May 2013 - we've seen our babies and our trousers are tighter as we enter the second trimester!

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Hope you all had a fab Christmas Day! We survived the afternoon with MiL and all was good... So good in fact with our chilled out boxing day that my bf proposed!!!! So now we are engaged going to get married in May 2014 when Year Of Baby has calmed down. Excited!!!!!!!

Wirawoo- many congratulations!!

aw Wirra congrats!

congrats on the healthy scans everyone!

Hope everyone had wonderful christmasses :)

Our scan is tomorrow... bump has got big and hard literally overnight and the baby kicks and punches in two directions at once now!

Am shattered again, is anyone else having first tri symptoms again? also feel quite sicky in the mornings, like the early rumblings of a bad hangover!

Hope you are all well :)

Congratulations Wirra!
Good luck with your scan tomorrow santaswild.
I had my scan this morning. It was so quiet at the hospital. I had scan and saw consultant within the hour which is a first! I'm usually there an average of 4 hours.
We found out we are having a girl! A little sister for my boy. There will be 2years between them when she's born. (My little boy turns 2 a couple of weeks before) everything looked ok on scan which I'm so happy about.
Don't think they were that impressed with my mum, partner, son and me coughing and sneezing everywhere lol....
I nearly shed a tear too, as my little boy held my hand all the way through the scan, he was so well behaved.

Congratulations Wirra! My DH and I got engaged while I was pregnant with DC1 and married when she was 9 months. I loved having a wedding to plan while on maternity leave and it was very special having our daughter at our wedding (a little less romantic was when she slept in our bed on honeymoon...). What I am trying to say is great timing.

The girls are beginning to catch up with the boys. Lovely news Reeny.

We have our scan is in 4 days. I am terrified and wish we'd had the amnio to find out why we had that initial dire combined testing result. Thankfully Christmas has been distracting otherwise I think I'd have found this last week of waiting really hard. I keep imagining getting bad news at the scan on new years eve and having to come home and tell the girls.

As I typed that the baby kicked my hand that was holding my phone. Maybe he is trying to reassure me.

jenpen reeny and roast I'm in the girl club too! I know what you mean about not knowing about girls though - I've already got DS and all my close friends have boys! It's nice to have a totally new experience to look forward to!

Congratulations Wirra! Lovely news

Arti I'm sure your scan will be totally fine. It's awful waiting for these scans, time seems to go so slowly when you are counting down the days. I've been having quite a lot of Braxton Hicks too - most evenings. My doc says it's ok as long as I don't have 4 in 20 minutes. I only ever have 1 or 2. Still a bit odd though isn't it!

My main problem at the moment is a painful back. I can't even have a lie in if I wanted to, it's terrible first thing. It starts half way down and goes all the way down to my bum, sooo sore. Not sure if there's anything I can do

oooh, congrats Wirra that's lovely news. Lots of happiness at the moment. We got married in June after 12 years together and it was a wonderful day.

Additional congrats to Reeny and berri on the girl news. I'm convinced mine's a girl (no real reason, just a feeling). Looking forward to finding out on 7 Jan, if only to be able to shut everyone who asks up with an actual answer!

I cried on Christmas Day when DH gave me a present 'for the bump'. I think I mentioned before that we call it 'the little poo' (and yes, it has def stuck), so he'd bought a little soft toy Winnie the Pooh which has a squeak... Cue wet sobs from me....

wirra that's great news!

artigene why can you not have an amnio, sorry if I missed previous posts explaining it. Was supposed to have mine today but didn't in the end. Lost in translation here in France so now booked for NYE, wonderful timing....

Hi everyone. Hope everyone's had a lovely few days, and tummies are growing nicely Lots of lovely scan news.
Can anyone recommend anything for indigestion? Can we take rennies? Getting pretty uncomfortable..... I'm sure it was later in the PG last time

Congratulations wirra and congrats on all the lovely scans folk have had and good luck to all that are coming up, mines on NYE too.

mwn rennies are fine, I find gaviscon works better though and maalox works quite well but is less disgusting than gaviscon, have recently gained quite a lot of personal as well as professional insight into this

Thanks cuppa I'll send DH on a mission

Just had the biggest row about the baby with my DP who has been drinking and resulted in me saying the dreaded "I didn't want this baby!" I feel so guilty!!!! I was so upset and I really do want this baby now! But I've already been worrying about the 20 week scan next week and now I'm worried that I've jinxed it. Don't know why I'm writing this; just needed to talk :-(

aww bunny :-( don't worry hun we all say things in the heat of the moment especially when drunken arsehole men piss us off .... I said somethin along them lines the other day, then cried after cos I didn't mean it .... Chin up all will be fine..... When is ya scan ?? Mines wednesday xxx

