October 2013: where we all make it to the 2nd trimester and begin to glow!

[pinksky]

Welcome October passengers--all aboard our new thread (is it number four or five?!). Hope everyone is having a lovely Easter and enjoying an egg or three.

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Thanks orange you have made me feel better about the 4d now :)

oh no badger I hope you are ok. My sister fell over in the snow and was very worried but the midwife told her everything ways well cushioned and she now has a very healthy 1 year old! How worrying for you though.

Falcon I have put my 4d picture up now so ycan see it. It has deleted my 2d picture so I will change it back again later. They don't do 4d until 12 weeks usually as babies just look splodgey before then, so this was slightly early. You will be able to see a lot more detail by the time you have yours.

Its a mini baby aww totally melted my heart orange!! is it silly to be so nervous now its booked! eek i know the likely hood is all is well still i'm just a worrier

Thanks falcon

orange that's so amazing! Love it. Definitely want my sexing scan and 4d bit

Just finished my sixth litre and tbh don't feel as great as I usually do. Incredibly nauseas and tbh it's wearing me down a bit now. Just want the sickness to be over so I can glow and look well.

Orange wow! That's N amazing pic, looks just so real (if you know what I mean). If we have funds later on I might suggest 4d to DH.

Blimey, Hayle that's a lot of fluid isn't it. Were they happier with your urine after this morn? Really sorry you're not feeling good, you've really been put through the ringers.

pink they just put another up! Number 7. Strangely they haven't tested since this morning as I'm presuming if they had I wouldn't have had this many litres. My urine is a lot clearer than yesterday although still feel pretty rubbish! They don't seem in a rush to get rid of me and as this bag won't finish until 7ish I reckon I'm in tonight too.

How crappy for you. So pleased that your DD is doing ok though, I'm sure she's missing you a little really

feminist I live in the lewisham borough, small world. I've heard great things about the MWLU at lewisham hospital but due to all the cuts and down sizing I wasn't sure what facilities were left. My two friends had great experiences and have healthy babies to show for it. I ended up choosing st Thomas'. It's also near dp's work incase he couldn't book the time off for the scans.

I had my booking in the other day, not as exciting as I thought it would be.

orange your picture is amazing you can really see the bubba.

Is anyone feeling flutters, I seem to. Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself as they say you don't usually feel them until later unless you've had babies before. I'm 10+ 2. :)

Orange your scan pic looks amazing!

Slippysnow tis a small world indeed! Spoke to midwife about what was happening with the maternity services this afternoon and she said she can't see anything happening anytime in the next couple of years and if they were going to be closing the labour ward this year they would have stopped booking in and they would have been warned to look for new jobs- she said I would probably end up having my second baby there Me, my brother (EMCS they saved him and my mum 16 years ago) my dad and DP were all born there so it didn't take much thinking about. They've been lovely so far. Glad you know of good experiences at the MWLU, hope I stay low risk so I can go there! And St Thomas' sounds ideal for you if it's near DP's work.

Thanks, I feel like a proud mummy! Hayle are you feeling any better now that bag has finished? Are they keeping you in?

I have my booking appointment with the midwife in the morning so just going through my list of questions I have written in the iPad every time I think of something (keeps me busy in the middle of the night!) and writing down the ones I actually need to ask. DH has booked the morning off work to come with me which is nice but I have a feeling it will be a bit of an anticlimax.

warlin The scan on Tuesday is just to date the pregnancy. They want to wait til then so they can be more accurate even though I know exactly how far on I am.
If it was just my feelings I had to consider I think I would carry on with the pregnancy but Dp is convinced I wouldn't be able to cope. I think he knows I would, after all I was a single mother of 4 for a while before I met him. I think he is worried about his own ability to cope, also being his first baby and only baby as long as he sticks with me he wants wants everything to be perfect and I understand that but I know he would love a Down's child just as much as he would love a so called normal child.

What an amazing scan pic orange, I wonder if a 4d scan is something I should consider if it's proven that our baby does have Downs. It might help Dp to see that there is a real baby in there.

wicked I hope all went well with your nt scan and harmony results.

Congratulations to all you scanners out there, still thinking of you MoN.

I am at the back and 10+2 and really getting anxious that bub might have gone. Did anyone experience this and then have a change? It started at about 8+4 and I just can't shake the feeling. Still got some symptoms although they are slowing and have been off work with migraine for a day and a half (feeling better now).

Sorry for long message but everyone seems so far ahead (scan on 16th)

Thanks for reading x

my symptoms went away for weeks cookie before my scan at 13+2 don't worry if you have had no negative symptoms u will be fine

crookie other than being more tired than usual I haven't had any other symptoms since bfp and wa very worried especially as I had twins early on and one didn't make it it made me more panicky like what if it has effected the other baby and I don't no about it but had scan yesterday at 12+2 and everything is present and correct it just that some ppl like haylebop seem to have a tough time of it with sickness etc and others seem to have an easier time of it. When u see baby and are all re-assures you will be glad your on of the ones having an easier time of it lol xxx

I hope you have a good scan on Tues anyway, MoN--I am scanning also that day Maybe a 4D scan would be nice whatever the outcome? Because even if the worst happens, this is your baby and you may want more memories. Hope that's ok to say.

Crookie I'm not too far ahead of you, 11 weeks today. Everyone else does feel much further ahead! I think most people have that feeling? Try to take faith in the fact that you've not got any symptoms indicating something isn't ok.

Yehp pink I'm 12+3 but feel behind as there is 14+ weekers here but the funy thing with due dates is u 11 weekers could end up with babies before the 14weekers lol. Xx

Hope Tuesday hurries up for u MoN do u have to decide about the cvs prior to the appt or can u do decide when u arrive for your scanning appt?

You're totally right, Natalie. My sister had hers at 32 and 36 weeks, so who knows who will be first on the October bus!

I remember in march last year 3 of my friends all the same due date and all their babies came on their due date 24th march could hardly believe it!!!

Just heard a friend who was due on the 4th of May has had a baby girl! -so Natalie you could well be right re due dates

I'll be thinking of you on Tuesday then pinksky. Natalie* I think I can decide on the day as they were prepared to do it on Tuesday when I mentioned it with no prior warning.
Dp will be hopeless on the day of the test as he's not great with needles. It's not his bloody stomach it's getting stuck into.

Oops! Somehow managed to put the whole first line in bold.

slippysnow am definitely feeling flutters - have been stronger today than before. I'm 15 weeks tomorrow and have a toddler. Everything is definitely more pronounced or earlier than last time and today I look pregnant!