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June 2015 - thread 2 -- morning sickness/sore boobs and early scans a plenty! [title edited by HQ]

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jazzyjenbo · 20/10/2014 21:26

Welcome aboard the June 2015 bus... Moving towards 12 week scans

Stats docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/tidWbZTzcxGNRcAB0lGlwkA/htmlview?pli=1

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Phryn · 30/10/2014 20:47

Thanks MrsE. The crowborough place is 26 miles away and about a 40min drive in no traffic. The hospital is 3.5 miles away and about a 10 - 15 min journey. My gut says the hospital is probably the better option (or plan a home birth maybe). Think I'll just see how I go especially with potential hypermobility complications!

purplebiro · 30/10/2014 20:58

Hello! Hoping to be allowed on board the bus after dating scan this afternoon put us at 9+1 - due date 3rd June - not the 13-14 weeks we thought! Pretty sure DP is secretly relieved to have those few extra weeks ;)

Scan all healthy as far as can be determined at this stage. Saw MW afterwards who tells me I am anaemic (letter was on the doorstep saying the same when I got home), which would make sense of the extreme exhaustion, weakness etc so that's quite nice to have an answer for, even if she did give me pretty dire warnings about the pukey/constipation consequences of the iron...

MW was very VERY VERY nice and gentle with me ("is that OK? Are you sure? Really, can I hep with anything at all?"), which was I thought was a bit weird until she said at the end "oh and I've booked you in to see the consultant next week because you're on the sertraline". (anti depressants, for those that don't know - mild - and I am on the lowest dose). Was very tempted to say "don't worry love, if I'm going to go mental on you you'll be in no doubt whatsoever what is happening" but didn't want to be mean, since she was obviously so well intentioned. I do hope I'm not going to be treated with kid gloves through this whole thing - I'm not used to it: normally with mental health stuff you have to be attempting to insert furniture into yourself before medical staff treat you as anything other than a slightly irritating puzzle.

sparkle17 · 30/10/2014 21:03

Welcome purple. Glad your scan went well.

detective funny you said 6+3 as that is exactly where i am and had my first vomit this morning. Hopefully wont get too bad. It's looking better for you this time round
Perhaps the meds are working for you

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purplebiro · 30/10/2014 21:11

Thanks. It's funny - because we had never had the home tests we did reconfirmed by GP or MW and because we were very very unclear on how far along I was (very very irregular periods/ovulation) it suddenly feels much much more real now! In a good way!

GuybrushThreepwoodMP · 30/10/2014 21:23

Can I just give a reminder to everyone to do pelvic floor exercises?
I don't know if they work or not but I did them religiously in my last pregnancy and ended up with a very fast pushing stage (15 minutes) with no tearing or stitches and a pelvic floor which was back to normal strength within a couple of days. Possibly just luck but I'm doing my exercises again just in case! Can't do any harm, right?

sparkle17 · 30/10/2014 21:30

Great tip guy will start now haha

Gr33dyeggs · 30/10/2014 21:34

Interestingly guybrush, I did pelvic floor with my first but struggled pushing him out (ended up emergency transfer from home birth attempt) and the MW commented that the exercises may have contributed.

Gr33dyeggs · 30/10/2014 21:36

I'll still do them though! Don't want to have to use TENA until I'm older!

Chookford · 30/10/2014 21:36

welcome and congrats hexy and purple

mrsK glad to hear the spotting has stopped, will keep everything crossed that it remains that way.

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GuybrushThreepwoodMP · 30/10/2014 22:06

Collective SQUEEZE...

...and release.

MrsKrios · 30/10/2014 22:14

In quite a lot of pain tonight. Really severe cramps. I'm having no bleeding though and they ruled out ectopic via scan last week so I'm reluctant to go into the hospital. Really is quite sore though, worse than it's been before.

ots · 30/10/2014 22:24

Sorry to hear you're in pain Mrs K. Maybe ring the epu in the morning if the pains carry on. Though if your scan is booked for early in the morning they may just advise you to watch and wait.

Joining in the collective 'squeeze' Halloween Grin

Its my birthday tomorrow. My last few hours of being 26. 27 sounds SO much older (sorry I know loads of you are older than me Halloween Blush)

ots · 30/10/2014 22:24

Sorry Mrs k, I meant if your scan is early next week!

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Tranquilitybaby · 30/10/2014 23:01

MrsK if you're that much pain, get yourself to A&E xx

Tranquilitybaby · 30/10/2014 23:01

I had my scan this morning and little 6 week bean is in the right place thankfully. With a heartbeat too, phew x

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AnythingNotEverything · 30/10/2014 23:17

Ooh. I learnt something about pelvic floor exercises. Apparently rather than squeezing like you're holding in a wee, you're meant to squeeze like you're holding in a fart. Gets a deeper squeeze or something.

Just thought I'd pop in with that.

Well done for good scans and birthdays. Sorry you're in so much pain MrsK. I also wonder if you should go to a&e or at least speak with EPU in the morning.

BingoBonkers · 30/10/2014 23:26

Thinking of you MrsK. If severe pain and cramping I would get to A&E.

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Glenpip77 · 31/10/2014 06:52

Hope you are feeling better this morning mrsk xx

Chookford · 31/10/2014 06:58

mrsK thinking of you today, I hope your cramps have eased off

ots happy birthday!! Are you doing anything special today? Or just celebrating Halloween? Halloween Grin.

tranquility congrats on the scan lovely news!

Happy Friday everyone!

Bazza2 · 31/10/2014 07:21

Happy birthday ots!

Hope things are ok mrsK. Hopefully epu can help you.

And great news tranquility!

Thank goodness nobody can see me SQUEEEEEEZING on the bus.

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