March 2014?

[Teddybear4]

Hi

Is there an antenatal thread for March 2013?

If not, can I start one? I've just found out Im expecting our third (and final!!) baby, due 4 March.

Fingers crossed tightly for a smooth ride (I had early bleeds with both my previous pregnancies).

Anyone else out there yet?

Andie, I bloody love your name! Welcome to the thread and congratulations on your sixteenth child

Holycow, can I be nosy? Do you have any hunches as to what has been preventing you from conceiving until now? Our bodies are fecking mysteries and I only have a blocked tube and the fact that I had an ERPC last year to explain why I haven't got pregnant since. I'm starting to believe the statistics which say that only 1-in-10 of a woman's eggs over the age of 40 are viable. What do you think? How many eggs were you producing during IVF? Did many fertilise? Did you go to day five blastocyst with any of the cycles?

Maybe I'm asking too much from a stranger here, sorry

Hello all

Just checking in. Not much to report here. General nausea and fatigue continues (very similar to DD pregnancy) - not helped by sitting in the sun for two hours at DS sports day today and being cajoled into joining the mum's race... Seriously, I don't even do exercise when I'm not newly pregnant!

Booking in appt is a week today and early scan a week on Weds. I suppose after that it will all start to feel a bit more real (all being well I hope...).

Sorry to hear about those with losses. X

I can't remember who asked about a tilted uterus. I have one and I'm not sure it has ever been commented on in either of my previous pregnancies. It always gets mentioned when I have a smear though... Odd.

Hope those with sickness feel better soon. X

soured last time I had a cold I got a horrible post-nasal drip that seemed to go on for ages. I know what you mean about it making you sick, I couldn't stop gagging. I used ds's saline spray (the stuff you shoot up kids noses to break up snot) and it helped a lot.

Booked in with midwife, she was lovely! Have got a scan tomorrow at 10.30, will be 7 weeks exactly, so desperately hoping everything is going according to plan! Rugby I told my dr what happened in previous pregnancy and he said "we'll let's get you booked for a series of scans to check everything is going right this time" so I'd try another GP if I were you - clearly the NHS do refer people based on previous mc!!!

Ah thanks ill give that a go!

Juicy, nose away, I've no problem answering.

A couple of things have changed and may or may not have made a difference. Firstly, I've lost weight - 2 stone- with slimming world and apart from being lighter (still carrying about a stone too much) I've never eaten so healthily in my life. I'd have lived on cereal, toast and rubbish before now. This may have changed things? Also - and we must all promise never to repeat this outside our circle of trust because there's many a nose I've felt like breaking over the years- but I'm RELAXED now. Since the arrival of our beautiful dd, I felt complete for the first time since we married and was blissfully happy with our little family.

We had 'unexplained infertility' but my response to IVF was never good. I had several cycles cancelled because I developed cysts. Then I didn't produce many eggs - I think the max was 9 or 10 (It's about 5 years since we did an IVF so my memory's a bit hazy.) Always about 1/2 fertilised and there was never more than 2 left for 2 day transfer. My last cycle was my most successful. It was an agonist cycle and I had 8 embryos left after 2 days so we had some to freeze. God I'm glad all that's behind us, they were such difficult times.

And can I suggest another reason? IF we'd conceived before now, we wouldn't have gone on to adopt and then we wouldn't have our gorgeous girl. And she was meant for us and us for her. So maybe that's what the delay was? I know to many reading that will seem ridiculous but you'd have to see me with dd to know how absolutely she is my girl.

Hello Ladies!

May I join you? Cylon's the name, 28, 1st DC, 7+1, feel like death blah blah blah.

Saw a link to this on another thread and someone said it was the BEST place to come and discuss pushchairs

Juicy and holycow - so glad I'm not the only ancient one on here (I'm 41)

HolyCow, it seems to me that the delay was entirely so that you could meet your little girl and take her into your hearts Thanks again for sharing and, once again, I'm over-the-moon for you.

Cyclon, you scoundrel, you.... what did I tell you about mentioning perambulators!

Jbrd, glad you're here, I remember you from the over-40s thread. Did you ever take the plunge and leave your job? I'm chuffed to bits for you, too.

Such amazing stories on here! Don't have much to contribute as am pregnant with 5th, probably only dtd once that mth whilst using contraception and bam! Pregnant!

