

Can we insist on early scans?

I knew I'd missed some news, but your twins news Manda is definitely a big one! Congratulations!!! Apparantly, the statistics are higher for you to have twins as you get older (I don't mean to cause offence!), although if they are a result of age rather than an inherited thing, then you are more likely to have unidentical twins. I think it's something to do with your body releasing more eggs at ov in a bid to reproduce - very clever stuff! :) I wouldn't have minded twins (esp as DH thinks this should be our last :() but DH is far from keen! Even though we've had one tiny peak at our little stitch, he still keeps talking about hoping it's not twins! Are yours identical or unidentical?

We've had a lovely day at Dover castle today, but I am exhausted from stair climbing and hill walking! Think I might be rolling into bed not long after DS tonight!

Hi all,

Sorry fo not posting for seemingly ages, seem to have had a mad busy weekend and also, at the same time feeling totally whacked!
It wAs our wedding anniversary yesterday too, but we actually celebrated on Friday night watching the Olympics opening ceremony. Saw some friends yesterday so that was great but I was just so tired! Need to stop moaning about tiredness, as not really having many other symptoms, but still feel pretty worn out and still a bit dizzy too. And, lots of spots too!!! Didnt have any of this with DD!! Got booking in in Friday though so will mention it then.

Jojo was it you thinking if getting married? My friend just did something very similar, got married at 14 weeks pg, with just immediate family and v close friends there. Register office do and meal and worse s lovely dress from French connection I think. Was all organised at v short notice, so is doable. We had a big wedding, but that's just us, we are fairly traditional.

Anyway, hope you are all ok, off to lie on the sofa a bit more and watch the Olympics!

**wore a dress, not worse s dress. Excuse my typing, it's appalling!

Hello! Back from my week in Lanzarote. Going to catch up now. Still pregnant, as far as I know!
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My booking scan is tomorrow at 9.10. Will be 7w+4. Im excited and nervous. This is DC1 for us so not sure what to expect. Do you need to take anything with you? Just had roast chicken dinner and gona do some sticky toffee pud now. I seem to be hungry all the time lol. Hope you've all had good weekends!

kkforever, eating is a bit of a chore for me at the moment but at least I'm consoling myself that I'm not over-eating which is my usual problem! I do have the occasional urgent pang of hunger, though, which reminds me I need some energy! Not really enjoying my food, but enjoying trying to eat nutritious things in a sort of virtuous way You might want to phone to try to bring your booking appt forward a bit, given you'll be away on hols when they are likely to call you in for a scan. I saw doc at about 5 weeks, midwife at 7 weeks, and second midwife appt for 11 weeks, then scan at 12+4. Seem pretty on the ball at my surgery which I'm glad about.

So happy to hear about your brilliant scan tinker! You must be very happy! Good luck for yours tomorrow sunny! Just take your midwife notes, if you have them as they may ask for facts and figures. Let us know how you get on

Thanks pipsicles for the congrats! Yes, I think my age is definitely a factor. They are in separate compartments, with their own placentas (the least potentially problematic kind of twins to have, yay!), which indicates that they are likely to have come from separate eggs, rather than one that split into two. There is therefore a 90% chance they are fraternal, non-identical twins. I think this is perfect ! I joked with DH about having twins, because I'd read that once you come of progesterone-only pill (perhaps all contraceptives, I don't know) you can release more than one egg in a burst of fertility, and I think that is what happened to us! Especially as twins don't run in either family! You day out sounds lovely. Hope you managed to dodge the rain!

welcome back, sarah!

Knackered here but trying to push on with clearing my desk and preparing for a good week of serious writing/chapter revising rather than farting about with footnotes which is what I feel I've been doing for the past week. Admittedly it's been a pretty big week with our twins news and my brother coming down, and I've been absolutely shattered a lot of the time, but I've only got five weeks before I submit the damn book so I can't afford to lose another day. Grr to a Sunday spent working!

