December 2015 #2

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As the 1st trimester sets in, its all sick-bags, ginger tea and laxatives! All aboard!

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That's nice afloat, must be nice to have it out in the open as well. I'm looking forward to everyone at work knowing but I think I'm going to wait til 12 week scan (IF I ever get a date for it!!!)

thanks withalittlesparkle, I will do - I might call them today or if not definitely tomorrow. Time seems to be going soooo slowly and I think it would help to have booking appointment and scan dates in to count down to! Hope you're looking forward to yours.

OH threebean I'd definitely chase it up if I were you, hope they get it sorted out for you soon.

sparkle, how exciting to have the booking in appt just a few days away! Mine is on Tuesday - so impatient. Nervous again, as my scan was nearly a week ago and I'm paranoid that it'll all have gone wrong since then. Silly, I know. I wish I could have a little scan every morning to tell me there's still al little heartbeat in there!

I don't have a booking in appointment to count down to either. I don't know how far in advance of it they contact you. I'm still only 6+1 though. I just like having dates in my diary! Booked an early scan today for when I'm 8+3. That's still 2 weeks ago! Yup time is going awfully slow!

Sweets/bean I'm glad to be getting a midwife sorted cus I know it's a step close to getting the nhs scan done.

Sweets with regards to waiting for you next scan... Last time I cried at my early scan, by the time I got to my proper scan I was in bits thinking something had gone wrong... First midwife appt when you get to hear the heartbeat on a Doppler? Yup cried then too as I was convinced baby had gone

Ooh do you get to hear the heartbeat at the booking-in appointment, or only when you have the actual scan? (I'm so clueless!) I'm hoping they'll refer me for a scan quite quickly in any case, given my crazy big cyst that was discovered last week. Anyway, glad to know that it's not just me getting nervous!

chops can you call them up to chase about the booking-in appointment? I had to call the hospital re mine, as the letter hadn't come through yet, but the booking office were able to confirm the date. 6+1 is still quite early, though, so maybe they won't make the appointment for a little while longer. The waiting is such a pain, isn't it?!

I made my booking in appt myself by calling my gp clinic? I've not seen anyone else so wouldn't have got a letter from anyone as no one knows I'm pregnant lol

ARGH - just called the hospital maternity unit as the GP receptionist said I had been referred to their midwife team - the hospital haven't had any referral! They told me to call the GP...feel like I will be going round in circles on this for some time. It's driving me mad!

At an nhs scan you're likely only to see the heartbeat, pretty sure then it's 16 weeks you see your midwife again at which point she'll probably check the heartbeat (but I could be wrong)

Take it easy Jodiesauras if you can. I'm not feeling great today either and just cancelled on seeing friend, which sucks because I'm becoming a hermit (with nausea/sickness).

I've plumped for UCH for booking in appointment, but have now heard bad things. Does anyone know if, once you're referred to a hospital, whether you can switch to another? Friend has mightily vouched for Royal Free (even though lots of dodgy reviews on here) and I'm also thinking of Whittington.

Oh no threebean, how infuriating!!! Does the maternity unit allow you to self-refer? Maybe that would be a bit quicker?

bluesky I'm sure you can switch if you want to. People must do it quite often, either because they don't like the first hospital or (commonly) because they move to a new town. I don't have experience of moving hospitals myself, though.

Sweets not sure, I will try once more with the GPs when I finish work and if there's no joy there I will call the hospital back and ask if I can self refer.

bluesky I'm sure you can switch if you like, maybe have your booking appointment first then move after, so you don't have to start that whole process again.

Hi
I've been lurking for a while now, but now that some symptoms are starting to kick in, it's feeling more real, so hope it's okay to join. I'm 6+6 today and due on 16 December with my first.

I guess I have all the same worries as everyone about mc and trisomies etc. I have booked a Harmony scan at 10+2, and we had wanted to wait until the results of that before telling everyone, but my mum is now coming up for my birthday at exactly 10 weeks, so we'll need to tell her (and therefore the inlaws too) before the scan which freaks me out. We've had friends who've had blighted ovum and others who've mc'd, so I'm just really paranoid about anyone knowing until we've heard a heartbeat, but DH is putting is foot down on spending more money on an early scan!

