Due in September 2007 - anyone else out there? What happens next?

[AnguaVonUberwald]

OK, so I have the positive pregnancy testS! - we have told one person, are agonising about who else to tell when, we have bought two books on pregnancy.

But what happens next? Do I just phone the doctor tommorow to make an appointment, should I wait a couple of weeks? Then what happens?

Total newbie to this, no idea what I am doing at all!

hi laksa and congratulations.

With my first i went to see my gp but they don't really do anything.

Home tests are so reliable they will probably just congratulate you and send you to reception to make a booking appointment with the midwife.

You usually see the midwife around 7/8 weeks so it can seem a long wait - which is why we're all here chatting lol!!

In the mean time you should be taking a folic acid supplement and there is a list of things you shouldn't eat!!

I'm obviously assuming that you don't know this so apologies if you do.

This is my 3rd pregnancy and i have i ds who's 2.

thanks chattyhan, any advice is appreciated, esp since haven't got any pregnancy books yet(fingers are itching to order over amazon this min). I've just had to tell my family as we were all planning to go to Singapore and Bali for christmas (mum is singaporean) and they were in the process of booking flights. I feel like I've jinxed the pregnancy as its too early to let ppl know, but I wouldn't have been up to taking an 11 week old baby on a 13 hour flight

Edie, so pleased the news was good.

Flossam, I really hope you are feeling better.

Thanks all of you for your positive comments. The cramping and bleeding have completly stopped today, so I am feeling cautiously a bit more optimistic. I still have all my pregnancy symptoms, but am worried that I have had a missed Miscarriage and just don't know.

I have had some very good posts about EPUs and everything, I tried ringing around the local hospitals but couldn't find one open on a saturday, turns out there was one on the other side of London, but I didn't find out in time.

I really don't know what to do now. The consensus seems to be that 7 + 3 is really too early for a reliable scan result and to just wait. On the other hand I have had my booking appointment and its for when I am 13 weeks!!

I don't want to get too stressed about early scans that aren't going to tell me anything, on the other hand I really want to know everything is ok in there.

On the positive side. No more bleeding and the symptoms are all still around. So heres hoping.

No, 7 and 3 shouldn't be too early for a scan - it may not be the final answer, but an EPU would get you back (usually seems to be in a weeks time) for a repeat scan. Thats where I am up to now. The week waiting is bloody hell but at least I know that on Friday I will have a pretty much definative answer whether this pregnancy is viable. One week wait is definately preferential to 5/6 week wait IMO.

Would the EPU that was open yesterday be open again today? Or perhaps wait until tomorrow. You are right, it is good that the bleeding has stopped. Would still be nice to know what caused it though?

A scan at 7+ will tell you whether the pg is viable although as others have said they will want to repeat this in a week's time as this is protocol. At around 7 weeks you should see a sac, a yolk and hopefully a heartbeat although even then can sometimes be too early.

Go get scanned.

Agua I had some spottng last week and gp sent me for early scan, even though i was only 5 plus 6. They saw a little gestationl san on the scan which was the right size for dates....I do have to go back in 2 weeks for another one but it was very reassuring to have last one done..........I think 13 weeks is very long to wait for you.

Hi all. I have very bad MS at the moment(feeling a little sorry for myself). It kicked in about 4 days ago(Am now 6+1). Trying best to cope with it but poor ds is 24 months and very active..........and sudden movements make me sick so ye could imagine that is nearly all the time with a toddler!!!!
Dreading work tomorrow as still trying to keep this to myself for the moment , at least until repeat scan fri week!
However I am happy to feel sick aswell as i know it's a good sign.....just rambling on now.............

Hi all and welcome laksa

So glad tge bleeding and pains have stopped, angua but i gree with all those who suggest going for an early scan, it will let you know whats happening and hopefully reassure you.

Eddie - great news about your scan and blood results - hope the next scan is equally good news .

Tod I know exactly how you feel, i have ms and my ds is 23mths and just dosent understand 0- lets sit down quietly for a minute - hes asleep at the mo, long may the afternoon nap continue!! Ive got work tomorrow too, and as I teach 10 year olds i dont think they will be up for quietly sitting either!!

Hope everyone else is ok. These first few weeks really drag dont they - hopefully it will go quciker once midwife appoints etc start happening. Oh well, shouldnt wish my life away!

Have a good rest of your sunday

Hello everyone
Can I join in? I have just found out I am pregnant which is a nice honeymoon present as I only got married on 29th Dec. 1st baby so no idea what to expect and despite the positive test it all still just feels like my AF is coming, so not very real. Having read the posts I gather this is not too uncommon. I will only by 4 wks and 1 day as I did the test straight away as am never late. About me
Name: Tina
Live: West London
Age:35
No children

All very exciting and great to be here with newbies and other experienced mum's

Just wanted to wish everyone on here good luck for sept 07! I was on the sept 06 thread and the year went very quickly.