Hi everyone - just checking in and catching up with the weekends activities!! All okay?
My day has been very good. No nausea, no vomiting, plenty of energy, plenty of food throughtlout the day (I finally have an appetite again!!) popcorn at the cinema, good swim this morning, walk by the beach this evening :D hopefully I'll sleep well tonight and this lift will continue into my 12th week :) feeling positive, feeling good :)

Evening all. Hope the weekend has been good for you all. I spent practically all of Saturday asleep, and a fair chunk of Sunday considering we went out for the afternoon! Went to PIL and Dh's Mum told me to do nothing but rest. Bless her she entertained DS, did 3 loads of our washing , cooked for us, the lot. Even got up with DS this morning when he refused to go back to sleep at 5am (thought he was shouting 'grandma' at the top of his voice so it was pretty clear who he wanted!).

Still feeling pretty sick pretty much all of the time but has been marginally better with the extra rest over the weekend. Can't begin to imagien how I will cope at work tomorrow. Well, think it's my bed time, as well as permenantly feeling sick, I am permenantly exhausted, oh the joys!

ethel quick question to you as I can't remember if you've booked in yet or not!!! (nightmare to check back on phone). Have you been told if at your 20 week scan you are able to find out sex of baby?? It's not done in Aberdeen but I'll be back in York at 20 weeks so I'm hoping they'll tell me - but not all trusts do!! If you haven't been told would you be able to tentatively enquire on my behalf at your next check up???!

ethel I've just realised you're booking in on Friday - sorry!! I'm blind I think!! Anyway, if it's mentioned could you let me know?? Don't worry if it's not something you don't want to ask, I can always ask on the day :)

Hi everyone, I've been lurking (too tired to form sentences over the weekend!) and looks like the weekend was a good one! I spent most of Saturday asleep, Sunday I went to watch my friend compete in a tri (open water so didn't feel jealous at all!) and didn't feel anywhere near as sick as normal. I had bacon and sausages on Sunday so thinking that more protein is the way forward for less nausea, I think also not being at work helped too but there's not much I can do about that!
manda triathlons are a lot easier than people think, they run a series of sprint triathlons here that are meant for beginners and there are people of all shapes and sizes and abilities there, really good for people watching! People get a bit more serious about it the longer the distance (there were Olympic length triathletes there yesterday, so much expensive kit and carbon fibre everywhere!) but the beginners events are really good fun. Plus the older you are the better at endurance you get so I'm looking forward to getting better at it!
Must dash, the smells of breakfast cooking are making me feel awful!

Morning

It looks like I'm having yet another missed miscarriage. Nothing I can do except wait for the bleeding to start and the baby and placenta to come out, really looking forward to it as last time it was great fun and didn't hurt at all.

I feel really pissed off and angry as it wasn't exactely easy getting my husband to have sex with me, so the chances of falling pregnant again are astronomical. I'd say I have more chance at winning the lottery 10 times in a row.

The cramping has stopped, I woke up to find my tummy had shrunk considerably and to top the torture off, took a Clearblue with conception indicator only to see 2-3 weeks, the same I saw last week.

So, there you go. What a nice start to the week.

mrsrigby, so sorry for what you're going through. Will you go to epu to get checked? Hope you have lots of love and support in RL. I'm thinking of you x

mrs rigby I know from previous posts you have been worried and i always say that if you listen to your body you can normally tell what's going on before any doctor - but I really think you should get yourself to a&e or epu this morning. I wouldn't rely on the clear blue tests as I know lots of people who have been 5-6 weeks pregnant and seen the 2-3 weeks screen. Go and get checked out! I will be thinking of you all day today and really hope that everything works out ok. I also hope your husband is there for you and your not going through this on your own x x x

mrsrigby I really hope that this is not the case, please go to EPU just to be sure you may be pleasently surprised xx

I'm sorry to hear that MrsR :( I agree with newyear though that you should go to EPU to get checked out. Try and stay positive until you know for certain - I've never used a cb conception indicator, but are they always 100% accurate? Was the cramping definitely the wrong kind, or could it have been stretching? I certainly don't think you should be working, regardless. If you are having a mmc, you must give yourself the time to grieve and deal with it properly, even if you do feel like you've been there and done that before. Feel free to vent on here though. Thinking of you

