May 2016 babies - thread 2!

[GrouchyKiwi]

First trimester worries and joys. Test taking, morning sickness, midwife appointments and scans. It's all happening.

Can't believe we filled up a thread already. (I'll get this deleted if someone's already created a second thread, but I didn't see one!

I didn't know there was a spiced one. I have used Ribena in the past to do a non-alcoholic mulled wine type thing. I assume it would be similar to that. I may have to get some (assuming it has made it to the wild north).

I rang the midwife today about my duplicated appointment and as she covers one hospital and the hospital I've chosen (from the choices she gave me) isn't under her jurisdiction, I need to have a booking in appointment there as well. They're the ones who give me my notes. That's next week.

I have my 12 week scan date as well - November 10th.

Amazing news about your scan southy it must be such a relief to have an explanation for the bleeding.

I've booked a private scan for Sunday. I'll be 11+1 so hopefully will be able to see things! We've got a family gathering 2 days before the NHS scan so hopefully with the private scan we'll be able to make the announcements then, rather than having to keep quiet until the NHS one.

It's very quiet on here today! What's everyone up to? We are just at play cafe and DS is being a grump. Going to the shop on way home to see if I can find something I fancy eating!

I have been at work. We have a new student who started with us three weeks ago and has never done any lab work before so I am busy teaching him the basics while running my experiments and trying to get his project set up. Just about to head off to take the dog to the vets again now. My life is a never ending whirl of excitement.

Hi all, had a mad morning so resulted in leaving house with 5 mins to catch my train,its normally a 10 min walk. I raced like a lunatic and made my train but was pressed heavily against the doors, standing for 20 mins, basically sweating and panting from racing like a lunatic.

Keep telling myself- no more rushing! No more stress! Must calm down.... Scared the stress of it all might have affected baby, unlikely as I know that is...have a scan on Sat so hoping all ok!!

I didn't realise there was a spiced ribena either, I'll be keeping an eye out for that, will be nice warm at christmas :)

Good that you got to speak to your midwife nicky how many weeks will you be at your 12 week scan?

How exciting frozen you'll get to see so much, I'm still debating booking another private scan before my 12 week but as I've already had 3 now I feel like I should keep it Til about 16 weeks and have it as a Christmas present.

bish I was late for work as felt so rough then had to go home and work from home as felt terrible. I didn't start my Job long ago and I think they all think I'm a very Ill person.... I feel really bad. I'm havjng casserole for dinner.

Hope your vet appointment goes well brenna then you deserve to put your feet up!

How are you doing today odog? Hope ds is feeling a bit better after this mornings events. How did your midwife appointment go?

Sorry peas your message appeared after Id posted, that sounds like my morning, however I gave up with rushing after ten mins as knew I'd never make it to work on time! Another scan exciting, how many weeks will you be on sat?

Hello!

I’m 8+4, due May 17th - I’m 31, just got married in July, first baby!

I’ve been having constant unexplained spotting/bleeding since I conceived pretty much, and have found it all very stressful. I’m having my third scan tomorrow morning after a bigger bleed at the weekend, hoping everything is still ok! I saw a heartbeat at 5w5d and again a week later. My anxiety has been exacerbated by this pretty badly and I’ve asked to be referred to the mental health team of midwives hoping they can give me some coping strategies! I’m also worried I guess because I had a termination 10 years ago, and that time round I had crippling morning sickness from a few days after conception until I came round from the procedure – I was bedridden for the 6 weeks or so I was pregnant, but this time round I’ve had no sickness, no aversions, just a few very mild waves that feel like car sickness, and no really bad symptoms (except for all the spotting/bleeding) except a bit of fatigue and my boobs being hate-filled balls of pain (on and off). Oh and spots, hooray.

I’m trying to be happy and positive and look forward instead of worrying so I thought I’d sign up (have been a bit of a lurker in the past) ?

Hi South no worries thanks. I'll be 9 weeks! But so annoyed at allowing myself to rush to such a crazy degree. Would have missed train/got to work 15 mins late but other's were late today anyway so big deal?!! I really need to take a chill pill! How are you doing?

Hi Vicky. Glad you are being seen for scan and by midwives, can only help. Its a worrying time isn't it?! But we can only have faith that all is ok and be as happy and clam as possible (said from stress-head herself here!) until we know otherwise.

Welcome vicky sorry to hear you've also been having a tough time, you sound just like me. I'm trying to listen to my hypnotherapy cd at bedtime to ease my anxiety, so I know what you mean. Every pregnancy is different too so don't worry about your sickness, it may just start a bit later, or you may be lucky enough to avoid it. Totally with you on the spots!! Glad you joined us. I hope your scan goes well tomorrow x

I definitely need a chill pill too peas :) you'd think I'd be calmer after my scan yesterday but I feel the opposite, stupid isn't it. My boobs seem to be going through another stage of extreme pain, I'm struggling with tiredness and nausea too. Yes no more rushing for you, 15minutes late isn't late (I was an hour late today ) and people will understand. you'll get to see a little baby bean on Saturday :) what time is your appointment and is it a private one?

Hello, checking in again. Have tried to catch up but I've missed so much! Hello to everyone who has joined since I last posted, hugs to those of you who need them, and high fives to those of you celebrating good news.

I've been very poorly for the last few weeks and ended up in hospital with pretty bad dehydration earlier this week. On cyclizine but it isn't doing much so tried metroclopramide (?) and it knocked me out for days. Went back to the dr and was put in cyclizine, then collapsed in front of dd that night and had to go to hospital. The IV fluid was amazing though and I felt so much better yesterday. By the evening it had worn off though and I was back to feeling terrible again.
I have a scan booked for Monday though - the doctors think it may be twins, which is utterly terrifying! My friend has twins and they are gorgeous...but two babies!!!