Just to say that my daughter is now 4mths and this week she had learned to roll and giggled for the first time when I put some bath bubbles on my nose. So very cute.

For those of you expecting their first,it just gets better and better. I also have a toddler and being a mum is soooooo hard but just amazing too! Good luck x

Hi everyone, welcome to the new ladies to the thread. No rush Fio Fio, the midwife will be arranging to see you at either about 8 weeks or about 12 weeks depending on their systems.

I have now been sick for the first time this morning (5+5 weeks) and am feeling strangely pleased about it. I remember feeling like this after I was first sick in my first pregnancy. That feeling didn't last very long. I suppose it is because it makes is more official in my mind.

Hey all! Congratulations on the good news from the scan Edie - made me cry at my desk -am so bloody hormonal! Anyway am really pleased for you.
Amd congrats to you too TinaLC is lovely news, welcome to the sept thread x

I have been an absolute cow all weekend to poor DP. Went to doctor on fri and she was a bit unhelpful about the cramps - said words to effect of 'Oh well it's just a bunch of cells right now so don't get too attached and you can always have another one' I know (thanks to this site, bless you all) that cramps aren't necessarily anything to worry about, but no one (even DP)seems to understand that I don't WANT another one, I want THIS one. It may be only the size of a baked bean, but he/she already has a nickname and I can imagine what will be like, and clearly is going to be best baby in entire world, and am so looking forward to seeing! And the idea of 'just getting another one' seems horrid. Am I being stupid? Am aware am very irrational at moment - spent much of weekend crying over various incredibly important sad things (like kittens with sad faces etc) and being mean whenever I didn't get my own way. Blimey.

Hello to the lovely new ladies, congrats!

I also had ms for the first time yesterday, poor dh heard me at it in the bathroom and came in trying to comfort me... I asked him to leave though - it's not exactly the kind of thing you want an audience for! Oh well - at least the thought was there!

Chewing on a piece of cold toast at the moment wondering if it's going to taste as bad on the way up if I don't manage to keep it down...

Am 6 weeks today, halfway to scan hopefully (must see about getting that booked today!)

homemama, if you're still reading this thread I just wanted to say thanks for the beautiful reminder of what is hopefully to come for all of us too!

EllieG

Thanks for crying about my good news-boy are you emotional!! Sorry to hear about your unsympathetic GP, of course you are attached to this baby and don't want a different one. Yes cramps are so normal, I was convinced I had mc as I thought mine were so painful, but obviously not.

At the moment I am being very sick-this morning my brekkie came back up (tmi)

Oh well I keep hanging on to the thought that it's a good sign...

xxxx

Hi guys, yes fio, the tv was crap...but its the alcohol I blame, oh and the husband! Just wish I'd lost that stone I was planning to and got fit before getting pregnant...My sister leant me a book called 'how to be a yummy mummy' (not one I would have chosen myself) and the first chapter goes on about how you should get fit and healthy before getting pregnant because you need strong legs to carry a baby, strong back etc. I am in just about the worst shape I've ever been in so this just made me feel depressed and ready for a horrible time for the rest of the 9 months

Oh and I bought my first pregnancy mag yesterday...it was a toss up between two but in the end I chose the one without the title on the front which said 'having a child almost cost me my life.' Are they trying to put us off??

Anyway just thought I'd pop back to say a quick hi, and offer sympathy to all with MS right now, and I've ended up writing an essay!

xx

hijack. just popping on to say congrats all. i was due in sept 03 and i can 't believe he'll be four when you guys are experiencing the joys of baby vomit.(as i am at very moment with his little brother!) having a sept babe is GREAT..BTW.

Laksa, it's like you're reading my mind!
My sis bought me a book called 'Hot Mama, how to be a babe while having one'. Apparently we should all be feeling like voluptuous fertility goddesses, which I suppose is a good thing. Although having said that it is full of beautiful people wearing tiny tops over their immaculately rounded tummies, which makes me feel a little inadequate. But in true spirit of thing am concentrating on my tremedous cleavage rather than getting-wobblier belly.

And anyway the baby won't care that I look a bit squishy round the edges and I can always make the DP turn the lights off.

Hi all,
Edie - soooo pleased for you. Hurray!
Can I join in being paranoid? I had horrendous non-stop voms (hyperemesis gravidarum) with both my girls and my other pg! Lost a stone in weight each time. This time - no ms, no nausea, nothing... I've convinced myself that I'm not pregnant at all, that I've made it all up. Can't ring the docs and say 'help, i'm not being sick'. Anyone else had 2 very different pregnancies?