Love hearing all these other stories, things always happen for a reason and holy cow yours was so u would find your little adopted girl. Did u adopt her from birth? Juicy did u have Ivf too? Must be such a hard and long process.

Congrats on all the new positives. Someone said I could self refer myself for a booking in app at the hosp as I can't get a docs app till aug 12th. How do I go about that?

Jbrd- u have the same age gap as me and my sis with my little bro. It was lovely!! Even now we all grown up we see him as the bubba! He is 21 now, still lives at home! And sometimes babysits for me!! It feels strange as I used to babysit him! And there is a closer age gap between him and my son then me and him! It's great! My kids love him! The cool uncle!

How do u make bold the ppl you are referring too? Prob totally obvious just can't work it out? Thanks

JK I googled "community midwives " to get the phone number and just rang them to ask what to do - they took my details over the phone and I got a letter though to tell me appt for booking in :)

Oh, and to bold you put stars so JK but without the spaces!

Hello!

(Tries not to trip as enters room)

3rd baby... gulp! Due approx 10 March.

Looking forward to swapping stories as time goes on.

Met the MW today... hmmm... she was very dis-interested and didn't do any of the things I thought she was going to do today, and it was my GP who insisted I had book in appointment for today so bloods etc could be taken (as suspect I might be anaemic as blood pressure low at mo). None of that happen, she just tried to fob me off with "oh it'll be the heat etc" rather than do tests. When I asked if she was going to do bloods, she said "No" as would do next time.
Anyway have booked to go back in couple of weeks and hoping it will be a better MW doing the appointment as this one just made me want to go "Meh!"

Sorry to hear that bionic - hopefully you get a more competent one soon!

Has anyone started filling in that giant maternity book they give you yet? I started filling it all out extremely enthusiastically but lost any kind of excitement after filling out my name and address for the 8th time and now never want to see said book again haha!

Morning all, and welcome to everyone else with good news.

Boobs I'm really sorry to hear about your loss - I went through similar in May, we waited a month and have surprisingly fallen pg immediately, so hopefully we'll see you in a few months. Give yourself time to heal emotionally, and tell people, that helped me the most x

Has anyone started a stats list? If not I'll try put one together, but I apologise in advance if I miss anyone out.

So sorry to hear that Boobs. We also had a similar experience in May. We didn't wait a month to try again though and thankfully got pregnant straight away with no period in between. I think they tell you to wait a month so they can date it properly. This is so personal though, everyone needs different amounts of time. I hope you heel quickly.

Mama, I think I was told the same about tilting backwards. It hasn't made any difference to me whatsoever though with first baby.

Rockchick, thanks for you scan experience. I just called EPU based on what you said but they said I have to be referred by my doc! Damn it! I don't see any point in making another app as it'll take two weeks to be seen and hopefully the Mw will have called me in by then as I'm 7weeks tomorrow. Worth a shot though.

Jk, look below the message box where you post and there is a heading called 'Emphasis' where you will find how to do this, this, this and this

I would like to know the ages of all you women who managed to get pregnant by seemingly merely whiffing your husbands' dicks.

Fanks.

I'm definitely not one of those Juicy - I'm 32 and it took us 3 years!

I'm not one either and I'm 30

That's more like it, Frank, bloody Instadiffer Central round 'ere. Next thing you know they'll be telling us they had the best sex love-making session of their lives whilst listening to Barry White at the moment of conception

Tbh conception happens to people under a variety of circumstances and I don't feel it's right to make someone feel guilty about being very fertile

I salute you, too, Stones.

At one point during our ttc 'journey' (bloody hate that word - more like arduous odyssey of doom) my husband lost his ability to maintain his erection during my fertile window (think rocking in a corner, dribbling and holding his pathetic limp and bleeding dick). We had to resort to artificial insemination whereby he spaffed in a pot, used a proper medical speculum thing to crank me open, used the bedside lamp to peer up my gaping vadge and deposit said spaff through my cervix via a plastic pipette (all courtesy of a kit I bought from India).

Needless to say none of this heroism paid off and sex became a horribly stressful and weepy effort. Fucking nearly ruined our sex life. Thank goodness we are both slightly bonkers and have a strong relationship.

THE END