April 2013- part 3 scan scan scan

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Started a new thread for all us April ladies.

Call your GP in the first instance and he / she can refer you on if needed?

I would call your GP practice and ask how it works in your area. It may be they should have booked you in with the MW and the MW sends the forms to the hospital so the hospital may not know! Or it may be they do it all at the hospital. But I think asking your GP practice is the best way to find out.

Hi Ladies,
I haven't really posted much as I've been very nervous so far, but we had the 12 week scan today and I feel like a weight has been lifted. We have a little wriggly wriggler on our hands!
The hospital was great - turns out you don't want too much in your bladder when you for for a scan, our little one was all cramped in and bent over my bladder so I had to run to the loo during the scan. This should have helped, but the little one did a headstand instead so they couldn't really see much. We sat down for 10 mins to see if the baby would move to a better position, and while it did help a little, all the wriggling meant they couldn't do the nuchal measurement. I don't really mind though as it doesn't make any difference to us. We'll have the Quad test at 16 weeks instead.

Papa Bear has been grinning from ear to ear all afternoon - it's fantastic to see!

Good luck for all the other scans coming up!

Hi all so much good scan news i just cant wait until 2nd oct for mine to see if everything is ok then can start to relax!i should be exactly 12weeks at scan and feel like i will be able to tell everybody once ive seen baby on screen. A few family have already guessed!x

Hello all, such good news with everyone's scans!
Hurry up Friday, I'm getting impatient for mine!

I'm still in a terrible mood, I think it's because I don't feel pregnant! No sickness or nausea any more. No sore boobs, they're certainly not any bigger! I thought a had a bit of a bump at the weekend, but I guess it must have been gas because it's not there today!
I'm sorry to be so down but DH thinks I'm being daft worrying, he's so excited for the scan and I am struggling to be anything other than nervous.
Eurgh!

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likecandy - I'm exactly the same, still, there's not long to wait now!

bumpincharge - glad your scan went well, if a little wriggly!!
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itsaruddygame i'm hanging on your every word and its good to have hope! i don't think i'm the sickest person - i have actually probably vomited no more than about 10 times in the whole first trimester - but god it's just so disabling.

great news notshort and mama1980.

I'm trying to eat lots of ginger so eating lots of sushi and have started making teriyaki everything.

I do have moments when i feel great - mentally and physically - and it's simply the absence of nausea.

xxx

This is the first day I can say I haven't felt sick in about 8 weeks. Woo-hoo!

Congratulations to everyone having great scans and wishing the time away for those waiting for theirs!

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Yay for the good day everyone seems to be having :)

Thrilled to hear your scan went well Mama you seem to have a very determined little bean!

Good day too here although two home visits after 6pm meant I got home at 7.30 pm & am shattered.

Nuchal result came through at 1 in 100,000 risk! Didn't even think it went that low although not a great surprise given my NT of 1.2 & age of 28!

Ooops 12 + 4,

Had my scan today too :-) it was amazing, such a perfectly formed little baby. Mine was being a bit stubborn and lazy, had arms stretched above head and kept rolling to the side as nurse tried to measure nuchual fold. Had to jump up and down (after I had emptied bladder luckily) and she kept bouncing the scanner on my belly to try to wake him/ her and get baby to move. They say Aries babies are stubborn, seems like that may be true in my case! She managed it in the end, it came out between 1.5 and 2.. Finally seems real :-) congrats to all those who have had scans and good luck for those who have scans coming up. Exciting times!!

Morning ladies, great News on the scans, I have my dating scan tomorrow I was measuring a bit big on my one last week and she would have put me 3 days further along, but I know when I ovulated as I get sharp pains for about 2 hours and we DTD 2 days before that so I'm not sure how I could be 3 days further along?

I'm going to start listening to my hypno birthing CDs anyone else going down this line? It kind of helped with DSs birth, tried to keep calm and take my mind away during all the chaos. This time I'm hoping for a much more relaxed delivery, with lots of drugs!

Fainted on the train this morning . Very embarrassing but I guess it means I am still a pregnant lady and all is progressing as it should! Fingers crossed my scan tonight will confirm this.

Empress - fainting is no fun but good luck for the scan.

I had a letter through from my blood test yesterday telling me that I am not immune to Rubella despite having had the vaccination. A bit unsettling but trying not to worry to much as it is no longer a common illness. I will be avioding large gatherings of young children though and am trying to keep control of my worrisome thoughts!

The weird thing is I also had german measles as a child so I really don't know what my immune system is playing at!!!!