Hurray for mumsnet. Would go mad without you guys to pester and chat to

Laksa, my plan was to get fit in Jan and Feb, lose half a stone and THEN get pregnant. This obviously did not go to plan so will have to work extra hard to lose baby bulge in a year or two....or three!

Had my appt. with GP today, she checked my BP and heart and I handed over my first urine sample - so dignified. I had pre-eclampsia with my boys so they will keep an eye on that. Have decided on St. Georges because it is the closest hospital and my GP says they are all "much of a muchness" and that the birth experience is "luck of the draw" on the day - how comforting! Next appt will not be until around 12 weeks for "booking in" at the hospital and also for nuchal scan which may or may not happen on the same day. I might actually go privately for the nuchal scan as I did that last time - GP said the scanners are a bit better so might be worth it.

Sorry for the essay, just exciting to have someone else confirm my EDD, even if it was based on my information

Welcome TinaLC and thank you homemama, exciting to think about what could be happening this time next year....

Ajasec, I am feeling very much more sick this time around. Last time it was very much morning sickness. I would eat a lovely fry up and feel wonderful for it. This time I feel sick almost all day everyday and am constantly distracted about making sure my stomach contents stay where they should be!

I too am hoping it is a good sign.I am super sensitive to smells and can only face eating certain things at certain times. I was drooling over a patients lunch when I was feeding her today Well I have survived a day at work, 12.5 hours, been on the go since 5.30 and just got DS down to bed now. Would normally be enjoying a nice cold glass of wine. Ho Hum. I feel constantly hungover anyhow.

Found another web reference where it said that at aroun 6 weeks the embryo should be about 2.5 mms. So not all that far out. Trying to chill. Still not though. 4 days down and only 3 more till next scan. We're getting there. I can't help but find it strange that I seem to only really have cramps when I am not busy, ie at work all day I have been fine. I hope it is all in my mind!

Welcome to all the new people and congratulations! I will await the result of my scan this week before rushing off to make an appointment. I'm sorry for the self induldgent posting. I will try and be better next time!

Just popped over from the August thread to say that you certainly can get a definite result with a scan at 7+3 weeks as that is the very time I had mine.

I paid for a private scan at the Fetal Medicine centre in London as I couldn't wait until my 12 week scan - I needed to know that everything was Ok as it is our first. If it puts your mind as rest then the cost of it is completely worth it. Click on my name and see the scan photo which I think is pretty clear. Saw a really clear heartbeat and heard it beating loudly as well. My beanie was 10.8mm (CRL).

Can I join you all? I'm probably among the last for this thread. Just got BFP and am due around 25 September, but am not seeing GP until Monday. Am 27; DH 33. We are both first timers and really excited! Here's a roll call with my name on the bottom (some people may have joined since this list was made, so do add yourselves on). Congrats to all the September 07-ers!

Trinity1, 33, WestSussex, 2nd Sept, DD 7mths
ess1996, 28, Scotland, 2nd Sept, first pg
spraklynewthing, 29, Kent, 3rd Sept, first pg
bendybus, 4 Sept 2007, London, DS 2.5
AnguaVonUberwald London, first pregnancy, due around 5th September
Miss Mapp, 34, due 7th Sept ds 22mths
Maretta, 8/9/2007, Manchester, ds 1 will be 4y3m and ds2 2y
Louise, 27, Southampton, 8 Sept '07, DD-21 months gap.
EdieMcredie, Sep14th, Norwich, one previous miscarriage, no children
Auschick 15th sept, London, ds 12 months
SheRaPOP, 29, London, first pg, 18th Sept
Nettee, 29, 19th September, DS will be 2 1/2
Canadianmum, 36, 15th Sept, London, twin boys 4y
Ajasec, 30, Yorkshire, 7th sept, DD 4, DD 18 months
Plasmon,29, oxfordshire, sept sometimes, girls 3 and 1
Flossam, 26, Bristol, 12th sept, DS 22mths.
JoniMitchell, 36, due Sept 19th, DS 24mths and one miscarriage
kinki, 38, Kent, 25th Sept, 2 boys (7yrs & 23mths)
EllieG, 28, Jersey, 10 Sept, 1 (step) daughter, 8yrs. First PG
Honey2theb, 22, wales, 2 mc, no children, due early sep
Chattyhan, 24, North Hants/surrey, 16th sep, DS will be 2y9m, 1 mc
Potoroon, 33, West Berkshire, 22 Sept, DS 21 months
atalantis, 27, Oxfordshire, 25ish Sept, first timer.