The PESH are waddling their way to Christmas & trying not to freak out!

[FrankelInFoal]

The ante-natal fred for BESH graduates.

Recent Grads (aka CRESH)

blonderthanred, boy, born 26th October 2012
FriendofDorothy, boy, born 14th December 2012
QueenRollo, boy, born 21st January 2013
LazyMachine (38) boy EDD 9/2/13 - need an actual arrival date!
CamelKnees (34) EDD 22/04/2013 - need actual arrival date!
HaveALittleFaith (31), Faithlet arrived 14th April 2013
fertilityFTW (34) arrival date needed!
pinkr, (33), girl born 25th August 2013
Jethro (36) boy born 23rd September 2013

Waiting to lay:
Noks - EDD 28/12/2013
Frankel - EDD 4/3/2014
Sinky - EDD 18/3/2014
Ginfox - EDD end April 2014
Kat - EDD needed
Drizz - EDD 7/6/2014
Draf - EDD 19/6/2014
Winks - EDD 29/6/2014

Apologies for any misinformation or omissions!

Went for a wee, found some red blood. Literally just a couple of drops. Had been feeling crampy and sore so naturally I completely over reacted and have made a complete tit out of myself sobbing at work. This is on the same day where I had to come in 4 hours late after the beginnings of a migraine. Amazingly professional, I am. Also, really scared

Oh winks it is scary when you see blood. Remind me how far along you are again? What colour is the blood, is it brown, pale pink, bright red?

Keep an eye on it. If it goes away/doesn't get any heavier then all should be fine. Can you call your local EPU (early pregnancy unit) at the hospital and ask if you can have a reassurance scan?

Ditto all that frank said.

Let us know how you get on.

Bright red, frank, but only a little of it. I'm 8+2 by scan date, or 8+6 by lmp, so it's probably just a tiny breakthrough bleed as period would be due about now. Haven't seen any more yet.

The people I work with are so good. I am actually embarrassed. I was found blubbering, and I got put in a quiet room and given tea and hugs. Then a supervisor drove me home in my car, followed by someone in a work car to get him back. Luckily I only live about 15 minutes away. I am extremely lucky.

Oh and I rang the midwives, who said to keep an eye on it and go to the EPU if the bleeding got worse.

Glad work are look

Argh, fat fingers!

Glad work are look

Honest to god! One more try!

Glad work are looking after you. You definitely did the right thing calling the midwife (I couldn't remember if you'd had your booking in appointment yet). My experience was a reasonable (though probably not actually that much) amount of blood which progressively got less until 2 days later there was no more. A breakthrough bleed sounds very likely.

Just keep telling yourself, you've seen the heartbeat, which is a massive deal. I'm sure that stats say once a heartbeat is present the chance of a loss goes down with every day that passes.

Are you due another scan at 12w?

I had my booking in on Sunday. Last time round I had my booking in on Sunday and found I lost it on Tuesday. So I was unimpressed by my body's performance today.

Next scan is on the 18th December. Feels so far away!

Glad you managed the post third time round :) Thanks for being there hags.

We're always here, even when we should be working .

In light of what happened last time if I were you I'd be tempted to go to the EPU anyway just for reassurance, I'm sure they'd understand.

I had lots of bleeding at about 8 weeks too. Very, very scary and obviously worked out ok, but I remember how terrified I was.

Hang in there. The chances are it will be fine.

I had more bleeding in my last pregnancy which was successful, than i did with either of the missed miscarriages. You have seen the heartbeat so even with a little bleeding, the odds are very much in your favour. However you will go insane waiting another four weeks to find out so try to get a reassurance scan at the EPU. Hope you don't have to wait too long and hope there is no more bleeding.

Sorry Winks, that sounds so stressful! I concur with the eise hags to try and get a reassurance scan. The 18th is too long to wait. But also having seen the heart beat you're statistically doing well!

Oh how scary, winks. Glad work are being so good to you, and ditto all the sensible advice above. Massive hugs.

Thanks everyone. I actually cannot face the EPU unless it's strictly necessary so I may just pay for another private scan next week. I've had no more bleeding and have had nutella on the nice loaf HWCA did in the breadmaker, so am feeling a lot better. Just feel like this is teaching me not to get ahead of myself and look at prams etc!

Winks the combination of "The Fear" and the excitement means we are all on a massive rollercoaster. I remember being utterly convinced that my bleed meant I had lost this pregnancy.

The key is to take it easy now and just monitor things. Oh and eat lots of Nutella, obviously . That reminds me, I have some Cadbury's Philadelphia in the fridge - that's dinner sorted

Oh, and to give you all a larf, I got an email from HWHNN in Malaysia this afternoon - he confessed that he was very tired so had gone to bed early and watched Twilight Breaking Dawn (both parts!) in bed. Am I married to a 14 yo girl?!

How's your evening been Winks?

Oh Winks how frightening. Hope you have had a relaxing evening.

I've also got an ESH passed on hypnobirthing book if anyone would like it.

I've bagged Barbie's book/cd but I'm sure someone will take up your kind offer Jeff. They can be BESH Heirlooms

How is miniJeff doing? And how are you feeling now?

Hope you had a restful night Winks.

Morning all. I had a horrible nights sleep, and feel like crap this morning. On the plus side there's been no more bleeding overnight, so hopefully that was it.

Hope everyone else is feeling ok.

Glad to hear the bleeding has stopped Winks, hopefully it was a minor blip.

Ahem

Love it

I am absolutely starving today. I'm eating healthy high protein food (and a bag of salt and vinegar crisps, admittedly) and drinking lots of water but I could eat my own arm. I've had to ask a colleague to bring a chicken shish to the miserable isolated hole where I'm currently working. If she doesn't hurry up I will eat my computer :)