Friday- it feels like life time away and for some reason I can't stop worrying about it x

bunny I was exactly the same about scan. Really scared. I've been having horrible rows with DH too. They seem to be lasting days. Try not to worry, I seem to remember similar last time and wondering if a new baby was a good idea. Hang in there. It will get better and you will feel differently after your scan I'm sure

Bunny I have my scan next Friday. So worried about it but also looking forward to it for a bit of reassurance.

aw don't worry bunny. DH said he felt sorry for himself the other day because normally he would be getting drunk more and I snapped that this baby was for him too (as normally I would be his drinking partner! and I wanted to get drunk too!) Usually we are just so grateful to be pg at all we don't think about it but when every other advert is for parties and booze and I am hormonal anyway it can be testing!

I have had the rage this morning but tried to, ahem, breathe through it or leave whatever was making me completely irrationally livid. scan this aft, sure it has to do with that.

mwn if you are worried ask the chemist what you can have but rennies are fine indeed. Never work for me tho!, gaviscon is the only thing but eugh it tastes rank.

good luck arti am sure you will be fine. Someone posted a thread on the pg board about 20 week scans as they were in a bit of a state with worry and people who had had bad news said it was actually so good they got the bad news at the scan, because they could all work to make the baby ok and look after it when it was born. This is such a positive way to look at it I think.

Ooo, congrats Wirra! Lovely news for you, baby can be in the wedding party
Bunny I hope you are feeling a bit less stressed now and you and DP have made up, ideally with chocolates or flowers involved . There is only a very low probability that the scan will be anything other than normal. Totally natural to be concerned though. I had my scan yesterday and I found it really difficult to relax during the anomaly check. I was listening intently to the sonographer to check that she was making all positive comments and sounds! The baby was all fine and we got to see loads of detail although the pictures didn't turn out great. We are having a little girl!
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Thanks for all your kind comments about my scan fears. I hope all will be well but with an initial prognosis of a 1:10 Down Sybdrome risk I am at a higher statistical risk of bad news. My Downs risk was high because of the thick nuchsl fold and a thick nuchal can be associated with congenital heart defects so I have to prepare myself that the scan may show problems.

Ng - good luck with your NYE amnio. I will think of you at the time I have my scan. You asked why I could not have an amnio. I could have but was decided not to after a private scan gave me a much more hopeful prognosis and then I paid for a brand new non invasive Fetal DNA test which also bought good news (there is a thread all about it in the tests and choices section if you are interested, it's called Harmony). I will have an amnio next week if there is even a small doubt about anything after my scan.

Bunny - sorry to hear about your fight. Arguments are horrid but don't add to that any anxiety that you jinxed the baby's health. You know that is impossible and the results of your scan will have nothing to do with anything you have ever said about the pregnancy. Have you and your DH made up?

X posted Babygeek. Congrats on your baby girl. Lovely news.

hey! hope everyone had a good Christmas, just got back from 20 week scan and had a query for you low lying placentas out there!

the sonographer said mine is also lowish, 1.5cm from cervix and they need it to move to 2.5cm away for a natural birth...

has anyone else been told this? I've been booked in for another scan at 36 weeks to check it's position.

bit worried now as very keen to avoid c section, and was considering home birth...

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Hi frankie, I was told a similar thing at my scan (although they didn't tell me the exact measurements). I'm booked in for another scan at 32 wks. I read a bit about it and it seems that most people's move out of the way before birth (about 80%). If it is too close to the cervix, they will need to do a c section because there is a danger that it will split during labour and bleed. As far as I understand, there's nothing you can do to change it so it's just a matter of waiting to see if it moves away from the cervix as the uterus grows - probably it will. Hope everything else went well with your scan. Did you find out the sex of the baby or will it be a surprise??

bunny don't worry - these hormones make us think and say things differently from normal - easy to say things in the heat of the moment which you know are not true! Hope you and DH have made up. I think we've all been snappier than usual, and not having the usual xmas parties to let off steam definitely doesn't help!

babygeek Congratulations on your little girl news!

frankie I posted about this a little bit upthread - they said the same to me but also that 90% of the time your uterus will grow to accommodate the baby and by doing this the placenta will move away from your cervix, so I'm sure after your next scan they'll be fine for you to have a home birth if you still want to.

Hope everyone else is doing well and still polishing off those xmas chocs

Thank you for your kind words and support. We've decided to agree to disagree but ended up having a lovely day shopping for baby stuff and he made a real effort. I feel a lot more positive but still want the scan to hurry up. Originally, I didn't want to buy baby things til after it but I also wanted to take advantage of the sales. It meant a lot to read your comments x