Hello I only just found this thread! I am on the facebook page and started to try and catch up from the beginning but I think that will be an impossible feat so I think ill just read this one and go back at some point if I get bored! 
My name is Charlotte I am 30 yrs old, this is my first pregnancy and we weren't actually TTC (oops) I have been with my husband Chris for 11 years married for 2, he has mental health problems predominantly anxiety & OCD at the moment but was diagnosed as ASD & ADHD last november so lots going on!
in a brief run down to catch up I've been very lucky symptom wise, was extremely tired in first trimester and had waves of nausea on and off but nothing I couldn't handle (I suffer from IBS so used to it!) No actual being sick thankfully because I have a phobia! indigestion/heartburn has been annoying though!!
I have a very high BMI of 48 which I wanted to get much lower before TTC, I had lost 6.5 stone a few years ago but issues at home led to me stopping the gym and crept back to my old eating habits so it all piled on plus more!
I've been very anxious the whole pregnancy so far and still can't really believe it's happening, my husband took a while to come to terms with it too as he has very low self belief and didn't feel he would be capable!
I had spotting on and off every few days between week 6 and 10 ish I didn't keep track fully but had two blood tests 48hrs apart and showed HCG levels increasing so nothing further was done.
fast forward to our 12 wk scan, baby is all fine heart flickering away was lovely to see! However we got a call around a week or so later (she had been trying to get hold of me sooner but was no caller id and i missed the calls) to say that we are high risk for down syndrome (1 in 62)
We didn't want to have invasive testing so opted for the harmony test, I cancelled my gender scan as we would find out the gender from that anyway! typically the woman at ultrasound direct in newbury where we went couldn't get blood from me (I have awkward veins) so we ended up at the hospital phlebotomy department. 6 days later we get a call saying there isn't enough of babies dna in my blood and ill need to send off another sample, they book me an appointment again for the next day but again she couldn't get blood from me, wouldn't do a quick scan as there was no time which upset me because I was very worried as to why it didn't work! Back to phlebotomy we went! One of the vials was defective where she had already tried to use it the vacuum wasn't sucking it up, so that was no good, sent it off anyway just incase. Call the next day sorry can't use it! I got very upset as you can imagine its very stressful waiting for these results! So they posted me a pack to go straight to hospital with. We got there took to number to wait our turn, got called in and was told we have to pay because its a private test, the previous two times no one said anything, so we had to go to a different department to pay £20 which i later got reimbursed by the company.
6 days later I got a phone call apologising that they can't use my blood and to call the lab for an explanation, basically its because of my weight, it won't be the same for everyone but babies DNA takes up less than 4% of my blood so they couldn't do the testing. They said they recommend doing repeat tests 2 weeks apart but ultrasound direct never informed me of this, not that I would have been happy waiting that long! I called my husband who was unsure we should continue depending on the results, and he said we'll just leave it now and what will be, will be.
I then booked a gender scan which we had last Sunday (It's a girl!!) and I am in the process of having the money for the harmony scan refunded. It was £399, and from it I technically got 2 free scans (I asked for a reassurance one after the second blood test was refused which they offered free of charge) So I can't complain too much even though it was a very anxious horrible time! They also threw in the £20 extras for our gender scan so we got a USB with footage on