Mrsrigby fingers crossed for you ((hugs))

Still feeling quite nauseous these days, shield fingers crossed the postie arrives with our letters today

Morning ladies, hope you all had a good weekend. I have been lurking but like Hermione too tired to form sentences. I've been curled up on the sofa all weekend watching the Olympics while DH looked after me. He is wonderful. Ooh, wedding talk! How lovely JoJo. My wedding was organised very quickly in about 3 months and quite cheaply. We got married in a a registry office - we were lucky that our local one has beautiful grounds for the photos. We then had the reception at a medieval pub in our village which was beautiful. I can't remember what we spent but it wasn't much. My dress came from Debenhams and I felt so good in it. I bought everything else online including the flowers which made it all a bit easier. I'm so glad we conceived when we did as it has coincided with our 10 year anniversary of being together too.
kirsty Glad it all worked out!
Ethel Happy anniversary.
MrsRibgy Please go to the EPU. I hope you are ok.

newyearsday I've telephoned the hospital and they're not concerned unless I'm bleeding, they told me not to come in.

kirsty80 no, on my own - DH has gone to work. Well, technically not on my own as I have 2 boys destroying the place.

pipsicles the conception indicator is 92% reliable.

Can't go the the hospital even if I wanted to as DH is at work and the boys are not in nursery today. Even if DH was to come home (his work is very important to him so I can't see this happening) we'd still have the boys and couldn't take them with us and no one to babysit.

I've telephoned my GP to see if I can get them to give me a form to get my blood HCG checked. I work in a hospital Wednesday to Friday so would be able to get it checked Wednesday morning and know for definate Wednesday afternoon whether I've miscarried or not. However, I can only do this if the GP will print out the form I need and I'm not hopeful as they don't like sending me for bloodwork as it costs them a load of money. Waiting for the GP to phone me.

Other than the above, I'll just have to do what I did last time, go for my 12 week scan and get told the baby is dead and have it removed. Thankfully I miscarried at 13 weeks last time so they didn't have to remove it, which is a blessing because I couldn't have let them remove it, being very strongly prolife it would feel too much like an abortion.

Joy, yoy, yoy. How I like limbo land.

I suppose I better go cheer myself up with cleaning up, the place was a mess anyway, but the boys have gone completely mental this morning and you'd be forgiven for thinking the Taliban have targeted us.

Hi Joj, I will ask on Friday, but we found out with DD, so unless policy has changed you should be able to find out.

MrsRigby I'm sorry you are going through this & the EPU are not being supportive. Hope you have more luck with the doctor.

Sorry for being quiet over the weekend folks, was out & about Saturday & think I overdid it, spent most of yesterday asleep! 12 weeks scan booked for Aug 20th - found out my DM has told the entire extended family though after Thursday's scan as 'surely now we have seen the baby it will all be fine' Didn't have the heart to go through the 'I'm only 9 weeks' conversation again but I am a bit annoyed, just hoping all goes smoothly from here!

MrsRigby I wouldn't be too disheartened, it might be that the cramping is just stretching. When I had my MMC I had no signs at all that anything was wrong, other than one tiny bit of blood, on one ocasion when I wiped. So, fingers crossed, you might be ok. I know how hard it is though when you have been there before, because you automatically assume the worse.

ethel thank you! I really want to find out as I'm already calling her a she!! And only eyeing up girls things!!!
I can understand why some trusts don't do it but I'm so keen to find out :)
mrsrigby I have everything crossed for you, take care of yourself xxx

Oh MrsRigby I'm so sorry to hear that. I hope your GP does the form for you so at least you will know one way or the other. Fingers crossed it's just a mistake on the part of the clearblue indicator and you are part of the 8% unreliable results. Thinking of you. (hug)

gummi no post here yet- got yours yet?
manda my sunday was spent working too. Still trying to push through with the thesis write-up. Ironically, my PhD is in Biology looking at reproductive patterns in an invasive freshwater shrimp and during the course of my studies I've produced 1 baby and got pg again!