Nausea and constipation is kicking in, but thankfully not actually been sick at all yet. However my emotions have gone haywire - cried in the vets reception for no reason this morning which was really embarrassing!

Anyway, sorry, I'm garbling, will stop now, but look forward to hopefully getting to know you all over the next 7-8 months.

Hey, thanks Sweets27 and ThreeBeanRap - yeah, I'll have booking appt and that way I can at least visit and see what I think of the place. Doc just called to confirm she's referring today - woo! Loving MN already, you're all fab

Welcome hummingbird! It's so exciting when it starts to feel real - at 6+6 you've come quite far already, fingers tightly crossed for the scan in a few weeks' time.

bluesky I have my booking appointment there in two weeks. I hope it goes well for you! I don't intend to deliver there though. The website says that women working close by commonly go for ante natal care there for convenience and birth closer to home, so I don't think switching would be a problem.

Thanks Sweets. Also now reading about booking appointments... I saw my GP two weeks ago who did a referral letter to West Middlesex Hosp, but I haven't heard anything yet - is that normal or do you think I should follow it up?

Welcome to the newbies.

I've still not got a date for my scan. Booking in apt is next Friday when I'll be 9+6. It's taking so long to arrive!!!! The most annoying thing is there are two men in my dept who's wifes are about 19 weeks who I could ask but then they would know but I want to keep it secret till I know everything is ok.

So far I have lost almost 2kg. Although some of that is prob holiday weight.
Really struggling to stay awake past 8pm.

Hello ladies. Mind if I join you?

I'm not 5w+2 I think but as I've been an IVF, controlled cycle my last AF was middle of February!!!

I work out my due date at 27 Dec but I've not been to tell the GP yet as I'm waiting for the scan from the IVF clinic. I'm due for a 7 week scan on 11 May. Should I still be telling the GP?

In the meantime, nauseated, tired, sore boobs, heartburn, weird sleep patterns, constipation - lots of symptoms really early as they are magnified by the IVF drugs but I'm glad as the more awful I feel, the more re-assured I feel that I'm still pregnant!

Fingers crossed we're all still on here end of June!

ED xx

Hello! Talking of booking in appointments I am conscious haven't Notified hospital or GP as its a local midwife service that my GP told me to ring instead of them? Then apparently I book the scan through them afterwards? Sounds like it's different from town to town. Worried I've missed something that I should have done but hopefully not! I'm tired today. And STILL worried it's all going wrong but clinging onto early scan not being that far away. I'm 6 + 6 today. Love to all! X

sweets my booking in appointment is next Tuesday as well! And I'm totally with you on wishing I could just have a scan every week to check things are still going ok. I think after my mmc I've lost all faith in my body being able to do what its' supposed to...

And midwives don't check for a heartbeat with the Doppler until you're at least 16 weeks, in some areas apparently only from 20 weeks.

Welcome to the newbies!

Welcome Edinburgh and hummingbird Hummingbird I wouldn't be too concerned that you haven't had your booking in appointment letter through yet. Personally I would wait until the end of this week before chasing.

ThreeBean. Can you self refer? My booking in isn't until May 23rd which is approximately 5 centuries away by my reckoning. Just got a letter in the post from Chelsea&Westminster and some god awful leaflet. (Have I regalled you with a rant about my hatred for NHS leaflets yet? ) I am very fortunate to have been able to save in my "baby" account, so I have booked an early scan for when I am 7+1. Only one more week to go! (that's about half a century)

I had to take a sample to the GP today and I have to phone for the results tomorrow so they obviously don't believe I'm pg!! I presume I will get an appointment with the midwife for my booking in after that. I didn't have any of this with DD, I just self-referred and saw the midwife at 8 weeks. I have booked an early scan for 13th May when I'll be 8 weeks but it feels so far away!

I'm with you all on the exhaustion, I keep falling asleep on the sofa before 9 clock!

Flor, ha, 5 centuries sounds about right. I will be 12 weeks on 19th May so am desperate to get it all sorted by then which is looking increasingly unlikely!!

I'm going to see if I can self refer tomorrow, otherwise I'm going to march down to the hospital and refuse to leave until they write something in my diary.