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March 2014 - Thread 2 because we all love a good natter!

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Souredstones · 19/07/2013 08:38

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Thread 2 for all us lovely chatterboxes! Grin

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TWinklyLittleStar · 29/07/2013 12:36

Just to update - i had a private scan this morning. No embryo developed. End of the road for me. Best of luck everyone xx

PramelaAndherson · 29/07/2013 12:38

Well done on the scan, Soured, I really hope your bleeding dries up. Bloody awful. My thoughts are with everyone else being scanned today.

April, just take the midwife pills.

Coolhand, yep, that is most certainly an unjustified, paranoid wobble. We are all having them, though, so keep talking to us and we can dole out the appropriate slaps with wet fish.

I've just come back from an interview for voluntary work at my local hospice and it is as I feared: they're going to make me work in the charity shop Old people wittering shit all day is not a thought I relish. Plus those shops stink. I'm not very gracious, am I? As long as they don't expect me to iron owt...I don't even do my own ironing.

Beccadugs · 29/07/2013 12:41

Oh twinkly I'm so sorry, how awful for you.

PramelaAndherson · 29/07/2013 12:44

Oh, Twinkly, how awful, I am so sorry. I have been there and it's devastating. I hope you find peace very soon xx

April13 · 29/07/2013 12:46

sorry Twinkly

FoxMulder · 29/07/2013 13:02

Oh no, Twinkly, I'm so sorry to hear that.

LyraSilvertongue · 29/07/2013 13:19

So sorry to hear that, Twinkly Sad

JBrd · 29/07/2013 13:22

So sorry, Twinkly Sad

Souredstoneshasasouredpebble · 29/07/2013 13:24

So sorry to hear your news twinkly

faithfulandtruthful · 29/07/2013 13:28

April if I were you I would just take the ones your MW gave you (as long as they contain Folic and vit D) especially if the tesco ones are making you feel ill. Make sure you eat a healthy balanced diet (within MS limits!) and you'll be fine.

F&T

Souredstoneshasasouredpebble · 29/07/2013 13:29

totalshock I got referred through the walk in centre

JBrd · 29/07/2013 13:36

Really happy for your good scan news, soured, what a relief! And also to everyone else who had good scans today, sorry, just reading to catch up at work, so can't spend too much time on it!

Pram I'm also a bit Hmm about your consultant's plan to induce you at 38 weeks... Unless there is 'proper' reason, why would they resort to such drastic intervention?! Sorry for being blunt, but this sounds like a 'covering our arse back' exercise...I would really challenge them on that - but you still have lots of time. Maybe find some other IVFers, who've gone through this before. But of all the people I know who've had IVF, no one was induced, they were all natural births. As someone had said, the risk that more interventions are necessary after induction is significantly higher. Just remember - if you don't want to be induced, they can't do it.

6+5 today, rosy, you're not the only early one! I have a consultant appointment on Wednesday, then my booking apt on Thursday. Still no plans for an early scan... Will see if the consultant or the midwife agree to refer me. If they won't, I'll have to think again if I want to pay for one. But I think that it's still too early, wouldn't want it before at least 8 weeks anyway.

I told my boss today that I'm pg. With my history of mc and all the medical appointments coming up, I thought it'd be better to gove her the heads up. She's pg herself, so at least I don't have to explain a lot. Phew!

FoxMulder · 29/07/2013 13:46

I'm an early one too JBRD and rosy. I'm 6+4 if I count from LMP or 6+1 if I count from 2 weeks before ov. I don't know which to use. I've got my booking appointment on Weds and I'm hoping I get an early scan because my LMP wasn't really a period atall but an early mc. I won't believe it until I see it.

rosyryan · 29/07/2013 13:48

Oh no Twinkly :( After such a journey to get here. I am so very very sorry for what you are going through.

PramelaAndherson · 29/07/2013 15:16

Thanks for your input, everyone, re induction. JBrd, I think you're ruddy-well spot-on there. No way am I having interventions just because I paid for this baby. It's preposterous.

MTBMummy · 29/07/2013 15:40

Has anyone head similar with VBAC?

I'm torn between VBAC and Elec CS - I had an EMCS with DD1, the only thing stopping me from going for Elec CS (would be so nice to book a date in and not have to wait around for 2 weeks while I go over due) is that they insist on not doing the CS after 38 weeks - I'm kind of keen on letting bean have enough growing time as possible.

HamwidgeAlive · 29/07/2013 15:52

Twinkly I'm so sorry :(

MTB I'm not sure about VBAC. I'm assuming you'll have to chat to the consultant at some point? I know lots of people who have and also people who have gone down the ELCS route. I know people say their recovery was easier after the elective.

I have to see a consultant at some point to see whether I'm "allowed" to give birth at the mw led unit again. I had a 3rd degree tear so the mw thinks there might be a question mark over it.

LyraSilvertongue · 29/07/2013 16:02

MTB, I'm probably going for an elective after a very difficult VBAC (see further up thread). But I don't want it done early either. I think their reasoning is that they have much more control if you haven't already gone into labour when it happens. But I'm going to try to insist on it being as close as possible to my due date. My two DSs were both late so I think an early labour with this one is unlikely.

(btw I mistyped 'control' and my iPhone tried to autocorrect it to 'vinyl troll'. Wtf!?Grin)

TotalShock · 29/07/2013 16:05

So sorry twinkly, thinking of you

Thanks soured

MTBMummy · 29/07/2013 16:08

Twinkly - so sorry, I think it's fair to say - that everyone's thoughts are with you. It's so exciting adding the new names to the stats thread, but heart breaking for each one I have to remove.

MTBMummy · 29/07/2013 16:12

Lyra - Love vinyl troll Grin

I'm hoping that I'll get a chance to meet the consultant, I'm going to a different hospital to the ones most of the local mums use (JR in Oxford, rather than RBH in Reading) and they seemed a lot less dictatorial when I had DD so I'm hoping they'll let me get closer to my due date.

ShamelessInTheCountry · 29/07/2013 16:19

Hello, can I join? Is this a thread for people due to pop next March?

I'm 8 and a half wks, first day of last period was June 1st so easy to calculate! Took us ages and 2 rounds of low dose clomid but there's def something in there as I was lucky enough to be offered an 8 wk scan and there was a tiny blob with its heart beating away!

waiting for booking appt and 12 wk scan date now so I can feel more confident to tell people, have told a few close friends and family this last week. No side effects except peeing tons, sore and bigger boobs and tiredness the last week, hoping I've got away with nausea!!

Twinkly - so sad to read your news, huge best of luck for next time, my friend miscarried at 8 weeks after a first successful pregnancy but she is now pregnant, it happened v soon after the mc, they say that's when you're most fertile...
Xxx

LittleMachine · 29/07/2013 16:23

So sorry to hear your sad news Twinkly. Take care xxx

PiratesMam · 29/07/2013 16:24

So sorry twinkly. Really sad. Sad

I am lying in bed with a sick bucket after terrible nights sleep. My lovely mum is downstairs looking after my 2 DCs!! V rough today. Although miso soup helping the sickness now!

MTBMummy · 29/07/2013 16:26

Welcome Shameless and congrats

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