Hello, good I join please. I am 12+5 and due 3 April. I have been holding off joining as I had some bleeding early on, but had my 12 week scan yesterday and there's definitely a baby in there.

This will be baby number two for me, I have an 18 month old as well.

Good luck to those with scans to come, and Empressmatilda be careful and look after yourself.

Could I join even, sheesh.

Congrats on all the positive scans. Mine is next Thursday, and I think I'm starting to stress about it a bit already. I am usually quite an active/stressy person, but since finding out I was pregnant I've actually been quite zen. As the scan approaches, however, I find that I'm reverting to my usually anxious and slightly irritable self (just as poor DH was really enjoying living with chilled out me!)

giddy I have been thinking about hypnobirthing - I am a bit of a control freak and so getting to a place where I really believe my body is more than capable of giving birth (which I understand to be one aspect of hypnobirthing) sounds like it would help a lot. I haven't looked into it too much (as with all things, putting it off until after my scan next week) but there seem to be a few different popular 'varieties' - which did you do?

Talking of putting things off, I was idly looking at local nurseries in a quiet moment, and came across an article saying that, where we live, it is recommended to start looking seriously while you're pregnant, and have your name down before the baby is born (it actually said at 6 months pregnant, but that was for places starting at 6 months and I'm hoping not to go back to work til 9 or 10). That has mad it all seem very real,and a bit scary!

Last one on my 'to think about after scan' list is NCT classes, which I believe also get booked up really quick. Do any of you second, third... timers have experience of NCT and would you recommend it?

I am really glad that I tried not to worry too much during the first few weeks, as it seems like there will be plenty of things to occupy my brain for the next 7 months!

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Welcome crackle - we cross posted so I didn't spot you just then. Congrats on your scan, it must be so exciting

I would recommend NCT for making friends, my course wasn't that great but having people to go for lunch with and ask advice when the babies were small was invaluable. Would also recommend hypnobirthing. I had a natal hypnotherapy CD and the techniques definitely helped me. I want to do a proper hypnobirthing course this time to really get the skills down, especially as I am hoping for a homebirth this time round.

got my combined result. A modest but fairly categorical 1:1300. I had hoped for better but aged 40 it's a good result.

natal hypnobirthing sounds good. I was a bit dismissive of all that, but then my body just wouldn't go into labour. I think making friends with labour is a good idea.

xx

dandelion Thanks for the travel tips by the way. Going to have a look for some Incognito this lunch break!

somewhere I would be very pleased with that risk at aged 40 (sorry that sounds awful YKWIM!)

crackle welcome! My DD is 17 months so a very similar age gap to you!

Can I be cheeky and ask if anyone is near me in Yorkshire? - I'm in York. We have just moved from Hampshire & I work fulltime & am a bit lonely. Can't believe I'm admitting that! Anyway I don't know anybody up here & if anybody fancied a coffee & baby chat let me know!

great scan news everyone - congratulations and keep the good news coming!!

Congrats to all those with good scan news. Mine is still 3.5 weeks away which feels like an eternity!

Had my flu jab today. Got a little freaked out by the nurse who told me that she thought her 2nd child was tricky until she had the 3rd who turned out to be harder than the other two put together! I was banking on #3 being my 'easy' one.

Went delving in the attic yesterday to dig out maternity clothes but it it seems I must have got rid of them all. What a pain!

Hey ladies, I'm in a bit of quandary. Had my booking in appointment with the MW today which was great, she was very nice and had another MW there helping with all the form filling.

I mentioned I'm away for my 12th week and it came up that I'm flying long-haul. Both MWs were very unsure about that. Short-haul or long-haul after 12 weeks they weren't concerned with but said that long-haul before 12 weeks has a higher rate of mc. I don't want to do anything that puts me at risk or gives me cause to feel the mc was down to something I did, after an mc last pg I am totally paranoid about another one.

They said it depends on how high the plane goes which obviously I won't know and I can just imagine how stressed I'd be the whole time. The trouble is my trip, which is for work, is next week and I have the flights and tons of meetings booked. I don't think the risk is such that they can give me a medical reason not to fly, and I don't want to let work know I'm pg before the 12 week scan, but I feel massively uncomfortable with going. At the same time it doesn't feel like a solid 'I officially can't fly' kind of thing, just a risk but would never forgive myself if something happened.

DH says don't go but I'm not sure what to do. I thought the MWs were going to say it would be fine to fly long-haul and just advise on flight socks or something.

Sorry for the me, me, me post but any advice is very welcome. Going to catch up on everyone's news now.