As a result if the sickness though we've had to tell pretty much everybody. We haven't put it on Facebook or anything but we're just telling people as we see them now so all of family knows now and all of our close friends. Dd knows too, which is very sweet. She is incredibly excited, though upset about the sickness.

Fingers crossed it'll ease in the next couple of weeks.

Southy I'll be 12 weeks exactly on my 12 week scan, according to my current dates. I wanted to have it the back end of the week before but they don't have a clinic on the Friday, which is the earliest they can do the nuchal scan. I wanted it then as my sister is due to give birth to DD 2 on the 8th and I thought announcing it would tie in nicely.

We've had pre-school jabs here today for DD followed by my booking appointment with the midwife. Have a private scan booked for next week when I will be 8 weeks. Nausea is still pretty grim in the afternoons & it's such a challenge to cook DD's tea. Is anybody planning on having the Harmony test or similar??
Must look into spiced Ribena

Oh 99 that sounds horrific lots of for you, did you suffer with MS with your dd?

That's great timing nicky I'm going to see if ny mw can bring mine forward for me. How nice to have double good news in your family too :)

Not long to wait for your scan pisforpeter, lots of scans happening here now it's all getting very real. Is the harmony test the blood test you get following the 12 week scan on the nhs? If it is I said to my mw that I would have it as its only bloods, I can't remember what it tests for but I was told it's a new one?

99 wow, that sounds like you've had a really tough time. And twins?! That's going to be pretty crazy to get your head round! Exciting times ahead

I've had my first day of feeling properly rough today, I haven't actually been sick but the nausea has been horrible. I had to leave work early and slept for an hour when I got home. I think I need to toughen up a bit if I'm going to make it through the next several weeks!

That sounds horrible 99 I hope it starts to ease soon.

Welcome Vicky. Try not to worry too much. Every pregnancy is different and 10 years will have changed your body by quite a bit.

I don't think you need to toughen up Mollie. This is the stage where you need a lot of rest and between weeks 6 and 9 I was sleeping an extra 3 or 4 hours from my normal most days. I think if you roll with it, spoil yourself and get plenty of rest you are going to feel a lot better than if you drive yourself into the ground trying to fight it. Make your OH spoil you rotten, you deserve it.

The vets visit was pretty tough. Sara had her very serious face on and said what I was thinking that it is really not good that he is struggling this early into the winter when it is not even properly cold yet. His hips were pretty bad today as was his front elbow. As a result we are weaning him off his carprieve (non-steroidal anti inflammatory) over the weekend and on Tuesday he is going on Prednoleucotropin, a steroidal anti-inflammatory. This is the last option out there and a lot of dogs don't tolerate it as it is very harsh on the guts. Thankfully Mr B's guts have been well tested over the years and appear to be made of steel, so there is still a chance, but even Sara is not holding out much hope for him seeing another summer. I nearly blubbed in Tesco getting milk on the way home and am now home with scrambled eggs, mushrooms and courgette and I think I am going to go snuggle in bed with my dog, a book, midget gems and a huge vat of hot ribena. Or maybe I should push the boat out and have hot chocolate.

Wow so many posts so quickly. Sorry if I don't name check/forget anyone.

Sorry to those suffering with sickness especially you 99. It sound awful but twins would be exciting. Exhausting but exciting!

Welcome vicky. Sorry you have had such a tough time but it sounds like you are getting the right help. It's so important to make sure you head is in the right place too.

Incredibly DS is fine thanks southy. His face and eyes were so red and swollen but he had a nap and some piriton and woke up like nothing happened and it had almost disappeared by the time he went to bed. Gave me a scare though seeing him face down in a load of stinging nettles. I think we'll go to the beach tomorrow as its meant to be nice again , seems less dangerous now somehow!

Midwife appt was fine. Form filling really and she handily weighed DS for me while she was here as I needed to check his weight for my mums car seat and I haven't had him weighed for 6 months

Oh, I am not getting the Harmony or other tests. OH is a strict Catholic and would not cope with a termination if the baby had Downs. Additionally we both have volunteered over most of our lives with people with special needs, in my case a large proportion had Downs, and I have loved so many of them. I wouldn't chose to terminate if my baby did have Downs. I would probably want to if we found the baby had something where they were going to be born only to die quickly and in a lot of pain, but I think even then DH just couldn't. So I will just have to pray that everything is ok or that if it isn't we are looking at something like Downs where the baby has a good chance of not suffering.

ODog I missed that about your DS. Ouchy. I hope he recovers quickly.

I'm thinking about the harmony test. My health insurance doesn't cover any of the tests as I am under 35 (and they are not offered public here) so I need to check out the relative costs.

thanks brenna. When you are one and really want to pick that blackberry off a bush, not much will stop you!

That's a really interesting take on not having the downs tests etc. I'm not sure what I would do but I think I would like to know even if I wasn't going to terminate so I could be prepared. Its good that you both know where you stand with it. DH and I have no idea. We discussed it briefly when I was pg with DS but I don't think we would know until we had to decide.

I think you have to pay for the harmony test don't you? We will just get the standard tests at the 12 week scan, just to know where we stand either way really.
Sorry to hear your so ill 99, I know so many people who have had HG it must be more common than people think. Can't believe they suggested its twins!
Sorry about your dog as well Brenna, my cat is 20 and its so sad to see pets getting old x.

Welcome, Vicky. Sorry you're having a tough time, hope things settle for you.

Wow, 99. That sounds rough! And maybe twins!

Accidentally told DD1 I'm pregnant today. She picked it up immediately and has decided we're having twins. Hopefully she won't tell too many people about it!